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Now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano. Today is Tuesday. It's March 11th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, six people were injured Monday night following four separate shooting incidents in Philadelphia. The first shooting happened just before 630 in the evening in West Philadelphia. Police say a 28-year-old man was shot once in the head.

On 52nd Street and then ran to Haverford Avenue, he was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he's listed in stable condition. The second shooting happened about 7 o'clock in the evening in the city's Hunting Park neighborhood on the 800 block.

Yeah, we'll get back to that. On the 800 block of West Pike Street, police say a 14-year-old and a 37-year-old man were both shot. Both victims are reportedly in stable condition, according to police. Just minutes later, more gunshots rang out, this time on Girard Avenue in Parkside. Police say a 14-year-old was shot in the arm. He's in stable condition at the hospital.

Police say there was a second victim, a 20-year-old woman who suffered a grazed wound to the chest. She's currently in stable condition at Lankanall Medical Center. The fourth shooting happened in the 3100 block of 22nd Street in North Philadelphia just after 8.15. Police said a man was shot once in the lower abdomen. He was taken to Temple University Hospital in extremely critical condition. Police say one person was arrested in the 22nd Street shooting, but the search for the gunman continues.

For the other incidents, anyone with information is asked to call police at 215-686-TIPS. Missing University of Pittsburgh student Sadiqsha Kanaki's clothes were found on the Dominican Republic beach where authorities believe she was last seen going for a swim. Two police sources with knowledge...

of the investigation, told ABC News on Monday. 20-year-old Kanaki, a legal permanent U.S. resident and an Indian citizen, vanished early Thursday while she and the group of students were on spring break in a resort in Punta Cana, according to the Loudoun County, Virginia Sheriff's Office. Kanaki and one of her traveling companions work Loudoun County residence, the Sheriff's Office said.

Her clothes were discovered on a portable beach bed close to the beach where she went missing. Police have found no evidence of violence. After going to a nightclub on Wednesday night, Kanaki and a group of people went to the beach at about 4 a.m. local time on Thursday. The other women traveling with Kanaki went back to their hotel at 5.55 and were captured on security camera returning to their rooms.

A man stayed with Kanaki on the beach, according to a Dominican Republic investigative police report. The man, whose name was not released, told police that he and Kanaki went for a swim and got caught in a big wave. The man, according to sources, told police that he got back to the beach, he threw up and went to sleep on the beach. When he woke up, Kanaki was nowhere to be seen, the source said.

A security video showed the man coming back to his hotel room at about 9.55 a.m. The man is not considered a suspect at this point. In the death of Kanaki, the chief of civil defense in the Dominican Republic told ABC News on Monday. Obviously, I don't know what happened here, but have you guys ever been in the ocean at night? Yes. I have not done it. Yes, I find it very...

Yeah. I mean, how could it not be? It is. Dusk is okay, a little bit of light, but when you go into the water in the dark, I'm sorry. I got out pretty quickly. Yeah, I've wanted to do it, but I'm not going to do it. No, no. Even the most benign body of water, your mind starts racing. Have you ever gone swimming after... Well, you probably have, Preston, after a few cocktails. I've...

two separate times, one in the ocean and one in a lake. And I started to laugh because, you know, we had a couple drinks, we were feeling good. Like...

It was like close to drowning because once you start laughing and then you're going under the water, like, I mean, fortunately it was not, you know, I could stand up and it wasn't that big of a deal, but like I could see how something like this could happen. The terrifying aspect is how quickly things like that can happen. It's exacerbated and, and, you know, oh, it's just, you're just going swimming. And then before you know it, you're in a world of hurt. And at 4am, not a good idea. Jace will never go on spring break.

Law enforcement authorities are increasing the perimeter of the search areas of beaches and water in the ongoing operation to find Kanaki, according to the chief. The investigators will question everyone involved in the incident, including hotel employees, the man who was friends with her and who said that he was with her before she disappeared. All security camera footage since the day Kanaki and her five friends arrived on the island is now being analyzed, sources said.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being classified as a pandemic. The designation came on March 11th, 2020, after the World Health Organization had determined the outbreak was an international public health emergency after more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries.

On December 31st, 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The first American case was reported on January 20th. Restrictions were placed on flights arriving from China, but the initial U.S. response to the pandemic was otherwise slow in terms of preparing the health care system, stopping other travel and testing. It's about this time of year we started warming up our banana bread recipes. Yeah, it was. If you remember that. That's right.

I'll never forget it. I mean, it was like the week after the Cardboard Classic.

And then it was like, whoa. And we have all this time on our hands at home. What do we do now? So Carter started making jams and jellies. And we were making banana bread and doing all these at-home projects and stuff, man. It was funny because, and Pierre reminded me of this, during the Cardboard Classic, he was saying, and he was joking, he goes, whatever's out there, we're probably transmitting it right now. Because we were...

nuts to butts. The super spreader event he called it. Oh my God. Well, Kathy, five years ago tomorrow, you and I got in a plane and went to Florida. Yes, I forgot about the spring training trip that went nowhere. Right? Nothing. You stayed on the beach. And down there, there was no pandemic. It didn't exist in Florida. I remember leaving, taking off on the plane. I was just looking at everyone in the ocean and the beach. And I was like, oh, you guys look like you're having fun.

If I remember correctly, when you guys got on the plane, there was still spring training. And when you got off the plane, that's when it had been canceled. We talked to Brazier. Mid-flight when they canceled it. And it couldn't have been yesterday, though. Tomorrow is the 12th. It was the 12th that we went? Yeah. Because they said that they called it a pandemic. Wasn't that when we were on the plane? I guess not. Well, they called it a pandemic.

on the 11th and then when we were on the plane I had bought Wi-Fi and I remember like watching it and I was like oh no the NBA just called the season that was it that was the pivotal moment the MLB just called the season the MLS just called the season it just kind of like dominoed down and the girls behind us were like crying they were like this was our once in a lifetime trip trip to go I was like it'll be here next year and the year after and the year after

And we were in the airport and it was eerie. We were the only people in there. I mean, there were a couple of workers, but like not very many people in the airport. It was weird. We had also booked Bryce Harper for that week and-

Haven't gotten them on since. That one will live with me forever too. It all worked out nicely. The last pandemic before that had been 2009's H1N1 flu, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives globally. As of June 2024, nearly 1.2 million people in the United States died of COVID-19, according to the CDC. COVID-19 pandemic was unprecedented in its speed and breadth.

It arose in early winter when incidence of viral pneumonia is typically increasing, which made it more difficult to distinguish a dangerous novel pathogen among other seasonal spikes in respiratory illness. In sports this morning...

Ball sacks are young. Ball sacks are young. What the f*** is that? The Sixers lost to the Hawks 132-123 last night in Atlanta. What the f***?

Dyson Daniels scored 25 points and the Hawks shot 54.1% from the field on their way to the win. Quentin Grimes scored 35 points, including 17 in the fourth quarter for the Sixers, who have lost four of their last five games. They're on the road again tomorrow night with a game in Toronto against the Raptors. Tip-off is at 7.30. The Flyers, who have lost four games in a row, are at home again tonight with a game against the Ottawa Senators. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock. At spring training, the Phillies won their third...

Straight Grapefruit League game beating the Twins 4-1 yesterday afternoon in Fort Myers. The Bills are on the road again today with the game against the Red Sox. The first pitch is scheduled for 105. Several Eagles who won the Super Bowl with the team a month ago are now former Eagles as free agency in the NFL began yesterday. Backup quarterback Kenny Pickett will be traded to the Cleveland Browns. Josh Sweat agreed to a four-year contract with the Cardinals, reuniting him with former Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon.

cornerback Darius Slay will be headed to the other side of the state as he is reportedly signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers and defensive tackle Milton Williams. And the New England Patriots have agreed to a deal that will pay him $26 million per season. But the Eagles are still the steeplechase. And that's what I have for you this morning. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. And welcome, friend, to Tuesday morning. Tattoo's Day is set up and running. So you interested in getting your press in, Steve?

Theme tattoo, you can text word tattoo to 39333. We have a $350 gift certificate from Floating World Tattoo and Piercing Up for Grabs at 1729 South Street in Philadelphia. Want to check out the artwork samples? It's simple. Just go to floatingworldtattoos.com. We can search for them on Instagram. So we will give that away at the end of the program. We do have a couple of guests on the show today. Actress Wendy Malek will be on, and she's promoting new episodes of Nightcrawler.

court and then uh our buddy john clark from nbc 10 uh we will check in with him he is at philly spring training and we just want to get the lay of the land before we head down there yes he was having a drink at frenchie's yesterday right on the beach so uh

We'll be there soon. We know it well. So we'll talk to him and just see how things are going. Quick check in and what we can expect as we head down there on when we leave tomorrow. Yeah. Remember last year we were like they're going to take it all. They're going to win. They're going to do it. Oh my God. Yeah. Everything looked

All the way into the postseason. It looked like it was going to happen. But it's sports. So we'll avoid saying that this year. And hopefully it'll happen the way it happened with the Eagles. Yeah, we're looking forward to a good time anyhow. By the way, I just got a text from Casey who said, Bonjourno.

on my way back to Lake Garda. Miss you guys. Have a great show. Nice. Nice of him to check in. He was in Italy as we speak. We chatted with him yesterday, but we will hook up with him live on Wednesday and then broadcast on Thursday and Friday from Clearwater, which is pretty cool. So we're

All things point to that for us as of now. We are going to take a break. We'll come back. The Entertainment Report, yes, is ready to go. And the Stupid Question is as well. We'll do a Zoom answer for that. So stay put. We'll have it for you in a moment. Now broadcasting from the Philly Spring Training, the Preston and Steve Show.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kat. So the stupid question perized today are tickets to see Bullbeat in Hailstorm. This is going to be Saturday, August 9th, Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. And tickets don't go on sale until Friday. So you get these well in advance. And I got this courtesy of a person who signed in yesterday.

under the name of Zyber Druid. Zyber Druid? Yeah, this is a really interesting stupid question too. He posed me this. Who created the first e-book?

All right, so you need to Zoom if you know the answer to that. And how do you do that? Well, you text the word Zoom to 39333. And then we will send you a link to where you can get on and join us via Zoom. But you need to know the answer to that. Who is the person that created the very first e-mail?

And there's an interesting little story behind it, of which I will tell you if you get through and get it right. We'll mention some birthdays while we wait for you to check in. Today is March 11th. 3-11, by the way. We're going to play some 3-11 at some point. We'll start with actress Thora Birch.

Remember her from American Beauty? She was all the rage when that movie came out. She was in Ghost World as well. And a career kind of just... She ended up, I think, going to school and focusing on that. And maybe even film production. But she's fluctuated in and out. I like that movie Ghost World. Did you ever see it? I didn't see it. Kind of a cult favorite. So she's 43 years old today. Wow. She was just a kid when that movie came out. Now and then.

Did you guys remember that? That didn't speak to you guys. The TV show? No, it was a movie. It was about a group of friends and you would follow them as they were older. It was like Rosie O'Donnell, Melanie Griffith, Demi Moore. Oh, I remember that movie. And then you would see them as younger kids. Oh, okay. Christina Ricci, she was one of them.

Gotcha. That was pivotal. She's 43 today. Terrence Howard has his birthday. There we go. He turns 56. He's a mathematician now. I have no idea if he's still in the area or not. I do not know. We used to see him around. We both saw him in Plymouth meeting, both Kathy and I. And Casey did, too. Yeah, Casey did as well, yeah. Bizarre guy. Yeah, he's an odd dude. Iron Man, Empire, Crash, a bunch of stuff. He is 56 today. It's also Johnny Knoxville's birthday today. Ah!

Johnny turns 54 years old, obviously. Made Jackass a huge part of his life. So, I was reading an article about Jessica Simpson. You know, she has this album that's out. And I guess she's revealing stuff. But apparently, she was very much into Johnny Knoxville. Yeah? Like, they had like a little...

Tumultuous mini affair. Wow, okay. Deuce of Hazzard, Men in Black 2. Yeah, he's done a few different things throughout the years. He turns 54 years old today. We also have Mark Metcalf, who played Niedermeyer in Animal House. The best. 79 years old today. One of the greatest on-screen douchebags of all time. It doesn't get better. No. And my favorite, and I think for a lot of people as well, is...

The way he says pledge pin. Yeah. By spitting. Pledge pin. Pledge pin. And that movie would not work did you not, without him. You needed him to be the consummate douche bag. Yeah. And I was wondering if he, I didn't take him.

peek at his IMDB and you know it's hard to break a character like that and move on to something else I know he's done other things he has of course he recreated that character in the video for We're Not Gonna Take It from Twisted Sister which is brilliant too he was also a maestro on Seinfeld I know the presence of him so that was sort of a different iconic character on a sitcom rather than a movie

So he turns 79 years old today. Also joining those ranks, singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb. Yep, she turns 57 years old today. I always thought she was adorable, man. Super cute. And, you know, nice, good songwriter. She wrote her tunes and

Had huge hits. Didn't she marry a Zappa? She did. Dweezil and her were together for a while. I don't know if they're still together or not, Nick. Nope. Okay. No, they got divorced in 2004. She's very funny in Hot Tub Time Machine 2, where her music is stolen by Craig Ferguson because he's time leaping. And she goes, wow, I wish I could write stuff like that. Oh, that's great.

Happy 57th birthday to Lisa Loeb. Also, twins Benji and Joel Madden have their birthday today from the band Good Charlotte.

And what do we have? So Cameron Diaz, one of them's with Cameron Diaz, the other one's with Nicole Richie. Nicole Richie, I almost said Sophia Richie, but yeah, Nicole Richie. Wow, they both lasted pretty long. They have. Honestly, we knew those guys when, and they performed a concert for us at the Camp Out for Hunger when it was at the Adams Mark. They were still teenagers, man. Still teenagers, Preston. I think you and I were both impressed by their...

just even-headed way of approaching things. And they actually had people in their hotel room who were messing it up. And I remember one of them, like, chastised the other, the people doing it, saying, somebody has to come in and clean this up. Like, the antithesis of rock stars. Yeah, which was...

Pretty cool. I thought it was really thoughtful of them. So Benji and Joel are both 46 years old today. The great Bobby McFerrin has his birthday. He turns 75. You contend he's one of the all-time greats, right? Oh, he's incredible. He's got perfect pitch. He is his...

to float through, I mean, just a huge range of, you know, his range, his vocal range is incredible. He is a genius. He's a musical genius. Should I look past this? You have to look past this song. So when I first bought this album, as I've said before, the album's called Simple Pleasures.

I didn't get it because I hadn't heard anything from it. I just knew he was a great jazz singer and I was into jazz at the time. And this was the first song on the album. This opens the album. It was a cassette. I fast-forwarded it through immediately because I wanted real jazzy, cool vocal stuff. And the whole album does deliver that. But what ended up being the gigantic hit, the one I fast-forwarded through.

Yeah. I heard an hour-long interview with him this summer. I think I sent it to you, Preston. I was driving across the country with Ben, and it was just fascinating radio. It was like This American Life or something like that. And he's really an incredible musician and really just a deep guy. But one of my favorite videos of all time, you showed me, Preston, and it's The Power of the Pentatonic Scale. And my parents had never seen it, so over the holidays, I showed it to them. If you've not seen Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale, it's on YouTube. It has...

12 million views. Take the three minutes and four seconds and watch it today. It's great. It's so damn good. I agree. Happy 75th to Bobby McFerrin. Joey Buttafuqua. Joey Buttafuqua. Another great singer. Great husband. Amazing. Nobody looked better in workout pants. He was...

And growing up, actually, where I lived was not far from Bar Harbor and where all that stuff was going on as it was going on with Mary Jo and Amy Fisher. Yeah, I think I stayed at the hotel. We couldn't determine if it was the hotel or not because it's been redone. So we think maybe we stayed there one night. It was...

still not good at all. It's a motel, actually. We were supposed to stay a second night and Jace was like, I think there's a bullet hole in the sheets. Let's get out of here. I was like, yep. Amy Fisher would bring her Johns to that very same hotel where her and Joey would hook up. Joey's 69 today. We also have the great director Jerry Zucker.

Turning a year older. He and his company, his crew, brought you the classics like Airplane, Police Squad, Top Secret, of course. But not just the spoof stuff. I mean, he directed Ghost. He did, yes. As well. Yeah. And First Night. So he turns 75 years old today. Insanely talented. And Kentucky Fried Movie, one of my all-time favorites. And the last birthday is Travis Kinnick.

me. Philadelphia Flyers. He turns 28 today. He's been to camp out before. He's a good dude. Yeah. So happy birthday, Travis. All right, let's see if we can get via Zoom an answer to this question, which is as follows. Who created the first

e-book ever and we're going to zoom and we have uh joe who i can't see but i can just barely there we go joe joe's got his dome light on now in his car hey joe how you doing man how are you awesome buddy all right do you happen to know who created the first e-book

Michael Hart. Yes, that is correct. Michael S. Hart. I want you to hang on, bud. We'll get your contact info and we're going to send you over the pair of tickets to see Volbeat and Hailstorm Saturday, August 9th, Freedom Mortgage Pavilion.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. You can go to WMMR.com for the pre-sale info and also your shot at winning the pit tickets on top of that. So thank you, Joe. Hang on the line. By the way, so the first e-book was created July 4th, 1971. Going all the way back, yeah. It was well before the internet arrived.

had existed. And where would he be without e-books? And the first e-book was the Declaration of Independence. So he was the one who, he was the guy who created that. He was an author and founder of the non-profit Project Gutenberg that creates e-books from any works that are either public domain or have expired copyrights. Of course, named after Steve Gutenberg. Yes, of course. The legendary. Police Academy.

So we're going to start with this story about Wendy Williams. She was hospitalized after authorities conducted a welfare check at her assisted living facility.

And she had allegedly dropped a note that read the words, help Wendy, out the window. Williams has been under legal guardianship since 2022 with her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, claiming that she is cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and legally incapacitated.

The former talk show host was sent to a local hospital for an evaluation. Sources said that she apparently scored a 10 out of 10 on the psych exam called a capacity test that she took to determine if she was alert and oriented. This is always so bizarre because when you see her or you hear her speak like.

She sounds perfectly fine. And then you hear things like this. It's just confusing. It doesn't mean she doesn't have her moments where she laughs out of it. But I agree. The recent times where she's had long-form conversations, it's like, I don't...

is there something wrong? I'm not sensing it. And you don't see her often. So maybe, you know, whatever it is, medication or mental state, whatever, she gets it together. But it's just, to me, it's confusing because when you do see her, she seems fine. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's,

Doctors have to make that call, you know. So Williams has... Well, I'm a doctor. Disputed. You are a doctor? Well, okay. Same way I'm a minister at the Universal Life Church from Modesto, California. Williams has disputed claims about her mental capacity in the past, sharing, I am not cognitively impaired, but I feel like I am in prison. Describing her facility as restrictive and isolating. She also alleged that she...

has not seen a doctor since her 2023 dementia diagnosis and does not know the names of the medications that she's being given. To me, that's the coolest thing is just to be a prisoner in your own mind and feel that you're not being heard or, you know, you can't get your thoughts out. No one's responding to you the way you would like it. Somebody described it as, you know, you're speaking...

a completely different language than everyone around you. Yeah, and they don't understand. Yep, I could see it that way. Hailey Bieber had some things to get off her chest this weekend shortly after shutting down claims that she liked a shady TikTok about Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco. Whoa. She posted a cryptic Instagram story and she wrote...

Pastors and preachers really love to just put words together with the same letter. And she was mocking phrases like, there's blessing in the brokenness or there's grace in the gratitude, adding, it drives me bananas. Well,

While it's unclear if her frustration was tied to the renewed feud rumors, the timing definitely raised some eyebrows. What the hell are you talking about? So earlier this week, TikToker Courtney Presto shared screenshots that Mrs. Bieber liked her vid lightly shading a photo shoot Gomez and Blanco did for Interview Magazine. The TikToker recognized her original post wasn't the nicest.

And that Haley liking it was a sign that the Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber beef is alive and well.

Haley's rep was quick to squash rumors saying to E! News the entire story had been fabricated by a content creator looking to capitalize off an old, tired narrative. This is very troubling. Haley and Selena have been at the center of drama for years with fans feeling speculation that there's lingering tension over their shared history with Justin Bieber. Despite the Beavers getting married in 2018 and welcoming the first child, Jack, in August...

And Gomez recently being engaged to Blanco, the internet can't seem to move on from their tangled dating history. Have you ever had a situation in your life where you're with someone who is in the sphere of their ex or that communicated with their ex? Because I did and it never, it didn't matter. Like, that was, you know, I don't know. I guess these vibes exist. You know what I'm talking about? Because, I guess, is this...

Is it jealousy? This kind of warring thing that's going on? Does it matter? It can be. It certainly can be. Some people have a little bit of jealousy or...

Other people maybe flirt a little too much with their exes. Sleep with them. I haven't had that, but I have liked a video that I only watched for three seconds and then went back and realized what it was. Not realizing that it's negative. Just in the face, liking it, and then you're like, oh, look at Selena. They look happy. Let me see what this is.

Well, that can happen too. What are they saying? Oh, this is a Nazi rally. Wait, and then I wonder, do they get notified that you've liked it? You can see that if you unlike it, I don't know. I've done that before. I'm like, I'll hit it by accident and go, oh, wait a minute. No, no, no, no. I didn't want to do that. I was half...

awake and so somebody sent me a TikTok thing so I hit it it came up and so I started scrolling a bit and my finger was hitting either I was sending it to people I didn't know and I'm like oh my god yeah the way they have the page set up can be problematic it depends what kind of notifications the person has on

Oh, whether or not they find out if you like them. Yeah. Okay. So Millie Bobby Brown is setting the record straight on her flip-flopping accent during Monday's Swatless podcast. Co-host Sean Hayes

pointed out how she seamlessly switched between her native British accent and her American, prompting Brown to address the online chatter. She said, I actually call it the accent gate. She said, it's so frustrating because that was everywhere for a second. Everyone was talking about my accent and they had a real problem about it.

Brown explained that she naturally picks up the accents around her, including her all-American hubby, Jake Bongiovi. She said, when I'm around his family, I immediately go into an American accent, she said. But then I was just in England, and the second that I hear my mom and dad's accents, I go right back into it. Mm-hmm.

She even questioned why people expect her to act in different roles but not adapt to different speech patterns. She said, what I hear, I do that. And it's all part of that. So I'm not an accomplished actress as is she, but I have the same thing. I love doing dialects. And when I'm around people with different dialects, I sort of... Slightly adapt it. Slightly mimic, yeah. I agree. I agree. I've done that before. When I was a kid, I grew up with a southern accent. Right. And...

and then moved to the Midwest and lost that. But when I would go back and be with family members who had that accent, I would go back into that drawl. It was just natural. It was just the way you do it. Do you remember when we had that Russian photographer in here? Yes. And I was, I couldn't stop doing the right, yeah. You were mimicking him. I remember that, yeah.

So, after laying relatively low since leaving the White House, Michelle Obama has announced that she, along with her brother, Craig Robinson, are launching a podcast. IMO is what it's called. And the pair will give their opinions and candid perspectives to the everyday questions shaping their lives, relationships, and the world around them.

The new show debuts tomorrow wherever podcasts are available and is slated to welcome guests including Issa Rae, Jay Shetty, Kiki Palmer, and more. We were just talking about Jay Shetty last week with Peter Mayerhofer. That's right. He's a fan. He's a motivational speaker. And yeah, Peter, our super duper positive guy. He's a big fan of his. So that'll be cool.

So fans have been wondering what Hoda Kotb would try next after leaving the Today Show. And yesterday she pulled back the curtain on her plans in a segment that was played by her former colleagues at Today Show. On the Today Show, Hoda explained that she has a book coming out. She said, I started thinking about different people.

And who I've loved and respected and admired. Who have been afraid to do something and have done it. And this struck a chord with Copy as she was making that leap of faith herself. Leaving the show that she had long been a part of. And the book will be called Jump and Find Joy. I have to assume there's a chapter about meeting Bird Bot 2.0. It has to be, right? She said, here's my thing. You get one life, that's all. That's it. And it's ready for the taking. And it only takes a jump.

So jump and find joy comes out September 23rd. She's saying essentially you might as well jump. Yeah, you might as well. Go ahead, jump. And we're looking at a picture of her with Bird Bot as we speak here. Yeah, she's great.

So actress Jessie Cave gained some measure of fame by starring, albeit in a smaller role, in the Harry Potter film franchise. And now as an adult, the actress who played Lavender Brown in the series is looking to boost her income like so many others have by joining OnlyFans. Clock's ticking, Kathy.

It's ticking. Yeah. You know, so many people, my friends are all like, they're like, I don't know why you haven't done it yet. Yep. And she, but this, from what I gather, Preston, she's highly specialized in her OnlyFans. She is. So before you get too excited, she admits it's rather niche and clean. She said in a video on Instagram that she will be offering subscribers the best quality hair sounds and

And very sensual stuff. So she specified there will be nothing overtly sexual, just her brushing and playing with her hair for those that go for that type of thing. So, yeah. And you know there's an audience for that. Absolutely. All right. So I need a sensual... A sensual approach. Totally. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

How can my feet be sensual? Sorry. There's plenty of ways. Thinking out loud. I'll bring some lotion in tomorrow. She played Ron Weasley's girlfriend in the Harry Potter series and in the sixth movie, Half-Blood Prince. Have you guys seen the video of Rupert Grint who played Ron getting gas at a gas station? Oh my God, it's excellent. I don't know how old it is because sometimes these things show up on your feed and they're like two years old, but I've seen it a few times recently and it was exceptional.

Petronium. He says expensive petroleum. There we go, yeah. So it's a riff on expecto patronum, which is one of the spells that they use. Yeah.

Because expensive petroleum. As he holds up the gas nozzle. It is very, very funny. Yeah, he's become a really solid actor. In Servant, he was terrific. Yeah, he was great on that show. I have a contact for him, too. I've asked a number of times. And each time, they're like, he's not available. He's working. He did. We've got to get him on at some point. He's solid. They respond to me every time.

Okay. But they just say no every time. Do you know what our worst luck is with people who are actually within driving distance? Yeah. They're usually busy when they're in Philadelphia. Son of a bitch.

All right, I love this. Fans of The Breakfast Club will have an opportunity to hear from the full main cast of the film when they return to Chicago for the first and only time ever at April's Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, and Molly Ringwald.

are all listed as guests at the convention. That's pretty amazing. It'll be held April 13th. A post made on Estevez's Instagram said, First time for everything. A reunion 40 years in the making. See you soon, Chicago. I wonder if that...

Andrew McCarthy series. Yeah, must, right? Got them all being a bit nostalgic for this stuff. According to the schedule, Estevez, Hall, and Nelson will appear all days of the convention. Ringwald and Sheedy will appear Saturday and Sunday only. So I'm hoping they get them all together for one panel, which would be great. In that special, Steve, when he's trying to find all the members of the Brat Pack at the

And this is a spoiler alert. It's been out for a while, though. But at the very end, the whole time, they're trying to track down Judd Nelson. Right, right. And the very last thing is Andrew McCarthy picks up the phone. He goes, hello? And he goes, Judd! Yeah. And then it ends. Right, yeah, yeah. And so I'm like, there's got to be another one. They have to do a follow-up with Judd Nelson. This might be part of it. It's funny when you think of Anthony Michael Hall because he's on this season of Reacher. Yeah. And I watch him and he's playing, you know, badass. Yeah.

And you watch him like, that was the kid with the beer in Christmas Vacation. It just seems like two entirely different people. He also plays the chief of police on SVU this season. Oh, does he? Yeah. He's the kind of bad guy. Yeah.

The John Hughes Directed Film celebrated its 40th anniversary in February. When you talk about pivotal movies for people, for you we know for a fact, but so many others, that is the movie. I think it could be, for sentimental reasons, it could be my all-time favorite movie. Just because I was a senior in high school when that came out. And you could do that lipstick trick with your cleavage. And the little dance that they do where they're shuffling their feet. Yeah, I do all that.

Public domain is turning into a nice little moneymaker for independent filmmakers with childhood icons like Bambi, Winnie the Pooh, and Steamboat Willie. Now, fair game for anybody to make a movie about it. Untouchable Entertainment is going a step further, and now they're putting together the first public domain crossover. So, the dark domain, MVW, which is Mickey versus Winnie. Oh.

Sees the horror versions of Stebo Willie, which of course is Mickey Mouse, and Winnie the Pooh teaming up to take down a group of teens in a variety of bloody ways. So all these movies so far have been really crappy. The second Winnie the Pooh movie was a little bit better. But they've been, I mean, they're really substandard movies. Yeah.

I was never a fan. Of Winnie the Pooh to begin with? No kidding. Yeah, as a kid, no. Loved Winnie the Pooh. So we'll see how he does up against Mickey. Hallmark Plus has announced that Mistletoe Murders is coming back for a second season.

Really? Yes. Okay. Mr. Toad murders. The holiday-themed mystery series stars Sarah Drew as Emily Lane, a small-town shop owner with a secret past. Small town. The series also features Peter Mooney as local detective Sam Wilner and Sierra Marilyn Riley as his teenage daughter, Violet, who works at Emily's store. The cast also includes Jean Yoon, Laura Emmersey, and

Kylie Evans. And Art the Clown. Production will begin this year with eyes on a 2025 holiday season premiere. It's so funny. It's, you know, it's a bit of a leap.

From Christmas love story to Christmas murder. The most polite murders. It's never chainsaws. You're right. I put strychnine in his cookie. They do it that way. But it's a formula that works. People love those things. And I'm the biggest sucker for it.

Good news for fans of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. A new teaser just dropped. And so did news of a premiere date for season two. I have to watch this. My sister-in-law is obsessed. Really? Oh, my God. You got to. I can't believe you're not watching it yet. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Dude, I totally have gotten sucked into this show, Kathy. Did you? Yeah. And it's oddly and annoyingly compelling.

You start watching it and then you get sucked in. It's like love is blind. All of a sudden you're invested in it and 12 hours later you're like, I can't believe I've given up my life for this nonsense. They're making TikTok videos and stuff like that. She keeps sending them to me. They're all super attractive. They're all hot. There was one...

I can't stand reality shows. There was one, though, that I recently started watching that Rochelle was watching. I kind of started getting into it. What is it? And I've forgotten the name of it, but it's about this young girl who has Tourette's Syndrome. Oh, my God. Balin is her name. Yeah, our dog groomer and dog sitter, Marissa...

is obsessed with this show. Yeah, I'm fine. I kind of started getting caught up in it, believe it or not. Yeah, and so she was watching it when she was sitting for the dog and it'd be on or there'd be a clip and I'm like, okay, this is interesting. Yeah. I wonder...

she legitimately has Tourette's. And so they do show what, you know, how in a way it can be debilitating. Yeah, it's how you navigate life with that and the stressors that cause her to react. And she's cute, you know, obviously, as you would need that for a star of your show and everything. But yeah, I'm kind of getting into it. Do any of you guys watch Married at First Sight?

No, Rochelle did. Okay. Yeah, she watches all those Love is Blind, Married at First Sight. Because I was on an episode. You were on an episode? They were filming it when I was out in Denver. Why didn't you tell us? I may have. I forgot. I didn't know what show it was. But I heard it was kind of lame. Oh, damn. Like they got divorced or separated anyway. In what capacity? You were just in the background? Yeah. Or did they talk to you? No, I was in the background. Okay. She got them together. Yeah, yeah. Is that how you married your husband? I literally just took their blindfold off. I was like, you're married.

I am ordained too, Steve. There you go. You're a sister. All right. A couple other quick things. Uh,

The internet buzz may be muted and the reviews mixed, but Netflix is all about and all in on With Love, Megan, and is bringing it back for a second season. And it shouldn't be much of a surprise because the ratings are solid and season two has already been filmed and it's set to premiere sometime in the fall. The series, which features Megan Markle hosting friends for meals and sharing lifestyle tips,

currently sits at number seven on the Netflix top ten chart. So I watched a little bit of it, and it has that kind of pentameter that I just can't. And if we were to put a little bit of pomegranate on it, I... Like Martha Stewart? What? Down. Martha Stewart is not boring. I wouldn't say she's boring, but the way he just described it sounds exactly like Martha Stewart. It's a Martha Stewart, definitely clone. But boring. But boring.

So, let's see. Max apparently expects some big things from Conan O'Brien with just one season completed and a second ready to air. The streamer is renewed. Conan O'Brien must go for a third season. Oh, I like that show.

Along with that announcement comes news that season two of the series will premiere in May. Is it a straight ahead chat program? No, it's a travel show. And he'll find a fan in Iceland and go. And so they'll submit videos and then he ends up going to hang out with them and interviewing them. So it's a cultural show because he spends time wherever he's going. Yeah.

My only problem with it is when they release these episodes, there's only like four or five per season. It's really limited. Yeah. A lot of travel. And he has said many times this is his calling. This is what he believes he does best. He's terrific. The man on the street sort of things. And he loves it.

Season one took him to Norway, Thailand, Argentina, and Ireland and won a 2024 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program. Speaking of man on the street stuff, I got some bad news, guys. The Ron Weasley guy pumping gas, it's a Ron Weasley lookalike. It's a lookalike.

Yeah, his name, Rupert Grint lookalike, Ron Weasley lookalike. He's on TikTok. He's got a lot of followers because he looks just like him. But he goes around and does this kind of stuff. Expensive petroleum. Yeah. I love it still. All right, one last story. John Mulaney's new live Netflix show, Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, is starting its run this week with an unexpected mix of guests. The debut episode airing Wednesday will feature...

Michael Keaton, Joan Baez, Fred Armisen, Cypress Hill, and fiancé columnist Jessica Roy. The eclectic lineup is reminiscent of his, oh, not fiancé, finance columnist. I'm like, wait a minute. He and Olivia Munner together. She's going to be pissed. That's not good.

The eclectic lineup is reminiscent of his Netflix special Everybody's in L.A., which brought together comedians, musicians, and even seismologists. So the show will be live, which is kind of cool. Yeah, last week, Mulaney dropped the awkwardly funny trailer captioning the post saying,

The first ever Celebrity Sit-Down talk show. Catch the show's premiere March 12th. That's tomorrow, 7 p.m. Pacific time, mind you. All right, we have some clips to play for you this morning, friend. Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio are back as Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk in Daredevil Born Again. And in this clip, Charlie talks about Murdock's and Fisk's current relationship.

on the show. When Fisk reemerges, when he returns to New York, I think it just lights a fire inside Matt. He's able to focus all of his resentment and all of his anger towards this one thing, this one man. Yeah! A new episode of Daredevil Born Again will air tonight. You can find that at 9 o'clock on Disney+. Here's our next clip.

Yellow Jackets fans know that when a character is gone from the show, they are not really gone. In this clip, Sophie Nellies talks about the emotional roller coaster. It's fun because whenever a character dies, like you just said, they come back to haunt us. And so it feels like it's easier for us to see them go because you're like, you'll be back. Shooting with Ella is always fun. It transports me right back into everything we did in the first season. And it's bittersweet because I get her for just a little glimpse and then she leaves again. And

Anyway. New episode of Yellow Jackets is out on Paramount+. I got to get back to that. I was pissed when somebody did. Somebody died? Yes. And I was like angry about it and not really wanting to watch it. Okay. So you got petulant. Yeah.

Yeah, it was just, I don't know. But maybe this will bring me back. Maybe so. She'll come back in flashbacks or something. All right, and that happens to be our entertainment report. Marissa looks like she wants to say something. I wanted Nick to pull up Instagram again because I posted a photo, a video of 2848. Oh, 2848. Okay, so yesterday, yeah, the guy that we had a call from? Yeah. Okay. It was just hilarious. I laughed about it all day long. It was very funny. So if you want to see that, that is on our Instagram page.

right now. A couple of guys that we had on via Zoom with a great nickname, 2848. Learn the origin of it on Instagram. We're going to take a break. We will get comedian, not comedian, actress Wendy Malek on the show and our friend John Clark from NBC10 who is in Clearwater for spring training. And we'll just kind of get the lay of the land, see how things are going as we plan our trip to head there. Actually, tomorrow we fly out. We're going to take a quick break. Be back in a moment. Stay with us. ...

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you so much, Kathy. It was a bizarre final story we had the other day, which was...

Very, very interesting. This guy had posted on Reddit asking people what they thought of this. Apparently, his brother-in-law pulled a prank on him. So this guy that writes this article had a tad bit to drink. He fell asleep. And his brother-in-law, who was sober, by the way, filled up his belly button with superglue.

And he said, at some point, I must have touched it because when I woke up, I had glue partially dried in my belly button and on my fingers. Yeah, it's funny. We tried to remove it, but it got stuck and the glue adhered to my skin. And when we attempted to peel it off, it caused some tearing around the edges. So he had to go to the emergency room and he has a thousand dollar copay for the emergency room visit. But he had to because he couldn't remove the glue on his own. When he was said and done, the medical bill was like twenty three hundred dollars.

And so his brother-in-law did this to him. And he asked his brother-in-law if he would pay...

And apparently the guy refused. See, I think he should have paid. I think so too. And so he ended up taking him to small claims court over this whole thing. So this is brother-in-law. Brother-in-law. It's not blood family, but close enough. If he's close with his sister or brother or whoever is married to this other guy, then that's all in play, like you said. So it got me to thinking about...

Having to sue your own family. Nightmare. Take them to court. Like how how bad that's going to mess up the family. And then Kathy had a whole other take. It's similar to this in that it's a beef with with your relatives that.

But I think we can run two tabs here on this. And we're going to ask you to zoom in if you have a story you want to share in regards to this. Unless there's like a, you know, something horrific. Sexual assault. Yeah, we don't necessarily need to hear about all that. But you can text the word zoom to 39333 and we'll send you a link and we'll

We'll pull you in for the conversation. But Kathy was watching the show White Lotus. Yeah, mine just stems from a show. Yeah, but still. Yeah, but in that show, there is a brother who's just reprehensibly such a douchebag. Like he is the definition of douchebag and the sister can't stand him. And I was just thinking what it must be like to not, you know, like you're talking about, okay, there was something happened, right? You sue somebody, whatever. But like genuinely disliking a family member, like a brother or a sister. Like a sibling.

Like hating your sibling. Like growing up not liking them. Could there be any worse situation? You're in constant close proximity. Your family's supposed to be your retreat. They're supposed to be where you go to feel safe. And you just...

think someone you is a relative or a sister or a brother is a dick. But like, you know, growing up in the same household, being raised by the same parents, but like, you're completely different and you just don't click. Like, it's gotta be... That's totally foreign to you. You and your brothers got along great, right? Yeah. You're very tight. Yeah, and

And listen, have we had arguments? Yeah, of course. But it's that argument almost like we would have here. You have an argument and then it's over and the next day it's fine. Not like where I dislike my brothers for something. Yes, that's foreign to me. Well, the old adage is you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. And that's part of the deal. So you get what you get. And if you get something that's not working for you and you legitimately do not like...

a family member, you know, and you just, as you say, you just don't click. It happens. Strange dynamic, and this is probably more common than you just hate them, but like, I read Alex Van Halen's biography, and he and Eddie, they fight,

like relentlessly. Actually, I read, it was Sammy's biography that covered it a little bit more in that they would physically fight. Physically fight each other. Get in full on punching brawls.

But don't you ever, ever try to get between the two of them or you're the one that's getting your ass kicked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is such a bizarre dynamic to me. You know, this person who... But they also had... You know, they immigrated here. They were alone. They had to learn a new language. So that's a very odd dynamic in that they're almost a single unit, but they also...

at times can't stand each other and want to kill each other. You know what I mean? And it's a dynamic that's complex, but it's repeated time and time again throughout history. It's just that, yeah, I can beat him up, but you can't. I mean, how many different instances are there just in rock music alone? You know, with the Oasis Brothers or the Gallagher, you know, the Kinks. Yeah. The Callowills. The Davies Brothers. Yeah, Ray and Dave Davies and the Callowills. Is that what they're called? The Callowills and Kings of Leon? Oh, Callowills, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

By the way, here's a text that came in. Somebody didn't want to go on the air or had zoomed in. No, they're on Zoom. Oh, they're on. They're just anonymous. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, let's go to them. Follow Will. Not Follow Will. Jesus. Oh, sorry. No, it's me. Let's go to the anonymous Zoom. Hi, anonymous. You're on the air. Good morning.

Good morning. How are you, Preston? Doing well. So we were talking about having to sue your own family member. And what was the story with yours, if you can share some of the details? So it ended up being my uncle. This was years ago. And he ended up stealing...

basically our inheritance from my grandparents oh man wow yeah okay yeah it's crazy so you in order to you know set the record straight and also get what was entitled you're entitled to uh you had to take them to court yes i did and what ended up happening uh we so what was left after he took the money was uh was properties uh

So another family member and I ended up with the properties. How substantial was the estate overall? It was pretty substantial. Oh, man. All right. So question, when you were doing this, was everybody else in the family on board or did he have some allies?

He didn't really have allies and we didn't really go public with it until afterward. Okay. So by the whole estate was my grandparents and my mom and him. And then it was coming down to the grandchildren. So by that time, both of my grandparents and my mother had passed away.

So it was just him running the estate and then leaving out the grandchildren, which I was one of. I was the oldest of them. Man, that sucks. So I assume that didn't work wonders for making your relationship stronger. I assume he's persona. Is he still with us in A and B? If so, is he persona non grata?

He, so no, it definitely wrecked the relationship. Obviously, we tried everything before we took those measures of going to court because he was basically our only family left from, you know, that entity. Yeah. But he kept blowing us off, blowing us off. And then, no, unfortunately, he did pass away a year ago and we no longer had a relationship with him after that court date.

Yeah, yeah. To take to take a family member into court. Now, mind you, it sounds like he was robbing you guys of something you were entitled to, which is horrible as well. But I mean, once once that match is lit, things are going to explode. It's just the way it goes.

Yeah, it was. I mean, it was sad and unfortunate, but we had to do what we had to do as well to protect ourselves. So I have to ask, are we talking hundreds of thousands? Are we talking millions? What were we talking?

Um, we were stuck in several hundreds of thousands. Several hundreds of thousands. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you for sharing. Sorry you had to go through that, but we appreciate you checking in. Here's a text that says, try the person you can't stand in your family being your mother. Oh, man.

Oh, man. Someone who's constantly in a victim expecting you to take care of them but constantly puts you down and belittles you when you try to step away from them for your own health. They threaten to harm themselves. That's my current situation. Yeah, it can get really hairy. It can get ugly. A parent when you don't get along with a parent. Now, that's a classic story. You know, I mean, Sybil kind of had an issue with that.

But I mean, if you stop and think about, again, that's someone who's supposed to be your protector, who's supposed to be looking out for you. Right. Someone you can always count on. So I got a message. He said, it's okay that I say who it is, but someone we work with said, I had a brother like that. He's dead now because he was an a-hole. Oh, okay.

Rodney's brother. Rodney's brother. The nicest guy on the planet. Maybe that makes sense. Why didn't he get along? He said, I had not spoken to him in eight years. Wow. Man, okay. We'll go next to, we have Jenna on via Zoom this morning. Jenna, good morning to you. Good morning, guys. Thanks for coming. You look so cute. Where are you going?

I'm going to work. Oh, okay. You look good today. I got to look cute for work. All right. So you had to take a family member to court. Why? What happened? I actually took an entire side of the family to court. Wow. Whoa. I had just gone through a really bad breakup and I ended up moving in with my uncle and his girlfriend. And she had a daughter that was a few years younger than me. And she...

I kept saying like, hey, can you please stop? Can you please stop?

And she didn't. So I ended up going to small claims court to file against her because she kept stealing my things. And because of that, they threw all of my stuff outside. It all got ruined. So then I had to go file a $40,000 claim up at Doylestown to get my, to get monetary stuff because, you know, my bed was ruined, my TV, like my entire apartment with me. Yeah.

Yes. So this was a stepsister? Is that basically what it was? Or what was the dynamic? Kind of. Like a step-cousin. Step-cousin. And so she decided she was entitled to a lot of your stuff. And so once you hit a certain monetary amount, you got to take it out of a small claims court. And that's what happened. How did it end up resolving? So I won the small claims court, yet I have yet to see anything because I don't think...

She wasn't, you know, working at the time and she wasn't, you know, motivated to work. So I didn't receive anything for that. But my $40,000 claim got rejected. The judge threw it out. Man, so you were left with nothing. And I assume that part of the family is, you guys aren't best buds.

Oh, they don't exist to me. My grandfather actually passed away last year and the entire funeral, nobody spoke to me. Wow. Oh, man. It's got to suck. Is there anybody on your side in the family? No, my family and I

Lee and I are very, uh, estranged. I was kind of like the black sheep kind of wanted to get out and get away. Um, so I don't talk to any of them actually. You know, it's weird. Let me ask you this from, from, you know, to play devil's advocate here. Do you, I, I, have you ever done the soul searching and you say to yourself, I mean, it sounds like these people were, were mistreating you, but do you ever say, is it me? Was it, was it the way I approach things? I mean, I assume you run like a diagnostic check on yourself to see if you, you might've been part of it. Uh,

Did you do that? Oh, absolutely. I did. I mean, we were really good friends at the beginning. We used to go out all the time. It was, you know, I would let her borrow my, excuse me, borrow my things. It was just when they were coming back destroyed. Like I worked hard for my money. I've been working since I was 14 years old. I've been pretty much on my own. So my things mean a lot to me. And I made that clear and it just kept happening. Let me ask you this as well. When stuff like this happens and people come from kind of effed up,

Family situations like yours, they tend to go on and put together really super tight families with really, they work hard to make sure the family they create is completely loving and caring and nurturing. Would that be you?

Oh, absolutely. I'm actually your glassblower friend, too. So the glass community has been really great. I've created a family with that. I would do absolutely anything for them and same for me. There you go. Nice. When in trouble, seek out a glassblower. Yep, when you can. All right. Thank you, Jenna. I appreciate it. Now, hey, listen, it's...

I don't have a picture-perfect family dynamic. I'm around a lot of people like yourselves. I think you guys all look like you have these great relationships with your families and everything. At least that's kind of the feedback I get. And my dynamic is not quite like that. I kind of grew up in a little bit of a dysfunctional home.

And so sometimes when I'm hearing about your wonderful families, I'm like, yeah, really? That's great. Yeah. Isn't that nice? Isn't that wonderful how you grew up like that and everything? But... Mind you, you don't really like Kathy to begin with. No, no. It's pretty obvious. I like my brother. But...

But kind of in line of what you said, I have gone through and taken many steps to make sure that my nuclear family is a much tighter bond. You're not going to go down that path. And I'm not going to have that happen. So in some regards, it's kind of a good thing. Yeah. It's taught me to maybe not be that way. You know what I mean? Yeah. So if you listening this morning had an odd...

dynamic in your formative years and growing up in the family, A, you're not alone, and B, you can correct that in where you go forward from here with your other relationships. So, you know, you can learn from that. We're going to go to Salim, who is on next. Hey, Salim, good morning. What's happening? How you doing, man?

Hey, not bad. On my way home from work. Oh, you're going home from work. You're an overnighter? Oh, yeah. I work overnight. Oh, man. Been there, my friend. Where do you work, may I ask? I work in Langhorne for a company called ADM, Archer Daniels Midland. Okay. All right. I've seen the name. All right. So you have a bad family dynamic? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, you could say that. So I have a half sister and my father, you know, I come from the divorce household. So my father met a woman. They started dating. She was from Nicaragua.

And the you know, she my father just got divorced and she wanted to get remarried. She saw a rich guy and she's like, yeah, I want to get I want to get married, set up my life. He's like, well, I don't want to get remarried, but I do like you and I would like to date you. He said, but if we're going to do this, we're going to do it the right way. So we're going to use contraceptives. We're going to use birth control. She said, well, I don't like condoms. So, oh, boy, pay for it.

Yeah, so he paid for birth control, took her to the appointments, went to every appointment with her and everything, got the birth control and she didn't take it. So, yeah. So here it is, you know, nine months later. Oh, I'm pregnant. Now you have to marry me. He said, I told you I'm not getting married again. He said, but I will do the right thing and raise and co-parent with your racist child.

So fast forward to the time when she's 17, she says, you know, I want to have I don't want any relationship with you because you did my mom dirty. And he said, well, wait a minute. How did I do your mom dirty? They went back and forth. So she you know, he got her a car and he said, well, look, I he said, I won't give this car to you. You know, I'll just give it to, you know, one of your brothers.

So I'm in the military at this time. I'm gone. I'm away. I come back to find that, you know, my dad is distraught because my sister has told him she wants nothing to do with him. And she's in college, but she wants money from him. So she keeps trying to get money from him. So then her mom gets involved and I come home. I said, wait a minute. This is not OK. I said, you're supposed to be loyal to your family. You're not supposed to take your family for money or anything.

So, you know, we had a big blowout. Cops came home. Is she technically your half sister? Is that she is? Yeah, she is my half sister. Yeah. And I told her, I said, look, I say going from this day forward, you are no longer a sister to me. I said, I tell you, I told her I was like, I wouldn't pour a cup of water on you if you were on fire to put you out. That's pretty conclusive.

Yeah, that was pretty conclusive. So we haven't talked for years. And do you not like that to some extent? Or is it something in other words, when you think about overall, would you like to have a relationship? Is it sort of bittersweet? No.

Not at all. Yeah, yeah. No, a person like that, I mean, I'll be honest with you. I mean, I'm very, I hold honor and family and loyalty in high regard because at the end of the day, that's all you have. Yeah. You have nothing. Your family is going to be there for you, you know, through thick and thin and nothing else. And she just seems, she's very, you know, money driven. And it's like, what can you do for me? And what are you giving me?

Yeah, no, that's the thing. You just said it. Your family's supposed to be. And again, so often is the time where it's not the case, where you feel least safe or supported by family members and that and you know, that's not the way it should be. So, you know, I was just wondering if there's a little bit of a cloud hanging over you, but you're cool with it. You don't need her in your life ever.

No, I really don't. I mean, it's not like she was really there, you know, to begin with. You know, like when I was deployed, she never, you know, she came over and held her phone call. Not even an email. Right. Right. Yeah. Wow. It's sad, man. But thank you, Salim. We appreciate you sharing, man. Hope your day gets better. Go get some rest. No problem, guys. I will see you around, bud. All right. Yeah, it's, you know.

I didn't mean to get this deep this morning, but... Do you want to sit on the couch? I think we should have a seat. You lay down. Bring the lights down a little bit. Get a notepad. No. But the whole idea of, you know...

Family has family. You always have to support your family and so on. But if there is such dynamics in there that make it counterproductive, you don't have to simply because you have blood ties with each other. If someone is so toxic and you need to

You can cut and move on. I firmly believe in the chosen family theory of being able to pick people in your lives that you clearly...

are meant to be around and support and be a part of your sphere. I love the idea of the chosen family. Yes, creating that sort of secondary family. People you can always borrow money from. Of course. You make that joke, man. When that happens in actual families and the money's not paid back, Steve, or whatever, it's just... I've seen that happen and it just gets so toxic so fast. Money...

can just be the source of so much strife. I'm living it. Yeah. There you go. I'm living it right now. But you know, here's a piece of advice if you can do it and if it happens, don't let money, always consider any money a gift. Like don't,

If you, when you set up a loan and expectation. Oh, totally. Yeah. You're not getting it back. Don't ever do that. Don't, because if you can do it, you know, because it's, it's a better dynamic, you know, and, but it's. Wait, I don't follow. What do you mean? Someone is asking to borrow money. Give them the money. Oh. If family member wise. Oh, I thought. What?

Well, this is what I thought you were saying because this happened to me. Like if somebody asks to borrow money, you know, of course they're going to say, I'm going to pay you back. But don't expect it. Don't expect that. You mean, curiously, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. You're interested. No. You're never getting that. I know. I know. But I'm not going to say that. Yes. Because you don't want money in a goddamn way. Yeah. By the way, I'll just, I'll keep the money coming.

No, no, no. Don't worry about it. We'll take good care of you. Here's a text. So it's going well. Here you go, Kathy. Here's a text. My sister and I hate each other. And not only did I not let her know that our dad had died, she found out from other family members. And to my knowledge, to this day, she does not know where he is buried. We lost him in 2013. Guess she should learn to be a better human being. Wow. My mother, who is just, you know...

Phenomenal. You know, obviously, I think the world of her, I miss her dearly, and I only knew her for 21 years. But she had a sister who was the absolute antithesis of her. Of her? Yes. I mean, night and day, like Michael Knight's evil brother. Garth? Garth. And so, you know, it can happen. So, I...

I always say this. I just gave this advice to someone who has a fairly large family. I said, you know, you don't have to like every member of the family. You should try to get along at some level, but you're not compelled to really dig every member of your family, you know? Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, without question. Yeah, it can be too much work. Well, you...

You just, you may not see eye to eye or feel the same way or have the same interests or you don't jibe or you agitate each other. You can love somebody you don't like. Here's another text. It says, I did not sue my family. However, I no longer speak to a good portion of my family because my brother stole mine and my other brother's inheritance. Man. So there's four of us and only the two of us speak to each other now. I wonder how you get away with that.

And when that happens, when that dynamic and split happens, if there's ever any reaching out across the aisle, right? Like if your brother, you've formed this bond where you're not going to talk to the other half of the family, right? But what if one person decides, you know what, I'm going to give it a shot. And then you have to go back behind the one brother's back and say, I'm talking to the other guy again. How does that dynamic evolve over time? My older brother, my younger brother, my dad passed away. Sheila, my stepmom passed.

Everybody, my dad put into play this, by the way, this speaks to that notion of making sure all your I's are dotted and T's crossed before you die with your will and your plans for it. Oh my God, yes. My dad had it down to the...

Period in everything. And so it was effortless. My brother Gene was the executive of the will and my brother Tom and I, everything went flawlessly. And my dad, again, the greatest gift you can pay forward to the people who survive you is make them not to have an issue where this could drive your family apart forever.

or cause complications that are going to make issues. So, yeah, I know it's something on a tangent here. If you can, think about your affairs if you were to pass away and how people are going to hash things out. Oh, dude. So, and this is, you know, it's kind of...

I would like to impart this wisdom to you if possible. You have to plan for the later part of your life. And even if you're 20 years old, you got to start right now, dude. We're watching, I'm watching people that I've known that are in the twilight of their lives.

living a terrible existence right now because they did not plan properly for it. You got to set aside the ideas that you have for being, and listen, go out and experience the world and enjoy yourself. But man, if you don't keep an eye on the ball for later on in life, should we be lucky enough to live to this latter stage in our life and you're going to need people to take care of you? You got to plan for that.

Now, dude. You do not want to go out. No. Listen, we can all physically be miserable because what's going on in our lives, but if your surroundings are halfway decent, it's way better than being...

In the garbage and being ill and being in bad health and all that. Yeah. It's just... Wow. Okay. We got deep. We got heavy. This went from a story about a guy who got super glue in his belly button... Ew. Which is funny. Which is funny and... Heavy stuff. Everything to this. So I apologize for taking us down this road, I guess. Can we go back to the prank? Because it's a good prank. I think it's a great prank. All right. And Steve, I think you brought this up. Like...

If you didn't do anything with that super glue, maybe it would irritate your skin or whatever, but eventually your belly button would heal, right? I think it would, and I think your body would force out almost like a splinter. It would drive me crazy. I would pick at that thing. But would that be cool? Can you ever get a little bit on your face?

finger? Yes. That drives you nuts. That drives me crazy. But what if you like picking scabs? I know. So what if you had a belly button deposit you could pull from? No, it's not fun. I had a really big scab on my shoulder recently because my dermatologist had to take a chunk out of here. What did it taste like? And so I was picking at it and picking at it and picking at it and eventually it was

really hard to get out and I just dug in there and ripped that thing out. And it was not fun, but Kathy, that crusty feeling on my skin was driving me crazy. And I think that if I had a belly button full of super glue, I'd be the same way and I'd probably go to the hospital like this guy and end up suing my brother-in-law and we'd come full circle. The Merle Haggard album never released. Belly button full of super glue. You know what would be fun to put in somebody's belly button? Rubber cement. I was thinking rubber cement.

rubber cement or Elmer's glue. That's a little bit more malleable. Rubber cement is the most pleasurable of the adhesives out there, right? You know why? Because it's sort of like snot. Right. And you can play with it and rub it up and yeah, I think that's a good time. Do your kids have rubber cement in their lives anymore? No. I feel like nobody uses that.

For the most part, in the latter years, it was for a way for kids to get high. Well, that's the thing. It's like so toxic. I think they found other things that we can let our kids use. Do you remember the glue, the jar, when you unscrewed the top, there was a brush inside of there? That was rubber cement. That was paste, right? That was rubber cement. That was rubber cement. Actually, though, they did have a paste, the white counterpart. Yeah. They had a similar applicator. That's what I'm remembering. Yeah, yeah.

but maybe we need to try this out. Do you think warring families could be brought together over rubber cement? In the belly button? You just paint it on your hands and then you put your hands together and they stick. And then you're joined. Like the Defiant Ones. Remember that movie? No. Where the one African American prisoner is chained to a white guy and they both have their divisions and they learn to live together as they're fleeing

The cops. Okay. Cindy Poche and Tony Curtis. Only this time with rubber cement. Rubber cement. I think that's... We can just pull our hands apart. I don't like that. Well, anyhow, thank you for the calls. I apologize for getting a little bit heavy on the side of things. We're going to get lighter over the next couple days because we're headed to spring training tomorrow after the show. Going to meet Casey Boy down in Clearwater. Let's talk about the loss of a child tomorrow. Okay.

Let's bring that up to Brandon Marsh. Yeah, yeah. When we have him on the show. It's one of your big fears, losing a child. What?

Actually, I do have an idea of something to do with Brady. I'm not going to kill a child. No, no, no, not that. I was thinking, because when we go live, we try to do something kind of fun and physical, and at the Blood Drive for the past few years, we've done the long-range munchkin toss. You want to try that? We have an outfielder. With precision game. Oh, my God. He could chuck the ball a mile, and he could throw a...

A munchkin. Do you want to join me on the receiving end? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd like to try that. Now, I have a small mouth, but... Well, I think that makes... With that kind of precision, I think... I don't know.

Well, yeah. We need to. He'll have no problem. He'll have no problem throwing it to us. So we'll pitch him that idea. I initially thought of marshmallows because of, you know, Marsh and the marshmallow fans. Dave hit him over the fence right by where we're broadcasting. Let's try to catch some hardballs in our mouth. We could do that, too. All right. Well, we're planning things. So we're going to take a quick break. Come back in a second. Some bizarre foul stories. You guessed it. They are on the way next. They put... MMR rocks. Full beat. Wherever she walks.

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Brought to you by A.D. Moyer, trusted experts since 1939. A.D. Moyer Lumber is your professional source for decks, windows, doors, kitchens, millwork, and more. Visit them on the web at admoyer.com. A man in China had to go to the hospital for emergency surgery after he hurt himself by picking his nose. What happened? Doctors said he picked too hard and tore a small artery inside his nose, causing a lot of bleeding. Ah!

He didn't think it was serious at first, but the bleeding would not stop. Doctors later found out that a small blood vessel had burst, and this is called an arterial rupture. So he had to be rooting in pretty deep, right? I guess so, and the man needed surgery to fix the bleeding and stop more problems from happening. Yeah, if you have little pieces of brain under your fingernail, you're going in too far. Doctors are now warning people not to pick their noses too much or too hard.

Because it can actually cause serious harm. Officially, one more thing to worry about now. So, be careful. Jesus Christ. Be careful. A man in India has been given the world record for having the hairiest face ever recorded. Does he have lycanthropy? Does he have what? The werewolf disease? He does. Yeah. Yeah, he has hypertrichosis.

So his name is Ranjit Singh. And Guinness World Records said that 98% of his face is covered with hair. That includes his forehead, cheeks, nose, and even around his eyes. That's wild. Ranjit said that he's had hair on his face like this since he was a little boy. He suffers from the ultra-rare condition of...

called hypertrichosis, also known as werewolf syndrome, with around 50 documented cases since the Middle Ages. That's how... Is that rare it is? I didn't know it was that rare. So he's got some nice, lush, wookie-looking hair. Yeah. He does.

As you can imagine, he says people made fun of him and stared a lot as a child, but now he's proud of his unique look. Yeah. He even takes part in events to inspire others and be proud of who they are, no matter how different they may look. But yes, he's got kind of a blondish brown. It's kind of like a beach wookie. Hue to it, yeah. I wish they all could be beach wookies.

All right, in Allentown, the large blast that echoed through parts of the region Wednesday night was connected to the emergency disposal of improvised explosive devices, according to a member of the city's bomb squad. The blast rattled the area at 6 p.m. and could be heard in Allentown, Bethlehem, and as far as Hanover Township. So the loud boom, according to the release...

was from the Allentown Bomb Squad conducting emergency disposal operations on IEDs. The IEDs had come from the residence of a deceased individual. An investigation by the FBI and the bomb squad continues. So a friend of the deceased gathered...

some of their belongings from a home outside of the Lehigh Valley and found what he described as pipe bombs within those belongings. So this guy was stockpiling them? I guess. Authorities recovered the explosives from the friend's house. I'm just making some pipe bombs. A public notification was sent to residents, though neighboring municipalities did not issue similar warnings prior to the blast, so it scared a lot of people.

But apparently the weather was to blame for the sound traveling as far as it did due to a significant temperature inversion. Temperatures are typically cooler higher up in the atmosphere. But Wednesday, temperatures were warmer, which trapped the sound below the inversion. And that's why people heard it for long distances. Uh-huh.

So emergency call centers were flooded with calls from concerned residents. So obviously the authorities are investigating this to find out why this guy had all these pipe bombs. He died, but he's not going to face any charges, obviously, but they need to figure out what the hell went on. So to the point of getting the word out.

And I know they do this periodically. What methodology would you use if you wanted to get the message out to the most people in the area? I would imagine text. Text, right? Yeah, that would get the word out. Probably radio. Most penetration. Solid move. All right. In Kentucky, police have arrested Barrett Crosby.

Corinta, after he allegedly locked a co-worker inside a rack washroom, which I'm not sure what that is, at Lando Frost, which is a company, and turned on a steam machine, trapping her in dangerously hot conditions. So according to police, drag him.

Corinta and the victim were working together in the rack washroom where trays are sanitized using steam that can reach temperatures of up to 200 degrees. Wow. Police records indicate that during a conversation about the door to the room, Corinta allegedly told the victim that they could close one another inside. When the victim expressed concern, Corinta left the room, activated the machine, and left her trapped inside as scalding steam and chemicals filled the space. Yeah. What? Investigation.

Investigators say the victim could not escape, the door would not open from the inside, and that a second door was blocked by pallets. What kind of advice was the woman in when she was at a restaurant? And she walked in, was it

It was an oven. It was an oven. It was a full-blown oven. Was it between chickens? I think it was at a Walmart or a store like that. Yeah, it was up in the further northeast than us. She was able to activate the emergency shutoff, though, but not before sustaining injuries. The victim briefly lost consciousness and was later treated at a hospital for minor injuries. Scalding steam. Corinta was arrested on charges of wanton endangerment and unlawful imprisonment, and in response to the incident,

They terminated his employment and obviously he's facing some charges from that. All right, and then we'll do one more story and we will wrap it up. Let's end with this one. In Louisiana, a man was arrested Tuesday morning in a bizarre incident.

at a high school. So the sheriff's office says that just after 9 a.m., Northwood High School was placed on lockdown due to a tornado warning in the area. Gary Fenner, who is 70 years old, showed up at the school to pick up his grandchild. The school resource officer told Fenner that he couldn't check his grandchild out because they were locked down. Tornado! Tornado! At that point, Fenner reportedly threatened to kill the deputy and

charged at him with an umbrella. Okay, like the penguin. The deputy used his taser on Fenner after being hit with the umbrella. Officials say Fenner managed to stand back up and try to fight with the deputy. However, the deputy and the school security officer were able to restrain him.

Fenner was checked out by medical personnel, and then he was taken to the correctional center and booked on charges of battery of a peace officer, resisting arrest, and other charges as well. So Taser beats Umbrella. Yeah, I think so. And that is what I have in the Bizarre File for you this morning. So we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment, dive into some other things. We have actress Wendy Malick, who's great. She's on Night Court. She's great in Shrinking. We'll talk to her about that. Yeah.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kat. So, Casey's in Italy this morning. You guys have been looking at the pictures. They're breathtaking. Oh, my God. Yeah. They're at this gorgeous location in Verona, Italy. And we'll get some stories for him if he's got some afterwards when we meet up with him on Thursday morning for the broadcast. We'll see him tomorrow after the show when we...

actually land in Florida, and he's going to meet us there. We're going to the Verona of the United States, Clearwater. Clearwater, exactly. So we're looking forward to getting back with him on Thursday, broadcasting live. In fact, later this morning, we'll check up with John Clark from NBC10, who is at Philly Spring Training as we speak, and we'll just kind of get the lay of the land and see how things are so far for him, so we'll find out what we can find for us when we get there. But in the meantime...

We have some things to talk about, and I would like to fire up a survey or two. It is time for Survey Says. We're going to go with bald.

All right, we go with balls. Actually, we're going to start with this particular survey that was done of a thousand people with an average age of over 40. And they are trying to find out of they're trying to find out the answer to the question. Would having sex with a sex robot be considered cheating? Would having sex with a sex robot be considered cheating? Interesting. Where do you fall on this?

I would put it in the same frame as self-pleasuring. Right. As in pleasuring yourself. I would put it in that. Like an auto-suck? Category. Yeah. I think it's, you know, you're technically not with another human being. Right. You're not with another person. So I think it would fall under that. Probably. It's like card counting. It's frowned upon. Right. Okay.

It's not going to get you thumbs up for most people. Actually, if you watch this movie, Companion, that's what's happening. They are sex robots, and some people look down on the people who have the sex robots. So it's not illegal. It's fine.

frowned upon. It's frowned upon. It'd be like humping your artisserie grill. Yeah. Like whacking it on a plane. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's fine. That's, no, that's frowned upon. That's frowned upon. If you're emotionally attached to the robot, which happens, that's where it becomes cheating, right? Yeah.

That's the element I was thinking about. So if you take like Blade Runner 20, whatever the last one was, he has a relationship with a, you know, an artificial woman. If you cross those lines, I don't know. Yeah.

So here's some of the results of the survey. If you give the robot googly eyes, then I don't think you're cheating. 25% said that they'd be comfortable with their partner having sex with a sex robot if it was modeled after themselves. Yes, that's exactly what people are going to do. Wow. 37% of Gen Zers admitted to using chat GPT to combat feelings of loneliness. So there you are using artificial intelligence as a companion.

14% of respondents said that they'd rather trust their personal issues to an AI chatbot than with their partner. 10% would trust an AI's opinion about their sexual performance or health than their partner's.

And it says here, if you could perfectly simulate love and affection, 7% say that they'd choose an AI companion over a human one. So this goes from sex robots to AI being a companion. Yeah, that's a little more complex. Yeah. So initially at the beginning of it, I would liken it to like a sex toy.

Right? Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. But if the sex toy walks, talks, and acts like Hugh Jackman, and you catch your wife in bed with it, there's a difference between an attachment on the Hoover and your Hugh Jackman robot. Yeah.

Yeah, so I've not seen the whole movie, Her, with Joaquin Phoenix, but I remember seeing parts of it, and there's a portion of it where he's communicating with this AI device who is talking to him, becoming a companion, he's falling in love with it, and

And it was getting fairly common in society. And at some point, he goes to essentially a prostitute who wears the AI device. The AI is communicating with him while he's having sex with a human being. But it weirded him out. And that's, like I said, I haven't seen the whole movie. But I was like, wow, that's a concept I never really thought of.

thought of. Would you do that? Maybe. That's essentially, that happens in the Blade Runner, the last Blade Runner film. There's something akin to that. In this movie, Companion, there's something akin to that. It's something that's increasingly more

You know? Yeah. I don't know, man. But I think sex robot, I've said this for a long time, for decades now, that sex robot technology, probably not while we're alive, I think is eventually going to be... We're right there. I think it's really going to be a legit thing. And you know what? Dishwasher's safe. Yeah, right? Yeah. Pop that vagina in the dishwasher. Yeah. No fuss, no muss. No fuss, no muss. Yeah. Don't worry. Okay.

20 minutes. Wait, there's a little muss left on there. Can you get that? Get that muss off. They already have nonstick surface. All right.

Have any of the men in the room ever used an apparatus? I have not. Okay. Other than my hand. I'm talking about like your buddy's flashlight that he wanted to go halfsies on, Nick. It was a good investment. Yeah. I did not go halfsies. I used not that, but I used a something one time. Similar? Kind of like that. It was a... Okay. Was it a pet egg? No, it was a...

It actually, Steve, it looked like, it almost looked like, you know, the packing material, the bubble wrap, the really small bubbles. Oh, yes, yes. It was not mechanical though, right? No, no, no, no. It was just like a sleeve. Yeah, exactly. Yes, I know what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah, Kathy turned me on to those. Right. I don't know.

I tried one of those one time. How was it? It was weird. Yeah. Did you put Michelle's picture on it? I did. I tried one of those one time and I'm like, listen, it was a good sensation. It was a good vibration. But it just didn't feel as good as old Rosie did. Yeah. Did it make you feel less a little bit?

Maybe a little bit. I think I shouldn't have. I don't think. Listen, whatever you're doing to find pleasure as long as it doesn't involve livestock. Listen, I think there's a point to be made that, yeah, whatever gets you there. Sure. But... Yeah, listen. How would you feel about it, though, if your partner was banging a robot? Yeah, like I think...

It would start to, at a certain point, especially as you talk about the AI, the sentience of the robot. Well, look, the movie AI. Jude Law plays a gigolo. He is a sex robot. Absolutely. Yeah, so I don't know. I think there's going to be a market for that someday. Absolutely. All right, we'll go to another survey. It says...

Music, please. All right, this is a survey of moms and dads and reveals just how much time they spend on food-related battles and compromises. So when you're fighting with your kids over getting them to eat? Exactly, yes. So the average person apparently spends 67 hours a year in negotiations with their kids. So your kids overall for food? All three. Um...

Bears when it came to getting them to eat? Parker is the pickiest person.

Carter is the most adventurous. Carter will eat anything. Cultivated palate. Okay. And then, yeah, but Parker's very, very picky. Very, very small amount of things. What does he tend to eat? Oh, like chicken nuggets, things like that. Like a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I know people who- Macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets, stuff like that. I know there's a woman I know who's basically that was what they were reared on and that's what they continue to eat. Yeah.

Yep. So the only thing missing is the go-gurt. And there's still Rochelle kind of negotiates with him still to this day. I'm like, oh, my gosh. Yeah. I'm like, really? Yeah. In fact, when I'm making something for dinner, I'll go. He'll go. What's for dinner? I'm like, oh, we're making this. You're not going to like it.

I just say that. And Rochelle's like, I think you should try and see if there's some things in there that you might like. And listen, I do worry about his nutrition. Right. He's an adult. I also know. Yeah. No, you're not going to like this. There's no way you're going to

like but he's not gonna starve to death he's gonna take care of something i lucked out um jace ate really well his entire life and never really had to negotiate much with him he's not an overeater he stops eating when he's not hungry when he was little we introduced like fruits and vegetables and all that kind of stuff and he likes him right he likes it he eats fish which you know he's a better more adventurous eater than me wow okay wow nick what about ben he

He was always pretty good. Um, they took a little bit of cajoling when he was really little. It was the same thing that Parker eats now. It was chicken nuggets and, uh, meat sticks and, um, applesauce. But now, now he's pretty good about it. Um,

I automatically think about Chuck D'Amico. He's still a really picky eater. He does not dive very deep into any, I mean, like even if you bring up a topic or a potential new food, he's like, Matt, I'm out. He'll make a face. Yeah. He'll make a little kid face like that. Him and Parker should go out to dinner. Yeah. Well, I have a friend that can join them too, but he's very quiet about it, like his pickiness, but his fiance will just jump in whenever we're going out to dinner and she'll recommend a restaurant that she's not going to.

that she knows that he'll like. That he'll be able to eat something else? He has to have somebody speak for him. What does his food intake look like? Pizza, tacos. Okay. The 37-year-old version of that. Right. So if we go to a restaurant and we're going as a family...

Do they have a burger? Do they have chicken nuggets? I have to check to make sure because otherwise somebody's going hungry. So my dad... Pizza will work too. My dad years ago would be like, you know, because that was hamburgers. I loved hamburgers and McDonald's and all that stuff. So he'd go to a restaurant and he'd go...

you know, uh, chop steak. Steve's chop steak is just a big hamburger. Oh, okay. And so he would, uh, he slalomed around the issues and got me a little bit more adventurous. So he couldn't sell me on the sloppy Joe. I was onto him. Dinner is the most common meal for parents to get pushback from the little ones on food. Kids under the age of five are officially the pickiest eaters. Uh,

Nearly half, 44% of the parents admitted that they are concerned that their kid's pickiness is affecting their overall nutrition. The most common foods that kids never say no to are, number one, pizza. Pizza. Number two, chicken nuggets. Three, fries. Number four, mac and cheese. And number five, hamburgers.

That is my son's nutrition. That's the diet right there. So I was never a mac and cheese kid growing up. I did not like it. I only became a mac and cheese fan when I became an adult. Yeah, I loved it as a kid and I love it now. I went out with some friends over the weekend and they have two young kids. One is three and one's about one. And the little girl, the three-year-old, I wouldn't say she's a picky eater, but we were at a restaurant and they didn't have a ton of kids' options.

And she wanted a carrot soup. So both of the parents, I gave them so much credit because they were trying so hard. She wanted a carrot soup. They didn't have carrot soup on the menu. So they ordered French onion soup and then a plate of peas and carrots and tried putting the carrots in the French onion soup to convince her. Because I guess like French onion soup is kind of appealing. Did it take? Not even close. Then we had a plate of peas and carrots in there and a half eaten French onion soup. Yeah.

French hens and zubats have a very strong flavor to it. It was an effort, Preston. When you're just trying to get your kids to eat anything, they gave it their best. They didn't go anywhere. My one brother's kids, they're not good eaters and never have been. You try to introduce the foods that's going to keep their energy up, but they just...

they just refuse to eat it. And I know it's a battle all of the time. Like they have to remind, they will never say like, I'm hungry. They have to remind them. To eat. You need to sit down and eat. Yeah.

Do you ever do the how does the piggy eat thing where you put your face in the bowl? Yeah. By the way, the most common kid complaints are at mealtime, and I'll go in order. The most common complaint is I don't like vegetables or a certain vegetable. Number two is I don't like the smell. Number three, I don't like the way it looks. Number four, it's too spicy. Number five, it's too mushy.

Number six is I don't want to eat something new. Number seven is it's too plain or bland. Another one is it's boring. And another one is I had this already yesterday at lunch.

I'm fairly certain I've heard Chuck D'Amico say all of those things. Yeah. Yeah. And it's too chewy. Yeah. Well, when we had him, when he had him try fruit, which he had never had most fruits before, the ones that he absolutely could not stand were any of the berries, strawberries, raspberries, uh,

blackberries because they have seeds or if you look closely at a raspberry and I eat raspberries almost every day. They have little hairs coming out. I sent a picture. I was eating raspberries. This was maybe summertime-ish and you could see that. You could see the little and it was like the sun was hitting the berries. I took a picture of it and I sent it to him and he's like, I don't understand how people eat that. Wow. I love raspberries. Me too. I love them. Apparently, according to this survey, the

The average parent spends 67 hours a year negotiating with their kid. It's not that bad. Yeah. All right. Next survey.

A new survey asks 1,050 Americans about what is called pretty privilege. Pretty privilege. The idea that those who are better looking get more advantages in life. Yes. And the majority think that the pressure to look good at work is all too real as well.

I hate having to get all dressed up every day for work. It is a nightmare. In your mesh shorts. In your t-shirt. So you firmly believe that pretty people get an advantage. I think it doesn't hurt, for sure. I agree. I think a lot of times they will get things that average or unattractive people will get.

For me, my issue has always been eluding villagers with torches. So, you know, that's what happens. I'm not a pleasant looking person. According to the poll, 81.3% of respondents feel that pretty privilege exists at work.

They believe attractive co-workers are more likely to get hired, promoted, and given raises. Two-thirds have actually seen someone treated unfairly or talked about negatively because of their appearance. Well, that would be, we talked about him in the last segment, Chuck D'Amico. He has pretty privilege. He's strikingly handsome. I mean, he is where he is because... Lantern-jawed. ...of his looks. Yeah. Yeah.

The pressure to be pretty is strong with 64% admitting that they feel pushed to change their natural features like straightening their hair or wearing makeup just to fit in. Or the way you part your teeth fit in at the office. I think it also has to do with, like, listen, if you're a stunningly gorgeous person and you're a real bitch, I don't know that that's necessarily going to happen. I think it comes along with the attitude that you bring to work and your...

part of it, yeah. You know, if you're a nice person walking around and you're gorgeous, yeah, you might get some perks. Yes, if you know how to play it, so you have that arrow in your quiver, but you can kill it, as you said, with a bad personality. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But if you know how to play it, the world is yours. Right, right.

I guess I'm a little surprised in that survey, Preston, because I agree with you guys. I think it could help you get attention and get hired. The part that kind of boggled my mind a little bit was the getting the raise portion of it. Because most times, I would think anyway, raise would be based on merit. Have you earned it? And looks aren't

aren't merit-based. I think it might, where you're talking about in the, so for example, if you're a high-powered corporate entity, probably not because that's going to be merit-based, but maybe if you're getting a boost at a lower level, perhaps? Maybe, yeah. You're like entry-level to, you know. This next question and observation, I kind of do believe in, says 83% believe that their colleagues are

who put more effort into the way they look are seen as more capable professionals. Yes, I believe that. Absolutely. I believe that if it shows, if you're showing efforts to look, to present yourself better, they will see you as more professional. And that can even come down to just basic grooming. Yeah, most definitely. When asked to rate their workplace attractiveness, the average person gives themselves a 7.7 out of 10.

That's your workplace attractiveness. There are some days I hit that, but most of the time I'm floating about a mid-five. Mid-five. Steve Morrison, comma, mid-five. Don't you love that confidence that you might get when for whatever reason you think you're really looking your best? You know what I mean? And then the world reminds you you're not. Yes, and then it happens. And then you're like, oh.

The reminder is like when you have something to do after work and you get changed and somebody goes, oh, you look nice today. Right. Opposed to what you look like. But then you have to say like, oh, I'm going to a funeral. So men tend to rate themselves higher with 37% rating themselves as a nine.

or a perfect 10 compared to only 27% of women. I never had that delusion. Yeah, yeah. And some people, if they're confident enough, they can actually convince you that they're better looking than they are. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. There are times that confidence can really change a person's appearance or the perception of their appearance. Do you know who's someone who's... She was host at SNL this weekend, who's not...

Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga. She's not routinely, classically stunning, but I think her talent makes her more attractive. And when she does a little vampy thing and so on and so forth, I think she's attractive. Her talent and her confidence. Yes, exactly. So nearly half of those who rate themselves as unattractive, a one to three, uh,

rating system. Say their looks hurt their careers while 60% of those who consider themselves good looking... I don't know what it is. I was up for the manager's position at Coles and they passed right over me. Of those who consider themselves good looking, they say their appearance helps them professionally. I would hate to be someone who thinks...

That they just are like hideous, you know. But you can still be hideous and still be put together when you go to work. Yeah. Right. Oh, no, no.

Am I seam straight? By the way, as it turns out... Does this make me look like a whore? Those who rate themselves as extremely attractive earn nearly $20,000 more a year than those who rate themselves as unattractive. That's confidence. Whether they are or aren't, it's that confidence. I was going to say, who rates themselves that? I am awesome. Extremely attractive.

Touch. You want to touch? But they earn nearly $20,000 more a year than those who rate themselves as unattractive. So try to perceive yourself as a good-looking person. Walk around with that way. Yeah, have confidence. Sashay around. Tiger. Yep. All right. Survey says...

More, a new survey of 2,000 moms and dads of kids ages 2 to 18 reveals that 60% of them admit to carefully cultivating their social media accounts in order to appear like perfect parents.

Oh, I don't doubt that. Who was that one parent that she was arrested for abuse? Yeah. That whole, yeah. Some are over it and ready to get real. But yeah, it was 60% of them admit to carefully cultivating their social media. More than half of parents pulled out.

feel that it's impossible to measure up to those perfect parents that they see on social media. And 62% say that it's time to leave old habits in the past and embrace more genuine, candid parenting moments this year. Well, did you ever see what it took to get this

you know, photo or video that's posted. Yeah, yeah. All the screaming, the yelling, and the kids crying in the background. Like, that's what it really is. Yeah. What do they call the starring syndrome where you believe your life, you're starring in your own life? Like the Truman Show type of thing? Right, right, yeah, yeah.

And there's sort of a narcissism and egocentric way you approach things. So you have like, and there's the thing that always comes to mind when we talk about stuff like this is the footage of the woman, the mother sitting in the front seat of her car with her kid trying to make the kid cry properly as she's framing the kid so that they can have a good content. I'm like, this is bizarro world. You're effing your kid up.

So what it means to be more genuine and candid parent is that ditching filters and unrealistic aesthetics. This is the way I really look. Well, I hate with the filters. I hate when they're then on the child. Like-

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like the kid's eyes are that big? Yeah, look at my six-year-old. It's so hot. But it is. Like if they put a selfie or whatever and they're adding a filter to their own face, it also bleeds over to the kid. Yeah, it looks horrible. It looks so stupid. Oh, you see, I see what you're saying, yes. But there's some people who actually put filters...

unlike the kids. Yeah. And it's like, what are you doing? Yeah, so they're also saying getting rid of unrealistic aesthetics, you know, like taking a picture in front of like, I don't know, a castle in Verona, Italy, something like that. I was showing Kathy, there's an app that popped up on, this is the cleavage, that fake, the boob thing that I showed you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, makes, what is this?

Basically, if you want to be an Instagram model known for your assets, it gives you that. It'll like enhance or make... And it's undetectable. Would it give me big old boobies? It would. We got to do that. Why are you wasting that on Kathy? Can I have it, please? We got to do that with me. I want a nice big chesty bump. Big huge rack. Almost a quarter of people would be more likely to do so, have more candid real moments than

in a not-so-perfect light if they saw other parents sharing more of those genuine real-life moments. But it is a double-edged sword because you'd look at pictures and go, well, that's boring. That's nothing I really want to look at. You know what I mean? And so therefore... You want Kathy with bedhead or do you want Kathy? I don't know. I don't know, man. Kathy...

Kathy would bet that is pretty awesome. I love. But yeah, I mean, it's it's

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. On top of that, 94% of parents experience seven instances of chaos every day from things their kids says or does, it says. And these include kids hiding things that aren't theirs, like car keys and TV remotes, going on adventures by escaping their parents' view, throwing food. So these are the not-so-perfect moments, they're saying. You encounter these every day, Kevin? Not that. I mean, Jay's a little bit older, but everything, even with just one, everything's always...

Like trying to leave the house and like, I mean, still. Like we'll get outside. I'm like, where are your shoes? We're leaving the house. We don't have shoes on. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. We go outside. We should probably have shoes on. Or when it was like so cold. It was like 17 degrees. He comes down in shorts and a t-shirt. I'm like...

What are you, Steve? But it just, I was like, at least get a sweatshirt. Yeah. Something. Right. Yeah. All right. So that's something to keep in mind. I have another survey.

A survey of 2,000 Americans were asked to rank the most popular historical figures. The most popular historical figures. Yes, according to Americans. And there were two different scores. There was a popularity score. The hottest? No, it wasn't hottest. You know what? And I didn't write down. I copied and pasted this from YouGov. And I forgot to see what that second number was. Anyhow.

Do you want me to start at number 10 and work our way up? I'm trying to think who would be the most popular historical figure. Number 10 is Golda Meir. Golda Meir. Who is that? The Israeli Prime Minister. Okay. Number 9 is Cesar Chavez at 82%. Golda, by the way, was 69%. Number 8 is George S. Patton. Okay, the general. General Patton at 80%. I'm hot. Number 7 is... Paul S.

Very good, Melissa. I've been looking at that all week long. Number seven is Archimedes. Archimedes. Wow. What was Archimedes' claim to fame? The principal. Archimedes' principal. Okay. I don't know what it is. I just know that that exists. He was a philosopher, right? Sure. No, he was a principal at elementary school. Mathematician and a physicist. Engineer, astronomer. So he's like Newton? Yeah, like a cookie. Ancient Greek Newton.

All of these on the list and we're having to look it up. There should be a Greek Newton. That guy's a cookie. Greek Newton. With like a euro?

By the way, okay, a side note. Baclavaz is kind of like a green canoe. It's honey. Blueberry Fig Newton. Blueberry Newtons? Yeah. Love them? Awesome. Have you had them? Yeah, but, yeah, in fact, the breakfast bar I ate for years essentially was that. Okay. Yep. He invented calculus. Oh.

Oh. Here we go. Archimedes did. Yeah. I thought Newton created it. No, Newton created trigonometry, I think. I believe you're right. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, anyhow, it's a battle between Archimedes and Newton. Why didn't you name it Archimedary? Uh...

Number six on this list is Christopher Columbus at 95%. Yeah, what'd he do? Number five is Alfred Nobel. Okay. Wait a minute. Christopher Columbus was at 95%. Alfred Nobel is at 80%. So there's a combined score here. Yeah, there seems something bizarre going on here. Number four is Alexander Graham Bell. Okay. That one I could see. Invented the telephone.

Number three, Jesus Christ. Oh, Jesus Christ. I was going to say, I was wondering if he'd be number one. He is not number one. Yeah. In fact, he's beat out by Benjamin Franklin. Wow. Benjamin Franklin beat out Jesus Christ. Philadelphia man. And then I'm going to guess number one's got to be Casey Kasem.

And at number one, me. You would think so. It would make sense. And where's Archimedes? Anybody want to guess who tops Benjamin Franklin in Jesus Christ? If you're talking about, okay, impactful... This is worldwide? No, this is Americans. Thomas Edison?

No, not Thomas Evans. George Washington. Not George Washington. Abraham Lincoln? Yes. There you go. Abe, honest Abe, is number one at a score of 98%. That's my middle name. That's right. 98%? No, Lincoln. Oh. Although I wish it was 98% now that you said that. Old Nick, 98% McElwain. 24, 48. 28, 48. Yeah. Good old 98%-er. Wow. Okay.

So these are the most popular historical movies. That is a wild list. Listen, we became more exactly familiar with what Archimedes did. Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm trying to think. I would have thought some other people would have been on the list. But if we're dealing with strictly Americans...

But Jesus wasn't American. Yeah, there was Archimedes. No, but they were asking Americans. Not asking for the most famous American. Did Jesus live in the States? Was there a brief period? Very brief. He lived in Nazareth. Yeah. His spirit lives everywhere. Didn't the Mormons? No, no. The Mormons, I believe that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri or something like that. Yeah, and Joseph Smith. No, that's a strip club. Found the...

Found the tablets in the United States. Yes. Those were found in the U.S. I got them in. Two polls never stop. So welcome. Nefertiti now. Alchimedes on poll one. All right. Let's do another survey. Question. Question.

All right, Kathy. I'll let us see what you think about this. This is a survey that these are home decor mistakes that men make that turn off their dates. Home decor mistakes that men make that turn off their dates. Claire could tell you when she first came to my apartment, I had all sorts of horror stuff up. So I was a wealth of home decor mistakes. She was like, he's going to kill me. That's what she thought.

Claire was at our house yesterday. Yes. And she asked me the question that I know of in the office. How many Batmobiles do you have here? She asked. Uh,

I was incorrect. Because I counted the motorcycles as the Batmobiles, too. I said six. But you only have four. Okay. I did a check this morning. But that's misleading. I think she needs to know about all the other stuff, too. Right, yeah. Oh, she does. So anyhow, Redecor, a design simulation game, polled nearly 7,000 women about their biggest turn-offs that they see in Guy's home.

And here are a few of them. 38% said having too many photos of yourself on display is not a good look. Yes, narcissism. What was it? Who had the paintings of themselves?

Oh. Athlete? No. Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod, yeah. As a centaur, right? Yes. Why not? Yeah. I thought you were talking about the local... Oh, no, no, no, no. The local broadcaster who had photos. Of himself? No. No. No, but Michael Barkham was there and could probably tell you about the photos. Who was it? I'm not saying. Okay. Yeah, no. You can write it down and hold it up to the camera. It's very bizarre. Are they still working in this market? Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay.

All right. Well, I want to hear about that later. Gifts from an ex are even worse. 43% of women said a big issue with memorabilia or keepsakes from a former girlfriend are still being shown off in the home. Certainly pictures of former girlfriends. All right. Here's one. Bed frames are a must-have.

Oh, God. Yes, if you walked into a house and they just had the mattress on the floor. Yeah, and 43% of respondents say that they won't date a guy if his mattress is on the floor. When I got divorced, I had nothing. And I moved into an apartment and all I had was a couch. I had no silverware. I had no plates. I had no bed. And so, Kathy, I bought the mattress and I didn't have a bed frame. And I was just like... Oh, no. And it was just... You know, I only... I was on a pretty limited budget. The bed...

I mean, the mattress and the bed went right on the floor. Dude, I would do... So there was a point in time where I would lean it up against the wall when I was using. And then at night, I would flip it on over and sleep on it. And then I got a futon. Right. Step in the right direction. I'm evolving. Yeah.

44% of women say dead plants are a dating ick. So if they come in and they say that you have plants, but you have not been keeping them up, then that's a red flag. I mean, you'll probably find a dead plant in my house, so I can't really be too judgmental. Really? You don't have a green thumb? I'm not great with plants. 65% of women said the dirty towels. Oh, my God. And dirty clothes. Sorry. They need to be in the hamper. The dirty towels are...

I actually don't even want to be friends with you. I don't want to see you. I don't want to talk to you. And when I mean dirty towels, because this, oh, my poor friend, he used to come out and he had this scent to him. And we were like, what? Not fully dried towel scent. It's like, it's mold.

It's mildew in the towel and you get that smell. Like workout clothes, if you don't wash them every time and you throw them in your gym bag, like they'll smell like that. The towels smell like that. Like yoga mats, yoga towels, you have to wash them each time. And if I have to practice yoga next to somebody who hasn't washed their towel, I, and you guys know how I am with my, my note. I can smell it immediately. Like if, if class hasn't started yet, I'll move. You'll move. Wow. Yeah. Uh,

In high school, I didn't wash my gym clothes one time. Not once, except for in the summer and then bring them back. Junior high, I mean, in high school, the first apartment, bedding was, I mean. Oh, yeah. I mean, my optional. It looked like the Shroud of Turin. My image was on it. Yeah, I dated a guy who had one towel. One towel. And I didn't learn. Did you have to use it when you were over there? I didn't learn until after I showered, like weeks later. I was like, oh, how many towels?

Here's a gross one. That's so reliable. I agree with this one. 65% of women take a hard pass to whiskers and facial hair in the sink. Yeah, you can wash it down. That's easy. I'm very hyper about that. I clean out the sink all the time. I don't like to see residual stuff. All right, here's a big one. 70% of women say a sink full of dirty dishes is a full-on turnoff. 70%.

And then overall, 80% of respondents say a dirty kitchen gives them the skeeves and 81% feel a well-maintained bathroom is important. What about a large freezer in the basement with human body parts in it? With a lock on it. Don't ever look in there. And by far the biggest deal breaker, 80% of women report that a funky smell would have them out.

out of there immediately. Like not even giving... Do you remember the things that you thought were when you were a younger man that were seductive to women? Like, you know, okay. I don't want to wear cheap cologne and scented candles and all those things. Yeah. No. No. That stuff's... Listen, the marketing, they get you. Axe body spray is going to turn them on. That'll get them. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, I think we can do one more survey before we have to take a break. Let's make this a good one. I have a lot of them, which eventually we're going to have to get to. Let's go with... No, I don't like any of these, really. What? Well, pick the least worst. All right, how about this one? How long do U.S. couples typically date before getting engaged? 2000 Americans reveals this.

What are the ages of the people dating? Or does it not say? I'll say... Because I think if you're a little bit older, you're probably a little slower to get engaged, but that's just a guess. It doesn't say. More than one in five believed in love at first sight. 19% of experience. Another 13 claim to have fallen in love for someone they've never even met in person. Will the spark from an instant connection can be exciting? 27% feel that compatibility is more important than chemistry. Let's get down to the numbers. So...

What do you think, Steve? Well, I'm going to take my example. I'm going to, let's say, two years. Okay. So we're going to start at dating first. Couples tend to decide to be exclusive around the 3.9 month mark. Yeah. So about four months in, you decided, okay, it's just you and me. After being together for an average of four and a half months, they actually say, I love you to each other. So shortly after you decide to make it exclusive. Yeah. Yeah.

Um, once they have the friend's blessing and know that they're in love, meeting the parents is the next most important milestone, which usually happens about five and a half months into the relationship. And while they know they want to be together forever, one partner pops a question around one year and three months after getting together. Okay. So I, we were, we were dating my wife and I about three years.

Yeah, Rochelle and I were dating for, yeah, it was like three and change, I think. Yeah, Nick, I would think it would be quicker when you're older. Why, because you're going to die? Well, no, just so you're not going to waste time.

oh yeah well another way of putting you're gonna die because you're gonna die yeah i mean the clock's ticking right kath well also i would think i could see it working your way though nick it's like i've you know i've i've been through this i i don't know i i know what i need i may not need this that's why i was a little slower because i'd already been married once and uh i wasn't in a rush my now wife wasn't in a rush so yeah we just took our time with it but um yeah kath i get your point i just for me it was uh

We were already living together. Like our lives have not changed at all since we got engaged or married. And I think when you're younger, your lives do change somewhat drastically when you get engaged or get married. Because it happens for the first time and all that. But did you move in together pretty quickly? Yeah.

You know what I mean? You made that move quick. And then, like you said, it's not really changed now. The moving in, I feel like happens quicker because you know. It's like, Esther, get off the pot. I remember Matt was moving here. Yeah, see, you don't want to waste time. He started to look at an apartment a few blocks away. I was like, why would we pay two rents

Why not just try this out? And if it works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't. Yeah. And if it doesn't work out and you end up breaking up with someone that you just can't seem to get over, there is still hope. About 10% of those surveyed have managed to rekindle an old flame and give an ex a second chance. Look at Rebecca Gayhart and Eric Dane. Seven years. Oh, yeah. We were just talking about that the other day.

Doing away with it and getting back together. That's what we were, Matt and I. You were divorced for seven years? Yeah. No, no, no. We were apart for like a couple of years. Really? Yeah, rekindled. Oh, wow. Did it go sour for a moment? I think we just kind of moved apart. Just fizzled? Fizzled. Okay. Yeah, it was more just kind of like a hang. And then we connected. It's just like good timing. Did not know that. Got a phone call and I was like, hey, hey. Hey. Yeah. Then we got married without getting engaged whatsoever. That's right.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Kathy. Our next guest is joining us, and she's been in so many great movies and TV shows throughout the year, years, I should say. And we actually, what she's currently promoting, we just spoke to the star of Melissa Rock just a couple weeks ago. Yes, absolutely. And it's obviously the new version of Night Court, which is fantastic. It's on tonight at 8.30 on NBC. We would like to welcome the lovely Wendy Malick to the program. Yeah!

this morning. Wendy? Hi, how are you, Wendy? I'm good. How is Philadelphia? You finally understand it's not frigid, frigid like it's been for so long. Yeah, we're finally getting a break. It's wonderful. Where do you hail from, Wendy, if we're talking about places and whatnot real quick? I hail from Buffalo, New York. Oh, okay. Oh, wow. Well, you know what cold weather's like.

We do, and I know what eight-month-long winters are like. And you guys are sort of experiencing buffalo weather for a while. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't get any worse than that. But Preston was right. We had Melissa on to talk about this series, and I think Marsha Wallfield was making her...

uh return to it uh the show is great it's so nostalgic um uh and i have to imagine because they recreated the sets and everything there and you have john larroquette who is part of the original cast obviously dan fielding uh it has to be almost trippy and otherworldly for him to be back on that set uh have you ever asked him about you know like uh you know feeling ghostly almost ghosts of the past walking around

Particularly when Marsha comes, it's like those two, you just are flashing back to how many years ago, 30 something ago? And I said, it's strange for you. And he said, it's pretty weird because I'm the last one. I mean, everyone has passed away except for me and Marsha from that moment.

Yeah, it's kind of strange, but I think in a strange way, it's also somewhat comforting. And Melissa is such a sweetheart, and she just is the... She's such a great counterpoint to his sort of gruffness. She just couldn't have a more open heart and just be more just... Yay! She's the antithesis. Uh,

I wanted to ask you because your character was first introduced. You were a guest star a couple of times and you were kind of a fatal attraction, a fascination with Dan looking to exact revenge and kill him. Basically, kind of like a sideshow Bob, right?

He had put me in jail for burning my boyfriend's house down. And he recognized me because I'd been away for a while and changing my hair. So, yeah, I was trying to exact revenge and then decided his life was too sad and it wasn't worth it. So how did I become the prosecutor of night court, apparently, um,

That's just the magic of television. Abby saw that there was a program called Project Second Chance, and she hired me. So I got to come and work with them. It's so silly. Is that a plan from the onset, or did they have you on, and they just liked the way that it felt, and maybe there were some good responses from test audiences, and they were like, we need to get that Wendy Malek back on here. Yeah, it was me.

B. Okay. All right. I had a feeling it might work. I wasn't sure if sometimes there's a plan, a method to that madness, but you just came in and you charmed them, and they said we had to have you. It was irresistible. What can I say? Well, to that point, as the character's moving along and there's sort of, it seems to be a bit of discovery going on, so are you able to have some input onto where Julianne goes from here and what might be in her future? Sure.

Yeah, when I talked to the showrunners and to Dan Rubin and Melissa, we had this conversation and I said, you know, just make sure she doesn't get too normalized. I like that she's a little bit criminally insane, but as long as she's on her meds, she can vary.

Wendy, you have such an interesting footprint on television entertainment because you go back to Dream On on HBO, which is

one of the original television show programming for cable. That was it. It was, I remember at the time there was first in 10 and then dream on came out. And I remember trying to explain it to people and say, yeah, it's a TV show, but it's on cable. So it's like, you know,

it was just an odd little thing and and flash forward all these years later and it's just as ubiquitous as can be and a lot of great programming comes from that world was it a different animal um than you know regular broadcast television when you guys were creating that absolutely absolutely we got in there and thought what is it they're letting us have complete freedom and do whatever we want um

And it was such good writing. I mean, it could have been just a silly sort of sex farce or something, but it just was so smart. And, of course, those writers all went off to do amazing things from that show. But the strange thing was so few people had cable at that time, so they often would discover it in a hotel or a motel. Yeah, they should be able to.

Fortunately, everyone in the business watched it. So that was definitely a launch for my career as a comedian. Before that, I had played, because I was tall and brunette, I guess, and somewhat imposing, I had played a lot of heavies. And I think I killed four husbands in one year on different shows. Nice.

Nice. Murderer or a villainous ex-wife or the judge or a doctor. That's great. I still dream on it. Well, you've had... So between that and Just Shoot Me and Hot in Cleveland and Young Sheldon, you've had shows that are known for their great ensembles. So you joined... Yeah. Joining a pre-established show. Mind you, there's not...

There was the Night Court 1 and now this version, but it's an established group of people. Is there a key to joining a preset ensemble and doing it the right way and making sure that you make the transition nicely? Are there tools you've worked on over the years? Well, this is the first time I've been added to a cast that's already been up and running for years. And...

I think it's, you know, this is what I love about good casting directors. When you put together an ensemble, you have to have these people. They all have to occupy, in my opinion, the best ones are the ones where we all occupy a different space but in the same universe. But we have our own little, like, we're all planets in the same universe.

and that everybody holds their own and they bring something unique to the dance, but it all sort of makes sense together. And having been a guest on this, I guess they realized I could be an addition to this without messing it up. Lucreta and Niamh B. and Melissa and John are just, you know, they have worked so beautifully together for the last, you know, going on three years. And I was just really happy to be able to sort of

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's been really, really lovely, and they've been so gracious to bring me into the fold. Nice. Well, Night Court's on tonight at 8.30, and obviously we want to point people in that direction, but I can't have you on and not thank you for the work that you have done on the show, Shrinking. We all here on the show are just massive fans of that, and programming like that, Wendy, my heart needs it. It needs it now, and it is just...

What a wonderful gift of entertainment from you, the writers, the directors, everybody behind that show. So special, don't you think? Absolutely. There's a lot of heart. I was just there yesterday, and it's a show that can, it's one of those rare shows that can make you laugh out loud and make you cry. And it really, I think, is a reflection of sort of the best thing about having friendships and people.

People you can rely on to get you through this crazy life. And we all need that. So the rumor is that on your second day of shooting for Shrinking, you had your make-out scene with Harrison Ford. That must have been a little nerve-wracking. Only wearing his shirt.

You know, and that morning he said, I'm really sorry. Last night, you know what I had for dinner? I had salmon and garlic. We were fine. And do you mind if I bite? No. And then from there on, we were we were good to go. No, it's a real gift. Bill Lawrence is quite a genius. You mentioned you were there yesterday. So I'm assuming are you filming and is there a release date yet for the third season?

Not that I know of. I think we're filming this one. We started, what, two months ago in January? Beginning of February, I guess. Yeah, so this, I believe, we'll finish shooting the end of May, maybe. So probably, I'm guessing this summer. But I don't know. Okay, excellent. Well, we're big fans. You're doing great work. And just keep it up so we stay happy. That's all there is to it. That's all we have in mind. I can hear it.

And it's a musical tonight on Night Court, which is pretty hilarious. A musical? I love that they go, a little bit of hyper-reality, which makes it really work. Excellent. You'll find it tonight at 8.30 on NBC. Thanks, Wendy, and take care of yourself, okay?

Bye-bye. All right, take care. Wendy Malek, man. I love her. She's great. She's great. I didn't want to say this during the interview because I didn't want it to get weird, but I was watching her at the Golden Globes and she was doing an interview and she, you know, we talked earlier about how you present yourself and, you know, getting places in life because of the way you present yourself. She was,

puts herself together. Like I looked at her and I was like, I don't know how old she is, but like when I get older, I want to be her. She was a Wilhelmina model for a number of years when she was younger. So she, I mean everything from, you know, her physical looks to the way she was speaking to the person interviewing her and then at the award show, like she just is perfect.

She's 75. Yeah, 75 years old. And Kathy, you know one of the things I love about shrinking is how Jessica Williams says that she's hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like every episode, she's talking about it. She's been taking kickboxing lessons. She's like, she's such a badass, but she's really hot too. And then after, so they interviewed at the award show, they interviewed Wendy Malick and then they interviewed Jessica Williams who...

very similar to her character in the show. It was almost like talking to her. I'm like, oh, she must have this same sense of humor. That's awesome. What's her name again? Jessica Williams. Oh my God, I love her. Yeah, she's so good. So good. She sat in line and she's like, ooh, that made my coochie whistle. I'm like, oh my God.

But she delivers that in a way that you would assume that she probably says that in real life. Yes, totally. She got her start on The Daily Show and she's just brilliant and funny. And every now and then she'll pop back up on The Daily Show, but she's so good on shrinking. If you haven't watched Shrinking, it's a show you've got to watch. Well, if you like Ted Lasso, this is what you've been looking for. Well, and it took Nick to convince me to watch it too because I'd watched...

I didn't even make it through the first episode all the way. Like I had something going on. Something was distracting me. I watched it. I'm like, nah, this didn't really grab me. And I walked away from it. And then Nick, you gave me two or three more prompts. You were like, Preston, I really want you to watch this because I know what you like and I know you'll love this. And it passed the test, which is third episode. Third episode, especially of a 30 minute long show. If you give it three...

And it's decent. You're in at that point. Yeah, Wendy mentioned Bill Lawrence during the course of that interview. And Bill is a creator of Shrinking, but he also did Ted Lasso. He did Bad Monkey. He did Scrubs. So if you see Bill Lawrence's name attached to any TV show or any project, it's probably worth your time. He's just great at getting these things. And like the ensemble cast, everybody in Shrinking just works really well with one another. Yep, agreed. All right, so we got word. We were going to talk to John Clark, but he's going to be later on this morning. He's at

The ballpark, I believe, right, Nick? Yeah, he just got called into the Phillies clubhouse. What did he do? Yeah, he called into the manager's office. Get in here. So hopefully in the next 20 minutes or so. I don't think I've ever been into the clubhouse there. We've been near the clubhouse. Yeah, we go into like the press area and the catering area. I love the cafeteria down below. Yeah, most definitely.

I did get to throw out the first pitch that one year. That was pretty cool. That was the coolest. You had a catch with Gabe Kapler? Yes. Which apparently, that never happens. You don't do a little play catch as a warm-up. I asked if we could warm up. He's like, yeah, go get a glove. That was pretty cool. And some kid, some 12-year-old was chucking it like twice as hard as I was. Yeah, I remember that. Little bastard.

showing me up in front of Gabe. We're flying out tomorrow and I saw this article and I wanted to see what you guys think about this. It's a woman on TikTok, of course, which is where ideas apparently pop up that are sometimes not necessarily great ideas, but people run with it. Anyway, she has something called the airport theory. In short, it's a quote unquote hack theory

that people are using to streamline their airport experience by putting their stress to the test by getting the airport 15 minutes before your departure time. But it's 20 because Frontier closes its gates at 20 minutes. I'm

I'm sorry? That says 15 minutes. So American, Delta, those airlines close their doors at 15 minutes before takeoff. Frontier is 20 minutes before takeoff. Okay, so 15 minutes. I was thinking, okay, yeah, before departure time. That's insane. It says arrive at their gates, yeah, 15 minutes prior to departure. That's stupid.

The goal, it seems, is to not waste so much time loitering in the airport, but instead breezing through security, hooping it to the gate and arriving just in time to board the plane. That is 100% antithetical to what the way I want to arrive early. I want to get relaxed. I don't care that, you know, I'm burning up time in the airport. Just my mindset has to be I'm here. I'm ready to go. And I have time if I'm.

doing it the way Pierre does it, I would kill myself. This is the Pierre theory. Yeah, I don't want to travel that way because I don't like having that feeling, Steve. But I've seen it happen before and not on purpose. But somebody that arrives where they need to get to their gate, they shuffle

them through security. They'll take them, they'll put them ahead of everybody and they'll get them to their gate. Like they don't want you to miss your flight. So you go up and announce that your flight is leaving and you're, otherwise how would they know unless you inform them? Yep. Yep. And they took them and TSA brought them to the front of the security line. They went through security and then I saw them kind of rushing them to the gate through the airport. I wonder what, at what point it's like,

where they wouldn't bother with that when they say, sorry, get in line. If there's 30 minutes before your flight and even though it looks like it might be a 15-minute wait in security, will they say, no, that's not good enough for us? And I don't know if that's just somebody showing up late or like I've had the experience of a connecting flight and the connecting flight was late. So like now that's the, you know, whatever, the airline or the airport or whatever it is.

So they're helping because they don't want a whole flight of people missing their connecting flight. So they helped. They were like, everybody stay seated. Let these people off first. And they got us to the gate so that we didn't miss our flight. So I don't know what the situation is. But I did experience somebody who was just kind of brushed through to help them get to their flight. Is this a stupid idea? So you have the zone boarding system. Now you're getting on board the plane. When you show up, there's some way to delineate between people's time frames so that you could –

you can almost have different lanes where depending on, okay, your flight isn't for an hour and a half, you're here, whatever. And there is a couple of the lanes that service the people who are with a tighter schedule. Yeah, but you would be mad because you're the person that shows up early.

I know. I know. It's true. Right. Right.

or anything like that. I just want to spend the least amount of time sitting in the seat on the plane.

Like, I'm okay being the very last person to enter the plane. Oh, okay. But this is just getting to the airport. Yeah. You're getting there. When you start back-timing it, then it just works out. No, no, no, no. What I'm saying is you could show up 45 minutes before your flight and go find something else to do at the airport in the meantime. Or you can just back-time it and just show up. So when you walk in, you walk up to the gate. It's boarding. You spend a few minutes there, and then you just walk on. Two things. One.

No, for me. Two things for a no for me. Potential for traffic and the potential for a line of security. That's the whole reason. Missing the goddamn flight. That's what I mean. I have never missed a flight. And if Marissa is early...

she will take that time to, because when we went to London, I think, we got a drink and I was like, okay, we should head over. And she was like, no, they have to board all those people. Let's just get one more drink. And then the gate agent had to come over and say, if you don't get on the flight, you are going to close the gates and you'll miss it. We were,

We were there on plenty of time. We were there like a few minutes. Yeah. No, we were. A few minutes isn't plenty. And the gate agent knew, you know, we were part of the show and that we were going over it. And he was like, you have to get on. Now the plane is getting ready to leave. Yeah. I can't. I don't. No. No. I'm too.

too antsy i want to get i don't mind sitting in my seat it doesn't bother me that bad i don't care i don't care killing you with all you have an ipad or you have all this stuff that portable entertainment you can bring with you sit there you can do whatever you need to do in the airport you're good to go i don't care you know what stresses me out the overhead space i want the damn overhead space i don't want to have to check my bag if i have a carry-on like that's why i'll get on the flight early uh to make sure that you do have a spot

I'll limp up. I'll roll up in a wheelchair and be like, I board first. I'm a veteran and I was shot in Afghanistan. I have to get on first. You should try saying these words, Kathy. Do you know who I am? See where that gets you. I do not. Turns out, no. I do not. Just make sure that we're around when you do that. Because I want to...

You want video? I want to see that happen. You should roll video. Tomorrow. Give it a shot. Or try this. You don't know who I am, do you? There's going to be a frenzy out there if you don't get me on this place. I need to board first. I'll take row one. I'll see you. Thank you. There's going to be a frenzy right here if you don't shut up.

By the way, Preston, I know we're sort of stalling here for a second, but John Clark is just finishing up, so he should be joining us on the Zoom in about a minute or so. Okay. Marissa's taking care of this. Yeah, we got some tech issues, too. Oh, really? Well, I mean, we're juggling Zooms and phones and whatever the hell else. So Marissa's wearing 17 different hats this week. All right. Well, we got another minute. I did see something else that was worth bringing up since we're talking about spending money on flights and baseball games and things like that.

If you want to go to Broadway, see a show. I do. Well, if you do, it's going to run you some money. By the way, so the highest grossing show on Broadway wasn't Wicked or Lion King or Hamilton or any of those. It was Othello from Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal. And it sold $2.63 million in tickets last week over seven performances. Wow.

It took in more than a million dollars than Hamilton. And it managed to do that during the post-holiday pre-spring break period that's usually the slow season of Broadway. And the interesting thing about it is people are paying as much as about $1,000 to sit as far back as row M. I saw this and my head exploded. Row M. So you're back a bit. Yeah.

$1,000. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. Othello is one of several limited run celebrity fueled plays this spring that are charging obscene prices, exacerbating Broadway's reputation of being only for the wealthy and debt prone. Um,

And if you want to see, like, Karen Kalkin in David Mamet's Glengarry Glam Ross from Row M, that is $574. Obviously a lot less than Othello, but still, front row, $724. That's a pretty solid cast in that. I think that's the one that Bill Burr is, as well as Odenkirk, Bob Odenkirk. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.

The back of the row of the mezzanine for Good Night, Good Luck with George Clooney is $272. That's the very last row. Front row is about $600. Well, that's a bargain compared to $1,000 for a row. $1,000, man. I didn't know. The first time I went to a Broadway show, I had no idea how much it cost. Yeah. None. None.

And if you want to go to New York, especially if you're going to stay a night and go see a show and grab dinner, thousands of dollars can be spent easily.

It's crazy, man. You can get it. You can get discounted, you know, that Tix booth that is famous. Is that like day of that you have to do that? Day of. Yeah. And so they'll get rid of those tickets that aren't sold and you can get them at really low prices. It is kind of cool because I went and saw, Casey's a huge Broadway fan and a big, big musical fan. I'm much less than he is, but I went years ago and saw Damn Yankees on Broadway and a

Bebe North was the star of it. And to be in the same room as that person, I think is pretty cool. I, you know, I don't know if it's worth it, but like to be close in proximity to Denzel or Hugh Jackman or Jake Gyllenhaal, it'd be kind of badass. I like you in the equalizer. Just,

Excuse me? I like you in the equalizer. We're trying to put on a show here. Nick, BB North and I traded emails back and forth. What? Yeah, for like a couple years. Did she ask about me? She didn't ask about you. Like literally just, she was just like chatting and we would like catch up.

Really? It stemmed from she came here. I remember. I guess was she promoting that show? I don't even know. She might have been. She was doing something, I think, at the Bucks County Theater or something like that. Yeah, and I don't know. It was a dinner theater version of the Equalizer. I can't remember what initiated it, but we started chatting about something, and she took my email, and she reached out to me. I think she was sending me information on something. I forget what it was, but anyway. Did you piss her off? No, we just chatted back and forth. It was cool.

I love Bebe New Orleans. Yeah. We should get her on the show. Yeah, for sure. Let me see if I still have it. I think I do. Have a Wanda Sykes driver over. That's where we can finally get her on the show, too. Yeah. The one stipulation is Wanda Sykes has to pick you up. You work that out for us. We'll get a twofer. Yeah.

All right. Well, anyhow, that, if you do want to go, is going to cost you quite a bit of money. We're still waiting on John. Yeah. We're still waiting for you to figure it out. Okay. All right. The rest of us will carry on and do a radio show. John is confused down there in Florida. Casey is, by the way. It's easier to talk to Casey in Verona, Italy. Yes. Than it is to talk to John Clark in Clearwater. Yeah. Well, no.

But we do have that one phone line. Why don't we try it? Because it's horrible. Well, you know what? Yeah, they supposedly fixed it. But Kathy, you got to jump through a bunch of hoops just to get a phone call on there as well. It's easier to launch a missile. I have some other time killers. Time killer-er. Sheer clothing is a pick.

is apparently making a return. Yeah, we see it all over the place. We're talking about Olivia Wilde. Yeah, naked dressing was a key trend in some designers' spring and summer collections, and the theme has continued into autumn-winter looks as well, as Vogue wrote in January, for a period of time, sheerness...

was few and far between. But nowadays, naked dressing is commonplace every season. Oh, it's so commonplace. Every season. Well, you know, okay, so you remember you would see like it would be sheer pants, a sheer skirt, a sheer dress, and then they would wear like the undergarments or maybe, you know, shorts or something like that underneath the sheer. So really, they were fully dressed, but you were seeing them basically in a broad underwear. You know, it's wild. This cat that's not sheer, but...

skin tone patches and stuff on dresses. So like on Dancing with the Stars. Yes. I remember tuning in and going, dear God, look at what she's wearing. It's just rhinestones. Oh my God. Yeah. And then they get in close and you're like, ah.

Yeah, I mean, that, dance costumes have forever been that. I mean, it'll be, I had one, it was completely nude and it just had pink fringe on it and rhinestones. So you look like you were just walking around with rhinestones on your body and pink fringe. So Dior's latest collection embraced see-through material and presented it in an ethereal way with intricate detailing and gender fluid silhouettes.

The trend divides opinion, but is certainly part of a wider movement. Last summer, Charlie XCX's definition of being a brat...

wearing a strappy white top with no bra. You were part of Bratz Summer, were you not? I am Bratz Summer. And sheer dressing is a nod to the minimalist looks of the 1990s. If you think transparent blouses and cape moss wearing a thin slip dress, that's going on now. Do you know, the first time I saw this fashion statement adopted, it was John Clark. I know. I was going to say, let's go to the man who is bringing that look back to the Delaware Valley.

And why not? He's in a warm environment and he can let it all hang out in Clearwater, Florida. Please welcome from NBC Sports, John Clark. Hey, John, how you doing?

You are the master of the segway. That was a tough turn there, but you navigated that pretty darn well. Been doing it for a while, brother. And plus, we want to see you in sheer. Yeah. So, Brad Summer with John Clark. Yeah. Dude, so we're headed down there. We're heading down tomorrow. When are you coming back?

I am actually just going to miss you. I'm leaving tomorrow morning. Oh, my gosh. I had a couple days down here. So it is all you. It is your show when you get down here. So enjoy it. Were you originally leaving tomorrow morning or did that occur when you found out we were coming down tomorrow?

I'm totally trying to avoid you. John, I want to ask you about spring training because I was chatting with my son yesterday about Phillies baseball and March baseball and whether or not spring training matters at all. My contention is it really doesn't. Of the four major sports

it seems to me like players can just go out there and if you're a pitcher, just throw curveball after curveball after curveball. And it doesn't really matter if you win or lose. If you're a fan and attendance, of course you want to see a win. You want to see it a home run from your perspective. How much does spring training matter when it comes to like what players are going to do in the regular season or what the team is going to do in the regular season?

Well, the records don't matter. I had my mom saying, oh, I see the Phillies are losing all their games down there. I said, mom, it's like preseason football. Do not worry about it. And, you know, I think it's different for each position group. So pitchers, they got to ramp up their arm. They got to slowly ramp up their arm for the ability to go out there and throw 100 pitches in a game and throw 98 miles an hour.

And then they also work on new pitches. Talking to a couple of the pitchers, you know, they come down here and they have a game plan of trying to locate different pitches, throw it in different spots. So they're working through some things. So if you see a pitcher give up a home run early on, he might just be trying something new, trying a new location for his pitches. And then for the hitters,

Different hitters need different numbers of at-bats to get going. Guys are different. Bryce Harper, I think he's ready to go. He's hitting the ball extremely well already. Some other guys, it takes them a little bit of time to get into a rhythm. It's kind of like life. We operate at different speeds. But I do think it's a necessity for these guys to get their at-bats in, get their timing down, their rhythm down. Take Nick Castellanos, for example. When he's here on game days...

getting ready for the game. He comes here about 8.30 in the morning and he goes out there all by himself to take batting practice to try to get into that rhythm. And he even told me the timing is still not completely there. So I do think it's very important, but the results

necessarily don't matter. The one problem is, is that with this, and obviously they're working on some things that you're saying, and as a convert to the notion of coming down and watching in person and seeing how amazing it is, you're still walking the land mine field.

field of potential injury, which to me is something, and that has happened on a number of occasions. Reese Hoskins a couple years ago. Right, right. So that to me is the liability. I mean, you can eradicate it, but do they take steps to mitigate it? For example, if you go out and pitch an entire game of curveballs, you

You know, you could also injure yourself. So I think there's a risk factor there, John. Yeah, and not as much as other sports. Obviously, you see the Eagles. The reason why Nick Sirianni doesn't want to see his offense in the preseason games, his starters like Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, A.J. Brown as much is because he doesn't want to get them hurt. Baseball, I think, is a little different. The level of injury and the probability of injury is far lower than in football.

contact sport, obviously. So, look, I think the pitchers, they need to ramp up their arms and you're not going to overdo it. You're basically building up to the point where then you can go out on opening day and you can be ready to throw 80, 90 pitches or something like that. We've even seen in years past where some pitchers are not ready to throw 100 pitches in a game for the season opener. But, yeah, look, I

I think that you always want to make sure you arrive to the season open or healthy. So they're not going to overdo it. But there's the probability of injury in baseball far lower. I mean, Reese Hoskins that year, that was just a freak injury and it was terrible. But that is not likely to happen most of the time. So, you know, the Phillies have been relatively healthy here. Matt Strom is battling through a shoulder issue with impingement and bone bruise and inflammation.

But hopefully it's not a long-term thing because there's no structural damage in there. So he might miss a couple weeks, but he should be ready to go. And so these Phillies, unlike some of the other teams down here in spring training, you see the Yankees major injuries, the Mets are dealing with stuff, the Braves. Hopefully the Phillies show up for the season opener.

Pretty darn healthy. Good. Well, the other good thing about spring training is the team is more relaxed. Everyone's chilled. They're not, you know, super on yet. So have you gotten to talk to Bryce Harper about his off-season TikTok cooking show? Hmm.

Well, our NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast did speak to him. Barista Bryce opened up a whole new world for himself. And he goes on there and he puts out some latte videos, some mocha. I'm not a big coffee guy, so I don't know if I've got the terms right. But people eat it up. They love to see that. And Bryce, he's probably going to be doing more of.

because he loves it. And it's cool to see that side of Bryce. Bryce at home, because when Bryce is not at the ballpark, he is a family guy. He is at home with his kids, hanging with his kids. He doesn't really go out that much. So a lot of these guys, they are really, really good family people. And they're with their kids or spending time with their families. And so that is a great side of Bryce's

that we got to see. And then Zach Wheeler, his wife is putting out on Instagram, they had like a tea time with their kids where, you know, they baked some goods and they had some tea and stuff like that. So for one thing,

these Phillies are having lots of babies. They are growing. Well, the climate is so conducive to us. Yeah. Well, you know, one thing we did learn is and have learned over the years is that obviously there is a lot of time or they make a lot of time for golf. And so who's who's playing a lot? Do you play and have you been invited?

No, no, I'm not invited. I can't golf with these guys. I am not in their league. I am an amateur golfer. And these guys, let me tell you, I mean, JT Real Muto, you talk about Jake Elliott being the best athlete and being the best golfer on the Eagles.

JT is the guy everybody's coming after. And I actually just talked to JT about that because that's one thing that builds camaraderie with this team. They get out on a golf course together, and he said he's got a couple guys coming after him. Trey Turner's getting better at golf. We've heard Garrett Stubbs talking about it, Kyle Schwarber. And you've seen Brandon Marsh in the videos that the Phillies put out. So that really builds camaraderie.

the team camaraderie. They love to get out with each other. He did say Bryson Stotts trying to get better at golf. Didn't sound like that is really happening. But I tell you, I mean, you see Kyle Schwarber with his shore bombs at the plate. I mean, imagine him...

driving a golf ball. Yeah. They should do that at Citizens Bank Park sometime. Nice charity event. See if anybody can out drive the Phillies. That ain't happening. Didn't we learn that's how they picked their rankings in their fantasy football leagues? Who had the longest drive got to pick first. Or closest to. Closest to the pin. Yeah.

Yeah. It all goes back to golf. It does, doesn't it? Well, I think Larry Bala hit an ace last year. He did. They were out playing together. Larry Bala had his first hole-in-one of his entire life. And that video was awesome because you see, you hear the noise coming from the players. And then everybody's like, what happened? What happened? What happened? And Larry, I don't even know if he believed that his ball

He thought he was being set up until he finally got out there because he thought for sure if you're with a group of people who are going to try to pull one over on you, it's that collective. And they did not. They were stunned. Yep.

How cool is that? He's close to 80 years old. He's the guy that gets the whole amount. He deserves it, for crying out loud. We're looking forward to heading down there tomorrow. We have such fun. It's such a cool vibe. For fans who go to see these games, it's a little bit of a different experience than it is at Citizens Bank Park in that you're up close. You're seeing these guys in a different frame of mind. I think it's a really cool fan experience. I'm not sure what your take is.

Absolutely. And, you know, the thing that I love to see the kids down here and I'll tell you something cool. After the game, I think it was Sunday. I go back to my hotel a couple minutes from the stadium and I was going to swim some laps, get in a workout. And then I see these two kids still in their Phillies jerseys.

And pants, they had the Phillies cleats, they had their gloves, and they each had a ball. They came back to their hotel, and in the parking lot were having a catch with their dad. And I could overhear a couple of them like, yeah, imagine what it's like to be Trey Turner or Bryce Harper. And I said, you know what?

That kind of brought me back to my childhood. That's what it's all about. The kids get down here. They get to see their favorite players, and they dream big someday of being just like them. So that really hit me hard about how cool spring training can be for these kids that come down here with their parents. So nobody recognized you from your mini hoops goat status? Yeah.

You know, I brought that with me. Next to me everywhere I go. I look at it when I wake up. Wearing the belt while you're doing your lab. Two-time champ. Nice.

All right. Well, listen, we just wanted to get a vibe, a feel of the vibe so far in spring training because we're stoked to get down to sunny, warm Florida. Although it's pretty damn nice here today, John. You're going to be coming back to some fairly decent weather. But yeah, we're looking forward to getting down there. But listen, dude, thank you for checking in. We appreciate it. We know you got your finger on the pulse and we'll see how this season goes. But we're we're excited to get it underway, my man.

And maybe on my way out of town, coming back to Philly, I will leave the championship belt for the Papa Shot Championship. I'll leave it in the airport and I'll see if you can find it. All right. Yeah, yeah. If they don't try to defuse it. All right. Thank you, John. We'll see you, bud. Appreciate it. Have a fun trip down here. Thanks, man. John Clark from NBC Sports Philadelphia. All right. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll get some bizarre file stories. Make sure you stay where you are.

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Sponsored by Monster Mania 62. And it'll be here March 14th through the 16th at the Doubletree by Hilton in Cherry Hill. You can meet Chris Jericho, Eli Roth, Danielle Harris and more. Tickets are on sale now at monstermania.net. A woman in Japan was arrested.

for allegedly locking her naked partner on their balcony for the night, leading to his death from the cold. Oh, man. Yeah, the 54-year-old was arrested on charges of assault and lethal confinement. The woman ordered the victim to get on a balcony while he was naked and confined him there.

The next day, police rushed to the scene after an emergency call and the 49-year-old was found nearly dead in a room at the apartment and he later died of hypothermia. The temperature that night had dropped to a low of 38 degrees. The woman had earlier attacked her partner, who was her common-law husband, with a knife leaving him with nose injuries that took two weeks to heal. Kind of sounds like a catch. Yeah. An autopsy revealed a cut wound on the man's nose and

And police are investigating the possibility the man was a victim of a daily domestic violence. That's horrible, man. The woman denies charges, telling police, quote, I've done nothing. Okay, we'll let you go there. That sums it up. Yeah. Police said, did not say why it had taken so long to formally charge her, but it did take a while and they eventually got her.

An easy jet flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Portugal after a brawl between families over the Karate Kid movie erupted in mid-air. The original? Yeah. The flight...

descended into chaos after... No, actually, Steve, it was the remake. Oh. There was a woman confronted a five-year-old boy for watching the 2010 remake of the classic film on his iPad. The mother of the five-year-old claims that her son was watching with the volume set low, but an irritated woman said four rows in front of the family allegedly shouted racial abuse at the boy to turn off the film. Where's that...

sound coming from? When challenged for abuse towards her son, the mother alleges that the woman's partner grabbed her other half who is disabled by the neck. Following the physical altercation, the pilot diverted for an emergency landing in Portugal.

I wonder if we'll have a bizarre viral story generated on our trip tomorrow. I know. Listen, nowadays, and I know it's calmed down a bit in the past few years, but every time I sit on a plane, I wonder. Who's going to be the one? Am I going to see something today? Who's going to be the karate kid lunatic? Local police met the aircraft on landing with both families removed from the London-bound flight for their behavior. Who's going to make the toilet overflow or run down the aisle naked? The mother is now threatening to sue EasyJet over the incident and left her family scarred and distraught.

I said both families are left to make their own way home from Portugal after being removed from the aircraft with the airline saying that they banned those involved in the mid-air brawl from future flights. So they are screwed there. In Michigan, a man recently drove around with what looked like to be a dead giraffe in the back of a pickup truck.

Pictures posted online of the incident caused confusion and led to a statement from the driver. Hey, Lonnie, I still see that dead giraffe back there. So Nathan Shemansky said, my buddy was on his way home from work and saw what appeared to be a real deceased giraffe in the bed of someone's truck.

Yeah, it does. We're looking at it. Does anyone know anything about this? Is this even real? And the post was shared in various groups with some users expressing outrage over the dead exotic animal, which is not native to the U.S., of course. And they were wondering if it had been hunted and killed. The outcry led to...

Taxidermist Darren Wehner setting the record straight and sharing behind-the-scenes photos of his work on the long-necked animal. He said that the animal had died of old age in a zoo and that he had been commissioned by an unnamed museum to prepare the giraffe. But they drove around. The thing is so big that in the back of a pickup truck, the neck is...

craned and it can't fit in the back of the truck. My natural assumption is that he was taking his giraffe out to calm it down and make it fall asleep the way you would a baby. So he said, my job is to preserve them so that you can appreciate them forever. Adding that by the time he received the giraffe, it was no different than leather with hair on it.

Wow, that's very dismissive. That's how he described it. Leather with hair on it. Mighty creature. This is a good story. A nine-year-old at Raleigh Charter School stepped in at the right time to help save a classmate from choking. The second grader was gasping for air and struggling to breathe before his friend took action. So a young kid named Eric Johnson, or no, I'm sorry, this is the executive director of the school. Okay.

said the incident happened last week during recess. Jason Branch, who is nine years old, and Donye Moore, who is seven, were playing basketball at the time. Jason said when...

We were playing basketball. He ate a granola bar. We started playing together. I was playing longer until he started choking. And I didn't know that he was actually choking. So I just did my thing, which was the Heimlich. So it was a nine-year-old kid. That's pretty amazing for a nine-year-old to execute the Heimlich maneuver. And the video was captured on surveillance. So in the video, you can see Donye stop playing and begin to bend over, struggling to breathe. Jocelyn noticed, Jason noticed something immediately and came to his rescue, squeezing his abdomen and expelled the food immediately.

Jason said, I learned it from watching YouTube because a teacher saw a student choking and the student came to the teacher and started doing this. And then the teacher started doing what I did to Donye. The boy performed the life-saving technique without hesitation, shocking teachers and their parents.

His mom said we are really proud of him. We teach our kids to take care of each other. So this is just really a prime example of that. That's very cool. Great story. All right, and then we'll do one more and we will wrap it up in Florida. A Sumter County man...

has been arrested for DUI manslaughter after a woman fell from the golf cart he was driving and died. Manslaughter falling from a golf cart? Yeah, Florida Highway Patrol said that Richard Allen Keel of the Villages was driving a golf cart around 12.49 a.m. on Sunday when he swerved to avoid a parked vehicle.

Uh, Kiel's passenger, a 60-year-old Illinois woman, fell out of the golf cart during the maneuver and suffered serious injuries. She must have hit her head. Yeah, yeah. Is there alcohol involved? Yeah, so she was transported to an area hospital where she later died. Arrested. They arrested Kiel for DUI manslaughter. Man. After troopers found him to be impaired. So, yeah, even a golf cart. Yeah. Your time went on. Not supposed to be driving those, so...

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Allison Change, I am so damn tired. The time change has messed me up this year. I am wiped out and I have like

50 things I have to do when we get done today. It's just like I'm so not looking forward to it. You made me feel good, though, because I thought I'm completely inarticulate today. Me too. What in the hell is going on? Tripping over words. I can't think straight. I'm really considering learning sign language. Probably a good idea. Yeah, I have to. So, mammoth, not womath. Womath.

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This percentage. Yeah. Let's see if we can get that right. 215. No, don't call that. Jesus. Text word Zoom to 39333. We'll send the link to you. So Nick's middle name is Lincoln, but it could have been what? This percentage. Let's see if you heard it and know the answer. While you're texting the word Zoom to get the link, we will do this. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

With Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. And this morning is brought to you by Barlow Chevy. Making insane deals on every new Chevy in stock. Barlow has the vehicle that you need at unbeatable prices. Visit Barlow Chevy today. What's going on, Steve? Well, three gunmen attempted to break into the home of rapper and OnlyFans model B.

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That's your Hollywood trash. All right. Thank you, Steve. We will, yeah, you know what? We'll get to music news, right, Marissa? Anything? No, no.

Oh, we do? How about that? Okay, I'm looking up on our monitor. Let me bring up our music here. And as soon as we see a name, I will... Oh, that's the winning music. Yeah, now hit it again. Okay, yeah, you're right. I'll hit this one more time. All right, now we have it. As soon as we get somebody up, we'll ask if they know what Nick's middle name is or could have been because it is actually Lincoln.

but it could have been something else. I have a good feeling about this. Do you? I do. Do you? I really do. The kind of feeling one would have if they were killing for time. All right. Kill, kill, kill. Hang on, let me get rid of this. Kill, kill, kill. All right, here we go. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR.

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Dominican Republic making their first show since co-founder and guitarist Brent Hines' departure. And they introduced Ben Eller, a renowned YouTuber and guitarist, as Hines' temporary replacement. Did Mastodons walk the earth when Wollmuths were still alive? I think when Wollmuths were, yes. Eller's involvement was notable, especially given the short preparation time. So bassist Troy Sanders mentioned during the set that they asked Eller, quote, can you learn 17 Mastodon songs immediately? Yeah.

Ben is widely recognized for his YouTube channel, which is called This Is Why You Suck at Guitar, which has over half a million subscribers. Mastodon confirmed that all of 2025 tour plans will proceed as scheduled. Wow. With upcoming appearances at events like the Sonic Temple Festival in May and a U.S. tour alongside Coheed in Cambria and Periphery from May 10th through June 8th. So they got this YouTuber to get up.

and uh and play that's excellent yeah it's pretty cool so you want to should i break in let's do it yeah all right let's break in because we have somebody who might know the answer to uh our lesson question for today uh we are gonna go to lisa hi there lisa hi there thanks for joining us my pleasure all right nick's middle name is lincoln but it could have been what

98%. 98%, yes. That is correct. Hang on a second, Lisa. We are going to set you up. We've got for you. Is this what repeats over and over? Yeah, it is. Okay. Third time's a charm. We are going to go with a pair of tickets to see Jill Coy and Friends Saturday, October 18th at the Ocean Casino Resort.

We edited this to repeat over and over. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. You can visit theoceanac.com for more details. So we will set Lisa up with that. So congratulations to her. And now back to Music News. WMMR. All right.

Where the hell was I? Oh, so yeah, you can rock and roll all night with Gene Simmons, but it's going to cost you. The Kids Front Man is giving fans the opportunity to be his personal assistant band roadie.

But you have to pay him over $12,000 to do it. So you're not hired. You're paying him to work for him. Yep. God bless. Hawking the Job is the ultimate Gene Simmons experience on his website, The Rocker Promises. You'll be on the GS band team crew for the entire day and be on the inside of his daily schedule while he's out on the road for his solo tour with his Gene Simmons band this spring.

Not only will the lucky fan do manual labor, like helping the band set up for their show, but they will sit in on soundcheck, arrive at the venue with the band, and hang out backstage. I want you to do a deep tissue massage on my glutes. So Simmons also promises that the hefty price of $12,495...

will be enough for the big spender to have a meal with the rock star. You're not fanning hard enough. Which will be at the hotel or backstage of the show. They'll also be brought up on the stage during the concert and be introduced to the crowd. I want you to apply this wart cream. Do it. As you imagine. And apparently he won't let you leave the venue empty-handed either. The winner will go home, or the...

The purchaser will go home with a set list signed by Simmons and a rehearsal used bass with his signature on it. You must never reveal to anyone that I wear a girdle. He also claims that the lucky assistant can take photos during the day of their entire experience. But not of me. When it comes to outside items, Simmons will only allow them to bring an additional four things for him to sign and it can't be any instruments or parts. However... Four things. Four things.

Yep. However, the ultimate fan will be allowed to bring... The three of them have to be chicken fingers. Another person as their plus one for the day.

This isn't a one-time offer, though. Simmons will allow one assistant experience per venue when his band heads out on tour from April 3rd to August 3rd. And with over 20 shows, that's a lot of cash. So you have to wonder how he ended up with the arbitrary amount of $12,000. Yeah, $12,495. So the...

Job isn't the only interesting experience available. For the price tag of $6,500, fans can get a signed base while supplies last and meet Gene backstage at one of his shows. Nice to meet you. My God. They...

They're brilliant. Yeah, it works. They know that people, they know that there have been diehard successful KISS fans at this point in their lives. These people have grown up. Some of them have had a great life and they've saved money and they will spend it on this. I'm glad to make your dream come true. Make it out to Gene Simmons. Wow.

Crazy. All right, two more quick things. Rick Springfield, we just played a new song from him last week. Tells People Magazine he recently underwent a whole body MRI scan and found out that he had brain damage from a fall he took in Las Vegas in 2000. What? He said, I fell 25 feet, hit my head, and then wood came down and hit my head, and then I hit my head on the stage again. What?

He said, I thought I had just broken my wrist, but on the scan I found out that I have some brain damage from the fall. That sucks. So I'm working on trying to repair that. He couldn't understand why he was singing, I Wish You Were Jessie's Girl. But listen, it's 25-year-old brain damage. I mean, the damage is done, right? Yeah, but at this point, you're not going to correct it. The artist says that as he gets older, it's important that he knows what's going on with his body and that he take care of it. He said, my dad died from not wanting to know.

When he finally collapsed one day at home, they found out it was an ulcer that burst.

And that was a giant message to me. If you want to live long, you have to be prepared for some bad news now and then. Oh, wow. Well, some good news. I just got word we're going to talk to Rick on Monday, March 24th. All right. Nice. Excellent. I'm glad to see he's having a little bit of a comeback. Yeah. All right. And then one last story. Cindy Lauper has revealed the final leg of her North American Girls Just Want to Have Fun Farewell Tour.

And I mainly include this because of her connection with the Hooters and all that stuff. Plus, I think she's a great singer. She is. Tickets go on sale to the generic public Friday at 10 a.m. And she will be playing in Philadelphia at The Man on July 20th, by the way. Oh, my actual birthday. Oh, yeah.

Nice. I wonder if, well, you think she might be joined by any of the Hooters? You know what? I would be surprised if that doesn't happen. Right. They're still tight. They chat every now and then. Eric and or Rob produced one of her later records, you know, within the last 10 years. Sure. Yeah. Nice. I bet they'll be there. All right. That's the entertainment or the...

Music News segment for today. We're going to take a quick break. When we get back, we are thankfully going to be wrapping up the show. And we'll also give away our Tattoo Day prize. So if you haven't done it yet, text the word tattoo to 39333. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. That's...

As we played the other day and found out, it's Rick Springfield on 93.3 WMMR. Losing myself naming the song. Catch a little poppy kind of ditty, but... What does that sound like? Rock flavor to it. I'm trying to isolate it because it does remind me of another artist. Very much so. It's the ooh part. Yeah, yeah. And I can't place it either, Steve. It's a current group. Yeah, yeah. And I know what song you're talking about.

I don't know. Maybe there's some text messages that can explain that. Or no, not really. Right. Somebody says it sounds like Corey Taylor a little bit. I'm not really sure. But anyhow, as Marissa said, we're going to talk to Rick in a couple weeks, which will be kind of cool. Thank you to our guests on the program. We had the very talented Wendy Malek. Yes.

She's on night court tonight, 8.30, NBC. You can check that out. And then we had our good friend John Clark, who checked in from spring training, NBC Sports Philadelphia. And just kind of getting the lay of the land, seeing how things are going so far. And he says he's having a great time. Thrilled to find out that he'll be leaving by the time we get there. Yep, he leaves tomorrow morning. We arrive tomorrow afternoon slash evening. So we're going to just miss him, unfortunately.

But it was nice to have him on this morning. Today is Tuesday. That means we got to get a winner for Tattoo's Day. If you can't find the music, don't worry about it, Marissa. Casey's out, obviously. He's in Italy right now. Yes. But we will see him tomorrow as he flies in from Italy to Clearwater and...

We'll join him tomorrow evening. So, yeah, Marissa's got the song, which is right here. So, we would like to congratulate Mr. Eddie Gelson of Philadelphia. And we're going to give him a $350 gift certificate for...

Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. And you can find them at 1729 South Street in Philadelphia. If you want to see their artwork samples, which you certainly do, you can go to floatingworldtattoos.com or check them out on Instagram at floatingworldtattoos. We will need to do the letter of the day. Marissa is going to help us out with that. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

Now, the Daily Letter. And the Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter. R, as in, are you going to the mall today? R, as in, regurgitated. All right, we're going to give you a $500 prize if you get it right on Friday from Paramount Pictures. Novocaine. You can go see Novocaine in 4DX.com.

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We will also be leaving for Florida tomorrow and reuniting with Casey. So we got to do everything to prep for that. Yes. So we'll give some stuff away. We'll chat. We'll have a good time tomorrow. That's it. We're done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day and we'll see you tomorrow, my friend.