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Good morning, friend, and we welcome you. It's a Monday. Arms wide open. Come on in. We'll all do this together. It's a new work weekend weather-wise. It is going to be splendid. Things are warming up. Today's high actually is going to hit around 65, 66 degrees. Wow. Lots of sunshine. It's going to be a big difference. Not as breezy as it was all weekend long. And that continues. This weather is fantastic. Tomorrow...

Excellent. 70 degrees and sunshine. We get a little bit more of a reel back on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays. We'll be in the mid to upper 50s each of those days. But a nice little reprieve here that we are going to get and much deserved. And now, Preston and Steve's News Update. News Update.

With Kathy Romano. And today is Monday, it is March 10th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, late Sunday night, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday and the Foundation of Delaware County announced that a deal has been reached to keep Crozer Health System hospitals open for the immediate future while a long-term reconstructuring plan is worked out.

The announcement to keep Crozer Chester and Taylor hospitals open came after a day-long emergency meeting in Harrisburg Sunday. Last week, Prospect Medical Holdings, which owns Crozer Health, told a bankruptcy judge that they only had enough money to keep the hospitals open until this coming Friday. It's the grim reality residents are facing as Prospect Medical Holdings announced plans

To close Delaware County's largest health system, it includes Crozer, Chester Medical Center, Taylor Hospitals in Ridley, and then several other facilities. Sunday's meeting was an emergency hearing to look for a final reconciliation. It comes after state and county officials gave $20 million to keep the hospital open.

Prospect Medical Holdings is the private California-based company that owns Crozer Health System. The Attorney General's office sued Prospect last year, alleging mismanagement and neglect of Crozer Health System. Lawmakers are now calling attention to what they say is a problem with private companies taking over hospitals, selling off their assets, and then closing them.

A man carrying a firearm near the White House was shot and injured by Secret Service personnel early on Sunday, the service said in a statement. The Secret Service had been contacted on Saturday by local police who said a suicidal individual may be traveling to Washington from Indiana, according to the statement. Members of the Secret Service found the man's...

parked vehicle near 17th and F Street in Washington at about midnight, the statement said. The vehicle was parked near the Eisenhower Executive Office building, which is next to the White House. They also saw an individual on foot matching the description nearby, the statement said. An officer approached the individual, brandished a firearm, and an armed confrontation ensued during which shots were fired by personnel. The man was taken to an area hospital where his condition is unknown, the statement said. Secret Service personnel were not

injured during the confrontation. Remember there was a guy a while back, a few attempts have been made, but this guy drove specifically into the barricade by the White House and later determined it was death by suicide. Yeah, they shot and killed that guy, right? Yeah, they had the death by cop basically. President Donald Trump was in Florida at the time of the shooting.

A PennDOT project on the main line could cause some backups for drivers in the Philadelphia area this month. A $22 million construction project is set to begin today to rehabilitate the City Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia and Lower Marion Township, PennDOT said in a news release. Well, that means people are going to have to get used to backed up.

traffic now for the first time ever. The walking bridge over here? Driving, walking, all of it. They're replacing a lot. They're just sidewalks, utility lines. They're adding stormwater management system, all of it. Wow. It seems incomprehensible. Starting today, traffic on City Avenue will be reduced to one lane in each direction. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Oh, that's going to be fun. Between Bryn Mawr Avenue and 47th Street for excavation and paving, according to PennDOT. The project includes resurfacing the road, repairing sidewalks, replacing utility lines, and adding stormwater management systems.

PennDOT is urging drivers to budget extra time for the traffic changes and possible delays. All of the work is weather dependent, obviously. The project will also improve pedestrian access between City Avenue, SEPTA's Ballast Station and the Parkside's Kinwood Trail, which is with an accessible ramp and stair system. Access to nearby businesses and train service at SEPTA's Ballast Station will not be disrupted. Construction on the 114-year-old concrete bridge

is expected to last through April 7th. The project is being funded with 80% federal dollars, 20% state funds. April 7th, that seems fairly quick. It does seem quick. Let's see if they can pull that off. Yeah. I guess we'll see. All right, in sports this morning. ♪♪

The Flyers lost to the New Jersey Devils 3-1 yesterday afternoon in South Philly. It was the Flyers' fourth loss in a row and third straight in which they scored only one goal.

What the f*** is this? Coach John Tortorella benched rookie Matt Vamichkov in the first period and responded to reporters after the game by saying, it's not always the play on the ice that I'm trying to teach. The homestand continues tomorrow night with a game against the Ottawa Senators. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock. After the Flyers game ended, the Wells Fargo Center converted from ice to hardwood and the Sixers beat the Utah Jazz 126-122. They did it!

Lonnie Walker and Quinton Grimes scored 25 points apiece to lead the Sixers to the win. Walker added 11 rebounds and 5 assists in 34 minutes off the bench for the Sixers, who won for just the second time in their last 14 games. They're on the road tonight with a game in Atlanta against the Hawks. Tip-off is at 7.30. At spring training, the Phils won a second game in a row, beating the Orioles 12-2 yesterday afternoon in Coney Island.

The Bills are on the road today with the game against the Twins at 105. The Union won a third straight game to start the MLS season, beating the Revolution 2-0 in New England on Saturday night. The Union are back home on Sunday and will take on Nashville SC at 225. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs.

And that's what I have for you this morning. All right. Thank you very much, Kathy. You mentioned spring training. That's a big part of what we're doing this week is getting ready for our little trip. We're leaving on Wednesday. Yes. Arriving. Well, we'll arrive there on Wednesday, but we will start broadcasting on Thursday morning from the ballpark. First day, second day from Coco's Crush Bar.

On Friday and then into the weekend in beautiful Clearwater, Florida. We're looking forward to that. And we're looking forward to the next couple of days getting prepped for it. And an interesting scenario, the next few days, we have no Casey. Yes, yes. Casey is actually in Verona, Italy. He's gone to Italiano. We are going to speak to him this morning via the magic of the...

Well, I don't know. How are we talking? The magic of what? The phone? I was going to say the phones. No. The magic of Zoom. Magic of Zoom. All right. So we'll actually have visuals of Casey in Italy. Over there, it's Zuma. Zuma. Does anyone know how many hours ahead?

I think it's five. Five bucks. Yeah, five, yeah. Yeah, so he's got the, I think he's aware. I hope he's aware because we're supposed to talk to him around 8.20 this morning. And then he is going to join us. He's going to go straight from Italy to Florida. So he's going to join us down in Clearwater. That's pretty wild. Yeah, flying from Italy to Florida. Yeah. So we'll check in with Case in the 8 o'clock hour. We have a cool announcement that we're going to be making in the 7 o'clock hour. Something for you to view. We'll tell you about that a little later on. Yeah.

It's 11.20 there right now. Okay. Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be nice? By the way, with the time change, we won't see sunrise. Sunrise is officially one hour from right now, 7.20. So that will slowly adjust over the next month or so. Things will kind of even out and we'll get a little bit of daylight like we were getting used to over the past couple of weeks. But nonetheless, it's on the way and we get a later sunrise.

Which is nice. Yeah. And we also have new word of the week prize. We have 500 bucks to give away yet again. That is from Paramount Pictures' Novocaine, which is in theaters this Friday. We're also loaded with a bunch of other things to give away in the stupid question category and lesson question and blah, blah, blah. We got a lot to get to. So we'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. The entertainment report and the stupid question are up next. So hang out with us because we will not be gone long, friends.

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All right, so we're going to get some away. Stupid question. We got a pair of tickets to MMR Rock's Volbeat and Hailstorm Saturday, August 9th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. So solid prize this week. And here's the question we have for you. What does VHS stand for? 215263 WMMR. Remember the cassettes. All right, what does that stand for? VHS. Let's see if you know the answer to that question.

Uh, Oh, did I tell you to call? Don't call. You need to, you need to zoom in. Text the word zoom to three, nine, three, three, three. I'll get it in a year or so. Uh, text the word zoom three, nine, three, three, three. We will send a link to you. And then, uh, our buddy Sam here is going to put somebody up in our, uh, little waiting room. We'll go to you and see if you can get the answer. All right. I mentioned some birthdays while we were waiting for you to get through on that. Today is Monday, the 10th day of March. Uh,

Actress Paget Brewster. I like her a lot. I do too. Something about her. She can do straight up drama, but she's also very funny. She's in one of the best Modern Family episodes too. Yeah, she's terrific. What was... I don't remember that one. She's supposed to be... Sofia Vergara, her ex is involved with this woman who is very accomplished. And so Sofia Vergara is getting jealous. And then this woman, she...

she breaks down and she goes, look at you. Who has a body like that? And so she's jealous of Sofia Vergara. It's terrific. Padgett Brewster. She's also on a criminal minds community. She's 56 today. Uh, actress Jasmine guy. Yeah. Remember from a different world. Whitley. Wasn't that her character? Yes. Uh,

Harlem Nights. She was in that as well. She was kind of the secondary character and she became one of the main characters on A Different World. When Lisa Bonet bailed out, Whitney was kind of the snobby, snooty foil and then she ends up becoming the star of the show. Yeah, so she's...

63 years old today. John Hamm turns a year older today. He's terrific. I just saw him. My son turned me on to a cartoon that's a comic book cartoon. It's called Invincible. It's on Amazon Prime. It's kind of like The Boys. You guys know about this at all? Yes, I've watched it. I haven't watched the whole series, but you're right. It's exactly in the vein of The Boys. Preston, John Hamm, plays a Secret Service character. All of these superheroes exist in the world.

and the rest of humanity is just used to them, and there are some good guys and some bad guys. All right. And Jon Hamm. There's a lot of really familiar voices in it, but anyway, he's in it, and I was like, I know that voice, and then it was Jon Hamm. He also does another animated series, Nick, where he plays kind of like a private dick, as they say in the parlance. Okay. And he's kind of a rumpled kind of guy, and I think that's on Fox. He's a cool guy. Do we give him a pass for being a Chiefs fan? I mean... Yeah. Well, they lost, so... They did. Maybe it'd be a different story. Yeah.

Yeah, I like him. He's on my list. He turns 54 today. And your to-do list? Yeah, the more and more. I keep it in my back pocket. The more and more I see him, he's just a really good actor and he's just really funny. He's very versatile. Solid sense of humor too. So he's 54 today. The great Chuck Norris turns a year older and he is 85 today.

years old today. He is. So I was watching a couple of martial artists break down Chuck Norris's abilities and they were contending that were Bruce Lee really to afford Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris would have kicked his ass because Chuck Norris was a competitive fighter.

He fought that Bruce Lee never really fought in a competitive nature where Chuck Norris had had in-ring fights, was a champion. So and they said that would be the difference, you know, but but Chuck Norris would always he loved Bruce Lee would always hear from those.

Yeah, I don't know. He's 85 today, Chuck Norris. Sharon Stone's birthday today. Basic Instinct, Total Recall, a couple of big ones for her. She is 67 years old. You can see the dad of the fools. The very beautiful Olivia Wilde has her birthday today as well. And she turns 41 years old. I saw her in something recently. I forgot what it was. She was walking the red carpet in a near see-through outfit. Was that it?

No, no, you know what it was? Not that long ago, it just happened to be on and I was passingly watching it because I never watched the whole movie, which is Don't Worry Darling. Yeah. Did you guys like, what did you think of it? I mean, I get it's, there's a weird vibe to it and I was definitely picking up on that, but I never did watch the whole thing. Yeah, it was savaged by the critics. So when I went into it, I was, the bar was low, but I kind of found it interesting. Okay.

Yeah, I think I might give that one a shake. Dear God, Steve. She posted on Instagram that outfit you're talking about. I don't know what show it was for, but holy mackerel. If you look like that, I guess so. The problem is, I do. I know. But I'm just too shy. Resist the urge. Well, and Lace is in this season. So she is 41. Lace?

Who's Lace? I think, no, no, no. The style, Lace. Oh, Lace is, I was like, in this season, I was like, I don't know. Who the hell is Lace? I don't know that character. Lacey Underhill. Gotcha. Lace, the material, the fabric, yes. Lace.

So Olivia Wilde is 41 today. From Pearl Jam, Jeff Aumann's birthday today, Nick. Nice. He turns a year older at 62. He's the most approachable down-to-earth guy in the band. I've met him a few times. Matt Cord is pretty friendly with him and I've hung with him. Really easy to chat with. He's just a dude who happens to be in Pearl Jam. And he's a really great bass player. Of the entire band, who's most likely to go to Carvel's to get a birthday ice cream cake? Oh, man.

Ed probably. Really? Put it in my flipper. Oh, crap. The TV show about the Mormons where there were the murders involved. Under...

Under the banner of heaven. Yes. Jeff Amon did the music for that show. Oh, I love that show. Yeah, me too. And he's a really accomplished musician aside from Pearl Jam. So he did all of the scoring or a lot of the scoring for that TV show. What's his band outside of Pearl Jam? There's...

Man. Forget about it. We're going to stump you. I'm going to get shot for this one. It's not Brad, though. Brad is... Brad Stone Gossard. Stone Gossard, right. Yeah. Son of a bitch. Give me a moment. Okay. It's... R&DM. Oh, there we go. And three fish, yeah. There we go.

Well, it's on the TV now, so I can read it. It's called Three Fish? Yeah, Three Fish. And R&DM was the one that most recently toured. They played the Foundry, I don't know, five or six years ago. Jeff turns 62 today. From the van breaking Benjamin, Benjamin Jackson Burnley turns a year older. He is celebrating his 47th birthday today. Happy birthday to Benjamin Burnley.

We also have another birthday today in the world of music, sort of, I guess. Robin Thicke has his birthday today. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. This was the song that eventually was determined to be a bit of a rip-off from Marvin Gaye. That's exactly right, yeah. And...

I don't hear this as a direct ripoff of the song. No. It's got the same vibe. It pulls again in one of those pockets, Preston, where it's like, you don't think someone else could have come up with that rhythm? Yeah. I mean, it's not, you know, so, but they found enough legal standing. Yeah.

And what was the deal? He went through like a contentious divorce, right? Yes, very much so. But his ex is gorgeous. Paula Patton. Yeah. So happy 48th birthday today. And his dad is Alan Thicke, of course. Happy 48th birthday. And then the last birthday I saw is Timbaland. Born Timothy Zachary Tim Mosley.

And it says here, fast fact, he was shot at 15 years old by a co-worker at Red Lobster. Lobster Fest is over. No, it's not. You son of a bitch. Say it again.

Timbaland is 53. You know who he produced, Preston, for a short bit? Nelly Furtado. He produced Nelly Furtado? Yeah. All right, so happy 53rd birthday, Timbaland. All right, we'll see if somebody knows the answer to today's stupid question. Via Zoom, we're going to go to listener Michael. And the question we posed to Michael, first of all, good morning, sir. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Top of the morning to you all. All righty, sir. So what does VHS stand for?

Video home system. He is correct. Yeah. Nice. Hold on a moment, Mike. We'll gather your information and we will set you up with tickets to see Volbeat and Hailstorm Saturday, August 9th, free at Mortgage Pavilion.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. You can go to WMMR.com because we have pre-sale information and another shot at winning pit tickets for that show. Wouldn't that be nice? At the box office this weekend, it was Robert Pattinson's Mickey 17, number one. And it debuted with a haul of 19.1 mil, followed by Captain America Brave New World.

Also coming in third, we have Last Breath with 4.2 million. Rounding out the top five was The Monkey in fourth place and Paddington in Peru in fifth with just below 3.9 million. I love those Paddington movies. They're cute. Yeah. So, all right. The Cause of Death.

of actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were revealed by officials on Friday, more than a week after the couple was mysteriously found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home. Hackman, and this is a wild story. It is, it's, it's, you couldn't write this script. Hackman died of cardiovascular and Alzheimer's disease, likely found around, likely around February 18th, about a week after

his wife died. And she died from a rare syndrome called Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. And she possibly died, they're guessing on this, around February 11th. So he was essentially wandering around the house while she was dead. Whatever she was.

So if he was suffering, I went through it all in my head. So first of all, whatever she died of is found in rodents, right? I'll give some of the details. Okay, so she probably passed away. He's suffering from Alzheimer's. Nobody there to take care of him. Exactly. And then dies. Wanders around the house. And the space heater next to her, I'm thinking he was probably like, she feels cold. I'm going to plug this in for her. Maybe, maybe. So Dr. Heather Jarrell, Chief Medical Investigator for the state's office.

The medical investigator said Hackman's death was from hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with Alzheimer's disease as a significant contributing factor. She said Mr. Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer's disease. He was in very poor state of health, had significant heart disease, and I think ultimately that is what resulted in his death. Arakawa, who is 65, died from the Hantz virus pulmonary syndrome, a rare disease transmitted through rodent urine droppings or saliva.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the disease initially causes flu-like symptoms and that can progress to more severe illness where people have trouble breathing. And those who contract HandaVirus after being exposed to rodent excrement often feel ill for roughly three to six days.

they can then transition to that pulmonary phase where they have fluid in their lungs and around their lungs. And at that point, a person could die very quickly within 24 to 48 hours, roughly speaking, without medical treatment. Hackman was likely home with his deceased wife for about a week before he died. There was no food in his stomach, which means he had not eaten recently. But he also had no evidence of dehydration, officials said.

But it's quite possible that he was not aware that she was deceased. They said, though, it's a...

It's a difficult question to answer because it's just, you know, at this point. But how sad is that? Incredibly sad. This horrifying domino effect. Yeah. Hackman was discovered on the floor in the mudroom and it appeared that he fell suddenly, according to a search warrant. He had suffered from severe heart disease, like we said, including multiple surgical procedures involving the heart, evidence of prior heart attacks.

and severe changes of the kidneys due to chronic high blood pressure. His initial pacemaker data revealed cardiac activity on February 17th with subsequent pacemaker interrogation demonstrating an abnormal rhythm of atrial fibrillation on February 18th, which was the last record of heart activity.

He tested negative for the hantavirus, so he didn't have that. Yeah, yeah. She was found lying on her side on the floor of the bathroom with a space heater near her body, according to the search warrant. Kathy, that's not too far off the mark. Yeah. Maybe it's just where his mind was. He didn't know. Stop and think about it. So she's younger by decades. She's the one that dies first in this chain of events. And probably was his caretaker. Oh, absolutely. They said...

Everyone who knew them said he would have died long ago were she not in his life. So her body showed signs of decomposition. There was mummification to her hands and feet. On the counter near her was an open prescription bottle with pills scattered. The pills were determined to be a thyroid medication. It was being taken as prescribed and did not appear to have any contribution to her death.

One of the couple's three dogs was found dead in a crate about 10 to 15 feet from Arakawa's body. But the other two dogs were found alive and it appeared that they had access to a doggy door. So they were able to get out and find something to eat or drink. But one was found near her body and the other one was located outside. So just a tragic ending, man. Terrible, terrible story.

But, I mean, it's, you know, they've obviously cleared it up. There was no foul play in a series of circumstances that were just unfortunate. So sad news there. All right. I have a few other lighter stories to get into. We'll start with this one at South by Southwest in Austin. A lone protester demonstrated outside the premiere of Blake Lively's Another Simple Favor against a movie star and in support of Justin Baldini. She had a sign that read justice for Justin Baldoni. I'm sorry. As well as a shirt that said Blake lied.

So this particular protester seems to have a history of showing up to support men that were accused of things like sexual harassment. Uh, the posting history is said to show them supporting Johnny Depp during his defamation trial against Amber Heard, as well as Marilyn Manson, who was accused of sexual assault and domestic violence by Rachel, Evan Rachel Wood. Uh, Lively, of course, is suing Baldani and that whole thing drags on. Speaking of her, uh,

She, with her embroiled in that whole thing, celeb watchers are following her every move more closely than ever. And one YouTuber started rumors flying by insisting that Anna Kendrick's response to questions about working with Lively on another simple favor pointed to friction between the two as that theory left the launch pad.

Paul Feig, the director of the film, moved in to shoot it down when the YouTuber had written, I just reported on Blake being terrified to walk the carpet as Anna is pissed and never wants to work with her again. Feig himself responded with, um, you're wrong. And that's pretty much it. So it's just a rumor, but I doubt there's any truth to it.

After years of thinking it over for a long, long time, more than seven years now, Rebecca Gayhart has decided not to pull the trigger on her divorce from Eric Dane. You hardly ever hear stories like this. I mean, seven years in the making, this thing's been going through the system, and they hang a 180. It's kind of nice. Yeah, so Us Weekly reports that...

The gay heart requested a dismissal last week of the divorce petition she initially filed in February 2018. At that time, the reason given for the filing was irreconcilable differences, but maybe not so much. They've been married since 2004. They have two kids, and they're going to try to work it out. Doesn't she have a mechanical homicide in her background? I think you are correct about that, Steve. Yeah, it was a car accident. Yeah, years ago. Mm-hmm.

Natalie Portman is reportedly getting back in the saddle when it comes to romance. A year after divorcing Benjamin Millipied or Pete or however you say his name. The guy with all those legs. People...

People Magazine reports that the actress is now dating French musician and music producer Tanguy Destable. I love Tanguy. His name is... Tanguy Destable would be a perfect musician name. So it's T-A-N-G-U-Y. Okay. Yeah, I think you're right. Or Tanguy. Tanguy. You're such a Tanguy. Tanguy Destable at D-E-S-T-A-B-L-A. Okay. That's weird. All right. All right. So anyhow...

Natalie and Thousand Legs were married for 11 years and they share two children. I put my pants on one of my 1,000 legs at a time. All right, so we've all dealt with company reps on the phone who obviously plow through their script no matter what you have to say to them. And it can be frustrating yet sometimes pretty funny, as is the case of Spencer Pratt.

shared with his followers how a Spectrum rep, that Spectrum cable, was insisting that he return his cable box because he canceled his subscription. A decision made because his house had been leveled in the Los Angeles wildfires that they want their cable box back. So to prove a point, Pratt went back to the Torch House

And in a video clip, he lifts up the charred cable box saying, good news, Spectrum. I'm pretty sure this is the box you guys had asked if I still had.

A spokesperson for Spectrum told TMZ customers will not be charged for equipment damage in the fires. And our agents are instructed to not ask for equipment to be returned. And we are reviewing the agent instructions to make sure that our communication is clear. So Spectrum is the Comcast of the Pacific Ocean?

Pacific Coast? I'm not really sure. Yeah, there's a few. They're all over the country. But that might be their region. Yeah, Steve. Let's see here. So, tell death do us part or not. Emily Osment. She's sibling to Joel. I think it's her birthday today. Yeah, it is her birthday. I missed it earlier. Emily Osment has filed for divorce from Jack Anthony after just four...

five months of wedded bliss. So they gave it a good try. They tied the knot in October of 2024 with the separation date on the divorce filings of September 7th. So make that less than two months of wedded bliss. And a statement to People Osment said, I think with any big decision in your life, whether it's relationships or work or whatever it may be, you have to firmly plant both feet in that decision. They'll always have the first two weeks of January. And she said, ultimately, it didn't work out.

She's in that sequel to Young Sheldon with a brother and his wife. I forget the name, but it's basically their first marriage. Georgie and Mandy's first marriage? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was also in Young Sheldon, too. That's the spinoff? That's the spinoff of Young Sheldon, yeah. So John Goodman had a bit of a fall. He took a tumble on the set for an untitled Tom Cruise flick. Ah!

Sources tell TMZ he is already on the men belt. The statement said the veteran... Carrying hookers on his back like nobody's business. The veteran actor experienced a hip injury and production... You got to lighten on the hookers, dude. ...resumes shooting next week following John's full recovery. I will never, ever forget that.

I love that image of him bursting out of the back of the strip club. You'll never forget that or Steve saying that it was a hooker. No, I'll never forget seeing John Goodman with a stripper. He was carrying her piggyback. God is my witness. I believe you. Yeah. He was known to party. Yeah. And he has a roots in that St. Louis area. He grew up in this area called Afton. Yeah.

And I was there for, and I'm like, dude, that was John Goodman. And I'll retell the story very quickly. It was behind the bar. Yeah. There was a, like a manager's door that went into some area unknown to me. And all of a sudden, all of a sudden I see him come out of that door with a stripper on his back. Yeah. Behind the bar. And he goes from that door into the bar area. And then he went into another door and that was it. It was gone. Yeah.

And that was all that I saw. What did I just see? It was unbelievable. I'm pretty sure it was the Diamond Cabaret. But I'll never forget that. Burned into your mind, man. So, yes, he, according to the statement, he had experienced a hip injury before.

And production resumes shooting next week following his full recovery. The secret film, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, features a star-studded cast including Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons, and Riz Ahmed. And it's been a tough year for John, though, because he lost his home in the Pacific Palisades wildfire, making this just another rough patch for the legendary actor who also missed out on SNL 50, the anniversary show to film this particular project.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly spared no expense to push out longtime James Bond producer Barbara Bercouli.

After she allegedly had called Amazon execs idiots. And she did. According to insiders, Bezos, quote, got on the phone and said, I don't care what it costs, get rid of her. And when he says he doesn't care what it costs, he yearned for a world of hurt. Big time. The move gives Amazon full creative control over the 007 franchise for the first time. And in the Bacoli's family, six decade reign. So.

So he's a huge Bond fan, and he's kind of a Bond purist. So this could be good. It could be bad as well. The one thing I hope they don't do is what they've been talking about, which are like

We talked about this last week, over milking the property, like, you know, multiple series and franchises and stuff. It tends to kill it. Yeah. So, you know, and it's kind of on wobbly legs right now as it is. Yeah. A lot of fans aren't thrilled fearing that they'll ruin the franchise. While former James Bond, Daniel Craig himself says that his respect and admiration, love for Bercouli and her team remain constant.

As for the next bond, Aaron Taylor Johnson is still the frontrunner for many fans, but no official announcement as of yet.

yet. We'll see if something comes up in the near future. I meant to mention this last week. Steve, you sent this over to me, but this debuted last Friday. Deli Boys on Hulu is a new comedy about two spoiled Pakistani-American brothers who inherit their late father's deli and it takes place in Philadelphia. They discover, though, that it's actually a front for a drug empire. The

The clips that I saw look pretty damn funny. I watched it over the weekend. It's really good. Is it? They mention a lot of things. Like a little, you know, somebody talks about getting their eyebrows waxed on Washington Avenue. Okay. And there's lots of like Philly nods. These guys have a kind of a, it seems to have a kind of a Harold and Kumar vibe to it, doesn't it? Uh, ish. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the guy went to Drexel. Oh, cool. That created it. Did they shoot some of it here or do we know? I don't know.

I don't think so. There's nothing Philly about it. There is another show coming out on Apple that's based in Philly too. It's coming out in a couple weeks. Any idea what it's about or who's in it or anything? No, I watched the trailer. It's called Dope Something. It's about guys. Amanda Seyfried's in this? Oh, is that the Amanda Seyfried one?

Amanda Seyfried is doing one that was not shot here, but takes place here. Yeah, she did a ride-along thing here in town. I don't know if it's that one. This one is about two guys that pretend to be DEA agents and rob drug houses of all the drugs. But Deli Boy is very good. I highly recommend it. It's funny. All right, cool. That is out on Hulu now. I was excited to watch this this morning. Fans of The Last of Us are finally getting a glimpse at what season two will look like.

Audiences at the Sirius South by Southwest panel were treated to a new trailer, which is now out everywhere. The second season will feature a time jump five years after the events of season one. It'll bring back Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabrielle Luna and Rutina Wesley. New cast members include Isabella Merced. She's playing Dina, Ariella Bearer.

as Mel, Tati Gabriel as Nora, Spencer Lord as Owen, Danny Ramirez as Manny, and Jeffrey Wright as Isaac. And also Catherine O'Hara is going to be guest starring as well. So that's a stellar cast. They're bringing back, they're bringing in the iterations of the Mutants

which is cool and impressive. You saw the clip of the snow. They're in the snow and they're coming out of the snow, which is very cool. Again, they have enough left in the original first game to kind of play with. They're taking a lot of liberties, but they're also holding true to some of the original story stuff. But,

But having just finished playing through the first game again, which was freaking good. The second game is not not good. It's just not good. And I hope that they it's OK if they cast away those some of those plot lines because it infuriated fans of the game. And I'm sure it infuriate viewers of the show. So the series returns to Max on April 13th and that'll be here. And before you know it, excited.

Uh, Justin Lin, the director of films like F9 and Star Trek Beyond is set to direct the Netflix adaptation of Keanu Reeves hit comic Berserker. Uh,

Reeves is going to star in the film as Berserker himself. And it looks, Berserker looks like him. It's like, you know, it's based on him or what he created it. The story follows an immortal warrior known only as B fighting battles on behalf of the U.S. government deemed too violent and too dangerous for anyone else in exchange for answers about his cursed existence.

The comic has been a massive success, selling over 3.5 million copies worldwide. And if that's not enough, the Berserker novel, the book of Elsewhere, became a New York Times bestseller last year. So Keanu's got all kinds of irons in the fire. This guy's cooking along. Look at the franchises that he's been a part of. Yep. Do you remember the Berserker song from Clerks? No.

No. It's really dirty. But the Russian guy that hangs out with Jay and Silent Bob sings it. He goes, do you want to suck my berserk? Oh, my. And then at one point, I think it's Randall's like, did you just say making F? But, you know, it's Kevin Smith with a whole lot of curse words in it. It's a very, very funny scene. Man, I have not seen Clerks in it.

Ages. It holds up. Look, it's 1994. It's black and white. It's his first film, but it's still damn good. One last story. Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos

is finally breaking into acting, but his first gig isn't in a Netflix show. Ted is going to make a cameo in The Studio, the upcoming comedy from Seth Rogen, which streams on Apple TV+. Rogen plays Matt Remick, the new head of a Hollywood movie studio. While details are tight on what Ted is up to in the show, apparently involves a character encounter between Matt and Ted.

Ted had jokes saying, after 25 years in Hollywood secretly, what I was really hoping for was to be discovered for the silver screen. Of course, it was my friend Seth Rogen who saw my certain something and cast me. He also promised a for your consideration campaign for my guest appearance.

So it was an offer that I couldn't refuse. So... Everybody loves working with that dude. You know, they like... With Seth Rogen? Well, no, with Ted, with Sandros. Oh, Ted Sandros. Yeah. Sarandos. Sarandos, yeah. They say that he is, he's a good guy. So the studio premieres March 26th and that will be on Apple TV+. Do we have clips today? We do, right? Yeah. Excellent. Thank you, Marissa. All right, drum roll, please. Drum roll, please.

Patrick Schwarzenegger, son of Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been casted in the new season of The White Lotus. And in this clip, he tells how excited his family was for him getting the role. I didn't want to say, but...

Eventually, I was like, okay, I'm just going to say it. And my fiance knew this moment was coming, so she put the phone up to film it. But then my mom screamed that she puts it down and got so awkward. And then she brought it back up and started videoing it again. Kathy, I think he's the jerk older brother.

Oh, yes. Oh, God, I can't stand him. I think that's him. Is that him? Yeah, that's him. That's him. I've only watched the first episode, so I'm just dipping my toe in it. You can already tell this guy's just a Ken Bell douchebag. Yeah, I can't stand him. He gets like butt naked, right? Yeah. A lot of them do. Well, I mean, you don't see the front, but you definitely see the full back. A new episode of White Lotus is out now on Max. Here's our next clip.

Danny McBride plays Jesse Gemstone, the eldest of three rich children in The Righteous Gemstones, a show that depicts a family of televangelists and megachurch pastors led by widowed patriarch Eli Gemstone. And in this clip, McBride talks about how much more crude and raunchy...

How is that even possible? I don't know. How much more crude and raunchy their new season is going to be? Here we go. We like to hang dong in this show, and I think we really push the limits of our dong hanging this season. We have a lot of dongs of every age and shape, so hopefully fans will appreciate it. Dang!

That's awesome. The final season of The Righteous Gemstones is out now on Max. All right, and there you go. Your entertainment report for today, gang. We welcome you to a Monday morning. Here we are at 7.05. Sunrise officially at 7.20 now with the time change. Yes. It'll be along shortly. We are...

We have a different composition in the studio this morning as Casey Boy is out for the next three days. He will be joining us in Clearwater. That's next time we will see him in person. We will see him via the magic of Zoom live from Verona, Italy. He is consulting the Italian Preston and Steve show. In the 8 o'clock hour this morning, we will check in with him. His son Seamus is there for a rugby tournament.

And Case is over there. So we're going to see how things are treating. Case has never been to Italy before. No, he was a little nervous and thrilled at the same time. So we'll see what he thinks about it when we check in with him a little bit later on this morning. So, all right, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. We'll allow that sun to do a little bit more work and shine the way on the way in for you. We'll be back. Stay with us.

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All right. Thank you very much, Kathy. So we have a bit of an announcement to make. This is really cool. This is now available and you can see this on our social media accounts. You'll be able to see this at Preston and Steve dot com. But the official video that was created by our friends at Camelot Productions of.

The Cardboard Classic is now available for your viewing. Nice. So Camelot, these guys do, and they did an amazing video at Camp Out for Hunger. But obviously the scope of the Cardboard Classic is a little more kinetic for what's happening and everything. But the stuff they get their drones to do and the edits that they put together,

Really encapsulate the excitement of the day. And you get a good close-up look.

at how things went at Cardboard Classic this year. Yeah, they throw so much energy into it. It also gives us an idea of all the stuff we're missing when we're in doing the show. Yeah, yeah. There's this cool shot when they go goggles to goggles for the people. Like, how cool is that? Yeah, so they zoom in. We have these really big goggles and it shows me wearing them and it shows, it scrolls through a bunch of different people that are wearing similar things.

in this montage. And yeah, they cover all the big sleds working their way down the crowd. Obviously, the live music, the aerial shots. They went way up high and took some really cool vid. I don't think you can get any more kinetic than this video. Yeah. I mean, talk about a hype video. It's what they specialize in. Absolutely. And you can hire these guys. You can check out our video and go to their Camelot page. Camelot spelled with a K, by the way.

And so make sure you like, you comment, you share, and follow Camelot Productions for more amazing videos like this. But they do stuff with the Sixers, and yeah, it's really cool. They could turn a game of backgammon into a supercharged, high-energy video. And who knows? If you were there, you might see yourself in the video. So you'll want to take a look at that. Where is it? Where is the video?

It's on Instagram right now. It's on the Preston and Steve Instagram page. But is it on PrestonandSteve.com yet? It will be shortly. Maybe during this break. Yeah, when you get a chance, take a look at it because we love the association with these guys. So thank you Camelot Productions and everybody who was a part.

of the Cardboard Classic at Montage Mountain this year. So if you're just tuning in, Casey's out today. We are going to be checking in with him this morning, though. He's in Italy. He's in Verona, Italy. His son Seamus, his rugby team from prep, from St. Joe's Prep,

is playing over there. So Casey's over there. Anybody else from his family? I think, did, uh, yeah, because they, they took a, it broke Casey's heart to do it, but they had to board a Reggie, his dog, his favorite dog, which they've never had to do, but they did with someone who handles the, he made sure it was at a good place that tore him up. So I said, okay, this is the big deal. Whole family over there right now. Yeah. So we'll check in with him. Um,

about an hour from now. I didn't realize that he'd never been there. To Italy? Yeah. I didn't realize this was his first time. That's cool. Yeah, it should be pretty awesome for him. It's a quick trip. Really, three, four days in Italy. Is that going to stop it all up? You've been, yes? A long time ago. I went to Venice. It was the only part of Italy that I've been to. But I've never been to Rome and

Milan or any of the other really cool cities to check out. I've got to get there. My wife's met many times and people rave over it. I love the picture. The first picture he sent when he arrived in Italy. Do you want to explain what it was? It was a guy wearing a Rocky hoodie. Of course. In Italy. Of course. He's like, this is the first guy I saw. So funny. So we'll check up on him. So my right hand person is Marissa filling in in Casey's spot here in the studio taking care of all the

Casey does a gazillion things throughout the course of the show. So this puts a lot on Marissa, especially. She knows what to do. But when you're thrown into it on the first day, it's like, oh my God, here we go. A little rusty. So we'll get through it. By Wednesday, we'll have it down, Pat. Yeah, exactly. You and me. But anyhow, there was something you wanted to tell us. I did. So I think I'm going to make Kathy so proud of me and hate me in the last sentence. I started to pack last night. Oh, yay!

Wow. Good girl. I'm all packed. I did it yesterday. I'm ready to go. Well, so I just like started to get ready. So I was like, all right, I got to pull summer stuff out because we need shorts. Yeah. Whatever. Marissa is literally the person who, hey, we have to leave for the airport in 15 minutes. All right, I'm going to go pack real quick. I got to run home and pack. You've done that before. Oh, 100%. Like, so I've...

I'll just tell you guys. And here's the thing. You don't look a mess. Like, if I did that, I would get to where I was going and be like, have nothing that matched, different shoes. Like, I wouldn't be able to...

Like you walked out of e-haw. Stressed about what you forgot and all that. The only thing I'm guilty of is overpacking because then I can't make those edits. I don't have time for the edits. The proper process is the initial pack, a refining pack, and then your final pack. If you're going away on a long trip, this is a couple of days, shorts and t-shirts. It's not a lot.

I had a suitcase that I haven't unpacked since September 8th. What? Oh, my God. Wait a minute. So were you able to use any of the stuff in that suitcase for this trip? It's everything I needed for this trip. Oh, my God. Yeah, I love it. So you're packed because you're just bringing whatever was in there? So I've had a suitcase in my closet.

And I started to unpack it last night and I realized it's the suitcase I had packed for Brazil that I got home. At the beginning of the Eagle season? On September 8th. Wow. I can't. Don't give me a shot. I'm kind of proud of you. Okay. I think that's great. That's efficient. Are some of those clothes dirty that are in there though? Okay, okay.

I'm so glad you bring that up because I do want to share with you guys the way that I travel. So I always bring some sort of bag or I take the laundry bag and so all of my dirty clothes go into the bag. So as soon as I come home, I open up my suitcase or my bag, I pull that out, that's the laundry, and then everything else is there. Store it for half a year. Well, so I was like justifying it and I was thinking last week, you guys were talking about like... You can't justify this. laughter

Some people are like storage unit people. And I live in a condo and I don't necessarily have a lot of space. So I am a storage unit person. I grew up in a storage unit family. We always had extra space. So it's just my mental state. By the way, the worst sitcom ever, the storage unit family. Yeah.

And so normally I'll bring like my summer clothes to the storage unit and switch them out with my winter clothes. So I have like Tupperware containers. But you know that like it takes a while. Like am I supposed to go grab my spring clothes now? Yeah. Now's the time, but it's still cold out, whatever, whatever. So my suitcase just became my storage unit for my summer clothes. Your summer clothes. So you got your summer clothes. You're all ready to go. I counted. I have taken three flights since...

that trip to Brazil. I went to Denver twice and I went to Did you pack in a different suitcase? You're traveling a lot. You've been traveling a lot especially to go see your husband. Yeah, exactly. So that's been something that's been sort of constant. But I tell you guys I do that frontier thing so I literally just travel with a backpack. It's actually made me much more of an efficient traveler. I can make it even more tighter of a trip now because there's no worry about getting my luggage up in a store a bin.

I just walk in, I have a book bag, I put it under the seat in front of me, and I fly. And that's it. Like, I'm that easy. See, so with you, it's cool. I mean, really, honestly, you could just go to any toy store, grab some doll clothing, and you'd be set. I crack up, though, because we are just complete opposite. Like, when I come home with a suitcase, like, after this thing...

this week slash weekend, when I come home, everything in my suitcase will have been worn and dirty and have to come out and get washed. Like there won't be one extra piece of clothing in there. There won't be one extra outfit.

I mean, like, maybe like one or two, but everything. There might be like, no, there won't. There won't. Because I know exactly, I have in my head exactly what I'm going to do. So, yeah, no, everything. Maybe there'll be like an extra pair of underwear or socks because I'll pack nine of them and we're going for four days. I pack the stuff for Cardboard Classic.

Excuse me, I had a bubble in my throat. So I had like toiletries and underwear and stuff. And anything that I didn't use in Carbo Classic bag is going to Florida with me. That was only a week and a half ago. And so I haven't fully unpacked that bag. Marissa, was there anything, is there anything in the suitcase that you've been missing for the last seven months? You look and go in there and you're like...

Oh, yeah. There's my birth control. No, I think I've definitely like worn things out of that suitcase though since. Like, you know, I'm more of just like a handful of underwear person instead of like, oh, we are gone for four days. Let me bring five pairs. I'm the person that brought like nine pairs.

Because our underwear is pretty small. You just like follow it up and throw it in there. So I've definitely done that. There may have been like a bra that I had brought and I eventually went looking for it and it was in there. Yeah, but mostly it was just all summer stuff that comes out this weekend, guys. When I'm traveling and I come back home, I clean out the entire luggage. Everything goes away. The one thing I do though is with the... I have two...

pieces of luggage and a suit bag. And all of them are toiletries that are just always set there. My old travel size is ready to go. And you'll leave that in? Right. So right now, I had to wait for Claire to get back to, you know, we're going through all the laundry and stuff like that. So today I can actually pack my clothing. But I have a list of what I'm bringing. And what do you think I'm going to bring? Shorts, of course. But also you have to make the decision what you're going to travel to the airport in.

Right. So but but I mean, yes, the notion of when I walk through that door, I go upstairs, I open up my bag on the bed and I clean it out. Steve, I'm the same. Not only do I clean it out, the clothes don't even go into the hamper. They go directly into the washer. So I will be done my wash the day I get home from wherever I'm traveling. When traveling, Kathy, do you put any of your dirty clothes next to your clean clothes? No.

if you're in a hotel for a week? I'll fold the dirty clothes and they go back into the suitcase. They don't go in a laundry bag? No, because everything in the suitcase is going to be dirty when I get home. So you unpack when you get to your room. You have everything out in drawers and whatnot. And then as you wear them, you fold it up and put it back into your suitcase. And that's the dirty...

hamper. It's a dirty luggage. You've used it all. I usually hang everything because I want the wrinkles to fall out. I don't unpack everything when I get to the hotel. Most of it stays in the bag and I will take it out as I wear it. I don't use the drawers. I don't think I ever use drawers. I will occasionally use hangers.

for stuff that needs to be hung. But yeah, I don't know why. There's something about the drawers that's like, I'm not moving into this place. I don't know. Yeah, I do. I like to. I like to put that stuff in. I like to use it. Hey, I'm paying for this whole room. I'm going to use every bit of it. Casey gave me... Casey buzzed in my balls one time. He's like, you're putting that stuff in there? I'm like, yeah, that's...

What it's here for. Don't you like to hang tapestries behind the bed? I do. Just like Best in Show. You really make it your own. Nick, I have certain compartments in my suitcase. So like where the clean underwear and clean socks will be. So I actually don't unpack those. And then once I wear them, there's another...

pocket and like it will come, you know, some suitcase will come with like a laundry bag and it'll go in that laundry bag and I lay that flat down. That's such a system. It is. It is a system. I'm surprised by the ick, Kathy. Like I thought like you wouldn't want your dirty clothes on.

on your like the fabric of your um suitcase she's she's saying though that she's you've expended all your laundry yeah there's nothing in there nothing is pristine so so with me i would i would say i'll sometimes it might be in a bag but it's all in the same the same in a separate plastic bag i should say but i mean yes and i take everything out of the bag and i kind of sit it

To let it air out a little bit. And it's not like, if it was like, I worked out and I had like a sweaty workout outfit, I wouldn't put that in there. I would let that dry out and put that in a bag. Or like wet bathing suits. You don't hang it off the balcony. You surprised me a little bit this morning, Kathy, because you said you're going to check a bag. And to me, a three or four day trip is not check bag length. You didn't finish the statement. Why am I checking a bag?

Because Steve's checking a bag. Right. If somebody else was not checking a bag, I would not be the only person to check a bag. But because Steve is, I'm going to comfortably pack everything in there. We're all going to be together. Might as well all go to the... Yeah. Yeah. If everybody had carry-on, then I'd shove my stuff in a carry-on. Right. Steve, you made a joke about my clothing being small. When I was in New Orleans, I literally... Because I only had a backpack, so everything was rolled up and very small in there. I just used the nightstand drawer. Did you really? Yeah. All of my clothes were on there.

Is there an American Girl doll store near here? I did get from you, though, your tip about having all of your toiletries just ready to go at all times. Yes. So I do have like a separate toothbrush because I used to always just bring my toothbrush and face cream. I got a small face cream. So it's just like grabbing

Ready to go. Stuff that won't... I mean, obviously, you're not going to leave prescription drugs and stuff in there. But I mean, even some of the more resilient vitamins that I take, I'll leave in there. So it's always ready to go. Is there anything surprising that you travel with that anybody brings that might be kind of like, oh, that's not a normal thing to take with you? Sometimes I bring my alarm clock with me because I don't like...

That's not normal. Right. I don't like using my phone for my alarm clock. I just recently went all phone, but I hear what you're saying. I always had a backup alarm clock, a travel alarm clock. For work trips. So I bring my alarm clock to Camp Out for Hunger because we stay in South Philly for that week, and I'll bring it this week for spring training because we got to get up at four in the morning. So yeah, I don't like relying on my phone. And by the way, let me ask you this. Does anyone...

Do they even have, with any reliability, wake-up calls at hotels? I don't know. I, just for the hell of it, tried a couple of times and had them be... Either they missed them, they're wildly off the time that I've asked. You can't trust them anymore. I don't like relying on it. Yeah. I think that's how we ended up at our broadcast in Jamaica an hour earlier than we needed to be there. Yeah. I think we got a wake-up call. Yeah, it was a bad wake-up call. I will bring with me...

outside of the regular items. Sometimes I'll bring booze with me. Pack the small bottles in case I want something in the room for a little nip later in the evening. What's your travel booze of choice? Some type of whiskey that I like. Flask or an actual bottle? The little bottles. Airplane bottles. Liquor stores sell those, right? Yeah. Why go to a liquor store? Yeah.

It's right in your suitcase. Right there, yeah. What they should do is have the suitcase and a little nozzle on it so you can just pick the suitcase up. Yeah, and drink right out of it. Daddy's thirsty. Back to the alarm clock. I will check the alarm clocks in the hotel room to make sure that they're not set because I've had a number of times somebody else's alarm go off.

I've never had that happen. If I can get behind the bed or whatever, I'll unplug it. I had the situation one time years ago where you can Bluetooth in your phone into the alarm clock. It's a big thing. They might have a Bose player there. Somehow, the person in the room next to me, their musical choices were coming through on my unit. I started buying snacks ahead of time.

Before the airport? Yeah, I think it kind of goes with like... Like a movie theater? Well, kind of. But I think it's like, you know, when I leave here and I'm flying to Denver and my flight is at like 12.30, 1 o'clock and I haven't eaten lunch yet. I probably haven't eaten anything for the whole day yet. And instead of going to the airport, getting my normal Chex Mix,

and that's like $6 or $7, I'll go to the supermarket ahead of time and I'll get like a little cheese pack and I'll get a little box of crackers and then I have like a little charcuterie board right there and that whole thing is like $6 itself. That's what you want to do. I was flying from Florida back and I said this was a couple years ago and I sent you guys a picture. I'm like, guess how much this costs. It was like a magazine and a little snack, you know, the cheese and meat snack thing and a drink or something like that. You don't have an M's? It was like $38.

It was ridiculous. But, you know, you're getting the finest cheese pack at M&M's in the world. Of course. So, by the way, we got a text from somebody who said they were still packed from this last August. Yes. Beat me. Here's a text that says...

What was it say? Yeah, my suitcase for my vacation to Florida in August is still packed. And then another text says that here's an odd thing they bring with them. I pack my diffuser and essential oils for nighttime. That's the one thing I... It's always part of the deal. I bring my Neomed. My Neomed rinse packets. And then when I get into town, I get a gallon of...

Just still water. Yeah. Okay. That's my thing. That's my jam. Oh, I'm tearing the town up tonight. Steve, have you ever had it delivered? Like use Amazon or something? No. You get it delivered right to the hotel. So it's waiting there. You know, I flirted with that notion of sending stuff that way. I know a lot of people who like to send stuff ahead of time and...

Yeah, we did that for our last summer vacation, and part of it was because we got married at West, so we had some stuff that we wanted to ship out. How effective was it? It was so effective. It was at the hotel when we got there, Steve, and it just, you know, whatever it is to check the bags, it's expensive, it's kind of annoying, and we were carrying a lot of stuff, or we were bringing a lot of stuff, and it just, it was easy, and you could just ship it right to the hotel. So what'd you order?

We just ordered... We shipped some of our stuff to the hotel from our house rather than pack it or check it because it saved some headache. And it was because, you know, Andrea was getting married and she had a whole bunch of, like, makeup and wedding dress and all that kind of stuff, so she wanted to ship some of those things out. The only thing I've done that way and...

Honestly, this is the name of the company. It's called Shipsticks. Yes. And it's for golf clubs. Yes. You mentioned this before. I use Shipsticks for golf clubs. It was good? Yeah. So things like that. You're skiing. You're bringing scuba gear or whatever. And you send it ahead. To me, that makes the most sense. It is...

I haven't done a lot of these things in forever, so I know there are services. There's probably like a Shipsticks for scuba equipment. Probably. What is the general most comprehensive service if you want to send stuff ahead on a trip? Would you go, would people say UPS? Would they say FedEx? Are there other companies? Oh.

That I'm unaware of that. Probably UPS. Right? I would think so. I've used one of those and it was not a great experience. It was around Christmas time. I was sending stuff out to Denver for the same reason. Was it called iffy ship? No.

I forget actually which one it was. It was a UPS or a FedEx, but it ended up not even getting there. So that's a problem. Yeah. To me, that's part of the whole arrangement is that it arrives at its destination. All right. I've got somebody who's got you guys beat. By the way, we're taking calls via Zoom. If you want to chime in, you can text the word Zoom to 39333. We're going to go to Kelly. Hi, Kelly. Good morning.

Hey, guys. How are you? Wonderful. Nice to see you. So Marissa has had her suitcase packed since September. You think you can beat that? You guys, I am horrible. I am literally horrible. And I'm only horrible because of the restaurant. I used to be very, very organized, more like Kathy. So I literally had a suitcase from three years ago. We went to Arkansas. Uh-huh.

And I have that in a room and that's open now. And I kind of take things and I just move them from suitcase to suitcase when we're going away. And I have my hole upstairs. It was so funny. One time my girlfriend came over and she couldn't get in the bathroom downstairs. She went upstairs and I said, how did you get in?

did you get in the bathroom? Someone's in the shower. She's like, oh, I went upstairs and I went through your storage room. I'm like, that's not a storage room. I was so embarrassed because it's literally full of suitcases. So what is the oldest collection of technically unpacked luggage that you have? Unpacked right now is from Christmas. Okay, it's not too bad. It's not too bad. And now the cardboard classic one has joined that one.

How long have you gone? What is your personal record for not unpacking? Well, these suitcases literally have been laying around since September of three years ago. This September will be four years. Wow, wow, wow. They're open. And sometimes when people come over, like if they have to go upstairs, like I'll shut them. So it just looks like space. I'll open and I'll close.

and I'll be like, okay, wait a minute. Where's the stuff that I went away with for the summer? And I'll grab that and I'll move it to this one and that one. And as far as like toiletries and all that, I always, always for years since I was younger have had a toiletry bag packed just in case I'm going to sleep somewhere. Yeah.

I always carried it with me. So I have learned to have that stuff always. Do you agree with the notion? So I have all any piece of luggage that I use with any frequency already has a preset bunch of toiletries in it. Travel size toiletries ready to go. Yeah, I'll just go in and I'll see what ones need to be replaced. Right, right. The ones that are dried up.

Yeah, like the toothpaste sometimes completely dries out. All right, Kelly. Thank you so much. Appreciate you checking in. Kelly, make sure you watch the video. You can see our You Who Sled, the Camelot Productions. I think it also comes from going to the shore a lot.

that you just kind of like leave the same suitcase pack. Like I get home Sunday or Monday and I open up the suitcase. And if I'm leaving on Friday, like I'm not going to unpack it. I'm just going to do the laundry, put it back in the suitcase and go back. When I was doing stand-up comedy and traveling all the time, you just never unpacked. You just cycled through a little bit. I mean, you just had your stuff ready to go. You were literally living out of a bag. I can't have the same stuff for the next weekend.

Yeah. Like I have so many clothes in my closet. I want to wear them. Right. So I'm not going to have the same clothes. Repeating would be. Yeah. Wouldn't make any sense to you. I also love when somewhere I'm traveling to has a washer and dryer. Not necessarily a hotel, but if you like do an Airbnb or you stay at a house and I go home and all my clothes are clean when I get there. You spread them away. Oh my God, that's amazing. That's the best. You know you're one of those recyclers.

When you end up wearing a t-shirt that says Nanu Nanu. It's like, how long has that been in the cycle? I just need one place, Kathy, while on vacation that has it. You know, and because like midway through the vacation or whatever, and we stayed in an Airbnb last summer and or Vrbo and they had a washer and dryer. And so it really reduces the amount of clothes that you have to pack.

Because you can just wash your clothes halfway through. Kathy, I think mine isn't so much recycling as it's like depleting. Like I pack one outfit that I really want to wear down the shore. And if I don't wear it one weekend, it just stays in there and it just stays over and over throughout the summer. It's on deck, right? Yeah, exactly. We got Becky who wants to jump in with a comment. So we'll go to her. Becky, good morning to you.

Good morning, guys. Sorry to bother you at work. That's all right. So you have somebody who has remained packed for a long time. Yes. My daughter, Emily, went on a cruise with a boyfriend when she was 21 years old. Packed all her dirty laundry in her suitcase, brought it home, put it in the basement by the washing machine.

That suitcase is still sitting there. How long? Emily is now 29 years old. It's been there for eight years? Yeah. Okay. How, okay. So does she live at home anymore? No, nope. She is married with the kids. Wow. And what, why has this, why has this suitcase remained untouched?

I honestly think of pure laziness. Pure laziness for eight years. At this point, either put it into a time capsule or wait for it to become self-aware. Because both are about to happen. I mean, I would just want to see after eight years what was in it. And the condition at this point. Oh, look at this.

Look at this. Lost was still on. I haven't. I have not opened it. It's sitting in the basement. I'm now divorced from her father. So it's still sitting in her basement. Okay. What if she hears? Here's Becky. Here's what you're going to do. Okay. In late November, I want you to put it in a box and I want you to wrap it with some nice Christmas paper and put a nice big bow on it.

And then you give it to her. That is a wonderful idea. Yeah, and then you film it. By then, it'll be, you know, it'll be the anniversary, whatever. She's probably forgotten about it. It's going to turn 30 in November. Perfect. So it'll be there nine years. You know what she'll do? She'll look at you and go, how did you know this is exactly the kind of luggage I like? All these clothes is exactly what I would have picked. You're amazing, Mom. I can remember her coming home from the cruise and be like,

Where's my bra? Like, I have that. And I'm like, I have no idea. Oh, my God. I bet you it's still in that damn suitcase. All right. Yeah. Your Christmas gift. Thank you, Becky. Yeah. Hand that right back to her. Oh, my God. That's great. Wow. Well, we are. Yeah, we're headed to the airport on Wednesday right after the show. And then we fly out.

Land in Clearwater. We get the evening to just kind of chill. And then the next morning, get up and we do the show from the ballpark. And we've got, as we get a little bit closer, we reveal who we're planning on having on the program, which is really cool. Then afterwards, go to the game, hang out that night, some stuff going on.

Friday, a live broadcast at Coco's Crush Bar in Clearwater. So many people. So many people from the area down there. It is an amazing, amazing thing. All right. Maybe this is a superstition thing because the Eagles won the Super Bowl because that suitcase was packed and I went on a Philly sports trips trip. Now we're going on another Philly sports trips trip with the same clothes, the same suitcase. Are you willing to commit? Please.

will I leave it packed until October when the Phillies are in the World Series? Hell yeah, no problem. That's easy. You got to do that. All right. Yeah, we're there with the Philly sports trips, obviously. So, all right. We are looking forward to that. But Marissa, we're very proud of you, sort of, for getting packed this early.

Before that. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We will be checking in with Casey live from Verona, Italy this morning in the 8 o'clock hour. So we'll come back. And, dude, I have a bizarre file story today that is going to blow you guys away. We'll have it next. So stay with us. We'll be back in a little while. MMR rocks. Full beat. Wherever she walks, she'll be there. And hailstorm. The power.

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Danielle Harris and more tickets are on sale now at monstermania.net. All right, this is wild video. I saw this this morning. A Virginia high school track and field star's attempt to get into first place during a race last Tuesday led an opponent to hit her with a baton.

This is horrifying.

class three state indoor championship record in the 55 meter race on Monday. And she was hoping to help her school when the four by 200 meter relay on Tuesday as well. However, the heat of competition got carried too far by one opponent. The as clear video evidence of the race shows Tucker getting struck in the head by a baton wielding runner from Norcom who also threw it at Tucker after being passed.

Tucker immediately ran off the track and fell down, and she was holding her head afterwards. She said, on the back curve, I kind of got cut off. I tried to pass her the first time, so I let her go ahead. And I knew when I got fully on the curve that I was just going to have to push past her. And so we were coming up in the middle of the curve, and we were bumping arms a lot. So I got a little more on the outside of the curve to go around her. When I finally pushed through to get in front of her, that's when she hit me in the head with the baton.

And bumping during races is very normal on the track. But now how Tucker's opponent reacted at that moment during the second leg of the race, they're questioning. So the whole section just gasped, her mom said, about those around her in the bleachers. She said, when I saw her go down, all I could do was run out of the bleachers. I knew I had to get to her. Race judges immediately disqualified the Norcom team of contact interference. As of Friday, they still haven't heard from the runner or their coaches. Yeah, you'd think somebody would make...

reach out a little bit. Listen, this is illegal in this particular sport. Doesn't mean I would not pay to see a sport where you were. She still had concussion symptoms. She's got headaches and there was also swelling around the area that she was struck and a possible skull fracture. Some serious stuff. She's going to have to stay off the track until she recovers. There's an investigation going on but nobody has really said anything yet which is ridiculous. Bizarre.

When biologist Stephanie Stack first saw photographs of two humpback whales mating in the warm waters off Hawaii, she said her mind was completely blown. She said, when I realized that it was two males, it was not what I was expecting. And I thought, oh my gosh, this is incredible. So this is the first time humpback whale sex has been documented ever. So she co-authored a paper about the rare sighting in the journal Marine Mammal Science.

The findings are just the latest in a growing body of evidence that same-sex sexual interactions are widespread in the animal kingdom. I guess I've had these feelings since I was five. But one researcher cautioned against making broad assumptions about humpbacks based on a single documented instance, especially because one of the whales appeared to be in poor health.

The photos were taken in January 2022 just west of Maui. The two humpbacks approached a boat and then began mating a few meters beneath the vessel. So is this a medicinal hump? I don't know. Lyle Cranichfield and Brandy Romano, both professional photographers, had to be there to capture the moment. But sure enough, the photo they sent showed two humpbacks mid-coitus, one clearly penetrating the other. Wow.

Now, Vincent Savalinen, a biologist at Imperial College of London, said last year he had authored a study that showed more than 1,500 species of animals have displayed some degree of same-sex sexual behavior, including fish, frogs, birds, and primates.

And they said, I hope that this research will help destigmatize homosexuality and bisexuality and acknowledge sexual diversity in nature and society. But these were two male whales that were getting it on. And they had never had humpback whale sex ever videoed. Hump is in the name. It's in the name. There's going to be a...

First step taken, it's going to be by the humpback whale. All right. So I couldn't wait to share this one with you guys. Here we go. So doctors were shocked to discover maggots crawling inside a man's penis and bladder. Whoa! God damn.

The 76-year-old patient went to the hospital in Nepal complaining of a bloody discharge oozing from his penis. Two years earlier, he had been diagnosed with an enlarged prostate, which is a common condition. Dad, can I talk to you for a minute?

When the prostate becomes enlarged. I have maggots in my penis. It can press against the bladder and urethra, making it difficult to pee. Now, doctors said the blockage was severe enough that he needed a catheter inserted to help him pass urine normally. I had maggots in my penis. I was told to talk to my doctor. When the medics examined him, they found live maggots burrowing into an open wound near his urethra. Oh, my God.

No. Now, is that, oh my God, that's so hot or oh my God, that's disgusting. Doctors don't specify how the maggots reached his penis. However, they noted that flies are attracted to foul smelling discharges from body openings where they lay their eggs. These eggs then hatch into maggots.

And so even more disturbing, some baby maggots called larvae were spotted wriggling through his urethra, raising fears that they had made their way to his bladder. Baby maggots are adorable. A cystocopy, a cystocopy.

A cystoscopy where a doctor uses a camera to examine the urinary tract confirmed there were suspicions that tiny parasites had invaded his bladder. I think at that point I'd opt for a chop my dong orthoctomy. The condition known as urogenital myasis happened when flies lay eggs in open cuts or moist areas. And it's commonly happening to patients with poor hygiene or mobility issues.

The man who had suffered a stroke and was dependent on his wife to keep him clean was an easy target. Doctors immediately set to work using turpentine oil to force the maggots to the surface before manually removing them. I couldn't wait to share this with us. I could not wait. I'm like sick right now. His bladder was flushed with saline solution and he was given a dose of ivermectin, which is a drug used to kill parasites. There we go. Good to go. An 11-day hospital saved the patient with discharge with a clean bill of health.

A follow-up cystoscopy confirmed no remaining larva, and he later underwent circumcision to reduce the risk of further infection. So I wonder if he was experiencing any pain while the baby larvae were burrowing into his bladder. Oh, no, didn't say in the story. I can't imagine that it tickled. It was fun. All right, and there you go. That's what I have. That feels really good. In the bizarre file for you. I hope you guys loved that. Kathy loves it. She won. I love it.

Make it a personal note to listen to it back on the podcast. I always have you in mind when I put these stories together. Steve, did you know there's a Bizarre File podcast that you can download every single day? Just the Bizarre Files. We are going to take a break. When we come back, we are scheduled to chat with Casey Boy, who is in Italy this morning. He's there for a few days, and he will be joining us. He'll be going straight from there to Clearwater. So we'll come back in a second. We'll see if we can hook up with him. Stay put.

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Is that where the mansion people live? Mansion people live. You know, every time she says Cuthbert, I can't help but think of Bill Weston. Yes. Your father's name is Cullen. For some reason, he got it in his mind that his name was Cuthbert. Cuthbert. It would always be. How's Cuthbert doing? I'm like, I don't know because I don't know anyone named Cuthbert, but nonetheless. All right. So I believe, are we set up? Can we do this? We're going to try to, we're going to go across the Atlantic, folks. Yes.

And we're going to check in with a young man who has taken his first trip to Italy. Casey Boy is not here in the studio. No, he is actually in Verona, Italy as we speak. So let's see if we get him. Case, can you hear me? Hey.

All right, Case, so stop moving around. I saw him walking around, and sometimes when you're walking around with video, it can kind of cause the bit rate to... Yeah, he appears to be in a stairwell, too. Maybe get out of that. Yeah, I don't know, but he's got his... He's inside and has his sunglasses on, so I don't know what's going on there. What a douchebag. He's afraid he's going to get recognized. All right, Case, can you hear me? Hi. Hey!

Hey! We got you. We lost you there for a moment. You were completely frozen. Ciao, man! Ciao. All right. So, what's up, dude? All right. So...

I'm starting to get sick, so that's great. Are you kidding? No. I was supposed to be doing this from the Dolomites skiing, but three days ago, my knee decided to just hurt for no reason. So I'm not skiing. Everybody else is on a wine tour. So I'm all by myself in Verona, Italy right now, trying to get you a good little shot of

Of the mountains behind me. But now I'm just kind of walking. I'm going to go get myself an espresso. Walk in the streets of a run to Italy right now. But we're here with my son's

Oh, we lost your audio. I see your lips moving, but I'm hearing nothing, Case. Can you hear me? No, he can't hear me either because he's continuing. He's giving us a full... Oh, wait. There we go. Really great rugby match yesterday against their local club. We can hear you now. You know, maybe if you stop moving a little bit. Stay in one place, if you could, please. Stop walking. Stop walking and listen to me. Stop walking and listen.

There we go. That's better. You're in front of a Vespa dealer, it looks like. I know. That's the way I want it to be. All right. So anyhow, there was a rugby match yesterday. St. Joe's Prep is where your son goes to school, and that's why you guys are there, right?

Yes, sir. Yes, we played against it. And it was like two hours from where we're at right now, a place called Imola, Italy. And all right. So think about like when you go to like your kids soccer match, you're tapping your kids hockey game, right? You got your concession stand. What do they sell? French fries, hot dogs, you know, snacks or whatever. OK, you know, they have and I kid you not.

wine, polenta. It was just so wild. Literally, there was a tent where you could just go get glasses of wine or get beer or whatever. You know what I like about your impression? It's the little things. Yeah, I'm

Yes, I know what you're saying, Vincent. I noticed that when I was in Greece, I got like a Greek salad, which I don't know if they call it that over there, but they call it salad. They probably just call it salad, yeah. The tomatoes at like the Port Authority before I got on a boat were better than any tomato I've ever had in America. And that was just like the equivalent of Aramark. So when in Greece, visit the Port Authority. Exactly. Yeah, that's what they

The food everywhere is just so good. What did you have, Case? Listen, I was going to get the spaghetti. I was going to get the spaghetti with the meat sauce. But then I saw one of the coaches who was eating the paleta. I was like, I got to go for that. So I ended up getting the paleta ragu. It had a little meat on it and a little cheese on it. The mozzarella here is like...

It's better than any Montreal I've ever had. Well, of course. All right, so let's back up a little bit. You got in on Friday, right? Yeah, so I left Philadelphia, where technically Newark, Thursday, Friday at 5.40. This is a funny thing. Landed in Newark, just a direct flight to Milan, and then I had to get from Milan to Verona. And there's a transit strike.

So I was worried about how the train... But if I would have taken an Uber or something like that, it would have cost like 400 bucks. Oh my God. So I'm like, all right, I'm going to take my chances with the train stuff, right? And this is exactly what happened to me in France when I landed in Paris at one time. I get to the train station and I was like, oh, everything's in Italian. I'm like, I can't... I don't know where I'm going. So guys, I just like...

Hopped on a train, hoping that it was headed in the right direction. Really? Yes. Yes, I did. I mean, it took me a little, right? It took me probably about like 20 minutes of like looking at transit maps and like, you know, but I couldn't see where I was headed. Like, you know, so I just hopped on the train. I'm like, I think I'm headed in the right direction. I think I know where I'm going. All right. Was there... I hopped on the train.

Go ahead. Sorry. No, I'm just going to – we talked before you left, and you were wondering what the frequency of people speaking English would be there. And I said I've – everyone I know who travels a lot says it's fairly common now to encounter English. Did you find that, or was it difficult? No. No. I mean, everybody looks American. Yeah.

I thought everybody would be wearing like an Italian flag shirt or something like that. No, so I did find a guy who spoke a little bit of English, kind of pointed me in the right direction. So I hop on a train that was headed for Milano Centrale. And so I get in there and I'm looking at my maps, you know, and I'm following my little blue dot, just praying that it's going...

towards Verona and you know as it turns out I got on the right train guys yes I did but then I had to get off at Milano Centrale and hop on another train to Verona and actually that exchange wasn't as scary as the first one was but like I ended up getting here at like noon on Saturday and I just had to like tough it out and

You know, like I went all the way to about midnight that night and then I got up yesterday. Oh, to counter the jet lag thing. So, Casey, question on that train. At what point did you realize how far into did you realize you were headed into the right direction?

took a long time press it took about uh 20 to half an hour yeah like i even if i was on the wrong train i didn't care because i'm like it's all part of the adventure you know what i mean like something like that just only makes the story better yeah you know and also like i was the only person you know what i mean like i wasn't with anybody that i had to like

piss off or disappoint or something like that. So, you know, if I was only doing that all by myself, it really wasn't that big of a deal. That's a great attitude. I mean, travel in and of itself is an adventure. Casey, I don't really know much about Verona except that it's where Romeo and Juliet took place. What have you experienced so far in that city?

Apparently, this is where it was

It was basically like the minor league. Right. You know, the gladiator stuff. So, you know, people would cut their teeth here. And then the Juliet thing is it's all in that town center. And I'm headed in that direction right now. I'm kind of all by myself right now because I didn't do skiing and I'm not doing the wine tour. So, yeah.

kind of on my own. So I didn't see the Juliet thing. I'm actually going to go do that in a little bit. So your knee hurts and you're feeling under the weather. What do you have? You have like sneezing, congestion. What's going on? I got a sore throat. All right. You got to take care. Now, you're wearing a hoodie, kind of a thicker hoodie. What is the weather like there? It looks beautifully sunny. It is beautifully sunny. We're looking at, it's 57 degrees right now. All right.

I want to see how much these vests cost and see if it's like maybe cost effective for me to buy one here. Yes. Right at home. If it ever... Right into Greenland. Yeah. What are the prices in general like? Dude, crazy. It's like...

Uh, you know, listen, I don't know, like the Euro, you know, like, uh, the Euro is, uh, it's pretty close to the dollar. It's fairly close. It's a dollar 15, you know, so one Euro is a dollar 15, but like you're getting glasses of wine for $3, you know, uh, my wife and I had dinner last night. Um, like our full dinner, I was like 40 bucks, you know, sit down really nice.

Italian restaurant. So they have Italian restaurants. Let me ask you this. The team, how's the team doing so far?

So listen, uh, I coming over to Europe where rugby is a little bit more popular. I mean, listen, we went to this rugby stadium where, uh, like we don't have, I mean, we have rugby clubs, uh, in, uh, in the States, but like, it's just more popular in Europe. Uh, I was expecting us to get smoked and we, we, we smoked these guys. We've been 38 to 12. Wow. We had three different, yeah, we, we put three different teams in, uh, you know, my son played on the first game, uh,

shut him out, second team. We did really well. I was very, very happy. But from what I hear, there's another... You just do it. How do you say litter in Italian? I'll get it. Sorry. People just walk by and say litter and then I just made eye contact with the lady and I'm like, okay.

What was I saying? It was about the stadium, the games, the rugby. It's all going well. The next match we play is on Wednesday. I'm actually not going to be able to be there. I'll be flying back to see you guys. From what I hear, the team that we played yesterday is probably the worst of the crew. It'll be interesting to see how they fare against... We're moving to Padua.

And then we play there on Wednesday. And then I think we're playing somewhere in Venice on Friday. Casey, I traveled with you to Florida many times over the years. And your goal over those many years was to see an alligator. Obviously, this was a fantasy of yours. And you eventually got to live that dream last year when we were in Clearwater.

What are you hoping to cross off your list to see while you're in Italy? Is there anything? You know what, man? I have like no expectations. Like all I wanted, I wanted good pasta. You know, and apparently they love it al dente over here. Yeah. Kat, you've been in Italy before, right? Was that your experience with the pasta? They love it al dente? Yeah, yes, absolutely. It's better for your belly. Yeah.

What's that? It's better for your belly. It digests better when it's al dente.

Oh, I'm not worried about my belly. I'm worried about my mouth. I want my mouth. So, yeah, so I was a little bit disappointed in that because I don't like al dente. But, like, all I wanted was some good spaghettis. I wanted some good pizzas. And I had a really good pizza last night. I wanted some good gelato. Preston, we went to this gelato place, and they basically had, like, the ice cream sandwich that you and I had in Epcot. Yeah.

That's what I got. I got this gelato and a brioche bun ice cream sandwich. Phenomenal. That sounds excellent. Yeah. Yeah. No, but like, I don't know, man. I'm just kind of like playing this one by ear. I didn't really. You're just chilling. You're just chilling in Verona. That's that's pretty damn cool.

Casey, when Nick was looking up the sites to see, I was looking up the food to eat in Verona. And their dishes are a risotto. There's a gnocchi. That should be cooked to your perfection that you like. There's a boiled meat with a para sauce, which sounds good. It's breadcrumbs, pepper, cheese, and broth. But how about this? A pasta dada de cavall, which is horse meat.

Would you try it? No, no. So my friend Ronnie ate horse meat two nights ago. Because they eat horse and they eat donkey. I'm not going to eat horse and I'm not going to eat donkey. I'm not that kind of guy. No, we knew that about you. You didn't even need to tell us that you were not the kind of guy who would eat a horse or a donkey.

Yeah, but also, Marissa, you said boiled meat. I was like, you know, that's just two words together. Boiled meat. No, thank you. So in Verona, their case, any any American restaurants, any any American presence? Oh, right around the corner. There is a McDonald's in Preston. I wanted to go see if it is indeed called a Royale, which is right. Right.

There was actually, where I'm headed in a little bit, yeah, there's some KFC, you know, just that sort of stuff. But also, like, you were asking about prices. There...

I didn't do a whole lot of shopping, but I did walk into one of the local soccer clubs. Almost like a rectum team store. And it was insane how cheap everything was. The sneakers that here, or I'm sorry, where you guys are, cost like $100. They were like $50. Wow. Yeah, my friend got this really nice jacket. Normally it would cost, I would say, $120. She got it for $50. You know, it's like...

Or 50 euro, but, you know... Did you save some room in your luggage to bring back some goodies? Yeah, yeah. It's funny, man, because when I was weighing my son and my wife's suitcases, like...

My suitcase weighs 10 pounds less than both of theirs. And I'm going on two different vacations back and forth. Yeah. Vacations. But, yeah. So I definitely have room. And especially because I was going to bring my snowsuit to go skiing in the Dolomites. But since I didn't have to pack that or any of my ski gear, like I have so much stuff left over. You're going to try to catch any entertainment or anything? I mean, you're there for a few days. You got there on Friday. Yeah.

Yeah, no, I mean, for the most part, I'm just kind of like doing what everybody else is doing. Just chilling out in front of the Vespa store. Well, right around the corner from the Vespa store, and by the way, this is on Vittorio Zenotto, I don't know, is where I'm going to get my espresso. Okay. How was your flight? Pretty uneventful or anything interesting? Uneventful, man. All right. I slept for like four hours. That's the best. I think it was like a...

Yeah, seven hour flight. Had, you know, nice people sitting next to me. But,

But, like, yeah. I mean, I wish I had stories for you guys. But, like, really, the only story I have is that when I hopped on that train, once I got into Italy, you know, just going, all right, I'm just going to start going in whatever direction this train takes me. Hey, Italy has a Matterhorn, too. Dude, okay. So, when we finally got over the Alps, that's when the sun came up, right? You know, because we flew at night. Wow. You know, so...

I'm flying over the Alps, and, Preston, you and I were talking about how we love on the back of the seat on international flights. It kind of gives you... Your location. Yeah, it shows you a map location of where you are. So I knew exactly what I was flying over, and I knew exactly how high up we were. And at this point, we were at 37,000 feet. And the Alps were, like, right underneath me. I couldn't believe how close they were to me. Wow. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. Nick would probably know, like, how...

How high up are those mountains? Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. I think the Matterhorn's like 12 or 14, something like that. But yeah, it's really cool that you're getting views of them. And I've heard that the Dolomites are just absolutely beautiful. And how far away are they from where you are right now in Verona? Two hours. Okay. Two hours. Yeah, so there's no chance of me getting there right now. No. Casey, you're heading to get an espresso. Have you gotten one at a cafe yet in Italy, like by yourself? No.

Marissa, it's the first thing I did. I dropped my bags. Oh, that was another funny thing. I dropped my bags in the room and then I immediately went and got two espressos. But when I got to the room, you have to put your... All the lights were out, right? And the light switches weren't working. I was like, what the...

freaking going on here? The key? You have to put your key in the slot in order for your electricity to work. They're better at conserving energy than we are. No, it's pretty good stuff. Listen, they also do a lot of things stupid here too. Let them know that.

No, I will. And I did yesterday when I was ordering my spaghetti at the snack stand. This is stupid. This is so dumb. No, because when you were ordering your food at the snack stand, you had to like order, pay, and then they hand you a slip. And then you got to go to a whole different thing to go. And then you hand them the slip. I don't know. Well, maybe it is smarter. So the people that are handling the food aren't handling money. I don't know. Well, the...

The reason I asked you about the espresso is because that is a whole experience. It's not like we know where you like run into Dunkin, grab a coffee and walk with it. You sit there and you have your coffee at the counter or you sit down. Like coffee is at least a 30 to 40 minute experience when you're in Italy. So you just you stop what you're doing and you drink there. I don't even know if they have to go cups.

Well, no, they do. At least at the hotel they do. But that's what I wanted. And what was so great about this place is it just felt very like I was like, okay, I'm here. Exactly. You know what? I had anticipated. Yeah, there's just a person pointing out a person walking away from him, okay? What? It's a real Italian guy. Oh my God, it's a real Italian guy.

I get so easily distracted it doesn't really take much time. Get him on the phone. Yeah, you want to go do an interview? Yeah, go do an interview. Everybody smokes here, by the way. Still? Yes, still. Wow. Well, is it because things are different there? There's no preservatives in the food. No preservatives in the cigarettes. The cigarettes are a little quote-unquote healthier. Yeah.

I think they do it because it's cool. Yeah, right. They want to be the cool country. Case, I wanted to ask about the picture you sent of the first guy you saw when you got into Italy.

I mean, so I'm walking out of the train station. I'm in Verona, Italy. I'm looking for the taxi cab stand. And I look over, and the first guy I look at is wearing... At first, I didn't know what the sweatshirt said. I thought it was something like an Italian artist. I didn't know. But I was like, that looks familiar. And then I'm zooming in.

He was wearing a Rocky sweatshirt. Who is Rokey, guys? He's the Italian Stallion, for crying out loud. He is. So now I'm wondering, so I actually had to get a little bit closer. I was like, okay, is this guy American? You know what I mean? So kind of like, it took a little while for me to take the picture because I wanted to listen in on him. But no, the dude was Italian. He was speaking Italian, so he wasn't like some Philadelphia guy, you know.

wearing his Philadelphia attire. But, like, dude, he was wearing, it was the Rocky at the top of the art museum steps, arms in the air raised sweatshirt. That's great. All right, so you're wearing a fish sweatshirt. Are you doing that to see if maybe you'll encounter some international fish fans? No. I'm doing this because it was on the top of the pile. Okay. And I just needed to bring a sweatshirt. Do you think you'll find an international and Italian fish fan? Yeah.

I hope so. I did bring a little bit of fish gear with me. And, Press, there is a song by a fish called You Enjoy Myself. And it is actually titled that because of Trey's experience in Italy. Yeah, so he was busking the streets with John Fishman one summer in Italy. And they ended up becoming friends with this Italian guy who, you know, they...

We were having a really, really great time and they were laughing. And the guy says, you know, when I'm with you, you enjoy myself. And so that's where the name of that song came from. And then the lyrics from that song is actually Italian. They say, watch who sees me, drive me to Varenze. So you can translate that for me, but that's Italian. So I did...

I guess, yeah, I guess maybe I did wear this just to... Okay. Yeah, you're holding up the fish fandom internationally. That makes sense. Getting the word out. Do you have any standard Italian phrases at the ready should you need them?

Dude, I'm the worst. Gracias. Dude, like, ciao, Bella. Lasagna? Lasagna. I can say lasagna. If somebody says gracias to you, what's the response? Prego. Prego. Yeah. Prego. So you got a couple things. Yeah.

So here I am. Everybody that is not skiing, they're on this wine tour right now. And then they're going to go meet at Lake Garda. And so I will eventually end up at Lake Garda. You guys want to look up pictures of that place? It is gorgeous. I know we all know about Lake Como. But this place is, when I passed it on the train, I was like, holy smokes. Wow. I don't think it's there.

And as it turns out, I'm headed there in a little bit. Nice. Excellent. So you've got, is there any more rugby taking place over the next couple days? Yeah, but I'm not going to see it. Oh, so what we did last night is, and I really like this, so it's, we had a draft last night. You know, think of like a fantasy football or whatever. So it's a pair draft. And then so tomorrow night when we end up in Padova,

we're going to go out to dinner. And so me and my wife, this guy Greg and Lucia and then another guy Joe, we're a team. And what we do is you draft players to take out the dinner. But the rule is you can't draft your own son. So it's kind of a way to get the no team a little bit. So we had our player draft last night.

And then tomorrow when we end up in the new city, we'll take those kids out to dinner and get to know them and stuff. That's cool. Yeah, Wednesday, I'm like, first thing, I'm not even going to see daylight in Italy on Wednesday at all. I'm hopping on a plane and headed to Tampa. So that's when they play their next match. So they got two more days of matches.

But like, what an amazing experience for these young kids. What an experience for you. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of like whirlwind and, you know, I don't like, I hope I'm not taking all this stuff, you know, for granted. You know what I mean? And I really hope my son isn't taking it for granted because like, this is,

You know, something like this. Yeah. You know, 15, 17 years old. It's very special. Yeah, it is very special. At that age. Most definitely. Nice. Well, that's cool. I'm glad things are going, you know, smoothly so far and you're enjoying it and you haven't had any real snafus or anything like that. No. Yeah, we're looking forward to meeting up with you in Florida, man.

I know, man. I am looking forward to that. Like, that's the other cool part of this whole experience is like, you know, I almost feel like, you know, I'm like a jet setter. You are. Totally. You're like James Bond. Yeah. In front of the Vespa store. Just a couple...

Yeah, but just in a couple of days, I'm going to be hanging with you guys beachside in the ballpark, you know, and having a whole different set of experiences. I'm looking forward to that. You're seeing pieces of history. You're seeing one of the oldest coliseums in the world, and then you're also going to see the first Hooters in the United States. Oh, man. So there you go. Wow, that juxtaposition right there. Wow. Wow. Yeah.

All right, man. Well, listen, enjoy your time while you're there, and we'll meet up and we'll do our thing on Wednesday and then broadcast live on Thursday.

Yes, sir. And because we're doing this Zoom, I officially don't have to call this a vacation. This is work. Most definitely. All right, buddy. All right. We will talk. No, no, no. Arrivederci. Arrivederci. Merci. All right. There he goes. Casey, our man. Arigato. Arigato.

He is in Italy as we speak, Verona, Italy. And Nick pulled up the lake he was talking about. Holy crap. My goodness. Yeah. I had never heard of that before. Me neither. And the pictures that you were showing of that castle or whatever it is. Yeah, Lake Garda is the name of the lake, the case you referred to. And Steve, it looks like they could film any type of medieval movie there because it's just unbelievably gorgeous. And there's literally a castle on the lake that looks like...

I don't know. It's just unbelievably gorgeous. So you were Venice, you said, Preston Mosley? Venice, yes. Venice, yeah. Yeah, we did. That was it. That's the only part of Italy that we visited. And that was amazing because it's such a unique city and the water and everything like that. Is that where you were robbed? But no, no, that was in Nice, in France. But it's interesting, Casey, you mentioned about people speaking English in Europe. Yeah.

When I took that European trip, we went to Germany, Italy, Austria, and where else did we go? And France. But...

I found that in Italy, we had the most difficulty with the language. Is that right? As far as language, because Germany, everybody spoke English. Right, yes. Austria, same thing. And France was a little more difficult. But Italy was where we ran into some communication problems. Where did you say you went in Italy? Venice. Venice.

Oh, which is like I was going to say, maybe you were in like a smaller area. Did you find it? No, not at all. I remember the only place where they didn't speak English was at a gelato shop. And I was trying to order the chocolate and...

When you speak Spanish in Spain, it's not like Mexico. And like in schools, you learned Mexico, you know, so they didn't understand what I was saying. And but other than that, no, I and that's why I was so comfortable going there was because of the I knew that I could get around if I needed. And it's one of the reasons I've never been to France because I don't speak one word of French. So like if anything happened.

I would be screwed. But with translator apps now, they're so easy to use. And you can go with the world's languages on your phone. Just make sure. And you can download them. What if I don't have cell service? I mean, some people might find that difficult.

I understand that some people might consider it rude, but you're trying to translate through a device. Yeah, if you really need to communicate. Yeah, you need to communicate. It's how I talk to the guys who did the kitchen in my house. Oh, really? On the app. Because we would try to, like, converse, and then I'd be like, hold on, and I'd put it down, and I'd show it to them, and they'd be like, ah.

He knows exactly what you're talking about. So I had the same experience in Italy and Portugal. Brazil was a little tough. Not as many people speak English there. But Matt and I were in Quebec. And we were getting around, no problem. Everybody spoke English until we get to one restaurant. And people didn't have no English whatsoever, we thought. And then we started making friends with the servers and trying our best. Like, as long as you try. And then suddenly they were fluid.

It was like they didn't want to see it. In English? Yeah. Sometimes they're reticent, too. They want you to make the effort, which I can understand to some level. But I mean, if it translates into business, you know, relax a little bit. Yeah, exactly. But it sounds like he's having a good time. It does. Yeah. It sucks that he's sick, man, though. Some people, I think he's one of them. Whenever they get aboard a plane, they get sick. Yeah. And it's funny that he feels like a jet setter because...

Only one or two times have I flown to a destination and then flown to another destination that was not home. And you really do feel like you're jet-setting around the world. I went from Myrtle Beach to Chicago. And I felt I was a big traveler. I went from Philly to Myrtle Beach to Chicago and then back to Philly. Look at me. Most of my... No, I'll need an open-ended ticket, please. You must be a spy. Um...

Yeah, but again, going back to the stand-up days, that'd be very constant where you'd be daisy-chaining flights. Now I'm flying like puddled Allegheny Airlines, but they don't refer to you as Mr. Bond. But yeah, there is something cool about it. It wears you down quickly, though. Oh, yeah. If there was nothing else in life to stress about, I'd be okay, but it's too much. How wiped out is he going to be when he's going straight from there to work?

It's not like he's going to come home and get a couple of days to re-acclimate. He will now have been in Europe for, what, five days? Yeah, five or six days. And then he comes back and goes back to our schedule of getting up in the morning. But I think it's easier to come back.

That's the word. Than it is to go there. Maybe. He attempted to equalize. You can hear him say he said that he attempted to do this, stayed up. But then also, he's coming back to daylight savings. I don't know. Totally. Let's see how he's going to be. I'm going to be feeling it in the next day or two. Did you feel the one hour? Not this morning. But I know tomorrow. Right. I'm usually pretty good. And then right after that, then it nails me. We know...

Statistically, Dr. Mike has talked about it. The occurrence of heart attacks and strokes increases. Yeah, your circadian rhythm gets interrupted and that's important. Maybe before we die, it'll go away. Honestly, it's so intubated. It's so stupid. I hate it so much. I've ranted on it plenty of times on the air. I'm not going to do it again. I just feel like...

we need to get past it. There's no point in having it anymore. There's a good chunk, I think, what are we looking at? Like 52% or 40? It's almost neck and neck at this point where people are like, eh. No, no, it's a lot more. There are far more Americans. It's one of the only things that unifies Americans these days. It's like 65% to 70% of the people agree that it should go away. And people, I think, Steve, disagree on whether it should be daylight saving or daylight standard time.

But the hour switch, it's not necessary. I don't know what I just saw, but it's a survey that seems to suggest, and it might be a nuance of it, that there's more of an even split than there's been in a long time. But I think the people that are not on the yes, it needs to change, or at least I can only speak for myself, are kind of like, yeah, sure. I don't care. Whatever, man. It's not going to change me too much. And I'm kind of either way. Both, you know, it doesn't matter. But I mean, I do...

Who doesn't want to get an extra hour of sleep as opposed to losing an hour of sleep? But by the time we're at Coco's, I think old Casey boy is going to be wiped out from that. So we'll see how he holds up. All right. Well, it was nice checking with him. Uh, he is, uh, obviously out tomorrow and the next day and we will, um,

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And it's been around a lot longer than that. And it is closing. Freddie Hill Farms and Freddie's Family Fun Center are closing at the end of the 2025 season. So I've never been, but I feel like I've been because you've mentioned it a number of times over the years. Like a destination. Yeah, it was always part of my fall activities list. That was one of the places we went to. Our school district, that's where the kids did their field trip in the spring and fall. They would, you know...

when they were younger in elementary school, that's where they would go. So yeah, it's like so sad that it's closing. These places are closing down. These little...

nostalgic, beloved places. And this is another one on the pile. It sucks. Two of my best friends live right up the road from Ed Preston, you know, where they live right off of 70 town Pike. And, um, and so we could go, we could walk to Freddie Hill from their house, um, which bums me out. And I think it's gonna, uh, last through the season, right? And then close to the end of the season. it'll wrap up at the end of the season. But we had, uh, two birthday parties for Ben there, um, and Steve, like his mini golf and, uh, the,

badass ice cream, fantastic ice cream, but batting cages, it was a cool... Petting zoo, driving range, miniature golf, batting cages, like you said, they also had a little pro shop there, you could take lessons and stuff. So what was the... Two different miniature golf courses, which it was always like

trying to get the kids to figure out which one we were going to play. We're going to go right. I liked going left. I did too. Now, however, on the right, you had a cave in that one, which was pretty amazing. That cave was hilarious. You could pretend to hide in that cave. Yes, you could.

But you were going to ask what the reasoning behind this, Steve? Yeah. Here's the statement from Freddie Hills. It said,

And they said, it is bittersweet. It's a bittersweet reality that all good things must come to an end. Our family is deeply grateful for your support over the last 53 years and for the support and the opportunity to serve our community and our customers. We've enjoyed sharing this fun place with our family and friends, and we hope that you have fond memories as well. Please join us.

for your favorite ice cream treats and fun center activities this coming season. With something like this, do you think they should do what they did on the little house on the prairie? Blow it up? Just blow it up. Just destroy it with TNT. What's interesting is that we only, now we've been doing miniature golf there for years and all the other things, but only one year did we go and do a pumpkin party.

um, picking, uh, excursion because they have, you know, hayrides and things like that. Here's what I didn't know. It's 94 acres. Wow. The whole parcel itself is 94 acres. Yeah. We did the hayride one time and it just keeps going and going. It's like, uh, so it, where the, um, golf courses are present. It's to the right. It's, it's closer to the Northeast eccentric there. And you like, uh,

You can wander through the maze and through the corn area. There's a little ramp that you can get up to to get onto the back of the tractors. It's really fun. I'm going to miss it. There's a place... I love those places. And obviously, like, you know, Linvilla and all those kind of places, these establishments that are part of the history...

Any idea as to what the land is going to be used for? No idea. The land is not protected farmland, according to this release. So they may sell it and develop and build on it. One of the most interesting things I found about Freddie Hill was, and I don't think it was...

I think they closed it eventually. And it's an active dairy farm, which is why they make ice cream there. But they had this room that you could go into. And I've never seen anything like it, Steve. And it's where the cows were being milked by the apparatus. Oh, the machine, yeah. And it was this circular room.

with this moving platform that moved around in a circle and the cows were on it and they had their udders hooked up to these machines and you could watch them being milked. It was the strangest thing I'd ever seen. It was almost like the champagne room.

Yeah, like, what am I doing here? But I mean, I always found that when we were kids and we would go on field trips to things like that, going to the dairy farm and seeing that was, there used to be a place actually was pretty close to most of the schools that I went to school at. And it was, nobody didn't like going to these places. Somebody says, we got a text here, it says, Preston and Steve Farms, you guys should buy it. Absolutely. Oh my God, I love a farm.

This text also says, my wife and I got naughty in that cave. Fun times. Really? How big is this cave that you can get naughty? It's not very big, no. So they had to be standing up? I remember my favorite...

I mean, we did go to farms and stuff like that, but our favorite trip or mine was the zoo. We would go to the Philly Zoo. If you were in the photography department in high school, you got to go to the Philly Zoo and take pictures. And that was like the best trip. Well, when we were, I mean, if you're talking about these places were always home runs because they're not really, you know, if you're going on an educational field trip, that can get dicey because who wants to learn? You want to go and have fun. But I do remember we would go to the Museum of Natural History. Yeah.

That was pretty amazing. The Bronx Zoo in New York. And then the Hall of Science, which was another one. But one that I dug that everyone else hated was the fish hatchery. Where they had, you know... Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was cool. But my classmates... I would have thought that was cool. Yeah. Look at their hat.

doing fish. Oh, God. We went to the wastewater treatment plant. That was a college field trip. Yeah. We had to go. An environmental thing? Yeah. Yeah. You got to love that. Humans and the environment was the class. Wait. I can't remember. Do we talk about this on the air? My nephew's review of the field trip he went on? No. No. We didn't get a chance to do that. Can I read it to you? Sure. It's really quick. He is in third grade and nothing to the location that they went because it is a great place.

Just maybe not for a third grader who's interested in it. But they had to fill out a reflection sheet on what they thought of the field trip. Almost like their version of a Yelp review. That's exactly what they... Steve, there's stars and everything that he had to fill in. Sorry. So he went to the Philadelphia Orchestra.

And it says, three things I observed. He said, I saw people, I saw orchestra, I saw music makers. My favorite part was nothing. Wow. My question I have, why do they make music in the dark? Rate this trip. He gave it a half a star. Whoa. And he handed it in to his teacher.

That is a brutal review. It is. Brutal. As generic as can be. I would have found that cool. I said, I guess you didn't like it in third grade, the orchestra, maybe not. I don't know. I don't know. Well, I might have because the instruments and stuff wowed me when I was a kid. But yeah, that's brutally honest. I mean, he's the...

He followed the assignment. He did, right? He did it. Any field trip, you're ahead of the game. You're leaving school. Oh, yeah. You're killing time. Yeah. You're not in school. So already you're operating a few notches up. So even if they don't quite stick the landing, it's still...

It's like when they were calling you into the auditorium for a speaker or something. It didn't matter what it was. Yeah, you were getting out of class. You were getting out of class. We went to the Limerick Power Plant, and I thought it was like, yeah, and I felt like it was like real life Simpsons. Like I was going to Homer's work. Yeah, man. I mean, a Limerick Power Plant is pretty amazing. We went to a textile mill when I was a kid.

I didn't get too much out of you. That wasn't for you. Still though, and you're kind of afraid of machines. Marissa or Kathy, did you guys ever do Smithsonian, like Air and Space Museum or anything along those lines, a DC trip? Yeah, we did the DC trip. Yeah. We got to do that a few times. You did not, Steve? We did. Oh, okay. Actually, and it was, I mean, that was a big one because that was a two-day field trip. Yeah.

Yeah, we actually stayed over, yeah. And not just school buses, like the big fancy buses with the bathrooms in the back. Yes, that was always fun when you got those. We did, for the science class, we would go to Six Flags Great Adventure and you'd have to complete the physics sheet or whatever. And then we did also...

I can't remember exactly what grade we were in, but we did a New York trip and we went to Chinatown. Thinking back, I can't believe we were allowed to do that. Right. Go into New York City. And walk as a group amongst, so you're like down on Canal Street and all that. Look, Chinese people. Well, I mean, you can get lost. You can have a straggler get away from you. And I remember having chaperones, but they didn't walk with us. I think they were like, okay, everyone meet back here at this time. What grade? I don't know.

We were in high school. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's like kindergarten. Here's your per diem. We'll catch you back here at five. Yeah. Somebody comes back with a little vile cocaine or something like that. I'm not sure. Maybe the parents were supposed to be with us. I don't know.

By the way, to double back to Freddie Hills, I got this text from somebody. I had mentioned the place where you could see the part of the dairy farm working. And I've never heard this term before, but they said it's called a rotary milking parlor. A rotary milking parlor. That's what I had seen. Yeah. Rotary milking parlor. They usually raid those places. Yeah, right.

There's another term for jack shack. Jack shack. Oh, we're looking at the device right now. That is awesome. Isn't that wild? That's almost like a Gravitron for cows. They should invent a Gravitron for cows.

Like every amusement park should have one of those. So Nick, the centrifugal force would force the milk out. So with this, going back to the Freddie Hill, Nick had mentioned that you knew some friends that had birthday parties there. We did. We had two. You had two birthdays. Yeah, for Ben. For Ben. Yeah, yeah. And did he choose that or you guys chose it? I think so. I mean, our friends, the Chartrans, lived nearby. So we could, like I said earlier, we could walk to Freddie Hill from their house. But like, yeah, it was just he picked it and we did it twice.

Maybe five and six birthday, you know, when he turned five, when he turned six. What's the best kid's birthday party you think you ever went to? I'm glad you brought this up because my friends were in town over the weekend and they went to a kid's birthday party. And I think it's like for a two-year-old or a three-year-old. And that's a different dynamic than a kid's birthday. It's like taking a canned ham out. Well, Steve, it was an interesting dynamic because there was little to no food served at all. Oh, wow. Big mistake. Well...

Is it or is it not? I honestly have no idea for kids that young because it's like the kids that age, it's like a two hour party, right? Longer than that, you're going to start to take naps and stuff. Oh, yeah.

I don't know if it's a faux pas to not serve food at a kid's birthday party when they're that young. Maybe a flight of juice boxes and some pairings with cheese. Right. I feel like you're dictating the party. Like, that sounds like a one to three. Like, you've already had lunch. Yeah. Come, or maybe like 2.30 to 4.30. Then you've already had lunch. We always need to have food, though. Shouldn't, I mean, I don't know. Listen, if I was a kid and I went to a birthday party and I didn't have one of those ice cream cups with half vanilla, half chocolate, I would have freaked the F out. That's part of the party. Like,

Like, that's, you know what I mean? Entertaining them. It's like, okay, now it's time to sit down and we're going to do this. Eating garbage food. That's what you do. When I was a kid, roller skating parties were all the rage. That's what we would do. Those I loved. Would that have been your birthday party of choice? Yeah, I had one. In fact, I know I had one as a kid. I had a roller skate party. I was summer, so I always had a pool party. Always. Always. Yeah. No, it was winter time, so I was relegated to indoor activities. I had two...

Press in roller skating. Radnor Rolls. Nick, I'm sure you went to many a parties there. And fell on my ass. It's right where a Z is on Lancaster Avenue on Route 30 right there right by the Blue Route before the Blue Route existed. And then there was another one, another place because we lived in Jersey for a little while and we used to have parties at Malibu Grand Prix. Which was a go-kart place. Those are home runs. I never had stuff like that. And Steve, they would make you a driver's license.

You would go and you would get your photo taken and then you would get a little laminated card. It wasn't legit? Yes. I can vote now. If you forgot it, then you got to get a new one every time. That's awesome. And so strictly...

Strictly go-karts? I'm pretty sure they had an arcade or something. I don't quite remember, but I just looked it up. It actually was like a franchise, and they had one in Mount Laurel. Yeah, Ben went to a few birthday parties at Arnold's, Marissa. So like, you know, and we did Grand Prix. It was so much fun. And for a birthday party, it was badass. There was a lot to do. Parents can have fun. Like if parents are having fun at a kid's birthday party, it's a good time. Yeah. Wow.

No, Arnold, that's a good call. And go-karts, you can't go wrong with that. No. Getting out and off. I would have loved go-karts. We didn't have a really good go-kart place near us. A lot of times the birthday celebration was the dinner or the lunch or something you go at during the day. But we didn't. I predate it. We were still fighting the larger dinosaurs. Yeah.

So that was really, it was a game of survival. Somebody texted him bowling parties. They were, that was always a good time. That was my bachelor party was a bowling party. Really? Yeah. Wow. I know you're not a bar guy. Yeah, totally. Bachelor party was a bowling. It was a lot of fun. My brother's law. Bowling parties were fun when they put on the bumpers when you were still old enough to not have the bumpers anymore. And then you would play off the bumpers. Actually on purpose. Yes. Hit the bumpers.

I agree. But yeah, Freddie Hills, that was a good place for...

for kids' parties, and I'm bummed out. It's going to be gone. What have we lost recently? We lost that. We lost the place with all the Christmas decorations. Oh, yeah, that was County Line. No, County Line in Harleysville. Right, the one that Kathy brought up was called Feeney's. Oh, yeah. Feeney's was the other one. That was the, yeah, the garden center. So, Freddie Hill, it says here, is 53 years old. I would have thought it was way older than that. Huh. But, um...

Maybe it has a family fun center. It's only 53. Probably. The farm's probably been there for a long time. I wonder if they're going to sell off any of their, you know, any of the stuff that's nostalgic like they did down at the shore. So, yes, there was another place, Steve. It was another miniature golf place, which is not too far from where I was. It was Woody's. And when they closed because they ended up building a hospital there,

they sold all the... When you go to a miniature golf course, there was like an eight-armed Hindu... Right, yeah. Vishnu. And I was like, I'd like to have that. They were selling these things. I didn't buy it or show it. It would have killed me. Look what I got, huh? I got Vishnu. So they have... Yeah, they do have some miniature...

I guess they didn't have like the classic windmill or anything like that. See, I'd want that. I'd want the windmill. But they have stuff. They have a couple of things. They have like a small house that they'll probably sell, I would think. I mean, what else are you going to do with that stuff? Unless you sell it. Unless there's, you know, listen, nostalgically, if you spent many a year or many a celebration there.

to have a piece of that, when the Ugly Moose closed in Manioc, which, you know, Claire and I had dinner and so many great meals. In fact, the show, we had a celebratory dinner there one time for lunch. There was a kind of a, the bust of like a,

An Indian chief over the door going in. And we got that. Oh, you did get it? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a little thing, but it means a lot to have that. You connect it to the past. So I feel bad when I hear about places like this closing because they mean so much to so many people. And somebody texted in, and I have no idea what the answer is, but what's going to happen to all the animals at Freddie Hill Farms? It's going to blow them up.

Okay. All right, well, that was all that problem. Go to other farms. I don't know if the, I think they may have closed the petting zoo part of it. Oh, really? A while back. I thought I read that in an article that at one time there was a petting zoo. Do you know what you could do? You could take that spinning cow carousel and accelerate it. Launch them in.

To the surrounding fields. You could just open the gates, see where they wander off to. I swear to God, I saw a cow just fly through the air about 10 minutes ago. The thing I always found interesting about the petting zoo there was, so it's right next to the ice cream shop. So you would get your ice cream and you walk over the petting zoo. And it just smelled like just feces. And you're sitting there eating your ice cream while smelling that feces.

And when you reverse that, you could go and pet the animals and then you go in and you have the ice cream. Like, we're washing our hands, right kids? Yeah. It tastes better with anthrax. Yeah.

So I don't know what they're going to do. Back to birthday parties. I've never been to a Chuck E. Cheese. Oh, wow. We did two of those, too. Would that still hold up now if I went now and experienced it? I think it's mostly targeted for adults. No, remember they did do a campaign a few years ago where they were trying to bring in divorced parents? Oh, no, I don't. They were like, come and hang out. We have better food options, and there's a place to hang out. The thing about... So...

The difference between regular arcades and a Chuck E. Cheese arcade, I found anyway, were that the games are all targeted towards little kids. Oh.

So there's very little skill to them and it's, you know. You have the party rooms. Obviously, the whole thing is based on those party rooms. I was in one. I walked in with my friend. His son was addicted to Chuck E. Cheese. In fact, I remember one of those great parent conversations I'm sure you guys have all had.

I want to go to Chuck E. Cheese. Can't go. Can't go. We can't go. We're driving in the car. We can't go. Why? Because it blew up. And there was a pause. It blew up?

But Marissa, it's not quite like Dave and Buster's or Arnold's. It's for little kids. I don't think you would have as much fun. We have fun at Arnold's. We used to cheat at Dave and Buster's. I used to take home the coupons because they weighed them to get prizes. What would you do? We'd put Elmer's glue on the cake. You would spend that amount of time just to...

Oh my God. But that's how they were determined. They weighed that. So when you had so many of them, they didn't notice they were shiny. Why didn't you etch some into marble? I mean, what was I getting? Like pencil erasers? You were getting equally horrific cheap crap. Bouncy balls? A comb holder.

Somebody texted in person and said that there's no more animals at Freddie Hill, that they moved the cows off years ago to another farm. Really? And then there's a person named Trina. She says that the locals are trying to buy Freddie Hill. They're petitioning to conserve the land so that they can't build on it. Oh, that'd be nice. Yeah, I hope they're successful in that endeavor. I mean, listen, you see so much of this stuff where they're just jamming apartment complexes and condo complexes everywhere, and it's just too much to have that space of land.

and keep it at least something like that, that would be terrific. And I've never been there, but I want this to go on as it is. In the fall, they have pig races. Really? Which are kind of fun, yeah. Those pigs haul ass, too. Yeah, they offer them a treat, and pigs will do anything for food. And they go flying through. They have little things they jump over and stuff. It's pretty cute, yeah. Hang on, we're going to go via Zoom. And by the way, if you want to jump in with a...

comment or conversation. You can text the word ZOOM to 39333 and we'll send you the link to get you on. We're going to talk to Brittany right now. Hi, Brittany. Good morning. Hi, Gadzooks. Gadzooks to you. What do you want to tell us? I had my seventh birthday party at Discovery Zone. Discovery Zone. Remind me what that is.

It was one of those places where they had the jungle gyms that you could climb through. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Was that your favorite birthday, you think? Favorite birthday party as a kid?

And I still miss it. I would go back now. They should have, to Marissa's point, they should have adult versions of that, you know, where you could go do those things on, you know, maybe not as well. So if you had a kid and you went to one of those places, chances are you ended up crawling around in that

crap too because you had to go get your kid out of there sometime or another and they're difficult to get around in. So when I went with Matt to Camp Woodward for the first time, I had to take a training lesson to make sure I could do somersaults and get to the foam pit and trying to get out of the foam pit now is hard. So was Discovery Zone, was that a franchise? No.

Do you have any idea, Brittany? Yeah, I remember it was a franchise. There was one in the Northeast that, of course, everyone from Philly knows about if they grew up with it. Right. I love it. Did you ever get hurt or anything like that in there? No, but I'm pretty sure I got the chicken pox from there. Oh, God, yeah, of course you did. All those places. They said...

I remember there was a medical report about ball pits and how they are a breeding ground for disease. Absolutely. Yeah. All right, Brittany, thanks for checking in. We appreciate it. Take care. Thank you. Discovery Zone's headquarters were in Wilmington, Delaware. Okay. Have you guys ever been to those trampoline parks they have now?

Yeah, like Sky Zone and Urban Air. Yes, Get Air, yeah. I remember Casey like ripped his ankle. Oh, really? Yeah, that's right. That's where he popped his Achilles or whatever. They have adult nights that I really want to go to. Oh. So you don't have to push the kids. I would love to and my fear is I would go. And I'm pretty agile and I do the trail running and all that stuff. But I just have this fear.

sneaking suspicion in the back of my mind, I'd do one jump and I'd be... Kiss that MCL goodbye. Hang on, we're going to go to Tiffany next. Hi, Tiffany, you're on the air. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? We are great. So you went to a place, was this for birthdays?

Yeah, so we would do it for birthdays and we also would go for like summer recreation camps. Kathy would absolutely remember it. What was it? Marty's Circus of Fun. Marty's Circus of Fun. I don't remember that.

Real. So it's where the Nifty 50 is. Well, before it burned down, wasn't Ben Salem. Oh, OK. So I worked there in the golf course. And when Marty sold it, he sold us all his rides. So we used to actually we had Marty's rides when it was Nifty 50s, when we had the rides for like a brief period of time. So how big was Marty's Circus of Fun? Was it indoor, outdoor or just what was it?

I believe it was just outdoor. Like, it had, like, a little roller coaster. They had go-karts. They had, like, a tilt-a-whirl, stuff like that, like little rides. It was like your own little small amusement park within Ben Salem. Was it indoor or outdoor? She said outdoor. Oh, okay. I believe it was outdoor.

I do remember it. I do remember it. You know what it means? I'm only a few years younger than you, and we used to go for summer rec all the time. So you're 21, 22? I was going to say, you're super young like me. A couple years younger than Kathy. I love the notion, and if you stop and think about it, like in the movie Overboard, you know, Kurt Russell's dream is to have this miniature golf course. Like this place that you're describing, that somebody wants to...

There's a certain magic to wanting to set up a place like that, like a fun zone or something for people to go have a good time. I would assume that you're usually doing it for the best of reasons. Obviously, you want a successful business, but you're drawn to making people happy. That place, I do know what she's talking about. Whenever we would go by, we would say we want to go there. My mom would tell us no.

So I don't know what the reasoning was. I'm not sure why we weren't allowed to go there, but it was a journey. It's got to see. Well, no, because we went to Chuck E. Cheese. It'll give you anal cancer. No, we went to Chuck E. Cheese all the time. So it wasn't that other reason. Yeah, I don't know what it was, but she was like, no. Wow. So we would when my kids were little and it would be around, I guess, towards the beginning of the summer, you know, when all the the.

carnivals and fairs and things start setting up if we were driving along and all of a sudden we see it we'd be like we'd say hey look over look over there oh look at me i'm making this funny face you know and just don't let them see it because they would not let you hear the end of it once a kid sees that you're gone all right we are now going to wendy via zoom and she wants to share a story hi wendy good morning

Hi, guys. Good morning. Good morning. Thanks for coming on. Where did you used to go when you were a kid? Well, I grew up in South Central Pennsylvania, and the Baltimore Aquarium was a popular spot for birthdays. For birthday parties. Yeah, it's a damn good aquarium. Okay. Mm-hmm.

And I know they have the same thing at Adventure Aquarium. We were members there for a little while. I don't think we had a full-on birthday party, but yeah, you could get set-ups like that. We had a lost party there that was fantastic. That was so good. The room was the walls...

Two walls in the room were the shark tank. Man, it's funny. All of these places we're mentioning, Ben had a birthday party. Ben had a birthday party at the Adventure Aquarium. That was his third birthday party. We did two at Freddy Hill Farms. We did two at Chuck E. Cheese. Kathy, we did one at Elmwood Park Zoo. That was a fantastic birthday party. Yeah, we had a lot of great birthday parties for that kid. Wendy, did you have your own birthday party or did you go to other kids' birthday party at the aquarium? I went to other kids' birthday parties.

Yeah, we didn't do that. But I went to at least two or three birthday parties there when I was a kid. And you said about the roller skating. That has made a comeback. My daughter is big time into it. Okay, where does she go? Do you know?

We like to use Inline 309. In fact, she has asked, she turns 10 this year. That is what she has asked to do for her birthday this year is she wants a roller skating birthday party. My youngest child works at Inline 309. That's why I asked. That's so cool. And by the way, are you a professional wrestler? I know, I just wonder what the hell that was. We are watching you via Zoom and in the background I see four, five championship belts. What is that?

Those are my husband's. He is a collector and he is big time into the wrestling. I work from home. This is the office. And this is where I told him he could keep his belt. Okay. I was about to ask whether you had any say on where these wrestling belts get displayed. My name is the great Moomba. Yeah. And they're really well displayed.

Yeah. Oh, yes. We have the whole case and we have to decide the rotation because I know there's more belts that may be coming. So we have to figure out space and rotation. On a very special occasion, will you allow him to wear it, say, if you're going to a wedding or something like that? No, no, no, no. But he is a teacher and he has taken them to school. He has taken them.

to other events. Oh my God. That's funny. They're lovingly displayed. Imagine, Steve, people buying big things like that to display in their home. I have no place for that. No, no. Actually, right now, I just got something I have no place for. All right, Wendy, thank you very much. Good talking to you. Thanks, guys. Have a good day. All right, see you later.

The whole time I'm looking at those belts in the background. What the hell is that? I'm thinking, is that a fire department? No, those are wrestling belts. Let's see. I'm going to go. Oh, let's go to Ricky next. This sounds really interesting. Hi, Ricky. Good morning to you. Good morning. Happy Monday. Same to you. All right. So you hosted. Was this you that hosted this party you're going to tell us about? It sure was. And how old were you when you did this?

Well, it was for my daughter's seventh birthday. Oh. So this was a couple years ago, four years ago. Okay, do tell. She requested a food fight birthday party. Food fight birthday party. Wow. Right. So in the backyard, we had, you know, we told all the kids to come and close if they could get ruined. And we had Target practice with ketchup and mustard containers, like the squirt bottles. Wow. We made spaghetti wigs.

And every kid got pie to the face. This is one of the best things I've ever heard. As far as doing a birthday party goes, kids have always, you know, when we were in the scouts, one of the big events of the year was giving the pie in the face of the leaders. And if you, you know, sold enough popcorn, you were allowed to do that. And so this is a great idea. Tell me that they had a ball.

Oh, it was the best time. It was the best time. You know, she asked for it. And my husband and I thought she was crazy. And then we started talking and like, why not? Yeah. No, I mean, so did you, you, you, you built this from the ground up or were there sort of preexisting package ideas to do this? No, we did it from the ground up. Wow. I love that idea. This is something that you should do. You should do as a business. I mean, not a bad idea. Yes.

Oh, my God. That's excellent. All right. Thank you, Ricky. Best pictures of all these kids with their spaghetti and the pies. Oh, I'd love to see that. Yeah. Now. OK. Question, though. One one concern I would have is, you know, somebody getting hurt, potentially getting some, you know, something in their eyes or somebody shoving a pipe. Did we just lose them? Yeah. It's OK. But I was curious if everybody made it out unscathed or not. But yeah. Yeah.

So you lose a few. Even in professional sports now, they give them goggles before the champagne comes out. Because that stuff hurts if it gets in your eyes. I would hope the kids would have goggles on. Well, so now there is an escape room called Beat the Bomb. Yes. Have you guys seen this? Absolutely. Where there's like a paint bomb and a foam bomb. Yeah, there's a couple different versions that they have of it and how it ends. Oh, I just saw it in Philly. I thought there was one too where you can pretty much just have like a paint fight. Yeah.

That I'm not sure about. I don't doubt it. Here's a text from somebody that says, concourse bar in the city has a ball pit for adults. Uh-huh. So you get drunk and then go? Yeah. Have you done it? Yes. They do clean it. I've seen them clean it. They take all of the balls out and run them through a conveyor belt. I think you'd need to do that because I don't think there's a whole bunch of disease that would be...

It's right on Market Street, right near Suburban Station. I also saw a video over the weekend where they were cleaning out a foam pit.

and a rat jumped out. Wow. Rats like to have fun too. Where was this? I don't know. It was some... Oh, okay. Just want to make sure it wasn't the place you were talking about. No, no, no. It's a place called the Rat Pit. Just someplace on Instagram. That'd be perfect. Fill up a pit with rats. That's a good name for a bar. Anyway, why not? Hang on. We have... Who is this next? I don't have... Oh, it's Tater. Yo, Tater. How you doing, man? Tater Tot Kitty.

YouTube. YouTuber joining us this morning. Okay, so you were telling us about a kid's party? Yes. Okay, so do tell. We'll go ahead. Fill us in as you float above the Golden Gate Bridge. It's your image in the background. So probably in about 92 when I was five, I went to a place called Sahara Sam's. Okay. It basically was an indoor amusement park. Was there stripping? They had a ball pit. They had a swing ride.

where it would spin around. Okay. And a ball pit, all kinds of crazy things. I just remember, like I said, my fifth birthday party, all my friends were there. It was probably one of my best favorite parties. I thought something malevolent was going to happen. Almost like nostalgically, but he had a tone to him. One of the kids cut the other kid's head off. But that didn't happen. So you're saying this was a wonderful birthday experience.

Yeah, sorry. I'm in the office, so I was just trying not to... Oh, I see. Okay, we're thrown off by your background. Yeah, so listen, would you go to an adult version of that? Oh, yeah. Okay. Definitely. All right, so apparently there's a great rat pit in the city if you go to...

into the bar for what we... Go to the right place. Go to the right place. No, Marissa didn't know where it was. Yeah, yeah. All right, Tater Tot, we love you. I don't think this is open anymore. Oh, okay. This is a long time. Let's see, that sucks. Okay, all right. Well, thank you. I'm sad. Kids are on their computers and their phones and, well, they're...

All the stuff we used to do. I never did because I predated it. Preston, you ever do like a Kalahari or Great Wolf Lodge for kids' birthdays? You're a Great Wolf. Well, yeah, we were Great Wolf veterans. We went there many, many times. That was, oh my gosh.

It's so much fun. They updated it there recently. Yeah, that's what I hear. They had a massive commercial campaign for it because they did a whole... I think they did... There's a couple locations, are there not? Oh, there's several, yeah. There's a bunch around the country. But did you do birthdays or was it just like family getaways? Yeah, we did do birthdays. And he got a special plush hat that looked like a birthday cake with candles on the top of it. That was pretty cool. And if you don't mind my asking, how much did that cost? Way expensive, man. I mean, that was the thing about...

about going to Great Wolf Lodge is it ain't cheap, but everything's covered and the food is all part of it. And, you know, so you have that.

You said the hat and it unlocked a memory of, I was actually in Baltimore and we had some friends and we went to Dick's for my birthday and they make the hat and they like write something vulgar on it. Oh, yeah. But I was only like 12 or 14 years old. Yeah. Yeah. No, we went to that place too, Inner Harbor, Baltimore. Yeah. And they, yeah, I remember that. So you're 12 or 14 and they write X-Winners on your hat? I don't know. They try to keep it.

Yeah, they kept it a little PC. Hang on, I'm going to go to another Zoomer. We have Roy who's joining us. Roy, morning, bud. Yo, yo, yo. What's up, man? Good, man. We had a place called Xilorama that was inside the Echelon Mall in Voorhees. It had an indoor roller coaster, laser tag, movie theater.

In 99, it closed in 2005. In 99, I had a birthday party, and we saw one of the Star Wars that came out back then. Exilorama, that sounds pretty cool. So it had an indoor roller coaster? Indoor roller, it had two loops. I know you can see me, but the radios came. It went in a circle, up and down, that's it. That's still, still, man, when you're a kid. So what was the age range? You were like 9, 10?

Yeah, at seventh grade, you're getting too old because you're worried about other stuff. You're asking. So Dave and Buster's is more for adults, right? I mean, it's kids, but adults can absolutely have a blast there, especially after they kick all the kids out of there. Who's your bald buddy there? What's going on? TJ. His nickname is 2848 because he's 28 years old, but he looks 40. 2848!

That is one of my all-time favorite nicknames ever. 28, 48. Oh, my God. Yeah, with the hat on, he's 28. Take the hat off of 48. Oh, my God. Wait, is that real, the way your hair is?

I lost it a long time ago. You need a shirt that says 2848. Every year his nickname changes, though. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's phenomenal. It's 2646. Oh, my God. You got a good sense of humor, man. Thank you, guys. Appreciate you listening, man. Take care. 2848. Oh, my God.

I really enjoy the fact that they pointed it out, too. That was terrific. He needs to shave the rest of it. If he did, he'd look perpetually 20. He'd look younger, yeah. Listen, we were having dinner this weekend. Really nice restaurant, by the way. And I looked over in the corner, and there was a guy...

who was trying to pull off hair-wise the Larry Fine thing. Like, as a statement? From Three Stooges. Wow. So he's got the clear male pattern baldness, but he did not let go of letting the rest of it go big and bushy. And I'm like, man...

There's only one human being that has ever pulled that off, and that's Larry Fine of the Three Stooges. That's it. I really wanted to go over and say something. Don't even try. Yeah, and I'm a scholar. Just go ahead and just shave it off or go way, way down, but you're doing the wrong thing. I should have gone over and double-eye poked him.

Hey, numbskull. That would have been great. Wow. All right. Well, anyhow, thank you for the check-ins there, gang, and letting us know. Because, listen, if you have the right party when you're a kid, it can be legendary. And the idea of having your own food fight party. I love that. Here's what you do. Here's what you do. Because...

Technically, it is wasting food. You make a donation to fill abundance or something like that after you do that. Just clean up that food and make a donation. And make a donation when you're done. But I think that's a brilliant idea. No, that is terrific. I love it. But yeah, this was sad news to see over the weekend. Freddie Hill Farms.

And Freddy's Family Fun Center are closing at the end of the 2025 season. So that's the miniature golf course, the driving range, batting cages. I might have to get over there and just see what it's like since I've heard about it all these years. The ice cream and everything. Yeah, it's a cool place. So that's sad news. But Nick, you said they're holding out hope that maybe somebody will pick it up.

I hope so, yeah. And I guess the residents in that area, there's a petition online, so you can do a Google search for North Penn and Freddie Hill Farms. How about this? Because we have a rock album in Freddie Mercury Farms. Freddie Mercury Farms. You're going to have a great time. I love it. All right, well, let's take a quick break, come back in a second, and we'll share some more Bizarre File stories. We also have some other things, less trash music and stuff coming up, too. Be right back.

We are getting closer and closer to this year's MMRBQ. Saturday, May 10th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. A full day of partying with friends, family, and MMR. With eight great bands, including our headliners. Somebody check my brain. Alice in Chains. And Three Days Grace. No one will ever take the debt of old IFBQ.

The always exciting Preston and Steve side stage and the crowd-pleasing live band karaoke with Sidearm. All your favorite MMR DJs will be on site. Pierre, Brent, Jackie Bam Bam, and our weekend warriors to ensure fun is had by all. Tickets start at just $25 while supplies last, which gets you as up close as you want for the entire first half of the show. So don't miss out on MMR.

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Thanks, Kat. We made an announcement earlier this morning. Just a heads up, there is a fresh video from Cardboard Classic 2025, and it was courtesy of our friends at Camelot Productions.

The drone activity was Fast and Furious at Cardboard Classic with Camelot on site. And now we can see the fruit of their wares because they edited together this video that really gives you a feel for how that day rolls out. And they took us to some unprecedented views with their technology and their editing is amazing.

And if you were there and you want to see maybe you in action, you can check out this video. Or if you haven't been, you just want to get a feel for what the event is all about. There's no better coverage I've ever seen of this. No, it's amazing. Yeah. Camelot Productions, it is now on our Instagram page. Just check out the President Steve Show on Instagram and follow along because it's amazing.

Awesome stuff, man. We love what they do. Camelot Productions spelled with a K, by the way. K-A-M-E-L-O-T. So thank you guys for doing that. It looks phenomenal. Let's get to Bizarre Files. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Files.

Brought to you by Protein Collision. If you find yourself in an accident, trust the pros at Protein Collision, your trusted auto body repair shop located in King of Prussia. And you can go to ProteinCollision.com. So I've never heard of this before, but a woman has told how she was left in the hospital unable to breathe after suffering a severe reaction to an unlicensed vaccine.

nasal tanning spray that she bought online. A nasal tanning spray. We believe that this is to tan your nostrils? No, no, no, no. This is to tan your body, but you shove this up your nose. So I had never heard of this. I'm glad that you guys are just in the dark as I am. Edith Eagle said that she felt like she was suffocating and drowning inside her own body. Oh my God. She had an allergic reaction.

reaction to it. After the allergic collapse that she believes was linked to the product. So nasal tanners are designed to be sprayed into the nostrils and claimed to work by administering a substance known as melatonin 2, a chemical that darkens skin pigmentation. It is illegal to sell. This took place in England, by the way. It's illegal to sell medicinal products containing melatonin 2 in the UK because

But as the tanners are sold cosmetically, they fall outside of that remit. However, they are not covered by UK cosmetics regulations, meaning that they are not subjected to the same scrutiny as other over-the-counter beauty products.

Experts have said that they have not been fully researched and could contain toxic ingredients. Ms. Eagle said she purchased tanners online believing that they would give her a quick and easy bronze look ahead of a planned holiday. They had been recommended to her by someone she knew, but she said that she did not realize that they were unlicensed and unregulated. The 47-year-old inhaled the spray twice a day, believing it would give her tan time to build up before she said we actually got into the sunshine.

But on the second day of the trip, she was rushed to the hospital after an apparent allergic reaction. She said, I literally couldn't breathe. All I wanted to do, all that went through my mind was, will I even get to the hospital because I could not breathe at all? And I can't explain it, but I was suffocating inside as if it was drowning with my own body.

It sounds unpleasant. She became suspicious after her stepdaughter, who also used a tanner, spotted a Facebook post from someone who said that they had also suffered a bad reaction. She told her hospital consultant who asked where she bought the tanner and what was in it, and they couldn't see on the label, so there was very little that they could do. Wow.

So they just essentially sent her back to the hotel and eventually she felt a little bit better. But the experts are saying, don't do this. It seems impossible that that could ever work. Yeah. Don't worry. It's available in the United States. Oh, there you go. What's it called? It's a tanning nasal spray. Tanning nasal spray. You can actually just take the vitamin. You can take the melanin yourself.

Bronze in minutes. The ashy chocolate color. Somehow I don't believe that, but I know people will take the pills. If you're going to do that, it all seems pretty dumb. Are you self-tanning before we go to Florida? Yes, I have to make my appointments. You do the old spray tan. I have learned, so you guys don't make fun of me, I don't spray my face. You can spray your face, they're just spraying you too dark. No, it's because I don't shower. I'm still like right before.

You shower the next day. Is that the unevenness? I shower. I get it done on the night before. That's why you look like a barcode? Yeah, exactly. They're like, look, Marissa's leaking. Are you getting one, Kathy? You know what? I love the wipes. The tan towels? The tan towels. That's what they are. So I'll just do that. Tan towels? Yeah. Can you use that on your butt? Yeah, like a tan towel.

like it's the self tanner. It just comes in a white form. And so I don't go like, I don't want to get my whole body sprayed just to do like a little bit. So I'm not super white. Interesting. Well, moving on a 100 year old Japanese woman has been recognized by Guinness world records as the oldest female barber in the world. Oh, wow. Uh, heck, just stop shaking. Granny. Uh, shit. Sweet. Shit. Sweet. Uh,

Jeez.

Haku Yoshi had opened a salon in Nakagawa after the war ended, and she still continues to oblige when regular customers and others ask her to cut their hair. And now I'll give you a shave with a straight razor. In 2021.

It's okay. When she was 104, she took part in the torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics. Well, look at her. She does not look that age. Not even close, man. So, Higyoshi says that she's happy. She notes that help from the people around her has enabled her to continue working for so long. And the barber also says that she will keep on offering her services as long as there are customers. That's pretty amazing.

Authorities are searching for the alleged arsonist who caught fire.

fire while he was setting a car ablaze in Corona, all of which was captured on camera on Tuesday. Where'd you say? In Corona. Oh, I thought you said Verona, Mike. No, not where Casey is. The video shows an unidentified man standing next to a black sedan via a home's ring surveillance camera before flames suddenly erupt from his hand, quickly turning into a large explosion. When the initial intensity of the explosion subsides, the man can be seen as he hurtles over the property's fence and runs down the street, all while on fire.

The fire destroyed the car and caused damage to a nearby home. We're looking at video footage. Yeah, it's definitely a big explosion. I'm not good at this. Investigators have identified the suspect as a man who stands about 5'9", and between 5'9 and 6'1", with a medium build and shoulder length, light colored hair, so they are looking for him. All right, and then one last story, and then we will wrap up with this.

Police and firefighters rescued a man precariously stuck in the mud near Roosevelt Island. Initials report suggested the man in his 70s became stuck in the mud while trying to retrieve a walking stick between the Mount Vernon Trail and the Potomac River. Per scanner traffic, he sank in the mud until, listen to this, Steve, he was nearly neck deep.

Oh, my God. Like quicksand. Like quicksand, prompting a large rescue response. Well, this didn't work out. I probably could have just bought another cane. U.S. Park Police. I tell you what, don't dig me out. Just keep kicking me in the face until I'm dead. And firefighters all rushed to the scene. It was reported the man was safely on the short.

Right? There's just a head sticking up out of the ground. Yeah. The hell? I just got stuck in the mud. The man was not injured, but he was stuck all the way up to his neck in the mud. So there was a, on the trip from Anchorage to Seward when we took an Alaskan cruise, we went through this area that was known for its low tide area. I remember you telling me this, yeah. And people die every year because they go out and they'll step in.

and they'll take the next step and it sucks them down further and before you know it, water comes in and they're dead. That's insane. Yeah. Wow. All right. And there you go. That's what I have in the Bizarro File for you this morning. One more break to take before we ask a lesson question about today's show and we will test your knowledge and we got some tickets to see Joe Coy and Friends for the correct answer for that. We'll get Trash and Music News too so stay with us for the hour back. We'll be right back.

Now broadcasting from the Philly Spring Training, the Preston and Steve Show.

The gang goes to Clearwater for all the feels of this springtime tradition. Hear it on the radio and watch it all happen on our YouTube channel. For those of you also heading south this week, join us at Coco's for a live broadcast on Friday morning. We'll be hanging with our friends from Philly Sports Trips and all the wonderful Philly sports fans. 93.3 WMMR. Everything that rocks.

Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show Podcast. Hi, I'm Steven Singer. Yep, that's me, the I Hate Steven Singer guy. Why do other jewelers hate me? I'm a nice guy, because other jewelers just want to throw up when you ask, can I trade in my old diamond studs? Why? I guess it's because they're in the business of selling.

I'm in the love business. I love to see my friends come back and trade in their old diamond studs. It's true. You can start with any size and upgrade them for a bigger pair anytime you want. Get exactly what you paid. Not only do other jewelers not want you to trade in your diamond studs, but even if they do, they don't give you back what you paid. Why are their diamonds worth less? Oops.

Come see me, the real Steven Singer, a real jeweler, whose diamonds are always worth what you pay. Visit me at the other corner of 8th and Walnut. By phone, 888-I-HATE-STEVEN-SINGER. Online, IHATESTEVENSINGER.COM. Oh, by the way, these stunning Anita Diamond Stud Earrings are always 100% eye-flawless, near-colorless, brilliant cut diamonds, magnificent and bright white, topped off with my 14-carat safety silicone backs. IHATESTEVENSINGER.COM. One place, one price. ♪

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Foo Fighters on 93.3 WMNL are the best. It's Preston and Steve. It's 15 minutes after 10. And it is also a Monday morning. And an interesting week we have ahead of us as we'll head...

On the road. After our program on Wednesday. Head to the airport, get in the sky, land in FLA, and then, I guess it's just FL now. It's not FLA anymore. I'll always call it FLA. Yeah. But we will be broadcasting live Thursday morning from the ballpark in Clearwater as we get ready for the fills and the game that day. We'll have members of the team on the program and everything the next day. Friday, we're broadcasting live from Coco's Crush Bar in

There's a good chance we'll be seeing a lot of you down there. Yeah. I mean, it's unbelievable how it becomes Philly South. Yep. And we want to thank Philly Sports Trips for bringing a bunch of really fun people along for the whole thing and can't wait to interact with them. I want to spend a little more time, I think, around the Scientology campus. Yes. See if I can get in. See if I can get to know a few people while I'm there and see what it's all about. You got a quick audit?

What's that, Steve? I'm sorry. Rapid Free Closet. Yeah, for sure. You can play the game with Brazier where you drive back from the ballpark to Clearwater Beach because the ballpark's in Clearwater and where we stay is in Clearwater Beach and you can do an over-under as to how many you'll see. It's a fun game. Okay. You know what's wild, though? When the lights go down in the city, the Scientology Center is all that much darker because there's no... Everything is... The lights are all blacked out. You don't see...

Oh, the inside of it. You mean you can't see in the windows. But I wonder if they light the outside of it up. It's lit up. Yeah. It just looks ominous. Okay. We're going to ask today's lesson question. And we are going to give away a pair of tickets to see Joe Coy and Friends Saturday, October 18th at the...

Let's see. The Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, by the way. So the question that I'll pose you is this. What's the name of the bar where the rats get into the ball pit? 215-263-WNMR. Steve gave it a name. We don't know what the real name of it is. But if you heard, then you should know. What is the name of the bar where the rats get into the ball pit? Now, you need to Zoom.

in order to give us the correct answer. And how do you do that? You text the word ZOOM to 39333. We'll send you a quick and easy link for you to click on, and then you will join us, hopefully, with the correct answer to that. What is the name of the bar where the rats get into the ball pit? All right, send that over now. The trash business is a gold mine.

93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. Brought to you by Family Jewelers. Planning on getting engaged? Go see Angelo and the team at Family and Company Jewelers and you can get her the perfect engagement ring, a ring from Family and Company, South Jersey's diamond destination. What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, as you said earlier, Preston, John Goodman sustained a fairly significant hip injury while working on a movie at Pinewood Studios.

Ironically, the attending doctors say Goodman probably would not have been injured at all if only he had been much fatter and out of shape. That's got to hurt.

Reality star Jessa Duggar announcing she has a sixth child on the way. Duggar admits the wear and tear on her body has been a lot, revealing that she recently found a Mexican drug cartel hiding in her vagina. Oh, hey! It's gotten a little bigger. And finally, you mentioned this as well, Preston Young, Sheldon star Emily Osment. Splitting from her husband of just five months, Osment had to admit it actually took more time to put on her wedding gown. Oh, wow. And that's your honey.

All righty. We will attempt to get an answer. And, oh, we got nothing. We got nothing. So Sam is telling me we got nothing.

That's the beauty of Zoom. Nobody knows. All right, I'll ask it again, and then we'll get into music news. It's a whole new approach for us here. A whole new world. With the Zoom system. What is the name of the bar where rats get into the ball pit? Let's see if you remember that. And text the word ZOOM to 39333 if you happen to know, and maybe we'll get you on. All right, in the meantime, we are going to get into music news. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News.

On 93.3 WMMR. I can handle things. I'm smart. Brought to you by United Tire and Service. You can check out special offers at UnitedTire.com. Don't drive alone. Drive united. We'll start with the follow-up story. So, a woman by the name of Kimberly Birch, fiancé of Faster Pussycat Singer, Tie Me Down,

was presumed to have died last week, excuse me, after she went overboard while on a Royal Caribbean cruise. We had told you this, and it was unclear at the time how she went overboard. And sources now have told The Hollywood Reporter that a video appears to show that Birch jumped off. Yes, yeah.

And on top of that, former host of MTV's Headbangers Ball, Ricky Rackman, has shared on social media that he's been in touch with Down and that, quote, there's a video of her committing suicide and time he was cleared of all charges. Did you hear anything relaying to a story that there had been some fighting between the two before that? This is all that I heard. Did you read something? Yeah, that there were sounds that were heard, nothing verified.

But, man, that's horrible. Now, surprisingly, though, the articles came on, not surprisingly, I should say, how many people actually do die during a calendar year of cruises. People fall over all the time. Yeah, unfortunately, it does happen. So we'll see if there are any follow-ups to that.

Brent Hines, co-founding guitarist and vocalist of Mastodon, has left the band after 25 years in the group. The band announced the mutual decision to part ways on their social media channels, expressing pride in their shared history and wishing Hines success in his future endeavors. I'm surprised how well you're processing this, Kathy, because I know Mastodon's one of your favorites.

Mastodon assures fans that all 2025 tour plans will proceed as scheduled despite Hines' departure. But there's been no word on if he will be replaced or if the group will continue as a trio. Hines co-founded Mastodon in 2000. Alongside bassist Troy Sanders, drummer Brian Daler, and guitarist Bill Killeherr.

releasing their debut album, Remission, in 2002. So long... Yeah. End of an era there, friend. And then, let me see.

Yeah, two more quick stories. Police in Pennsylvania are investigating the theft of music equipment that caused the spin doctors to lose $12,930 worth of gear recently. That sucks. Pennsylvania State Police stated that on February 22nd, troopers began investigating the theft of music from a storage unit at DMD Mini Storage in Penn Township, Snyder County.

Police say the investigation into the stolen equipment is ongoing. I don't know exactly what was stolen. But, yeah, they lost some of their gear, unfortunately. All right, and then one last story.

It's been a long time coming, but Godsmack's fifth studio album, The Oracle, is set to make its debut on vinyl, and that'll be coming out May 22nd. That's the Godsmack. It's the first time that fans can enjoy the album, originally released in 2010, on a turntable, with this re-release featuring remastered audio for enhanced sound quality.

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 when it was released 15 years ago. And two vinyl editions are available, standard black and a deluxe limited edition gatefold colored vinyl called the Saints and Sinners Edition. Sinner. And...

And fans can pre-order both final editions through various retailers now. And that's music news. That's it. Look, we have someone on the line who wants to answer our question. We are going to go to, I can barely read your name. Regina, is that your name? Yeah. Hey, Regina, how you doing? Hi. Thanks for coming on this morning. All right, so we had the question, what's the name of the bar where rats get into the ball pit? Do you know?

The Rat Bar. The Rat what? The Rat Bar. The Rat Bar. That's not it. Just one nuance. We have others. We do have others. We appreciate it. I'm sorry, Regina. You're close. Thank you. Anyway, she is in the ballpark, but that's not quite it. All right, so we'll pull up another listener, and we have Casey who's joining us now. Hey, Casey. How you doing, man? Hey, doing well. How are you? Good. All right. Can you name the name of the bar where the rats got into the ball pit?

The Rat Pit. The Rat Pit, yes. Regina was so close. But I got to go with the correct answer. So hang on, bud. We are going to give you tickets to see Joe Coy and friends. How inspiring. Saturday, October 18th at the Ocean Casino Resort. And tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. You can visit theoceanac.com for complete details. It would be the theme to the movie Rat Pit. And this would be...

All right. We are going to take one more break. When we get back, we'll get the letter of the day for the Word of the Week prize. And we'll see what Pierre has got in store for you as well. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.

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Fast, fresh, and right to your door. Acme, fresh foods, local flavors. Hi, I'm Steven Singer. Yep, that's me, the I hate Steven Singer guy. Why do other jewelers hate me? I'm a nice guy because other jewelers just want to throw up when you ask, can I trade in my old diamond studs? Why? I guess it's because they're in the business of selling.

I'm in the love business. I love to see my friends come back and trade in their old diamond studs. It's true. You can start with any size and upgrade them for a bigger pair anytime you want. Get exactly what you paid. Not only do other jewelers not want you to trade in your diamond studs, but even if they do, they don't give you back what you paid. Why are their diamonds worth less? Oops.

Come see me, the real Steven Singer, a real jeweler, whose diamonds are always worth what you pay. Visit me at the other corner of 8th and Walnut. By phone, 888-I-HATE-STEVEN-SINGER. Online, IHATESTEVENSINGER.COM. Oh, by the way, these stunning Anita Diamond Stud Earrings are always 100% eye-flawless, near-colorless, brilliant cut diamonds, magnificent and bright white, topped off with my 14-carat safety silicone backs. IHATESTEVENSINGER.COM. One place, one price. ♪

Podcast. A song that I mistakenly called Sanitized last week from Ghost. It's Satanized. Yeah, and you hear that sort of buoyant song. Yeah. Is there anything Satan about that? I don't know. That's the thing that's always been a little slightly misleading about Ghost. And melodically and sonically, it's got a...

A more palatable feel to it than the imagery would suggest. It's much harder. Yeah, so Satanized from Ghost on 93.3 WNMR. 10.35 on this Monday morning as our week is officially underway, friends. We've got this one in the books. We would like to thank our good friend...

Casey Boy for checking in live from Verona, Italy this morning. His son, St. Joe's Prep, by the way, beat Imola, which is the Italian team. I assume they're the Italian team there.

skunked him. Well, he didn't skunk him, but kicked their asses 38 to 12. How about that? It's pretty amazing. And so Casey was just giving us a rundown of his travel and it's his first time in Italy. So he's just giving his impressions of what he thought of the area so far. And we're going to see him live in Clearwater on Thursday or Wednesday. We will see him. And then Thursday we do our show from there. It's pretty cool. So it's nice checking in with him via Zoom this morning. Pierre Robert has returned unscathed from the weekend. It looks like in fact

Well, I don't really see any scars or anything on you visually. You could have some other things going on. Emotional scars. Emotional scars. Of course. I fell in love 17 times. Wow. Got married three times. Got your heart broken, ripped out. Ripped out. Ripped to shreds. But the love I had for those brief moments.

Shining moments. Moments. Seven to eight minutes. Yeah. Were incredible. It makes it worth it. It really does. Makes it all worth it. If you don't try, Prespo, you don't get nothing. You don't. You don't get nothing if you don't put it out. That's right there. There you go. You gotta put it all out there. Put your heart on the line and need to have it squished. Besides all those heartbreaks, how was your weekend?

Fine, thank you. Okay, very good. It's nice to see you. Nice to see you. Shall we do the letter of the day? I believe so. All right, here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the daily letter. Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter. C as in happy birthday.

C as in happy birthday. Exactly. And we're giving away $500 from Paramount Pictures' Novocaine. And you can go see Novocaine in 4DX, by the way. Seat motion, environmental effects, all this stuff put you in the heart of the action.

And you're going to feel it in 4DX. Paramount Pictures' Novocaine stars Jack Quaid. And it will be in theaters this Friday. And that's when we'll give away our Word of the Week prize, which is cool. It's a Monday. It's warming up. It's supposed to be really, really nice today. Very nice, yeah. Excellent. It is your birthday, right? It's my birthday, exactly. Good. Thank you. All right, so what's coming up on today's program? On the program, we won't have anything to give away.

But we will have Eric Clapton tickets, I believe, tomorrow. Nice. Cool. So stand by for that. We have Women's History Month continuing. We've had a lot of fun in our first week. We have three more weeks of it beginning today with either blocks or individual songs by legendary ladies of music and rock and roll that we're celebrating. And there's so many. And we'll also have a block of Breaking Benjamin. You share a birthday with Ben Burnley. Oh, yeah.

Yes. That's nice. It is very cool to know. In fact, he's asking about you. He's so sure. He wants to have you come up and play with Breaking Benjamin. Oh, at the farm. Yeah, at the farm. Oh, not drums. They want me to play at the farm. No, no. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, play in the mud, in the rat pit. Okay.

I'm mixing all kinds of things together. And we'll have a block of Pearl Jam for Jeff Amen's birthday today. Awesome. All right. Thank you, Pierre. By the way, don't send me emails. It's not my birthday. Oh, it's not? No. I thought someone wished you a happy birthday. What happened? There was no crow there to be found. Why are we playing this? We ate sand.

He ate sand. Oh, I know why. Okay. On Monday, the outro music is the theme from Raising Arizona, or one of the themes. And Marissa typed in Raising Arizona, and that clip came up. Can we play it again? We killed it already. Hang on. We'll give it one more time for you, Nick. This is our new ending song. When there was no meat, we ate fowl.

There was no fall, we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand. You ate what? We ate sand. You ate sand? That's right.

Thank you. Nick Cage is delivering it. You ate sand? I ate sand. All right. I will thank our sponsors. There it is. There's music right there. The President's Eve Show brought to you today by Acme Markets Fresh Foods. Local flavors also brought to you by Dunkin'. The President's Eve Show runs on Dunkin'. And by Monster Mania Sandwiches.

Wow. It's coming March 14th through the 16th of the Doubletree by Hilton in Cherry Hill. Tomorrow on our program should be a good one, Tuesday, so we'll give away some fresh ink with Tat Tuesday. And wonderful actress Wendy Malek will be joining us. Love her. On the show. And we'll see what else we can do. That's it. We are done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day. We'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Wee!

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