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I was keeping you on for a pillow. Please go away. Let me sleep for the love of God. You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR with Preston Elliott. You will listen to every damn word I have to say. And Steve Morrison. Words are like bullets lost. Casey Boy. They all can't starve it. Kathy Romano. I'm going to destroy you.

Nick McElwain. I'm just not the hero type. And Marissa Magnata. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Ha ha!

And we welcome you, friend. It's another day that we share together. And it is so happens to be a Wednesday morning. That midweek point that nobody looks forward to. But we'll hang in there together. We'll make this thing work. And the weather's not too bad. I mean, obviously, we had a stupendous day yesterday. Today, I have about 57, so a tad bit cooler. But we're still in partly cloudy skies. Maybe a little bit cooler.

Maybe a shower later on in the week. We'll see about that. Tomorrow's high, 54 degrees and clouds. Friday, we're looking at 58 degrees and sun. So not too bad. We'll be in the mid to upper 60s as we move in towards the weekend. And now, Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano.

And today is Wednesday, March 12th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, a judge ruled Tuesday that a woman arrested by ICE at her family's popular Camden County restaurant can be released on a $7,500 bond. The decision came exactly two weeks after M&A and her husband, Jalal Emanet,

were swept up by agents, setting off a wave of support for the couple from elected leaders, customers, and residents in Haddon Township where their restaurant, Jersey Kebab, had been a staple. Emanate, who was in custody since the February 25th arrest, is expected to be released today. Her husband has been released. He was released weeks earlier with an ankle monitor to care for their son.

A deportation hearing is set for M&A next week, but the family is appealing to have the couple's case heard at the same time. The community has been rallying behind the family with love and support for the last couple of weeks. The M&As are originally from Turkey and moved to the United States in 2008 on an R1 visa. Before the visa expired, Jalal applied for a visa.

for a green card. The family's immigration status has been pending since 2016. Some of the township recently wrote letters to the immigration judge pleading for their case. Those letters were read in court on Tuesday afternoon. Neighbors launched a GoFundMe to help pay for legal fees and support income while the restaurant is closed.

Police stopped thieves from walking away with all the beef in an attempted cargo theft in South Philadelphia. It happened along the 3300 block of South 7th Street Tuesday morning. Authorities say the thieves pulled up in a stolen box truck and began taking beef products from a parked tractor trailer that was making a delivery. The commotion woke up the driver and he saw at least four individuals carrying boxes to a white Ford truck.

When officers arrived, the thieves jumped into a different vehicle and drove off, leaving the meat behind. After a brief chase, the suspects got away. There were 185 boxes full of beef worth about $55,000. The cargo truck driver was not hurt. It's not uncommon to hear about these robberies. At times, there have been up to 12 people working together. There have been thefts of everything from crab to bourbon to pork and beef products.

Looks like, Steve, they avoided another catastrophe on this one. Oh, yeah. But listen, yeah, so they finally got one of these. Yeah. I mean, this has been happening. These bizarre truck thefts have been happening for a few years now. They happen just only every once in a while. Just a handful. But when it happens, it stands out, you know? Yeah. It's amazing, though. So when they steal on this level, they're selling it on the black market, do we believe? I don't know. That's what I was going to say.

wondering. You know, because you assume that would raise all sorts of red flags as well. I mean, there's got to be people who... Yeah, I just bought 18 tons of beef. Yeah, I mean, this isn't, they're not going home and putting 55,000 pounds of beef in there. Barbecue at my place! But I guess, I mean, what would you call that? Like fencing operations? Yeah. Where they go and they give it to the people who will buy it and then kind of discreetly sell it illegally? You know at the local pawn shop, they always have a butcher section. Yeah.

I can't. I'm going to have a barbecue this weekend. Let's go to the Lee's Pawn and Jewelry. Well, yeah, they're probably selling it to these restaurants or whoever it is, markets for much cheaper, and they're taking it. Police say the getaway car had paper tags, which aren't pointing them in the right direction. There were surveillance cameras in the area, and police are hoping that the footage will aid them in the investigation.

The search is on in Delaware County for a driver who was inside a stolen car when it nearly collided with a garbage truck. It happened at Chester Pike and Lincoln Avenue in Prospect Park at 421 Tuesday morning. Police say the stolen vehicle was caught passing through an automated license plate reader when officers responded.

An officer attempted to stop the vehicle after observing the driver driving recklessly but decided against pursuing the vehicle in the interest of public safety. So video then shows the speeding vehicle moments away from being smashed by a trash truck at the intersection. Anyone with information on the speeding driver is asked to call Prospect Park Police. Yeah, did you see the video? Yeah, very close. Really close. So they're looking for this driver if you have any information. And they found that that garbage truck was filled with stolen meat, Kathy. In sports this morning. Hi.

All sacks are yelping. All sacks are yelping.

The Flyers lost to the Ottawa Senators 5-2 last night in South Philly. What the f*** is this? Brady Kachuk scored 24 seconds into the game on the opening shift, one-timing a pass from former Flyer Claude Giroux. What the f*** is that? Ivan Fedotov for his 27th goal of the season and the 400th point of his NHL career. Jamie Drysdale and Rodrigo Abol scored for the Flyers who lost their fifth straight game all at home. They're at home again tomorrow night with a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock.

The Sixers are on the road again tonight with a game in Toronto against the Raptors. Tip-off is at 7.30. At spring training, the Phillies won their fourth straight game, beating the Red Sox 18-8 yesterday afternoon in Fort Myers. Take it!

The Phils are off today, but play again tomorrow. We will broadcast our show from the ballpark in Clearwater tomorrow morning and we'll be at the game afterwards. The Phils will take on the Braves. First pitch is scheduled for 105. The Eagles have traded safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson to the Houston Texans in exchange for left guard Kenyon Green. The deal also includes a pick swap with the Eagles getting a 2026 fifth round pick and the Texans getting a 2026 sixth rounder.

Gardner-Johnson had six interceptions in 2024 and 2022 for the Eagles in two separate stints with the team. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. How about that? And that's what I have for you this morning. So the Lightning are in Philadelphia tonight, Nick? Yeah, and then the Flyers are in Tampa on Monday. Right, right. So this is a, it's a

Philly weekend without question all the way through down in Florida. Yeah, a bunch of people that are doing their Philly sports trips are going to see the Phils game tomorrow with us at the ballpark and then they're going to go see Philly's Yankees in Tampa on Friday night and then they're sticking around and they're going to watch the Flyers play the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday night.

How cool is that? And that was all through Philly Sports Strips? Yeah, man. That's what these guys do. They just do such a fantastic job of organizing everything. You don't have to worry about a damn thing. And again, they're going to get three different Philly sporting events in the Tampa Bay region. Do you know what really... And it's just a memory I have of... And people wonder what it's like down there when spring training's going on. And...

Walking into like the little gas station mini mart and the guy behind the counter is wearing a Philly shirt. Oh, yeah. And you know he lives and works there. Yeah. It's like, it just, it takes over everything. It's amazing. Yeah, we're excited and we'll give you the rundown of everything Philly Sports Trips has planned while we're broadcasting because we're, you know, we're going to be going to these, they take care of like the parties you go to. And the dinners and all this stuff. So, and the sweets and everything. There's a booze cruise tonight.

Don't think we're going to make it. We're just rolling in and then we got to work the next morning. You know me, I always pick up a suitcase of beer and head back to the hotel. Sure, yeah. You got your rhythm that you get into when you're on this trip, so we'll see. But anyhow, that's tomorrow. Let's get today underway and then we'll move on to that. You'll be happy to know I've moisturized my hands. I'm all ready. People don't realize this, but during the news...

Preston, and then does people might, if the cameras were on, they might think as Kathy's reading these horrible stories that Preston's doing jazz hands. I know. He's not. He's simply drying off his hands. I'm drying my hands. I do this. You probably don't even notice it, do you, Kathy? I can see it like in my peripheral vision. I have to because by the time you're done, I put my hands back on the board and they need to be dried out.

So if I don't, then I can't pick up the papers because I think it's from the soap, like from washing and cleaning. I take a shower every morning. I think my hands dry out ridiculously. It was soap. All right. Well, anyhow, enough about my moisturizing technique and what's coming up on the program today.

We will go live on Fox Good Day this morning. Mike and Alex will check in with them around 8 o'clock or so. We do have a guest stopping by today, too. Paul Mercurio is going to be here. He'll be in the studio, and he's here to talk about his gig at the City Winery, which is coming up not until Saturday, March 29th. So he's in town to visit and promote this. He does a lot of prep. We appreciate that. He does. Yeah. Absolutely does. So we will talk to him. We...

business as usual. We got stuff to give away. We got some tickets coming up for the Stupid Question. Volbeat and Hailstorm Saturday, August 9th. Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Your chance to win that. And then later on we got Joe Coy and Friends tickets to give away too. And something very interesting that none of you guys know about.

It's going to happen in the 8 o'clock hour. Wow. That's exciting. It's a little surprise. And when did you find out about the surprise? Marissa's the only other one that knows about this. She snuck in and said something to me. And I'm like, well, let's not tell anybody. All right. Let's just see how this rolls out. I like surprises. Surprise for everybody. It's a short little but very special thing. Oh, okay. It's going to happen in the 8 o'clock hour. Are we going to hear the pitter-patter of little feet? No, no, no. But somebody's heart might go pitter-patter.

We'll see about that. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in a second. We've got a stack of entertainment stories that we're dying to share with you and stupid question on the way, too. So we'll be back in just a sec. Stay put. 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. Let's pose a question and give away some tickets for the stupid question, which, by the way, you're going to have to Zoom in for this morning. So if you know the answer, text the word Zoom to 39333. And we're going to give away tickets to the Bull Beat and Hail Storm, Saturday, August 9th, free to March Pavilion. Tickets go on sale Friday. So here's the question that I have for you. Sometimes I go with the tougher one, and this is the day. This is the case here today.

Which bony structure includes the zygomatic... Bam! There you go. Nice. Ethmoid and the vorner bones. There you go. Oh.

I don't know the answer, and I'm going to try to guess. The zygomatic, the ethmoid, and the vomer bones. Let's see if you know what part of what structure, what bony structure includes those. I'm sorry. Text the word ZOOM to 39333, and we will send the link to you. All right. We'll mention some birthdays today. It is the 12th day of March, and we'll begin with the one from the MCU, actress Jamie Alexander.

And she is, she plays the character Sif in Thor and a variety of the movies. But I always thought her character was kind of underplayed a little bit. I really liked her a lot. She had her own series where she was totally like neck to toes tatted up. Really? Yeah, and she was good.

The series didn't last long, but she's very good. She's gorgeous. And I thought she was a formidable warrior in the Thor series. So happy 41st birthday to Jamie Alexander. Great actor Aaron Eckhart turns a year older. He is 57 years old today.

Harvey Dent? Yeah, the Dark Knight, obviously. But Olympus has fallen. I thought he was great. And Sully is the co-captain. Co-pilot, I'm sorry. But yeah, he's great. We had a long, long time ago. I think we were still at Y100. He came by and visited the studio. And it was a nice guy. As his star was beginning to rise. And he had already done, you know,

Thank You for Smoking and Aaron Brockovich. Was he promoting Hot Frankenstein at the time? I think it might have been that movie, Steve. Yeah, but he was a really nice guy. He's 57 years old today. The great Liza Minnelli has her birthday. She is 79 years old. Do you know

where you can really tell just how great she is, Arthur. She is great in Arthur. She is terrific in Arthur. I love that movie. I mean, you know, she is a powerhouse singer, obviously cabaret and everything. She's known for the big body sort of stage show stuff. Right. But in subtle comedy, she's also excellent. And also in Stephen Blayton comedy, like Arrested Development. Arrested Development. I mean, you know, she just, she plays one of the son's

girlfriends and it's just to say she ends up falling down the stairs she's great at physical comedy uh yeah she's hilarious on that show 79 years old today uh then we have actor courtney b vans uh in the hunt for red october he plays uh jonesy the sonar guy and uh also he had a nice run in law and order criminal intent and married to angela bassett since 1997

So he wins. Yeah, he does. Yeah. So happy 65th birthday to Courtney B. Vance. Then we have from the world of music from Iron Maiden. Fantastic bass player Steve Harris celebrates his birthday today. He turns 69 years old. It's an iconic piece of music. I remember back in the day, um,

When this song was still fairly new, we just marveled at what a great bass player he was because he does this like Gallop feel. And yeah, great bass player. Turned 69 years old today, Steve Harris.

Also turning a year older today from Coheed in Cambria, Claudio Sanchez. Our buddies. Yeah. He turns 47 years old. They've got a great following. People who love them, love them. And they have that interwoven sci-fi saga that is part of all their music. They're really thoughtful guys. Remember we were talking to him, I think, while the tour bus was in transit. Yeah. Yeah. It was great. And yeah, they have a...

They have this big conceptual continuing piece, which is really cool. And they do a lot of the staging for that in that studio that's apparently in the area. Rock Lidditt. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I want to go there. In Lancaster, that one? Right outside Lancaster in Lidditt, Pennsylvania. Yeah, it's like a center. Where they can go set up their shows, right? Beyonce goes there and Taylor Swift and Green Day. Metallica. Metallica.

Metallica, yeah, everybody knows that. Yeah, it's a rehearsal space. It's kind of cool. You can get ready for the tour, so. We should use that prior to the camp out for hunger. Just to set up and do test runs and things like that. Matt grew up out there and Green Day was hanging out and they were like in a bar and I showed him, you know, Trey Cole's story. He's like, oh yeah, I know.

that bar. They're just like hanging out in town. That's where he grew up. Lidditz? He grew up in Kutztown. So yeah, right there. Okay. I'm going to skip that, Marissa, and I'm going to play this because it is another guy that we had the opportunity to speak to.

James Taylor. Oh, my God. Turns a year older. We all cite that as one of our absolute favorite moments. We had what is, I guess, called a T1 line. So it was super clear. And we were literally given the chance to request songs that he played for us. Yeah. It was, and he could not, he's everything you wanted James Taylor to be. He was nice and funny. Yes. Which was great.

The thing about James Taylor, he has this silky smooth voice, but if you listen carefully to it, there's a lot of soul in it. He can go into those places that people who are great soul singers can do it, but he just does it in a different way. Marissa, I'm sorry to put you on the spot, but do we have the Simpsons clip with former president James Taylor when Homer goes to space and James Taylor's playing for them? If you don't, no worries. I'll look for it. I'm having fun.

We're having some box book problems. Okay. So when we play back that segment during Best of and we're on vacation. Oh, man. Sure. That's one of the most, like, ones that I'll get a message from. Like, oh, my God, you guys have James Taylor in the studio right now? Yeah, it sounded so clear. And he was terrific. But I've seen him probably, the artists I've seen in concert, he's in the top three. No kidding. Because he would do, Preston, a summer show at the Jones Beach Theater. Yeah. Which is a seaside theater. Yeah.

James Taylor on a summer night. Amazing, right? I'm going to beat that. Steve, I saw him two summers ago with The Man, and his band is fantastic, and his son is in the band. So his son comes out and sings with him, and it's just, you're right, it was a perfect July night. It was a really good summer show. I think he's touring again this summer, too. So he turns 77 today, the great James Taylor.

And also, Nick, the great Daryl Strawberry. Can't believe the Mets traded Daryl Strawberry. Daryl Strawberry. I have a Daryl Strawberry card right here that a listener sent me. I have the Doc Gooden 84 Tops traded card. That's the one I got signed for $8 at the George Washington Motor Lodge. But a listener sent me the Daryl Strawberry rookie card, which I appreciate. Nick, let's sell it to Paul Mercurio later on. Oh, yeah? Yeah. All right. That's a good idea. We'll build it up.

Daryl Strawberry turns 63 today. So happy birthday to you. All right, we're going to see if we can link up with somebody via Zoom and get a winner. We need to find out the answer to this question. Which pony structure includes the zygomatic, the ethmoid, and the vomer? Yes, thank you. So there's only one person we can turn to, and that's James Cuccini, who is joining us via Zoom. Hey, James, how you doing, man?

Hey, sorry to bother you guys at work. Sorry, brother. All right, so what bony structure are we speaking of that has all that stuff in it? The face. The face, yes. The face. The skull. In the face. You got it, buddy. Woo!

All right, James, congrats. Hang on. You got yourself some tickets, brother. We're going to send you off to see Volbeat and Hailstorm, Saturday, August 9th, Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Tickets are on sale Friday, 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. You can go to WMMR.com and get a presale happening. The information is there. And we also have a shot at winning some pit tickets. So, James, thank you for listening, brother. We appreciate it. Congratulations. Enjoy that show. I'm going to go through some stories. We're going to start with one. We actually have Marissa. I don't know if you have this audio clip or not.

But Wendy Williams, she is actually going to call in to The View on Friday, accompanied by Gina Lisa Montaroso from Connect Care Advisory Group. And this comes just days after she had dropped the note. We talked about this from the window of her care facility in New York City. The note read, help, why?

and was taken to the hospital for a wellness check. By the way, this representative with her is not really... I mean, I didn't listen to the whole thing, but like...

She goes to talk and then Wendy cuts her off and talks anyway. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Sort of a legal representative who's interceding on her behalf? I don't know. I guess. She's not interceding. Like Wendy saying, listen, you know me. I'm not a person to not speak. But due to the current situation, yes, I have this representative with me. But the girl wasn't really, not really a great...

Like she just sounded like a normal person. She didn't sound like a public relations rep or anything. So she would go to speak. I'm kind of shy. And then Wendy would just, this was when Wendy called into a friend of hers. She does the Fox Good Day in New York. Yes. So she was talking to Rosanna. And yeah, Wendy just kind of kept jumping in. All right, we'll hear a couple of those clips. We'll play those and I'll continue on with this story. But this is one of them. I have options. But in terms of getting out of guardianship,

All right, and then here's more of the details. Right.

You know what I'm saying? But the money that I have right now is all with my guardian person. So despite being under a court-ordered guardianship, she has said to have recently scored a perfect 10 on a mental capacity test. I don't doubt it. On top of that, the former talk show host...

filed to remove her legal guardianship last month and plans to demand a jury trial if denied. Do you know one of the things that's working against her is there exists a picture that was taken of her and I guess she was in a wide-eyed moment and it's the picture they keep using that makes her look stark raving mad. There's a picture of a friend of mine. We just were out. We're at the beach. We took a group photo and her eyes happen to be like super wide open. She looks like a crazy.

She is not, but that's just what she looks like. That's immortalized. It's like your bedhead picture. It'll haunt you for the rest of your life. That doesn't haunt me. I'm proud of that thing. But this is what I was talking about yesterday. You hear her speak and you're like, this woman sounds lucid. She sounds fine. She sounds like she could take care of her own finances and medications and whatever it is. So it's hard to understand if that's not the case.

Well, listen, some people way more qualified than us are going to have to dive in there and find out exactly what's up. And if she's being held wrongfully, then they got to get her out of there. But if they see something, yeah, she should hire Brittany. Then they got to keep her in there. I know. I know. Who knows? I'm glad I'm not having to make the decision. That's what I was going to say. We all said free Brittany. Yeah, yeah. Look what happened. We should have not. Now she's doing a night dance in the bathroom.

She was doing the saber dance in the shower. So, yeah, she had called in. That was Good Day New York yesterday. And she had said she passed her evaluation with flying colors and wants to enter guardianship. And she said, as you heard in the clip, that her main goal is to get out of that.

guardianship. Well, and those clips that you played, Rosanna had asked her, like, look, if you get out of this guardianship, are you willing to do things like get a financial advisor, you know, alcohol treatment, like all that kind of stuff? She said she doesn't have a problem with alcohol. I don't need that. But she said, yeah, of course, if I need to go to advisors, I have no problem doing that. Right. So we'll see as this continues to unfold. She'd be a hoot, wouldn't she? Gigi Hadid is

is finally giving fans a small glimpse into the romance with Bradley Cooper, the supermodel gushed about the actor telling Vogue, I respect him so much as a creative. I love you. Adding that he gives so much encouragement and just belief, she said.

For those people you admire to encourage you, it can create so much belief in yourself. So we're team Gigi, right? Because of proximity and because we're such dear friends with Bradley Cooper. I mean, we live in the same neighborhood as her. Basically, you can hardly avoid her when you go out to shop. So Gigi shared that they met at a mutual friend's child's birthday party and bonded over their shared understanding of what they want in a relationship. And the model opened up saying...

To find someone that is in a place in their life where they know what they want and deserve and you both do work separately to come together and be the best partner that you can be. I just feel really lucky. Well, look, babe. So before dating Cooper, Hadid was in a turbulent on and off relationship with former One Direction member Zion Malik, whom she shares a daughter, Kai Malik.

While Cooper was previous with Rena Shake, with whom he co-parented daughter Leah Shake Cooper. Yeah, and then Chocolate Shake. And Chocolate Shake after that. I would love to, I mean, you know, get a peek into what their life is. They're out in Bucks County, right? Yeah, I mean, I told you guys. They're near your friend, right? Yeah, my friend was at a party with them. Was it this party? No, but she said,

they went in and it was sort of kept like it was invitation only party and it was sort of kept quiet who was going to be there and they got there and they were there and they had to, um, for the party. I don't know if it was because of them. They also, the house they went to, obviously they, you know, these people are also well off themselves, but when they walked into the party, everybody had to either leave their, no, leave their phones in the car or put them like, you know, in an area. Interesting. Yeah. That's a, that's a wild move if you can pull that.

Has anyone watched the new Righteous Gemstones? Yeah. Not yet, but I heard that he's in it. It took me like a good five minutes into the episode to realize it was him. I'm like, wait, hang on. Is that Bradley Cooper? Yeah, he's awesome. Apparently Danny McBride talked him into doing it. Oh, really? Yeah. I love that. I love that stuff. All right, so word is that Jennifer Garner's boyfriend, John Miller, is not... I'd like to apologize to Jennifer Garner and her poor boy, Ben Affleck.

for incorporating them into my fantasy life. And he's apologizing. I apologize to anyone who's been offended by my fictional creations, Chris Agon, the philosopher of evil, and the skull sealer. I miss that guy. We haven't heard from him in a little while. So, this guy, John Miller, is apparently not happy after recent photos showed Ben Affleck getting a little too close to his ex-wife. I'd like to apologize. The source told Page Six that John knows there's nothing going on between Jen and Ben, but...

He doesn't think those photos are a good look and feels it's disrespectful to their relationship. Looking at it from his angle and looking at the picture that made all the rounds, it does look a little inappropriate. So they're bonded because she saved his life a couple of times. But I can understand his point of view. He says, and I believe this, he's been very accommodating of the relationship. He understands that. But it's like, hey...

Respect me, too. Well, and they're bonded because they have kids together, too. So the insider added that Miller gave Jen an ultimatum. He doesn't want to see them see anything like that again, or he has no choice but to walk away. So Ben was seen affectionately holding Garner's waist while they celebrated their son Samuel Affleck's 13th birthday at a paintball park. I'm sorry. While Miller has always been supportive of their co-parenting, the source said that he is reportedly feeling like a third wheel is...

Ben continues to spend holidays and special occasions with his ex-wife and leaning on each other more than ever lately and having a really close relationship. I can see that being irritating. By the way, she's been in this on and off relationship with this guy. Who are we talking about? John Miller. He is the CEO of Kaledberger. Yes. That's that robotic...

Isn't that that robotic burger chain? I don't know. Yeah, they have all these. It's kind of the big gimmick. Yeah. Yeah, that's my understanding. And it's almost completely automated burger chain. So it's been on and off again. We'll see where this whole thing goes. Marissa, do we have the clip of Millie Bobby Brown? Yep. So she was on the Today Show and she shared her reaction to the wave of support that

from women after posting a viral video of her standing up for herself against critics of her looks. And this is her commenting on that. I kind of shut my phone off after because I was a little overwhelmed. But again, I'm so happy people were able to feel like they connected with the video. And it was a scary thing to do. I didn't know how people were going to react. So it's nice to see that reaction. Yeah, it was a well-done video. She was very pleasant and honest. I don't know how you couldn't connect with her message. Yeah.

All right, so Scarlett Johansson is just not a social media type of person, and that extends to her work life. In an interview with InStyle, the actress described to what lengths that she'll go to to stay off of the various platforms. With her Jurassic World rebirth arriving in theaters July 2nd, Universal Pictures has been pressuring her to start up an Instagram account to help promote the film. She said, even today, I got an email from Universal, and they're like, hey, would you consider joining Instagram in tandem with the release of Jurassic World 2?

And she said, is there a way I could do this and stay true to who I am? I don't feel like I could. And she said, if I was a person who really enjoyed social media, then I could totally get on the bandwagon. But I am not. And I think that the film will do just fine. It will. And what they can do is use their own movie company website and interview her and have snippets that appear that way where it's not her own business.

And for those fans of the MCU who have been hoping for a return of Black Widow, there's some disappointing news from Scarlett. She did an interview with InStyle and she put a stake through the heart of any thought that her superhero would be making a comeback. She said, Natasha is dead.

She is dead. She is dead, okay? The character met her demise in Avengers Endgame in 2019. And though Johansson had released a prequel, Black Widow, two years later, she told me the fans will come to accept that the character is gone. She said they're like, but she could come back. Look, I think the balance of the entire universe is held in her hand. And we're going to have to let it go. She saved the world.

Let her have her hero moment. And besides that, she sued Marvel because you remember the movie was supposed to get a theatrical release and they quickly rushed it right into streaming. And so she had a deal based on box office. Oh, for the Black Widow film. The Black Widow movie, yeah.

Jack Quaid took a beating at the Kings and Clippers game to promote his upcoming film, Novocaine, which is out on March 14th. In a viral video, the camera zooms in on Quaid sitting courtside with co-star Amber Midthunder.

showing off some bruises and an arm sling, but still grinning. And as the game goes on, the camera would cut back to him multiple times. And each time he looks worse, he had a neck brace. He had a full arm cast, fresh cuts. They kept coming in and freshening it up. That's funny. And, uh, so the video, uh,

goes on and he's wearing a two arm cast and one of them says go clippers on it uh actually written on a bloody head bandage and so they just kept going back to him making him more injured because the character he plays doesn't feel pain yeah and that's kind of his power yeah yeah so that movie is out on uh friday by the way and they're uh putting up 500 bucks that we're giving away for our word of the week prize so i think that's a that's a good bit

It's a nice little marketing promotion. He's having a lot of success with these films. He's in a movie called Companion. And he is playing an atypical character for him. He's playing kind of the bad guy. Yeah. But he's really good, man. I think he has a long career. Yeah, I like him a lot.

So we're just finding out now, but former Bachelorette star Deanna Pappas was arrested last month on misdemeanor charges of battery against her ex-husband. What the hell? A guy named Steven Stagliano. Pappas was arrested in February in Santa Clara, California, and was released on a $20,000 bond that same day. For her part, she claims that Stagliano was the aggressor, though he was not charged.

She starred in the fourth season of The Bachelorette in 2008. She and Stagliano married in 2011, announced their split in 2023, with the divorce being final just last June. So her court hearing is set for March 20th. You know what? I wonder if we're approaching the time, if we're talking when did the series start, The Bachelor and Bachelorette, is it possible that we could have someone who was on the original few seasons now coming back for Golden Bachelor? Oh, wow.

Right? Very good question. Because it's been a while. You could do that. I don't know. I wouldn't doubt it because none of them stay married. One or two out of the 30 seasons or whatever they've had. The first season of The Bachelor, the original, was 2002. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. 22, 23 years later. Yeah. So if you're a little shy. Five, seven more years. You got it. Maybe we can get away with that. We'll see.

I thought this is a fun story. Taylor Swift. Is there anything she can't do? Cuban born major major league baseball player Roberto Campos says that it was her music that was instrumental in helping him to adapt to life in the US. Taylor Swift helped him adapt. He said my first year I was not able to speak English and that was so hard for me. The Detroit Tigers prospect said my second year was more relaxed.

And then I could be fluent in English. And he said that along with forcing himself to speak only English with his roommates and watching movies with the subtitles on, he listened intently to pop music, mostly Taylor Swift. And he said, thank you, Taylor Swift. She's incredible. How great is that? Pretty amazing. I love it. I always thought that that would be the way if I'm in a country and I have to learn the language and acclimate.

Movies that I know, watching the subtitles or trying to live it would be the best way to learn it. So my brother-in-law married a woman from Cuba and they eventually moved there and lived there for like a decade. Right.

And so he had to learn the language. And I don't know if he did it watching movies, but that's a great idea with the subtitles on. That can help a little bit. But he said that when you realize you've got the language down is when you start to either think or dream about it.

in that language and then you've got it. Yeah, dreaming in a foreign language is a bizarre thing. It happened to me a few times. Steve, I have French language lines of movies that I remember in French. So there's the movie Alive where they get trapped in the end. Yes, I love it. So you know the scene where they find the one plane and it's got like some chocolate and toothpaste and they start consuming it because they don't have anything to eat. He goes, and in my brain,

I hear the French lines. I hear the English lines. Yeah. And the other great way to learn a foreign language if you move there is kids programming. You watch Sesame Street in a foreign language. They're teaching the basics. That's the basics. That's a great idea. When I was growing up, I loved Boyz II Men so much and they did a cover of Yesterday in Spanish on one of their albums and I knew every word to it. Don't know what any of the words mean now. I don't remember it whatsoever. But when I was 12...

It was great. All right. Someday it'll serve you well. We'll see. Hopefully it'll come back. I can speak the language. Thank you, boys to men. Netflix is working on a reboot of Stephen King's Cujo. Oh.

The horror movie follows a mother and son who have to fight off a rabid dog while they're trapped in a car. Did you ever read the source material? Great book. Okay. A lot of people rave about it. The movie is pretty good. I was watching one of these. I was this year's old, Preston, when I realized that half the scenes in that movie of the St. Bernard is a guy in a St. Bernard suit. Oh, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, now they have the potential to really do it well with CGI and

and the way they can do that with animals. But it's a compelling story, and it takes on the fear of what if you have this animal, this force that is bigger and more powerful than you and ain't going anywhere, and you have no one to help you. It's a tough spot to be in, and there's a lot of psychological things that happen when you're trapped like that. So it's the early days. So the original movie, 1983, starred Dee Wallace and Danny Pintararo.

It's early days for the reboot for Cujo, but there's no extra details on the movie out at the time. And it's just the latest in a long line of Stephen King adaptations right now with the stories, including Life of Chuck, which I can't wait for. It's such a great story. Doctor Sleep, which you loved, Steve. Yeah, great movie. Really good movie. And more being turned into movies and TV shows soon.

as we speak. So the Dark Tower is still a big project. And so big good stuff coming for King fans. In the book, does Cujo get rabies from a bat bite? Okay, same thing. Same thing in the movie. The Legally Blonde prequel series Elle has found its leading lady's mom, an actress named June Diane Raphael.

And I took a look at her. If someone were to play the Karen Rogers story from 16BC, I think it would be this woman. Oh, wow. Here's a picture of her, right? Yeah. Very much. Oh, my gosh. She's actually...

Yeah, she's a great comedic actress. She's been in a lot of stuff, Steve. She's in Anchorman 2 and yeah, a ton of stuff. So she is set to play Eva Woods and she joins Lexi Mindtree who starred as a young Elle Woods navigating high school before her days at Harvard Law. While the hit films don't really share much about the Woods matriarch,

Originally played by Tate McClure, Raphael has plenty of comedy chops to give the new role some life. And she's best known for her role as Brianna Hanson on Grace and Frankie. And has also appeared on shows like New Girl, Big Mouth, Abbott Elementary, and Frasier, making her the perfect for Elle's world. Is she married to Adam Scott?

Oh, I don't know. Look it up. So it says here. Oh, no, wait, wait, Steve. No, she was. She has her husband, Paul Shear. Okay. And she does a podcast with Jason Manzoukas. But yeah, so we'll see about that. Let's see what time we got. Oh, yeah, we should probably get to. Let me see if there's anything super important that you need to know. No, we can do the clip. Oh, yay. Yay.

So after 48 seasons, Survivor continues to create emotional connections between the viewer and the cast with no signs of slowing down. And here Jeff Probst talks about the energy from this new batch of... No, wait, we don't have it. We don't? Oh, wait, hold on. New batch of competitors and...

No, they didn't come over. Hang on, what did he say, Maris? That file was corrupt, but this will work. Okay, all right, so now we can try this. Here we go. 48 is not a slow burn. 48 hits it straight out of the gate, including emotion. You're going to cry, I think, in the first couple of minutes, which seems crazy given you don't even know these people. But the people we're putting on are so dynamic and so interesting that you can quickly invest in their story.

A new episode of Survivor airs tonight. That's 8 o'clock. 48! CBS, I know it's crazy. I wonder what they're going to do for the 50th. Here's our next clip.

Drumroll, please. Abbott Elementary's most demure, most mindful character is about to have a screw it moment. Here, Cheryl Lee Ralph talks about Barbara's mindset for letting go of expectation and embracing their true self. I'm not going to try that hard. I'm going to step back, relax, and

and just let it be. Let me be exactly who I am. And that just made such a huge difference. Not trying to be anything other than exactly what I am. Yeah!

New episode of Abbott Elementary airs today, and you can find that on ABC, by the way. All right, and there you go. That is our entertainment report for this morning. We're navigating a Wednesday morning. Our buddy Paul Mercurio is going to be stopping by today. He'll be in the 9 o'clock hour in appearance here on the program. And we're just getting set for our trip

to sunny, clear water Florida, which by the way, today's sunshine is 71 degrees. Nice. Nice day. Tomorrow for our live broadcast, sunny 73 degrees. We'll be at the ballpark. And then when we're at Coco's, Friday, partly cloudy, 79 degrees. So here's the deal. You bring in some sort of like a hoodie or something for tomorrow

morning when we arrive to do the broadcast because what is the temperature when we arrive? The low temperature is 60 degrees, so it's not bad. Oh, that's not that bad. Yeah, so I didn't learn. I haven't brought any. Well, I do have a light jacket that I'm going to be taking. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. A light jacket will do. Something smart, you know. Actually, Kathy, it's a shacket. Oh. Wait, yeah.

It's a navy blue? Yeah, it's the one I wear. I thought you were wearing the same shirt for like seven days in a row. I think it was either Casey or maybe Humorous. I don't know. They were like, no, no, it's a jacket. I was like, thank God. It's a jacket. Have you guys seen Press? I think he's falling on hard time.

I have to call Rochelle. It's a shacket. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. The day is breaking, and we will return in just a moment with lots for you to listen in on as you do what you do at this time of day. We'll be right back. MMR rocks. Full beat. Wherever she goes, she'll be there. And hailstorm. The best.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kath. Before we do anything, I have a shout-out. I missed this one a couple of days ago. This was from Elizabeth Filler. And she says, my twins, Maddie and Robbie, turned 10 on March 6th. I'm going to love a juicy shout-out. They've been listening to their entire lives from California, South Carolina, Maryland, even Switzerland.

And since we moved back to PA, they've enjoyed buying Trunkful's food to donate to Camp Out and partaking in the insanity of the Cardboard Classic. And she wrote this before this year's Cardboard Classic. She said, my husband's participating for the second time this year. Looking forward to another great outing.

I've been listening since the DRE days and remember listening to MMR when my parents said thank you for the many laughs that got me through board exams, my husband's deployments, hurricane evacuations, the recent loss of my mother, and lots of good times too. You guys rock. So that's from Elizabeth. So there you go. That is for Maddie and Robbie. And sorry I missed your birthday the other day, guys. We'll try to make good when we can. All right. Let us, yeah, we have time to do this.

I think we need to go to the Just Saying Institute because there have been some discoveries. Some discoveries? Yes, there have been. The Just Saying Institute, home of the Romance Magnata Irregular Spray Tan Clinic. Ha ha ha ha!

It doesn't look... It actually looks great. It looks good today. She didn't get her face done, that's why. And you employed a new methodology, didn't you? I didn't get my face done and I actually showered before I came to work. All right. Good idea. We've noticed for sure. So we're going to start with this. According to a new study...

Chewing on a hard substance like wood can boost levels of a naturally occurring antioxidant in the human brain, which in turn might improve a person's memory. Thank God, because I thought I was just gnawing for nothing. Yeah. You're going to gnaw away the enamel on your teeth. Sometimes, you know, outside of the acne, they have firewood, but I'll buy it just to chew on it. So the example they used in the story, though, is chewing on a pencil. Yeah.

Did you guys ever used to do that? Yes, but I also heard that if you're chewing the paint off, then that's bad for you to ingest the paint off the pencil. I gnawed on tons of pencils. Maybe that's what... I did pens as well. What about hard plastic? Pens, pencils. Why is it a bad habit?

That's a good question. Well, as Steve said, you probably don't want to be eating the paint. I'm sure it's not toxic, but it can't be good for you. It will affect the enamel on your teeth. Will it? Yeah. Yeah, that too. I swear there's never gnawing pencils in the dentist bag that they gave you after a visit. No, the gnawing pencils are right next door in the other studio, Steve. In Jackie's. Jackie Bam Bam's collection. Yeah. So many people chew gum, of course, which is softer, but arguably more palatable than wood and avoids tongue splinters, of course. But previous research has shown- Tongue splinters.

Chewing gum significantly increases brain activity as the authors of a new study. So chewing gum is actually good for your mental memory. Until tomorrow when they tell us gum is killing us all. Right, it's horrible. It gives you a locked jaw and it makes you impotent. Right. So, okay, so I guess is it the chewing motion? It's the motion, yes. And maybe something that's being produced in the mouth that's...

So I'll explain. And by the way, the chewing, that process is called mastication. Yes. Believe it or not. You'll go blind if you do it too much. Yes. So getting the brain's blood supply pumping seems to improve a variety of cognitive functions. So curiously, clinical evidence also suggests people who find chewing a challenge...

also tend to have lower cognitive function and higher mental impairment. So what percentages are we talking? Are we talking dramatic,

So it needs to be, I'll explain the test that they did. So this remains unclear, though, what specific metabolic changes associated with the cognition might occur following a boost in cerebral blood flow. And that's what's happening, Kathy. It's getting the blood moving up here. You're working out your skull. Yeah. That's why beavers are so smart. So several metabolic processes produce harmful molecules known as reactive oxygen species, which can cause cumulative oxygen.

oxidative damage in the human brain. One of the brain's best defenses against oxidative stress is an antioxidant called glutathione, GSH, which holds many important jobs throughout the body, including protecting neurons from reactive oxygen species. So it's more than just getting the blood flowing.

So it's creating this antioxidant of sorts. Right, okay. So 52, here's the study. 52 healthy university students, they took them, they divided them into two groups. One group of 27 subjects were given a paraffin wax gum to chew. A second group of 25 was asked to chew on a wooden medical tongue depressor. God, that gives me chills on the spine. Oh, you hate it. I hate that. Like I told you, like if I'm having a Popsicle...

I got to make sure I don't chew into the wood because it sounds like a lightning bolt on my spine. So subjects chewed their assigned substance for five minutes while researchers used magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

to measure the glutathione levels in their anterior cingulate cortex. Cingular. A key brain region for cognitive control before and after chewing. And all subjects also took a cognitive test before and after the activity. Chewing significantly boosted glutathione levels. You got the bumper crop in this story. I mean, that's the glutathione, isn't that the... Toured with Cardi B last year.

No, that's what's being released when you take like Ozempic and stuff like that, I believe. Oh, okay. All right. No, Kathy, I think that's glutamides. No. Okay, is it? You're thinking of Miracle Whip. I don't know. Nick, can you look? Hold on, they call it GLP-1. Let's see what, hold on. Yeah, this is called GSH. Okay, all right. So it's different. It's different. What's STF? STF.

I know what ATM is. I know what STF is. What's STF? Oh. STFU. Oh, and STFU, yes. And ATM is S-Mouth. Which also increases cognitive ability. Right? What did I just do? Your mouth is working. Oh, my God. What did I just do? I'm much smarter, and I regret that more.

Definitely wake you up. So... Wanted an ego. Chewing significantly boosted glutathione levels in subjects' anterior cingulate cortices. Could you imagine if you were starring on a medical show? Oh, dude. And the way they have to reel off this stuff? I had to... Yeah, there was... I was doing book narrations and manual narrations, voiceover work, and one of them was a medical...

you know, document of some type. And I was, they had to hold my hand through the pronunciations of all that stuff. I had one that I did for a satellite, a home. They were trying to compete against DirecTV. It didn't work. But it was a satellite system, Preston. Ultra tech stuff. It was almost down to the point where they were taking every letter of every word because I couldn't pronounce this stuff.

I don't love the lady on Penn Medicine's automated system. And I've said to a few friends that work there, I'm like, see if you can get me in. You want to do the voice? My claim that I can do it is that I know how to say otolaryngology. Otolaryngology. I'm like, see, I can do it. Very nice.

So anyhow, chewing significantly boosts the glutathione levels in the subjects' anterior cingulate cortices, especially in the wood-chewing group compared with the gum-chewing group. So is there something equivalent to wood that would be safe to chew? I am not buying this at all. No? I don't think that chewing wood is going to help anyone with anything. What about licking wood? Well, the research says that it does. Who did this research?

This beavers. Jesus. I don't know. It was a new study. No, they're, listen, they're accredited. I just don't have the information. Listen, so I believe this because of what you said before.

blood circulation within your skull, within the jaw, everything moving around, increasing blood flow. It's always about the blood flow. Well, and it's the glutathione. And the glutathione. You're going to have people chewing on wood later. Combined with results from the cognitive test, the rise in glutathione concentration correlated positively with memory function. In other words, those who chewed wood...

had larger glutathione boost, and also they performed better on the test. When you first started dating, did you like when the wood was chewed? Just ever so lightly. Lightly. Not a full chew. I don't need you to be a genius. Maybe a little nibble, a little gnaw, and that's about it. If done correctly, it'll increase your glutohypodome. Yes.

Like little hypodome? I don't know. I know the Mad Max Fortinet ones. Okay. Google says that, just to be devil's advocate here, chewing wood can irreversible.

Yes. Damage the enamel on your teeth. Yes. So that's the downside of it. So you'll have not one tooth in your mouth, but you'll be a lot smarter. You'll be way smarter. You'll be so smart. You just won't be able to talk. What is Shakespeare? So if you're gnawing on a pencil today, you're getting some good work done. So.

By the way, can Dr. Mike call in anymore? I'm not asking him to call in. But is that the hotline? He doesn't even have the hotline number anymore, does he? The hotline number hasn't been moved over yet. Okay. Can people still call it?

No. No. So, yeah, that stuff is gone. They gutted our phone system. We're looking at another couple weeks, but they're putting in one that they promise will produce moderately better results. Yeah. If we're lucky. He knows how to get in contact with us, though. If he was listening, he'd text somebody and say, chewing on wood is ridiculous. That's right. He would text us, yes. Shut up. Okay, all right. We're going to do another story. We're going back to the Just Say It Institute.

So cancer patients in Tennessee and Mississippi are now getting the opportunity to see a hologram doctor.

The West Cancer Center and Research Institute, which serves close to 20,000 patients a year across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, has put tech into place at two of its clinics to replace video calls with life-size holograms. So it's dock in a box. Of the doctors for consultations and office visits. I kind of like this. They were showing off some of this holographic imagery in these systems that are actually becoming more and more affordable. They have one now, President, where the person is actually fully...

you know, like sixth scale in a display unit. But I think the notion to sit there and

whatever it does to you, you know, comfortability to interact with the doctor who appears to be real in front, and is real, just the image is carrying across. I think they could help, you know? Yeah, it wouldn't hurt. I mean, is it fully necessary? Probably not, but it can, to some degree, help a little bit, I would think. Now take your pants off. In your relationship with the doctor. So the clinics are... I'm going to stake my holographic finger in your butt. The clinics...

You didn't feel a thing, did you? Are using tech from Proto Hologram, a company that provides the systems used to create holograms at concerts, corporate conferences, and other live events, and has been used by the Jonas Brothers, Paris Hilton, Mr. Beast, and more. Kathy, what about if Nick Jonas was your gynecologist? Stop. And you may start seeing this pop up in other clinics around the country. The company has now dropped the price of the system,

From about $65,000 to $29,000. So it's becoming a little bit more affordable, this deck. Dr. Mike is the best by far. But if you were to have one rock star give you a rectal exam, who would it be? One rock star? Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney. Of course. I don't want to do this. What did you eat? Or maybe Bono. I don't know. He could be a good one, too. He's going to go two knuckles in. Take you up to my ring finger. Oh, my God.

We'll see if we get a hologram doctor from Bono. Maybe your doctor could, since it's a hologram, could appear as Bono if they wanted to. Why not? Or Elvis or something like that. Watch out. Got this big ring on. Let me check your nut sack for tumors. Hold on. Here he is.

What? Oh, Dr. Mike, you're kidding me. All he says is I'm here. Okay. All right. Thank you, Dr. Mike. I feel better knowing that you're at least here. He's a P1, as he would tell us. Obviously, when our phone system is back up and running, we'll be able to get Dr. Mike. Oh, he texted me, too. Okay. Well, anyone listening. He says I'm here. Okay. All right. If you do want to chime in, text ZOOM to 39333. You'll get a link, and we put out daily links, and that's how you connect with us. Okay. All right. Very, very good. All right. All right.

I have something else I'd like to share with you, courtesy of the Just Saying Institute. This is a little bit weird and scary, but the CL1 is an innovative biological computer.

That combines living, cultured human brain cells with silicon hardware in an advanced computer case that also acts as a life support system for the cells. So they've been flirting with this stuff for a while. Correct. And I wonder, so the Neuralink system, the Elon Musk thing that is...

their finding is pretty productive. Is this associated with that? Nope, not at all. Australian biotech company Cortical Labs recently made international news headlines by announcing what it calls the world's first code-deployable biological computer. The innovation behind the CL1 consists of placing brain nerve cells cultured from induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPSs,

So you have, as you said, you have a biocomputer. Yeah.

Cortical Labs believes that integrating biological elements like neuron-based systems can improve efficiency in tasks that traditional AI struggles with, such as decision-making in unpredictable environments and situations. They've been working on this for a while, like you said. I like this. I know there's all sorts of horrific sci-fi ramifications, but as I...

and I've been embracing AI in all different forms for quite a while, but you start to see the shortcomings of AI in certain things. And I understand what they're talking about. There's certain things that it is having trouble doing right now. So to keep the brain cells viable, CL1 comes in a life support package.

Yeah. That regulates a variety of elements, such as temperature and gas exchange. Can you personalize it with stickers? You can think of it as a more advanced computer case that happens to house live human neuron networks. It's allowed cortical labs to work on a commercial version of its biological computer, which is scheduled to hit the market this year at a price of about $35,000. How about that? They believe that this is synthetic biological intelligence.

That could revolutionize the study of consciousness and potentially remove the need to rely on animal testing and imperfect mathematical models to study diseases in medicine. So if you could eliminate animal testing, that'd be terrific. It would be.

The CL1 has been described as a sort of evolving organic computer capable of fast learning and flexibility superior to that of the traditional silicon-based AI chips used to train large-scale language models, although its price can be prohibitive to small labs and research teams.

Cortical Labs is currently working on a significantly more affordable cloud-based system that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. For $35,000, you could have something state-of-the-art that will hold you hostage in your own home. Yeah, right. So as you can imagine, the use of human neurons in computing raises serious ethical questions. And while Cortical Labs has clarified that the neurons used are lab-grown and lack consciousness...

The company also acknowledged the need for guidelines to address moral and regulatory concerns. That's wild, man. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is amazing. Yeah. I'm just wondering how far off from real stuff we are that we have fantasized about for a long time. Honestly, if we can finally get to a good instant coffee, I'll be happy. You'll be happy with it? Yeah. One that passes muster.

All right, here's another one. We'll move on to something a little less technical. And there's research that suggests that the more people try to pursue happiness...

the less content they really are. So trying to be happy is making you miserable. Do you know what they say will ultimately make you the happiest? Chewing wood. I could see that though. Like if you're searching for it, you're not ever really going to find it. Because you're setting up expectations. I think you need to set in place things that

can foster happiness without, I'm going to be happy. Yeah, something that genuinely makes you happy. Right. That's what you need. Right, exactly. Though I do use creative visualization and I use different techniques to...

foster happiness. Are you talking about a spank bank? Oh, God, yeah. Look at the calluses on my left hand. I look like a lumberjack on the left side of my body. Yeah, but I mean, you know what I'm saying? You do things to make yourself happy, but I think a lot of times what this maybe does is set up expectations that if you don't meet will make you depressed. Does that make sense? That makes total sense. Is my wood chopping enough? Nope, I totally get it. So for the study, a team of researchers

from the University of Toronto surveyed hundreds of people and had them do a series of group tasks. And while participants had to do things like eat chocolate and complete mental challenges, the researchers found that those hyper-focused on improving their mood tended to give in to their impulses more often and quit more.

So why does trying to be happy make us unhappy? Study authors suggest that it could be that constantly seeking happiness depletes mental resources, especially willpower and self-control. Yeah. So the eating the chocolate part, I was just thinking about my first sip of coffee every morning. Like I genuinely get happy when I take my first sip. Right. No, I agree. I'm the same way. Okay.

As a result, we're more vulnerable to temptation and to making the kind of choices that make us less happy. Researchers say that it could be a result of being tired and stressed from the mental exertion and pressure of seeking happiness. Man, this all falls into, you know, expectations you place on yourself. Yeah. I think, you know, and yet there's a thin line between, you know, doing...

doing the work to improve the quality of your life and also the pitfalls that come along with it. Boy, I'm sounding pretty good today. So the study author Sam Maglio said the pursuit of happiness is a bit like a snowball effect. You decide to try making yourself feel happier.

But then that effort depletes your ability to do the kinds of things that make you happier. Like masturbating. So he offers some advice for actually boosting happiness that sounds contradictory. He said, just chill. Yeah. Don't try to be super happy all the time. Yeah. Instead of trying to get more stuff you want, look at what you already have and just accept it as something that gives you happiness. Put together a list of people you'd like to kill.

It's funny. I go back to the same things that make me happy all the time. Which are?

Playing the drums, playing golf. I mean these escape things. These kind of things. Playing the golf and being at the home and getting in the hot tub. The distractions that I use are things that I legitimately enjoy. Playing a video game. Stuff like that. But I just have a handful of them and I keep going back to them. Would you consider yourself in general a happy person? Yes.

Ratio-wise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ratio. God. Like, how often am I happy versus... Out of 100%. How much of your existence is spent happy? Wow. Let's do it on the Debbie Downer to Peter Meirhofer scale. Oh, my God. Debbie Downer being an absolute zero and Peter being a 100. I'll never be a Peter. Right. Which would be just the dream. But I don't know. It's hard to say because as of late, I've been in a funk. I've had some...

in my personal life happening that are difficult to navigate right now. I've been doing a good job at hiding it. Time of year does not help. Oh my God. Just coming out of winter. Yeah. I'll tell you what, man. It's going to start getting better. While you're thinking of that, Preston, tomorrow makes me happy. Spring training every year. Having this on the calendar and then literally there are moments where tomorrow you'll feel the sunshine on your shoulders. You'll see the ball players come out on the field. To me, that is...

transition from winter to spring, it makes me genuinely happy. I'd say overall, Steve, generally 70-30, something like that. That's kind of where I would sit. And I'm a pretty optimistic, happy guy. Yeah. I think, you know, yeah, that seems about... Nick, you've been open about dealing with some depression issues. Where do you fall, would you say?

How much time do we have? I know. It's tough. Yeah, I mean, look, being depressed and feeling, being depressed and clinical depression are two different things. So sadness and depression are not the same. There are plenty of times where I'm sad but not clinically depressed. There are times where I'll go through an anxiety, you know, clinical anxiety and not actually feel anxious.

That's a long-ass answer to your question. Probably a little less than you, probably more like 60-40. But I also know what my triggers for happiness are. And like I just said, tomorrow is one. Even Coco's, we did that last year. Seeing listeners and smiles on their faces, that makes me really happy. Walking around the ballpark tomorrow, I'll be in a good mood. And by the way, I...

I put content and happy in the same category. Content is just fine with me. I'm good. People seek happiness when what they really are looking for is contentment.

Okay, yes. As opposed to joy. Right. Yeah. If you can find a mid-level of contentment for the rest of your life, you're in a great place. Moments of happiness are usually moments and they are fleeting. Contentment is something that you can strive for for a more permanent state. All right. Well, I like that. I like that. Kathy, you're generally happy? Screw all of you. I'm not happy 100% of the time. Okay. You need to chew some wood, man. Okay.

No, I think I try to be like on the lighter side. Like there's definitely heavy stuff, but I don't think I've ever been a person to like let it completely affect my overall life. So I'll have pockets of things that are not great, but I try to, you know, keep the good things. Not dwell on them. Yeah. How about you, Marissa? Um...

I, too, have been going through some things recently. And we haven't talked about this at all. Nick, you mentioned seeing listeners. And I don't want to get too deep into this, but I love seeing listeners. I love talking to people. I love listening to their stories about how we are incorporated in their lives. I recently had a very...

uncomfortable encounter with a listener at an appearance. We were just out at a bar and it was very uncomfortable and it has ruined that for me in a really bad way. And there's so many good people, but sometimes there's just like one or two people that make you...

Just anxious. Super duper anxious. I'm glad I had this chance to say it. If I have been weird to you in the past couple of months, it's because something happened. I'm just on high alert. Overall, I love you guys. I love you. I'll give you hugs in a couple months. Keep your hands off Marissa. That's what you got to do. That's Preston's job. Don't touch people.

All right. So question, Marissa. Yeah. 743, we're doing Fox Good Day. Should we break now or do we have time for one more quickie? We have time for one more quickie. Or do we do that? And then yes or no on that.

Well, is that available now? It is available. Then we should do that. All right, let's do that. Because I'll skip whatever it is I have. Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever on the Preston and Steve show. Hold on, we need his. It's on Casey, the Casey gone page. It should be right down here, I think. Yeah, here it is. I got it right there. Yeah. Via Zoom for the first time ever from Fox 29, which we're going to go live on in just a moment. And Penn Medicine, Dr. Mike is joining us. Good morning, Dr. Mike.

Oh, my God. Technology. I love it. You look great. You're just in front of a plastic, vivisected body. It looks great. No, that's a patient. He waited too long. That is? Son of a bitch. You got to get more help there, Mike. I know.

I know, I know. He filters guts for me once in a while. There we go. Are you in your office? Is this in your office right now? I'm here. I'm in the war room. Well, you have a top flight set up because you check in with Fox 29 all the time. So, you know, your game has to be good.

Well, and I have an A4 Skyhawk in that picture there, Steve. Yes, absolutely. Mike and I are setting up our squadron, so we're going to be the new Boba Blacksheep. I see an F-18 Hornet right now in a picture, in a photo right there. So can we talk about chewing wood? What are you talking about? So that's what the study says. Dr. Mike, we align sometimes.

You're going to owe me a line more than you think. Come on. You and I are on the same wavelength. Listen, chewing wood. You've got to be kidding me. You get splinters. You'll be in here with me pulling things out of your tongue. Right. Forget it.

Well, they're not saying to go grab a branch off a tree and start chewing on it. It was a tongue depressor. I have a bunch of them. I never chewed one of them. You never chew on? Apparently, it increases the antioxidant glutathione. Glutathione. Yes. Glutathione. Yeah. Are there other ways, Dr. Mike, to increase that besides chewing wood?

Well, look, of all the choices and ways to improve my memory, chewing wood is at the bottom. All right? What the heck are you talking about? Come on, man. Now you don't want to chew wood? I mean, my dog chews wood and I worry about it. There's chemicals and all kinds of things. And the splinters get caught in your throat. Forget it. What you need to do is for memory, because, you know, we talk a lot about dementia, how to

prevent it. One of the things is to exercise, get plenty of rest. Now, you all are shift workers and you're at risk. You need to make sure you get plenty of sleep.

So that that does not lead to increased risk of dementia. So our sleep patterns are going to be irregular no matter what. It's the nature of the beast. But what about things that are, it's a big industry now, Prevagen and other memory supplements and things of those. It's the kind of nature. Do they have any validity? Is there any merit to them at all?

Well, the Prevagen, there is some proprietary studies that were done and it's marketed heavily. Look, the bottom line is this. If you want to improve the quality of your brain, you need to exercise. You need to limit your alcohol. You should not smoke. You need to use it or lose it. So that means you need to really, really exercise your brain every day and make sure, you know,

People talk about crossword puzzles and things like that, but it really is important. One of the things that I've noticed, people that retire, all of a sudden they're sitting home watching Jerry Springer reruns and their memory starts to get shot because they're not using their brain. So you've got to keep doing that. Those are the tricks and eat healthy, less highly processed foods. And more wood. Eat a lot.

Speaking of antioxidants. Actually, Dr. Mike, we literally have to break right now. I apologize, but we have to go on your TV station. We got to go on Fox 29. So we got to take a break. I'm sorry to jump in here.

But I'm glad we have this Zoom. I'm glad we have the Zoom connection now. So we'll do this again. We're going to send some wood over for lunch. I love you all. We love you, Dr. Mike. All right, yeah. We do have to wrap up the segment with the Just Saying Institute right now, friends. Because like I said, when we return, Fox Good Day. So we'll do that very thing. Stay put. Be well on the way to...

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Hi, we're on live Fox. Good day. Right now. Right now. Hope your listeners are enjoying that, Preston and Steve. A little Chubby Checker action. A little twist. You know, a little twist.

You know, he put that out in October of 1961. Wow. And Preston, you know the family pretty well, huh? So, yeah, Chubby's son, Shan, and I actually go back to when we were little kids. We met on a chance vacation that my family was taking to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. And Chubby was playing at the hotel there.

Yes.

Yeah, so they have a fan vote system through the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And yes, absolutely, without question, he is one of the overlooked people. They've been trying for a long, long time. Nobody's getting any younger, folks. Let's get Chubby in the Hall of Fame now.

So he can enjoy this wonderful, you know, this great tribute which he so richly deserves. It has to be because when they pass and they're awarded posthumously, it's like, ah, I mean, he would be thrilled to get that honor while he's here, obviously. Yep. You want to give people their flowers where they can enjoy them and smell them. Exactly. So what is it? Rockhall.com? I think that's what it is. I think that's what it is. Yeah, you can do a quick search on a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fan boat and you'll get it. No problem.

I think we can get this done. Yeah, so absolutely. Personal question before we let you go here.

Do you have separate bathrooms, Steve? Yes. For you and your wife? Yes. It's the greatest thing in the world. Why? Well, because I like the things the way I like. For example, I use the sink and the toilet in an inverse situation. No, I'm kidding. I like... Listen. I... Claire likes...

She likes the bathroom the way she likes it. And I like the bathroom the way I like it. And then I don't know, for whatever it is, for whatever the things that divide us, you know, that's one of them. And I like having my own bathroom.

Okay. Preston? I do not have that situation. I am in favor of that situation. I think it'd be great. The one thing that is okay with the fact that we share the same bathroom is the fact that our schedules are completely different. The morning schedule specifically is where things can get a tad bit messy, I think, where people are trying to jockey for position and so on. So it's not too bad, but in a perfect world, oh yeah, I'd love to have my own bathroom. Anytime I've been in a relationship

I have never pooped in a bathroom when that person's in there. That is, to me, people talk about it. Oh, it's so, you relax, you're with the person you love. No, I don't want to be seen doing that. And I don't want to see Claire, who I love more than anything in the world, doing that. Listen, in matters of sickness, yes, you can intercede and do what you need to do. But is it casual? Sure. No, no. Yeah, there are some things you need to keep personal. Keep it private.

I agree. Well, this explains then why your relationships never last that long. So you don't have to worry about it. Damn. Wow. Damn. Wow. Wow. Well, now. Well, it's my choice. And listen, I didn't mean that as a... I'm just... We're learning more. Well, Mike, I have to ask, have you ever seen Alex poop? We might as well ask. Oh, my God.

Oh my goodness. It really did. Oh, look at the time. I've only seen it on OnlyFans. I just want to know how long the relationship will last. Now we're really going crazy. It's a very dainty experience. It's like watching a rabbit.

Oh, my gosh. Well, that was fun. Was it? That was fun. Oh, my God. All right. Well, we dove right into that. So we now have time to get to traffic. Let's take a look at that. Kath, what's going on this morning, please? We now have a Tacony Palmyra drawbridge opening. Burlington Bristol Bridge opened a little earlier. The southbound ship now at the Tacony Palmyra Bridge traveling through.

95 southbound jams from Cotman to Allegheny. The Vine westbound, Heavyville length. Schuylkill eastbound slows 202 into Conchahok. And the accident that was there now cleared. Jams the boulevard to the Vine westbound. Jams Pasham to the Vine, the boulevard out to Gladwin. Route 1 northbound in Lawrence Township between Quaker Bridge Road and Meadow Road. We have some volume here. There was an accident. It's now cleared. 42 north slows.

Blackwood-Clementon Road to 55. 55 northbound slowing from 47 to 42. And then in Medford Township, Burlington County Main Street. Closed between Union Street and Branch Street. That's until 9 o'clock this evening for construction. This traffic report brought to you by AAA Car Care. Come into your local AAA Car Care center and save $40 on any repair of $150 or more. Offer valid through March 31st. Details at AAA.com slash mycar.

And that's your traffic on 93.3 WMMR. When we do the Fox Good Day hit, we see a delayed version of it here on our monitor. And I was just watching. Have you seen Alex's hair lately? Yeah, it looks great. I'm digging that. It looks great. Really big, long curls. Yeah, yeah. It looks fantastic. So just saw that for the first time. Hey, I'd like to give you a heads up because after we get the bizarre file done and then we take a break and then we return to the next segment.

We have a little secret, a little thing that's going to happen. It was not Mike. Dr. Mike Serigliano was not the surprise. No, no, no, no. This is a totally different surprise. All right, all right. The Mike thing happened spontaneously. Yeah. But there's a little surprise that only me and Marissa know about that the rest of you have no idea. I'm excited. Looking forward to see how this rolls out. But let's get to the Bizarre File. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File.

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Wearing a mask made out of a paper plate and construction paper and tape and identified themselves as the box demon. The box demon. Before leaving an empty package outside of a York County home this week, according to police. So this took place in Pennsylvania. The incident happened at 422 a.m. on Saturday.

Tuesday. A ring doorbell video showed the masked figure placing a box near the home's front door, raising their arms and tap the camera and say, I

I am the box demon. Twice while tilting their head and looking at the camera. And it's kind of terrifying. What is that movie, The Strangers? You know, even like The Purge. Yeah, exactly. Kind of this sort of thing going on. That's a little bit what it looks like. I mean, in and of itself, I don't find boxes very demonic, but okay. The front of the mask had what appeared to be colored pencil drawings of eyes.

It's kind of delightful.

The masked person walked away from the home, police said. Anyone with information who can identify the masked person is asked to call the Northern York County Regional Police Department. Would there have been anything illegal about this? I don't think so, other than scaring someone. I mean, I don't know if technically you could hit him with some type of a...

Trespassing, you know, charge or not? Do you have to be licensed to be a box demon? Maybe you do. Maybe there's a statute in there. We're not aware. You're not legit, dude. All right. How about this adorable story? A four-year-old boy from Wisconsin was left unimpressed after his mom devoured his treasured dessert. And according to a Facebook post from the village of Mount Pleasant Police Department, a boy called 911 on March 4th after his mother ate his ice cream. Oh.

And in audio, the child can be heard expressing his frustration over his mom's actions before she spoke to the dispatcher. So the 911 operator says, what's the address of the emergency? And then the boy goes, my mommy's being bad. Okay, what's going on? Come and get my mommy. All right, what's going on? And then the child yelled again, come and get my mommy. And then you hear the mom pick up the phone or the dispatcher goes, hey, what's going on there? As a phone, an adult gets on the phone and says,

Oh, this little one's got the phone. He's four. And so we're trying to catch him because he said he was going to call 911. And you can hear him in the background. He goes, no, I called the police and I just told her to come and get my mommy. And I told her to put her in jail. So leave me alone. The child's mother then says,

I ate his ice cream. So that's probably why he's calling 911. So Officer Garnier and Officer Ostergaard were dispatched. And they said the boy was calling 911 and the mom needed to go to jail. They added when officers arrived, he said his mom ate his ice cream and needed to go to jail for it. He told them he no longer wanted her to go to jail and just wanted some ice cream.

The department then revealed that officers surprised the boy with some ice cream a day after his call, and they shared a photo of that moment. So they helped him out. And she has a meth lab in the basement. Anytime you call 911, they're bound to respond. They have to check that out for sure. So they ended up sending police just in case. You never know. It could have been a meth lab in the basement. Well, it could have been an abuse case. So who knows?

All right, Dr. Giovanni Baula, a 59-year-old internist from Florida, has entered a pretrial intervention agreement after he admitted to vandalizing a rival medical practice with piss. With piss? Yes. The incidents occurred last year following a business dispute with Dr. I know, I'll use piss. With Dr. Dylan Dinesh, who had bought Baula's

Man.

As part of the agreement, Biola will pay $7,500 in restitution, perform 20 hours of community service, undergo psychological evaluation and treatment, and write letters of apology to the victims. So is he just pouring piss out of a container? I guess. Balloons filled with piss? I didn't see how much he had, so I would imagine maybe he took some specimens and used those. But the medical license is still active, pending review by the Board of Medicine.

All right, this story is in Ennis, Texas. A man died and three of his family members were injured when their RV flipped over several times at the Texas Motorplex during strong thunderstorms that caused widespread damage in the area. We're talking an RV? Yeah, so no tornado. Wow. But strong enough wind. It was on Saturday. Winds up to 90 miles per hour ripped the roof off of the Days Inn, damaged homes, and toppled at least seven semi-tractor trailer trucks.

And the strong storms also knocked out power to nearly 20,000 people. The 42-year-old man who died was T.J. Bailey. His wife and two sons were inside the RV that rolled over at the racetrack. His family members were treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, and the boys were released, but their mother remained under observation at the hospital on Sunday. That is a freak accident. Yeah, Texas has some ripping weather, man.

One last story and then we'll move along. A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series of wildfires over the weekend that swept through hundreds of acres of the Pine Barrens of Long Island, authorities said.

Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said that the operating theory is a wildfire started Saturday when a resident used cardboard to start a fire to make s'mores. Did you like your s'mores? The individual making s'mores, he said, was unable to get the fire lit due to the winds, but they used cardboard to initially light that fire. The person subsequently discovers the fire does ignite in the backyard area and all goes up.

on fire. The investigators believe that embers blew about an eighth of a mile southeast of the S'mores fire and started a second blaze just before 1 p.m. in Suffolk County. And northwest winds of up to 45 miles an hour quickly spread embers

igniting a fire in Eastport and another fire in a publicly protected Pine Barrens region of West Hampton. Side note, I didn't know until just now that Long Island had Pine Barrens. Oh, yeah. Very, very. Listen, they're there. I don't think they're as big as as jerseys, but we would go out there all the time. So on the way out to Montauk or the Hamptons, you would drive through a great long distance of Pine Barrens.

All of those fires are in a direct line with the strong northwest wind that was blowing that day. And it's believed that the embers from each fire traveled and continuously started more fires. So it was somebody making s'mores. Wow. The difference with those pine barren snakes is on one side you have the Long Island Sound and on the other side you have the ocean.

Oh, wow. So it's only going to go so far. By the way, I know fire is bad either way, but I'll take the s'mores over the gender reveal party. Yeah. At least starting huge fires. S'mores taste good. Yeah. Real quick, if you guys don't mind, two butt plugs and a shout out. Absolutely. This one says, hey, guys, had to reach out to you because last year's Tunnel to Towers Boyertown 5K shout out was epic.

You guys seriously made a huge impact and I can't thank you enough. So they're doing it again. Okay. Wanted us to mention this. It's a great charity. Round two for the kick-ass event happening Saturday, June 7th at Boreartown Community Park near the Cole Brookdale Railroad. It says Kathy. Kathy. We love it. Cole Brookdale Railroad, Kathy.

This run supports our military and first responders through the Tunnel of Towers Foundation, helping families of fallen heroes by paying off mortgages for families of fallen first responders, military members building smart homes, getting homeless veterans back on their feet.

They said, this is from Becca. She said, you're the best damn radio broadcast in Philly. And your support last year was a game changer. So let's do it again. Can we get a quick shout out on air to help spread the word? Let me know what you need. And I sent the, Nick, you were. I got it. All right. So thank you to Becca Ellis, who is the race director. There is your butt plug. And then another one. Speaking of fires.

This was from Christina Tommaso, who says, I want to tell you about my sister Terry and the devastating fire in her home on Friday. She's a schoolteacher at Riverside High School in New Jersey. She came home from school on Friday, dropped her purse, phone, keys in her kitchen, took her pup Daisy for a walk. She was only gone for about 10 minutes. She returned, opened her front door and was engulfed in flames. Wow. Luckily, her only injury was burns on her lips. Ow. Ow.

She did, however, lose her cat, Minnie, who was laying upstairs in her bed sleeping. She said she lost everything. House has been declared total loss. She only had the clothes on her back and her dog, her phone purse, keys, car keys, all in the kitchen where the fire started, so they were unable to be found.

And she said Terry, Mrs. Cronenberg, Cronberger, as her students call her, is a special ed teacher, Riverside High School teacher. She does home instruction for medically fragile students who can't attend school in person. In addition, she does respite care for developmentally disabled youth.

We found out Wednesday that the allowance she'll receive of the housing from the insurance company will not be enough since it will take 8 to 12 months to rebuild her home. And I was hoping you could share Terry's story and her GoFundMe page as those funds will help make a difference. She will need to recover her housing. So she said, thank you for making me laugh every morning, Gadzook says from Christina Tommaso. So Nick has this posted if you would like to help out.

on PrestonandSteve.com and the community page. So if you're in and around that community, if you happen to know Terry or you just want to lend a helping hand, you can certainly jump onto our website at PrestonandSteve.com, click on the community page, and then go help her out. We would appreciate it. And then the last thing is a shout-out. It says, Hey, Preston, I realized the possibility of you reading this on my birthday, which is the 13th, is very slim since the show will be in Clearwater for the Phil, so I hope you can get this to you beforehand.

It says here, this is from, oh, as I said, my birthday's on Thursday. And as a gift to myself, I want to give a shout out to the YouTube crew.

Whenever I'm able to jump in, I watch the show and talk to those crazy MFers. And meeting them at last year's Camp Out for Hunger was a great time. Hopefully we can do it again this year. By the way, I was the guy with the battle jacket with the spikes on it. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for reading my email. And this is from Thrasher Da Bull, a.k.a. your favorite furry's favorite furry. So here's a shout out to you. And YouTube, if you wouldn't mind, Steve. YouTube!

So thank you, Ron. We appreciate that. And happy birthday to you, buddy. All right. We will take a break and then we'll reveal what this little surprise is. It's a short thing. It'll be quick. And then we'll move on to something else. Paul Mercurio is going to be on the program, too. So we'll come back in a moment. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kevin. By the way, if you didn't get a chance to see it yet on our Instagram account, we have the Cardboard Classic video provided by Camelot Productions. Really captures the excitement of that day. It's super kinetic. If you ever wanted to use a sizzle reel to entice friends to go next year, use that one. Yep. And they'll be like, I'm on board. We're definitely doing it. And then Marissa made a short video yesterday from...

A couple of guys that had called in and it's called 2848. It's very, very short, but it's worth seeing if you get a chance. All right. I'm waiting on Marissa to... Marissa, I don't have any information. All I know is that we were taking a call

And I need to find out who this is, and then we'll reveal this little surprise that we have for you this morning. All right, thank you, Marissa. This has all just been put together at the last second. I hope it's Jennifer Lopez. So joining us, it's not Jennifer Lopez. Oh.

But, you know, you can hope. Yeah. But he's a handsome gentleman. We would like to welcome, first of all, I'll give you his name and I'll tell you his title. Let's welcome Dr. Tom Smith. Yes. To our show via Zoom this morning. Good morning, Dr. Smith. How are you? Doing well. Thank you very much. Sorry I'm not Jennifer Lopez. It's all good. We'll take that minor disappointment. Dr. Smith, can you tell our cast members here and the listeners of the show what your title is?

I am the very proud superintendent of the Pensbury School District. Okay. The Pensbury School District. We know someone who went to Pensbury. Don't we? Now, I haven't been officially told what this is all about, but I assume what it is. Dr. Smith, do you want to reveal what you have to say?

Absolutely. On behalf of the Pensbury High School Alumni Hall of Fame Committee, I'm pleased to inform Kathy Romano that she's been selected into the third cohort of the Pensbury Alumni Hall of Fame.

Thank you so much. Awesome. Is that not great? That's so cool. I mean, I'm looking at him. I see you have an Air Hero Award behind you, and I'm just trying to figure out who you were. There's an orthopedic surgeon named Dr. Tom Smith as well. Oh, you just did a quick search on that? Yes, I was like, what is this? This is even better. We were talking about this, and not that we'd call it an oversight, but it's a long time coming, right? Well, yes.

We had our friend on, Nick, who is... Richard Kind? Richard Kind, yes. And we spoke to him about it when he was inducted. And so, yeah, this is great. Thank you so much. I had such a great experience at Pensbury High School. I know a lot of people, you know, high school for them, like they can't wait to get out. It was going to Pensbury, growing up where I did in Bucks County, and my time there, I have...

very fond memories of it i loved everything about high school and uh everything about my childhood there so this is this means a lot thank you very much hey dr smith is the is the prom tradition at pensbury still as big as it ever was absolutely and getting bigger oh wow high school next year so the prom has played into the design of the high school you're building you're building a new high school how similar size much bigger what are we looking at

Currently, we have two buildings where students have to walk across the campus. The buildings are aging out of their youthful life. So we're going to tear them both down and build one new high school. So if you're keeping the prom in mind for the new high school, does that involve a place where these vehicles can drive up and be displayed? I mean, because that's the big thing about Pensbury is how you arrive at the prom.

Correct. The prom parade is factoring into the design of the entrance loop of the school. Yeah, I would imagine. And I would imagine your gym is going to have to be a decent size, you know, for all of the sports activities that you have in there, but also for the prom.

Yes, it's 3,000 seats it's being designed for. That's formidable. That's also one of the things is that the prom is always held at the school. Right. A lot of places will go elsewhere. Pensbury has it at their high school. So Dr. Smith, what kind of privileges will Kathy be privy to now that she is in the Hall of Fame? Do we know?

Well, we had to tear down the high school because after she left, there's no reason to have it. Right. But if I could talk to her, she's going to get another phone call from and I'd just like to acknowledge Mr. Ryan Staub, who's lead principal at High School East, who heads up the committee. He's going to reach out to her. The ceremony will take place in October. There'll be a morning session working with the students.

And then an evening celebration. So look out for a follow-up phone call with that. But there will be an entire day. Hopefully you'll join us for that. Of course. In Pensbury, where we will, you know, you can tour the campus. You'll get to meet with students.

share some of your experience with our students. And that's really what this is all about. It aims to inspire our current and future students to strive for excellence in all areas of life. Will Kathy be the sole recipient of the accolades that day or are there other inductees? No, so there'll be five. But I will say it's quite an honor because Pensbury has been around for about 75 years and we've had years and years of over a thousand graduates. So, you know, there's about 60,000 graduates

Wow. Who are the four others? Do you have those names? They haven't all been notified yet. Okay. Okay.

Okay. So we'll find out. But she joins an illustrious group, as you mentioned, Richard Kind, Robert Costas, a CBS consultant, Haley Jackson, two NASA scientists, professional athletes like Troy Vincent and LaVoy Allen, managing director of Goldman Sachs, former college president, Dr. Lendow, and Ashley Ritter, who is a health advocate in the area. And now with Kathy, you'll have three NASA scientists. I was just going to say, it's the NASA scientists and me. Okay.

Real quick, what does NASA stand for? Oh, stop it. This is so much fun. All right. Well, thank you, Dr. Smith. We appreciate the great news. And we will be covering all of this induction as the inductions as they happen in October.

Excellent. Welcome to join us and we're very excited. So thank you for letting us participate. Thank you, Dr. Smith. Dr. Tom Smith, superintendent of the Pensbury School District with some great news. That's great. That's super cool.

I mean, yeah. And you've always spoken super highly about your high school years. Yeah, absolutely. I loved it there, just like I said. So, yeah, this is really exciting. Commencement speaker at Westchester. Westchester, yeah. And now Hall of Famer at Pensbury. Oh, you have no idea what a hard time I'm going to get from all of my friends. Sure, of course. Oh, so they should bust your balls like crazy for this. Now, all you have to do is be acknowledged by NASA. Right. And you're...

Just learn what it means. Study that. And then I should be good. Yeah, by the way, Dr. Corey Cochran is of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And he was part of the class of 2023. Wow. So yeah, Kathy is going to be in the class of the Hall of Fame class of 2025. And you graduated what year? I graduated in 2009. In 2009. Wow.

No, the year she graduated, all of the vehicles had rumble seats pressed in them. No, 1996. Okay. Wow. Wow. That's so cool, man. Well, congratulations to you. Thank you, guys. And thank you, Marissa, for setting that up. Yeah. It was really nice. Thank you to those guys for reaching out. Yep. All right. So today...

we hit the road. In fact, we hit the skies. We are flying out to Florida. Flight leaves around 2 o'clock this afternoon and arriving in Tampa and then we get our stuff and we head to Clearwater.

Get ready for the live broadcast tomorrow morning. Excuse me. Bubble throat. By the way, Preston, while you're clearing your throat, I got a really nice text from our buddy Vince from Philly Sports Trips. Biggest trip that they've had so far. A ton of MMR and Preston and Steve listeners on their plane yesterday. And as we mentioned earlier today, some people are going to the Phil's game tomorrow. Phil's game in Tampa against the Yankees on Friday night.

and staying the weekend and go and see the Flyers and the Lightning on Monday night in Tampa Bay. So a huge crowd of people, President Steve's show fans, are going to meet us there tonight and tomorrow. Any of them going to be on our flight? Do we have any idea? There's a few on our flight, too. Most of the Philly sports trips people went down yesterday, and depending on the package,

that they offer up. That's when they fly. But you can actually put down a down deposit, put down a deposit for 2026 spring training on phillysportstrips.com. You would be advised to do that. If there's any Philly sports trips people that are traveling with us that have an aisle seat and would like to have a window seat, I can switch with you. Okay.

Wow. Your flight is behooked. Yeah, I definitely took a window seat for sure. On a flight this short, you know, I mean, I'm an aisle seat guy, but if I have to, it doesn't matter. Wait, where are you? Do you know where? I have no idea. Oh, all right. Okay. It'll be fine. That's sort of how I feel. If I was going to Guam, it might be a little bit of an issue. If you're flying out somewhere today, we're going to be at gate C22. Mm-hmm.

And we leave at, we board at 125. So just give you a heads up on that. So you can stop by and say hi. Although my edible might be kicking in by then. So I don't know if you want to talk to me or not. But anyhow. Marissa and I will be at the bar. And say hello. Marissa will be at the bar with Kathy. They'll be carrying Preston out with zip ties on his hands. The rest of us will be milling about. By the way, speaking of flying, this came down yesterday. Months.

after ditching their open seating policy, Southwest Airlines is ending its most recognizable perk, and that is free checked baggage. This is a big deal. I knew it was coming. I mean, just, it's something that was... Boy, but they held on for a long time. They did hold on for a long time. It seems like they're becoming a real airline. You know what I mean? They were kind of known for being a little bit lighter in...

you know, on the plane and with, you know, basically it was like a free-for-all getting on the plane and trying to find a seat and it was nice that you had your first bag free but all of it going away. Yeah, the airline will begin charting for the first and second checked bag beginning on May 28th. Southwest announced this yesterday. However, members of its A-list loyalty program

or those traveling on a business fair will be exempt from the fees. In addition, Southwest will credit one checked bag for Rapid Rewards credit card members. So that's going to begin, right, in May 28th. And interesting, because they mentioned the rewards program, the loyalty program. When I'm...

I generally fly. I fly both American Airlines and Southwest. They have the most destinations where I'm going to. They have the most flights. So those are the two airlines I choose. But I was always curious about, other than buying premium seats, how you get into the different zones as far as loading goes. And that's part of the loyalty program. Is that what it is? As I've accrued more miles, I've been flying a little bit more this year. I've bumped up in- What zone are you in? I'm in group six right now, but I'm like-

Right on the edge of moving to group five. Like one more flight ought to do it for me. Well, I'll tell you what. So I used to, or mainly still do exclusively fly American only because it just works out that way. So all of my points are with American. They're not with any other airlines. And I am still in like group six. I used to have the American Airlines credit card. When I had that, I was group one. Wow. Second, I closed that.

all the way down to six, and I've stayed at six. They found out. They kicked you out. If you have that credit card, that's where you can get bumped up. And six isn't as bad as it feels like, right? Agreed. One is like first class and then credit cards and then people who need extra help and things like that. So by the time you're at six, it's more of like a two or three. With group six...

I've never had a problem putting a bag in the overhead container, compartment. You might have had it not known because of the edibles. That too. I'm legit surprised. Steve, you said you saw this coming. Southwest has used this as an ad campaign for so freaking long and people are so loyal to Southwest primarily because of this program. And to me, it's shooting yourself in the foot. I think that a lot of customers are going to be really pissed and I know that and they already are. And so if you're looking...

Look, it's only 50 or 100 bucks, but it's the psychological thing. You knew when you would buy a Southwest flight, your bags would fly free as well. Did you mention that they got bought out? That's what kind of started this? No. So somebody bought them. And their CEO did it. But there is a trick too, which I will share. I don't fly Southwest enough that I don't want to share this. If you'd buy a flight with Southwest for like $20 to $25, you can get early bird check-in.

which means you have to buy it before the 24 hour period. And then you get immediately into like A1 through 12. Oh, okay. So 25 bucks is totally worth it. Definitely worth it. All right. So they've always offered free check bags since the airline started about 60 years ago. They kept that policy in place when competitors started adding and increasing fees. Their carrier has trademarked

the slogan, bags fly free. Yeah, right. And it's been a key part of the advertising. And despite not charging for the first two checked bags, Southwest collected $73 million in baggage fees in 2023 and $62 million for the first nine months of 2024, according to the Department of Transportation statistics. However...

That's a fraction of the baggage fees collected by other airlines. So $62 million in the first nine months, right, of 2024. American Airlines, for the year of 2023, made $1.4 billion on baggage fees. United Airlines made $1.2 billion, and Delta had just under $1 billion.

Competitors trounced on the news, including Delta CEO Ed Bastian, who said that at an investors conference on Tuesday that Southwest's decision to charge for bags

could help its competitors. He said, clearly there's some customers who choose them because of that. And now clearly those customers are up for grabs. So they're going to, yeah, they're going to scramble to try to entice people. Now they're not going to do it with free bag, you know, checking. They could go with bags fly free. And that means grandmothers. That's a grandmother. Yeah. The old bag. Yeah.

So, yeah. So that's two big changes for Southwest this year. Yeah. I bet you that within a year or so, they will use that as a marketing campaign of like book your ticket between this month and this month and your bikes fly free. Maybe. Because they do own that. And so just to keep the loyalty, maybe that'll be potentially something. Yeah. It's a lot of money. They never offered that. Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah.

So anyhow, yeah, fortunately we're not

Well, not fortunately, but we're not flying Southwest. But yeah, I thought about checking my bag at the last second and then I switched over because I called back, clicked on it. It was like $35 or something like that. I'm checking because I have the bag. I have the road caster piece of equipment that I'm carrying. That's the one thing I'll put in the overhead and then my small little bag. And you're checking, so I'm checking. Yeah. If I got a check, buddy, I'm in. Yeah, we're double checking. So American does charge for your first bag? Yeah. Yeah.

Nobody gives first bags free. I don't know if anybody is giving free. I haven't checked a bag. You're on Frontier. It's a personal item. I have to pay for a carry-on item. This is my medication. Even a carry-on, if you were to stow something,

This is something that has to fit underneath the seat in front of you. That's free. So my backpack is the exact size. It's a topo backpack. It's the exact dimensions that are just fit. If I put too much in it, it could technically be whatever. But when I've traveled wherever I...

just to carry on. Okay. All right. Fair enough. By the way, as we are flying today, Steve sent me an article with some good tips about how we can survive a plane crash. Oh, no. Why would you? No, no.

No. I don't want to do this article. It's absolutely. You know, sometimes when you're in a plane crash, you think, could I have done that better? Right. What could I have done to minimize my injuries? These are your tips. And these are helpful tips to the occasional flyer who finds themselves in the survivable plane crash. I just listened to a podcast with, was it Travis Barker that was in the plane crash? Yes. And DJ AM. Yes. Yes. And he described it in detail. I mean, he was on fire.

fire running on like so this isn't helping that's not helping and this isn't helping well this might help you Kathy because they recommend that you wear long sleeve shirts and pants okay good I have that on there you go that you should be good to go what the hell does that have anything to do with it I don't know it's the first thing that's written here it says think about in case we're in

lost and we end up in the brain forest. Actually, for some of the reasons you said. It says, think about your wardrobe. The more of your body that is covered during an impact, the better. So, long-sleeved shirts and pants and a sturdy pair of shoes and you're good to go. You're going to survive. Stop and think about it. If you have a long-sleeved shirt on, that collision with the mountain will be less painful. Yes. If

If you're flying over a cold region, keep a warm jacket in case you're tossed into the tundra and have to survive. Yes. I already hate this list. You can eat other people as well. Right. But if you're flying over water, wear wool instead of cotton. Oh, get the hell out of here. Oh, so, okay, I'm going to wear my wool sweater because I'm flying over water? So for that survivable water landing. Well, the fabric keeps its insulating properties better when it's wet. And it repels sharks. Yeah.

Come on. Yeah. It's a no brainer. Don't forget your block of wood so you can chew on it. You can get out before everybody else. You know, you can beat the people in front of you with a block of wood. Cotton kills.

Cotton kills? You've heard that before? No, what is that? Have you ever gone hiking? An old Navy thing? No, no, no, no. If you go hiking, you shouldn't wear cotton because when you get super sweaty or wet or whatever, you get hypothermia. It doesn't dry. Yeah, and it doesn't dry. So it's like a weird hiker phrase, but that's why you're supposed to wear like a fabric that breathes properly and not cotton. Is that where you go with

Like wool is cool. I guess. And like the dry fit. It's corduroy is cool. A synthetic that breathes properly. But also on an airline. All right. Loose and fussy clothing is not advised as it can get easily caught when moving at speed in a confined space. Right. When I'm swimming through the ocean, I don't want my loose clothes. What if you get caught on the spike of a narwhal? Yeah. You don't want to snag on a jellyfish or something like that. Well, ultimately, though, it's funny the level of...

relaxed attire that you see at airports now. People literally in complete PJs and even more, you know, like it's really weird, you know. I forgot to tell you something, Preston. Real quick, side note. Yeah, go ahead. When I was sick, I was home by myself and I needed medicine. I had to get it. You went out in PJs? I left the house not in PJs, but PJ pants. Oh! I know.

I was like, I can't believe this is happening. But I couldn't. I was so sick. Were you wearing a top?

Of course I was wearing a top. Stop it. I put a sweatshirt on. Preston, I did drive-through pickup. So I didn't actually get out. I'll let you slide. So nobody saw you. Maybe in my driveway getting into my car. Would you look at that whore? Another tip for surviving a plane crash. According to this article. I don't even know who wrote this. But it says don't sit at the front.

Safety experts stress that every crash is different and there is no magic safe seat. But given that so many planes crash nose first, some believe that your best chance is to sit at the back. When you could check into your flight, you know, back in the day and request a seat while you were there. My aunt, every time she would fly, she always wanted to be...

in front of the wings. So somewhere along the line, someone told her something. Oh, that it was a safety thing. Yeah, a safety thing. Apparently that's wrong. Apparently that is not it at all. And that makes sense. When a Boeing 737-800 crashed in South Korea last December after a bird strike, only two people who survived were the pair of flight attendants that were seated in the very back of the plane.

And all of the other 179 people on board were killed. Well, maybe they weren't wearing long sleeves. They were wearing wool. Yeah. They were wearing cotton. Yeah. Cotton kills. Cotton means death. Cotton kills. Cotton kills. That's it. You know, yeah. It's okay. Cotton means death. Same thing.

So, yeah, don't sit in front. It's funny because I have a friend of mine who gets anxiety when he flies and he only feels comfortable sitting in first class. I wonder if he knows that they're the first people to die every time a plane crashes. However, they've had a wider selection of beverages. They do. So there you go.

All right. It also... And some of these are no-brainers. Note the location of the exit rows. Just be aware. Are they in front of you or are they behind you? It's not that hard to figure out. Keep your seatbelt on tight, obviously. And that's not just a crash. I mean, that's hitting turbulence and everything. And I've seen... I've flown a lot in my life and I've seen...

a shift in altitude and immediate, and I've seen a stewardess go up to the ceiling. I mean, that was pretty amazing. By the way, it says here, according to research, every centimeter of slack in a passenger's seatbelt triples the G-force they'll experience in a crash. Wow. A tighter seatbelt also limits how much the body flails around. So wear it tight. I wonder why they've never... Maybe it's cost. I mean, if you're talking about trying to really preserve...

Why not a shoulder harness the way you would have in a car? Well, I'll tell you why. Because when you're going to crash and they have you brace, you have to put your head down. So the shoulder strap would impede that. But I mean for regular flight, if you wanted to keep someone secured in a seat, you could take that part off. Yeah, I don't know. Also, as you're told by the flight attendants every time, your oxygen mask before others.

resist the urge to help someone else before you put yours on because you have about 15 seconds at most to start breathing through your mask before you lose consciousness. You first. Yep, so you got to help. You got to do you first and then you can help. And that's also the same if you're getting out of the plane after it's crashed. You first. Me first. Everybody look out. Get out of the way! Now it also says work out where the plane will crash. Excuse me, where is this plane going to crash?

You should know this in advance. Who wrote this? Ding. You get the little button. Excuse me. Ding. Yes, I wanted to know, when we eventually crash, which part of the plane will probably carry the weight of the collision? So it says if you're flying above water, put your life jacket on. But don't inflate it until you're out of the plane. Otherwise, you could be in for all sorts of problems. You can take that. You're just sitting there with your life jacket on.

Are you concerned, sir? It says if the cabin fills with water, you will float to the ceiling and it would be very difficult to swim back down and exit the plane. Good point. It also might tear during the evacuation, rendering it useless for buoyancy. Then you look cheap. Okay. If the plane is coming down in cold weather, keep a blanket or coat handy. Okay, yeah, sure. As the aircraft descends. I brought a pullover.

once the fire dies down yeah we're gonna crash let me grab my blanket i told you guys this off air earlier in the week but my son is uh flying to china later this year which i'm pretty excited about he's flying up to hong kong and i think it's it's either newark or jfk um but we were having a conversation of like what do you do on a 16 hour flight because that's what it is i think yeah 16 16 and a half or whatever um and they fly over the north pole they fly down you know the the coast of russia and over japan and into hong kong but that's

I've never taken anything remotely that long. And like, you know, restless leg syndrome and all this kind of stuff, you have to prep in advance. Yeah, you are supposed to get up and walk around a little bit, obviously. Open the door. Stand if you can for a few. But then again, do you want to be standing and you might, you know, hit turbas? I don't know. But anyhow, you are supposed to get up and move around because that's a long time to be sedentary. They say actually, if you can, wear compression socks. Yeah. I'm wearing them today. So...

Also, it says brace for impact. Have you returned your seat? Don't be cavalier about it. Have you returned your seat to its upright position? Make sure that your shoes are securely on your feet and stow away any loose items that might fly around the cabin. There are two standard crash brace positions. If you can reach the seat in front of you, lean against it, placing one hand palm down on the seat back and crossing the other also palm down over the first hand, representing

Rest your forehead against the backs of your hands. Sometimes in this position, experts recommend instead lacing your fingers to cradle it as you lean your head against the seat. What about downward dog? Oh, I don't know. Would that work, Kathy? Downward dog? Maybe.

Alternatively, if you cannot reach the seat in front of you, lean forward and press your chest and thighs and your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye. But it says to grab your ankles. I knew a girl who did that. There you go. Do the wheelbarrow.

No, your own ankles. Do we have time for the Eiffel Tower? I mean, of all times, try it then. Yeah. Yeah, right? We're going to do it. If there's a sexual act you've never tried and wanted to take out for a spin, I encourage you to do it now. All right. Also, it says to avoid the smoke.

Try to cover your nose and mouth with a cloth, preferably a damp one to avoid inhaling it. It's not bad enough that we crashed, but I hate the smell of smoke. Yeah, or like Travis Parker, you have to run while you're on fire. Don't forget to waft away from your nose. While heading towards an exit, try to stay as low as possible to duck under the smoke, which is likely to be rising towards the ceiling. I would have died of a heart attack already, so it doesn't matter. All right. These are ways to survive. Well, they can use you as a battering ram. To survive a plane crash. All right.

It says leave your belongings. And actually there was not that long ago, there was, it wasn't the most recent one where the plane rolled over and was upside down, but it was another one where people had to evacuate the plane quickly. There was a fire. It was on, they were already on the ground and you saw people going up for their luggage and everything. And they were like, leave it.

Get off the plane now. Are you kidding? Yeah, are you frigging kidding? Who cares? All that stuff is replaceable. Yes. And even if it's irreplaceable, it's not worth dying over. So leave your stuff. You should not try to take your belongings. This will block other people from getting out. Oh, I love that hat. What about your mug?

It keeps my drinks cold. Sorry, I have a Batman figure back there. And then it says, don't hang around. Yeah, this is great. When are you going to escape? When are you going out? You notice they don't do zones that way. Yeah, right. Zone three is now de-boarding.

Once you've exited the plane, move at least 500 feet upwind from the crash site as possible. Stinky. Although you don't want to go too far as you await rescues, the plane could explode at any moment. Seriously? Seriously.

could spread far. They wrote this in the article. It could explode at any moment and the flames could spread far further than you imagine. Yeah, bring a tape measure. And it says the same rule holds true even if you've landed in water. Swim away. Man, there's a scene in the movie Cast Away. The plane goes into the water. He gets out. He's swimming away and the engine turbine is still turning and it's right

behind him. Dude, that scares the hell out of me. It's at night, too. Yes. And then that's going on. They also, Preston, they say as you're boarding the flight, determine, Nick, as per our conversation yesterday, if you are to crash, say, in the Andes, who you are most likely to eat. Absolutely. Good thinking. Look for a fact. Yeah.

Yeah. Are you like a deuce 10? Where are the fat people? Steve, can you imagine if you survived a plane crash in the ocean and then like you got eaten by sharks or, you know, the engine got you or whatever? Oh, come on. I'm going to give you an example of a movie that did almost that very thing. Uh,

The movie Gravity. Yeah. Oh, yeah. With George Clooney. Yeah, George Clooney. And Sandra Bullock. And Sandra Bullock. Yeah. Like one thing after another, after another, after another. And then, spoiler alert, she makes it back to Earth.

She lands in water. Right. Yeah. And starts to drown. Come on. Once going through all this stuff. And as she's crawling up onto the bank of this body of water, Nick, I was like, an alligator is coming over now. She made it. It's like the movie Armageddon when they go to the space station. I mean, it's like there's stop it. At some point, you've earned a break. Stop it. Yes. Completely. Yeah.

So anyhow, above all, experts say when you know that you are traveling in a packed plane and people all about you are losing their heads as it's about to crash, try to stay calm. You know what? Stay calm. Start one of those group applause like the slow clap. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Start the slow clap. Everybody. Wow. Okay. So these are tips for flying today. Listen, it's good to know.

It would be fun to slide down one of those slides. I've always wanted to do that. Absolutely. Remember the guy who on his last day as a attendant pulled it? Cost him $10,000. Do you guys look forward to flying outside of the trip? Of your destination? Of getting on the plane and that whole thing? For me, I find it very... Because it's forced...

I relax. You have no choice. I don't know if that makes any sense. Well, I know what you mean. So I kind of settle into my area. I get my little space. I have my little snacks and my entertainment. I got a plan. And also, unlike you, Kathy, and Steve, I look forward to looking out the window. I like identifying...

Golf courses and just topical features and things like that. I like flying. I think it's kind of fun. I mean, I don't dislike it, but I think it's not like... It comes with where you're ending up, obviously. If you're looking forward to a trip or this is a work trip that we're going on, it's a little different. So that's what's exciting about it. I don't necessarily...

love the plane ride, but it doesn't bother me. And I think part of the reason why... Well, one of the reasons I don't like the window seat is because I want to be able to have access to get up and get out if I need to. I'm probably only ever getting up like one time, depending on how long...

Or not at all. Yeah. It doesn't really make sense. But I think I've flown so much that the joy of like looking out the window and what I'm looking at, I... You're over it. Yeah, I've done it. I still love it. And there's something still in my mind that's pretty miraculous about getting up in the

and finishing the day elsewhere. And you just get in this metal tube, and a couple hours later, you're in Florida or you're in California or whatever. My wife is an anxious flyer. She really has some serious anxiety when it comes to it. My mom is too. And for my mom, it's the complete lack...

of control. My mom does not like going anywhere where she can't see forward. So she struggles even if she can look out the window or whatever, which I get. But like me, yeah, we're getting on a plane today and we're going to be in Florida in just a couple hours. I actually, and as I'm looking out the window sometimes, I will legitimately marvel over the fact

that we are human beings and that we are flying thousands of feet in the air as if it's just nothing. Right. And I try not to take that for granted because it's pretty amazing. Nick, do you ever do the, like, I showered in this state or this country today and also...

All the time. All the time. That's pretty cool. I jumped in America and wiped in Hong Kong. Well, Steve, I was trying to go cleaner version of that, but yes. I also like the airport. Like, what are the offerings in the airport? What are the things that the stores that we can go to, the restaurants we can try, that like we're not allowed to try any other time? Like, it's just this like secret club. Well, Chick-fil-A. Yeah, right? No, but Philly airport

has all these new offerings now. You fly to Denver a lot and that's a really cool airport, I think. They're one of the first ones to do a lot of the local restaurants and breweries and such. But Philly's starting to do that now with, like I said, Sabrina's, Oyster House. You need to do that because you have to give people... Also, the airport benefits by having people arrive early. Yeah, totally. Also, airport has the best merch.

Like Philly sweatshirts and sports sweatshirts. I agree. Local merch for the city that you're in. I have found better stuff at the airport than in souvenir shops. And so most of the time, Marissa, and I'm like, okay, on your way back, stop back here and get that Philadelphia shirt. Uh-huh.

What would it take to get Preston and Steve merch into an airport? Years and years ago, I saw a, it was the first time I saw an Always Sunny shirt in the airport. I took a picture of it. I sent it to Rob. Yeah. Rob McElhinney. I'm like, dude. I'm like, you guys are now an airport gift. And this was like 10, 12 years ago, something like that.

What about the poop knife? Yeah, presidency poop knife. So by the way, one of the important things and hidden treasures of flying and traveling are the snacks that you take with you. And today we have some snacks courtesy of the movie Novocaine. They brought us these cookies, guys. It's from Isgro Pastries in South Philly.

And these are supposed to represent a scene from the movie. This is a fried hand. All right. It's a cookie because Jack Quaid's character sticks his hand in a deep fryer and fries his hands. Oh, my God. In the movie, he feels no pain. Okay. So he sticks his hand in a deep fryer. And so they made us these cookies.

That look like a hand that have all of these pock marks and burn marks on it. It's pretty gruesome, but I love it. And Isgro 1904 it was, came into business? Wow. I assume, yeah. So those, to have a little bit of fun and have a little snack on our...

flight today. And you can go see Novocaine in 4DX with seat motion and environmental effects that put you in the heart of the action. You're going to feel it in 4DX and Paramount Pictures. Novocaine stars Jack Quaid and it's in theaters on Friday. Good stuff, Marissa? They're very good. I'm going to have the thumb. There's more here too. You're not saving it for your plane snack? Yeah, come on, man. Nope.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Kathy. Our next guest is going to be performing at City Winery, but not until Saturday, March 29th. So you got time to get your tickets, but I wouldn't wait too long. You can go to citywinery.com. And we love having him here. It is the triumphant return to Philadelphia to Mr. Paul McCartney.

Curious. Good to see you, Paul. I love the applause. Thank you. I want to concur with something you said off air just a moment ago. We were continuing the flight thing.

conversation and Paul was saying he likes to sit by the window seat which both me and Nick do and Casey as well and part of the reason is because I can't sleep sitting straight up like you just said. I need something to lean my head on but you also mentioned something that I think is important too.

strategic use of your jacket when you fly. Absolutely. I have a certain jacket that I fly with. I have a pillow because you need the pillow for the head. But then you got the rib cage. It's exposed. Yes. You got the handle. Thank you. Yes. And then, and so you got to wrap that up, but it can't be like a light windbreaker. So it's like the summer, it's like, what are you doing with a polar fleece thing? And I go, I have a

Yeah, yeah. And then so then I can do that and then I can lean and then I'm good. And then and that's the whole key because if I don't have something for my ribs, I'm digging into the thing. I know. You can't raise that handle. I figured that out by accident one time. I wadded up my jacket and I stuck it over here on my side. I'm like, oh, right.

Right. Heaven, this is it. Yeah, and then I'm cranky if it's happening, and then I start slapping passengers. And apparently you can't do that. Can't do that anymore. No, no. I'll tell you the one thing I do do that drives my wife, because I'm always the guy, I think we've talked about this in our interview, I'm the guy, I always have to, I think I'm going to make things better by saying things to people. Like I'm going to correct people's behavior. The thing that drives me crazy is when you're leaving the plane,

And the guy in the aisle behind you decides to cut your eye. Like, you got to let people get out of their aisle. So my wife's like, you got to let it go. And I'm like, and I'm just like, I'm just looking. I can feel myself looking for confrontation. And I see the guy and I go, you got to wait, you know. You got to wait.

I'm literally that guy. Preemptively. I'm Mr. Confrontation. And then they wait and then they look down and it's like whatever. Well, at least it's at the end of the flight. So you haven't set the bar at the beginning. But I agree. Absolutely. There is a progression. There's also if I'm usually the aisle.

But I will get up, get back, and I will serve as the buffer for the people who are window and middle to go out in front of me. Yeah, I do that. I will literally set a pick in the aisle like you're playing basketball.

I don't mean to go on and on about flying pet peeves, but there's another one that really gets under my craw, gets stuck in my craw, is when the people behind you, if they need to get up for whatever reason, they have decided to use your headrest. Your headrest is leveraged to pull themselves up. And usually it's somebody who's a little overweight, can't like whatever, and it's like it really pulls you back. The most stressful thing in my life ever, ever, not performing, not whatever, is

Now we're talking this scenario, right? You got two seats next to me, the aisle, the flight attendant's handing me my drink and it's coming over the person in the middle and I always freak out that I'm going to drop it on them. I almost rather just, it's not worth it. Just keep it. Are you okay if that middle person intercedes and helps

I am. Pass it along. I am. I don't like it when they take a sip, but you know what I'm doing. Oh, that's good. They laugh it up with their tongue like a dog. Give me one of those. Yeah, that's hilarious. Whoa, that is good. I don't like tomato juice. You know what? I'm going to switch. I'm going to have the tomato juice. Yeah, I like it.

Set him up with one, too. Exactly. Oh, my goodness. So, how have you been, man? I'm good. Last time we saw you, you were playing the Keswick Theater, I believe. No, not Keswick Theater. It was Sellersville? Sellersville, yeah. That was a great show. The audience was hot from the get-go. And thank you. A lot of people came out from it. So, thank you, thank you, thank you. And you were mainly talking with...

Crowd members. Well, I'm doing this permission to speak. It's been a hit for you. Yeah, it's going really well. And you love it. Yeah, yeah. And Nick and I just did another appearance on The Late Show with Colbert, which was really fun. Can I interrupt for a second, Paul? Because I was telling you this in the green room, and I mean this sincerely. I've seen your stuff for a long time and seen you perform. I really enjoyed your appearance on Colbert, your recent appearance, because it just seemed like you were so relaxed, so...

The pacing of it was terrific. It was hilarious on top of all of it. But you just seemed like happy and in your element. And I love the fact that there were pauses and you let the audience react and interact and you interacted with them. It just was brilliant. So if you're not seeing it, it's on YouTube. You shared it with us yesterday. All right.

Bring it in. It's not going to get any better than that, everybody. I'm not just saying that because you're standing next to us. It really was very well done. So congratulations. You really do have to take your time on TV. So when you're doing the set in the clubs, you're timing it out. And I time it intentionally at least a minute shorter than

so that I'm not rushing on the show because shows take longer because people applaud and everything. And I was comfortable at one point. We were talking about this. I had a joke and they were starting to applaud. And it's normally not where they applaud, but I was like, no, no, no, don't applaud. These three women are still enjoying the joke. What do they usually allocate for a set on...

on any of the late shows. Five to six minutes. Five to six minutes. Yeah, so that ended up being about almost seven, but it was timing out at four minutes in the club. With your exposure and having written, you know, and writing for these shows and everything, are you still asked to provide...

Sort of a, you know, a transcript. Yeah. Really? Great question. Even at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I tell them to go F themselves. But, you know, I'm a big shot. No, yeah, you have to give, well, it's for no other reason legal has to go. Oh, standards of, okay, wow. Yeah, like we're on this point where I think because of social media, like you can kind of swear a lot now, right? Yes. And there's a joke where I wanted to say. Yeah.

A-hole, but not A-hole. And they wouldn't let me do it. And so I said F-you instead. You dropped an F-bomb. Yeah, exactly. We were just talking about it. Marissa was noticing, and it does happen on SNL. They're dropping, not F-bombs, but they're dropping everything around it. Yeah, it's definitely pushed it. But yeah, you have to run the set.

figure out what you want to do and then give it to them. And they've always been cool with me. Like there's only one joke one time. I have a joke about the Last Supper and I wasn't sure if they're going to let me do it because Stephen's pretty religious, but it's just about, you know, the premise is that the Last Supper had to be tense. Right.

Because you're sitting around having dinner and you know Jesus is going to get crucified in an hour. But you've got to make small talk. What could you possibly talk about at the Last Supper? Right. And I'd say all the dumbest things like, you know, oh, this is some hummus, Jesus. Like, what are you going to say? Or like, excuse me, Jesus, why are we all sitting on the same side of the table? Is there going to be a hit or something? Right.

Just so I'm clear, this isn't the last supper for all of us, right? So that one didn't fly? No, it worked. I got it in. Oh, it did? Let me do it. Yeah, I was really happy with it. Hey, I wanted to ask about this because we have a couple notes here of things. And apparently you were coming to Philly on Amtrak.

And the train had to be delayed and there were cops. And when was this and what happened? Yeah, this was a few weeks ago. Was it after you told this Last Supper joke? Well, it's weird because it was a convention of priests and I thought that would be a good thing on Amtrak. Apparently not. And God forbid you make a Pope joke. So what happened that got you on this train surrounded by the police? This is the same thing we were talking about with the plane. I feel like...

I'm going to change behavior. I don't like it when customer service people are rude. And my wife is like, you've got to stop. I almost got arrested in New York City because I pulled my pants down in a newsstand over a bag. I'm not making this up. Hold that story for after the train story. So I'm on the train and I get on the train in Penn Station and I'm coming down.

To Philly. And I have a backpack and I sit down and there's an empty seat next to me and I put the bag on the seat next to me because I don't want to talk to anybody. Right. I can't do it anymore. I can't make small talk. I can't do the chit chat. It's like, oh, my son just started picture now for his high school. Wow.

I can't. So the conductor comes through and he makes the announcement. It's probably going to be a full train. Please take your bags off the seats. But it wasn't a full train. And if it were, I would have... So I leave the bag. He comes back through and he stands over me like this and he goes, Hey!

I told you to take that bag off the seat. And I'm like, you don't talk to me like that. He goes, but I told you. I go, but you got, I said, I understand this, but this is a consumer situation right now. And I paid for this ticket. In fact, I'm paying for it two ways. First, I bought a ticket. And secondly, my taxpayer dollars are going into a fund that's been funding this crappy, disgusting.

that has food that rats wouldn't eat and bathrooms that even homeless people wouldn't go in. So you can take your little choo-choo hat and your scanner and shove it up your... This is three minutes out of the train. We're not even out of the tunnel in New York. So he goes, all right, and he comes back. He comes back through to take tickets. This is all happening, I'm going to tell you. And I go to hand him my ticket, and he goes, I'm not taking your ticket. I go to him, he goes, I'm having you thrown off the train. I don't like your attitude. I'm like, yeah, right. We pull into Newark on the platform,

Four cops. What? He called the cops. Yeah. Wow. So now, I used to be a lawyer. Plus, I'm always the guy that has to speak to the manager. Right. So I go, I know. I'm going to go find the head conductor, the manager, rat this guy out as a Nazi, and save the day for everybody on the train. That's the point.

I swear to God that's how my brain works. How can I work this? Call my wife. She will confirm all of this. I'm out of my mind and I don't know why. So I grab my ticket, right? I grab my ticket like this. Never mind. And I'm running through the aisle. And as I'm running down the aisle, there's a guy to the right on his phone. And he goes...

Yeah, honey, I'm going to be like an hour late. Some a-hole stopped the train. I'm like, I'm famous. I'm famous. So I get to the, you know, the big silver doors. Yes. It goes into the pocket. I hit it.

with the ticket in my right hand. And when I hit it, the suction of the door sucked the ticket into the door, into the pocket. So now I'm technically on a train illegally because you don't have a ticket. And I got Wyatt Earp and four cops barreling down on me, right? So I hit the button again, the door comes out, nothing. I hit it again, it goes in. Before I was like Mr. Macho, now I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to get

I hit it one more time. The door comes flying out and the ticket comes flying out and I literally grab it in midair. Like Polar Express. Exactly. Exactly.

So I keep running and then I find the conductor, a woman with a purple tie. And I deduced that she was the manager because all the other guys had a blue tie on. Right. And I was right. And I go, excuse me, ma'am, but your conductor, she goes, I can't talk to you about this now. I got some a-hole who stopped the train. I'm like, hell up. I swear to God. That's me. The exact same thing. So.

so we get on the platform so it's me the four cops the conductor i got in an argument with the manager the uh and everybody through the window is just looking at me like oh man they just wanted to kill me now are you are you stalwart are you holding your ground yeah i said this guy was really inappropriate blah blah blah and the cop well the cops you could tell like this is this is they didn't need right they're like all right what's the problem like the guy's got his like hand hitched in his

belt. We got real crime to deal with. And I'm like, oh, he yelled at me. Right? And the guy, and then the conductor goes, I want him thrown off the train. He was very disruptive and very argumentative. I want him thrown off the train. And the cop took a long beat and he goes, you want me to arrest him for that?

Arguing. If I did that, I'd be arresting my wife every five minutes. I got back on the train and I... No kidding. It's lucky it broke your way. Yeah. And then he came back through and he took my ticket. And when he did, because I had taken the bag off my seat because I left. But as I came through and he was walking toward my seat...

I just put the bag on the seat next to me again. Nice. It's just a little like whatever. Well, the way he approached you initially is you would say, excuse me, sir, if you didn't hear, we're asking that people make the seats available. Right. Someone perhaps would not take the seat if they blah, blah, blah, whatever. There's a way to approach it. Sometimes in their little fiefdom, they get a little crazy. Yeah. I mean, it just happens with me. Like I, you know, I...

I was having lunch at a restaurant. Is it okay if I talk about this real quick? Yeah, yeah. Don't forget the pants story. No, we want the pants and the newsstand. I wrote it down. Pants and newsstand, yes. You want that one? We want both.

Go with this one and then we go back to the pants. Or I'll put the pants on the next one when I come. So this one, like, I'm getting lunch on the east side of New York and I work on the Late Show on the west side. And going back and forth east-west, you guys know, it's like Philly. There's a lot of traffic, expensive. So I order a lunch and the guy I'm with, it's kind of like a business lunch. He has like a club sandwich and a coffee. I get a salad with a scoop of tuna and a Coke. How much should that cost me? Well, in New York, it's

I'd say, I mean, $12. $20. More. $52. What? I swear to God. I swear to God. Salad, scooper tuna, and a soda? Yeah, and then he got a sandwich, like a big deluxe sandwich and a thing, and there was tax and whatever. Yeah, right. So I don't say anything because it's kind of like a business thing, right? And I'm like, whatever.

I'm in the cabin, I'm driving, and I'm late for the rehearsal at the studio. And I'm like, I got screwed. I know I got screwed. This guy screwed me. And if I got screwed, other people are getting screwed. And I got to fix this. I got to fix this, right? I'm getting obsessed, right? And my wife always goes, Cal, just let things go. You're fighting against, you're tilting the wheel. So I get to the studio. We're rehearsing. I can't pay attention. I pull out the receipt. The guy charged me $12 for a scoop of tuna. Just for the scoop of tuna. So I'm the guy that has to speak to the manager.

In the middle of rehearsal, I call from like a corner of the studio. I go, yes, I'd like to speak to you. I swear to God this is happening. And Steve is looking at me like, what are you, what's, what are you? I'm like, I'm on a, I'm going to be there in a minute. And he goes, I go, why did you charge me to the manager at $12 for a scoop of tunics?

He goes, well, I had to charge it like it was a sandwich. I go, but it wasn't a sandwich. He goes, but I had to charge it. I go, no, you don't understand. There was no sandwich. There was no semblance of sandwich at all. There was no bread, lettuce, tomato, nothing. He goes, well, I had to charge it. What do you mean? What is this? You had to charge it. Was there like national tuna legislation passed in Washington that I don't know about? Well, I go, look, I give you a lot of my business. I said, I'm going to come back there after work and I want $6 billed.

back on my scoop of tuna now i step out of myself and i hear myself negotiating over a scoop of tuna and i'm like i gotta move to the woods yeah yeah you have one of those moments like you've completely lost so he goes no i said nothing back are you gonna charge me like it was a sandwich he goes yeah i go all right then i want my whole damn sandwich i got in a cab and i drove all the way back oh my god i made him wrap me up two slices of wheat bread lettuce tomato pickle oh

And those two swords that go in the sand? Yeah, yeah. The cabaret cost me $45, but I proved my point. I never understood that. Oh, my God. Well, yeah, but it's basically this. Yes. I have to charge you like... No, no, no. But it's not. Yeah, it's not. And I think it's just lazy like, okay, what do we charge you? I don't know. Just charge it like it's the sand, right? He's not going to care. He's not going to notice. And...

I got my nails done once and I didn't want nail polish on it. And they were like, well, we have to charge you as if it's a regular manicure. I go, why? You're not using the actual product that I'm paying for. I don't want that. I'll pay for the manicure that you're giving me, but you're not putting nail polish on it. They're like, no, still same price. And I argued with her for a while.

Did it work? No, she gave me like $3 off. I was like, okay, great. Yeah, exactly. They win the battle and lose the war because he wants to go back. I was at a deli and I wanted eggs Benedict without ham. And so she sits and she thinks for a second. She went, okay, so we're going to charge you just for an English muffin, poached eggs with a little side of sauce. So she was the complete opposite of your guy. She was...

was saving me money. She was doing it. So now know that that is an opportunity. That's classic. You came out on the other side of that. The classic exchange is Nicholson and five easy pieces. I was just thinking that. Everyone, that's why that scene is so iconic where he's the toast, the tuna sandwich or the turkey sandwich or whatever. Yeah, we've all had those sort of legs. Yeah.

It's good stuff. Okay, now, do you have time for a pantsless newsstand visit or no? By the way, real quick, Paul Mercurio is going to be at City Winery Saturday, March 29th, by the way. So just want to make sure you get your tickets. Yeah, and so we've been doing that. It's the show directed by Frank Oz. Yes, we talked about it. Amazing Frank.

He's amazing and it's intimidating. I don't know if I mentioned this the last time because he created The Muppets. Yes. Directed Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Steve Martin, blah, blah, blah. And he created Yoda. Yeah, yeah. He's like, yeah, you're being directed by Yoda. Try being directed by Yoda. He's never frigging wrong. The height of wisdom. Oh, my God. You were talking about how he'll pick out little things. Oh, he's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, he sees things that I don't see and...

But the backwards talking thing never stops. The Yoda snake house. Snake I will have. I get it, Frank. You're Yoda. Take your hand out of my ass. I'm not a puppet. No, he's very, it's just, it's unbelievable what he sees. And one of the things that he, we stress is this is not just about the audience, but it's about me. And so my stories and my stand up. And it's like, I don't like to use the word crowd work because that's,

You talk to somebody about their hat. The comic doesn't really care about the hat. They want to talk about the hat because they either want to make fun of the hat or use the hat as a way to get into a bit about hats that they wrote, but they want to make it look like they came up with it off the top of their head. And this is more like ask the second, third, and fourth question, and you get these amazing stories. So it's a lot of me, but also the audience just kind of...

And I'm finding that people are saying they really love it because it's fun, but there's also no judgments. You can say what you want. You're interviewing. So we had a little thing that happened because of a technical issue with our phones. And so we'll have people come up, and obviously we do want our phones back because so much we do is generated by that. So we've been taking Zoom calls.

you know uh contributions yeah and so we end up going a few questions more with each person yeah the first the first day we took it out for a spin we just literally said hey just call us just yeah whatever let's find out about you and it was a great segment we were just talking and it's sort of that dynamic where it's so it's not crowd work hey where'd you get that dumb shirt no it's not it's never making fun of people and i think they know that from the beginning i tell them up front

I travel around the country and everybody has a story. And some people want to tell their story and some people need to tell their story. I think people feel unheard. Because of the show and because it has been promoted, what's the furthest someone has come? It seems like...

people could be motivated to have this purge in front of an audience and relay something. Have you had somebody travel a great distance or someone who told you they were hemming and hawing about coming to the show and finally were able to get it out in front of people? You mean like in terms of what they were willing to reveal? What they were willing to reveal, yeah. I had two heroin addicts on stage in New York and one of them was recovering and the other one said she didn't want to recover. She liked it too much. Wow. And I sold her heroin. Wow.

And I made some money off of it. Sorry, I'm a comedian. I got to be funny. No, that was like. That's wild. What I say at the beginning is it's unscripted. And I love that because it's going to reflect real life, which means the stories are going to be really fun and funny. But sometimes they're going to be. I had a transgender person on stage. It was great. Had a great story. And then you get stuff. I said to a woman, all I said is, what's your name? She goes, Nydia. That's all I said. What's your name?

I said, oh, that's a unique name. I never heard that name before. How'd you get it? She started laughing. I knew there was a story. Right. She goes, well, my father got my mother pregnant with me, but at the same time was having an affair with a woman named Nydia. And he named me after the woman he was having an affair with. Wow. I swear to God. And everybody did exactly what you guys did. They were like, what? And so...

I think that they know that I'm not going to make fun of them. And it's just like, it's a giant hang in some, I say, look, it's a giant hang in somebody's basement. We're having drinks and sharing stories. I love that. But the structure is you, you do, you do get some material out, but you're doing a lot of my own stuff. And then, and then there's something in the middle called the flip.

which is frank and i came up with where i let somebody come up i give them the microphone and they get to ask me whatever they want wow that's pretty cool i love it yeah because they put me on the spot and they uh sometimes my wife will be in the audience and i'll make reference to her and they're like we want to meet carol i have to bring my wife on stage and she doesn't like the oh really but it is super awesome because they ask me great questions and

And then look, I'm just talking about my life. I'm talking about like, I think the whole PC thing, like, you know, I, I think they like that. I say to them, you don't have to worry about the PC cause it's gotten crazy. I mean, just not even in comedy, but like I was at Walmart and I'm trying to pick up a package. There's a guy in front of me picking up a package and the young woman behind the counter. Very nice. She goes, uh, here's the package. Here you go, honey. Um,

Sign here, honey. Have a nice day, honey. The guy goes like this to her.

I have honey at home from my tea. When you call me honey, I feel that's verbal sexual assault. And I snap and I went, what is wrong with you? So here I am screaming at somebody again in public. He goes, what? I go, what do you mean what? She's trying to make your day nicer. You've got to ruin it with your overly sensitive nonsense. I go, well, I found that was verbal assault. I go, no, no, no. That's not verbal assault. I go, you're a pathetic man who lives alone and should never procreate. That's verbal assault. Yes. That's.

I tell you, when I travel to the south on occasion for like a golf trip or something like that, and I go into a Waffle House and the server calls me sweetheart or honey, I'm like, oh, man.

It feels so good. I love it. And that poor girl felt so bad. And I went up to the counter and I go, you did nothing wrong. And I'll be right back. I'm going to key this guy's car. Well, listen, so you're a champion for the downtrodden. For the little man. Has it ever resulted in fisticuffs breaking out? No.

Yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah. It gets a little... At your show? Oh, no, no, no. Like at Walmart. Yeah, no, it gets... And so, yeah, cops have been called a couple of times. Well...

For a fight? For an actual physical fight? Yeah, there was one. The thing in New York was like, you know, this guy on the sidewalk and I were going at it at the newsstand and then it just got crazy because he came out from the front. Is this when you pulled your pants down? Yeah. Do we need to hear this now?

Do we have time? Yeah, we got time. Well, I don't know. I could do it the next time I'm here. He wants to save it, though. You can tell he wants to save it. How much time do we have? We got time? We got like 10 minutes or more. All right. So it's raining out and I want to get a bag for my newspaper. I go to the newsstand that I go to and...

uh i give him a guy a buck for the newspaper and i go can i have a bag and he goes like this to me no bag no we don't have any no bag no no i go what do you mean i see the bags right there he goes like no no i i'm on i want to go i i only make five cents on the newspaper i don't want to give you a bag i go you don't want to give me a bag you only make five so i'd be giving you my business for four years so it starts right like my wife would be just like just walk away with the freaking newspaper stick it under your jacket like what right but again i'm like going to change the world right so he goes uh

He goes, no, no, no. I go, you're not going to give me a bag. I go, well, he goes, no, no. I go, you know, I said, well, you have all these bags and you go, well, I'm going to I can. He starts giving me this run around. Right. And I'm going to have to charge you for a paper. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's so it's like so I go, you're not going to I go, well, you know what? I'm not coming back here and you can go after yourself. And he goes, you don't talk to me that way.

Otherwise... And he was Indian. He goes, I will F you up properly. And he said, properly. And I've never been spoken to in such a nice way. I thought he was going to put on some white gloves, tickle me down here. Right, right. And I go... He goes, right? So now I'm like laughing and I'm like, I don't know if I'm getting in a fight or what. And he goes, well, you know, I go, well, you know, you're a jerk. You don't want to... He goes, well, I go, you know what? You're a scumbag and I hate you. And he goes...

You don't talk to me that way. I will F you up the ass properly. He says that. Properly. Properly. And he comes out from the newsstand. I said, you're going to kick my ass? That's what you're going to do? Oh, yeah? He goes, yeah, yeah. Now we're like face to face, close. And I go, you want to kick my ass? I pull my pants all the way down.

Not just my pants, my underwear. Underwear as well. Oh, yeah, everything. Everything. And I'm slapping my butt going, come on, there it is. Kick it. Kick it. And I'm screaming at the top of my, I swear to God, at 86th and Lexington. Come on. And it's classic New York. It would be the same thing in Philly. People aren't even phased. They're like, oh, there's another guy with his ass on it. Yeah.

And then two people stop. One person gets a camera out. He's filming and laughing, right? And I'm like, well, I will do it. I go, do it. Big shot. Come on. Come on. And the two cops come over. And again, they're like, what the hell's going on? And I'm screaming. Come on, kick it. Wow.

And he goes, what's going on? All he could say is, he wouldn't give me a bag. That's great. Wow. I ended up writing that story up for the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Oh, wow. Yeah. They used to have a column called Real Lives.

And so they said they wanted me to write something. I got this story. I think I can clean it up if I lose the F-bombs and everything else. And it ended up getting... It's an article in the Times. It's just... How much of that encounter is...

Cause and effect of the culture of New York itself. You know what I mean? It's not. It's you. Something happens with me. A switch goes off and I can't explain it. Wow. I don't know if it comes from my mother who's like very domineering or whatever. It's a personal thing. I don't know if it's because I'm Italian. I believe in stereotypes. But a switch goes off.

And then once it goes off and I start to get provoked, I can't pull back. Yeah. And then I keep going and going and going to the point where the police are calling. Do you have a fear if you were to...

tend to that or tamp that down or restructure it that you would lose what makes you the comedian that I was nice enough to be. A little bit. Woody Allen said he didn't want to do therapy because he didn't want to ruin his comedy. A little bit. Yeah. I mean, it's part of what I talk about. Right. You know, when you start doing comedy, I think you just want to connect...

So you talk about very generic things. Right. Things that people relate to. Even subconsciously. So you start writing about going to McDonald's or commercials, right? But if you're going to progress, you got to get to the point where you're willing to reveal you. Yeah. And it's such...

a crazy thing to do stand-up because, and I'm not taking anything away from actors and musicians, but they have something with them. Like an actor is behind a script and a character. A musician's got a band. This is just naked human being in front of people needing to make you, wanting to make you laugh.

It takes a while to get comfortable up there to the point where you want to reveal yourself. Very much so. Same thing in what we do. We open up our lives. We talk about what's going on in our world, warts and all. It took me a long time to be comfortable with that, a very long time. And that's normal because it's like you're up there completely naked. And so what I decided to do was I started to have these moments in my life and I just incorporate them into reality.

How could you not? Yeah. And it's not an act. Like, my show is not an act. I got, like, crazy Italian relatives. My mother's 97, wants to keep working. And so that's what happens with Permission to Speak. My stories tie into their stories.

You just recently, speaking of your story and bringing up your mom, you recently got her into an assisted living facility. I went through that a little while back. One of my best friends is going through that right now. We're at that age. How old are you, by the way? 58. Okay, 57. So yeah, we're in that age range where you've got to facilitate that. Something I never thought about in my life until not that long ago. And it is not an easy process. No, well, we use duct tape.

She can't get out of that. Shut her up. Yeah. No, she didn't want to leave the house and it took a fall. That's what it takes. It takes a fall. Yeah. And she didn't hurt herself, but it was just, it was like, this sounds crazy, a perfect fall. Right. Like it was enough to go like whatever. Yeah. And she fought it in the beginning and now...

heavily medicated she likes it now she likes it because she was alone all day sleeping all day depressed now she's got people and she had worked all her life at the furniture store I think I've talked about before in 1959 in a tenement house with two babies in our Italian section of Rhode Island I've also got a family down here in the Philly area

When everybody was telling her a woman's supposed to stay home and cook and clean and take care of the family, she's like, well, why can't a guy do it and I can't do it? Screw you. I'm going to do it. So she started selling little tchotchkes and glassware out of this apartment and turned it into a furniture store. The whole family did. We all worked in it. Right. It's pretty amazing. Yeah, it really is. But also with that, it's like...

Shakespeare, Greek mythology, what you're great at is you're undoing. She was very much of a hard-ass. She wouldn't buy filing cabinets because she didn't want to spend money. She grew up in the Depression, so she would put all of her bills and files in styrofoam coolers and then carry them around. I'm not making this up. I don't doubt it. When she got audited, it looks like she was going on a picnic. It's crazy. It was like... So it took a while for her to understand that...

When you make one thing your whole life, which was her business, and then that goes away, you go like, who am I, what am I, and what do I do? That to me is one of the great... I've seen it. I've told on the show, a family member who once they stopped doing...

Once they retired and thought they needed to retire, retire the way you were told you have to be, which is inert. Yeah. The precipitous downfall and death not soon after because they were not engaged. It wasn't who they were. Yeah. So to me, you know, that because it does sort of define you at some level. It does. And I said to her, like, you got to do other things. Yeah. Like she just always had her own way. And then she like she was successful. But then, like, it was always the money that like she had.

We had to have her car fumigated. She went to the market. She was having some of her girlfriends over. She buys some cold cuts. She buys some cheese, like provolone, blue cheese, whatever. She goes into Target, decides she's going to go there. She locks the car. She puts some of the cheese under the front seat of the car. Oh, my God. And she...

forgets about the cheese three days later and I'm like why did you put the cheese under the front seat of the car and I'm quoting now I didn't want people to steal the cheese I knew that was it yeah that's right it's an immigrant mentality even though you've what is there a gouda thief running around Rhode Island what are you talking about

Oh, I'll take pieces of paper on my front seat and I'm like, oh yeah, just in case somebody gets in and I'll put them in my trunk. Never an exposed wire, never anything you don't want to have. Yeah, for like to charge a phone? No. Oh yeah, that I do, yeah. And so she's fine, you know, she's in the place and she's doing her thing. We just sold her house and like it's a lot better for everybody. But like-

But she's 97 and she will not go down. She will not go down. We try everything. She drank a quart of bad milk. Didn't affect her at all. Nothing. She's like a little Italian robo-weaver. Robo-weaver. She's three feet. I carry her around in a bag. You want to see her? She's right here. Give her some car cheese.

No, I'm glad you got her in a good place. That's cool. It's good. Well, we do have to wrap now, Paul, but I want to remind everyone you will be back in town Saturday, March 29th. City Winery. You can get tickets at citywinery.com. But it's the Permission to Speak Tour, and this is where you could end up a part of the show. Or not if you don't want to. But there's also stand-up. There's a lot of stand-up in my stories, but also...

Look, we're nameless, faceless, disconnected, and divisive. Yeah. It's not a political show, but I think in the premise that we have for the show, Frank Oz, because he feels like we need a show like this now, is if we get together and share stories, realize we have more in common than we think, and maybe we don't have to be so divisive. That's great. And the cool thing after the show is people making connections. So you'll go on stage, and I don't know, one of you will go on stage and say something, and somebody will connect, oh, I know that place, and they'll start talking to each other.

for five minutes. So, and I want to just say the last time I was here, you guys were so great because we talked about the show. You've really been supportive of me for years, but how we talk about the show here really is great because it lets people understand and people came out for me. So thank you. Great. No, this is a great, uh, city winery is a great, uh,

Yeah, I've never been. Everybody said. You're going to have a great show. I'm going to be psyched. Yeah. Anytime. And we'll see you on Colbert again on Late Show. Does it happen just whenever they say come on in? We're looking probably later in the year. You've got to take it. But listen, open invitation. I always tell you guys to come up and see a taping. Want to do it. It's very cool. I got you some Late Show swag out there, too. Excellent. All right, Paul. Thanks for being here. Hey, thanks, guys. Great to see you. Paul Mercurio and City Winery, March 29th again. All right, we're going to take a break. Coming back. I want a bag. Stay with us.

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That involve Pringles cans. Pringles. Yes. So a woman was recently arrested in Florida after attacking a man with a can of Pringles and possibly causing him permanent disfigurement with it. With a can of Pringles? Yep. Shanika Serdal, who stands accused of one count of aggravated battery. The incident occurred at a 7-Eleven.

A deputy arrived in response to a call about a physical fight at the store. The victim, a man, told the deputy that a male approached him and made a comment to him about his vehicle. Then inside the store, the victim asked the defendant if she was with that man who had inquired about his vehicle. The victim stated that Shanika eventually struck him in the eye with a Pringles chip can and then took off running.

While speaking with the victim, the officer said, I observed the victim had a significant cut on his right elbow and below his eye, causing him to bleed. The cut looked significant and appeared that it would leave a scar and permanent disfigurement.

Later, law enforcement caught up with Serdal after the victim identified her as the alleged culprit. She was detained and brought back to the scene of crime. The officer said, I asked Shanika what happened. And she advised me that while inside the 7-Eleven, the victim was saying rude things to her and being disrespectful. Shanika said the victim at one point called her a C-word. Shanika admitted that due to the victim being rude, she hit him.

Now, the man who was attacked said that he was not being rude at all. He said, I pulled up 7-Eleven. There was a guy sitting outside. I got out of the car. I said something under his breath. I ignored him, walked in 7-Eleven as I was standing in line. Young lady in front of me was talking to the cashier. She seemed like she had been drinking. So she stood to the side and I was about to pay for my drink. And I asked the young lady if she knew the guy outside. The victim told police, turn around and hit me in the eye with the Pringles can and split my brow above the eye.

A 7-Eleven employee subsequently vouched for the victim and his version. He said, all the guy was doing was informing me of another male customer that was laying down on the side of the building. The female called the guy a bitch. That was enough. Whacked him in the face with Pringles. If I were to

pick something in a 7-Eleven to cause permanent damage to someone with, I would not go for the can of Pringles. I think she just had it in her hand already. So the man's eyebrow was split open. The deputy said the defendant was eventually found with a can of Pringles on her person. There you go. He asked her if she paid for that can and she allegedly replied that she was unsure. Shaniga was not charged for the petty theft due to the lack of evidence at the time of the arrest, but she has been busted for the assault.

Pringles story number two. Second story that has to do with the Pringles can. A 39-year-old Los Angeles County deputy sheriff accused of smuggling heroin to inmates reportedly conspired with gang shot callers using a secret code and tubes of Pringles chips to move the drugs. Wow. Wow.

Insidious. Deputy Michael Miser brought more than a pound of black tar heroin hidden inside two cans of Pringles into jail grounds shortly before he was taken into custody. Deputy Miser, who was assigned to a special unit that monitored gang activity in the North County Correctional Facility, the largest jail facility in the nation, by the way, and is among 18 people indicted in the smuggling operations. This is a big operation. Yes. All of it based around Pringles cans? Yes.

Well, that's how they were getting the heroin in. The indictment targets a network of criminals who have collaborated with associates of the Mexican mafia to get the drugs into lockups. Half of those indicted are currently in jail, while the other half are free citizens. Two such inmates are Jose Rodriguez and Jackie Triplett. Federal investigators intercepted calls by men while they used coded language such as white Jordans or black Jordans, believed to be phrases designating methamphetamine or heroin. Wow.

Wow. After one of these calls, Deputy Miser was seen on jail surveillance cameras passing a bag and a bedroll two months later to triplet, by the way. Two months later, Rodriguez was recorded on a call using coded language. They have six thousand dollars transferred to Miser's brother in law on the morning of his arrest. Investigators tailed Miser from his home to a gas station.

And apparently a person in an SUV passed him a grocery bag reportedly containing two pounds of black tar heroin wrapped in plastic inside of two tubes of Pringles. So what would you think is more addictive, Pringles or heroin? Are you a Pringles fan?

I don't eat them often, but when I do, Steve, it's almost like the Girl Scout cookie. You run the tube. You run the tube. Yeah. Do you know that chips like Pringles are actually designed and made so that you get that reaction that almost like an addiction that you can't stop eating. You can't eat just one. There you go. Was that Doritos where you can't eat just one, I believe? Lays. I think it was Lays. Was it Lays? Yeah. What you're saying is once you pop, you can't stop. That's what it is. Okay.

All right. And now I need to know. Eat all you want. We'll make more. No, wait. What was it? Doritos. Doritos. Don't worry. We'll make more. Yeah. And then there, I think either laser. Once you start, you can't stop. Or was it wise? Maybe laser wise. You can't eat just one. Bet you can't eat just one. Yeah. Lays. There it is.

All right, so anyhow, this guy was busted with more $225,000 worth of heroin. Bitch, you can't snort just one. And a Pringles can. We only have time for one more. From time to time, an apt name shows up in a bizarre file story, and this happens to be Sean P. Weiner Sr.,

A 35-year-old was arrested on Sunday after fleeing the scene of a crash and disrupting highway traffic. Police received several reports of a man causing an interruption to traffic. This was multiple passing drivers that reported the man was naked and running or walking within the travel lanes. Mr. Wiener was running around completely naked.

Troopers quickly located Wiener. They took him into custody. Wiener was transported to an area hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Wiener, Wiener, Wiener, Wiener, Wiener. That were sustained in the crash. The preliminary investigation determined Wiener had been involved in a crash, left the scene on foot. The vehicle involved in the crash had been reported stolen shortly before. And it was further determined that while fleeing the scene of the crash, Wiener discarded his clothing on the shoulder of the highway before crossing all the lanes on foot. Perfect, perfect.

Weiner was charged with indecent exposure and lewdness, reckless conduct, two counts of disorderly conduct on top of that too.

And that's all we have in the Blitz. More than enough. Cool. All right, we will break. We'll come back in a second. We'll try out the lesson question. We'll get to trash and music news as well. Not too far off from our letter of the day for the Word of the Week prize as well. So we'll be back in just a moment. Stay with us. Now broadcasting from the Philly Spring Training, the Preston and Steve Show.

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The high there, tomorrow 73 degrees and sunshine. That's game day. Yes. And then on Friday, 79 degrees. That's when we'll be at Coco's Crush Bar. Flight is on time, by the way. Probably cloudy skies on time. Flight, very good. And yeah, we're looking like we're going to have solid weather, except for the flight back. A little bit of rain expected on Sunday. So for some of us, anyhow, because we got the scattered schedules. But we'll be bringing it all to you live here on the program. It's lesson question time now.

You're going to need to zoom the answer. And in order to do that, you have to text the word zoom.

to 39333 and then we will send you a link. And the question that we will pose to you today is what rock star would I like to have give me a rectal exam? There were two different ones. Either one will work. So you can text the word ZOOM to 39333 and we will send you that link and then you click on the link and then you'll kind of be put in a waiting room if we're going to go to you. Sam will handle that.

So again, who would I like to have give me, what rock star would I like to have give me a rectal exam? There were two different ones. We'll take either one. While you're doing that, we'll get to the trash. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

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See you there. Visit Yoga6.com to schedule your first class today. Steve, what's going on this morning? Well, Victoria Goodwin, the wife of Ghost Adventure star Aaron Goodwin, has been arrested for attempting to hire a hitman to kill him. Victoria told investigators that she was simply trying to give the show another ghost to contact. That's so sweet.

Adrian Brody followed up his best Oscar win with a trip to Fashion Week in Paris. Brody is reportedly looking to reward himself by purchasing a designer leather cape for his nose. Hey! Very nice. I like that one. And finally, speaking of Fashion Week, former Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester...

and Kelly Rutherford staged a mini-reunion for designer Ellie Saab. Both ladies said they missed former co-star Blake Lively, but vowed to shoot at her again. And that's your Hollywood trash. All right, thank you very much, Steve. So it'll take a moment or two before we get somebody, since we do this...

Zoom approach now to answers for the time being. But while we are awaiting that, just a reminder, if you happen to be headed to Clearwater to join us at spring training, our first broadcast is tomorrow at the ballpark. We're out right up by Frenchies. And the doors usually open around 11, I think, right? 10, 30, 11. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So make sure that you try and find us if you can. And if for some reason you can't track us down,

Anybody is welcome to come by the live broadcast at Coco's the next day. That's open to the public. Yeah, absolutely. It's easy to find. It's outside. Apparently, and according to Rodney, our amazing engineer, so last year they had tented, they had put a tent up over...

like maybe a third of the parking lot out front, they have tented the entire thing this time around. The entire thing, yeah. Because it's going to be a sunny day and beautiful on Friday, like 80 degrees, so we're going to have some coverage there. Come by and see us. They have stuff planned all day. There's live music that night and all kinds of great food and drink available. All right, we will now see if we can get an answer. We want to find out what...

I would like for I would like a rock star to give me a rectal exam. There were two different ones. We're going to talk to Derek via Zoom right now. Hey, Derek. Morning, bud. All right, Derek. Which rock star would I like to give me a rectal exam?

That would be Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney, where are you, Ted? Or Bono? Nice work, Derek. Hang on. We are going to give you a pair of tickets to see Joe Coy and Friends. Saturday, October 18th at Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets go on sale Friday, 10 a.m. And you can visit theoceanac.com and get your complete details. Music news time. Preston and Steve's Music News On.

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Vinnie Paul was working on a cookbook titled Drumming Up an Appetite with Vinnie Paul before he died in 2018. And yesterday, on his birthday, they finally released it. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's been a while, but they finally got to it. The cookbook is structured into three chapters. Reinventing the meal about main courses, far beyond kitchen for side dishes, and a vulgar display of flour, which covers the dessert section.

A comedian and close friend, Carrot Top, provides the foreword. There you go. Sharing personal anecdotes that highlight Vinny's love for cooking and entertaining. I didn't know they were close personal friends. The afterword penned by Vinny's best friend and personal assistant, Brian Breedog Jones. It says Breedog. I think it's Bird Dog. Yeah. But anyway.

It talks about Paul's legendary Sunday gatherings where he would make lavish meals for friends, family, and fellow musicians. Who would have suspected that? No. And the cookbook is available from the publisher's web store in both the regular format and in deluxe edition with extra things like a cooking hostile apron and a hell yeah university Vinnie Paul cooking diploma. Hell yeah university? Hell yeah. All right.

He was in a band called Hell Yeah. Yeah, no, I just like the... That's great, though. Hell Yeah University. Yeah.

And then, finally, this is interesting. We told you the other day how Gene Simmons yesterday was charging $12,000 and change to be his assistant. Yes, for one day, right? You get to pay for it. But, yes, guitarist John Five, who's been in tons of bands, is a massive KISS fan and has amassed so much memorabilia over the years, he's opening his own KISS museum for a limited time.

And per the Motley Crue guitarist's website, the perfectly named Knights in Satan's Service Museum, which I think is great. Sure. Because that used to be the, KISS stands for Knights in Satan's Service. And they're devil worshipers. So it's the KISS memorabilia. The museum will be open tomorrow.

for a series of dates in May. The exact location of the museum is not disclosed, but it is Los Angeles, and fans who purchase tickets will receive information about where to park, and then will be taken to the museum via a shuttle. This is very secret. As far as tickets go, they are a steep $500.

However, the ticket not only includes shuttle transportation, but John 5 himself will guide you through his Kiss memorabilia collection over a two-hour period. So are you going to his house? I don't know. Yeah. Maybe. Additionally, each tour session will have a maximum of six guests, and John will answer any questions about his collection.

Again, the $500 price tag is far from cheap, but it would give you an incredibly unique experience. And if you're going to be in the Los Angeles area during the dates and you want more details about the opportunity, complete information is available at john5.com.

That's a little more doable than the $12,000. $12,000, yeah. $500, you get to go and you can get pictures and all that stuff. That's a real experience. A tour that he's giving himself. I think that's kind of a cool thing. And if you're a Kiss fan and a fan of the bands that he's been in or just John 5 in general, that's a pretty good deal. Yeah, that is. All right, there you go. That's what I have.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Return to Dust is playing MMRBQ this year. They played at the Camp Upper Hunger and they were great. And that is a great song. Belly up on 93.3 WNM on 1036 AM on this Wednesday morning as we are coming to a close.

We'd like to thank our guest this morning, Mr. Paul Mercurio. He was great. Love Paul. Always has wonderful stories.

He is performing at City Winery, not until Saturday, March 29th. He made the trip down here from New York just to spend a little time on the air and promote that event. He works it, man. You got to commend him for that. Yeah, and it's the Permission to Speak live event. And so, you know, if you want, you can be a part of the show. It's stand-up, but it's also a lot of cool conversation and sharing stories. So,

Nice to have Paul in to get us ready for that whole thing. We are getting ready to embark upon a journey here, as you've heard, if you've been with us through the morning of the past few days, on our way to Clearwater, Florida. So we will be leaving very, very shortly. Pierre Robert is here with us. Hey, man. Good day. Nice to see you. You had a great chat yesterday about getting ready to go to the airport. And I felt your nervousness when Marissa suggested...

She mentioned my name and instantly, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We can't go anywhere near that. The methodology she was mentioning that came up in the story is literally waiting minutes before the flight departs. And that seems to be more in line with what you would do, right? Well...

I don't plan it that way. I strive to be where I am, but then I do what I call bargaining with myself. Right. Well, I actually, I actually could, I don't need to leave right that early. I could probably still, and then it starts. Yeah. The downward tumble starts. But like both of you said, you never missed a flight. I missed 10, 15 flights, maybe more.

Over the years, there'll be another one. You get used to it. Yeah. I've been with you where you missed a flight. We were coming back from Toronto. So it was an international flight, even though it was Canada. And I was waiting at the airport. You got to go through customs and the whole nine. We did that SARS benefit show. And it was the Stones and Justin Timberlake. Wow.

ACDC and Rush. Yeah, I think it was 2002, 2003, something like that. But I didn't know what to do. I was working for you and it was your producer. I guess I'm flying home. I didn't make it? No. I don't even remember that. What happens if you miss your flight? Do they just put you on another flight? They just put you on another one. You don't have to pay for it? No.

I mean, sometimes it's massively inconvenient because it could be the next day. But usually it's the next flight that same day. So it works out. Way early. You get there eventually. I made the train yesterday. Yay! Oh, yeah. Way to go. Yesterday I...

I had, well, a couple of days ago after Peter, the happiest man in Austria or on the internet was here, I said, would you ever like to go to a play while you're in New York? He goes, oh yes, very much like that I would. And so I had access to tickets to Wicked.

And he and I went to see Wicked last night. Oh, that's awesome. And I was so wild because you see these videos of him with no one around. And I'm walking from the train station to the theater walking.

15 blocks to nothing but horns and massive people. And even if you try not to bump into people, you bump into people. There's so many people there. And then we meet at the theater and go in. And I said, by the way, have you seen The Wizard of Oz? No. No.

I go, oh, let me just explain a little of the background. But we had a great time and went out and had a drink and cut the train home. I made both of them. The last one I barely made. I didn't have a ticket. And I go, I'm just going to get on and then work it out while we go. You know, you'd be a good hobo.

I really would be a good oboe. Can you do that? Can you just get on the train and pay for a ticket? Well, theoretically not. But it was the train station in New York. They've done beautifully over the Moynihan train station. It used to be Penn Station, which is a dump below Madison Square Garden. It's across the street below the old post office. I went in there. It's really nice. Oh, my God. It's glorious. Big skylights and a beautiful food court and really wonderfully done. But you used to be a good oboe player.

to be able to just get on a train and that's no longer. Well, you could give them your credit card on the train. You can get on the train, but you have to call Amtrak while you're on the train and book the flight in motion. Oh my gosh.

So, you know, and so I had to get up and go into the bathroom so people wouldn't hear my credit card number. 755, you know, whatever it was. And but I did and it worked out and I fell asleep and I got here and it all worked out fine. And here he is. So that's the moral of the story. If you want the guy, I can drive you guys to the airport. I'm happy to do it. Sure. It's your flights at two ish, right? Yep.

So we leave about 1.15, 1.30. We're in good shape. Sounds good to me. I'll meet you downstairs. All right. I'll be there. Perfect. You'll just be standing there waiting. Yes. All right. Where'd they go? I can do this.

I'm sorry. All right. Letter of the day, brother. Sure, fine. All right. Here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. All right. The Preston and Steve show brought to you today by the letter of... E as in empty. All right. E as in empty. And we have two more to go. We'll be giving this away while we are on location on Friday. But we have $500 from Paramount Pictures. Novocaine. You can go see Novocaine for DX.

With seat motion and environmental effects that put you into the heart of the action. And you will feel it in 4DX. Paramount Pictures, Novocaine stars Jack Quaid. And that's in theaters on Friday. What are you doing with the show today? Well, we'll have tickets for Eric Clapton and the Wallflowers.

Saturday, September 13th. It went on sale last week. We continue our block of celebration of women's music with Dorothy, a workforce block of Dorothy. And she will be on the MMRBQ, of course. Nirvana will be on Little Feet. I haven't done a block for them. We have a letter. And so those are the workforce blocks. And on we go. Awesome. Thank you, Pierre. And I want to thank our sponsors. President Steve's Show brought to you today by Dunkin'. The President Steve's Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, Fresh Foods.

local flavors and by local shots at the Landis live and local music every Thursday this week don't miss the classic rock and roll vibe of the rear view romantics info at the Landis dot com tomorrow we will be live at Bay Care Ballpark in Clearwater we do have a full day planned you'll be able to watch it on YouTube and listen live on WMMR dot com but guest wise Tom McCarthy Larry Boa Garrett Stubbs

Jordan Romano, who is a new closer and possible relative that we never knew about. And our good friend Brandon Marsh will all be on the show tomorrow. So we're looking forward to spending some time with those guys. So that is it. We are done. I'll get the car. Get the car. Rage on. Have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow in Florida, gang. Bye-bye.

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