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Now we get started. Welcome. It is a Tuesday morning and we'll dive right into the weather forecast, see what's in store for today. We've got pretty much sunny skies today. Still a cool start, but we're going to go up to about 63. Tomorrow is the real money shot. 72 degrees and sunny. It's going to feel fantastic. Will not last long, though.

Because on Thursday, clouds roll in high 66. And then Friday, partly cloudy. We're only going to top out at about 54. But we're doing the up and down game because Saturday will be into the mid 60s. And now, Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano.

And today is Tuesday, March 18th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, Philadelphia police are investigating a drive-by shooting that left two people wounded inside their homes. The gunfire rang out at 8.30 last night on the 2600 block of Howard Street in the city's Kensington section.

According to Chief Inspector Scott Small, a 36-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man were watching television in separate apartments when someone outside started to open fire. One of the bullets went through a window and drywall, hitting the 36-year-old woman in the shoulder while she was in her first floor living room, police say. She was taken to an area hospital in stable condition. Small said four children between the ages of 5 and 15 were in the home with the woman, but they were not hurt.

The second victim was inside his living room, also watching television, when another bullet pierced through the window, striking him in the head, according to Small. Police say that man is hospitalized in critical condition. Investigators say a witness reported seeing a possibly dark-colored SUV driving up and opening fire. No arrests have been made. Officers are checking nearby cameras to develop a suspect description. But anyone with information, police are asking that you give them a call. You can call the tip line at 215-686-TIPS.

NASA's Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who gained international attention as their week-long stay in space stretched into nine months, are finally heading home. The two astronauts climbed aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule alongside two teammates, NASA's Nick Hague and Alexander Gorbunov of a Russian space agency, and departed the International Space Station at 1.05 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday. I don't want to hear about you guys complaining about your delay. Yeah, yeah.

I actually was thinking about it this morning as I was reading this and I'm like, that's, I mean, that could be horrifying. Fortunately, they kept themselves together, I guess, because they're headed home. But like,

Just to feel like, I don't know, I would feel trapped. You know what I mean? Like you were supposed to be there this amount of time and like nine months later, you're finally coming home. Yeah, you've got to have the chops. And they put you through, I mean, they can test you to some level to see how you would be in a scenario that might be like this. But you don't know until you get there. They were saying, I was reading the article about how when they return, obviously, they've been weightless for a long time. And you can do all sorts of resistance exercises.

resistance exercises, but it's not the same. So they're going to be in sort of physical rehab for about eight months. Yeah, they said they're going to take them immediately to, I mean, it is standard anyway for them. Planet Fitness is their first stop. Oh, God, did you see that? Yeah, yeah. Two people were beaten. They began an approximately 17-hour long journey towards a splashdown off the Florida coast. Williams, Wilmer, Haig, and Gorbunov are part of the Crew 9 mission, a routine staff rotation jointly operated by NASA and SpaceX.

The Crew-9 capsule launched to the space station in September with Haig and Gorbunov riding alongside two empty seats reserved for Williams and Wilmore, who had been on the orbiting laboratory since last June when their original ride, a Boeing Starliner spacecraft, malfunctioned.

Safely reaching Earth will conclude a trip that for Williams and Wilmore has garnered broad interest because of the unexpected nature of their extended stay in orbit and the dramatic turn of events that prevented them from returning home aboard the Boeing Starliner vehicle. The four are on track to spend Tuesday morning and afternoon in orbit in the roughly 13-foot-wide gumdrop-shaped SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Gradually descending, the capsule will carry the astronauts from

from the space station, which orbits about 250 miles above Earth, towards the thick inner layer of the planet's atmosphere. Around 5 o'clock, the Crew Dragon capsule is expected to fire its engines to begin re-entry. This leg of the journey is considered the most dangerous of any flight home from space.

By the way, so we are getting some enhanced footage of liftoffs and things like that. But I better see some real deal footage.

video coverage of this because I'm a little underwhelmed. I mean, you know, I saw some of the video. It looks very cool of the capsule rescuing the astronauts. But let's see. Can we do something on reentry? Can we get a camera that might withstand the heat? I'd like to see all that. I've never seen one from the outside, but there are lots of videos from inside of capsules and also the space shuttle where you can see the flames surrounding it and everything. But

Yeah, dude, it's just too damn hot for them to work on it. Please make Steve Morrison happy. Please. I want reality to look more impressive than the movies. And right now, the movies are still winning. Well, while we were down there, Nick, Andrea saw something take off, right? Didn't she see one of the... I don't know what it was, but you could clearly see it. She sent me a video and it's on the other side of the state.

So wait, it wouldn't have been this? No. Would it have been? I don't think so. Okay. After plunging towards home, the Crew Dragon spacecraft will then deploy two sets of parachutes in quick succession to further slow its descent. If all goes as planned, the capsule will decelerate from orbital speeds of more than 1,700 miles per hour to less than 20 miles per hour as the vehicle hits the ocean. Most people experience that on 76. Right. Right.

So they're saying that the time and exactly where they splash down obviously can change. Williams, Wilmore, Haig, and Gorbunov are slated to splash down off the coast of Florida as soon as 5.57 this evening.

The Phillies' opening day is just around the corner. The return of baseball means new food options at Citizens Bank Park. Aramark, the longtime Phillies' food and beverage partner, announced new menu items on Monday. This one's the one I'm most excited about because if I find an affogato somewhere, I'm getting it. It's the Red Velvet Affogato. What's affogato? Affogato is espresso over ice cream. Oh, it's...

Heavenly. Yeah. It's like an Italian dessert case. So this is red velvet cookies, vanilla ice cream, and espresso, and it's located in the yard, which is in section 102. So this is the red velvet affogato. Then the s'mores quesadilla is Nutella, mini marshmallows, and graham cracker crumble in a crispy flour tortilla served with a chocolate dipping sauce. That's in section 142. That's damn good, too, because I tell you, one of the best...

cakes I've ever had was a Nutella cake. Really, I kid you not. Awesome. And then Kyle's Cutlets, chicken cutlet sandwich topped with burrata cheese, fried pepperoni, and arugula drizzled with a sweet and spicy hot honey sauce on a Alessio's Bakery roll. A portion of the proceeds from these sandwiches sold will be donated to Schwarber's Neighborhood Heroes, supporting those who make a difference in the community. And you can get the Kyle's Cutlet in section 142. Arugula. What's that?

It's a vegetable. Allison Birdwell, the president and CEO of Aramark Sports and Entertainment, says as the guest experience is our top priority, this past offseason we took a deep dive into analyzing consumer purchase behaviors to ensure we have the best idea of what our fans want. Based on the insights we've found, we created innovative menu items that cater to our fans while also introducing fresh, exciting, and dynamic flavors. The Phillies home opener is set for March 31st.

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

The Sixers lost to the Rockets 144-137 in overtime last night in Houston. Jalen Green and Jabari Smith Jr. had 30 points apiece, and the Houston Rockets rallied for the win, extending their season-best winning streak to seven games. The Rockets trailed by as many as 25 points and never led in regulation. The Sixers' road trip continues tomorrow night with a game in Oklahoma City against the best team in the Western Conference. The Thunder tip-off is at 8 o'clock.

Sixers forward Paul George has been ruled out for the rest of the regular season after receiving injections in his left knee yesterday, the team announced. The Sixers are five games out of the last play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. George signed a four-year, $212 million max deal with the Sixers in July after five seasons with the L.A. Clippers.

The Flyers lost to the Lightning 2-0 last night in Tampa Bay. What the f*** is this? It was the second straight game in which the Flyers were shut out. Ivan Fedotov finished with 21 saves for the Flyers, who have lost seven of their last eight games. They are off until Thursday when they'll play the Capitals in D.C. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock, and it's

Philly spring training. The Phillies beat the Blue Jays 4-2 at the St. Patrick's Day game in Clearwater. The Phillies are on the road today with a game against the Pirates. The first pitch is set for 105. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. And that's what I have for you this morning. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. We've all had time to recoup and reacclimate and get ready after a

Our interesting little travel day. Kathy even missed out. You didn't get home until like 3 o'clock in the morning. Yeah, you know what's funny? When I got home, I was like, I thought maybe I could like, you know, take like an hour nap and come in. But had I had to come, if I came in, I wouldn't have been able to go to bed. So you walked in the door at 3 a.m.? A little after. Maybe like 3.10, something like that. And you had the earliest flight departure. I had the...

But you know what? As I was sitting there, and I know you guys talked about this already yesterday, but as I was sitting there, I knew that that was going to happen. I'm like, I have the earliest flight. And sure enough, exactly what I was talking to some pilots and some flight crew, flight attendants and stuff in the airport, and exactly what they said was going to happen, happened. That the flight crew time, the pilots can only be on call or fly or be on the clock for a certain amount of time. And that's what happened. Since I was the earliest flight, the flight crew timed out and couldn't leave. Man.

It sucks, man. After the show yesterday, I showed Casey and Preston this photo, Kathy, where the parking lot was set up where we had the tent for Cocos on Friday. The winds that came through on Saturday and Sunday completely knocked that entire tent down. It was a temporary tent and it was set up for our broadcast. They were supposed to have another tailgate there yesterday before the Phillies

the St. Patrick's Day game at the ballpark. But Steve, that whole lot was completely level. Did it destroy it? Yeah. Like the tent is twisted. Wow. Because that's a big, heavy frigging tent. That is how windy it was on Sunday. Yeah.

Yeah. So they were going to hopefully have another tailgate there tomorrow, but they were not able to do that at all yesterday. And look, it's temporary and they'll be able to rebuild it or whatever. But still, it's just it shows you how strong those winds were. Yep. So made for an interesting day of travel. And Case just asked me a minute ago how I was feeling. I feel re, you know, rejuvenated.

normalized, I guess, yeah, after I got some sleep. So we're set for a week. We do have some things that are prepared for today. In fact, we have a guest who's going to be stopping by in the 9 o'clock hour. A guy we haven't had by here in a long, long time. Really cool guitarist. His name is Andy McKee. Got on our radar. I mean,

ages ago but this video of him playing an acoustic guitar and this song called drifting it was kind of in the early days of viral videos and he's one of the first i can remember getting some real traction on youtube yeah and he was just a solo um uh acoustic guitarist and this beautiful song called drifting and uh we had we've had him by i don't know three times or something like that and yeah he's back in town and he's performing at the sellersville theater this evening so he's gonna bring

Bring his guitar by and he's going to play for us. Yeah, you're going to love this sound. Yeah, it's really cool. So Andy's going to stop by in the 9 o'clock hour. And the rest of that, the world is our oyster. Oh, we do have Tattoos Day. So if you're interested in winning a Preston and Steve show themed tattoo from Floating World Tattoo and Piercing.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you, Kath. Actually, Nick just got a text that says traffic is an absolute nightmare around 30th and Market. And there you go. And avoid at all costs. And you know why? Well, I know that very soon they're going to redo the Market Street Bridge. Yes. They delayed it. Apparently, it's supposed to. Yeah, I know it's delayed, but...

whatever they're going to be getting started is it's supposed to last for like four years. Oh, really? Yeah, four years. That's insane. Four years. That'll be so fun, guys. It'll be great. I can't wait. All right, so just get used to it, those of you who are sitting around there right now. All right, I have a question I'm pretty proud of this morning, stupid question. I'm going to give away a $50 point card for Arnold's Family Fun Center. And the question that I pose to you is this. In what film...

Will you find the fictional characters Brock Landers and Chess Rockwell? Yeah, I know that. So you need to text the word Zoom because we're taking winners via Zoom. Text the word Zoom to 39333. Let's see if you know the answer to that. In what film will you find the fictional characters Brock Landers and Chess Rockwell?

chest. I know, dude. You know what? The moment in that movie that he says that name, I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. And especially because it's him. Oh, it's just the best. Alright, so let's see if you know, and we'll go through some birthdays today on the 18th day of March.

The very lovely Lily Collins. Birthday daughter of Phil Collins and coming into her own as an actress. So I've seen her asked a couple of times about her dad's music. It was clear she really wasn't that

up on her dad's music, but I think recently she's taken a deep dive into Phil's solo stuff. Emily in Paris, obviously. Anybody watch that? I've not seen it. Is it good? Oh yeah, watch all of it. Yeah, it's fun. It's a fun show. They do a great job. It's funny. There's some odd fashion choices in it. There's a little bit of love story, a little odd love story. It's kind of a light show.

Oh, yeah, totally. Late. Very late. So she's 36 years old today. Actor Brad Dourif, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lord of the Rings. He's great in Lord of the Rings. He's the voice of Chucky. Chucky for every one of those movies. Yep. He's terrific. So he turns 75 years old today. Oh, and Deadwood as well. Vanessa Williams.

Yes, former Miss America. I love this song. And actress, I know. I love this friggin' song. It's a guilty pleasure. But yeah, singer, actress, model, whole routine. Gorgeous. Yep, she turns 62 years old today. Recently in the stage show for Devil Wears Prada, right? Yeah, she's playing the Anna Wintour character. Yeah, Miranda Priestly. Miranda Priestly, yeah. We also have musically, Jerry Cantrell.

And Jerry and company are going to be at the MMRBQ on May 10th. And they will be playing, obviously. They'll be headlining the show. And we're looking forward to it. I have a weird Jerry Cantrell story. I was in, I think it was in New Orleans for a convention. A radio and records convention. And somebody had a suite and was having a party.

And there was a piano there and a drum kit and all this stuff. And people were just kind of partying. And, you know, I jumped up and played a song on drums. And I was there with, you guys remember Doug Kabinsky? Yeah, yeah, Doug was great. At Y100. And we see this guy open up a door and sticks his head in and kind of takes a couple steps in. He was wearing a suit and he turned around and walked back out. And Doug turns to me and goes, dude, that was Jerry Cantrell. Like, he just walked in and looked around for a minute. He's like...

No, I'm not staying here. He's turned around and left. I was like, okay. That was kind of wild. So he turns 59 years old today. It's Adam Levine's birthday as well. Yep, he turns 46. Yep, you don't like this one. There's a movie called Begin Again, and Adam Levine, he plays a big part in it. It's the same guy who did the movie St. Street once.

But there's a song in there called Lost Stars. It is a beautiful song. He's super talented. I mean, you've seen him playing guitar and stuff like that. Adam Levine is straight up, you know, competent musician. So the idea of this movie is that, you know, Mark Ruffalo's in it. He plays a music producer. He meets Keira Knightley, who is kind of a singer-songwriter, but more of a songwriter. And she wrote the song Lost Stars, and she was dating Adam Levine's character at the time. And that song...

just shot him in the superstardom but it's a really beautiful song wow uh do you like any maroon five is there are there some songs i'm not that familiar with the catalog i've seen him do other things yeah like i think i who is he he's a tribute was it to prince or whatever and he was like oh my god this guy can really play he's 46 today uh it's queen latifah's birthday uh queen latifah turns to

55 years old. One of the best sleeping interviews we ever had. She was in bed. You hung up on her? I'm like, look, this interview isn't worth doing. So we're going to let you go. Yeah, absolutely. Did anybody call back and comment? No. So she's 55 today. I added this one. I was not familiar with the name. Michael Bergen. You guys ever heard of him?

Why does that sound familiar? I don't know. I was just curious if you've heard of him. No. All right. He's considered the world's first male supermodel. Oh. And he took the Calvin Klein reins from Mark Wahlberg, apparently. Yeah. He is 56 years old today. Not familiar then. Yep. You know, he looks like the actor Brandon Routh. He also wrote a book claiming that he had an affair with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy during her relationship with JFK Jr.,

Dean Cook is 53 today. Had him by on a couple of occasions. Always a nice guy. Dude, he was here for drunk day. Shut up. Shut up.

Yes, he was talking to... Julie. Julie, a former intern. And then two birthdays. TJ Real Muto. JT. He turns... What did I say? You said TJ. I said TJ? Sorry, JT. Well, I call him TJ. Yeah, you guys are very... Teej, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. JT, sorry about that. Real Muto, 34. Watched him play a game while we were down in Clearwater. And also...

Kimo Tiemann has a birthday today. And Nick was revealing to us that he is the original, worldly known good guy. Yeah. I think I'd had a few cocktails the night before and was trying to say nice things about Kimo Tiemann. And that's how it came out. And listen, a lot of times the words that are coming out of my mouth are not the most... I'm not a fan.

I'm not coming out very clearly anyway. Like right now, for example. But yeah, I was trying to say nice things about Kimo. The thing about Kimo Timo is he really is a nice guy. I met him a few times and he's done so much good charity work over the years. And he was a really great ambassador for the team. And I think it was 10 years ago today that we got this clip. Only of the Flyers is 42 years old today. And Pulis Chuck.

What's that? He goes to the same pool as Chuck. Oh, does he? That's right. Also, who did he call? Brian Boucher as well. Right, yeah. But everybody that's ever said anything about Kimo Tiemann is that he's a class act. He's a world...

Worldly known great guy. I mean, around the world. That was it. Worldly known great guy. Yeah, he wasn't just good. No, he was great. And we adopted that phrase and we use it now. So now it's completely legit. Worldly known great guy. So happy birthday. All right, let's see if we can indeed find an answer to this question via Zoom. In what film will you find the fictional characters Brock Landers and Chess Rockwell? We...

We are going to go to Matthew, who's joining us via Zoom, and he's keeping things nice and safe with his helmet on this morning. Hi, Matthew. Good morning, bud. Good morning. Rack, rack, rack them. Rack them. Hey, where are you headed off to work in that helmet, man? That's where my heart's at.

Yeah, I know that. Are you just wearing it for fun or are you going to work? I'm in a plumbers union. I'm downtown in Philly. All right, very good. Okay, what movie do we find the characters Brock Landers and Chess Rockwell? Boogie Nights. That is correct. Hang on, Matt. Got you a $50...

And that is from our friends at Arnold's Family Fun Center. This week's big friggin' deal is from Arnold's. You can get two $50 point cards for the price of one. Enjoy go-karts, mini-golf, bowling, and more action-packed excitement for all ages at Arnold's Family Fun Center. And, Oaks, you can get this exclusive offer while supplies ask WMMR.com slash deals. Thank you, Matt. Hang on the line. We'll get your information, and we will set you up. All right, let's... And, by the way, yes, chest Rockwell. If I was going to be Brock or chest...

I think I would have to go with chest, right? Chest rock. You know, by the way, that was a direct parody. John Holmes, when they had fully scripted porn movies and they really wanted to try to make movies that happened to have sex in them, there was a series of John Holmes movies where he was, quote unquote, a private dick.

And there were action scenes and shootouts, and that was parodying. All right, so Kim Kardashian is reportedly considering modifying her joint custody agreement with Kanye West after he released a song featuring their daughter, Northwest, without Kim's consent.

So she is debating taking legal action to strip Kanye of joint legal custody, though she still wants him to have a relationship with their kids. Wes doesn't see his four kids outside of limited visits, but the decision making of their children's upbringing remains a joint decision between the parents.

Kim allegedly sought an emergency hearing after learning West planned to feature North in a track with disgraced rapper Diddy. But West ignored their agreement and released the song anyway. He later went on now deleted rant on social media calling their custody arrangement jail and accusing the Kardashian of controlling their children's lives, adding the man makes the final decision.

after dropping the song. Imagine that's who you're sharing custody with. Wow. Could you imagine? They finalized their divorce back in 2022. Every time she comes home, I bet Kim Kardashian has to check her for a Nazi tattoo. North has already made waves in the music industry, debuting her rap skills on her dad's Vultures album and performing live for the Lion King.

live at the Hollywood Bowl. Justin Baldani and Blake Lively are responding to predictions that the two might find a settlement, or at least Baldani's lawyer, Brian Friedman, has. He shared on a podcast that he believes this thing is going to go all the way. He said, I've represented a lot of people in the worst moments of their career, the worst moments of their life. Justin has been destroyed by this. He went on to say that it was important that the truth be revealed.

sharing, quote, in this day and age, the only way that you can truly get back is to prove your innocence, and that's what we're actively going to do or working to do, and that may only be able to be done in a courtroom. So, okay, so this is, is there any financial amount that's been put forward? I've seen no numbers. Yeah, neither have I. No, so I don't know what the end result is or desired result will be. All right, so interesting statement

A follow-up, Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, had called a medical concierge service in Santa Fe one day after authorities previously reported her last known activity. And two weeks before she and Hackman were found dead, investigators confirmed on Monday. Yeah, so it kind of mucks up the timeline a little bit. But those were kind of

That was just her last activity they knew of. So this would be her last activity, I think. Hagman and Arakawa's bodies were found in their Santa Fe home February 26th. Authorities said autopsies show that Hagman died of heart disease. Arakawa died from a hantavirus, rare respiratory illness spread mainly by rodents.

It's believed that she died days before Hackman did, and both bodies showed signs of decomposition. Prior to getting access to phone records, Santa Fe County Sheriff Aiden Mendoza said earlier this month that Erica was last known communication and activities on February 11th. On that day, she had exchanged emails with a massage therapist and was seen at a local grocery store, CVS, and pet food store. But cell phone records show that she made three calls the morning of February 12th.

The sheriff's office said in a statement and all three calls were to Cloudberry Health, which provides medical concierge services in Santa Fe. So she was reaching out to a doctor of sorts. So maybe she was starting to feel bad and wanted a new doctor. I don't know. As you pointed out about this hantavirus that when it overtakes you, it can be very quick.

So they say that's probably what happened in her case. There also was one incoming call from Cloudberry Health in the afternoon that Arakawa appeared to miss. No other information about the calls was released on Monday. It remains unclear...

How and when exactly she got the Hantavirus. Hattman tested negative for it. He was also suffering from advanced Alzheimer's, which of course contributed to his death, according to the coroner's report. What a freaking nightmare, man. What a horrible way to check out. Yeah, absolutely. Chrissy Teigen has hit back at trolls online who have criticized her looks recently, specifically calling out her cheek fillers.

And she asked her fans in a video on her Instagram stories, honestly, like, what happened to just thinking things? Remember thinking things, she said? You'd go through a magazine and you'd be like, oh, that person looks like, eh, I would never have that haircut. Those teeth suck. And then she went on saying, we all do it, but we used to do it to, like, magazines, and now you take the time to type it out? Like, what, she said? Again.

It gives, I think, a whole new outlet to intrusive thoughts. You know what I mean? As far as being able to write them out? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, listen, the genie's out of the bottle. It's never, you have that, those who are inclined to do it are going to do it. And there's no coming back from that.

She specifically called out a few comments that she received, mockingly reading her cheeks are to look too filled. And why would she fill her cheeks like that? Why would she do her lips like that? Then she reminded everyone that you can just think things and that they don't need to say every mean thought they have out loud. Sharing just say those things inside in your head.

Say them inside of your big brain, she said. She's right, but you also cannot post stuff. The option to not say things also goes along with the option of not posting something. I think that's what she means. That's what she's referring to. I know, but I mean that for her.

Oh, her. Yeah, I mean, like, you don't have to post everything that you always think. Right, yeah. And I'm not trying to defend or even condemn her comments. She's right. But, like, when you post as much as she does and you share so much of your life online, you are opening yourself up to criticism. Yeah, it's a double-edged sword. Whether it's warranted or not, you know, that's up to the public, I guess. What if you're just sitting there having a conversation with, like, two best friends and...

So many comments on your nose hair. You haven't posted anything. You're just sitting there minding your own business. Oh, are we best friends?

You said two best friends. Yeah. This happened at dinner the other night. I heard the whole story. He was excoriated for his bushy nose hairs. I just was wondering if he ever cut them and he just forgot. He thinks about it from time to time. But you don't. That's going to change, Kathy. You get one of those little trimmers? You have one of those electric trimmers? No, I bought it for him. Oh, all right.

Right here. We were talking. She made me feel bad. I said, well, if it bothers you that much, go buy me a nose hair trimmer right now. She did. We'll talk about it later. I didn't mean to make you feel bad. I just wanted you to know you had no... It was clear that he felt bad.

Have you tried it yet? Not yet. I just brought it in. Have you ever used one? I have. Okay. You've not used one. I have. Every week, week and a half, I do a little nose hair check. I had an attachment for my beard trimmer, and the attachment disappeared. I have no idea what happened to it. And it's just one of those things where I'm like, oh, yeah, I probably should get a nose hair trimmer. And then it was always out of sight, out of mind type of thing. That's it, man. Not anymore. Not anymore. Got it right there. Welcome.

All right, so Jamie King has lost physical custody of her kids to ex-husband Kyle Newman. According to the court documents, Newman and King will share legal custody of their sons James and Leo, who are 11 and 9 respectively, with Newman holding tie-breaking authority over legal custody and will also now have sole physical custody of their sons.

Any visitation will be supervised due to the fact that King never completed a six-month rehab stint for alcohol and drug dependency, which the actor claims she does not suffer from. Well, when we met her in the movie Pearl Harbor, she was one of the actresses. We had that press junket that we went to Hawaii for. And she had gotten out of rehab just before she started doing that movie.

And so she's had an issue with this for quite a number of years. The two were married in 2007, King Fawford divorce in 2020, and things have been contentious with the couple ever since then. This is pretty wild. Rolling Stone has acquired and published previously unreleased audio of Jonathan Majors in a conversation with his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabari,

Oh, geez.

So that's pretty... Yeah. That's pretty out there, man. I was listening to the clip and I was trying to understand what he was saying. Okay, so that's what he said. I was under-aggressed is what he said? He said all those things are under-aggressed. Okay. Or under the umbrella of aggressed. Yeah, so...

He was convicted in December 2023 of assault and harassment following a fight with Jabari in New York City. Majors avoided jail time and was sentenced to probation and ordered to complete a domestic violence intervention program in March of last year. She filed a lawsuit against Majors accusing him of defamation, assault, and battery. And in November, the lawsuit was settled. So that's pretty damning audio. So where is...

Everything's been resolved legally, so this is just not good for him to have the audio get out, right? I would think so, yeah. That's basically it. Everything's tied up. Yeah, it was settled. Yeah. Yeah, so... Do we know who's going to take his part in the... Is Kang? I think they're doing away with Kang. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh. Okay. So, this is a pretty wild story, too. Former Bachelor star Sean Lowe recently had a fierce encounter with his own dog, one that left him seriously injured.

Lowe and his wife, Catherine Giudice, or is it Giudici, explained on Instagram what happened. So according to Lowe, a Thursday cookout went south when the couple's new dog, Moose, attacked him twice. Like really, like really attacked him. Lowe said that he was bleeding. Why don't you forget the moose?

for a moment. Lowe said that he was bleeding so badly, quote, my first thought is I think that my dog might have nicked an artery. And he told his friends, this is serious. You got to get me to the hospital. Call Catherine. And he said, I thank God that my friends were there because they were able to rush me to the ER. Lowe ended up getting stitches in five or six different places on his arm. When he got home, moose attacked him again. What? Yeah. Oh, my God. Why don't you forget the moose?

For a moment. And he went to the ER for stitches that time. No word what happened with Moose other than he was living with Lo, or he's not living with Lo and the family anymore. I don't know what kind of dog it is. I don't know if it was a big dog or a smaller dog or what, but yeah. It's a mid-sized dog. They had just gotten, as you said, a

And the thing is, is that you, so they're not pushing to get the dog euthanized, but you can't have that dog around. They have kids. Yeah, you can't. You can't have that dog around kids. Yep. So, yeah, he was cut up pretty damn bad. So that's terrible. Wow.

Conan O'Brien, coming back to host the Oscars next year. Conan hosted the big show this year for the very first time and got rave reviews online. It doesn't hurt that this year's Oscars also had their highest viewership numbers in five years, drawing in almost 20 million viewers. And it got a ton of interactions on social media as well. He said in a statement, the only reason I'm hosting the Oscars next year is that I want to hear Adrian Brody finish his speech. Ha ha ha!

Next year's Oscars are set for March 15th. That's a good line. We're a ways away. He's the best host in a long time. Yeah.

For Wednesday fans hanging on every tidbit of information, this should get them excited. In an interview with Collider, Jenna Ortega hinted that there may be more than just a second season of the hit Netflix series, saying the writers are batting around ideas for season three. She said, we haven't gotten an official thumbs up for a third season or anything like that, but I know that the writers are.

And she said, with a show like that, you kind of want to get ahead of the game. Ortega said that she also knows that production of season two is in the homestretch. She said, we're still in the edit. I was doing the automated dialogue replacement for it two weeks ago. And she said, that's the funny thing about these jobs is you're done, you wrap, but you're not really done. So I'll probably be working on it until the end. Does it seem like it's taking forever on this? Yes.

It does. I mean, come on, man. No official date for the season two premiere has been announced as of yet. But you're not wrong, Steve. I mean, the first season was 2022. So by the time this season comes out, it will have been three years or so. It's too long. It is. And I watched Severance and I love the show. And that's three years in between season one and season two of Severance. I'd forgotten so much that I had to go back and rewatch season one. And, you know...

I know it takes a while to put out a quality product and to produce all of these shows, but three years is just way too damn long. Dude, Handmaid's Tale. Yeah. It's been like four years or something ridiculous like that. I get that you're working and you're making basically, as it's been pointed out, you're making movies. Right. Got it. I don't care. But I mean, it's hard to remember all...

And therefore, you got to go back and watch the previous season. The whole thing. You watch recaps. Well, you keep doing that anyway. You're always re-watching stuff. That's never a problem for you guys. Yep.

Colin Farrell is in talks to star in DC's upcoming Sergeant Rock movie. The movie is set to be helmed by Challengers director Luca Guadagnino and is being written by Justin Kuritskis, who wrote the scripts for Challengers and Queer for Guadagnino. Farrell is no stranger to working with DC, of course, starting the hit series The Penguin for Max.

So it's not out of the question that he could play a second character for DC. Yeah, you wouldn't even know. Daniel Craig was previously rumored to play Sergeant Rock, but he never got the offer, it seems. So DC plans to shoot the movie later on this summer. And they're going ahead with that Lobo movie. Yeah. Yeah. Jason Momoa. Jason Momoa, yeah. He's the guy that's been pushing them to do that. Forever.

Max, the streaming network, is ditching the original Looney Tunes. The OG cartoons first aired between 1930 and 1969. Warner Brothers said earlier this year that they would remain on the streamer. And now Max is moving away from animation and focusing on adult programming. So the classic cartoons have been wiped out.

from the site. Oh, that sucks. No plans to bring the OG Bugs Bunny and company back. Looney Tunes are currently available on DVD and Blu-ray. So that would suck if there's nowhere to stream that stuff. Yeah, you know, you can see them though on Saturday and Sunday morning on MeTV. Okay. They have a Looney Tunes hour, hour and a half

And they're running the classics. I would have liked a little bit of a warning, you know, so I could have maybe benched them. Because that was something that I would tune into, like, if I was, like, going off to bed and stuff like that. They were my comedy instruction growing up. Looney Tunes, you can't get better than for the written word and for visual comedy. The Looney Tunes were masterful.

And then one last story. Millie Bobby Brown is a hardcore animal lover. The Stranger Things star lives on a farm in Georgia and she has 62 animals. Yes. Including 25 farm animals and 23 foster dogs, 10 dogs that are hers and four cats. She built a separate enclosure for them. As for where her in-house pups sleep, she said, I've gotten them real single beds.

As for the farm animals, the number is set to expand as her donkey, Betsy, is pregnant. Yay. I don't want a donkey. Millie detailed her farm life in an interview with the BBC. So she's talking about that. We actually have adopted two donkeys on the island of Bonaire. So yeah, we get visitations. They ride us. It's really nice. All right, we're ready for clips here.

Jesse L. Martin plays Alec Mercer in The Irrational, solving the mystery of human behavior. And in this clip, he talks about his character's passion to help the police and balance his day job. Working through these cases, being the consultant, the behavioral psychologist,

How that plays out in his personal life is a big deal to me, and how it plays out in the classroom is a big deal to me. Like, how I can turn my work and my personal experiences into lessons. Sometimes I poop my pants so I have to wear a diaper to school. I should have pulled out an old one. I have not heard that in ages. One more time if you're in my place. Sometimes I poop my pants so I have to wear a diaper to school. Okay.

Butters might be the most underrated South Park character. A new episode of The Irrational airs tonight on NBC. Here's our next clip.

On Hulu's Will Trent, Caroline is an assistant to the head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, leading a double life. And here, Christina Wren explains her character's secret. Essentially, she was an agent who is being hunted down in a different area. And so Caroline is her secret identity. Bill's character has taken her in under her wing. And she's actually a badass agent who is...

parading as this office assistant right now. I just made an egg in my pan. A new episode of Will Trent there airs today on Hulu, by the way. So there you go. That's the entertainment report for this morning.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Hi, thanks, Kath. You know what we need to do? We need to dive into the mind and get into the stream of consciousness. My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

The stream of consciousness nerds. It's a variety of things that I've been thinking about and wanted to share with you this morning. And I'm going to start with this one. This is always sad news to see. But, Kath, I'm curious if you saw that Forever 21 filed for bankruptcy for the second time. And essentially, it says they're liquidating...

They're at 350 locations. So, yeah, they're shutting down all U.S. operations. Looks like they're overpressed. Forever 21. Yeah, looking at the articles and looking at what they're doing with the inventory. They're liquidating everything. For me, that was one of my favorite stores to go to. Your wife used to shop there. Yes, but she's tiny enough to shop there, A. And B, loads of seating.

Like they had a big area by the front window where you could sit. And for Christ's sake, when you're carrying stuff around the holidays, obviously shopping has morphed over the years because of people going now more to the internet. But in fact, I think that's what's killing Forever 21. Is it? What?

I was wondering, is it internet? What are the popular fashion sites? They listed their president. Yeah, Timu and what was the other one? And Shin. Okay, so that's... That's appealing to that Forever 21 audience. Yeah, the Forever 21 audience, the price point, it's like super duper cheap. I mean, that was what was good about Forever 21 was the clothing was so cheap. So even if you wore it one time, it was worth the 12 bucks you paid for it. I bought just like a blazer there.

one time. Just like I wanted a sport coat type of thing just to wear with jeans or whatever. I've had it for years. I've been happy with that. When you go there though, if you go and my wife would try on stuff, if you were to hang anywhere near back the try on area because it was all...

high school and girls coming in and out forever 21 you had to get as far away from that as possible or else you're going to look like the biggest perv in the world yeah i think i stopped shopping there years ago um it was a little it got a little young for me as far as the clothing goes um but i am i'm still a little i think there are there are stores that like some of the stores that that are not going through this um like charlotte ruse are they still around i don't

I don't think so. I don't think very many. All the good places to sit. That are similar to Forever 21. Forever 21 was always, for me, it was always a mess. They didn't have it. If you go into H&M, which is similar... By the way, I was wrong. It was H&M is where I bought my home. That's why I was about to comment. Wrong place. H&M is still...

but it's a little bit more expensive than Forever 21 was. But like, I don't know. And I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but it was part of the reason why I was like, okay, I'm done going to the store. It just was a mess. It's messy. No, but it was a mess. You couldn't find anything. Like you walked in there and you almost got a headache. Whereas like if you go to H&M and you can't find something, you can ask them where it is and they can tell you. Forever 21 was like, oh, I don't,

Yeah, I don't know. Was that like going to Marshall's or whatever? Yeah. Like it's just scattered. Yeah. What you get is what you get. It wasn't as bad as that. It was supposed to be organized. They just never were kept that organized. I think because the stores were so big, they had so much merchandise and they would just shove it all out there. You know, like I don't think there was much. What if they would come back as forever disorganized? Yeah.

Efforts to secure a buyer over the past several months have been unsuccessful. Forever 21 reached out to over 200 potential investors with 30 signing confidentiality agreements, but no viable deal. I find this sad. Yeah, absolutely. I do, because I do have a lot of fond memories going on.

And, you know, believe it or not, I am a pretty good shopper companion. And the whole we talked about this, the whole mall concept or the whole concept of going to different stores. And that would certainly be one we had hit. So it's sad to see it go away. Yeah, the company has been engaged in talks with liquidators and face significant challenges in attracting a buyer willing to sustain the business. The second bankruptcy follows a tumultuous period after emerging from its inactivity.

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So that was part of the contribution. Despite the liquidation of the U.S. operations, Forever 21's brand is expected to live on, though. Its international stores and online presence will continue, and the intellectual property owned by Authentic Brand Group is not part of the bankruptcy proceeding. So the name might continue on in some way, shape, or form. I've seen some pushback on both Shein and Timu because they are so cheap and they're...

Chinese companies. And so I think there's this notion that you'd like to buy American or buy something that's locally produced or whatever. But when they're that cheap, and Kathy, like you alluded to earlier, it's kind of disposable. There's just a market for that. Dude, I used to go to Old Navy. You could get 200 shirts for a buck. They had these crazy... Now, mind you, the shirts were like cray paper. They were horrible. But I mean, if you're just... I just need...

You know, I'm going to the beach or whatever. That kind of stuff and that kind of price point appeals to people. It's hard to fight that. I would just rather buy something that lasts. I'm a 49-year-old white dude. But like, you know, it just seems to me that it's... When you're buying something, you're just buying it for one season or whatever and then you're ready to throw it away. It just seems so wasteful. I think it's like the people, you know, they want to buy it. They like it. They put out a great picture of it. And, you know, maybe...

40% of the time you get it, it looks like that. And then the other 60, you get it. But I think the thought process on some, Nick, is like, I really want that. That looks really nice. And you get it and it's not that. It was only $11. I get it. Sometimes the quality, yeah, you pay for what you get.

And then other times you'll happen upon something that's decent, but yeah, like you said, like 40% of the time maybe. And I've never ordered from either of those sites, Nick. I know tons of people who have. I've never ordered anything from them. Yeah, my wife orders off of Shein from time to time, and it's hit or miss. When it's miss, it's just...

kind of garbage. What's the return process like, Nick, if you're buying? Oh, the return process is find a local dumpster and talk to the register. Yeah, it's that typical. It's almost non-existent. There was a comedian out in L.A. who helped them

to what they are. Shein. Shein, yeah. Yeah, she was basically their influencer, their ambassador for a couple of years. And once they got bigger, I don't know exactly what happened, but I think they kind of like dumped her. But she was great. She would come out in all these clothes. She was a dancer. So she would do, she would dance in the clothing that they would send. It was pretty good. They were pretty good videos, but I don't know what, I don't know whatever happened with her. What about the other companies like Free People and the ones that were big for a while, American...

Well, Free People is part of the Urban brand, so they're doing pretty well. Oh, they're doing well? And they are not cheap in any way, shape, or form. One time I bought $700 worth of shoes, and then you can't ship them back for free. So I walked through the King of Prussia Mall with $700 worth of shoes and returned every pair of shoes. And the woman was like, was there anything wrong with them? I was like, no, they didn't fit. And she was like, people don't normally return this much. And I was like, well, this girl does. Shut up.

All right, so, well, sad news. Forever 21's going on. All right, let me see what else. The stream of consciousness nerd. All right, I want you guys to take on this. A surprising debate has washed up on social media about how to handle getting the laundry detergent

into the washing machine. And it started with a woman posting a TikTok video calling her boyfriend out for the way that he does it. Oh, okay. All right, so I thought you might find this interesting too, Kathy. So she wrote, help, I just asked my boyfriend where the cap was.

for the detergent is, and he said, oh, I just fill it up and then I just throw it in. He throws a cap in? He throws the cap in with the clothes and runs it. It's insanity. I know plenty of people that do that. Okay, all right. I don't do it, but when I heard this, I'm like, well, yeah, why not? Makes sense. I don't use the cap at all.

How do you measure out what goes in? There's a little tray that comes out and I just pour it into that tray. Okay, so like I have the big one with the dispenser, right? That does come with the cap. So I have the cap from the previous one and I use that so that I can put the clean cap back on the detergent and have the other cap sit. So even if there's a little bit of detergent still left in it, it's not leaking all over. Okay. Okay.

So I have something that I just found out that my wife is using that I think is pretty cool. But if you had something tangential to that. No, well, I was just saying that some people find that to be they can't believe this guy's doing that, that he's throwing the cap into the clothes. But his his rationale is that it uses up every bit of the detergent. It does. And it cleans the cap. And when it's done, you just take it back out and you put it back on. No fuss, no muss.

You know what I was worried about? I don't like musk. You know what I was worried about the first time I did that? I don't do it all of the time, but occasionally I will if the cap does have a lot of the detergent still left in it. Was the plastic cap melting. Yeah. But it doesn't heat up enough. It doesn't heat up enough. Yeah. So it's actually okay. Boiling it close. My wife uses detergent sheets. Have you guys used these? Yeah, I've heard about them. These are wild.

You pull it out. You just put it intact into the washing machine, and it turns into detergent and gone. Interesting. How about that? I don't know who in my family is the one responsible. It's not that hard to keep all the detergent in the bottle. But, like, you know, everything's clean, and then next thing I know, go to grab the detergent bottle, and there's detergent, like, all over the sides. It's gooey stuff all over. It's the same thing with the toothpaste.

I'm like, it's not that hard to just... And it's a flip. The toothpaste is a flip thing. You just flip it down and you don't have to worry about toothpaste getting all over the counter. Honestly, I hear you. It becomes such a scuzzy nightmare. Even I... When I think of... You know what? We were talking about this when we were at our flight delay. Yeah. When I was a younger kid, I did the same crap.

And that my toothpaste looked like a nightmare if I had to do the laundry. I never did laundry as a kid, but the toothpaste, I don't know. Like if there's one little drip and you wipe it up, then there's none. If there's one little drip and then the next person uses it and it's another drip and then it becomes the disgusting mess that you get to. Yeah, so eventually, so what ultimately I do when I look at the detergent bottle or whatever is,

if there's crap all over it, I grab it with some of the dirty laundry. Do you know what I mean? So then I can at least wipe that up. I don't know. Dude, do me a favor. I'll even pay for it. I'll buy you a couple of Eufy cameras. Yeah. Discreetly place them around where you're having these trouble issues so you can nail down exactly who's doing it. Yeah, because everybody's like, it's not me. Yeah. If you had video proof... Q-tips on the floor next to the trash can. Ha ha ha.

The trash can is right there. Bro? Yeah. A couple cameras will take care of that. You can bring that ass into court. Preston, you ready for this? You'll love this. So I was doing laundry not that long ago and I was putting it into the dryer and I took a dryer sheet and threw it into the dryer. My mom was there and she just looked and she went, oh, crap.

Oh, no. And I went, oh, you use those. Oh, that's going to give you anal cancer. Yeah, right. Anal cancer again? But this is the way, like, she doesn't say, like, hey, did you know there was a study that was done that says blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. She does, oh. And then she'll go, yeah, oh, I don't use those cancer-causing things. I don't use those cancer-causing things. And I was like, oh, well, I do. All right. But, like, give me a break.

Give me the explanation. Okay, if there's some sort of study that was done or whatever article you read or whatever it is, tell me so I know. And then maybe I'll stop using them. Well, Dennis will still be alive. So am I the only one in the room that uses pods? I use Tide Pods.

For laundry. No, we don't use those. I like them because of your issues with no fuss, no muss. To me, there's zero muss. Sometimes you use two. Most of the time you use one. For a dishwasher, we use a similar gel pack. Is that the Cascade brand that you go with? I'm not sure. They're pretty good. With the clothes, we're getting a number of texts that are coming in of people who do this very thing, who just throw the cap in there. Some even said that

that it says right on the directions that you can throw the cap in with the laundry. I never saw that. So I guess it depends maybe on what brand. And also people are texting in about the sheets, Steve, that those are great to travel with. Oh, okay. If you do want to do some laundry that they're thin, they're easy to pack. Yeah, it's eliminated that big...

jug of detergent and my wife is having great success with them. Casey, we're the same way. We have a little tray that you pull out that you fill with the detergent and you don't have to worry about using a cap at all for that. So the clip in this video shows him reading the back. This guy, this boyfriend who throws the cap

in with the laundry reading the back of a gain detergent jug because he was so convinced that this is correct that he was looking for the instructions explaining how to do it this way his girlfriend captioned the clip saying mental behavior in the house right now because she's certain that his way of doing the laundry isn't normal but a lot of people have strong opinions about this either way apparently from this post that she made and as you pointed out the water will never get hot enough to melt the plastic cap no well unless you i mean even if you run it on hot

No. No. No. Okay. No. Yeah, that plastic's not going to melt. Okay. Yeah. So anyhow, I have not been familiar with that particular method, but if you want to do it, I think you can do it. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, we'll go elsewhere. The stream of consciousness. Wallet Hub's list of the most overweight and obese U.S. cities has just come out. Oh, here you go. How did we do? They ranked 100 of the most populated metro areas in the country on 19 key metrics of weight-related problems, and these include...

everything from the share of overweight and obese adults and teens to the share of adults with health issues related to weight to the city's access to healthy food. I feel like no matter what, we're going to champion, you know, like if we're the skinniest or the fastest, we'll be like, yes! All right. Yeah!

So I only have the top 10 and there is nothing near us on this list. It's all down south, gang. How about that? Yep. So number one is McAllen, Texas. The hell is that? I don't know. It's like close to the border. Then we have Little Rock, Arkansas. It's a fine town. Jackson, Mississippi.

Mobile, Alabama. Knoxville, Tennessee is fifth, followed by Shreveport, Louisiana. Augusta, Georgia. Lafayette, Louisiana. I mean, this is all in the heart of Dixie. Number nine is Fayetteville, Arkansas. And number 10 is Birmingham, Alabama. So do you wonder if it's skewing that way because of diet?

Probably. Southern diet? Since it says the city's access to healthy food as well, and you're talking about a lot of fried food down south, a lot of barbecue, it is really good. We just pulled up the full list. Philadelphia's number 68. That ain't too bad. It's not bad at all. When you watch some of those reels come across on Instagram, people cooking meals, if

If the lady or guy has a southern accent, I'm like, ooh, this is going to be good. You can always be guaranteed. So McAllen, Texas has the second highest share of obese teens and the fifth highest share of obese kids. And it also has the highest percentage of adults who are obese at 45% and an additional 31% are overweight but not obese.

On the flip side, on the other side of things, Honolulu, Hawaii is a city with the fewest overweight people. Yeah. Followed by Seattle and Denver. You can get outside in all three of those cities. And I'm thinking about, like, on this list, Preston, like, not only is there good cooking, southern cooking, and great food in those cities, but if it's, you know, the heat of summer, you're not going outside at all. You're not doing a damn thing. You're sitting out on the porch with a men's julep. Yeah. Drinking that down and probably a milkshake. Woo!

It's hot today. But there was a time like 27, 28 years ago that Philadelphia was the most overweight, the fattest city in the country. Whatever was bad, we were the number one. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. So those days is gone, which is beautiful. All right. Let's see. All right.

I'm going to stream on this. And I don't fully understand this, so you guys will have to help me out with this. But an Australian podcast lit up TikTok by asking if you're in a guess family or an ask family. And I'll try to explain here. I guess I do understand this. In a guess family, the host of this show, Jesse Stevens, says...

you don't really directly ask for anything ever, but instead you sneak in a mention of what you need. In an ask family, you say what you need and you leave it to the other person to say yes or no. So to give an example, he said, say you want someone to help you move. You can be suggestive about it and say, hey, would you be open to helping me move or...

Or more ask family would say, can you help me move? Can you give me a hand with this? Yeah. And I tried to think of whether any, you know, they're...

Putting this under the umbrella of a family, I was trying to think if our family is ask or guess, I don't really know. Like, can you clean your toothpaste tube? Right. Can you hit the garbage can with your Q-tip? Would you be okay with cleaning up the Q-tips? Right. As opposed to, can you pick that up? Yeah.

Yeah. You know? I don't know. So that's an ask. You can be both. I mean, you don't have to be one or the other. Yeah. Would you mind if I kick your ass for not cleaning the floor? Yeah. I wonder how long it takes for you to get to that point of like, I'm so damn tired of the Q-tips on the floor. And so maybe Casey, just in your example or whatever, you dropped hints for a month and it's not gotten anywhere. Then you reach a point of frustration and the boiling point where you're like,

Can you pick up the goddamn Q-tips? You know, like, how long does it take to get to that where the passive-aggressive hints don't work? Really, I need to find out who's responsible for the Q-tips. You know what you do? Honestly, it's nobody. Have a family movie night and run the stepfather and say, a lot of good ideas here. Nick, by the way, you sounded a little bit like Jimmy Duke and you're still missing the cutoff. Yeah.

Well, he changes his approach. He does. He goes from anger to, I'm going to be nicer to these ladies. And so he becomes a little more passive aggressive. And at the end, she hits the cutoff. If you remember, they still lose. So experts say that there's no right or wrong answer. Louise Cornejo, a licensed marriage and family therapist, says that the two types of families are well known by other names. Guess families are often the same as people pleasers.

With those people not wanting to impose and running the risk of becoming a doormat, that can be avoided by shifting the way we ask for things. With the example given, as he said, would you be open to helping me move instead of can you help me move? So, I don't know, food for thought. I think so. I would say I'm a dichotomy when it comes to that because I like to, I am a people pleaser and it comes directly from my mother. But I'm not a doormat and that comes directly from my father. Right. So it's sometimes, I guess it's depending on how much I like the person. Right. You know? Yeah. That makes total sense.

All right, another thing. And another thing. We had mentioned this briefly in one of the traffic reports, but the Market Street Bridge is supposedly going to close for 14 months amid massive rehab project. I thought it was longer than that. I heard four years. No, no. I heard just over a year. So that would be 14 months. Keep talking. It gets shorter.

So plan on traffic detours and delays on or around the Market Street Bridge. It says here over the next four years because that's not the only thing they're doing in that area. But it will be closed for 14 months. It will be closed. Yeah. Excuse me.

It's a $149 million reconstruction of the span that connects University City and Center City, Philadelphia. I'm sorry, I have a tickle. No, no problem. Can you scratch the throat case? Here, I got this throat scratcher here. Preston, open up. How deep down is it?

Sorry, it's about four inches inside of your reach. Oh, damn it. No, I had a scratcher. Oh, okay. Sorry about that. A little enhancement. So work begins this month on the 93-year-old structure. Actually, three bridge sections.

So that carry the Philadelphia's main east-west street over Amtrak tracks. I legit only use that bridge like once a year. I take the train into Philadelphia for the Ben to the Shore bike tour. Right. And then I ride my bike across the bridge to get to my hotel. That's the only time I ever use that bridge. I actually like that bridge. Yeah. It's a pleasant bridge. It is. It's a good crossing bridge. So, yeah. So PennDOT.

We'll add a two-way bike lane separated by concrete to Market Street with a signal light for cyclists on the western end. Motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians are going to have to adjust to a series of detours at various points during the project, including closure of a section of 76 of the Schuylkill Expressway near Market Street. That's going to be a blast. That is really going to be difficult.

And it will direct drivers off the expressway and through city streets to get around work. Man, that is going to clog it up. So if you could plop a bridge down anywhere...

around here, where would you stick a bridge? Where would you stick that bridge? Like on the Schuylkill Steve? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. There are points where you could tap off, I think, and I've talked about this for years, I don't ever see it happening, but a conduit that allowed

you to tap off the Schuylkill backup. Yeah. You know, but the issue is you're dumping into an area whether it be Maniunk or, you know, or... Well, really, there's no crossing the bridge from Maniunk all the way to Conchahokan, right? That's it. The river. Yeah. Crossing the river. Yeah.

Yeah, you're right, Case. The other thing, Steve, that I think would be kind of cool is maybe a pedestrians-only bridge for bike traffic or foot traffic because you can use bikes and walk across, I think, all of the bridges. I don't think there's any restrictions on people walking across or biking across back and forth, but there are a few cities that have...

pedestrian only bridge and maybe that would like alleviate some of the traffic because people would not be driving you know so there's one that goes over from at the end of it's over very high over Maniunk yeah yeah and you get over to the park system on the other side I used to go all the time when I was walking my dog uh

And it was great. Yeah, and that didn't used to exist. They made that a pedestrian bridge for the last 15, 20 years or something like that, right? Yeah, and it's great. I don't know. But it's something that might tap off some of that BS. So the bridge roadway itself will be closed to motor vehicles for 14 months beginning August of 2026. So that's when they will actually shut it down. What about Vespas? Not be usable. No, you're not going to be able to use it. Damn it.

PennDOT says that it will maintain two lanes for motor vehicle traffic on the bridge between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. during the project. But any closures will be suspended between June 1st and August 7th next year when hundreds of... They're suspended when the FIFA World Cup match is coming. Yeah, you'd have to. Yeah, they're going to give it a break then. But early construction will focus on moving, replacing, and installation of a web of electric, gas, water, fiber optic utility lines...

um in the market street bridge project area so casey going back to your point that's it's fascinating because there's nothing in between fayette street and uh the one down here in belmont uh there are no bridges at all yeah and conchie could definitely use some more bridges to get across because like that fayette street bridge is so jammed all the time i think uh the problem is with with going across this google other than when you're right down there in in uh

In the throes of Conchie. But I mean, on the other side of the Schuylkill Expressway is a giant hill. It's all built up. There's nowhere to go with a bridge. You would have to allow a ramp in space so that you'd allow traffic to merge with...

Yeah, I don't even know how the hell you'd do it. How the hell do you do that? So the federal government is paying 80% of the cost. The state will cover the rest of that. And like Kathy was saying earlier this morning, it was scheduled to start today, but they have postponed it until the 24th. So just get yourself ready for that because that's going to be so much fun. All right. One more.

All right. We'll end with this one. There is a...

I like the idea, but it's kind of dumb. A new app is called Touch Grass and has a unique approach to fighting excessive use of social media. It was developed by a guy named Reese Kentish from London. The app blocks access to social media platforms until users physically go outside and touch grass.

How does it determine that you've done that? So to unlock their apps, users must take a photo of themselves touching grass, after which they can choose to unlock their apps for 15 minutes, 60 minutes, or until sunset. What if you keep a piece of sod on your desk? Yeah, you could just do that, right? So Kent just created the app to address his own habit of excessive scrolling, and

and to encourage others to reconnect with the outdoors. The app's game-like design aims to appeal to young adults, demographic significantly affected by internet addiction. I tell you, you know, we're sitting in the airport, you take a scan of the people sitting there, everyone is scrolling. Absolutely. Either that or they're chewing gummies, you know. No, I know what you mean. There are multiple times when I...

will be the only person who is not. And I will just kind of sit back and observe for a little while. You know, I told you the story about the father and son I saw having dinner. Yeah, yeah. It felt really bad for them. The kid wouldn't lift his head from the phone. And the dad sat there for an hour trying to communicate with him. And eventually he gave in and picked up his own phone and started doing the same thing. I spent a good portion of the time, Casey, you were listening to music. We were sitting there. But I spent a good portion of time. I like to people watch. Yeah.

I can sit there and people watch all the time. Yeah. And so, but it doesn't mean I don't scroll and it is seductive once you start. But there are other things to do, you know, like shoplift. Right. Yeah. But as far as going outside and, you know, this is to encourage you to go outside. It is, especially this time of year,

when it's cold out, you just, you know, I just don't want to go outside. I know. Just do not want to go outside. It's so funny because the majority of transplants that we met down in, and this is year after year, down in Florida for spring training, uh,

Grew up in Philadelphia, moved here five years ago. Love it. Oh, really? Why'd you move here? Couldn't stand the winter anymore. It's a broken record of people who just couldn't take it anymore and wanted to get to a warmer climate. That's it. And they don't regret it. They don't regret the move. They love the temperature. And so it's what they call, like in Florida, they call, I was talking to my brother in California, they call the earthquakes, the sun tacks.

In Florida, the hurricanes are the sun tax. So the weather, that's what you pay. I like to believe that I don't mind winter. And it's no problem. It's a few months to get through. By the time March rolls around, I'm done, man. I'm like, I am fed up with it. That's why I love spring training so much. Fed up with it. The...

Baseball part of spring training is just a small portion of it. It's getting to Florida. It's being able to get outside and walking around Clearwater Beach. We were there for three and a half, four days or whatever. There are so many people who are out and walking about. They look healthier. They look happier. And I get why people would want to move. And it's...

It's January and February, and if you can make it to the middle of March, by this time of year, you're just like, God, I need some green. I need some sun. I vividly remember walking out of Finnegan's Wake on St. Paddy's Day one year, and it was...

Gorgeous. I remember that year. 70 degrees. Couldn't believe how good it was. You're in this cave, this dark cave for four and a half, five hours. And then you walk outside, you're like, oh my God. And to me, I remember just going, okay, here we go. I'm going to touch last. Yes. By the way, somebody down in spring training said,

knew Kenbo. Oh, get out. And mentioned him to me. Kenbo was the guy who used to run Finnegan's Wake. And I was like, oh my God, I haven't heard that name in ages. But going back to the whole Florida thing, going that far down, the one thing you forget about is the ridiculous oppressive heat that happens in the summertime. Because I go down to visit and there are times like

That is just as miserable to me as is the winter. So you lose chunks of the summer because you just have to stay inside. Where's the perfect place? Where is the perfect temperature year round? Is it California? There's an argument to be made in some parts that it's Philadelphia. Because the summers around here, at least...

I love Seattle. I love the Pacific Northwest, but the winters there are long and dark, and you don't get as much sunlight, especially in the wintertime. So, look, I don't know. Is there a perfect place? Probably not, but, like, there's a lot of appeal in this area because of the seasons. Yeah. Mm.

My uncle lived in Carmel, California. That was pretty outstanding all the time. So that's what I was thinking. So you get sweater, you may get, I need a coat. But you don't get. You don't get. I'm dying. Parka. Right. You don't need that. And so I was thinking not northern, northern California, but Carmel, Monterey. Yeah. All those areas. Yeah. Does anybody else here sauna?

I don't. Not regularly. I pressure myself. That's different. That's way different. But no, I've been doing the sauna for months and months and months now. And now I'm up to like 20 minutes in the sauna after my workout. How do you like it? I love it. And what I'm interested in to find out is whether or not that is going to help me in the summertime when I walk out and it's humid as hell. Okay. Because I'm more comfortable now in humid conditions.

You're climatizing, basically. So how does sauna benefit one? Because I'm sure you're doing it

For a reason. I'm just trying to sweat out toxins and stuff. Sweat out toxins? Yeah, yeah. Okay. This kind of thing. To tell you the truth, Preston, I haven't done a whole lot of research on it. I was legitimately curious. I don't know. I am too. And I know like in Scandinavia, sauna is huge. You have to love it. Heart health as well. Heart health. It has all sorts of benefits to it. I was looking for the longest time at the infrared saunas, which don't require the steam, obviously.

And there's just tons of very good information about it. It's just a pain in the ass to find the space to put it. I saw somebody consulting with a doctor and they listed like, let's say, 10 things, you know, on a scale of 1 to 10, like how important is, you know, this to your health. And they mentioned infrared. I don't remember if it was sauna or not. But he gave that like a zero, but he gave a sauna a 10 out of 10. Interesting. Hmm.

All right, well, food for thought, friends, and that's why we bring it up here on the Stream of Consciousness-ner. The Stream of Consciousness-ner. We're going to wrap this particular segment right about now. We do have some live music that's going to take place in our studio this morning. We're very much looking forward to acoustic guitarist Andy McKee, who's been here. It's been a long, long time, but he's performed for us a couple of times in our studio, so he is back in the 9 o'clock hour program.

performing at the Sellersville Theater tonight. When we get back, though, we'll share some bizarre file stories. I think you'll dig them. We'll be right back. Stay put. Looking for fun things to do this weekend? The Arrow Bears Weekend Calendar has you covered. Shows in town, movies to see, exhibits and specials around the Delaware Valley. Just use keyword Weekend Calendar at WMMR.com to get the list.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, before sharing the Bizarre Files stories, a couple of shout-outs, if you guys don't mind. And this first one is actually from our intern Colin's dad. And apparently his parents are big, big fans of the Preston and Steve Show. And he writes in, hey, I want to give a shout-out to my wife, Kathy Lawville, intern Colin's mom, who is a big fan of the Preston and Steve Show.

who is having breast cancer surgery today at Penn. Did not know that. Kathy just turned 50, he says, in October, and thankfully her tumor was caught early. But she wants to stress to all women listening that early detection is so important, so please get your mammograms, he states. Very true.

That's from her husband, Greg Lawville. So here is a shout-out to you. Kathy, we hope everything goes as smoothly as possible, and we'll be thinking about all three of you as you're going through this. She's in good hands at Penn. Yeah. Here's another shout-out. It says, hey, if you have a chance on Tuesday the 18th, please send a Rofo shout-out to my BFF, Haley, and I assume you pronounce it Gek. It's G-E-O-C-K. Yeah.

Gek for her birthday. And I would appreciate it. Happy birthday, Haley. And that is, she says, you rock. That is from Megan Adeletto. So a shout out if you don't mind. Yes. I like that. And then one last one. This is, okay, this is from Christina.

Steyer, who lives in Pottstown, she says, I'm a long-time listener. Since the Y100 days, absolutely love you all, and this is my first time I'm emailing you, so I hope I'm doing this right. And I'd like to send a shout-out to my husband and the business he's been trying to get going. He's a music producer with his passions revolving solely around music and the industry.

He's been trying to get his own production company rolling, and he's got exceptional skills in this field, the website, the cards, the QR codes, but he's gone out to shows all around the area meeting up and coming talent to get his name out there without any luck.

So his company is Eric Steyer Music Productions, and Steyer is spelled S-T-Y-E-R, and it can be found on any and every social media platform. Just search for Eric Steyer, and she just wants to wish him luck and send a shirt out. You know, I got a dream, and he's pursuing it. It's tough, and it can beat you down a little bit, but more power to him. Hang in there. Hang in there, bud. All right, we can now get to the Bizarre File story. Here we go. Is that?

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out of Australia. Not everything is a money-making opportunity. And Joanna Catherine Kimman, a 48-year-old woman in Melbourne, was working at an animal shelter when some of the dogs there regurgitated up human toes. Wow. So the dogs had to be

had apparently fed on the body of a man who died of natural causes before they were brought to the shelter. And instead of reporting the remains, Kinman decided that the thing to do was to take the body parts and try to sell them. Oh, yeah. Why not?

Found money. Authorities eventually... This little piggy. ...learned about the incident, and they charged her. She was sentenced this week to an 18-month community corrections order and 150 hours of community service. Yeah, there's a pinky toe. She won't serve any jail time as long as she toes the law. Ah!

It is some good comedy. Right. But, yeah, so she saw these things puked up and she's like, well, I'm going to auction these off. And they're human body parts. Yeah. You're not allowed to do that. What if you're sweet little dogs at home barfed up a toe? A human toe. Yeah. Now, I'm not thinking, how do I make money off this?

All right, here's a follow-up story out of Lehigh Valley. Remember this? Or it was in York County. The box demon. I told you about this. Yes. A person dressed in a snuggie-like jumper walked up to a home with a box

activating the ring camera with a tap on the finger. It was about 4.30 in the morning. Kind of looked like the face of a flower. And says to the camera, hi, I'm the box demon. And brought into focus a paper plate that had been turned into a crude mask with black jagged teeth and hastily drawn red eyes. The face had multicolored petals adorning the border of the plate. And they said, this box is a gift for you. And then walked away. Hours later, Natalie Knotts stumbled onto the box

Perfectly shaped in the center of the doormat placed there. And she alerted her other relatives who then pulled up the footage. They didn't recognize the person on camera, nor did they know what the empty box left behind was supposed to represent. They decided they should call the police. And...

They had shrugged it off as a prank not worthy of any media attention. Others pointed out that while it's not a crime to be creepy, things could have gone south for the suspect had they encountered more reactive homeowners. So people are wondering. They have apparently identified who the person was. Oh, really?

But many are wondering why authorities have not released more information on the culprit, even if it's only to say the incident involves a minor, as some Internet sleuths suspect, given the disguise. So they think it might be a kid, but they haven't even said that it was a kid. But apparently they got the box demon. What I think it is, is they legitimately have discovered a box demon. Oh. And they don't want to terrify the public. That's probably a good idea. They have our best interest in mind. It's real.

New details have emerged in the shocking story of a 32-year-old Connecticut man allegedly held captive in a single room by his father and stepmother for 20 years. Kimberly Sullivan was arrested Wednesday, nearly a month after police and firefighters responded to a fire that the man lit inside of the home on February 17th. And while receiving medical care for the fire...

The 32-year-old said that he had been held captive in the home since he was 11 years old. 20 years. He told his first responders, I wanted my freedom. So police launched an extensive investigation that found the man endured prolonged abuse, starvation, severe neglect, and inhumane treatment.

Subsequent arrest warrants revealed the man was locked inside a room nearly 24 hours each day without heat or air conditioning. He was also provided two sandwiches and two bottles of water on a daily basis, which he rationed for sopless baths.

When he was found, the man weighed, listen to this, 69 pounds. For an adult man to weigh 69 pounds. Five foot nine weighed 69 pounds. How were they accommodating bathroom needs? Yeah, having no access to the bathroom, he funneled his waist through straws that led to a window. Holy hell. So what they need to do is the people who imprisoned him...

need the same treatment for that amount of time. Police noted the man was starving while still attending school, often stealing food and eating out of the garbage. When he ate, his teeth would break due to lack of dental care. Sullivan was arrested. She's charged with assault and kidnapping, unlawful restraint, cruelty to a person, reckless endangerment. Authorities are investigating how the man fell through the cracks as a child. Police only had two interactions with the family, both in 2005. One call was a welfare check prompted by reports from classmates.

Another was after the family filed a harassment complaint against school officials for reporting them to state child welfare officials. How did they pass the first welfare check? Yeah, officers noted there was no cause for concern.

Unsubstantiated reports of neglect or abuse are erased, by the way, five years after the conclusion of the investigation. So they had nothing to go back on years later. Keep those on permanently. The former principal of the school had said that administrators reported the alleged abuse to police and, quote, not a damn thing was done. Wow, that's a terrible story. And how do you make good on that? How do you give somebody back two decades that are gone? Yeah, there's no way.

Although a large squirrel-sized snail found in a New York park may have looked harmless, it posed enough of a danger to people and the environment that its discovery prompted a police response.

The invasive giant African land snail. Come out of the house, snail. Was discovered within Brooklyn's Prospect Park following a report from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. This thing is horrifying looking. After it was seen in the park, it was surrendered to the City Parks Department in a box, prompting a response from the Environmental Conservation Police. People of New York, I'm merely a snail.

I mean no harm to you. Can we live with each other in harmony? According to officials, possessing giant African land snails is not allowed in New York because of their status as an invasive species. The snail, which measures around eight inches long on average, can consume over 500 different types of plants. Yeah, the thing's gigantic.

Additionally, the mollusks are a risk to public health because they can carry a parasite that causes meningitis. I was simply visiting a relative. You know him as Pizza Rat. Wow.

Wow. To make the incident stranger, it is not known how the giant snail, which is native to East Africa, made it to New York in the first place. And that is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. Besides that frigging thing. It's awesome. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back in just a moment or two. Don't forget our Word of the Week prize this week. Very cool. And it's a road trip for two to go to Washington, D.C. with phillysportstrips.com. And that's to watch the Phillies play the Nationals.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thanks, Kev. So we tried out using one of our phone lines on the air yesterday. It still sounds like garbage.

it's horrible our engineers are working on it it's not their fault uh it's just you know whatever there's some issues so a couple of weeks ago uh we took uh zooms out for a spin and we've been using it ever since for people to contribute to the program and the first time out we essentially just said well let's try this out and just see what it sounds like and we just said call in and just tell us who you are and what you're doing or zoom in and tell us what you're doing and uh

We loved it. It was a lot of fun. Really, didn't we? And immediately after the break, we thought, okay, even when the phones are back and we're supposed to be getting a pretty kick-ass phone system, and time will tell, but even when that's back, we need to keep doing this. Yeah, and so we're going to do that again in just a second. I'd actually thought about trying a segment...

That I have a name for, which is called, who is your daddy and what does he do? About, you know, just calling in and telling us about your, one of your parents or something like that. But we could use this Zoom interface for almost anything. What do you have going on? Yeah. Chuck, to me, a couple of months ago said he wanted to do something similar to this and call it Zoom with a View.

Right. Show us where you are. Show us where you are. But that was more in line with like, you know, if you were in like a picturesque place or something like that, I like the idea of like, what are you doing? Yeah. So that's kind of what we want to do. And I like the name Open Zoomadelphia. So.

And thank you to the listener who had emailed me. He's like, dude, you have to play Rump Shaker from Rex and FX. It's your theme song. I'm like, dude, you are spot on. So if you text the word Zoom to 39333, we will send you a link. And just...

Jump in and tell us who you are, what you're doing, anything you want to say. What the hell? Let's do it. Open Zoomadelphia, all right? If you have questions for us, whatever. Yeah. I obviously wasn't really able to tune in last week, but I followed you guys on social media. And that was, I saw the video and I had to ask you guys for context because I got such a kick out of 2848. That was great.

That was so funny, man. For me, there was no context and it didn't need context. It was awesome. The guy's bald buddy who's 28 years old. His nickname is 2848 because he's 28 years old and looks like he's 48. While we are waiting some Zooms to come in,

I would like to give a big, big thank you to some friends that we made last year in Clearwater. And that is both Allison and Liz. They own a restaurant called The Boxer in Clearwater. They're awesome. And they had us out for dinner. And we had a great time. It's this really cool spot. It's got an interesting story to it as well.

it used to be called the Brown Boxer back in the day. And it was named after a dog. The original owner's dog was a Brown Boxer. So they called it the Brown Boxer. And there were partners with Allison and Liz, I believe. I'm going to mess up some of the story. But the partnership went awry. So they decided to change the name away from the original because that guy came up with the original name, the Brown Boxer. So now they just call it the Boxer. And they had to move locations around.

just this past year. So they moved across the street to a new spot and they were only a few days in that they had signed a new lease. Like four days. And the hurricane hit. Yeah. The second hurricane hit and destroyed it. Destroyed all their equipment. And by the way, they did not have the proper insurance at the time yet. They thought, yeah, I guess they would have some time to get that together. Yeah, yeah. It hit and everything that was in there, all the equipment,

shot. Yeah, can't use it. And they just, they ate it. There was no reparation for it at all. And so they just ate all that money and they started over again and they did all the hard work, them and their co-workers and eventually the regulars and community came in and started helping them out. But Allison and Liz were saying that it was just them with a squeegee and brooms and equipment and they were just

Essentially, just they threw all the, you know, the ovens and the fryers and the refrigerators and everything. They just threw it out front. It's brutal. And made posts that, hey, here's scrap. Come and get it if you want it. And that's what they had to do. Yeah. And they managed to bounce back. And it is hard to believe looking at that place. That was in November, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hard to believe how this place looked now. I mean, it was great joint with the garage doors that open up out front. It's an open air all the way into the street and everything. So they were awesome. They had great food, wonderful drinks, cool people working there. And Allison, I don't know if Liz came by the next day. She did, yeah. To Coco's. They were both there? And a guy named Jeff as well. I think he's one of the investors and one of the owners. And yeah, they stopped by Coco's the next day too.

Yeah, so it was cool to hang out with those guys. We had met them last year at Coco's. Allison came up and told us what a fan she was, and she was telling us about their restaurant. We're like, well, next year we'll come by. Yeah. We'll get a bite to eat, and that's what we did. I still have to get over because you guys were raving about the food. Yeah, it was great. It was just a cool night out, and it was...

And then they came the next day and hung out, and it was just, it was a blast. It was a really good trip. Other than the flight home, the trip was excellent. Yeah, but you talk about the way they were able to reclaim the area. I mean, Cocos itself, we were being told that the parking lot had basically become a large whirlpool because of the way the buildings were situated.

It was just swirling around. They found their dumpster out in the bay. I mean, everything was just all over the place, but you would never know looking at it. Yeah, the stuff from bars that were across the street, Steve, ended up in Coco's, and the stuff that was in Coco's ended up in the Intercoastal Waterway. And I was chatting with Glenn on Friday after our broadcast. I mean, he got back to work the next day, and you started the...

cleanup process he said um a couple things happened first of all uh he cried yeah he was looking around and he just couldn't believe the damage second of all uh there were just fires that were popping i mean he couldn't believe that and then the positive out of all of it was that people were just stopping by and helping and like the community rallied around and it wasn't just cocos and it wasn't just the boxer it's great people that needed help and help was offered up you know what nick uh i had the best crab imperial in my entire life at cocos after our show on he was going on it

Well, later that night. He shared some with me. Yeah. It was damn good. It was damn good. And I want you to reach out to Glenn to see if he can provide me with the recipe because... Oh, I thought it was going to be more... He said it was his mom's recipe. ...on dry ice, right? Yeah. Something along those lines, yeah. He said it was his mom's recipe? Yeah, that's what he said. Oh, nice. We'll try and get that for you. Are you guys ready for Open Toon Meal? Yeah! Yeah!

All right. Our first Zoomer this morning. We have Mike and his daughter Sage who are joining us in the car. Hey, Mike, how you doing, man? Hey, guys. Gadzooks. Gadzooks. Nice to see you. Where are you and Sage off to this morning? We are about to drop her off at school. Oh, hi, Sage. How you doing? What grade are you in, Sage?

second going into third second grade going into third man you're getting close to the end of second grade has it been a good year so far yes awesome so next year you'll be driving sage correct i can't wait it'd be great my brother can drive that's true wow is it so uh you have a brother who's old enough to drive uh is do you have any other brothers or sisters

So mommy and daddy took a little break there for a moment. There's a 10-year gap, yeah. Yes. Wow. That's a big gap. Nice. I did that to myself. Yeah.

I had the same thing happen. Ours was five years, not ten years. So what's up? Mike, anything you want to bring up or are you just checking in and saying hi? Checking in. Just wanted to try this out. It's pretty fun to see you guys. It is pretty wild. It's kind of a vertical frame here, so we're looking at you sort of sideways. After school, are you going to work? And if so, where are you going to work?

I work for Game Truck. Game Truck. The mobile video game player. Oh, okay.

Oh, and look, Sage is holding up an advertisement for Game Truck. Those things happen to be in the right time there. Those things are a they're a blast. They're a great time when my kids were of a younger age. We didn't hire one, but we went to parties where those were. I've seen them. They look awesome. Yeah, the kids love them. Are you a gamer yourself, Mike?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am quite the gamer. What's your poison? Right now it's Far Cry and Sea of Thieves. Far Cry, I was in the series for a long time and then kind of disconnected is a great game. Both Preston and I currently are playing Sniper Elite. Have you played that one?

I liked three a lot. Four was okay. I haven't touched the newer ones. Yeah, Sniper Elite Resistance. It's a great game. By the way, Far Cry, that was the first game I ever played that had a wingsuit. Yes, it did. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, and that was a game changer because now the new Spider-Man has a wingsuit, and it's badass. Do you remember one of the things also with Far Cry is that the body mechanics, the physics...

of the way the bodies would react to collisions and things like that. It was the first one to employ, at that time, those advanced graphics. So it's a great game. Yeah, it is. It's a lot of fun. Hey, Sage, what do you like to play? What do you like to play, game? Sage, what game? Like video games. She's thinking, man. Mario Kart, Minecraft...

Minecraft. Hey, Sage, do you ever go with your daddy to go to work? And I love when you're tilting your head. She's turning her head sideways. There we go. That's better. Sage, do you ever go with your dad to work?

No. She's good with the advertisement. She held up the poster instantly, so you got to keep her along. Who would have thought she'd have done that? Sage, who's your favorite teacher this year? Hold on, say it one more time. My name is...

Miss Belay. Excellent. All right. Well, we'll let you get on to school and keep doing what you're doing. I won't talk to them without you. All right. Mike, thanks for checking in. We appreciate it, bud.

Mike and Sage. See you later. Wow. She's a very articulate young lady. She's very cute. Going into third grade. Yeah. Sometimes it can be difficult for little kids to talk to adults, but she just jumped right in there. All right. Our next Zoomer that we have on Open Zoomadelphia, we have Nathan who is here with us this morning. Hey, Nathan. How you doing, man?

Hey, it's actually Richard. That's just my Google name. Who are you on the run from? The world. The world. Wait a minute. Why is that your Google name? It's my favorite video game character. So it's just easier to have it on there than have a bunch of people find me. From Uncharted. Yeah. Yes. Great series. Yes. Yeah. Great series. So are you at work right now? I am. And what do you do?

I am a body prep guy over at car shop out in Exton. You look like you're working right now. I am. Are you putting on a coat of wax? What are you doing? I am sanding down a hood for a customer's car. Are these all, are these, so these are custom vehicles?

No, some of these are just redos for customers that want to get imperfections out of their cars. Others are body work that we do for the cars so that we can sell them. I had my car detailed and it was pristine. It was so amazing. And I called the guy that detailed it. I was like, the hood, there's these white spots all over it. What happened? What did you do? He's like, no, your car is just clean now. And that's from the little rocks hitting your car when you drive on the Schuylkill every day. I was like...

Oh, God, that sucks. So, Richard, do you do paint work or just detailing or what exactly? Body and prep. So I get the cars ready for the painter and then hopefully I'll be moving up into paint eventually. Okay. Okay, so what's the most expensive car you're working on right there and can you show us that car? Anything high end?

It's a BMW, actually. Oh, okay. Let's take a look at that. Yeah, take a look for you. You know, why don't you do a Ferris Bueller and take it out for a drive? Oh, wow, that's nice. I hit our GT500. We just got in. Oh, wow. Where's that?

That's somewhere in sales already. I have a question. This is more of a detailing question. If you can't answer it, no big deal. Going down to the shore, obviously salt is an issue. We come back with splotches all over our cars. These white splotches all the time. Going through and getting through a car wash does nothing. You got to work really hard to get those off. Do you know the best way to remove stuff like that?

What are they? Is it like dried on? Yeah, they're like water. It's almost like water spots that don't go away from simply soap and water. You know what I mean? Oh, that's more of a... So you know clay bars? No. All right, well, if you go to the car shop or whatever you got...

Ask them for a clay bar. What they'll give you is basically this putty thing. You knead it up, you get it warmed up, and then you use it with water to rub on the car, and it lets you take off different water that's stained in the paint. So instead of getting it washed, it's not going to take it off. You have to kind of sand it out, per se. It's a very fine-grit sander. Will you actually have to sand it out, or will rubbing this in take care of that?

Sometimes that'll work. Other times you have to go a little heavier, get it polished, like re-buffed and everything. Yes, that's what I've had to do before. A lot of times, if you want to do it yourself, it'll take out those white spots if you just do it properly, follow the instructions. What about a gasoline stain? Sometimes... I'm good now because I figured out a way when I pull out a... When I pull out, I'm real good at pulling out. But you know what I'm talking about, right? You get a little gas stain on the side of the car by the nozzle and it discolors the paint. How do you...

Is there any way to fix that? So sometimes the same thing will work. Most of the time it'll end up being a rebuff job or if it's bad enough, you'll have to repaint that section. Oh, hey, Richard, have you met any of us before? Like, have you ever been out to any of our events? And if so, which ones? No, I have not. But I'd love to get out there. I think I was at one of the...

What was that one show they had WMOR there? It was... The Barbecue? And the Max Saturn play. I was there for that. Okay. All right, all right. Very cool. Well, come out to Kenan's. You can buff a lot of cars. They'll be covered in puke. Yeah. Usually happens. Yeah.

All right, Richard. Thanks for checking in, brother. Appreciate you listening. Yeah, have a great day, guys. All right, we'll see you later. All right, there you go. Working on cars. Being around cars and, you know, um...

Car showrooms. I find those interesting, comforting, cool places. I don't know why. All right. We're going to move on to another Zoomer. We're doing open Zoom Adelphia this morning. And we have listener Lee who is checking in now. Hey, Lee. How you doing, man? Good morning. It's Turkey Talk from Richlands, North Carolina. Oh. We talked before. Yeah. I remember. We saw the turkey in your yard. Yeah.

And we learned about your land. You've got a nice little plot of land there. What's

What's the latest today? Enjoying your cup of coffee outside with your turkey? Yeah, a little bit of cup of coffee. You know, just seeing what's going on out here, feeding the chickens and the dogs, getting the property ready for summertime. Although I'm in shorts and a t-shirt right now. It's beautiful. So hopefully, you know, it'll get a little bit warmer here in the next couple weeks. But yeah, just loving life out here, man. Are the chickens in the... Oh, I lost it.

Chickens in the bread pan, pick it up. Oh, I thought you were doing damn. And then we're going to do the white chickens in the white and the bread pan. Yeah. Chicken in the bread pan. Pick it up. So, yeah, well, they eat Cheerios. They love Cheerios. She loves apples. We feed them any kind of leftovers that we have bread and stuff like that.

Sometimes they eat better than my teenagers. But yeah, we have feed for them. But yeah, they do pick out dough every once in a while. Is that the chicken coop behind you? You were just over by the chicken coop. Is that where they all? Yeah. So here's the coop. I have my outside bar over on the other side there that I've built with a couple smokers. But yeah, I just read the chickens and smoke. They just want. No, they just walk right in the smoker and there's dinner.

So you have the house right there, and then there seems to be a house in the distance. Is that your neighbor? No, we don't have any neighbors here. We're just surrounded by fields that they turn over every couple months. That's a nice tract of land you got there. Yeah, I don't own all of it, unfortunately. There's 300 acres. They do plant corn, tobacco, soybeans, vegetables.

Yeah. The tobacco is really cool when that comes up and how they harvest it and all that. But it changes every few months that they till it and change it up. It is kind of a beautiful, I mean, the video is beautiful. The area, you have these open fields and it's, yeah. So from here, from the hustle and bustle of this area down there, are you completely a convert? It's, I really, you know,

honestly, I don't have a lot of family up there that I visit or am close to, so I don't even like going to visit, I'll be honest with you. It's a different lifestyle. Not to say that it moves slower, but it does move slower. I don't miss 422 and 76. I used to drive that every day into Germantown. I own my own business now, and I do furniture refinishing on the side here. But yeah, I'm kind of

Stay at home, dad, and protect the flock. I watch the kids get on the bus and off the bus. I wouldn't trade it for the world. It's completely different down here. Everyone's a little bit nicer and takes a little bit of deep breath before they talk to you instead of that Philly attitude. But I'll be honest with you, I haven't lost it. I still have a little bit of that Philly in me. Tell me again where in North Carolina you are.

Yeah, we're in Richlands. So we're about 45 minutes north of Wilmington, North Carolina. So Topsail Island we're close to. So, you know, we have this farmland area around us, but we also have, you know, the beaches within an hour. So it's really accessible.

Yeah, Wilmington is absolutely beautiful. I've been there a couple times and I'd love to get back. But I have to tell you that one of the worst smells I've ever encountered was on a drive from Raleigh to Wilmington, North Carolina. We got stuck behind pig trucks and pig farms are all over North Carolina. Are there particular times of year where you can smell them that makes it worse than other times of year?

Yeah, some mornings you go out and it's a little bit ripe. But I grew up in Pennsylvania in rural, like, New Tripoli, like, outside of Allentown. I grew up around that stuff. All right. You know, to me, it's comforting, you know, in a sense. But, yeah, some days it's a little bit ripe. We're actually really close to, you know, a military base. So we get a lot of flyovers. And occasionally you can hear them dropping bombs and doing testing. I thought you were going to say dropping pigs. No, I'm not.

Oh, wow. So that's got to be a little unnerving when you hear bombs going on. No, not at all. Everybody here is military or some form of it. So I'm obviously not that. So there's a lot of transient people moving in and out, getting restationed and stuff like that. But little towns like this, I mean, it's such a community of people.

Yeah, hog farming is a way of life down here. I mean, farming cows, I can hear the cows and the donkeys in the farm next to us. And, you know, it's just it's a different lifestyle down here. People rely on that. And it's a big industry.

Hey, Lee, what's your dog's name? I saw the German Shepherd in the background there. Oh, yeah, that's Ziva. That's one of five dogs that we have. So we moved from Collegeville, PA to Richlands, North Carolina, and just went crazy. And most of it is my wife's doing, because she's not here. She works for Hershey's, so she's on the road all the time. So they're really my animals to take care of. Yeah, yeah. They're beautiful. Beautiful.

Thank you. Nice. Well, Lee, it's good to catch up with you again. Thanks for joining us this morning, brother. We appreciate it. You have a good one. All right. We'll talk to you soon. Lee, it's ignoring the Carolina. Yep. I liked it. Granny, will your dog bite no child? No.

Because sometimes people would tell you down south, they'd be like, don't pet that dog. That one bites. Yeah. You know what I mean? So you do need to ask. All right. We have another Zoomer on the line. Open Zoomadelphia. And we got Jackie D. Jackie D. Who's on this? Hey, Jackie. Hey, guys. How are you this morning? We're doing great. And where are you checking in from this morning on Open Zoomadelphia? Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Can you turn your phone to landscape mode?

I do have it on landscape. Oh, okay. We're seeing you. We're seeing you. There we go. That portrait. There you go. Oh, we're the other way now. Okay. Nice. So, obviously, you're from the area. In the background, I see the love statue on your bookshelf. I positioned it perfectly. Where are you from around here originally? I'm actually originally from Junietta. Oh. Do you know Gary Lauer? I do not. I moved out in fourth grade. Oh.

Oh, okay. So quite a while back. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Went there last year for a golf trip. Had a great time. There's a lot of people that come into that region for golf courses. There's tons of that in that area. It's a specialization at Coastal Carolina University. That's actually where I work. Oh, okay, cool. And you're at work right now? That's where you are? You're not at home? Unfortunately, yes. Okay. What do you do for the school?

I'm an administrative specialist for some of the education departments. All right. Nice. And what brought you to that region? My husband actually worked at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania or Bloomsburg University rather before we moved here. He got a job here and I unfortunately followed in a sense. How long have you been there? May will be nine years. Wow. Okay. And what do you honestly what do you think? What do you think about the area?

I cannot wait to move back. Really? Oh, wow. Well, we have a nine-year-old and a six-year-old. Our nine-year-old was born in Bloomsburg. Our six-year-old was born here. It's great, but it's way too touristy for me personally. But all of our family's back up north. We have no one here. You're separated from family, and you're saying when you say touristy, when you go out to do things, you're surrounded by other people who are on vacation and stuff like that all the time, correct? Correct.

Like when I want to go to the beach in the summer? Yeah. No. Can't do it. I was in Myrtle Beach around this time last year with my son's rugby team, and they had that cool little area. There's like a lake and like a boardwalk around the lake and all those restaurants and everything. And like that is super touristy, right? Yeah. Myrtle's Inlet? I guess that's what it is. I wasn't really paying attention to names of places. Yeah.

It's alright, I won't touch you. No, but they had like these cool, like you go on these like speedboat rides, right? And, you know, I mean... It's touristy. It's touristy, but like think of like the Wildwood Boardwalk, a little bit cleaner, actually a lot cleaner, and like, but...

Not on a coast. It's just kind of in the middle of like. But they don't call it a boardwalk. It's so weird to me because I'm like, it's not. I mean, it's a boardwalk, but if they don't call it that, I don't even know what they call because I just ignore them and call them. Damn them to hell. So of all the things. And, you know, obviously you said you shouldn't get back. What's the one thing that you really miss about the area? If you could distill it down to one thing.

Aside from family, obviously just being around the friends. And obviously my flyers. I mean, I am a huge flyer fan. Yeah, we've got a mug and everything. Because I'm doing great this year. I still can't abandon them. We were there for game six when we lost. It was painful. And you clearly still listen to us in the morning. I do every morning. This is my favorite highlight of the day. Oh, we appreciate it. Oh, man. And I can't tell you how much we, as a listener...

So much enjoy and appreciate that you guys do the Zoom. This is like amazing to me that you guys do this and the interaction that we get with you guys is amazing. When you go to a place like Los Angeles, you know, there's Philly centric bars. Are there any Philly bars in a place like Myrtle Beach? Like, can you go and watch a Flyers game somewhere?

I mean, I ask them to put it on no matter where I go, but that's who I am. But, I mean, there are a couple. I mean, you're going to see more Steelers everywhere. But I will tell you, I'm in a Jeep club and we just did the St. Paddy's Day Parade and everyone was wearing, like, I saw so many Eagles things. Obviously, because it's green, it's easy. But I would have people telling me, go Chiefs. And I was like, I don't even have...

even have anything showing that i'm going to go go birds there you go you're holding up the end down there which we appreciate so and trust me i do it very loudly yeah and just quickly so you talk about wanting to get back is that in the cards or is that just in the in the long distance fingers crossed for the last what i said nine years four years we've been trying to get back okay it's really hard so if you got any connections to temple let

You will be the first to know. Excellent. Thank you for checking in, Jackie. We appreciate it. Thank you so much, guys. Have a great one. We'll see you later. Wow. South Carolina, North Carolina, then South Carolina. We got the Carolinas covered. I think we do. Yeah. All right. Well, let's let's move on. I already like these guys. Let's move on to another one. Oh, my God. We got two guys here. We got Steve and Jesse who are joining us as we do an open Zoom Adelphia. Hey, guys, how you doing?

Hey, bitches. Hey, bitch. All right. So who's who? Who's in the orange there? What's your name? I'm Steve. All right, Steve. And then Jesse is in the yellow here. Steve, you're very smiley and very, very close to our camera. You look happy today. Always. It's a good day. We're on MMR. Yeah. It looks like you're... Is that you in the back doing some sort of sewer work with the hose down the grate?

Yeah, we're rebuilding a storm drain right now. I'm in the hole. Oh, he's actually standing in the hole. Okay, can you go all the way down in there and take the phone with you? Preston's always wanted to go in a manhole. Yeah, I've always wanted to go in a manhole. So, Jesse, how far down does that hole go?

About knee high. Oh, so it's a smaller... Oh, and then it goes into pipes down there. This isn't one of those that you can go walk around in. Do you ever go all the way down into a full-on sewer chute that you can walk in? Unfortunately, I'm a little too fluffy to be going down. That's not me.

I like how you guys, by the way, you're wearing like a neon green hoodie. Orange, you say your name's Steve? Is that your name? Yeah. Yeah. So you're wearing this orange. You guys are like, it's kind of like a sewage version of Miami Vice. There you go. Yeah. I love it, though. I get the impression that you guys go out for beers at least twice a week after work. Am I right about that? Yeah. All right. And which one of you two usually ends up buying?

We split it. It goes back and forth. And where are you guys working today? What area of the general spot are you? Feasterville. It's a nice area, nice suburban area on a quiet street. Yeah, we're in a little neighborhood and it's nice and quiet back here. Do you ever have that situation where an attractive housewife comes down these steps with a pot of coffee or a thing of lemonade because you're hardworking men?

No, we don't get that around here. I hope you don't get that around here. You don't get that around here. The current project that you guys are working on, is there a timeline on when they want you done by? No, just whenever. We got four in a row to do.

All right. So, like, during heavy rains and stuff like that, does it go bonkers for you guys? Or what is the worst scenario for the work you do weather-wise? I assume that's it, right? Flooding and everything? Yeah, flooding and then snowstorms. Or sewer backups. We get to deal with that. Oh, and what's... I mean, are we talking, you know, the whole panacea of stuff that you're dealing with? Yeah, all right. Yeah, poop, tampons, you name it. All right, so I got to ask, what's the most...

knee bending, fall down to your face, horrific thing you've ever seen come out of a sewer? Uh, I would have to say grease from like restaurants. That's the most foul. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, grease is a thousand times worse than poop. All right. And that can, that can lead to those fatbergs that we've heard of before. Fatbergs are crazy around here. Uh,

Oh, wow. So fatbergs are like worse in residential areas or I thought they'd be more like, you know, in more commercial areas. Well, yeah, we're our sewer systems, a mix of residential and commercials. Oh, all right. All right. Cool. I mean, listen, the work you do is invaluable, man. Without it, we'd be screwed. None of us want to do it. So thank you guys for doing what you do.

Thank you. Thanks for keeping us rocking during the day. You got it, buddy. All right, thank you. Steve and Jesse working hard, man. Wow. That's a... Well, you've seen the show, Dirty Jobs. Absolutely. That's it, man. That is a dirty job, man. And some people get up there and they...

They get knee deep in that stuff. They keep, as you said, we don't have the stones to do that. They do it for us. All right, let's go to another Zoomer. And now we have, it's Gloria. Gloria. Hey, Gloria. G-L-O-R-I-A. Gloria. I'm checking in from Wisconsin. Wisconsin? Wisconsin? Oh, my God. How long have you been there? 15 years. Oh, my God. And you're from this area?

I'm from South Jersey. I'm a Sturdy babe. Okay, wow. Wisconsin, one of the states I've never been to. I have been. And I would like to. Actually, there's some great golf in Wisconsin. Oh, yeah? Is there? Yeah, there is. I live in southeastern Wisconsin, so I'm about 20 minutes from Milwaukee and about an hour from Chicago. Okay, all right. You know what? If you're flying across the country...

and you happen to be heading in the northern region and you fly by the Great Lakes, it is very easy to pick out Chicago and Milwaukee from the sky. Yes, you're exactly right. They look really gorgeous. And I always forget about Milwaukee being on the water right there. Do you ever go to Milwaukee and spend time there for whatever reason?

I do. I do. There's a lot to do in Milwaukee. There's a lot of museums. There's the old side of Milwaukee, just like there's the old Philly. And there's old Milwaukee beer, too. And shots. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Shots brewery. Yeah. There's lots of breweries. Actually, if you take a brewery tour, then they give you...

Free beer at the end of the tour. Well, there you go. That's inducement enough. So you've been there now for a while. Compare and contrast. I came out here for college and then I met my husband in college. All right. And do you love it? I love it. I love it. I became a fan of the show because my sister, she lives in Aspen, actually. Oh, so you started listening while you were out there through your sister.

Yes. So we were on a road trip. Unfortunately, we were on a road trip because my grandmother passed away two years ago. But we were traveling from Philly to Pittsburgh for that. And she put on the Press and Steve podcast. I'm like, what is this? She's like, just listen. Oh, that's awesome. Have you ever been to the town called Westfield, Wisconsin? I don't know. It's a small town. It's north of Madison, north and west of Madison. Yeah.

I think I've driven past it on my way to...

Sioux Falls. Okay. My grandmother grew up there, and her name was Ruth McElwain. She was born Ruth Eubank, and there's a general store in that town called the Eubank General Store, and so that's where she grew up going. If you're ever in Westfield, drive by the store, take a picture, send it to me. My dad will be very, very happy, and I've shared this story on the air before, but my grandmother had a fairly distinct Wisconsin accent, so she would be the person who would say, Tim, what do we need a cassette player for?

What are your thoughts on the Wisconsin accent? I like it. I've actually picked up on that a little bit. So I have a mix of a Long Island accent and Wisconsin accent. Where'd you get the Long Island from?

I got it from my grandmother who lives in Nassau County. Nassau County, yes. So locally, when people want to give you a flavor of the dialect around here, they'll pick a word like wooder to say. What is a Wisconsin word that is used to demonstrate the accent?

So, like, water fountain, they call it the bubbler. The bubbler. The bubbler. Wow. I like that. I've lived here for so long, I still refuse to call it that. Never in my life have I heard the term the bubbler before. It sounds like some bizarre murderer. Wow. Oh, this is clearly the work of the bubbler. Oh, my God. And then bag, I say big. Big. Yeah. Don't forget your bag, darling. Question, what do you do for work, Gloria?

I work part-time at a bakery in a small-town bakery in Union Grove, Wisconsin. Okay. And what I mean by small-town is like it's a small town. Like everybody knows everybody in that town. Wow. So what's the specialty of the bakery? I assume you have a fair amount of German, right, there? A lot of Danish. A lot of Danish. A lot of Danish.

settled in the Racine County area. That's where I'm from. Okay. And if everybody knows everybody in this, who's the town slut? You're going to share that with us, Gloria? Yeah.

Nope. If you can't answer, it's you. Oh, boy. But it's like a family bakery. Family-owned bakery. All right. Nice. If you recommend it, we'll be expecting a package in the mail. Now, that's awesome, man. That's terrific. You seem happy. You seem to love the area. And we're thrilled that you listened to us. That's very kind of you.

Yep, yep, I do. And you guys make my day. And if I can't catch it live, I always listen to the podcast and everything else. Awesome. All right, well, thank you, Gloria. We appreciate you checking in this morning. Take care of yourself, all right? We'll see you later. All right, get zooms. We'll see you. From Wisconsin. So we've gotten South Carolina, North Carolina, Wisconsin. Where are we going to go next? I'm going to go, I'm going to go, I'm going to go, I'm going to go.

We're actually running out of time here. We're just getting started, it feels like. All right, we have Phil who is joining us next. Hey, Phil. Hey, you guys rock. What's up, buddy? Thank you, bud. Nice to see you. Phil Kelsch, it says here. That is correct. Where are you from, Phil? I am from Levittown, Pennsylvania. Kathy! Do we need to ask him what section? What section?

I'm right around the street from you over near East Lane. I'm on Echo Lane. Oh, he's in my section. In Elvenberry. Oh, really? So that was your home growing up, Kathy, in that general area? Yep. He knew the street I lived on. So there's probably a chance at some point that you guys made out, correct? Stop it. Hey, so about the Levittown sections. For those of us who aren't aware, can you explain why there are sections of Levittown? What is it?

what it means? I moved here in 08. I'm originally from Jersey, so it took me a while to even understand how to get around these neighborhoods. We were looking for houses. You turn into one section, you end up in another section. It's very confusing. They all look the same. Levittown was built and it was separated in sections. They're all separated by trees. And

They look exactly the same. There's different types of homes. There's a few different types of homes. As you drive through the sections, one section has all the same types of homes. An older neighborhood community where when they were expanding neighborhoods, they just

put them up. They just built them. Like a Levittown. All those Levitt houses. So that would be one section. So the point of delineation is the model of home, basically? Oh, no. For the sections? Yeah. No, not really. I mean, like I said, I forget how many there are. Maybe like five or six different types of homes. If Paula Decker's here, she knows all the information. She knows it in and out. Yeah, yeah. What do you do, Phil, for a living? I

I worked for Pensbury School District. Oh! Did you hear about the recent honoree? Yeah, I saw my boss on here last week. I heard the name. I'm like, there's no way that's him. And then I hear Tom Smith popped up in the street. And I'm like...

What do you do at the district? I run their printing department. I'm probably going to be printing your Hall of Fame programs in about six months. Make sure you use a good picture of me. Hey, listen. I'll send you a C-note if you use a horrible picture. We have a picture of her with bedhead. If you could use that, that would be amazing.

Actually, I met you guys a few times. My family and I like to go to the Camp Out for Hunger every year. And Kathy actually chose my son, Dylan, to sit in the privilege set. So you're going to get a good picture, Kathy. All right. So wait, hang on. What did he... How did you guys dress in order to get picked to sit down? Dylan just stood on a chair and waved his arms. And Kathy saw him in the audience and picked him. And then...

He had actually texted you guys because it was our 20th wedding anniversary that same day, too. So when Kathy's name comes up around there, is there sort of a reverential pause where everyone kind of puts their hands on their hearts and stuff like that? Yeah, we kind of just sit in a circle and chant Kathy's name. It's like Randolph Scott. Randolph Scott! Randolph Scott!

What the hell is that? Blazing saddles. Blazing saddles. All right. Wow. Nice. So anything interesting you want to share with us, Phil, since you're just kind of checking in? We're doing open Zoomadelphia. Anything you want to mention? No, I just wanted to check in. All good. Say hello and, you know, rock. Love the show. Listen every day. Thank you, man. We appreciate the support for the show. It really means a lot. Hey, what time are you going to the gym after work? Oh.

Uh, well, I got to pick up my 17 year old who's, and then he's, uh, is that your work? Why do you ask him that? He's just because real recognizes real, you know what I'm saying? No, he can see it in his arms. I'm like, yeah, that guy works. Oh my God. All right. Thanks, Phil. We appreciate it, man. Take care. We'll see you later. All right. By the way, uh, there were six different models of houses in Levittown. Uh,

And they each had a name, the Levittown or the Rancher or the Jubilee. Probably built like in the 1950s or something like that. It was exactly what it was. What was your model? Do you remember? So mine had... I forget exactly what... The Lucy Goosey. No, I forget what it was because my house had work done on it. So they added my parents... My grandparents lived there and they had put an addition on it. And then when my parents moved there, they put several additions on it. So I don't... I forget what...

That's the funniest thing because like with the original Levitt homes, which were meant to be affordable homes for returning GIs, Preston throughout the years, they've taken these core little homes and added on and added on and they're these sort of

Frankenstein versions of the original house. Is that what you have? Yeah, like we have one of the bigger houses in the neighborhood because there were so many additions to them. And none of the houses that they built had basements. So none of those houses. No kidding. Wow. Okay. Interesting. All right. Let's go to another Zoomer. We're doing an open Zoomadelphia and we have Stephen Crumley joining us now. Hey, Steve. How you doing, bud? Good, good. How you guys doing? Good. Nice to see you. Where are you off to today? You're in the car.

Yeah, and I had a lumber delivery early this morning that has to be delivered again tomorrow, but it is what it is. I saw you guys over the weekend, and I was the guy that showed up late, and you guys took a picture with me when you guys were eating lunch. Oh, yeah! What happened? Like, you were in and out. He came by Coco's, and he came towards the end. We were already done. Oh, we were eating lunch there? Yeah. Oh, yes! Yes! I caught him as he was coming out of the bathroom, and I was going in, and then when I came out of the bathroom, he was like, wait...

He's like, and it was funny because, Press, we shared this look, and I was like, I think he recognized, and then I was like, I'm not going to say anything. And when I came out of the bathroom, that's when you introduced yourself to me. And I said, hey, listen, we're all over here. I appreciate it. Yeah, man. How good a time, though? Did you get some time to hang out? No.

Did you get to know I showed up right when the show ended. I had to do a couple of things for work and I just missed it. But I'm taking off for next year. All right. Please, man, you can see what it's like. It's amazing. So, yeah, put that on the calendar now. Yeah. By the way, Stephen, since we have a nice close up shot of you, you have a world class beard there, man. You spent a lot of time on that. No, I didn't even come with this morning, but I appreciate it. You look like you take care of that thing.

I try a little bit. I got a good barber. What is missing is one pronounced white strip in the middle like Pierre. I got plenty of white stripes coming. It's going to start soon. What's your story, Steven? Are you single? Are you married? What's up? I'm married. I got three kids, a 17-year-old, a 4-year-old, a 2-year-old. Whoa. Actually, I'm taking the 17-year-old to MM BBQ this year. We got the lounge passes and stuff. Oh, wow.

I'm bringing a bunch of my buddies. We're going to bring him. It's his first concert, and he's going to the Army right after school. Wow. Your oldest is? Yeah. Wow. How do you feel about that?

It's rough. It's rough. But it's his decision. Sure, sure. I would imagine a sense of pride but also concern is going to be. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, that makes total sense. He doesn't have any friends going with him. There wasn't anything pushing him. He was never in ROTC. Okay. That's very cool, man. Good for him. It'll open up a whole new world for him. He'll find a whole new group as well. Shout out to your son, whatever his name is. Where does he go to school?

He goes to Wesley Chapel High School. His name's the same as mine. There you go. Steven Crumley. All right, with a name like Crumley, what'd you get growing up? Are you Crum? Is that your nickname or what? Yeah, the only thing I didn't get called was Crumbum. Yeah, no Crumbum. Did you get Crumbag?

I got crumb everything. Okay. Yeah, crumb bum though. You're a real crumb bum. That's right. So when you were down in Florida, who were you traveling with?

I wasn't traveling. I moved down here four years ago. Oh, you live there. He lives there. He's delivering lumber in Clearwater today, correct? I missed that part. Yeah, I had a delivery show up and they didn't have the right truck, so they got to come back again tomorrow. Dude, well, next year we'll see you. You take some time off and you come hang with us and we'll see you at the barbecue.

Yeah, I'll be out there. I'll see if I can get anybody's attention and try and get my son a picture too. Absolutely. Wish him luck. We're accessible. We're going to have the President Steve side stage, so we will be there. So we would love to meet you and little Steven.

I appreciate it, man. You guys are awesome. Thank you. You guys are the only normal thing in my life still. I'm sorry. That's depressing. All right. Thank you, Steven. Take care, brother. All right. Well, there you go. We're going to wrap up open Zuma Delphia with that one. Steven was great, man. He just, uh, he was very, he was kind of very hesitant. I'm sorry. I don't mean to bother you guys. I just want to, we're like, no, come on. That's what we're here for. Wow. All right. That's really cool, man. Uh,

By the way, somebody texted and says Levittown section explanation. Each section has a name. Example, Rose Arbor. The main street of the Rose Arbor section is called Rose Arbor Lane. The name of a section is the name of the main road and every street in every section can be accessed from the same road. So if you needed to find a street in a section, you can drive on.

On the main road, until you find the street you're looking for, you will come across it sooner or later. So you're talking about, I understand this, the main road that bisects all the other roads is the one that determines the section, correct? Correct.

So in other words, so there's one road that runs across that bisects all the other roads in the town, the main sort of conduit. No, I don't think that's what he's saying. I think he's saying per section. So Elderberry Drive would be, so I grew up in Elderberry. Elderberry Drive would go through my section. I believe what they're saying is each street...

can be each side street can be accessible. A section. No, no, no. To to Elderberry Drive.

Okay. I think it's kind of like what you were saying. Do you know, it's easier to understand Dune. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, how many sections are there? My God, look at this. Quincy Hollow, Indian Creek, Blue Ridge, Mill Creek, Plum Bridge. Cathy Falls. Golden Ridge, Orangewood. Birch Valley. Golden Finger. What is that? North Park. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Dude, there's like 30 sections. Yeah, they're all... Yeah. And it's...

The guy was right, though. If you're not familiar with it... Can you see where I was? I was in Elderberry. Give me a direction on the map. Go over to the right of the page, Preston. Oh, I see it. Elderberry, North Park, Birch Valley. They were all connected. You'd be driving in Elderberry and then all of a sudden, if you just make one turn, you're in North Park. Did you know that? I knew it, of course. I grew up there. These sections don't look that bad.

big either. Like you can, you know what I mean? Some of them are not. Some of them are bigger than others. Like if you look at, uh, what's the one up at the top there? Is that Highland Park? Yeah, Highland Park. That's large. Indian Creek or New Falls Road. There's nowhere else around here that's like that. It's just Levittown. Yeah.

Except for the Levittown in New York. Like, if you drive through there, it looks very similar to the one in Pennsylvania. Does it have sections? I mean, you know, named sections? Yeah, I believe it was organized the same way. So, Midtown Township, Bristol Township, Tullytown Borough. How do you reconcile all this? Different townships and a few different school districts. All right, just going back to Bucksco versus Delco. Bucks County was named after...

Buck Rogers. You don't remember? Buckingham Shire. I thought you guys remember. You guys both knew the answer to that question. When we did Boxco vs. Delco. I totally forgot. Casey, chicken in a bed bran. Pick it out though. Bed bran.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Kathy. Our next guest returning to our studio. It's been a long time, at least a decade since he's been here. And he is a phenomenal musician, specifically with the acoustic guitar, which is why I'm surprised he's wearing a Pantera shirt. But it is nice to see, and he's going to be performing at the Sellersville Theater tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome back Andy McKee. Yay!

How you doing, Andy? I'm doing great, man. Thanks so much for having me back. Our pleasure. Listen, we've been, you know, we go way back as far as our fandom goes and had had you by our studio on a couple of occasions. But just to re-familiarize or maybe even for people who are not familiar with you at all, you know, you first got on the radar to most people with a YouTube video that you made. It was a song called Drifting. Yes, sir. And how long ago was that?

20 years. 20 years ago. Not much longer after the day at the zoo, if you're talking about relatively video. So you caught viral traction before viral traction was really a thing. Yeah, man. I don't even think viral video was a term at that point. That's amazing to think about being at the foundational thing that is now, it's just ginormous. YouTube is everywhere.

I want to see how many... Nick is pulling up the video now. I want to see how many views it has. It's down 61 million views. Yeah. 61 million. For finger style acoustic guitar. Right. I never would have imagined. Well, Preston was mentioning the Pantera shirt and we were talking about this. And so to bring people up to speed,

Your original love was you were playing to Metallica and Joe Satriani, and the shredding was your thing. Yeah. Electric guitar. What started the love affair with acoustic and the style that you eventually developed? Well, it's like that. Remember that Monster Ballads commercial that would come on? Right. Yes. It's like every bad boy has a song. Oh, yes. Oh.

It's kind of my deal. Yeah, man, I just, I got into the acoustic a bit more, you know, in my late teens. I found players like Michael Hedges in particular and, you know, guys like Preston Reed and Don Ross. Maybe people aren't too familiar with these guys, but, you know, it's this instrumental acoustic guitar stuff that I just, it resonated with me so much. You know, they were covering like melody and harmony and rhythm all at once and some percussive things on the guitar body. Oh, man, I just love how it's all there, you know. It's wonderful when you see

people that are doing things with an instrument that you hadn't seen before, you know, like when Stanley Jordan came along and you were like, how is that guy doing that? You know, and Eddie Van Halen's another example doing some unique things on the fretboard. And your percussive techniques...

I mean, you didn't invent that, but you certainly have your own style of doing that, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, some percussive elements on the guitar go back maybe to flamenco as maybe some of the origins of that. And then there was a player named Preston Reed that really shook my world with that and made me want to get into it and find like, well, how can I get a kick drum sound? How can I get...

you know, sort of a Tom's, you know, snare, whatever. Yeah. There was another, you remember Gabriela and Rodrigo? Oh, yes. We used to have them in from time to time. Are they still out doing their thing? And are you friends with them? I honestly never met them. No kidding. We've never crossed paths. You'd think we would somewhere, you know, like a festival or something, but we've never met. I would think that the community is, even though there's so many people play guitar, but the well-known ones might be, you know,

aware of each other or friends with each other yeah yeah somehow we've just never never crossed paths okay yeah all right so uh what's going on in your world i mean you're playing the sellersville theater tonight um or is this behind a a current um album that you have out that you're promoting yeah this summer well i've got a new album come out this summer um and uh so it's not out yet but i'm doing some new tunes on stage okay that'll be on there and then uh i've also got

Since I mentioned that drifting video being 20 years old, I'm doing a 20th anniversary of that album, which is Art of Motion. Okay. Those tunes have just kind of evolved. 20 years. It still blows my mind. It blows my mind. Well, I want to dive right in and give some people a little taste of what you do. Maybe we'll talk a little bit more, maybe play another song if that's okay. We didn't discuss this ahead of time at all. That's the way we roll. Happy to.

Yeah, so would you like to play first for us? Sure. Well, I might as well get a little aggressive here with some of that percussive stuff. So I thought I'd play this tune called Hunter's Moon. Hunter's Moon. Excellent. And Andy's going to be at Sellersville Theater tonight. This is Andy McKee on MMR. Here we go. ♪♪♪

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Andy McKee in our studio at the Sellersville Theater tonight. It's hypnotic to watch you play. It's amazing. I have so many questions about your technique because people have to ask you all the time. Yeah, yeah. About your technique and how you do what you do. Number one, I notice, obviously, as somebody who plays finger picking, you do have to grow your nails.

Yeah. And I noticed your thumbnail is pretty long. Is that the longest one? Yeah, actually. Yeah, I keep the other ones kind of short for tapping on the fretboard. Okay. Do you put nail polish on it to keep it strong or something? Because you break a nail, it could be your show. Yeah, yeah. I just tend to eat a lot of Jell-O. I've also got like a nail kit, you know. So in case it does break, I just put on a fake one. All right. No kidding. Yeah, yeah. For real. I was going to ask if there's ever an occasion where it breaks, it's like, oh, cancel a show? No. That's it.

Ladies and gentlemen, Andy has broken a nail. The show is canceled. And I did want to ask about the finger tapping and the harmonics that you're pulling off with just your right hand there. Yeah, man. How do you do that? Can I see that? Sure, sure. Are you pinching it? Yeah, I'm fretting the harmonic with my index finger and then plucking it with my thumbnail there.

No way. That's that hypnotic sound. You're providing your own accents as you're playing. Okay, because I couldn't see your thumb doing that. And I thought you were just touching it with your forefinger. So you're plucking it, you're holding the harmonic with your forefinger and plucking it with your thumb. Right, yep, yep. It's so efficient. That's why it sounds like three people are playing the guitar at the same time. Yeah, and my left hand would be like fretting the chords at that point. So my left hand's doing the chord, right hand's doing the melody on the harmonic.

Wow. It's funny, though, Andy, when you're doing the slapping portion of it, my brain just goes to, well, he's playing the guitar wrong. The way that it looks, that doesn't make any sense at all. It's the most common question you get. How is it just one person making all of these sounds? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's always what comes up. So, yeah, it's good to explain these kind of things a bit on the radio. To that point, so with this, and Preston was invoking the names of other people who do similar sort of things.

Have you ever thought of caucusing with everyone and designing the quintessential guitar for this kind of playing? Or is a regular guitar the quintessential guitar? Yeah, yeah. I mean, this is essentially a regular guitar. This is actually my signature model. I'm happy to say this is from Michael Greenfield. He's the builder. He's an independent luthier up in Montreal. Is it built stronger for the percussion?

cussed aspect of it? Yeah, it does have some additional bracing. Okay. Yeah, sometimes you might knock a brace loose inside when you're banging on it, so then you're going to get that repaired. I have another question. So hearing you play and press, I don't know if it, like memories, I was big into, and I still love fusion jazz and Lee Rittenhour and who else am I thinking of? Um,

Oh, God. Pat Metheny. You know, that sort of just where you get, you just, you're transported. So a lot of times, the people that you're into are the shredders and the guitar, you know, those kind of people. A lot of times they're motivated. There's a little bit of aggression and so on and so forth. What makes you write a song? I mean, because we tend to think of this as more ethereal, more...

Transcendental, almost. What makes for a good scenario in which you're going to write music? What kind of frame of mind delivers the best music to you? Yeah, well, keeping kind of the channel open is what I like to think of. So, like, having an open mind and letting things happen. I tend to experiment with altered tunings on the guitars. Okay. That's a big part of what I do. So, I like to put in a different tuning and then just kind of see what comes from there. Go fishing, you could say. Yeah. See what I can pull up.

That's interesting. Do you do any off-the-wall tuning? Any stuff that other people aren't doing? Yeah, I mean, that last song, actually, the tuning from low to high is C, G, D, F, B, flat, D. Okay, what is a normal tuning of a guitar? It's E, A, D, G, B, E. Yeah, so you're all over the damn place. Every string almost is different. Wow. I wanted to ask also about your posture, because when you play, you're really hunched over. You have to, in order to get...

To where you're playing the guitar, you're really bent over like that. Do you ever have any neck or back problems from that? I have had some back stuff. I usually play standing up, actually. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. I think it'd be easier to sit down. Unless you're the Hunchback of Notre Dame, yeah. Well, maybe because some classical guys, they will...

angle their guitar almost straight up and down yeah um and i didn't know if a position like that would be beneficial to you yeah yeah that that can definitely help you get up the fretboard okay that sort of vertical positioning but yeah uh yeah with with the percussive stuff see i was kind of hitting on the lower side of the guitar yes kind of got to reach all the way over there as well okay makes it tricky now in uh i saw some uh pictures of you

in preparation for this interview and there's a picture of you using a really funky looking instrument. It looks like a regular guitar except the body has this kind of growth out of it that goes up to the neck. It's like a separate neck on the guitar but an acoustic guitar. It's not like a double neck that you might see like Jimmy Page or something like that.

What is this really interesting looking instrument? That's called a harp guitar. A harp guitar. Yeah, they've been around for centuries, actually, in different shapes and sizes, numbers of strings and all that. All you really need is one string that isn't over the fretboard to be qualified as a harp guitar. Mine's got six sub-bass harp strings.

And so that's what that is. Yeah, I've got it out on the road with me. I've got it. I'll have it tonight at Sellersville. I got to see you use that thing because you're already all over the place with six strings. And if you've got 12 and then those are bass strings. If you start blowing into the thing, game over. I don't know what's left to do if you're playing a harp, guitar, and drums at the same time.

Just put the cymbals between your knees. Right, there you go. All set. How in demand are you for instructing, giving seminars and things like that? I would imagine people want to have you out regularly. Yeah, oh man, I'm really glad you mentioned that. Actually, I have a guitar sort of retreat that I've done for 10 years now. I've done it in New York and California, Nashville. This year I'm doing it actually in Kansas where I'm from. And people come, yeah, from all over the world to it. Wow. And it's all focused on this kind of...

new way of playing acoustic guitar, modern way of playing acoustic guitar. It's very cool. I have to ask also, and this is just a side note, I was doing a little research on you. You played on Josh Groban's Christmas album? Yes, sir. All right. So what's it like? We have fun with Josh Groban. We think he'd be a great guest.

We do a thing where you play one of his songs and I play a drop. But is he a cool guy? Oh, totally, yeah. Hilarious and cool. Yeah, for sure, yeah. Here, do we want to do Andy or a little thing? This is whenever we mention Josh Groban's name, this comes up. We do this. You raise me up.

We don't let him finish. We always tell him to shut the F up. We know he'd probably get a kick out of that. You'd find that hilarious. Are there any rock stars that you found out that are fans of yours?

Yeah, man. You know, I've been fortunate to become friends with like all my favorite guitar players, really, man. You know, Eric Johnson is the reason I started playing guitar. Wow, legendary. So we've toured together and stay in touch. Oh, man. Steve Lukather. Oh, man. Steve Lukather's, yeah. Oh, man.

Did you watch that Yacht Rock documentary? Oh, yeah, man. That was great. Steve was featured in that quite heavily. And it's just really cool to see what incredible musicians those guys were and are, but be celebrated the way that they were in that documentary. But, you know, that Yacht Rock genre sort of became a thing unto itself. And...

it highlights what great musicians they are, but it also sort of narrowed them to a certain sellable genre. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, it was more, yeah, it was like a band, because they were kind of studio musicians, you know, and then they all came together and started writing amazing pop rock tunes, man. I love Toto, yeah. All right, so you mentioned Eric Johnson, so then by default, people like Steve Vai, and do you know Steve? Yep, yep. Wow, that's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

saw him he had that tour with satriani uh yeah you know we had satriani out recently yeah yeah and just again another uh you know they're just unbelievable did you have you been on you've played with prince have you not yeah yeah this was in australia yeah it was what was that like like whoa yeah i never would have imagined in a billion years something like that would happen but he saw me on youtube you know and i liked what i was doing and was like you want to come to paisley park and did he himself call you

uh when i got to the hotel okay manchac yeah which is outside of minneapolis um but uh you know i got an email from his management to my management and you know we didn't even think it was real yeah i ended up going up there and rehearsing and we did a uh tour it's kind of a special guest almighty okay so he calls you pick up the phone what's that like mr mckee yeah

This is Prince. What? Did you have a, you're not, who is this? Who is this? That was just unbelievable, you know. And it was like, we're going to have the limo come pick you guys up in the lobby here in half an hour, blah, blah, blah. And went and rehearsed, you know. And yeah, he was amazing, man. Just an incredible musician. Anybody who doesn't know, if you think he's just some pop musician,

artist person i mean he was an incredible musician he could play every instrument on that stage what did he want you for in particular which was something he was looking to achieve or something that he wanted you to i really i'm still to this day actually not entirely sure man i'm this weird acoustic guitar guy yeah um you know i brought an electric guitar and did some stuff on electric but uh you know at the end of the tour i was kind of like you know i'm not sure this is yeah the

I'm the guy, you know, but if you ever want to do like an acoustic album of your stuff, you know, let me know. I would be all over it. So he wanted to continue with you, but you thought you weren't a right fit? I felt awkward as everything, man. Even in your scrubs with your jerry-curled hair hanging over it? Yeah.

Your Purple Rain look? Yeah. I got my thing here with the solo acoustic and I love doing it. I've done some 80s arrangements in the past and so I thought, man, if you ever want to do something like that, let me know. I thought I'd never hear from him again. Now we know you won't. That's an amazing story. We have time for one more tune if you don't mind. Andy, what do you want to play now? Let's see. Maybe I'll do something a little more mellow for the folks. Okay.

And this is a tune that I wrote for my dad. He got my first guitar when I was 13. And this has an interesting tuning, too? Yeah. Okay. And we're pretty much there now. All right. Yeah, E-C-D-G-A-D. And you just tune by ear? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. With headphones on. Yeah.

Just got to listen for that kind of frequency to go away. All right, so you wrote this for your dad? Yeah. What's this called? Simply called For My Father. For My Father. All right, this is Andy McKee performing at Sellersville Theater tonight. For My Father

Thank you.

So don't you feel, Preston, that without lyrics you know the story of his father? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the same thing about, and by the way, it's Andy McKee, Sellersville Theater tonight. The last time Andy was here, like over 10 years ago, you wrote a song that you had for your child. And it kind of, we could pick up what the day was like,

in the child's life by listening to the not only the melody but the tempo and the the dynamics and all that stuff and you you really paint a picture very well with your with your music thank you man that means everything to me that's what that's what this instrumental stuff's about it always has meant to me is like kind of painting a picture telling a story just with music because and for whatever it is it it's as pure like i have a catch in the back of my throat

Because it is that. I'm seeing snapshots of moments. And I don't even know what those moments are. But I know the feeling that's coming through in the moments. And that's everything that music does. So we mentioned we first heard about you all those years ago through YouTube. Where do you like to use for your social to get your word out about you? Is it Instagram? Is it YouTube? OnlyFans. OnlyFans.

Killing it on OnlyFans. A lot of fun stuff because Kathy is. Me too, buddy. It's doggy talk out there. Gotta do what you gotta do. Facebook, Instagram, and I guess threads, you know, which is that kind of thing with Instagram.

Those are the main ones. Okay, but not YouTube so much anymore? I'm on YouTube as well. I haven't been real hyperactive on there, but I might be picking that back up. Okay. Just do the search on Andy McKee and we'll post on presidency.com on our information and socials on how you can follow Andy and find out where he's playing when he's not.

at the Sellersville Theater, which, by the way, the show is tonight at 8 o'clock. You can get tickets through st94.com. Don't miss them. It's a real treat. In fact, I have a couple of pair of tickets to give away. Oh, nice. We're going to take some texts, okay? So text the word Andy to 39333, and we're going to grab a couple of people at random. We'll give you tickets to go see the show tonight. Andy! And there it is. Exactly.

Dude, it's great to see you. We hope it's not another decade before you come through again. No doubt, man. Hey, I'll come back through anytime, man. I'll let you guys know when I'm around and hopefully we can make it work. Excellent. We appreciate it. Andy McKee, everybody. Thanks, man. We'll take a quick break and we'll be right back. Stay with us.

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So, I've never heard of this airline before. Etihad Airways. Etihad? E-T-I-H-A-D. Etihad. E-T-I-H-A-D. Etihad? Yeah, I think it's Egypt, isn't it? I believe so. An Etihad Airways passenger had to be wheeled off the airplane after he threw up over two dozen times during a six-hour flight from hell, which he claims...

On eating a smelly in-flight meal. Oh. He had the lasagna. So Cameron Callahan said it ruined the first few days of my holiday. He is now chalking up his incident of food poisoning caused by the airline neglecting to take the proper precautions while storing their in-flight meal. It occurred while the Brit was flying from Manchester, UK to Abu Dhabi, uh,

on route to his final destination in Bangkok, Thailand, where he planned to enjoy a tropical getaway. Unfortunately, the flight was delayed for five hours, so Callahan decided to tie himself over with an egg sandwich three hours before departure. There's a difference between the people of Dubai. They don't eat egg sandwiches on flights, but the people of Abu Dhabi do. So when the plane finally boarded...

When the plane finally boarded a Manchester native, the Manchester native said that he and the other passengers were offered a tomato cheesy chicken pasta, which reportedly had an off-putting stench. He said it did smell a bit weird, but all plane food kind of does. Not really. So he devoured the in-flight meal before putting a movie on. Around 20 minutes later, he began to experience some severe gastrointestinal turbulence. He said...

I had diarrhea twice and ten minutes after that, I was just constantly throwing up for the duration of the flight. He said I threw up probably about 30 times. Jeez. He said I was going to the bathroom every five minutes, laying in the fetal position, and towards the end of the flight, I'd empty my body so much that I couldn't even stand up. He said his symptoms were reportedly so severe, he had to sit in the back of the plane with an air hostess while she kept the bathroom free.

Unfortunately, the pain wasn't just physical for Callahan, who said it was embarrassing to have people go to the lavatory and see him lying on the floor being sick. I think I crapped my pants. When they finally arrived at Abu Dhabi, the traveler was so weak that he couldn't lift his head and had to be helped off of the aircraft. Oh, my God.

He was assisted by a doctor and administered an IV with an anti-sickness drip. Thank you for flying with us today. While the treatment seemed to do the trick, the residual symptoms ruined the start of his Thailand trip, which was reportedly three years in the making. So what did it end up being? He said even after arriving at his destination, he felt so depleted he couldn't walk and felt as if he was going to pass out, which he blamed on dehydration caused by...

by the concept bombing. He said the next two to three days after arriving in Bangkok, I was just bed bound. It was only the third day that I actually left the hostel and started exploring. Callahan blamed his illness on the pasta. He said, I believe the food had been sitting out since the original time the plane was supposed to take off and not been stored properly. He felt it couldn't have been anything else

as he felt fine for three hours after eating the egg sandwich and also hadn't consumed anything the night before because he was stressed about his flight being delayed.

An Etihad spokesperson has since addressed the ordeal, claiming that it was unlikely that their in-flight meal had caused the traveler's ailment. They said that we did not receive any reports of illness from other passengers. No one else. On this flight who were served the same meal, our first priority is always the safety and well-being of our passengers and crew. So he said he's going to try and get some reparations for the flight, and he's working on that. Yeah, I wonder how you do that. I mean, no one else had it. Nobody else had it. Yeah. Yep.

You ever seen a grown man naked? Different story about food. Don Gorski.

A guy from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin just ate his 35,000th Big Mac. Wow. He's been eating this burger since 1972 when he got his first car and drove straight to McDonald's. And back then he ate nine in one day. Now at 71, he's famous for holding the Guinness World Record for the most Big Macs he'd never. How do you keep count of that? I mean...

Yeah. I mean, not in the shape of like a little diary that you're keeping. Dear Diary, today, 112. Fans showed up to watch him chow down at his favorite McDonald's on Saturday as he ate his 35,000th Big Mac. Uh,

Don usually eats two Big Macs a day, about 14 a week. And to hit the 35,000 exactly, he ate just one day for three days before the big event. I'm sorry, one a day for three days. Don's eating another Big Mac. He's been counting every burger since day one, which should probably be a record itself. So he is somehow or another, he has kept track.

of all of his over the years 35,000 Big Macs. I know you and I feel the same way about the Big Mac. It's a fine sandwich. The entire life. Think about all the meals that he missed out on. A woman was refused a mega refund by Samsung after they claimed that there was something fishy about her parcel. The tech company says that what was supposed to be the return of a $1,500 phone was actually a box of

of three cans of sardines. Is that how they exchanged them? Alina Damian-Cretu had paid for a Samsung S25 Ultra for her husband's birthday last month, trading his old phone to get the new device at a discount of 800 bucks. However, the mom refused

realized that afterwards she had missed out on a tech deal and there was a new offer to claim for a free pair of Samsung Galaxy Buds. Can I borrow your phone? I'm not getting any service on my sardines. So she decided that she would return the phone when it arrived and put in a new order in. She said she only opened the outer box of the new device before returning it at the drop-off point. And when she then contacted Samsung to check on the return, she was told it hadn't received a phone but three cans of sardines instead.

The customer obviously couldn't believe this, saying that she rarely eats fish and it's not even in the house. Oh, boy. So she said everyone was shocked. I raised a complaint on that day. They never gave me an impression that they believed me. I was quick to file a complaint with Samsung as well as reporting it to police. She says that Samsung asked for proof that she actually packaged the phone, but she didn't take any photos of the box device that she says she didn't even open up. Sorry.

So Samsung doesn't have a sardine division? I don't think so. So she said she just wants her money back and slamming it as so unprofessional. She said that she has had Samsung her whole life, but now she wants to turn to Apple. All right, one last story and then we will wrap it up. Who knew that the term, the trend of bed rotting was actually a side gig? The European Space Agency has an opportunity for people to stay in bed for 10 days straight and

I think I'd go out of my mind. So what are you, bedpanning it? No.

And 10 days of bed rest. Only three cans of sardines. Check your health before and after to see how your muscles and bones change. And it's easy to make some money if you need the cash and don't mind being lazy for a few. How do you poop in a bedpan? In bed. I mean... Carefully. Do you kneel?

Like around it? I would do down the dog. You just, they stick it under your butt. You lay there and you do it. You do it while laying down. Yeah. Depending on your, yeah. Your mobility. I'm pretty sure, yeah, you just lay there and I know it'd be difficult to pull that off. What's the longest you stayed in bed voluntarily? Not sick, just completely lazy. Oh,

Oh, completely lazy? Not hungover? Not hungover. See, hungover is a big problem. Oh, all right. So add that in. I mean... But not sick. Like, I'm just going to be lazy today and stay in bed for 10 days. I don't know. No, I can't do that. Not more than half a day or something like that, I don't think. I've never done like a full-on marathon...

do nothing, stay in bed thing, unless I was really hungover. Yeah, I'm not a hang in bed kind of guy. No, no, it's always been sick. Yeah. You know, if I've been ill, then it's like, you know, yes, I could stay in bed for 24 hours other than to get up and go to the bathroom. When you clear the sickness and you're on the mend, but you know you have to stay in bed, that's actually a sweet spot. It is. Yeah. I agree.

All right, we will take another quick break. We will come back in a moment, and we'll test your knowledge with our lesson question. We'll get the trash and music news, too, so stay with us. We are getting closer and closer to this year's MMRBQ. Saturday, May 10th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. A full day of partying with friends, family, and MMR with eight great bands, including our headliners. Somebody check my brain. Alice in Chains. Hey!

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James Addiction. I forgot. I wasn't even... Casey and I were doing something else I wasn't paying attention to. My newly learned line from that song, which is not, she stole a freezer full of meat. It's, she grabbed a razor for me. I don't know.

Spread full of meat. Think about what would impress you more as a potential paramour. She steals an entire freezer full of meat for you or just a razor? A full freezer full of meat. She's a keeper if that were the case. Oh, baby, this is awesome. All right, it's 10.30. Wow, it's 10.30. Okay. Yeah, we got to do our lesson question. I didn't even realize. We are going to give away as a prize today a pair of tickets to MMR Rocks Live Thursday, April 24th at the Excite Center.

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A helicopter. Yeah. Gossip site TooFab revealing that both John Cena and Dr. Phil are two celebrities who have recently had their vasectomies reversed. Both Cena and Phil explained saying they ultimately missed the sensation of fully finishing in their own mouth. Oh, my God.

And finally, despite all the negative press for the controversial comments made by star Rachel Zegler, Disney held the official premiere of Snow White in Hollywood over the weekend. Disney executives have showed they have no hard feelings by sending Zegler a huge basket of bizarrely discolored apples. All right. I don't know if we have we get one moment here and we'll see if we can get a zoomer up on the line. And because it does take a little extra time.

than the phone calls. So we're still working on making that efficient. The question we have for you is what kind of barnfowl are notorious smokers? And we will now go to, I believe we have Justin who is online. Hey, Justin, how you doing, man? Word up. Word up.

Hey, before I ask you the question, what are those blueprints behind you or those drawings? I was hoping you'd ask. Okay, first of all, hi, YouTube. I'm watching you on YouTube as well. Oh, my God, I can see myself. These are, let me know if you notice what they are because you should know what they are.

Hang on a second here. Oh, Jay and Silent Bob. Yes. That's from Mallrats, right? Yeah, they're the blueprints from Mallrats. That's how they took down the stage. That's awesome. I love that. Well done. Looks like you have a bunch of cool stuff. Yeah, look, he's got a whole bunch of cool stuff there.

Alright, well, oh yeah, he's got all kinds of, you're a big time gamer. Look at all that stuff mounted on your wall, dude. Yeah. Oh my God, look at this setup. Yep, real deal. He's a real deal YouTuber and gamer. Alright. Well, here's your question, Justin. What kind of barnfowl are notorious smokers, please?

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We'll start with this sad news that Jesse Colin Young, the songwriter and founding member of the Youngbloods, has passed away. They were the 1960s group best known for their top ten hit, Get Together, which we'll play here. It was 83. Get together, try to love one another.

So I listen to this song all the time. I love the long version of the song with the long meandering guitar. I just love it, love it, love it. Yeah, I do like that it's got the longer intro and everything. So Young passed away Sunday in his home in Aiken, South Carolina. His wife, manager Connie Young, had announced it as the front man of the Youngbloods. Young brought forth the ideals of the Woodstock generation with his band's version of the Chet Powers song, Get Together.

The song, which called for peace and brotherhood, came off their debut album in 1967 and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 two years later. After the group breakup in 1972, Young thrived as a solo artist, releasing albums that mixed socially conscious lyrics with outstanding guitar work and warm tenor vocals. He was also known for such other tunes as Four in the Morning, Sunlight, and

Darkness, Darkness, Quicksand, and Peace song. The song Get Together became an international hit after it was used in a public service commercial for the National Council of Christians and Jews in 1969. Hmm.

And it was re-released by RCA Records. So it had a resurgence of such. Owing to its original intent. Yeah, so sad news there. But full life at 83 years old. Such a great song to leave as a legacy.

Here's another rumor that bites the dust. We were just talking to Andy McKee, the guitarist that was here, about Steve Lukather. Well, of course, he's a guitarist for Toto and has done loads and loads of session work on too many things to mention. But he says he is not playing guitar on a new Van Halen album. I'm not doing it!

Recent reports suggested that Alex Van Halen enlisted Lugather to complete unreleased tracks featuring his late brother Eddie. Lugather says that while he is assisting Alex in reviewing unreleased recordings, he will not perform guitar parts on any Van Halen songs. Why? Because he's committed to honoring Eddie's legacy. And he said the fact that anyone would think for even a second that I would play anything on this is ridiculous.

He apparently is involved in some way, but for now, the rumor is squashed. Is that album fully happening, that tribute thing? I guess so, but it's going to be... Well, I don't know if this is a tribute...

But they have unreleased songs that Eddie was on. So I don't know. Yeah, Steve, I don't know how it's going to shape up and what their plans are to do for that. Yeah. But I think a tribute would be great of other guitarists playing Van Halen songs with their interpretation, maybe something like that. I'd like to do the interpretation route. This way you don't feel the onus on you to replicate his soaring solos and stuff like that. All right. And then this last one is a plug for our buddy Sammy Vile. Yeah.

Yes. And he requested this. I'll mention this a few times leading up to this show because it's on Friday. He said, my band, Vilebred, is doing a tribute to Radiohead's The Bends at 118 North in Wayne this Friday.

He said, we're going to perform the whole album plus many more Radiohead tunes. That's pretty cool. Doors are at 7. Show is at 9. He said, any chance of getting a stinky butt plug? Love yous. And then he wrote, love Chad Zooks. I mean Sammy Vile. And then Casey, for you, P.S., he says...

Goo. Goo! So he wanted to mention that. Sammy Vile's band, Vilebred, is going to be doing the tribute. And like I said, that's at 118 North in Wayne Friday. They've got to be pretty accomplished if they're pulling off a Radiohead tribute. Sure. Absolutely. It's an awesome venue if you ever get a chance. 118 North. I've seen a few different shows there. And really cool acoustics and...

I'm going to be up with Casey and Marissa in the Poconos this weekend. Otherwise, I'd be at that show because I'd love to go out and support Sammy and see them in that venue. It'd be a lot of fun. All right. And that is all I have of music news for you this morning. So we'll go ahead and take a break. And when we get back, we will wrap up our program. Last chance to win a tattoo. Text the word tattoo 39333. See if you win from floating world tattoo and piercing on South Street. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. MMR rocks. Dorothy, Dark Knight. Dorothy returning to the MMRBQ stage this year, May 10th. Wolfgang Mammoth Van Halen is returning. Three Days Grace, Alice in Chains. Excuse me. Dead Poets Society. Octane coming back, which is fantastic.

And Return to Dust and our local shots are this fat pez. Those tickets are on sale now. We're going to be doing our live band karaoke again at the President and Steve Show side stage. And before you know it, like relatively soon,

We're going to be asking for auditions for live band karaoke. That's right. Because we've got, yeah, we're getting close, man. It's closer than you think. So if you know singers that might be interested in coming out and performing at the

side stage. Just make them aware that in the very near future, we'll be looking for auditions and they might end up there, which would be pretty awesome. I'd like to thank our one and only guest this morning, Mr. Andy McKee. Phenomenal guitarist. I mean, like, fans of his are...

Eric Johnson and... Who are some of the other guys that he was talking about? Steve Lukather. Steve Lukather, yeah. And, God, why am I drawing... Josh Groban. Josh Groban. No, Steve Vai. Steve Vai, thank you. That's the name I couldn't pull out of my ass for whatever reason. Henry Mancini. He is performing tonight at the Sellersville Theater. And you can get tickets at st94.com. It was wonderful. It was great to have him by this morning. Pierre is here. How are you doing? He sounded great. Yeah. Yeah, he does...

To watch him, his hands dance all over that instrument, it's mesmerizing. Did he play sitting right here? Yep, right there. Right where you're sitting right now. Does it still feel warm? You feel where his butt was? Yeah, I feel like I could do Stairway to Heaven now. Please, by all means. I don't have a guitar. We got one. Oh, please.

No, you know, I'm exhausted. I understand. You've got a job to do. I just had a gig last night. I gigged till 3 a.m. And then I went out and played for the people in the street because there were like 500 people still out in the street that wanted me. Such a buster. And I said, you know...

They're going to have to wait. I mean, I only got so much energy. You're one man. I have nothing left to give. I have nothing left to give. Left a pint of blood on the stage. Thank you. Yeah. I get it. I totally get it. Another time. We'll do it another time. Yeah, thank you.

Can we squeeze a letter out of it? I'm exhausted. Okay. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. All right. The Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter U as in Utah. All right. And we are going to be giving away a road trip for two to go to Washington, D.C. with phillysportships.com to watch the Philz.

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We would like to congratulate Mr. Bobby Rivera from Levittown. We had a lengthy Levittown discussion this morning. Yeah, right? And we're going to give Bobby a $350 gift certificate for Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. And they are at 1729 South Street in Philadelphia. Artwork samples can be found at floatingworldtattoos.com or you can check them out on Instagram at floatingworldtattoos. Congratulations, Bobby.

What are you doing on the show today? We got more tickets for Black Keys at the Borgata. We have another women's block for International Women's Month, which we're about halfway through. Alice in Chains for Jerry's birthday today. And they'll be on the MMRBQ. And a block of the hottest band in the land.

Foreigner. I love it. I'm kidding. Kiss. Oh, it is going to be kiss. Okay. All right. I saw Chuck come walking in with his kiss lunchbox this morning. He'll be delighted to hear that. He likes that band. I almost killed Chuck this morning. Uh-oh. Oh, I saw it. I opened the door. You know when you leave the kitchen to go to the bathroom? Yes. We were in a song. We only had a couple minutes. And so I came flying out the door and he was right on the other side of it. I was like, oh, good morning. Yeah. That's when I saw his lunchbox.

Almost an accident. Somebody could have died. Wait a minute. He has a lunchbox? Yes. An actual tin lunchbox. Like a kid's lunchbox from school? Yep.

It's in the fridge if you want to see it. It's a kids' lunchbox. Look at it right now. Nice. I want to thank our sponsors. President Steve's Show brought to you today by Acme, Markets, Fresh Foods, Local Flavors, and also Dunkin'. And the President Steve's Show runs on Dunkin'. It should be a good day tomorrow. We will check in with our friends at Fox. Good day. We will have actor Brian Tyree Henry in the studio. Casey was telling me he was in the first episode.

Transformers movie. He was the voice of Megatron. Yes. So he's got this voice on him. But Marcia was texting you guys about Dope Thief yesterday and he's... Well, he didn't write it because it was based on a book but he's behind this and it's based in Philadelphia. He's the star of it. You have two episodes up right now. The creator is Sally Field's son. Oh, wow. Excellent. We'll have a lot to talk to with Brian tomorrow and...

Via Zoom, our friend Bert Kreischer is checking in tomorrow. So a lot to get to. That's it. We're done. Rage. Have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Hey, everybody. It's good to have you on the map.