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93.3 WMMR Audio On Demand presents the Preston and Steve Show Podcast. Everybody. WMMR Philadelphia. I think you're sleeping. I was keeping you one towel. Hair towels need sleepy. I was keeping you one mint for pillow. Please go away. Let me sleep for the lover.

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

Nick McElwain. I'm just not the hero type. And Marissa Magnata. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. And it begins Thursday. Here we are. Let's check the weather forecast for today.

Fairly comfortable as you head out this morning. It was already 50 degrees getting in the car, and we're going to be going up to, leveling off at, about 50 degrees or so today. We do have partly cloudy skies, a little bit breezy as the wind continues. Tomorrow, high 52, partly cloudy and windy. Saturday, high of about 50 degrees, partly cloudy, and that continues into Sunday as well. Monday will warm up into the lower 60s.

Now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano. And today is Thursday, March 6th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, the latest protest from a Georgia church calls for a 40-day fast of Target. It comes as the Philadelphia church has developed its own form of activism. On Sundays, it is packed, said Reverend Brittany Mingo, associate pastor of a non-tabernacle Baptist

is church in West Oak Lane. The church has a congregation of up to 15,000 people. Many of them are participating in the holy season of Lent. During this time, you typically see believers stepping away from something or sacrificing something. One church in the Atlanta area is asking for its members to sacrifice shopping at Target. It's called a 40-day fast of Target. Customers are boycotting the company for abandoning many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

The local church here in Philadelphia is creating an initiative they call Black Up Wednesday. Each Wednesday, they're asking individuals to spend their money with black-owned businesses. A professor of economics at Swarthmore College thinks that while the initiative, like the 40-day fast program,

of Target could just be a drop in the bucket for Target's profits. They do have potential. Anon features local black businesses in a morning devotional every day. The church also developed a directory feature for black businesses, which is accessible on its website, anontab.org. The Georgia church that created the 40-day Target Fest says so far tens of thousands of people have signed up. Target has not yet responded to request for a comment.

Marple Township police are investigating after they say a suspected crew of thieves are wreaking havoc across multiple cemeteries. They say the thieves are stealing heavy mausoleum doors and selling them for scrap metal. Boarded up doors to mausoleums have become common in cemeteries surrounding Philadelphia in recent weeks as a crew of thieves steal from the dead. Are they going to St. Peter and Paul? They were at St. Peter and Paul, Casey. Yeah, they were showing footage literally of basements.

now boards in front of the mausoleum entrance. It's pretty wild. I mean, the mausoleums are all the way in the back. Yeah. You know, way off of the beaten path. I mean, it's a pretty big cemetery. Those things are frigging heavy, clearly, obviously, but they, you know, that's, they're going after them. Desecrating someone's final resting place, but you're also affecting the emotions of the loved ones who are living and left behind, said Brandon Graff, Marple Township Police Chief.

Criminals with no conscience, police say, have stolen heavy bronze doors worth thousands of dollars from several local cemeteries, including Mount Sharon Cemetery in Springfield. They're taking them to local scrap yards for money. Quick cash graphs explain. So far, doors have been stolen in eight different communities in four connected counties, Bucks, Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Delaware counties. Because of the value of these things, they're looking at major time if they're caught. Yeah, they're saying that they're valued...

somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000. But then I saw this morning one they said they thought between $20,000 and $30,000. And then they're selling them. Like, police said that they're selling them for almost nothing. Yeah, pennies on the dollar. And, like, they're kind of blaming the people buying them, too, because they know what they're buying. And they're giving them pennies for it. Yeah, you would know exactly what this was. Oh, that's ridiculous. Are they doing this in the... They have to be doing this in daylight.

Why? I don't know. Because the gates are closed. Well, yeah, but not all cemeteries have gates like that. Okay, well, I'm talking specifically about Peterball. About Peterball, yeah. Police do suspect it's the same crew at each location. So if you have any information, contact police.

The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report Wednesday on a fire that consumed part of a six-car SEPTA train last month in Delaware County. The train was traveling from West Trenton, New Jersey, to Newark, Delaware, with 325 passengers and four crew members when it went up in flames near the Crumlin Station on February 6th. No injuries were reported. SEPTA estimates the damages to equipment to be about $10 million. A mechanical maintenance... How much? $10 million. $10?

million ten million ten million dollars a mechanical maintenance team completed an inspection at septa's roberts yard revealing that three rail cars including one that went up in flames were bad and the cause of the slow acceleration the ntsb notes uh in the report maybe not bad just misunderstood

However, the train continued to operate. So the inspection was at 4.30. At 4.55, there was a crew change at Suburban Station. When the train was at 30th Street Station, the NTSB says the train engineer received a call at 5.07 from SEPTA's chief dispatcher about a strong burning smell in the lead rail car.

The train continued to operate on its route, officials said. The train traveled past nine stops before conductors on board evacuated everyone near the Crumlin station. As it approached the station in Ridley Park at 5.48, haze behind the lead car was noticed, followed by smoke as it departed. So the train still departed.

The train was stopped about 638 feet south of that station when the fire was reported at 5.56. All passengers and crew members were evacuated by 6.22 and the fire was extinguished at 8.09, the NTSB said. An investigation is still underway into several factors including the source of the fire, the electrical wiring, SEPTA's rail car inspection and the RROCC's response to enroute train failures.

In sports this morning. What the f*** is that?

The Sixers, who have lost 13 of their last 15 games, are on the road tonight with a game in Boston against the Celtics. Tip-off is at 7.30. The Flyers' homestand continues tonight with a game against the Winnipeg Jets. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock in Florida. The Phillies lost to the Tigers 17-7.

What the f*** is this?

in his many days by the Eagles who rewarded Saquon Barkley with a two-year $41.2 million extension that made him the highest paid running back in NFL history. This past season, Vaughn had an all-pro campaign, racking up 151 tackles, three and a half sacks, 11 tackles for loss, and five forced fumbles. And those Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And that's what I have for you this morning. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. Here we are Thursday morning and inching towards giving away our Word of the Week prize. We have $500 to give away courtesy of Marvel Television's Daredevil Born Again. So we will do that at the end of the show, getting the letter of the day and giving away that prize to...

tomorrow. We'll probably execute a contest at some point today. We do have some things to give away. We've got a little time to get to that. We'll let you know what we have coming up a little bit later on. Also, we have a new phone number.

I'm not ready to play with it yet. Our engineers walked us through it yesterday. You're scared? I'm scared. Yeah, and I think you have every reason to be scared. There's a multi-step process you have to go through to use it.

It's scary. They're working on it. There are going to be improvements. But if there's an emergency and you need to get a hold of us, you can call 610-660-9333 or 610-660-9333.

610-660-9333. It depends on how specific you are about the zero versus the O. So you said multi-step process, not for the callers, for us. No, no, for us. So instead of just being able to pick up a phone, you have to dial a number. Are you kidding? I swear to God. It's like Green Acres when you have to climb up on the pole to answer the phone. Exactly, yeah.

Or Andy Griffith. Yeah, yeah. You pick up and talk to Clara. Clara? And see if she can... I'll get on that, Andy.

I mean, we should just send like a messenger. I mean, I know. Imagine at home when you answered your phone or on your cell if you had to dial in a number to answer the phone. To answer it. Listen, and I don't want to beat up engineers. Oh, no. They're doing what they can. They've been working very, very hard and they very much want us to get this phone number out there to the world. And so, therefore, I'm passing on this message. But I'm doing it with this little caveat. Okay.

not ready to really take it up for a spin yet. I think that's fine. Here's the number. Don't call us. The engineers have been warning for years that the system was going to go critical failure. It's not their fault. No, it's not their fault. They were sounding the alarm, but no one listened to them. They're working with what they've got here. Yeah. Is somebody calling, Marissa? Hang on a second. Hold on. What? Lots of people are calling. Okay.

All right, is there an emergency? Should we try to take a call? Casey, do you know how to do it? Yeah, well, I mean, I could have answered that last phone call that was coming through. Well, get another one if you can here. So we can only take one phone line at a time. Our show's also very unique with our callers. It's always the case. And our engineers are trying to, like,

do this of how other morning shows do their show. And it's kind of like, nah, that's not how we do it. No, there's a way we do this. Zoom's been amazing. We'll see. Yeah, the Zoom thing, we will continue to do for the time being. But not everybody is Zoom savvy. And I would like to have the ability to just take old school phone calls. And it's coming. It is coming. I know. I can answer this one. All right, go ahead. You want me to just blindly answer it? Let's see what happens. Okay. Hi, MMR's emergency line. Who am I speaking to?

Are you there? Let's try this one more time. Barbara? Barbara. Oh, Barbara. Oh, wait. Hi. No, that's Marissa. I can turn on... Her microphone. We literally have an office phone in here now. I feel like I'm like the beginning of Mrs. Maisel, just answering the phone lines. Hello, operator. Man, my friend Lori just told me the other day she actually had a job a while back at a hotel where she literally... She's only a handful of years older than me, but...

She would do the old phone cord plug-in into the board like Mrs. Maisel. I was like, you've got to be kidding me. You should have a switch here. It's like, Marissa, could you put that call through? Yeah. What is this case? I don't know. I feel like we're talking to somebody. Hi. Anybody there? No. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. I heard a voice. Hi. Who is this?

Tyler, can you hear me? Yeah, barely, Tyler. How you doing, man? Oh, no. I'm doing good. You guys rock. Oh, thank you, man. I appreciate it. Where are you calling us from? Right now, I'm in Poulsburg, New Jersey. Isn't this wild that we can talk to someone in New Jersey? It's crazy. It's crazy.

But that's why you sound so far away. Yeah, you're so far away. All right. Well, we appreciate you testing this phone line. Thanks, bud. Have a good one. All right. See you later. That was wild. I don't know how to hang it up. I just hung up. And then so we're going to have to get another one because I'm wondering if that was just his phone that says muffled or if this will be the quality of phone calls we will take. All right, Casey, get this next person up. Hi. Welcome to the MMR emergency line. Who is this?

Bill. Hey, Bill. How you doing, bud? Good, Preston. Yourself? I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. Thank you for helping us test out this special phone line that we have set up. It sounds a little bit better. But I have it pinned volume-wise. This is as loud as it's going to get. It's still not impressive. And, Bill, where are you calling from?

Paoli. Paoli. Okay. So not as far as New Jersey. No, no. That's why it's clear. Yeah, yeah. It is my hometown. There's a slight delay in the answers. Well, you're going all the way to Paoli. I know. I mean, think about it, you know. R5. It's not too different. It's Willistown. Oh, Willistown. There you go. That's it. Summer of Paoli. All right, brother. We appreciate it. Thank you, man. All right. See you later.

So, all right, the quality's kind of lame on that. All right, well, now we know. Yeah, that's that. We appreciate that. We dabbled. We can use it for prizes. Yeah, for if you want to call in. No, we can give the system away. When we're not taking live calls, so...

We may work around that today. But anyhow, we're going to stick with the Zoom thing for the time being until we get phones like they used to be here set up and running. Back in the olden days. But the phone number, if you want to jot it down and you want to have it ready to go and go ahead and enter it in your contacts, because we will have this eventually up and running, it's 6106609333.

That kind of rattles. Yeah, it rolls right off the tongue. All right, let us take a break. Come back. The Entertainment Report, Stupid Question. Yep, they're on the way. We will do the Zoom to get our answer to the stupid question. So stay put. We'll be right back.

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Fast, fresh, and right to your door. Acme, fresh foods, local flavors. Podcast. All right, thanks, Cass. Stupid question prize today. We're giving away a pair of movie tickets to see Mickey 17. And the question I pose to you is, in which city will you find the Taj Mahal? Let's have you Zoom us, okay? And in order to get the link, if you don't already have it, text word ZOOM to 3933. Okay.

A couple of steps we added here. 39333, by the way. So text the word ZOOM 39333. If you know which city, you will find the Taj Mahal Inn. All right. And while we are waiting for you to pop up on our video screens here in the studio, I'll mention some birthdays. Today being the sixth day of March 6th.

We'll start with Martin Kove. Turning a year older. Cobra Kai and, you know, obviously that comes from the Karate Kid, but I was watching the final...

of this, Casey. And this song comes up in one of the montages. And my youngest was asking me, I mentioned this song because they found it kind of goofy and I'm like, yeah, this is from the movie. This is a classic montage song. So, quick question. As everyone of you said, there's a more nuanced...

progression to the characters as they evolve through the series. Yeah. Does his character go through this as well? Very much so. Okay. There's a couple of evolutions. They swing back and forth a little bit, some of the characters. And Steve, I know you probably won't end up watching the whole thing. Yeah. I watched the first... I watched the YouTube season. Off air, I'm going to tell you if you want to hear what eventually happens to John Kreese in Cobra Kai because...

All right. I couldn't believe it happened. Anyhow. He was great in the studio here. Oh, he was awesome. And remember, actually for a brief period, he became, they kind of turned to him to be an action hero in a few movies. That's true. I think for canon. Yeah, so he turns 78 years old today. It's also actor Tom Arnold's birthday today. Yep. Obviously Roseanne, but...

I still love his character in True Lies. True Lies. I thought he was great in it. And they were supposed to do a sequel. They were supposed to do a series that Schwarzenegger was not going to be a part of, but that he would be a part of. Really? Yeah. Okay. That might have worked. I remember in that movie going...

Oh, this guy isn't a douchebag. This guy's actually pretty funny. No, when we had him in, because all I thought of him in the early days was, what a douchebag. I agree. But he was great friends with Chris Farley, and he's unbelievably candid about all that. I think once he backed off the cocaine a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Because look at his lips. He got a little bit better. He's 66 today. All right, we're going back to Cobra Kai. All right. Actor Jacob Bertrand, who plays Hawk...

on Cobra Kai is 25. Now, I told you guys a while back, the actor and actress that play Robbie and Sam, real life couple on that show, in real life now, are engaged. So, on Cobra Kai, this kid, Jacob Bertrand, who plays Hawk, in real life,

is in a relationship with the girl who plays Tori on the show as well. And they were down in New Orleans for the Super Bowl and one of our listeners actually ran into him at the airport. I sent you guys a picture of those guys. I love it. So he turns 25 years old today. So there was a lot of real life love that took place on that set. I would think if you're, you know, you're with someone, you're both attractive, you're both actors, you're acting romantic to each other. I could see that taking. I absolutely could.

All right. We also have actress Connie Britton turning a year older. Yeah, I like her. She's super milfy. She was in White Lotus. I believe that was the first season of White Lotus. Friday Night Lights. Friday Night Lights, 9-1-1 bombshell. She plays Roger Ailes' wife in that movie. Oh, yeah.

And she's wonderful in... This is where I leave you, too. So she's 58 today. Very adorable, Moira Kelly. Yeah. Of course, from time to time, you'll hear her say, toe pick. Toe pick. That's her in the movie Cutting Edge. She's also in Chaplin and with Honors. Is she the daughter in Coneheads?

No. She looks like her. Yes, exactly. She looks similar, but Casey, I looked up that girl a while back from Coneheads because she was the female lead on that. I really couldn't find anything all that noteworthy that she was in later. I didn't think she got many roles after that because she had this very weird head. Marissa has an update. She's the chick from Dazed and Confused. I was going to say that. That looks like Moira Kelly.

Yeah. So Moira Kelly herself is 57 today. Tyler, the creator, has a birthday. His given name is Tyler Gregory Aconma, I think. I'm not sure anyhow. He is 34 today. In the world of rock, the amazing David Gilmour.

Celebrates a birthday today. Yeah, he's one of the greats, man. The thing is, as you pointed out, and any fan of Pink Floyd knows, he's not like Yngwie Malmsteen, pyrotechnic, but his riffs are revered amongst guitars. Melodically, he just plays precisely.

Precisely what needs to be done. It's like him and Joe Walsh. Joe Walsh does not shred. He doesn't rip. But he plays these wonderful notes that are just right for the song. Gilmore's solo in this song in particular is one of the greatest of all time. Agreed, Steve. Yep. So happy 79th birthday to David Gilmore. Exact same age as Martin Kove. No kidding. He's the best. They should get a band together. You think they ever cross paths? They really should.

Two more birthdays to mention, then we'll see if we can get an answer to the question today. It's Shaq's birthday today. Shaquille O'Neal turns 53 years old. And he just started a podcast, Preston. Really? Yeah. My wife is a graphic designer by trade, and she's working on... Kathy, maybe I showed it to you. She's working on these... Shaq has gummies. I don't know if you guys knew that. Not weed gummies, just gummy gummies. And they wanted to layer the gummies...

in a way so that it looked like there were a whole bunch of gummies on the front of the packaging. So, Andrew, his job for like a month was to stare at Shaq's face, but Shaq's face in gummy form and arrange them on the packaging. And yeah, here they are up on the screen. Is that the work Andrew did? Yeah. Oh, that's great. They're called Shaq Elections.

Chacalicious gummies. Steve, see how it says XL gummies? Yeah. They are quite literally extra large gummies. And so that's some of the work that Andrea's been doing. So Andrea created this? The artwork? Well, she...

Didn't create it, no. But she helps create the artwork on the front. So she quite literally, Preston, tweaks like Shaq's eyebrows, the layout of how his face is and how it like looks towards the front of the packaging. That's awesome. She's so talented. Yeah. Wow. But having to stare at Shaq's face for a month was an interesting endeavor. Shaq is one of those guys. I'm not a, I'm not what they call a jock sniffer. Yeah. A guy who just wants to hang out with pros.

pro athletes all the time. Shaq is a guy I would love to hang out with. Just have a couple drinks. Spend an evening with. It wouldn't have to be nothing where I'm seeing his wealth. Just going to a restaurant and chilling out and talking to him for a bit. I would love to pick that guy up. I've met him before and he wasn't a very long conversation but it was...

on the basketball court, but he was not playing at the time. So he was, you know, a little relaxed and chatting. And I was standing with, she has passed away, but it was somebody that worked for the Sixers. And the three of us were standing there and just the conversation, like he was just cool. He was like a normal dude. He was chatting. He has that, you know, that voice, that deep voice. And I shook his hand and my like entire arm was engulfed. I think what describes is that they don't, they're not,

completely defined by basketball or when somebody can exist outside what they're known for and be a regular human. And he was like joking a little bit like this is cool. He doesn't seem like he'd big time you. You know what I mean? Like I'm like don't bother me. I'm

too rich for you. You don't have to be a fan of the NBA to enjoy Inside the NBA with Shaq and Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley. It's a really, really funny show and they talk about basketball, but it's just inherently funny because of those guys. Nice. So happy 53rd to Shaq. Last birthday, direct Rob Reiner. Mm.

And he is a year shy of Martin Kove and David Gilmour at 78 years old today. You're playing Big Bottom. And working on the second Spinal Tap movie. Yeah, I wonder. I wonder. I hope. Yeah. I hope.

He's amazing. Happy 78th birthday to Rob Reiner. Okay, via Zoom, let's see if we can get an answer to this question. We have a very smiley individual who is joining us, and I love that. And the question is, in which city is the Taj Mahal? We're going to Alex. Hey, Alex. Hello, good morning. Nice to see you. Thanks for bringing us into your home this morning. I'm really excited. First time, long-time listener, first time Zoomer. Nice. Where do you live, Alex?

I live in Flower Town. In Flower Town. Right up the road from me. All right. Well, appreciate you checking in. Oh, who's this? Who's this guy behind you? Zach. What's up, buddy? How you doing, man? Welcome to the radio. Oh, they're bringing the whole family down. Hurry up. Come on, everybody. All right. Well, listen, we need to know in which city is the Taj Mahal?

That would be Agra in India. Yes, Agra. That is correct. Yep, you got it right, buddy. Here comes everyone. Oh, yeah. Okay, who's the sister? What is her name? Hi.

Hi. Amelia, how you doing, Amelia? Oh, you're taking a picture? I'm taking a picture of this moment right now. I love it. Yes, of course, you got to get that. Put that on TikTok, all right, later on for us. We appreciate it. All right, Alex, hang on, buddy. Love to the family, and we're going to set you up with a prize. Thank you so much, guys. I love you guys. You guys are awesome. Thanks, man. Thank you, Alex. All right, so we're going to give him a pair of movie tickets to see Mickey 17 from the Academy Award-winning writer-director of Parasite.

who is a bong joon-ho and it comes the next groundbreaking cinematic experience mickey 17 robert pattinson plays unlikely hero mickey barnes who's found himself working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job to die for a living and it's in theaters and imx nationwide uh tomorrow by the way all right so some stories we're gonna start with this viral moment jennifer hudson uh hudson got in on the action during a new york knicks game this week the vocalist

took a basketball straight in the face. Oh, no. While sitting courtside with Common...

A ball went flying and knocked her glasses off. Common tried to shield her from the flying ball. I think his hand might have caught her glasses. That might have been it. He did get out in front. He was looking for an opportunity to punch her in the face. He was saving her from the brunt of the basketball in the face. But to make matters worse, point guard Miles McBride crashed into her seat as well. So our own Matt Cord, who obviously is the in-arena announcer for the Sixers, remember

Remember when the player collided with him? Oh, who was that? Yeah, somebody jumped over the desk and fell on him. It dinged him up pretty good, Matt. There were some big fellas out there on the court, man. Kyle Lowry, wasn't it? I don't remember. Kyle Lowry's got a big ass. And Matt Cord is the man who can tell you about it.

All right, so there are some reports going around that Justin Bieber's longtime assistant, Mateo Caldas, has quit to focus on acting. The departure comes as Bieber has moved cut ties with relationship quotes that no longer serve him. However, sources for TMZ have hit back, apparently saying that Caldas...

Hasn't worked for Bieber since 2020. The sources also clarified that actually, Caldas, wasn't even Bieber's personal assistant. Yeah, come on, man. And that he just managed the singer's Los Angeles estate. There are words that Bieber is kind of in a spiral. Yeah, so there are rumors about this. And his team have been bubbling up recently as the artist...

deals with other rumors about his drug use, which his reps have denied. And they have stated that the artist is in a great place and is focusing on fatherhood and new music. But you're right, Steve. There's some rumors out there that he's kind of fallen off a little bit. What kind of money do personal assistants take in?

Depends. Some can be, they can be very lucrative positions. Right. It depends on the situation. And they all know each other. Like there's a network of them and because a lot of times, sometimes it's a revolving door. And Casey, there's different levels of assistant too. I know a few people that have done it in LA and sometimes it's like they rise up and become sort of like a manager. And then sometimes it's like the gopher, you know, the guy that gets the coffee and whatever else. But they,

they know one another a lot. There really is a network of it. And the fact that this guy pressing in the story hasn't done it since 2020 seems like a pretty obvious lie to me. Like that's a long time to not be it. And people would find that out pretty fast. Yeah. By the way, our former calendar girl, Morgan Caitlin posted a picture of apparently it's Justin Bieber ripping a bong hit. Yeah. She's just commenting. Oh, she's commenting. Okay. Yeah. So I guess it's illogical.

glass. Does he have a bong from there? I guess so. Oh, wow. It looked like a pretty goddamn big bong. And it says Philadelphia on it. Sure enough. We love Morgan. So, let's see. Michael Sheen, the actor, has wiped out $1.2 million in debt for 900 people by using $129,000 of his own money. The actor founded a

debt acquisition company to assist struggling residents in his home of Port Talbot, Wales. This project will be featured in the upcoming Channel 4 documentary called Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway.

He said the shocking thing is that people have started having to use credit cards, overdrafts to pay for basics, explaining why he wanted to take action. And he added, once you're underwater, it's very hard to get out again. It's very true. That's why I wanted to do this, to draw attention to the fact that this is going on and we need to push to try and make a difference for people. So they closed down a plant in the town and that's what sent a lot of people into the rears? It was the port.

Talbot Steel Mill. And it left many in the region unemployed and deep in debt. And she expressed in a preview for the show, I'm genuinely am not sure if I can afford to do this, but I'm still going to do it. So that's really cool that he's trying to help people out like that.

Gwyneth Paltrow opened up about how menopause and the Los Angeles wildfires pushed her to drink nightly. She said, I've used alcohol for its purpose. On the March 4th episode of the Goop podcast. The Goop podcast. She told Dr. Mary Claire Haver that while her menopause symptoms... Can you hit that one more time? That's our Goop sound effect. While

While her menopause symptoms are usually manageable, drinking during the fires in January made everything worse. It's terrible because when you're going through menopause, you get hot flashes and then you'll start a raging forest fire outside your house. She said my symptoms were completely out of control and she realized for the first time how much alcohol impacted her menopause experience. Paltrow also shared that she's struggling with insomnia and anxiety, saying I would just wake up and I would get crushed with anxiety, which I've never had in my life.

Although the experience was tough, Paltrow clarified, saying, now at this point...

I don't drink at all. I don't drink a lot at all. Maybe I'll have one drink a week, adding that she's hopeful things are improving. She said, I feel like hopefully I'm coming out on the other side. Speaking of hot flashes, have you ever seen the video of that woman whose steam is coming off her head? Yes, it's insane. She's sitting outside, it's cold, and all of a sudden she gets this hot flash, and she has very shorn hairdo, and you can just see steam rising off of her head. Here it is, look at it.

Oh, wow. And apparently she was having a hot flash. Isn't that wild? That's real? Yeah, apparently. I guess so. Yeah. So the hot flashes can be pretty intense. Aw.

Congratulations to Bachelor Nation star Gabby Windy and her partner Robbie Hoffman who are now husband and wife. The couple revealed the news on Instagram. Can't believe it. I've really been pulling for these two. Alongside a carousel of pics and videos with the caption husband and wife

1-11-2025. Wendy told Cosmopolitan the couple decided to elope in the middle of the L.A. wildfires. I'd rather cantaloupe. And it was during the middle of the L.A. wildfires. They headed to Vegas and they got married.

And she said, what better time to get married than right now? Because if the world is ending, we want to be with each other, she said. Wendy appeared on season 26 of The Bachelor. Jesus Christ. And season 19 of The Bachelorette. As well as the current season of The Traitors. The Traitors? To the country? No, isn't there a show that one actor is hosting it?

Maybe coming? Alan Cumming? Alan Cumming, yeah. Oh, I got you. And it's the traitors? Yeah. Okay. We've talked about this a little bit. Like, there's, it's sort of all this backstabbing that happens in this house and there's a prize involved. It's a fairly typical reality show. Oh, so it's a reality game show? Yeah, exactly. So, this woman is gay, I guess? But was she gay on The Bachelor? Oh,

She's with a guy named Robbie. Nope, she's not very good at it. No, she's with a girl named Robbie. A girl named Robbie. Okay, well, there we go. Gabby and Robbie are both women. Well, it says here husband and wife. This story is incorrect. It's wrong. So it's wife and wife. All right. Well, one identifies as a husband. So nonetheless, those two kids, those two crazy kids. Those two crazy whoever they are, whatever they are, are off on their journey. All right, another reality show story. Big Brother season seven winner Mike Boogie Malin.

Was busted for shoplifting for multiple CBS locations in the San Fernando Valley of California. I remember this guy. Oh, really? In the earlier days when people paid attention to this show, Big Brother, and he became sort of a fan favorite. Okay. He was arrested and booked for misdemeanor theft.

and then released on a citation. He's no stranger to run-ins with law. In 2011, he was sued for embezzlement in order to pay $800,000. He was also arrested for felony stalking and misdemeanor DUI over the years. What did you expect? His nickname is Snot. Uh, his... No, it's Boogie. Oh. Uh, his... He...

first appeared on Big Brother 2 in 2001. So yeah, the early, early days of the show. And returned for Big Brother All-Stars in Season 7 where he won a half million dollars. And he returned to the reality show as a coach in Season 14. Must have burned through that money. Speaking of money, I like this story. He may be a millionaire many times over, but Ben Affleck still occasionally hits the brakes on spending, particularly when it's his kids looking to break into Dad's wallet.

The actor took his 13-year-old son Samuel to the Got Soul Sneaker Convention recently. Tell me, did you get good grades in school?

You better. And when the teen seemed fixated on a pair of Dior Air Jordan 1s. For how much? $6,000. Oh my God. What a steal. Ben's reaction was one that every parent is familiar with. He said, you like those because they're expensive. Yes. And he told his son that who replied, no, they're tough. I've always said that they look good.

While dad eventually seemed to agree with his son as how cool the sneakers were, even his son balked when he heard the price. And once again, Ben broke into his every dad routine and he said, that's a lot of lawns you got to mow there. So he told them. Tell me, do you bleed? Yeah, right. So, yeah, $6,000. When I beat your ass, you will. Even for Ben Affleck, that's a bridge too far. We're watching video. He has the same mannerisms as his dad.

Oh, the sun does? Yeah. Nice. All right. Let's see. I thought this was kind of a cool little story. Jesse Eisenberg has officially become a Polish citizen, receiving the honor from the president, Andrzej Duda. I'm sure I'm messing that name up. All the Duda Day. After the success of his Oscar-winning film, A Real Pain, which tells the story of Poland's Jewish history.

And at the ceremony, Eisenberg reflected on his deepening connection to the country, saying, Something so obvious occurred to me. My family had lived in this place for far longer than we lived in New York. And he added, In addition to that tragedy of history is also the tragedy that my family didn't feel any connection anymore to Poland. It's really cool that that happened. Yeah. Inspired by the loss of his great aunt who fled Poland in 1938, Eisenberg said,

wrote, directed, and starred in A Real Pain, which follows two American cousins on a journey to honor their Holocaust-surviving grandmother. President Duda praised the actor's dedication to his roots, saying, I'm delighted that people across the ocean acknowledge their heritage and seek to forge a connection with our country. Now get out of here. Yeah, there were parts of that movie I really liked a lot, and then some of it didn't

It didn't gel completely for me. Yeah. I came in with a lot of the praise ringing in my ears prior to it, and I was expecting a little bit more, but I still liked it. Yeah, same here. So Vin Diesel is teasing that Groot...

Make it a Guardians of the Galaxy spin-off. It's about Poland. Diesel has been the voice of Groot since 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy film and dropped a hint on Instagram saying Disney wants their Planet X. Family. Which some say is Marvel's most anticipated movie, Ha Ha. Family. And the film where Groot returns to his home planet. And Vin also shared...

That he's got other irons in the fire. He listed off Fast X Part 2. You gotta be kidding me. A Rock'em Sock'em adaptation based on the Mattel toy. And new installments of Triple X, Riddick, and The Last Witch Hunter. Okay, both Riddick and The Witch Hunter could be interesting. I like both of those. In general, I'm not...

opposed to anything he's been involved in. His video game stuff has been very cool. I'm wondering, though, would they then flesh out Groot's vocabulary if you're going to have a full movie? How? Yeah, either that or subtitles. Subtitles, maybe? I don't really know. That's a good question. But, you know, Vin's got lots of work ahead of him. I got irons in the fire. No matter what, he's got a lot of irons in the fire.

All right, one other thing. I think I have time for one other thing. All right, no, actually, yeah, I want to mention this one. So Dawson's Creek fans. Yes. All right, this is your chance to own a piece of your favorite show. Joey Potter's Home, that's who Katie Holmes played, in Wilmington, North Carolina, is up for auction.

And the starting price is incredibly affordable. But there's a slight catch to it. So bidding begins at just under $30,000 for this beautiful waterfront home that was a huge part of pop culture in the 90s. But...

It can't stay on the waterfront. The house is for sale. The land is not. You got to move the house off the land. The winning bidder will be responsible for all costs and logistics associated with relocating the structure. Forget it. It happens from time to time. They do just sell homes and then you got to take it somewhere. So homes, Katie, Katie. Yeah. So that's one of them. So if you're interested, you die hard.

fan of Dawson's Creek, you want to own it, you can drive that thing up to Paoli. What's the actual value of the house if it's not Waterside? Alright, we're ready for some clips. Mr. Milchick is the cold-hearted manager at Lumen Industries.

with a silky voice and here director ben stiller talks about why this company man is his favorite severance character mr milchick is such a conundrum he's such a mystery he's so you know interesting because you don't know exactly what's going on there tramell is an amazing actor i love our whole cast and we're so lucky to have these amazing actors so for me it's just a joy you know just to be there and working with them because they just bring so much

Come on. Shut up, dummy. I've seen some interviews with this guy, Tramiel Tillman. His character on Severance is pretty evil. You're not quite sure what's going on with him all the time, but he's fairly ruthless. In real life, he looks like the happiest, nicest person on the planet. Really? Juxtaposing the two. That guy's playing Mr. Milchick? Well, so new episode of Severance streams today on Apple TV+. Here's our next clip.

James Adomian. Adomian. Adomian. Adomian. The voice of Bane on Harley Quinn mixes voice acting with stand-up comedy. And in this clip, he talks about channeling the two sides. But, you know, usually they're behind the glass, and you're still trying to make them laugh, but you can't hear it. You're just kind of looking to see if they're laughing. I get very serious, poetic, literary reactions from my comedic performance. Shut the f*** up!

New episode of Harlequin streams day on Max. James Adoniman does a spot on Mike Lindell. He's on Kimmel quite a bit, and he's a really funny voice actor. He's a hilarious comedian. He's got a good podcast, too, so I'm a big fan. Nice. All right, and that is our entertainment report for today, the sixth day of March, my friend.

We will take ourselves a quick break. We'll come back in a second and we'll keep this forward momentum moving as we are headed towards a No Sad Bro Friday, which will be here before you know it. We'll return in a moment. Stay with us.

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Eight bands in total. One awesome day of loud. Tickets on sale now via Ticketmaster. From 93.3, double the undermark. Everything that rocks. Thanks, Kat. Real quick, before we dive into anything, still a couple of...

moments from Cardboard Classic from this past Friday. And I got a couple of emails I wanted to read to you guys. I got this from Noah Robbins. He says, Dear Presbo, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I wanted to apologize for not getting back to you sooner.

To express my team's gratitude for all the praise you and your Motley crew gave our sled at the Classic. Now, he was with Team Moana. Oh, it was great. So good. He said, all the stress of our first big sled day and possibly the grown-up drinks, but me out of commission, or it's supposed to say put me out of commission for two days once we got home. Wow.

Please give my team's thanks to everyone at the station for hosting another great year of the Classic. For our first year, we kept our sled size smaller and focused on detail and a crowd-pleasing theme. So this is their first time doing it. They had a master stroke with this one. It was terrific. So they had to have been there before and seen it. And then they decided to participate this year, and they nailed it. He said, we all truly felt justified on our time spent.

When we heard the show's kind words, and I actually didn't hear them until yesterday, since I was the idiot in the hee-hee costume, taking a dive off of the raft for a laugh. So he was the chicken, right? Yeah, and that was intentional.

As far as I can tell, because the chicken falls off in the movie. Yeah, he said, I took a dive off the raft for a laugh. There we go. If you have time, please give a nice shout out to the other teams who all welcomed us to the crowd and had all kinds of great compliments. And also all the spectators who came through and took pictures with us. I've

I found out that after the Miracle Twins, I found out after that the Miracle Twins got a picture on the raft with Maui and Moana. And we'll see you at next year's Classic with some more size and some more shenanigans. So that is Noah Robbins and Team Moana.

They were coming down and he was standing. Everyone looked really accurate to the animated movie and it was just terrific. Yeah, and they proved you don't have to go gigantic to make a really great

Awesome sled. And there's... It rode the hill perfectly all the way down to the bottom. Most of the time, you're not going to go wrong if you do a boat design. Yep. All right. And then here's another one from Cardboard Classic. And it says, Good morning, bitches. Nick Knight, a.k.a. Captain Turd here. Okay.

Now that my body has slightly recovered from the cardboard classic last week, I wanted to send along a shout out to our remote turd and best bro, Jake Phillips. Jake lives in North Carolina and is a diehard listener and podcaster. In addition to being a doctor, husband, and great dad to three kids, he's just one of the best humans ever.

One of our best friends for 20 plus years and is always in awe of the creations that our team puts together for the classic. So they did the T-Rex, right? Yeah. But because he lives so far away, he isn't able to participate. But alas, that didn't stop him from donating to the team for some supplies this year, which helped us tremendously and allowed us to rent a much better truck. Also...

Also, while I'm here, I want to shout out the rest of the turds. Mike McGovern, Dave Ivey, and Matt Dolan. Other big sled builders have teams that are 15 to 20 people or more. Well, it's just the four of us turds here with Jake supporting remotely. These guys pour their hearts into every build we do.

And drive an hour out to Cherry Hill every other weekend for three to four months every year to make these things happen. That's impressive. And he says, couldn't do it without you turds. From all of us at Team Turd Burglar, thanks for visiting the Turdosaurus Rex at Jurassic Shard. We'll see you next year. So a shout out for the team. Bye.

He says it doesn't matter when this is read. He'll hear it at some point when he's catching up on the show. So that was awesome. Excellent. Yeah. Great job by all. That thing looked damn good. Yeah. All right. I'm going to make this part of the noticer. There's something I wanted to bring up to you guys, and I did indeed notice this. Actually, someone had to point this out to me. The noticer noticed something that was pointed out to him, and now he wants to make us notice it. That's correct. I'm going to start with...

Down a lonely alleyway. Yeah, yes. He notices things so you don't have to. This is a good one. All right, I notice history. Always vigilant. No, listen, let me start a little bit of history. Get out of swivel. Shut up. Let me start with a little bit of history. Uh...

Both Steve and I worked at a radio station called WDRE. That's where we met. Yes. And we started our relationship there. We didn't start doing a morning show until we got to Y100, but we met at WDRE, and yes, we did a little bit of an interchange together. Steve would be broadcasting live.

and be checking in with me every Friday from the Riverdeck Cafe. You know what you'd call wacky? Were we wacky? Yeah. All right. So we worked at WDRE, and then we went through years at Y100 and eventually landed here at WMMR. A person that we worked with at both WDRE and Y100 is a guy named Dan Fine. Yes. Great. Dan Fine was our promoter.

Dan was in the programming department. He was the music director. And eventually moved into more management positions in the radio industry. So Dan reached out to me yesterday. He texted me.

And he had an interesting question for me. He asked me if I'd ever interviewed the band Pavement. So Pavement was this kind of indie rock band. It had a really cool sound. It was very indicative of that, you know, grunge indie. They weren't a grunge band. But at that time, there were a lot of these bands that were coming out that just kind of had this cool vibe.

kind of apathetic, interesting vibe to them. And Pavement was one of those bands. Exactly. And they were very, very popular and very, very influential. And I got back to them and I go, I don't know. I don't remember. I said, listen, man, we've, at WDRE, we played almost every band that came out at that time. Like the record, I was the music director for the radio station. Music companies would send us all this music. We would listen to it and we would play like 90% of it. And we would just put it out there and sound,

See what happens. That was the whole predicate for the station. Yeah, so Pavement was one of those bands. And he said, did you ever interview that band? And I said, man, we played so many bands and we had so many of them on. I'm like, I don't know if I did or not. I'm not 100% sure. And the reason he asked me that is because there is a movie coming out. It's called Range Life Live.

a pavement story. And his stars, Joe Keery, who from the show Stranger Things is Steve. He's a great actor. He's been in a bunch of other things as well, but his character in Stranger Things is probably what he's most well-known for. He was also in the movie Freeman. Met him. Yeah, he was a really, really nice guy. Wouldn't stop talking about Wetzel's pretzels. So the reason Dan asked me that is in this trailer for Range Life, a pavement story, at the very beginning, the first shot,

in the background is a big black and white WDRE poster. Wow. And so I have this same one in my basement right now. And I have it hanging up on the wall. It's not this framed exact one they have, but I have a banner. And the reason Dan asked me if I ever interviewed them is because in this movie is a character named

Named DJ Preston. What's got to be inspired by you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As it says, and I was like, so there were two different DREs. There was one in Long Island, and then there was the one in Philadelphia. And the one in Philadelphia, the frequency was 103.9. And here on this big banner, it says 1039 FMW DRE Modern Rock. And so Dan had told me that there is a character called...

DJ Preston. So I haven't been able to find out. It says here there's an actor named Keith Polson who plays as Radio DJ. But I guess the guy's name is Preston. That's what I've heard. What does this dude look like? I don't know. Does he look like Hugh Jackman? I don't know. That'd be awesome. Wouldn't it be? Yeah, instead of like Wallace Shawn. Wait, what's his name again? His name is Keith Polson. His name is Keith Polson.

His name is Robert Paulson. Was it Robert Paulson? His name is Robert Paulson. And he's referred to, at least from what Dan said, as DJ Preston. That's what he said. So I haven't seen any confirmation of that. Is this a pivotal point? I know nothing about it. The movie's not out yet. They just released the trailer yesterday. It's not even on IMDb, the movie. And it's not on Joe Keery's credits. It's not on Keith Paulson's credits either.

And the movie itself, it does not have an IMDB credit either. Right. I couldn't find that either, Nick. But there's a trailer that was released. Now, there was a movie called, I think it was the reverse of this title. It was like Pavement, A Range Life Story, which was a documentary. What's the name of this movie? I'm going to do a deep dive on this. It's called Range Life...

And then Colin, a pavement story. Yeah, there was a documentary that came out in 1994 about this band president and it was called Pavement Range Life. Okay, so this is a little bit different. So, I hope that that's me. I mean, so is this, then this is a docudrama. It's a drama. Yeah. It's a drama done about the band and their story. And yeah, and so...

I don't know who the director is, and maybe they are... Well, it says Rain's Life of Pavement Story, biopic concert film. So that might be different. Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Oh, my God, dude, that's Roy Perry's son! Are you serious? I swear to God! Yes, it is! What is going on? What is going...

What? It's got to be me. It has to be. Roy Perry used to work here, by the way, for those who don't know. Did Roy ever work at Y100? No. He was always here, right? Yeah. I miss Roy. I know. Who's his character, Kathy Flomano?

By the way, that should be her when she's menstruating. It's Kathy Flamano. When she's menstruating. We can tell, by the way. Is that what you're doing? Anyway, what were you going to say, Kath? Or did we throw you off with the menstrual thing? I don't think I was going to say anything. All right, so anyhow, we'll keep you updated on this and find out. And maybe we can get Joe Carey on. And apparently, Pavement's got a gig. Marissa, you said at the end of the month. Oh, it's on here? Yeah.

Members of Payment are coming to Union Transfer on March 26th at the Hard Quartet. Let's get them on. Yeah, no kidding. It says watch a trailer for... This is what they're talking about? Watch a trailer for fake Payment biopic. Range Life of Payment story. Let's just text Roy. He can literally call it right now. He's going to put an end to this. Hello, you got Roy. This is music from Payment, by the way.

Cut your hair. It's a fun song, man. Yeah, it's a great song. Remember this? Yes! Darling, don't you think cut your hair Do you think it's gonna make him change? I'm just a little hair And that's a pretty nice

Nick pulled up a picture of Kevin Smith with Alex Ross Perry, the director, and also Adam Horowitz of Beastie Boys. This is DJ Preston. Yeah. We got payment in the studio. Yeah.

Do you have any recollection of ever interviewing them? No. Okay. But there were several bands, man, like I said. They process through all the time. That we would do phone calls with. Yeah. I would have remembered having them in the studio. I don't remember having them in the studio. But you never had people come out to the station, right? I mean, it was Jenkins Town. No, some people did come out. Yeah. I remember we had some pretty cool interviews. We had, let's see, I don't know.

Brian Setzer came out. The Talking Heads came out to Jenkins Town. Yeah, there were a number of interviews I do recall, but there were a lot on the phone that I don't remember personally.

Alright, so there's also this movie called Pavements and that's got to be this. Alright, it's the same thing. It's directed by Alex Ross Perry. It's got Joe Keery in it. It was supposed to come out last year. I don't think that it did yet. So this movie exists already but maybe they just didn't release it. The release date on IMDb was 2024 but we're just learning about it now. Listen, we can get to the bottom of this right now during the show. We can certainly do that by contacting Roy Perry. I just texted him. Jason Schwartzman is also in the movie.

That's a pretty decent cast. Yeah, yeah. Does Jason Schwartzman play DJ Preston? No. He plays Chris Lombardi. Okay. I think he plays a record label guy. No, Keith Polson plays radio DJ. Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. And we don't know what he looks like. Kim Gordon's in it. Who's that? Musician. Oh. She was in, oh my God, Not the Breeders.

I can't remember. Like I said, there's so many bands. Kim Gordon, Marissa knows. Hang on a second, Marissa. I don't know about Kim Gordon, but I found a little blurb about the movie. So it premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Venice! So that's what happens with a lot of these movies. They'll premiere then, and then it takes a while for them to get theatrical releases. But it says, the movie tells the history of Pavement as told by archival footage from

and contemporary footage as the band prepares to embark on their 2022 reunion tour. So I think like all of the actors are the band in 2022 and then it flashes back to like real and not real footage of them, which is why Kim is in it and why all the band members are in it. Kim Gordon is Sonic U. Yes, that is correct, yep.

All right. Well, anyhow, we'll keep you updated. We'll keep you updated and let you know about DJ Preston. You noticed a mystery. All right. Something else we're going to notice. Because it's what I do.

Steve sent this story over. We may have audio from this or not. Marissa, he had requested that you send this over. But there's a young boy that has become an internet sensation following his endearing doorbell cam apology to his neighbor. Oh, I saw this. I thought this was adorable. The boy from Stockton, California approached the house to own up to a mishap that occurred while he was playing in his front yard. And we have audio of this? Mm-hmm.

All right, this is him. So something happened and he goes up to the doorbell to address his neighbors. Hey, I was playing soccer with my friend over there. Like, I don't know if this is going to be recording or if you guys can see it. But like the truck, my dad has the same one. Like where you get out and where the foot thing is. So like you can jump off of the truck and get out safely.

Yeah, the ball hit right there. It hit like right on that, but like the one on the other side. And it set off the alarm for a bit. And I just want to apologize for that. I don't know if anybody's home or if they're sleeping. But I just want to apologize for that. Oh, my God. I don't know what else is going on.

Is there any more to it? That's it. No, but they found out later on in the house a murder was going on. Oh, okay. But no, but I mean, it made me think of like, yeah, to do that. I remember when I was, you know, a kid and I was forced, you need to go apologize. Oh, yeah. And when you have that moment, you learn the importance of apologizing. Yeah.

So my neighbors, when their kids were younger, they would have friends over. They have a big family, lots of cousins, and they would play ball in the backyard. And the ball would go over the fence into my yard all the time.

every single time knock at the door we're really sorry um but the ball went over into like they were very polite kids the ball went i'm like okay it was like one day it was like five times and i was like look i go you got you guys can go in the backyard don't worry about it like you don't have to knock on the door no they didn't hear that part oh they kept knocking every time i was like it's okay were you coming to the door in lingerie yeah right

Well, that's nice. Their parents instilled in them the apology. Make sure that you own up to that. I would not have. Nope. You would have ran, hid, pretended like it wasn't you? Yes.

But you know what? A conversation for another time because there's some other things I do want to get to is the forced to apologize scenario because I definitely had that. Well, you know what? I actually read once. This was years ago when Jace was younger. Well, this article was saying you shouldn't force your child to apologize like you're supposed to. You should pay them. Well, no. So I never forced Jace to apologize. I would have to explain the situation and basically say like...

in this type of situation is when you have to apologize because here's what you did. I guess teaching them to like come to their own conclusion that they need to go over and say sorry. Kath, when I was a kid, my neighbor had a grandson and whenever he came over, he was my best friend. His name is Patrick. And,

And so one time we found the spray paint in their garage and we decided to spray paint on the side of the garage. I don't know what the hell we were thinking, why we were thinking it was okay, but we spray painted our names. So it's Casey and Patrick. In case you were confused as to who did this on the side of the garage. Yeah, so a neighbor comes up and sees what we were doing.

and made us go and tell our parents what we had done. Well, I went home and I didn't say a damn word to anybody about anything. And then next thing I know, I get a knock on the door. Hey, did you happen to spray paint on the McKinney's garage? I don't know what you're talking about. Sure enough. That's Casey. But yeah, so not only did I not like, I didn't say anything. I was like, no, this is just going to go away. Wow. I had the time I was forced to do it. Like I said, we will maybe save this for another conversation. But yeah,

My neighbors across the street, I don't know why, but I had a BB gun. I was a kid that shot everything in the neighborhood.

Street lights. You were that kid. I was that kid. And my neighbors, one day me and my buddy thought, hey, why don't we shoot out their lights on their garage? That'll be fun. Directly across the street from my house. Directly across from your house. So we're shooting from a good distance away. So we had to take several cracks at it before we eventually broke those lights. And I mean, these are like sconces. So you're digging the house all over the place. Oh, yeah.

I didn't know it because I didn't walk over there and I didn't know that the BBs were being embedded in the siding of the house. And so it's pockmarked with BBs.

I didn't know that. I didn't walk over there to see it. So I and I was look, I was always running around neighborhood with my BB gun. Yeah. Who did this? I wonder who did this. And so my needing to apologize, being forced to apologize, led with hearing the following sentence from my father in the house. Yes.

Get your ass down here! And you knew it was going to happen. Oh, yeah. And he made me go over there with him and sit in their living room. In their nice formal living room. And I bawled my eyes out. I was crying. I was embarrassed. I was probably 20.

12, 13, something like that. And how did they respond? I don't remember, man. I was traumatized. I mean, I was terrified of my dad. I didn't care what the neighbor was going to do. So my dad was incredibly intimidating. And, uh, yeah, I mean, look, I deserved it. You know, I was a dumbass. I was an idiot on several levels for doing that in the first place. Number two, not thinking it through about what I was doing. And, uh,

and number three, thinking that I couldn't apologize. And yes, they had, they had like a little kid and my dad was, they have a baby here. You could have shot that child. And I'm like, dad, I'm a better shot than that. Relax. So look at the grouping up there, man. Please. At least it's within the reasonable area. I wanted to shoot the baby. I want to shot the baby. Yeah. Come on, man.

I shot the streetlights in front of my house. I mean, the one that illuminated my street in front of... Idiot. And I shot my neighbor's car. He had an MG. I put a hole in... What the hell are you doing? I put a hole in the front quarter panel, the passenger side quarter panel, because I would pump it up like 10 times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like way more than what you're supposed to. God, dumbass.

I'll save my story. It's amazing I'm still alive. You want to save it for another time? All right. I jotted that down. So anyhow, learn from example. This kid did the right thing. All right. So we'll go see what else I noticed here. This one's for Kathy. Although you don't need this, but you will certainly appreciate it, Kath.

It is called the Viral Core 4 Method of Decluttering Your House. Okay. The Viral Core 4 Method of Decluttering. Yeah, so you don't need this. You've got your own method, I'm certain. But nonetheless, there's a pro organizer. Her name is Kayleen Kelly.

And she is a big hit on Clean Talk. They have this in parentheses. Clean Talk. I have a core for too. Throw it all out. Yeah. So she does how to videos that rack up over 23 million views.

So to use this core four decluttering method, she advises starting with small spaces and doing each of the four steps in one room before moving on to the next. Then once you get all that done, then you can move to the final part. So here's how it works. Step one, clear out. Remove everything.

Put it in a pile. Toss any trash, actual garbage away. You don't keep the trash. And then focus on getting cabinets, table space, and other storage areas completely clear so that you can fill them in a more organized way later. So you take everything, everything out, and you put it in the middle of the room. So real quick, I did that with my closet a couple years ago. I took every piece of clothing out of my closet, and I tried it on.

Because there were things like, well, you know, that's still. How big did you look when all that was on? Not at the same time. But you by doing that, taking it all out because you're not you don't want to put it back or I didn't want to put it back if it didn't fit or it had a, you know, like a pull in it or whatever it was. And trying everything on was like amazing, like things that you, you know, I thought, well, I spent some money on this. I don't want to get rid of it. I put it on like this is so outdated. It's not coming back.

right now. I need to do that. I got to get rid of it. That's a good idea. It takes several hours. It actually took me a few days. I did my closet in sections. I would take out one whole section, the clothing, and then I did the shoes, and then I did the purses, and all that. I think I ended up giving away five bags of stuff. What if you empty your closet and find 13 pavement t-shirts? Yeah.

Oh, I did interview them. All right. So the next step is to step two. So there's four steps altogether. Step two is categorize.

So now it's time to sort that big pile of stuff into smaller piles. And you'll need a bin for each category, whether it's clothes, pet supplies, makeup, whatever. So you have bins that have categories. You move everything to those categories. Sex toys. I love categories. This is actually how I do my laundry. I don't know if you guys have a system. But when everything comes out of the dryer, obviously you dump it and then I categorize. Before you fold? Before I fold. Yeah, I do that too. Oh, okay. Yep, I'll put...

T-shirts, long sleeve shirts, underwear, socks, get them all. And then I put it together. So step three is cut out. So this is where the process gets more challenging because you need to go through each of the bins now, decide what can be thrown away or what can be donated. And you may want to have a bin for clutter that you put in purgatory, she says.

Full of stuff that you're not sure about getting rid of yet. So you stick that bin somewhere like the garage or the attic. You leave it there for a month or two. See if you can live without those items. And the goal of this step is to shrink the amount of stuff in each bin. Where's my insulin? So you'll throw these things that are just kind of in the mystery zone and set them somewhere away and let them sit there. And if you don't touch them for a certain amount of time. You don't need it. Chuck out. Step five.

Step number four is contain. And in this step, you reassess the bin situation. The bins themselves are important because they're not just for holding your piles while sorting and decluttering. They're what you'll organize and store everything in going forward. So you hang on to the bins. I'm a big bin fan. Me too. I have loads of them.

And then the final part is maintenance. This is kind of post four steps. You need to repeat the core four technique every once in a while. Focus on the cutout step and dumping the bins and going through the stuff inside to keep it all organized. And you guys have storage units? I used to, and it was...

It hung over my head. That's how I would feel. It was so annoying that we had a house. Right. And we needed an extra storage bin, and they charge you a lot. It's not cheap. One time when I moved, Steve, we put some stuff in there because the house that we were moving to wasn't ready yet or whatever, and it was only a couple of months, and that was expensive. To me, like, and I don't mean this in a judgment kind of a way, but if, like,

they just seem so unnecessary. If you're going to put your stuff in a storage unit, unless it's for a moving purpose or you're leaving the country or whatever, just get rid of it or sell it or donate it or whatever. To me, like as an extra storage place, it seems a little asinine. But you had it when you lived in a house, in a smaller house.

house. It was a small house. You had all your decorations. You needed it. That's what it was. It was for the decorations which were very large and all my stuff and I kept it in there. I was glad I had it but it would annoy the F out of me. Yeah, we had a situation. Rochelle joined this board of charity called The Mother's Wish. It's for Crohn's disease and

She informed me without checking with me first that we would be storing all of the stuff. Oh, I remember when this happened. That they would be using for events. And I was like, no.

No, we're not. I just want less stuff in my life in general. And eventually talked her into a storage unit. Yeah. And so we have that and we keep all that stuff there, thank God, because it is the size of my unfinished side of my basement. Yeah. But you're right, man. They're expensive. They are. And I do like the notion that my house is of a decent size, but I like the concept of not having so much space that you can just...

fill up rooms with crap that now I'm at the point now where I'm ready for the spring cleaning and to cycle things out. So, well, then you may want to use her method, Steve. You need to check in. Her name is Kayleen Kelly. Kayleen Kelly. And she's part of Clean Talk. Perfect.

Apparently so. All right. So I thought that was interesting. We're passing along something. I know it's another thing that I noticed. This is a Princeton review. They've come out with the results of their college hopes and worry survey. And Nick, this will tie into the thing that you sent me as well. So according to the poll of more than 7000 college applicants,

MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is now the number one dream college for high school seniors. The number one dream college for high school seniors. Probably because of Spider-Man, right? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe. And Cobra Kai. There's a lot in there. So you go there if you want to be a web slinger or a karate fighter. So Harvard held the title previously, but that's been knocked down to number two on the list. MIT is obviously one of the most difficult colleges to get into in the U.S., as well as one of the most expensive.

The acceptance rate is just 4.5%. Whoa. And between tuition and fees, room and board, and all other student expenses, attending MIT costs more than $85,000 a year.

You can go straight to hell. My God. It's cheaper than what Nick's going to be paying for Ben to go to school. Tell him to go to MIT. If he could get an MIT, he would go there. That is his number one. Did you get an estimate on where... Where's he going? Oh, we have several options. He's getting some more...

or rejections within the next few weeks. If I may ask, what is the priciest of those options? Probably NYU. Okay, which one's about what? 90. Oh my gosh. I heard UPenn was going up to 90. Yeah, UPenn. You know what also is really expensive and it got in yesterday is Drexel. Oh my gosh.

or he got in two days ago, Drexel has this master's program. It's a five-year master's program. And Drexel is one of the best schools in the country at finding you a job when you graduate. So he would go in as a mechanical engineer and graduate with a master's in five years, which is amazing because it took me seven and a half years to get an undergraduate degree. Yeah.

But that's how much smarter my son is than I am. Is he thinking about it? He is, yeah. But Drexel's not cheap either. There are two schools on his list that are much more affordable. And then there are several more that are a lot more expensive. But Steve, to answer your question, NYU is by far the most expensive.

I believe Matt Cord's father and Matt Cord's nephew went to MIT. No kidding. Yeah, definitely Jack did. And I think one of his nephews also. Those numbers are just blowing my mind. I can't. It's a weird trade-off. We're going to Monaco.

Yeah. And I get it. All three of my kids. There are a lot of arguments and we don't have to get into it. But like if you were to graduate from MIT, it does set you apart in the rest of the world. Like you have a degree from that school and it is something that people notice immediately. Does it mean that you're going to, you know, make a ton of money as soon as you graduate? No. And does it mean it's worth the cost? I don't know. But it is something to consider because that's how great of a school it is. Well, I

Preston, you're the one that introduced me to the concept of, or at least when I think when Carter went to college, was the first two years at a community college and then going to a university that you want to go to. And that school counselors are actually like, that's where they're

pushing a lot. They're recommending that? Yeah, is just get those gen eds out of the way. And I think that the schools now, and I don't want to misspeak, but I believe that a lot of the colleges and universities now, it's a little more easier to transfer your credits if you go to a community college. Like when we went and you tried to transfer, it was like you lost half your credits. Now, I believe it's a different story. So they're kind of pushing kids to do that to save some money and then go to your school of choice. Because $90,000 a year, I am saying that.

Well, fortunately, MIT also offers generous aid packages for qualifying students. Last year, the median annual cost paid by an MIT undergrad receiving financial aid was $12,938, according to the college. Yeah, most people don't pay the tuition. And so almost everybody, unless you are at a certain income bracket, almost everybody gets some version of financial aid.

All right, so here are the top 10 dream colleges. Number one is MIT. Number two is Harvard. Three is Stanford. Number four is Princeton. Five is Yale. Six is Columbia. These are all the ones you want to hear or that you're used to hearing. Number seven is New York University. Number eight, University of Michigan Ann Arbor.

And number nine is University of Pennsylvania. Down to nine. So Penn is still in there in the top ten. And University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, is number ten. Yeah, Columbia and Penn are also on Ben's list. And so, yeah, we'll see. He gets most of his exemptions by April 1st. What are the Ivy League schools? So it's Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, Brown, Penn.

and forgetting one Colgate? Did I say Cornell? Yeah, Cornell, Dartmouth Harvard

Yale, Brown, Cincinnati, Columbia, Princeton. Okay. Princeton. Princeton's campus is so gorgeous, by the way. Is it $90,000 gorgeous? I don't know. Do you know what Princeton is, Nick? I mean, most Ivies are about the same. Ivies are like 80 to 90. My good friend's son is going away to college next year and he got a full ride, a full scholarship. Wow. And to several different schools. And the...

he told his parents that he didn't want to go to those schools. His dad, he was like...

What do you mean? The dad created a spreadsheet as to why he should go to one of these schools, giving him a full ride. And they spelled it all out for him. They showed him what costs would be if he didn't and if he had to pay for school and all that. So he changed his mind. Oh, he did. He's going to one of the schools that are paying for his four-year education. I mean, come on. When you leave school and you have...

you know what close to now obviously if you're getting assistance but still you got a mortgage basically that you're graduating with you can buy your kid a house or or buy them housing during the time that they're away and then they could sell that afterwards um yeah it's unbelievably and extraordinarily expensive all right and then on the heels of that particular study the dream school uh uh survey that was done uh this one is from a website called quartz

And they have the five most drunk colleges in America. It's a slideshow. I'm not going to go through all of that. But the number one drunk school in America. According to them, sure, why not? Bucknell University. Which is why it takes you seven years to get an undergrad degree.

That's right. That's hilarious. So is the 90,000 in that case your bar tab? Yeah, probably. That's at the Bull Run. Yeah, Bucknell. You know, it actually kind of surprised me because I thought we drank all the beer in the 90s and there's still some left. They made more.

What do you think leads to that? Well, Lewisburg is a small town. It's a party school. I mean, people go there. But, Steve, when you go to Bucknell, it's in this small town called Lewisburg. It's on the Susquehanna River. It's a really beautiful campus. It's a really quaint little town. But there's not much to do outside of that. So you're hanging out on campus. You're going to fraternity parties. You're going to sorority parties. You're going to apartment parties. And if you're a drinker, it's a good place to go drinking.

What are the other four schools? Like I said, it's a slideshow and I don't remember and it takes a while to go through it. I'll pull them up for you. City of New York. Those are the most sober colleges. That's why I did this last night. The most sober colleges. All right, here we go. Providence. Providence. Yeah, Providence College is number five. Number four is West Virginia University. I thought that would be on that list. Number three is Colgate University.

We were just talking about that. Number two is University of Wisconsin-Madison and then Bucknell University. How about them apples? Yeah.

You proud of that, Nick? Yeah, I would be. It's a really funny thing when that shows up in like the universities, um, uh, on their radar because like they don't want to advertise it, but they do want to advertise it. They want kids to come there. They want kids to enjoy their college campus. And look, we just talked about how expensive schools are. Well, guess where a lot of that money goes to the endowments of the school to pay the professors. And if you want kids to come to your college, uh,

partying is a reason why kids go to college. So if they find out on this list that the most beer consumed per capita is at Bucknell University and you want to party when you go to college, you're going to consider West Virginia. You're going to consider Bucknell. So back in my day, Playboy magazine were the ones that would have the top party schools. The party schools. And yeah. I remember the girls of the Pac-10.

And, oh my God, he used to love those Victorials. I loved them. Real girls. Yes. My sweetest wife, I will not be home this weekend as I will be putting my hand through its paces as I massage my genitals to the girls of the back tent.

USC, man. Every time USC grows. It was amazing, right? Amazing. But that party school title, when that would come out and it happened to be a university that you were somehow attached to, it was a big deal. Yeah. I was like, yeah. If somebody from your...

you know, they would, they were royalty if they made it into the, the playboy issue. Yeah. I remember West Virginia being a party school, Casey, when we were applying for schools like Arizona state, those were party schools. And I wonder how many years straight Brigham Young has been the most sober school. I mean, literally every year that,

Number one. I was my school was a commuter college. So none of that atmosphere really existed, though. We were next to a school that was a fairly decent partying school. But yeah, I didn't have that same experience at all. And B, I don't drink. All right. That's all I have time to notice this morning, though. Hopefully you got something. Noticing. Yep. Done with it. He's done with it. We got other things to get to. Damn it.

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Beginning with a story in Orlando, a man was accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from a Tiffany and Company store and swallowing the evidence. Wow, man. Yeah. Literally money coming out of his ass. Well, I saw a post where I got this story on FARC and the headline was, it's actually breakfast at Tiffany's.

Yeah, yeah. Jathan Lawrence Gilder impersonated a person representing an Orlando Magic player in order to gain access to the pricey jewelry. Police said Gilder forced his way out of the store with earrings totaling $7.

$769,000. Wow. A pair of 4.86 carat diamond earrings worth $160,000. A pair of 8.19 carat diamond earrings worth $609,000. That's a lot of eating. And also he stole a ring worth $587,000. So did he roll them up into a wrap? How did he do it? So Gilder's car was stopped where he was arrested on a charge of resisting as well as 48 outstanding warrants out of Colorado.

Jeez. A body scan conducted at the jail appeared to solve the mystery of the missing earrings. They were spotted in his stomach. So, Steve, I don't know if he wrapped them up or anything or he just chucked them in and swallowed them. By the way, having that stuff, I assume that... I mean, you can... People swallow things all the time like this, but...

Would it not agitate your stomach? Yeah, like tear it up. Right? Don't know. So the arrest report stated these foreign objects are suspected to be the Tiffany and Company earrings taken in the robbery, but will need to be collected by the police after they are passed through Gilder's system prior to confirming. You can keep them. Yeah. Well, they'll be in the bargain bin at Tiffany's now. What about these ones covered in poop? Oh, yeah, they're cheaper.

Gilder spontaneously had asked jail staff if he was going to be charged for, quote, what's in my stomach, according to the arrest report. And the arresting trooper reported hearing him say, I should have thrown them out the window. He was charged with first degree grand theft and robbery with a mask. A search of his criminal history revealed that he was charged with robbing another criminal.

Tiffany's store in Texas in, well, I don't know, in Texas in 2022. So he only swallowed these because they were after it. All right. Yeah. So he was trying, he was quote unquote trying to hide the evidence. So,

A Syrian ballet dancer got into the split position and balanced on a pair of ATVs for a ride lasting 1,541 feet 11 inches to break a Guinness World Record. They moved? Yeah. Yeah, they were moving like the Jean-Claude Van Damme commercial. Yara Kadar.

who's 26, broke the record for the longest distance covered while performing a split on two moving ATVs, a record that required her to not touch anything with her arms while each of her legs balanced on a different vehicle.

So the attempt in the United Arab Emirates also involved ATV drivers Mohammed al-Bushi and Abdul al-Wate. So they get in the Guinness Book as well. The ATVs were required to maintain a speed of at least 3.1 miles per hour for the duration of the attempt. But she did it. They have to obviously be completely, precisely synced up. Yep. Or else someone's getting split in half. Mm-hmm.

The Maine Fire Marshal's office is investigating a fireworks explosion at a Lewiston apartment building that left the resident with severe injuries. A team of investigators responded after being contacted by the Lewiston Fire Department. Investigators said...

That 39-year-old man was seriously injured when a consumer firework exploded inside his apartment. Oh, man. He was flown by helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where he was listed in critical condition.

The man's name was not shared by officials. The fire marshal's office said the apartment where the firework exploded sustained minimal damage. No other injuries were reported in connection with the incident. Fireworks are legal in the state of Maine with some exceptions. They just asked you not to detonate them in your apartment. Probably not a good idea to do that.

There are some things that can legitimately be called a miracle. An unnamed Russian soldier from the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet reportedly fought for a week with a bullet lodged in his brain. It's amazing. Wow.

During combat in the Kursk region, a bullet struck his helmet and caused it to fly off. Believing the bullet had merely glanced off, he noticed swelling above his right eye but continued his duties, expecting it to heal naturally. Wasn't until he suffered another injury from shrapnel and had an x-ray of the doctors to cover the bullet embedded in his brain.

Medical professionals have labeled his survival a rare miracle and discussions are underway to honor him for his resilience. I have a story about a guy who eluded the police with a tennis bracelet in his ass. Wow. Yeah. Wow. All right. And then one last story. A 19-year-old from the UK named Maddie. Maddie? Is a mother of two, sort of. So Maddie has an 18-month-old. Maddie. Maddie.

Maddie has an 18-month-old daughter, Ophelia, and a lifelike reborn doll named Forest. Missing the newborn phase after Ophelia grew into a toddler, Maddie had acquired Forest to relive those early moments without the financial strain of having another child. How magical. Reborn dolls are hyper-realistic collectibles, sometimes costing up to $25,000, crafted by artists to resemble real infants.

Despite facing online criticism and being labeled crazy or weird, Maddie emphasizes that Forrest is not a toy, but a collectible work of art. She ensures that Ophelia remains her top priority. Sure, what if they get confused? Stating that people misunderstand her situation. That's...

Like out of Servant. Well, it's exactly like out of Servant. We're looking at a picture of her with the doll and the baby, and they are just slightly different looking. Yeah. Pretty damn close. I'm guessing the one on the right is the doll. Yeah, I think so. It's hard to tell.

Interesting. All right. And there you go. That's what I have in the Bazaar file for you. Case, do you have something? No, no, no. I'm looking at it as well. At first, I thought that this was the real baby. And now I'm thinking that that's not the real baby, that that's the real baby. Yeah. Based on how good they are. The fats. Yeah. Fat rolls. Right. All righty. Let us take another break. We'll come back in a moment. At some point this morning, we're going to play a contest. It might be next. We'll do a little conference here during the commercial break and figure it out. But you should stick around and see what's up next. All right? Or not.

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We consider ourselves all together. I always like it. I think you said the same thing. We're all in a car commuting to work together, and we're all part of this group of people. We're all friends. We hang out in the morning, but it's kind of cool to see the people that we're talking to. Yeah. So we're going to try out a contest, and we're going to need you to chime in via Zoom if you're interested in playing, and just text the word Zoom to 39333.

We'll automatically send you a link. You click on that link and then you can go in and get set up in essentially a waiting room to possibly come on board. We're going to play a game and we have a variety of prizes to give away. We have four packs of tickets for this movie, Novocaine. Which looks really good. Yeah, Jack Quaid is in this. You know him from The Boys and other things. And it's this guy that doesn't feel in any pain. It's kind of like kick-ass. Yep.

And so we have tickets to those. And then we also have four packs of tickets for Temple Men's Basketball for Sunday. They're playing North Texas at the Leo Kors Center. So you can win either one of those prizes. And we're going to play a game. I just had this idea. It's been a while since we've heard...

The voice of James Mason, the legendary actor. The legendary James Mason. That is correct. So this is called James Mason Sings the Hits. Do you know what this reminds me of, Preston? What's that? On Jeopardy, occasionally, they'll do something like this where they'll have the lyrics of songs read without the accompanying music. It becomes difficult to identify the song. Exactly. And James Mason, if you're unfamiliar...

Salem's Lot. The Verdict. Journey to the Center of the Earth. A Star is Born. A Star is Born. Heaven Can Wait. Heaven Can Wait. It's time to go, Joe. From Salem's Lot. Back Priest. Back Shaman. And Spokesperson for Thunderbird Liquor. When unexpected guests drop by and you don't want to use the good stuff, pour this piss down their gallops.

We were blown away years ago, and this is part of the appeal of James Mason, was that we found a commercial of him for this malt liquor called Thunderbird. It's like, you know, it's the bottom of the barrel. I hate to use the term winos, but, you know, that's what they would choose. How did you drink rubbing alcohol?

Just remember to remove the cotton balls from it. So it was malt-based? It wasn't wine-based? I think so. You know what? Was it a joke to the spot? We never determined whether it was a put-on or... No, it's legit. It was in black and white. And...

Millions of dollars adjusted. I drink this piss. Can you see if we still have that, Casey? Because for reference of the voice that Steve is doing, or our dear departed James Mason, just to give people who may not be familiar with him...

a little bit of what James Mason sounds like. I think your impression is spot on. Oh, thanks, yeah. You know, one of my favorite roles of his is in The Verdict, which is the David Mamet script. You know, he's the defense attorney. Yeah. And he's instructing, you know, you reached out into her, you pulled life out of her.

You know, the performances. I think he was nominated for an Oscar for that. Nice. Very good. Just like the wild. How about wild, wild turkey? All right. Well, we don't have it, I guess. That's OK. We'll eventually. Zima.

Bartles and James. Bartles and James. Yes. So many different boozes that he could have done. All right. We'll see if we can get that. Marissa, I know you're in the middle of all this stuff, but if you find the Thunderbird commercial. Thunderbirds on go. We're going to do this first, though. Marissa's got, she's juggling all kinds of stuff. So we have our first contestant for James Mason Sings the Hits. This is Alex, who is joining us via Zoom in his car. Good morning, Alex. How you doing, bud?

Good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you. And we do see you, which is wonderful. That has a whole new connotation to it. All right. Where are you driving today? Down to Center City. Sounds good. All right. So we're going to try out and see how well you know these lyrics as recited by the legendary actor James Mason. You ready to try this out, Alex? All right. All right. This is Sounds Music, so pay careful attention. Hmm.

Crazy horse, Paris, France. Forget their names. Remember romance. I got the photos. A menage a trois. Must have broke those French's walls with those mm-mm-mm. I mm-mm-mm to suggest the continuation of those lyrics would be the title of the song. Oh. Alex, any idea what that might be?

Is that Money by Pink Floyd? That is not. I am sorry, sir. They really dealt with strippers. Thank you.

Thank you for guessing, sir. Do we want to try that out on another person or move on to another song? You decide the contest. I'll do whatever you desire. Let's try two per. Two per. And see if they can get it. Marissa, when you get a chance, we'll take another contestant. I'm sorry. And now going from person to person very quickly. A little more arduous. We haven't tried yet. All right. Now we have Rebecca Underwood joining us. Hey, Rebecca.

Hey, how you doing? Awesome. All right, Rebecca, we're playing James Mason Sings the Hits. Are you ready to try this out? Certainly. All right. Listen carefully. Crazy horse, Paris, France. Forget them names, remember romance. I got the photos. A menage a trois. Must have broke those French's laws with those...

Oh, no. I don't know it. You don't know it? All right. Thank you for playing anyway. I don't know it either. You don't know it either? No. What if I did it like this? Crazy whores, Paris, France. Forget those girls. Remember romance. Is it Girls, Girls, Girls? It is. Would you prefer I do it that way? No, no, no, no, no. I like how you're doing it. I think it makes it more of a struggle. I tell you what.

I think this next one's going to be easier. Some are easier than others. And that one I chose a mid-song lyric. A snippet. Just a little snippet, if you will. Just a snippet. We need more Zoomers who would like to play, please, if you're interested in playing James Mason Sings the Hits.

You've got them all. Everything you've ever liked. What would you expect to pay for this amazing record package? So what you need to do is text the word ZOOM to 39333 and we will send you the link and then you'll go into a waiting room and then we'll try out just like we have John here on ZOOM. Morning to you, John. How you doing, buddy? Good morning. What's up? Yeah, man, we are playing James Mason Sings the Hitch. You ready to try this out? Yeah, I'm ready to go. I think this one's going to be easier for you.

What I've got, you've got to give it to your mama. What I've got, you've got to give it to your papa. What I've got, you've got to give it to your daughter. You do a little dance and then you drink a little water. What I've got, you've got to get it, put it in you. What I've got, you've got to get it, put it in you.

What I've got, you've got to get it. Put it in you. Reeling with the feeling. Don't stop. Continue. All right. And John, what song is that? Oh, I think that's... I would say that's a Slayer tune. Maybe...

I don't know. I thought that was easier. Thank you anyway, John. I will tell you this. It is not a Slayer song. Completely different group. It's hard to... You don't have a melody to go along with. Sometimes when this is played on Jeopardy... John. They're reading the lyrics cold. I will blank. It's hard without the reference. We'll see if Amanda...

has got a shot to win here. Hi there, Amanda. Hi, good morning. Good morning. Thanks for joining us via Zoom. I just know you can do this, Amanda. Did you hear me recite them before? No, I did not. All right. Think carefully. Listen to the lyrics. Think, does this remind me of a song I'm a fan of or a band I've heard? All right? Would you do that for me?

We can do it together. What I've got, you've got to give it to your mama. What I've got, you've got to give it to your papa. What I've got, you've got to give it to your daughter. You do a little dance and then you drink a little water. What I've got, you've got to get it, put it in you. What I've got, you've got to get it, put it in you. What I've got, you've got to get it,

Put it in you. Really with the feeling. Dance stop. Continue. All right. Amanda, do you know that song? Is it the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Give It a Light Out? Yes! I knew it just looking at you. Yes. That you were a Chili Peppers fan. Yes.

And Amanda wins. Casey, what are we going to do? Amanda, we have a four-pack of tickets for an advanced 4DX screening of Novocaine. This is going to be on Monday, March 10th at 7 p.m. at the UA King of Prussia. You can see Novocaine with seat motion and environmental effects that put you into the heart of the action. And you're going to feel it in 4DX. Paramount Pictures' Novocaine stars Jack Quaid, and that will be in theaters on March 14th. Amanda, congratulations. Hold on, okay? Yeah.

I like how she browsed the background using that poker. Yeah, she did use that. Looks very ethereal. By the way, has anyone done the 4D movie experience yet? I am dying to do it. And I was going to do it for Twisters. The thing is, you've got to pay attention to the theaters and the times because they cycle through pretty quickly. Yeah. And if you are going to do it, you've got to do it for a movie like Novocaine. I did it for a Marvel movie. Did you do it for Avengers? I don't think it was Avengers. It was... Oh, God. Oh, God.

I wish I could remember what it was. Yeah, that's probably what it was. What's the Avengers movie, if it's Endgame or Infinity War, where Thanos is on the planet and he's walking through the garden? Yeah, that was Endgame. You saw that. Yes, I did. What did they do for that? Steve, you could smell the planet that he's on. Oh, I want that! And none of it was...

weird or gross. It was all really cool. And you're like, man, I am on Thanos' planet right now. It was badass. I would definitely do it again. Alright, well we have more of those four pack of tickets for Novocaine to see in 4D. Next up for James Mason Sings the Hits, we have William Preston. Hey, what's up, William? That's a coincidence. Nice to see you, bud. Do you go by William or Bill or Billy or what?

Bill. All right, Bill. Nice job getting through. I get off. A lot of our male listeners have beards. They do. Yeah, which is something we don't get to see normally. All right, you ready to play James Mason sings the hits here, Bill? I'm going to try. I'm going to skip the third one. Oh, do whatever you want. Just a little bit. I think the fourth selection is a little more obvious. Okay. That's what I think. All right.

Taking more than her share had me fighting for air. She told me to come, but I was already there. Because the walls started shaking, the earth was quaking, my mind was aching, and we were making it. Bill, what? Took me all night long. Yeah!

Absolutely correct, sir. Yeah, that's a gimme. That's a gimme. All right, hang on. Here's what we have for you. All right, Bill, you won a four-pack of tickets for an advanced screening. No. I'm sorry. No, you didn't. You actually won a four-pack of Temple men's basketball tickets for this Sunday. Temple men's basketball battles North Texas this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Lear Course Center. Following the game, kids in sixth grade and younger can score a basket on the court. You can bring your whole family. Visit Owlstick.com.

What I love about this particular song person is that he's describing this encounter and lyrically you don't realize it, but he's already shot his load. All right, there's one, James, that I don't want you to do. Which one? I'm going to walk around there. I can't tell it to you. All right, so... You know what? I'll write it down. Write it down. And the reason being... Hold it up to the cameras. No, I don't... That'll ruin it too. I want to do a thing with you guys. Oh, God!

This is the song. Yeah. So don't do this one for now. I won't do that. All right. Thank you. I'm not going to do that. Before the end of the segment, there's something I want to share with you guys about the lyrics of one of these songs. All right. We have a next contestant up and this happens to be Lee. Hey there, Lee.

Hey, Preston. Thanks for joining us. All I do is nothing. All I do is nothing. That is a Carson Daly reference. Carson Daly, yes. Nice job, bud. Yes, it is. All right, we're playing James Mason Sings a Hit. You ready for your try? Hits, you ready for your try?

I'll give it my best. I think you're going to do well. This is a shorter snippet. So think about it. I'll do it twice, all right? Place yourself. First time hearing this on the radio. Perhaps you're a young lad. I don't know, Liverpool, wherever you grew up. And think about hearing this. Transport yourself. Mnemonically, here we go. Finished with my woman because she couldn't help me with my mind. People think I'm insane because I'm frowning

All of the time. Like you said, it's a show. And you want to do it again for me? I'm going to do it one more time. And think of what one might be called if they were having these sort of mental conundrums. All right, here we go again. Finished with my woman because she couldn't help me with my mind. People think I'm insane because I'm frowning all of the time.

Oh, that's an Aussie song. I just can't think of the name of it. I don't get to help you. One word title. Good point. Say it again. Please. Where the hell did that come from? No, there's a song called Crazy Train. There's not a song called Crazy. But maybe he's in two parts. Hi, thank you, anybody. Crazy Train, part one. Thanks, anybody, guys. See you, buddy. All right. Yeah, that's a shorter one. And he definitely got in the ballpark. He was right in the ballpark. Yeah, exactly. He was right there. And by the way, some of these...

And I'm going to bring up one in a little while of a lyric that I've been singing wrong for decades. But the beginning of that song, I didn't know all those words, but I never tried to really sing along and make up words. That's what happens on Jeopardy. Or sometimes when I'll listen to a song and I'll have the lyrics, like say it's Alexa or whatever, and the lyrics will display and I'm like, I didn't know that. Son of a bitch. And we are surrounded by music all the time. Yep. Yep.

part of the business. And still you get confused. Up next is Diane. Good morning to you, Diane. It's all good, Diane. So we're going to play James Mason Sings the Hits. And he's going to try this. You get the second person that gets this one. Let's see if you can get it right. You ready? Okay, she's ready. Let's see if she can hear it. All right. Finished with my woman because she couldn't help me with my mind.

People think I'm insane because I'm frowning all the time. We've established it's an Aussie song. And we've established it's a one-word title. And I feel like, is there a song, Paranoid? Yes, there is!

I want to French kiss you. And that is absolutely correct, Diane. That means you are a winner here. Here's what we have for you. Nice, Diane. You got a four-pack of tickets for an advanced 4DX screening of Novocaine Monday, March 10th at 7 p.m. at the UA King of Prussia. You can see Novocaine with seat motion and environmental effects that put you in the heart of the action. And you're going to feel it in 4DX. Paramount Pictures' Novocaine stars Jack Quaid in theaters March 14th.

By the way, I'm just going to read this random text I just saw at the top here. It says, I love this segment. Keep James Mason and mouth music on rotation. Okay.

We'll see about that. All right. Let's get another Zoomer up, if you would, please. And if you would like to play along, just text the word ZOOM to 39333. We shall send you a link to come on board. We put you in kind of this waiting room, and then Marissa will bring people up randomly to play the game. We have another contestant up, and there we go. We have Chelsea. Hi, Chelsea. Hi.

I love James Mason. That's why I called it. It's beautiful. He still has fans after all these years. It's great to hear that, Chelsea. Even after my death, you support me. I love it. Of course. Ready to play? I'm ready. Listen, I'm jumping ahead one. Whatever you like. I think this is very obvious. Okay.

That's correct. That's one I asked you not to do. Oh, my God! What?

Here's what we have for you. Hang on. I forgot. God damn it wasn't paying attention anyway, so I can still play along with you, Presbo. Hey, Chelsea, that's your name. You won a four-packet ticket for an advanced 4DX screening of Novocaine Monday, March 10th at 7 p.m. at the UA King of Prussia. See Novocaine with seat motion and environmental effects that put you into the heart of the action. You can feel it, and you will feel it in 4DX Paramount Pictures. Novocaine stars Jack Quaid on...

Chelsea, who's the young man that's there with you? This is my son, Eamon. Eamon! Hey, Eamon, I'm going to say to you what my mom used to say all the time. Put a shirt on. He left. Um...

Thanks for joining. Appreciate it. Hang on. We'll get my mommy's day at all times. Press, put a shirt on. I love this. You were explaining, and this is the whole step off of this. I'm sorry I did that. That's all right. It was a misunderstanding you had about the song. So I'll explain. When I was pulling together these lyrics for this game last night, and Ben Codd's ceiling came up, and...

there's a lyric in there that I've been saying wrong for decades. I was going to ask what you guys thought it was. Ask again, because I guarantee you not everyone was paying full attention. I wasn't paying full attention. Let me play this for you. This is that second. Don't get scared.

All right. It's the next line. Okay. Write down what you think. If you didn't hear Steve say it, what Perry Farrell says. I'm going to recuse myself because it's right in front of me. Could you play the audio again? Well, listen to this line and I'll back it up and I'll play it again. This line. You got reason for me. That. Wait, that's the line? That's the line. Okay, so I'll play it again. Do you want to?

Right here. Can I tell you something? In all the years as I've heard this song, I wouldn't have known it was this. All right. What do you think Perry Farrell says there at that particular moment? Because I'm curious and I will tell you what I have thought that it is for like 30 years or more than 30 years. I was just your mother.

I was enormously influenced by the video of this movie where the guy dresses up and puts the pregnant outfit on and steals stuff. Yes. So what I think it is, is she got some raisins for me. Okay. What do you think it is, Kathy? Oh, jeez. I didn't know the first word, but something crazy for me. All right, Casey, what do you have? I have millions of oysters. As if they cried out as if they were suddenly...

I wrote down she goes crazy for me. Okay. So the actual, and I'll tell you what I thought it was. The actual line is she grabbed a razor for me, meaning she was stealing things. Do you know what I thought it was? What? She grabbed a freezer full of meat. Let me tell you, she was very strong. She was able to grab an entire freezer for the Verma House steaks. To speak to what Nick was saying. Right.

The video takes place in a grocery store. Right. The guy's stealing stuff all the time. And I'm thinking she's grabbing meat from the freezer and not think about what the actual line in my mind is. She grabs a freezer full of meat. Right. An entire freezer. And takes it out. But I always thought it was, she grabbed a freezer full of meat. Cool.

Maybe over time, it accumulated into a freezer full of meat. She was pledging a frat. But it's... Nothing for me today, thanks. I thought she was just grabbing random stuff off the shelf, including a box of raisins. But we all got it wrong. But you talk about that video. So he's... In the song, he's describing this person who's doing it. Yet the video indicates that it's him doing it in drag. Yeah.

Well, yeah, and well, there's an older guy. It's not him. There's an older guy that's in drag. Yeah, shoving stuff up under the belly. Yeah, yeah. So... Not him, the other guy. I'm just very happy that you guys didn't get it right. Right. Because I was way off. In fact, here's a text that says, Preston, I thought the exact same thing. Oh, my God. You have to freeze it with meat. Freeze it full of meat. It's tasting a very muscular young lady.

who's able to literally pick up a whirlpool freezer full of meat. Somebody said, she's got Presbo's meat. Okay. All right. So, no, I thought... The meat behind the meat. I thought it was freezer full of meat. And until yesterday, Steve, I was today years old. Yeah. And I just had one and I forgot what it was. You did. You read... You recited the lyrics when we came back

from the song playing and I have to stop you and say, is that what it says? Did not know. It's wild. All right. We will go back to James Mason Sings the Hits and up next we have Amy. Hi there, Amy. Hello there. Thanks for joining us this morning. We appreciate it. Do you register as a girl, Amy?

Let's do it. All right. Do you know James Mason? You know who he is? Who I am? I love James Mason. All right. There we go. I think you're going to get this one. I would say Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia, Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go. You two, Syngman Rhee, Paola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker Psycho, Belgians in the Congo. All right, Amy. What song is that?

We didn't start the fire. Well done! And you win. Amy, were you at Cardboard Classic? Woo!

I was. I thought so. Okay, I thought that was you. All right, Amy, you just won yourself a four-pack of tickets for Novocaine. This is an advanced 4DX screening of Novocaine, Monday, March 10th at 7 p.m. at the UA King of Prussia. See Novocaine with seat motion and environmental effects that put you into the heart of the action. You will feel it in 4DX Paramount Pictures. Novocaine stars Jack Wayne. Jack Wade is his actual name. And this is going to be in theaters on March 14th.

Can I tell you something? Please. I never knew it was Singman Rhee. Yeah, yeah. Some of those, I don't know. I have no idea. By the way, some other people with their, what they thought that line was in being caught stealing. Somebody says, face full of meat. She had a face full of meat. This was the only thing I've ever seen. A face was full of meat. Somebody said, so it's not, she's got razor bone knees. She's got razor bone knees.

Here's another one. Sounded like you said, Razor Bump Me. Yeah. Razor Bump Me. And another one. Here you go. This is my favorite one. She's got race boat needs. Race boat needs. Thinking she's expensive and to keep happy. She's got race boat needs. Look at the race boat needs on that chick. No, needs. Oh, I thought you said needs. Let's see. Needs would be ridiculous, Steve. It would be insane.

It was Tempt Devil in the Freeze Isle. Oh, 10th Avenue Freeze Isle. Tempt Devil in the Freeze Isle. Oh, that's funny. Okay, let's do another one. James Mason sings the hits. We have a contestant on the line, and it's Joe. Morning, Joe. Morning. Happy to be here. Happy to have you. James, you ready?

I'm all good. I'm just curious. Did we lose him? I don't know. It looks like he was in a dentist's chair. They're switching in between the cameras. Can you bring Joe back up? We lost him. Son of a bitch. He's getting a dental procedure. No, this is Jarrett. Hey, Jarrett. Morning. Good morning to see you, Jarrett. You ready to play?

I'll try. All right. I think you can do this. This one, in the world of games like this, would be called a gimme. Don't know the reason. Stayed here all season. Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty. It's a Mexican cutie. How it got here, I haven't a clue. That is a gimme. All right. Jarrett Leodonis. No? He's shaking his head? You're a younger fellow, aren't you? How old are you?

I'm 28. Still. Yeah, he should know this. Come on, Jerry. Wait, can I hear it one more time? Yeah. I'll do it one more time for you. Don't know the reason. Stayed here all season. Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. Oh, but it's a real beauty. A Mexican cutie. How it got here, I haven't a clue.

Van Halen? Van Halen. Oh, you're asking me? God damn, Mike. Sorry, Jared. I knew those lyrics. I was reciting them with you in my head, but I couldn't put a melody to it. I finally got it. You finally got it? All right. It took a second or two. I would say Van Halen is not a title, but actually there is a song. We got the man in the dental chair back. Perry Grip did it. What band was he in? Not a surf? No. Nerf Herders. Nerf Herders. Yeah.

I bought Van Halen one. It was the best damn record I ever heard. You've never heard of that song? It's a fun song. All right. All right. We go next to Joe. Yo, Joe, you're on. Good morning, buddy. Thanks for having me back. Oh, this is Joe. Joe. We just lost Joe a moment ago. Yeah. Are you in a dentist chair, Joe? Now I'm in an office. Okay. Okay. All right. Joe. Do you remember Joe from Heaven Can Wait? That is right. Time to go, Joe. That's correct. All right. You're playing with James Mason. Here we go, Joe.

All right. Don't know the reason. Stayed here all season. Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty. A Mexican cutie. How it got here, I haven't a clue. All right, Joe. What song is that? It's that Margaritaville. That it is, sir.

Excellent job. And here's what we have for you. Oh, this is our final four pack of tickets for an advanced screening of 4DX. It's a 4DX screening of Novocaine Monday, March 10th at 7 p.m. at the U.A. King of Prussia. You can see Novocaine with seat motion, environmental effects that put you into the heart of the action. You will fill it in 4DX. Paramount Pictures' Novocaine stars Jack Quaid in theaters on March 14th. Do we have one more we can do, Steve? Yes, we do. Okay.

We'll do one final one. Yeah, one final one. And then we will wrap the segment up. So we'll get a Zoomer on the line, which, by the way, you guys are doing a great job. Yeah. And while they're, yeah, we'll get this last Zoomer. And then we do have the audio of the James Mason Thunderbird commercial to refresh your memory. We go to Kristen next. Good morning, Kristen. Good morning. Long time listener. First time Zoomer. Yes. We're happy to have you. Are you at home today? No, I just got into my office. Okay. What do you do if you don't mind me asking?

I'm an executive assistant in Bruma. Excellent. All right. Well, thanks for joining us. And Delco. Can you just show me out the window so I can see exactly where you are? If you can look out the window, Casey is going to see if he can see if that's where the last stand was. See exactly where you are.

She's got to walk down the hall. I'm right by a broom off our company. It's called Settling Design. She gave it away. Give it away now. You don't need to go to the window. Here is James Mason's Things to Hits. Here we go. Pay careful attention. It's a shorter snippet. It might be a bit difficult, but give it a try.

I heard the news, baby, all about your disease. Yeah, you may have all you want, baby, but I got something you need. Oh, yeah. This is a harder one. I think it's a harder one. Would you like to give a clue with that? The name of the band was mentioned just a moment ago on the air. It's Van Halen. I'll give you a hint. The name of the band is Van Halen. No.

I knew every one of these, and now I don't know this one. God damn it, Kristen. One more time? All right. Yeah, please. Do you know it, Casey? Yeah, I want to hear it one more time. All right. You hang on there, Kristen. One second. Yeah. I heard the news, baby, all about your disease. Yeah, you may have all you want, baby, but I got something you need. Oh, yeah.

I'm stoned. All right. Thank you, Kristen. We appreciate it. We'll go to one more Zoomer and see if they can get it right. This is the one that was like, I wanted to put some Van Halen in there, but I didn't want it to be like Hopper Teacher or Jump. I wanted to pick something a little bit more. This is a little difficult. So I think it's fair enough that we give the band. All right. Our last Zoomer is Ryan. Ryan Vandermuelen. Hey, Ryan. How you doing, bud?

Oh, wait, hold on. That's my... Oh, thank you, bud. I appreciate it. Boy, you're a hairy son of a bitch. Yeah, damn right. Dude, he's got the best beard I've ever seen in my life. He has got a plush beard on the sides, it's really... It looks like a fake beard. That's how good it is. Really beefy. How long have you been growing that thing, man? You know, only a few months now. I'm just a wolf man. Wow. Oh, my God. All right, well, we're ready to play. You ready?

I'm ready. You know, this is Van Halen now, so put yourself in that frame of mind. I heard the news, baby, all about your disease. Yeah, you may have all you want, baby, but I've got something you need. Oh, yeah. Ain't talking about love. Yes! Right! Obviously, those... That beard is made of brains. Yeah.

All right, hang on, Ryan. Here's what we have for you, buddy. Ryan, you just got yourself a four-pack of Temple's men basketball tickets for this Sunday. Temple men's basketball battles North Texas this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Lea Corp Center. Following the game, kids in sixth grade and younger can score a basket on the court. You can bring your whole family. Visit OwlSticks.com. All right, and so to cap this off, we have the James Mason Thunderbird commercial.

I don't know if it's wine or malt liquor or whatever it is, but this was James Mason doing an actual commercial for the brand. I like the unusual flavor of Thunderbird wine. It's an exceptionally good drink for every occasion. Thunderbird has an unusual flavor on all its own. Some might call it horrible. It's quite like anything I've ever tasted. I suggest that you try Thunderbird. It's really delightful. And that was him. It tastes...

Much like what I imagine the sweat dribbling off a homeless man's testicles. We had to, when we were getting hazed for my fraternity, we had to drink a boiling Thunderbird. Oh, my God. What? Yeah, I mean, was it boiling? They heated it up. They put it in the oven. Sounds good. Yeah, good. Dude.

And if you want an extra thrill, try boiling it. Who thinks? What person at the fraternity comes up with the idea? Dude. If you want an extra thrill, put a golf tee in your ass. So, Preston, at one point, I lived with my fraternity as I pledged. I didn't have the grades to pledge when I was a freshman, so I pledged as a junior. That's me on bongos. So, I'm sitting there, Preston, in my room during this pledging time, and just sitting on my couch.

and the pledge master and so come into my room he goes dude he goes there's only one place in this uh entire campus that's safe and oh that was the other thing is they took my bed out of my room and they put it in the common room and that's where i had to sleep all during pledging right in the common room yeah so they're like there's only one place that's safe for you right now and that is your bed you have 10 seconds to get there and i was like and so i stand up and i run out

the door to run to my bed and there was a gauntlet of people that were waiting for me trying to stop me. Ten, nine, eight. And this thing was all planned. I had no idea what they were doing, right? When they get to three, two, they let me go, right? And I run into the common room and I dive onto my bed and what they had done is they put a wood plank on my bed and put my bed sheet over it. Very funny. What a brilliant idea.

What a brilliant idea. Like the gauntlet would have been enough on its own. No, that was just to ensure that I would dive onto my bed. So do you end up with a little bit of PTSD? No, I loved it. During this time? Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, and I feel really bad because, listen, sometimes, you know, things can go sideways during pledging and you do need an adult in the room. Yeah.

there were no adults in the room when I was playing, but I loved it. And you were pledging as a junior. As a junior. And I had known these guys for two and a half years at this point. So they didn't think I was going to take it serious because I had known them and stuff. I was like, no, I want to experience the whole thing. Wow. I loved it. All right. Well, anyhow, James Mason sings a hit. Thank you, Mr. James Mason. Do you want your lyrics back? It's okay. You can toss those. We appreciate your assistance this morning, sir. We're going to take a break. I think we have a last minute break.

Well, yeah. Actually, two people are going to be joining, a father and son team. And so both are available, and we're going to chat with them next. Okay, so... Does one of them have a head of company hair? Yes, yes. So I had mentioned this story earlier, and I'll reiterate it when we come back, but there's a movie coming out about the band Pavement and a not-so-subtle reference to a great radio station that no longer exists here in Philadelphia and one potential...

DJ name that might be a name you know. It might be. So we'll come back with the director of that movie, Alex Ross Perry, and his dad, Roy, as well, because we used to work with Roy. Anyhow, we'll come back and we'll get some other things, too. Stay put.

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

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

Hi, thanks, Kath. So we were talking about this earlier. I'm going to reset the whole thing because we have some guests that are going to be joining us. This is the last second interview that we have. We have that power. But I got an email from a friend of mine named Dan Fine. And Dan worked in the programming department at WDRE radio station. It's no longer around here in Philadelphia. Steve and I met at WDRE. First time ever on air together. It was...

It was a special radio station. I loved working there. Yeah, and I go back to the New York version, the first version of it, and I'll tell you this, at a certain point, the Philadelphia version of D.R.E. far better than the New York version. Yeah, it was a lot of fun, and it was a transitional time in my life. I'd moved halfway across the country, and I showed up at this...

hole-in-the-wall radio station. I mean, it was a dingy place. But it was so cool. It had that unique thing. It was playing stuff that no one else was playing, and it did so lovingly, and it was a vibe and a lifestyle, and it was all of that. Loved working there. So Dan reached out to me yesterday and said, hey, he goes, did you ever interview the band Pavement? And I'm going to play a little bit of Pavement for those who may not be familiar, because they were kind of an indie band. ♪

It's such a fun song. It's called Cut Your Hair. But we played this at DRE, and he had said, did you ever interview the band Pathan? And I'm like, man, we played almost every band that came out in that time at WDRE. That's kind of what was really fun about the radio station. We interviewed a lot of the band. So...

I don't really remember if I interviewed Pavement or not. I very well could have. And I got back to him with that, and he returned with a message that said, well, there's a movie that's called Range Life, a Pavement story.

And there's a character called DJ Preston. And he had said, and there clearly is the WDRE banner in the movie. And so he sent me a trailer for it, which was just released yesterday. Rolling Stone had an article on the fact that the trailer was just released. And it stars Joe Keery from Stranger Things. Steve from Stranger Things. Love him. Who's a musician himself, by the way. And my youngest is a big fan of his. So I've listened to several of his songs and I'm familiar with his material.

So I look at the trailer and sure enough, the opening scene is a big WDRE banner. And Joe Curia is sitting there playing, you know, one of the members of the band Pavement. And he said that there's a character called DJ Preston. And I'm like, well, it's...

It's gotta be me, right? The odds are good. So we were music. We're just chatting about this on air and Nick did a little bit deeper dive and he goes, Oh my God. Uh, he goes, you know who, uh, who directed this? And he goes, Alex Ross Perry. He's like, that's Roy Perry's son. Yeah.

Now you may not know who Roy Perry is. Roy Perry we worked with for years here at WMMR. And so all our worlds just came crashing together at the same time. So Nick reached out to Roy and I guess Roy reached out to Alex because we have both. Roy Perry and Alex Ross Perry joining us via Zoom this morning. Good morning guys. Welcome.

Good morning. Hi, thank you. Thanks for the last minute ask. Sorry, but we don't mean to disturb you this morning, Alex, but we thought it was pretty wild, man, coming across all this. I appreciate the enthusiasm, and I guess it's a good time to just ask you to your face, do you mind if I do this? No!

You know, I'll let my people reach out to your people. No, we were actually, Marissa was asking off air. She's like, well, I guess WDRE doesn't exist anymore. So it's not like you need permission to use it. That's my reasoning exactly. When someone inevitably says, is this logo copyrighted? And I said, no.

It can't be. It doesn't exist. Yeah, yeah. If it does, I would love to hear from the person who owns that lawyer, if anybody. But at the very least, our conversation now points that, you know, you do something like this. And there's a broader context also for this movie, which is kind of hard to explain. But you do it hoping that...

100 people look at it and go, oh, that's so specific. This guy must really have been this age at this time. Yeah. I remember listening to a show like yours on that station, which was everything to me as a teenager. Oh, really? Yourself, and I believe Leon Curtis was the name of the nighttime DJ. Yes, yes.

Well, Liam was on at Y100. She wasn't DRE. Oh, okay. So that was the next iteration. Yeah. So we kind of bled our step. You did like the 9 p.m. DRE show. So that was John Castino was on at night. It was in the mornings. It was Sarah and Vinny and Spike. And then middays was Brett Hamilton. Then I came on in the afternoons. And then John Castino was on at night. And then overnights was a gal named Lee Taylor. And then we had our weekend staff as well. So it was a bunch of great people. Yeah.

Yeah, so someone like yourself, in the reality of this scene, which the broader context for it is that this trailer yesterday is for a fake movie that exists within an actual movie that I made about the band Pavement. Okay, so the documentary that came out, you had directed that as well? Yeah. In the documentary, one of the subplots is the production of a

horribly cliche Oscar-worthy biopic, which never would happen for this band, but we made one for the movie, so we put out a fake trailer for it, and in the full version of the biopic, which doesn't really exist, they're touring Lollapalooza all summer.

And in reality, a big part of that, as you know better than anybody, would be that you'd have to do the local promotion. And somebody like yourself could have been dispatched for the day to be live on the ground or could have been, certainly in my memory, for days or even weeks leading up to it, promoting something that huge coming to town. So there was many stories from the band of like, well, you'd be on it to...

and you'd have to go at like 10 to be on the radio the second you got to town. Right. And just say like, we'll be playing at 2.30 today, blah, blah, blah. Yes. So I put those scenes in the movie and of course this Lollapalooza tour at Summer 95 did play at what to me is just called the E-Center. Yeah.

The E thing. It all logically connected that like, well, if we need to do this, we need to do a radio scene. It's got to be something that means something to me. Well, you need to call the guy something. And I'm like, well, there's only one name I can think of. And it'd be the, the, the, the,

Modern rock, alternative rock DJ interviewing these guys and it was yours. So it all kind of came together like that. Isn't that cool? That is flattering in so many ways. Thank you, Alex. And I didn't know you grew up a fan and all that, so that's

That's really cool to know, too. And and the fact that I love to ask a couple of questions about the movie. Joe Keery is fantastic. Love him on Stranger Things. But as I was saying in the lead up, he's a musician as well. And my youngest has been playing me stuff from Joe for the past few years. And I really dig it. And it's got a kind of pavement vibe to it as well. So was he easy to to grab for the film?

He was, surprisingly, kind of for that reason. And also, Malfus's daughter is a huge fan. A lot of people's daughters are huge fans of Joe. Yeah. Which is really helpful. It ends up bringing Sofia Coppola to set because her daughter wants to meet Joe. Wonderful things like that happen around him. But he was my first and only idea because, like I said, the broader movie, which is called Pavements...

a series of the kind of thing you would be fascinated by or fans would be of any musician, the sort of cultural circuitry of retelling the narratives of artists we like. And in the movie, you see a pavement museum and you see a pavement Broadway musical and you see their actual reunion, which took place in 2022. And you see this thing that we get about five of a year, which is a very starry story.

awards bait biopic.

And Joe was my first and only choice five years ago for Malcolm S. He looks basically like him, not unlike him. Same kind of hair, same kind of vibe. He's a great musician. And he's the kind of guy that would be up for an award playing a famous musician. Now you've also worked with, and looking in your IMDb and some other stuff, with Maya Hawke as well from Stranger Things. Was that a film or a music video? Or what was your work with her?

It was two music videos off of her last album. The album's called Chaos Angel. And she narrated another documentary that I made about video stores.

I love, I'm a big documentary fan. And Roy, I remember when Roy was giving us sort of copies of your earlier films. Good to see you, by the way, Roy. He's also on. Yeah, he's not saying much. Yeah, yeah. But no, to that point, and I mean, so you have quite an impressive list. So with this, just to get this straight, I was reading a review of In Variety from September, right?

Yeah, so Pavements, the real movie...

It opens in May, starting in New York and then expanding shortly thereafter. Certainly there's some Philadelphia engagement to follow. I don't know what it is yet. And then, so throughout May and June, it will be touring around theaters and doing a pretty normal, you know, documentary indie movie release. And then on streaming and everything through Mubi and other platforms as of July or so.

So we'll be around. You know, it's a small thing as, as you guys know, and like, this is all inspired by, you know, Preston, like just my love of what was once called alternative culture, independent culture, which, and you could tell me like, well, DRE was not independent. We had corporate owners, you know, whatever. But like, to me as a listener, I,

These things were so intimate feeling and so personal to the lived experience of a 12-year-old listening to the radio. And this movie is very much about that and a tribute to that era. You know, the band formed in...

November 89 and broke up in November 99. And the movie really just is about what culture was in those 10 years and how you got information and how you did marketing and how you did promotion and how you held on to your artistic integrity. There was nothing like it.

Alex, my name's Nick. It's nice to meet you by the way. And, and, uh, so thanks for coming on with us this morning. I know it was kind of last minute. Um, I am fascinated by sort of how, uh, art and commerce, um, meld and merge over, over time in a band like pavement, which did exist in a short amount of time. Um,

When you're a musician professionally, you still have to make ends meet, right? You still have to be a business. And it's not unlike what you do for a living. You have to sell tickets. You have people to get to the theater or stream it or have a streaming service pay for it. So what parallels did you see when it came from a band from the 90s that existed and then stopped existing to what you do for a living? Well, one thing that I found interesting in my research, if I can make this local, is

locally understandable for your listeners is I looked through every tour itinerary that the band ever did. Now typically bands that you guys would have been featuring on DRE and later Y100 sort of had the burst in bloom of they're building, they're building, then they have some major breakthrough and then five years later they're much smaller and people have kind of moved on. Yeah.

Pavement on their second album, which was at the time their biggest, the song you just played was from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, which came out in 94. They leveled up from playing the Kyber Pass to the truck from 92 to 94, 95. In 99, on their last album, they were playing the truck still.

And I think that that to me is sort of a really important lesson is like they never scaled up, up, up. Sure. They played Lollapalooza 95, but as we show in the movie, it was really difficult and unpleasant to be playing at venues like the East center when they wanted to be playing venues like the Trocadero and working on this movie just made me feel like there can be a comfort in not reaching higher than you need to reach, um,

As an artist, you can stay at a 6 out of 10. And then the lesson of pavement in 2022, a generation after breaking up, is like a 6 out of 10 plus 20 years is an 11 out of 10. Yeah. And that became really fascinating for me just to try to process what that feels like to pace yourself and not...

you know, what is my version of them signing to a major label, putting out a terrible album that everybody hates that turns off their fans? Um, it reminds me of, uh, the story of, uh, guys that we were friends with for a long, long time. They might be giants and, and, uh, I remember them saying, we have successfully clawed our way to the middle. Yeah.

And they stayed right where they wanted to, in the pocket where they wanted to stay. That's where they wanted to be. With their very diehard fans, and they don't need to be playing these giant venues, and they stay in their lane, and I know what you're talking about. That's why it has that sort of fascination, again, between all the years in alt radio and progressive when I first got involved with it many, many years ago. But one of the positioning statements I wrote

for, you know, DRE was more artists with less greatest hits albums than any other. But that was sort of the joy is that you had these bands and some of them knew how to do exactly what you're talking about, which is they hit their mark. They didn't need to be U2. They just need to be able to produce the music they like to the audience that feels well served by it. And you still see them now more than ever, you're seeing kind of these...

collection shows where you're getting a lot of artists from the DRE, early Y100 days, that are touring successfully as nostalgia shows and doing well. Yeah, and that's fascinating because that obviously didn't exist when I was growing up, so...

And the Pavement tour of 2022 and 3 wasn't nostalgia. They weren't just playing their most popular albums front to back. They played, I don't know, 100 some odd shows and somebody made a tracker online. There's 100 different set lists every night. And they created that tour as a sort of living evolution of their 30-year project.

And that's really interesting to me having, again, just like grown up where you guys were introducing people to this stuff at a time that everything was new, right? Like every artist I heard on DRE or Y100 was less than 10 years into their career. And that was really exciting for me to understand that there was a culture being made that was now. It was about right now and even like the compilations that would exist or like...

You could tell me. I feel like you did these kind of... You know, like a gathering thing. It would be like the DRE Thanksgiving concert at the Electric Factory or something. Yeah, the Feastival. Or no, that was at YWY. Yeah, I remember the DRE regional compilation. Yeah. Local band. You were just like... There was just so much exposure that was done so...

it was so complicated to create that exposure in a way that now would just be so easy. Yeah. A YouTube post. It was a really beautiful time to, like, again, through my dad and his connection to your stations or, like, my dad just being able to say, like, well,

Well, no one else is asking for these tickets to go see Rage Against the Machine, so you can have our company's pass. Yeah, that's a benefit. I still have the DR Regional, man. We had God Lives Underwater and Trip 66, and I think Holy Hangry Day might have been on there. Those are the names that I would have

have pulled out first myself and everything would fall a little bit behind. Those are the names that I would also have cited first. Hey, Alex, I also wanted to point out, you know, when I found out you were coming on, I did a quick jump on to YouTube and saw a video from Pavement called Harness Your Hopes.

You directed that. And Steve, it features actress Sophie Thatcher. So she's in Yellow Jackets and Companion, which you just watched. Companion, which rocks. And Heretic. So you've got an up and rising young actress who wants to be in this Pavement video. Was she a fan of the band? Are there younger people that have found out about Pavement and you're experiencing that? Extremely. And we made that video. So that song...

Some people might know it was a B-side and then...

at the exact time we were making this movie, before we even started making it, while we were just researching it and raising money, that song exploded on TikTok and Spotify and became, I think on Spotify it has like 100 million or almost 100 million streams. It just exploded totally accidentally. So the idea was there to make a video for it for the deluxe edition reissue of the album that it was a B-side from. Wow.

And I was tasked with doing this. And Sophie, much like Joe, you know, these younger people, they view pavement and they view this era, your guys, you know, this era that you guys kind of created for me, at least, um,

As something they missed out on. Like, this is me at that. This is me when I'm 17 listening to the Ramones. Yeah. It's like, man, that really, I just missed it. Yeah. 10 years earlier, I could have been seeing this stuff. Yeah. So these people that, you know, so Pavement broke up in 99. They reunited in 2010 for one tour. I saw that tour.

I was the youngest person there. Every show on this tour, everyone there is older than me or younger than me. They're either in their late 40s or they're Joe and Sophie's age. They're in their 20s. And the band really just created this new idea. But again, it's what I was saying, like,

A band that plays their great, and again, these are bands I like, but Offspring, Weezer, bands that were very important to me at the time, their new fans are just there to sort of experience something under glass. Whereas Pavement, because they're so specific, their new fans are there to experience something that feels organic and authentic.

And that extends to like the greater pavement world of David Berman and his work with Silver Juice and Purple Mountains, which Sophie is a huge fan of. And I think to a younger generation, if the 90s had like the last decade of analog authenticity, some bands represent the worst of that and some bands represent the best of that. And 20 years later, Pavement, for whatever reason, which the movie tries to answer, kind of just represent the best of that to a whole new generation of like...

Like, oh, wow. I was just having a very similar discussion with my wife a while ago about this, about that music, because this is all our music. I mean, this was... And the rediscovery, the thing that you have to facilitate it is, you know, it's been chronicled. You put in a YouTube search, you put in a Google search, you're going to find video, you're going to find reference material. And so you can have those retroactive dives into music.

bodies of work that are just sitting there. For example, you mentioned with the movie Companion and Sophie being a fan of that. Well, in that movie, they use the song from Book of Love, Boys, which is a hit that I remember. And when it came on in the soundtrack, I'm like, oh, my God. And this now has become a thing that is being on TikTok, achieving audiences they never could have imagined when these songs were brand new.

Yeah, and that's fascinating. And again, so to bring this back to this clip from this fake trailer that features the DRE logo, so that Lollapalooza tour, yeah, Pavement were on like third. And the rest of the bill was Moby, who would later become hugely successful. Hole were headlining with Sonic Youth.

So it was like a big tour, but you look at it now and it's regarded as kind of like the bad Lollapalooza. And then the year after, Metallica were headlining. That year was regarded as kind of like the too esoteric. And that's something that people struggled with at the time, not me, because to me that was what culture was. But...

And again, like you're saying, we show this in the movie, like Pavement weren't nothing. They were on MTV. They were on The Tonight Show. They just hated it and didn't want to do it. So in the actual movie, we cut between this scene of this bogus interview, which goes poorly. And Malcolm just starts running his mouth off and not participating with an actual clip of him doing that on a radio show that we found. Yeah.

because he would do these things because you had to but he wouldn't have fun with it there's this famous clip that circulates of like Tom York doing MTV's Spring Break and he looks so miserable so like these artists that had integrity would be forced to do these things and

The movie just kind of asks questions about what that means a generation later. So, Alex, are you saying that my character conducts a poor interview? He's trying hard. He's just flailing. I'm not saying that ever happened, but it happened with these guys everywhere they went. Oh, it definitely happened. I remember specifically one time having Toad the Wet Sprocket on, and they just...

didn't want to talk and so we each have jobs to do i've got a job where i need to conduct this interview uh and try to get something out of you know whatever i can something interesting but when you have uh an artist who has done this over and over and doesn't really want to be doing it in the first place all they want to do is really just go out and play the music which is what they're good at and i totally understand that as well uh it's a you know nobody wins in that situation unfortunately no there's a line in the scene where the the character says like

So they just put out this album that's not doing well, and he's like, is this the kind of messaging you're sending? He's asking all the right questions. And they, and Malcolm specifically, as he did in a hundred interviews, some of which we show in the movie, are just like, I don't think about it that way, and I don't care. I just want to play the music. I just want to go do the show. I don't want to come in and do this at noon. Right.

I want to like take it easy and do my 45 minute set in blazing sunlight at 3 p.m. And it's very fascinating to me to think like, I would just listen to the radio and be like, this is normal. And then you don't think when you're 12, I wonder what the artist is going through. I wonder if this is just terrible for them or, you know, at the time it would have been seen like you're saying is kind of maybe a lame thing to be asked to do all this is I have to go do this. And now people are like,

please let me promote it. Like, yeah, help me, help me get my word out. Yeah, you're right. You had not had pop culturally the exposure to the mechanism that, you know, okay, we enter into this relationship. We're going to help promote you along. And then you give something to give to the audience and we secure more adoration for what you're doing and it all works out. But,

If you haven't, if you're not experienced, if you haven't seen examples of that leading in, I could see it being daunting. Like, I got to do a show tonight and I'm sitting here in Jenkintown, you know, in the studio and I don't want to do it. So I could see that. But you talk about artists with integrity. You did a documentary and I have to see this. I didn't realize this exists about Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver, one of the great, you know,

He's a legend. He's directed a number of movies. He's known to be very mercurial. And did you interact? I assume you had to interact directly with him, correct? Yeah, Paul's a friend. And that movie's on the Criterion channel. So anyone with a Criterion channel subscription can just see it. It's like half an hour long. I like people like that. Him, Malcolm S., like...

I like these people whose work I admire, but whose personality is kind of their greatest asset and also their biggest hurdle towards being successful because they just want to do the work. They just want to work. And every time they open their mouth, what they say is fascinating. If you love their work and you think they're fascinating personality, but the edges aren't sanded off for mass consumption and Schrader can say things that get him in trouble. As we see in the movie throughout the nineties, Malcolm would often say things that would get him in trouble or just act in a way that got him in trouble and

And that used to be

Totally allowable. Yeah. Whereas now that's a liability rather than an asset. Yeah, there's a punitive price to pay. Well, I must assume then when you're thinking about, you know, the angry two-fisted brawler, you took a lot of your love of that from your father, Roy Perry, who's just the most incendiary. Roy is the nicest person you will ever meet. He is a sweet heart.

Thanks for that, guys. This has been one of the greatest interviews. Alex does good press, like I told Nick when he reached out. I said, if we can get him, it'll be good. It'll be good. But thank you for including me for whatever reason. Well, Roy, I do think our listeners want to know, how are things going at McCaffrey's? And how often do you work with my son, Benjamin, who also works at that grocery store?

Well, you know, I can barely talk to him because his fans keep coming to ask about you. No, things are good. I have a part-time job, like you said, at a beautiful little supermarket called McCaffrey's. And the reason I took it is to be around more people than I found myself being around. And it's going well. Thank you very much. In fact, I can just say how proud I am of Alex and the trajectory of this film. I mean, he told me, he's gone, I'm going to Venice.

That's cool. What's going on? The world premiere of my new film. And he ended up going to the New York Film Festival and London and L.A. The film went to L.A. and Chicago without him.

And then came to Philly, and we saw the film together. It was pretty, pretty awesome. Pretty, pretty awesome, and I'm very, very proud. And thank you for having me on to say that. And so you should be, absolutely. Roy Perry, for those who don't know, worked in our traffic department here at WDRA, which is not what Kathy does. Traffic is, and I know it's your favorite part of listening to this station, is awesome.

It's organizing and scheduling the commercials that play on the radio. But we can't conduct business without people like Roy. So he's an amazing job. And just like Steve said, just always the nicest guy. Always in a good mood. Alex, we are going to have to wrap up here in a second. But listen, we're...

When will we be able to view range life? Or is it called pavements? What are we looking for? It's called pavements. Okay, pavements. In pavements, one of the strands is that

there's a movie being made called Rage Life. Okay. Which we have released a fake trailer for in order to confuse people. Thank you. Mission accomplished. May and June, theatrically, July and beyond, on demand. We're just starting to roll out the marketing for it now, which yesterday was the beginning and obviously caught your attention for obvious reasons.

And the marketing, you know, the movie, we probably had 100 hours of footage for this movie. So we followed the band on tour. We made essentially a 70-minute bioprocessing

biopic, which we used 20 of in the movie. So the whole marketing is just going to be releasing everything we cut out of the movie. Little extra clips, extended scenes of the scripted stuff, extended moments with the actual documentary of these guys now, extended things like that. So it should be pretty fun over the next couple of months for fans to just see, like you responded to. This is this inexplicable little clip. Some people are taking it at face value, but

A hundred people will catch the DRE sign and be like, I know what that means. Right. But,

The fact remains, they did play the East Center in July of 1995, and if someone would have been there, it would have been, if not you, then one of your colleagues. All right, well, listen, Alex, since you are requesting my permission to use my name and likeness in the film, all it requires is that you get Joe Carreon for an interview with us when the film is coming out. I know he's playing in New York in May. He must be playing around Philadelphia. All right, well, maybe you can...

Nudge him a little bit. Or a Roy Perry sit down. We'll take that as well. Always. I'll get Joe to do it if my dad sits with me. It's awesome. Thanks for including me and I'll add Stephen there too and WDR, the radio station, because we were all... Thank you for being excited and truly, if I can say after 30 years, just thanks for doing all that.

Thanks for putting together a cultural space where people just sitting in their bedroom listening to the radio after school could just discover music that stayed with them for 30 years. I'm sure I'll be doing this job

and I'm sure I'll be changing people's lives every day that I pick a single CD to put on, but you never know. Yeah, no, that's awesome. We had fun doing it, so that's the win-win of the whole thing. It was great. A blast. Casey? Joe Keery looks like Franklin Music Hall on May 3rd.

There you go. Right around the time of the premiere. Yeah, we got to get him on for sure. All right, Roy, great to see you, bud. Love you. And Alex, thanks for joining us and continued success to you, sir. We'll see you soon, okay? Thank you, guys. You got it. All right, Alex Roy Perry. Wow. So, I mean, you would...

When the information came out initially, it seemed too much of a coincidence. Yes. But there's always the percentage that you figure, okay, here's where I look like a jackass for presuming it was me. But it was. It was me. Yeah. In this film that's coming out called Pavements.

about the band Pavement and WDRE and DJ Preston are featured in it. And apparently you don't deliver a good interview, but he hasn't heard stuff like this. Is there some of the improv that you have come to know as My Legacy?

That's my legacy. All right. With that, we should take a quick break and come back in a moment. Bizarre File is on the way when we return. Stay there. 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 boy.

Big brother built my sleigh. Does anybody here want to see Piero Bear 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 to hell. 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!

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A placid fishing trip turned berserk when three New Zealand men, four to three New Zealand men, when a dolphin weighing more than 900 pounds appeared to fall out of the sky before crash landing in their small boat. I was watching a news story about this and I wondered what the hell had happened. So no one was badly hurt when the 11-foot-long bottlenose dolphin jumped aboard the open-top boat on Friday, according to Dean Harrison, the owner of the nearly 16-foot-long vessel. So not a real big boat.

Harrison and two companions were fishing near the hole in the rock, a picturesque spot on the far north coast of New Zealand's North Island, where dolphins were frolicking ahead. And the men saw a shadow across the bright summer sun and heard an almighty boom before chaos unfolded.

He said Harrison said this this one decided to jump on board and say hello. One minute, everything was fine. And then just like lightning striking, there's a big dolphin in our boat thrashing around and breaking everything. The creatures flailing snapped every single fishing rod, he said, that we had in the boat and severely damaged the bow as the trio clung to the sides of the vessel.

One man had minor injuries to his arm when the juvenile male dolphin grazed his back and shoulder, but all three fishermen and the dolphin were otherwise uninjured. They couldn't pick it up, right? No, it was too heavy. It was 900 pounds, yeah. But returning to the majestic creature to the sea was not an option for the trio due to its size. He said, we looked at the dolphin, still alive.

Live and breathing, and we thought, well, we've got to start looking after him and figure out what to do because he's stuck in the boat for now, so he's coming along for the ride. The men alerted New Zealand's conservation agency and were directed to a boat ramp about an hour away where workers waited to help the dolphin, and they were pouring water on it the whole time. They used a hose.

He said we protected it from the sun using a damp towel, depicting players from the All Blacks rugby team. On shore, members of the local Maori tribe prayed for the dolphin before it was returned to the ocean using a tractor. Helpers gave the two- to three-year-old creature a name, Tohu, which means dolphin.

sign in the Maori language. Tohu is now the name of Dean Harrison's boat. Ah, fare thee well, Tohu. But pretty wild that thing jumped up, landed in the boat and then they could not get it out.

One person's sticky mess is another person's art. And there's an unidentified artist who is making a name for herself over social media as the pie girl. So pie girl is making money by posting videos showing her smashing cream pies into the faces of men who are chained up to chairs in front of her. This sounds like a fetish thing. Yes, it does. And apparently these men are willing to pay pie girl hundreds of dollars to be bound and pied.

Kathy, you could do this. Absolutely. There's nothing dirty about this at all. I mean, if you can do the feet, you can do the pie. I could do pies. The grainy videos of guys getting pied are also for sale and seem to be doing quite well for her. Here's a video of her. It's a little aggressive, though. Yeah, well, that's... That'd be perfect for you. I don't want to hurt anybody. No, you don't have to hurt. They like a little bit of pie pain. What we call pee-pee. Yeah, they like it. They enjoy that. Oh, God.

Okay, what? I didn't mean to pee on you. What if my feet were in the pie? Dude. It's like printing your own money. It's a license to print money. My best friend, let me tell you a quick story. My best friend called me after that video. She goes, that was the funniest thing I've ever seen. She's like, I can't believe you did it. It's hilarious. She goes, you need to break that up into parts. She's like, the margarita, the cat, whatever. She goes,

And post them as separate videos. She goes, you will make money on each one of those videos. It's true. It's true. Do you need a farting companion to join you? Casey? I was thinking of the girl that called in. Oh, yes. Yeah. Only fans fart. Yeah. Remember we had the splashing? We had Marissa come in to... Melissa. Melissa, I mean, yeah. Sitting on a cake. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a thing of like, what is the fascination? That was the fetish du jour at that time. Yeah.

It's not for us to ask why.

I didn't see it myself, but for some it was a big thing. The California Highway Patrol entered into an extremely slow speed pursuit when a possum was found trying to cross the upper deck of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. CHP San Francisco area said an officer responded to a call about a possum on the bridge and was able to locate the animal near Treasure Island. That sounds like code. The possum is on the bridge. The possum is on the bridge.

As Officer Pack located the possum, an extremely slow speed pursuit was initiated. The possum is on the bridge. The possum is on the bridge. Tonight at 7 o'clock. Tonight at 7 o'clock. We have a 7 o'clock time confirmation. As the possum failed to yield to Officer Park's directions, the chase was soon joined by a witness and the owner of a non-profit rescue shelter called Jelly's Place.

...and was safely detained and removed from a dangerous location without further incident. A follow-up post revealed the possum had been taken to wild care in San Rafael... ...where personnel discovered the female animal was actually carrying a pouch full of babies... ...that seemed to be unscathed by the incident. That is wild. All right, we'll do one more and then we'll wrap up. Things have a way of working out sometimes. And several police officers were undercover in the middle of a carnival in Brazil...

when they managed to catch a phone thief. And that means festival goers in Sao Paulo, Brazil watched as a Power Ranger took out the bad guy. So an actual Power Ranger? Yeah. Wow. The police, who were all dressed as Power Rangers, took seven cell phones from the alleged thief.

and laid them out in front of the criminal who had taken them from the people at the carnival. At any point did they join into a larger creature, mechanized thing? No, I don't think they had a chance to do that. They didn't need to. It was just one guy. The public security minister issued a statement saying this guy didn't count on the support of our civil police power rangers and our military police officers in a beautiful team effort. Not bad at all. They managed to save him. So yeah, we're looking at video footage of the guy's dress head to toe as a power ranger.

And that is what I have in the Bizarre File for you for now. As I mentioned earlier, just got word that we have a concert announcement. So when we return, we'll get our lesson question. We'll get the trash and music news along with that announcement. So stay put. Be back in a moment.

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A reminder, and you're not going to do this now, but I want you to have this handy. We have a new phone number. We're still working on getting the bugs worked out of the system and everything. But I wanted to give you the number so you can jot it down and go ahead and put it into your contacts and have it ready to go at any point in time. So the new number is going to be 610-660-9333.

We're going to continue to use Zoom for now because that is working a little bit better. As soon as the new number is fully operational, then we will engage that. But I think we're going to play with Zoom from here on out. Yeah, we like a number of aspects of it, and we might do entire breaks using Zoom.

So just keep that in mind. New number, 610-660-9333. Just make a contact page for that and then have yourself ready to go when we are up and running.

and ready to use it. So we'll do a lesson question now. We're going to take a winner via Zoom. So if you know the answer, text the word ZOOM to 39333 and we will send you a link that you can click on and pop you on, hopefully, if you know it. So, by the way, we're going to give away a pair of tickets for the Summer of Loud show that MMR is presenting July 23rd at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion.

So the question that I had this morning, it says Preston is apparently a character in a movie about the band Pavement. What will Kathy's character's name be in the same movie?

All right. Let's see if you know the answer. Text word Zoom 39333. I apparently am a character in a movie about the band Pavement. What will Kathy's character's name be in the same movie? If you heard that earlier this morning and you know, please reach out to us and we will do the trash while you get it done. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

With Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. We'll gather these stories and then we'll try to gather a winner. What's going on, Steve? Well, Elon Musk announcing the birth of his 14th child last week. Musk also announced launching a second global communications network just to talk to his kids. Oh my God. Pics of Ben Affleck pulling his ex Jennifer Garner in for an affectionate hug on Sunday at many speculating events.

that he wants her back. Still others are suggesting that he wants her front because that's where the vagina is. Oh, dude. Hey!

Bad Baby. Of course, we're all huge fans of Bad Baby. On again, our offer band boyfriend, Daddy LeVon, that's his name, was shot early Wednesday morning outside a CDLA strip club. LeVon explained he mistakenly thought that the pussy pit sold diapers. That's a holiday joke. All righty, thank you very much, Steve. And the question we posed to you this morning, apparently this movie...

A character in a movie about me. It's about the band. The movie's not about me. I'm a character in a movie about the band. I mean, we know it really is. What will Kathy's character's name be in the same movie? And we have Jeff Taylor we're going to go to via Zoom. Hey, Jeff, how you doing, man? I'm good. How you doing, Preston? Wonderful, buddy. All right, so what will Kathy's name be in this movie?

That's Kathy Flomano. Flomano. Precisely. Nice work. And hang on, Jeff, because we'll get you in the boat. And we'll set you up with those tickets to see the Summer of Loud Wednesday night.

July 23rd at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, or Alex called it earlier, the E-Center. Featuring Killswitch Engage, I Prevail, Beartooth, and many others. Tickets are on sale via Ticketmashing. Go to WMMR.com for another chance to win tickets. Now, Preston and Steve's Music View on 93.3 WMMR. Yeah! Oh, yeah!

Get a couple stories and then I'll make the concert announcement at the end of the segment. We'll begin with Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day. He and rapper Too Short...

have joined the ownership group of the Oakland Ballers, an independent baseball team. Very excited about this. That's too short. And that's based in Oakland, California. It's not surprising considering Armstrong's deep ties to Oakland and his support for local sports, especially in light of the Oakland Athletics' planned relocation to Vegas. Armstrong has been vocal about his disapproval of the A's move, even altering the team's logo during a concert to show his allegiance to the Ballers.

The team invested over $1.6 million in the park before the team's first game last year and drew big crowds all season long. A lot of people go to those games because people are pissed about the A's leaving. And the A's aren't even going to play in Vegas for like three or four seasons because the stadium's not done yet. So they're going to play in this minor league stadium in Sacramento in the interim. It's a really weird transition. Yeah, there's so many dumb parts of it, Casey.

And none of it makes any sense. So I'm glad that Billy Joe is doing this because there's an environment and a market for baseball fans in Oakland. And they're really being cheated. Well, what's interesting too, Nick, in this story is other than the Savannah Bananas and the other teams that they play against...

I'm not familiar with independent baseball teams. There are a few teams in minor league ball that don't have associations with major league baseball teams. I think Atlantic City, when they had a team for a stretch, was... Scranton has gone in and out, although Scranton now is associated with the Yankees. So there are teams that exist in cities where there is market. You know, usually smaller market cities, but they don't have necessarily an association with a big league team. Is it a league of sorts, though? It's AAA. Okay. And so they'll play other AAA teams, but...

There are major league ball players that can end up on these teams. Ricky Henderson ended up playing on this independent team. Maybe it was like Newark. And yeah, and they can do well and continue to play professional ball, but they're not associated. They're not going to get called up to play on the fields of the Yankees. Wow. Speaking of Ricky Henderson, and this is right out of my book. I saw a video the other day of a baseball player. I forgot who it was, Nick, but he and Ricky Henderson played on. Who did he play with before the A's? Before the A's? No, he started with the A's.

Okay, well, he was playing with another team. With the Mets? Maybe it was the Mets, yeah. And it was a pitcher. I know the story you're talking about. He wore a special helmet. John Olerud was the first baseman. Oh, that was it. Right, and he wore that helmet because he had a brain injury. Exactly. And Ricky Henderson, this is when they were playing on another team together, years later. And Ricky asked him about his helmet. And he goes, yeah, I had this accident, and so I wear the helmet. And he goes, hmm.

There was a guy I used to play with on the A's that had the same thing. It was the same guy. He was like, yeah, Ricky, that was me. That's right out of my playbook. Right out of my playbook. We worked together for years. I guess I know you. You know why Ricky Henderson slid head first when he was steelbases? No. Because he didn't want to break the cocaine vials in his back pocket. So if he slid feet first, the coke vials would break.

The band Ghost has announced their sixth studio album, Skeletta. Set for release on April 25th through Loma Vista Recordings. The album's lead single, Sanitize, introduces fans to the band's new frontman, Papa V Perpetua. Is this it? By the way, there's a...

an interview that Brent Porsche did with Tobias Forge, which is available at WNMR.com, I believe. Saw a clip he posted the other day. Did you say the name of the song was Sanitized? Because I think it's Satanized. Oh, yeah. I said Sanitized. So, Satanized. Thank you. If you want to get residual Satan off of your toilet seat. You Satanize it. So, let's see. The

Satanizer. The band also unveiled the Satanizer, an interactive music video experience allowing fans to insert themselves into the video by uploading a photo. In support of Skeletta, and I'm probably mispronouncing that too, Ghost has embarked on the Skeletor starting April 15th. That's great. Oh, I get it. Skeletor. In Manchester, UK with dates across Europe, North America, and Mexico. Notably, this tour includes

The band's first performance at New York's Madison Square Garden on July 22nd. So you can get a complete list of tour stops.

on their website, by the way. And I was looking at the video of Brent interviewing him. He doesn't look like he did when he came by here. Was he less slicked back? Well, his face is more grown out and his accent sounds a little more homogenized than when he was here. It's funny because over the course of years you encounter bands who have a perception of what they sound like.

Ghosts to me, once I finally heard a fair amount of ghosts, did not sound like I thought they were going to sound. You see the pictures? Yes. Oh, they're going for a heavy vibe. And the theatrics and everything, they're surprisingly more melodic than you would imagine. And the lead singer sounds like this. Beautiful is this mountain looking right behind.

In our studio tomorrow. By the way, he will be joining us tomorrow. That guy right there, our favorite little Austrian, is going to be in our studio tomorrow. We're looking forward to that. All right, it's time now for our concert announcement.

So this show will be taking place Saturday, August 9th. Always great to hear of a Saturday show. Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Tickets will go on sale next Friday, March 14th at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. Two bands playing this show. And we're excited to mention, actually, there's three bands all together. But...

Volbeat is coming to town. It's called the Greatest of All Tours. And they will have a couple of special guests joining them. One of them being Hailstorm. We love Hailstorm.

So Volbeat and Hailstorm and also The Ghost Inside. Not all that familiar with them, but I'm sure they're great if they're on board with these two bands. Saturday, August 9th, the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Tickets on sale next Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. And this weekend, we are going to be featuring Double Shots with songs from both of those bands and

And each DJ this weekend has your chance to win tickets. So make sure you're on board for that. You can go to WNMR.com for all the info on how to win tickets and for next week's pre-sale information as well. So there you go, your concert announcement and your music news this morning on WNMR. Let's take a quick break, come back in a second and wrap up the program when we return. Stay with us.

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 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.

Shine down with their command of Dance Kid Dance on 93.3 WMNR Saturday at Rock's Bustin' and Steve's show at 10.34 on a Thursday morning coming to a close. The weather today, it's okay. Highs are going to be about 50 degrees. No rain expected, but it's going to

Be breezy and make some clouds and sun tomorrow. That continues. We have pretty much the same day for tomorrow. And then the wind should subside a little bit Saturday and Sunday. And temperatures are going to linger around 50 or so. By Monday, we'll be back up to the 60s. Nice. I'm liking that. Yep. So, enjoyable day today. We had an interesting show this morning in that a friend of mine had told me that they had gotten wind of a storm.

a movie trailer and that WDRE radio station that both Steve and I used to work at

was featured in the trailer, and they found out that there's a character called Preston, a disc jockey called Preston in there. And so we were talking about this on air, and it turns out that we have ties to the director, a guy named Alex Perry, who is the son of a gentleman who used to work here named Roy Perry. So Nick reached out to him. We got him on, and we talked about the movies about the band Pavement. It features Jason Schwartzman is in it, Joe Keery, who's Steve from Stranger Things,

And sure enough, I was the inspiration for that particular character in the movie. We just wanted to verify it. And we ended up having a great conversation with him. That's terrific. I got a nice text from Alex afterwards. And he said, Preston, about that character and about your name being in the movie. He said, it's an honest and sincere tip of the hat.

Isn't that sweet? That's really sweet. It doesn't come out until May. And Joe Carey, who stars in it, his band, he's a musician as well. Really good, by the way. My youngest listens to his stuff and has for a couple of years now.

They're going to be in town. Yes. Where were they playing, Case, do you remember? Yeah, at the Franklin Music Hall. Okay. So we can sort of maybe get all this synergized. Yeah. We got to try and get him on the program. Yeah, try and get him in early because his show at the Franklin is, it's a Saturday. Okay.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that's where his tour starts. Okay. Maybe he'll get in a day or he'll get warmed up. Now that he knows you, you're essentially a co-star. I mean, maybe once he hears the story. I mean, we would have to have this...

catered by Wetzel's pretzels, right? Of course. Casey's interaction with Joe one time was at a movie premiere and Casey was in a room I think alone with Joe for a moment. He thought you were a murderer. All he could do, Casey could do, was talk about Wetzel's

pretzels. You were nervous, right? I was, yeah, to say the least. The worst was they asked me to leave. He did? No, no, no. His handler, somebody from Allied came in and said, hey, there's some people out here who want to take a picture. I'm like, oh, okay. They love pretzels out there. As I'm walking out, I'm like, they asked you to do that, didn't they? Sure enough, they did. I thought so. I deserve that.

Maybe Joe will remember. Dude, I'm all pretzeled out, dude. I have nothing left to say. I actually saw Joe a few minutes after that and I apologized to him. And he was like, it wasn't because of him. The handlers are always the people who are a little bit sketchy. They can see the force through the pretzel. I was fine, but I wasn't really. All right. As he walks up, Casey walks up and he's like, you again. Listen, before we start, I need to let you know I am not a big pretzel fan.

All right. How you doing, Pierre? Fine, thank you. Excellent. So the yodeling Austrian is coming in tomorrow? Oh, yeah, that's right. Yes. What is his name? His name is Peter Merhofer. Merhofer. How did you get him to come in here? So I think it was Marissa found out. He would just kind of checked his schedule and he was going to be coming over to the States and found out he was going to be in New York.

So Marissa reached out to him. We're like, hey, we're an hour and a half, you know, hour, whatever, you know, hour and a half ride down here. Do you want to come down? So we bought him a train ticket and he's coming down. Apparently he really enjoyed the interview. We enjoyed having him on and we said we need to keep this going. Well, since you, I had no knowledge of him before you guys, but I've been starting to watch those videos and they're,

Funny, but also he's really got a very positive message. He does. He won us over big time. He just led with having a positive attitude. He's not like a porn guy, is he? No, no, no. Porn guy? Not yet. Somebody said he was an adult. No, he's a male model. Model. Yeah. Well, sometimes that can...

Yeah. Have extra... It can lead to porn if you fall in with the wrong models. There can be extra rooms in that house, if you will. No, he's not. Okay. He does mountain porn. Mountain porn. I mean, that voice... I might have to come in just to meet him, not to be part of it. Hear that voice in person. Well, I mean, it's so unusual that...

But then, I mean, he's up, you know, at the top of Mount something or other, you know, and his hair is perfect. Yeah. And it's just like, wait, how did you do that? Nobody's hair is that perfect that high up in the mountains because you don't wake up with hair like that. You have to make your hair stick up like that. Right. And then, so, I mean, prior to him, you know,

I saw one video where he's on the top of a tree. And then it looks like he sort of scares himself. Oh, oh, my goodness. Oh, guys. He opens everything with guys. So all of a sudden, I get these funny... I don't do TikTok. Not wanting to be covered by the Chinese government. However... Instagram? What? Are you watching these on Instagram, the videos? No, I found them on...

And Facebook has a similar thing to TikTok called Reels. Yeah, yeah. And once they get your algorithms, for me, it's...

Golden Retriever puppies, black and white movies. Austrian porn stars. Well, not Austrian porn stars particularly. And planes landing badly. For some reason, I have this thing. I watch some plane land in a windstorm. And so that's been coming up. And now he's been coming up. Right. Because I found him. And then now he's coming up every other register. So I'm going, oh.

what's up with this guy? And so I'm kind of fascinated because I wonder if he makes a living by it. He does. He's got like 580,000 Instagram followers, so you can make a living off of that. How do you make money from that? You monetize it. So he gets endorsement deals and he gets things of that nature, but he's just, he's in the embryonic stages of it now and he admitted it. He's trying to figure out the, just a large number of followers doesn't immediately translate into a livable salary, but it certainly is well on its way to doing that. Oh.

So that's what he's doing. Okay. Yeah. And he does do the male modeling. He was also, I think it was Austria's Got Talent or The Voice or something. Or he was something on something like that as well. All right. There you go. All right. He'll be in tomorrow. Well, maybe you can make him yodel. Maybe.

I don't know. We'll see about that. All right. You want to do the letter, dude? Sure, yeah. All right. Here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. All right. The Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by The Letter. I is in Indiana. We will give away $500 tomorrow.

And it's brought to you by Marvel Television's Daredevil Born Again and vigilante lawyer Matt Murdock and former mob boss Mayor Wilson Fisk are back in an all-new TVMA series. Daredevil Born Again, now streaming and only on Disney+. All right, what you doing with today's... Well, we'll have more of those offspring Jimmy Eat World tickets to give away. And again, our phones aren't working, so we did a high text number.

And I'm told the phones will be fixed by New Year's of 2027. Perfect. That would be a good year. I mean, they're doing their Beasley best, but they just can't quite get it together just yet. But sooner or later, a radio station will have phones at work.

Zoom is also fun. It is. We're enjoying it. They sound actually good. You had a segment one day last week where you were actually, people were Zooming and you were just finding out how they were on their way to work. It worked out nicely. There's an element to it that's really kind of sweet. I thought it sounded great. Anyway, we'll have more tickets to give away. We've got Women's History Month continuing and we'll have Blocks of Pink Floyd for David Gilmour's birthday and Lou Reed had a birthday last weekend.

He's just got so many cool songs, particularly that live version of Sweet Chain, which is so wicked.

that we will break out and play. Love it. Thank you, Pierre. And thank you to our sponsors. The President Steve Show has been brought to you today by Dunkin'. And the President Steve Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors. And brought to you by Adam Home Services, heating and cooling and plumbing and electrical as well. AdamHomeServices.com. Tomorrow on the program, as Pierre said, Peter Merhoffer, the Austrians, is considered the

happiest man on the internet will be in our studio. We will also have Alfonso Ribeiro on the phone at, well, whatever it is. And we will check in with our friends at 6 ABC and we'll have a No Sad Bro Day tomorrow. It started right now. And we'll do the connoisseur and more. So that's it. We're done. Rage on. Have a great day and we'll see you tomorrow.

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