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Hello, everybody. WMMR Philadelphia. Housekeeping. I think you're sleeping. Housekeeping, you want towels? Towels need sleeping. Housekeeping, you want me to put a pillow? Please go away. Let me sleep for the love of God.

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

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

All right, man, let's start this thing up and begin our day. Welcome to a Thursday. It's Preston and Steve radio program, and we have clouds. We have a bit of a change that's going to happen weather-wise today. A little bit cooler than yesterday, which was just wonderful. Today's high about 66, but...

As we go through the day, we have a chance of rain moving in. It's going to be in the late afternoon hours, 5, 6 o'clock, depending on where you are. That rain could get heavy overnight, by the way, leading into a drier day tomorrow. But that wind comes back. We're going to have another one of those days where we have some really kicked up gusts of wind, 50 miles an hour, stuff like that. High of about 55. And then on Saturday, partly cloudy, 64. Cooler on Sunday with a high of only 51. So not a great weekend, but just a heads up on that.

And now, Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. Today is Thursday, March 20th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, the suspect who allegedly admitted to attacking an off-duty police officer on the Wildwood Boardwalk last week will remain behind bars as his case proceeds a judge ruled during a detention hearing Wednesday. 19-year-old Isaiah Ortiz of Lindenwald is facing assault and other related charges in the March 12th attack.

involving a Stone Harbor police officer. Court documents allege Ortiz and four others were seen on the boardwalk on the night of the attack. Police say the off-duty officer was running when he was beaten to the point where he was left unconscious. The victim was beaten so badly that he suffered a concussion and facial fractures that required surgery, investigators said.

Authorities say Ortiz admitted to being the sole attacker and the four other suspects also stated the same during an interview with police. The four others are charged with watching the attack and failing to get help while the victim lay unconscious on the ground. They remain free as they await their trial. The motive for the attack has not yet been revealed. Ortiz will be back in court on April 7th at 9 a.m.

A child told police she was nearly abducted while walking to school on Wednesday morning in Camden County. Berlin Township Police say the child reported the incident after arriving at John F. Kennedy Elementary School. It happened around 8.45 in the morning in the area of Washington and Grove Avenues. The eight-year-old said that an unknown man approached her from behind and tried to abduct her as she walked to school. The girl said she was able to fight off the suspect and run away. She also told police that she may have stabbed him with a

pencil she was carrying so the man may have facial injuries the child is was not injured detectives say the suspect has a dark beard and was last seen wearing black clothes and a baseball cap the school district superintendent sent an email to parents stating both schools were placed into a security protocol and after school activities were canceled there will also be an increased police presence in the surrounding neighborhoods this week police ask that anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area to contact them glad she took a swipe at him with the

Pencil, man. It's pretty resourceful. Fight back if you can. An attempt to steal copper wiring caused a man to suffer burns on his face and upper body last night. The man, believed to be in his 30s or 40s, broke into the box around 10.30 in the evening by cutting the lock. The box is located on Roosevelt Boulevard between Welsh Road and Grant Avenue near the KFC that's being renovated. The man cut live wiring and suffered... Did you hear that?

Yeah, pretty much. Third degree burns to his face and entire upper body. He also knocked out power to about 1,500 homes and businesses in the Northeast. The man's face and body were so badly burned, he's being airlifted to another hospital for treatment. He's listed in critical condition. Yeah, man. You can't play around with that stuff. Nope.

This is the second time this week that someone has been electrocuted trying to steal copper wiring. They have video of another man walking away with basically like a charred backpack after trying to cut wiring. And then just last month, two men were caught on video hauling away a trash can full of stolen copper wire. They stole it from the portal at Love Park.

It's obviously something that's still lucrative. Is it more lucrative now? Yes. Steve, the cost of copper has more than doubled over the past five years. And investigators say this is why the ongoing problem in the area. So somebody was stealing copper wire from the portal? Yeah, that's why they shut it down. That's so stupid. Yeah. It's an incredibly high profile display in a very public area. Yeah. That's just moronic. Yep.

Absolutely moronic. Yeah, so the cost of copper has more than doubled. All right, so I guess that's the draw. And it was always the thing, right? Like people were always stealing it. Well, now it's worth even more money. So that's why you're trying to steal it out of the portal, I guess. So dumb. But yeah, so investigators say it is an ongoing problem in our area. In sports this morning. Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!

Ball sacks are yelping. Ball sacks are yelping! What the f*** is that? The Sixers lost to the Thunder 133-100 last night in Oklahoma State. Didn't see that coming. What the f*** is this? Jalen Williams scored a career-high 19 points and had 17 rebounds and 11 assists for his second career triple-double.

And the Thunder cruised to the win, even though four of their starters weren't playing. Aaron Wiggins scored 26 points for the Western Conference leading Thunder, who clinched the Northwest Division title and moved closer to wrapping up the number one seed in the West. The road trip for the Sixers continues tomorrow night with a game in San Antonio against the Spurs. Tip-off is at 8 o'clock. The Flyers, who have lost seven of their last eight games, return to action to play the Capitals in Washington, D.C. The clock will drop tonight at 7 o'clock.

At spring training, the Phillies lost to the Yankees 9-7 yesterday afternoon in Clearwater. What the f*** is that? The Phillies are on the road today with the game against the Braves. The first pitch is set for 105. The regular season begins a week from today with a game in Washington against the Nationals. 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. And a Thursday it is indeed. We have a packed show today. The latter part of the show is going to be...

one after another in our lineup of guests. So we'll start with a friend, Jim Florentine will be joining us at 9 a.m. He's got a gig coming up at the Columbus Club in Clifton Heights on Saturday. And then right after that at 9.10, we will have on our program,

Alex Lifeson of Rush and his current band, Envy of None. So I listened to the new single a couple of times. It's really good, man. So we had him on a while ago. It's in support of the same music, correct? Yeah, and you were saying the same thing. I listened to the one song. I like it a lot. It's not Rush, but it's very likable. No, it's this very full production kind of ethereal alt-type female lead singer thing, and

I really like it. I may be biased because I love Alex Lifeson a little bit, and that's why I'm really getting into it, but I like it a lot. So they have a new album out. So we will talk to Alex a little bit after 9 o'clock. And then at 9.30, comedian Adam Ray is going to be on the show, and he's at Punchline Philly tonight.

And also Friday and Saturday there are shows available too. So we have an action-packed program today for you. We'll dive into taking a break. I don't know why this is on. That's my fault. We will take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. And we'll get the entertainment stuff going. So stay with us. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. As Kathy is reporting on that car accident between City Avenue and Montgomery, that location is one of the points on any time that I'm driving on the Schuylkill Expressway that I at least look forward to going to, even when it's normal flow of traffic and three left lanes closed.

Oh, it's going to be such a joy this morning on your commute. So good luck, friend. All right. I am going to ask the stupid question. We're going to give away a $50 point card to Arnold's Family Fun Center. If you can answer this question correctly, Anne Hathaway was married to what famous English poet? 215 or no, don't call. You got to Zoom. We're pretty much bailed. And I'm actually never going to say that phone number again because...

We're changing to a new phone number eventually. That's the word. Yeah, so, but right now you got to text the word Zoom to 39333 and we will see if you can end up answering the question that way. So if you know who Anne Hathaway was married to, what famous English poet? Anne Hathaway married to a famous English poet. Ha ha ha!

Alright, so text the word ZOOM to 39333 and maybe you'll get on with us and maybe you'll win. Alright, we'll go through some birthdays today being the 20th day of March. Steve, I know you love this guy, John Delancey. Yes!

Well, yeah, he was in Breaking Bad, but very well known for portraying Q on Star Trek Next Generation. Q's in the first episode of Next Generation, and he's in All Good Things, the final wrap-up of the series, which I contend was one of the great series wrap-ups of all time. I agree. Yeah. And also, what I didn't know, because I dove into his IMDb real quick, he was on Days of Our Lives. He was on Fox.

520 episodes of Days of Our Lives. Could you imagine? No. He's also the creepy doctor hand that rocks the cradle. That's correct. In the beginning of the movie. He's a guy, and also Stephen, he's really good in Adam Sandler's movie, Rain or Me. Yes. They try to have an intervention with him with a psychologist, and he's the guy in the record store. That's right. He pops up in these character roles. He's just great. He's really good. 77 today. The wonderful Holly Hunter turns...

A year older today. Yes, she's Elastigirl. So good. In The Incredibles. The Incredibles is so good. I watched it again just recently. What did I just see her pop up in? Is she in? She was in The Electric State. Electric State, that's right. Which is not so good, but she's good. Oh, brother, where art thou? Batman v. Superman. Tons and tons of stuff. Raising Arizona. Yes. Yep, you're right. She had a funny turn in Succession Press where you didn't quite know if she's...

Oh, yeah. But it looks like they're having an affair. Yeah, she is 67 today. A gentleman who sat in our studio, and it was wonderful to have him here. And he's 94 years old, Mr. Hal Linden. Oh, wow, yeah. Who was the title character of Barney Miller. And we had such a great conversation with him. Because he was only here a couple of years ago already in his 90s. Yeah, sharp. It was a great chat.

Let me be, if I make that age, let me be that lucid. Oh man, so happy birthday. Hal Lennon, 94 years old. Another guy who's been here on a number of occasions. Michael Rapaport celebrates his birthday today. He turns 55 years old. What is this from, Case? This is a little Tribe Called Quest. Oh yeah, he did the documentary. Promoting that documentary. Do you know what he's really good in? He's really good in the movie Copland. Yes, he is. You know, he was actually supposed to be on our show, but it was the day of the parade.

So I was chatting with him, trying to get him. And he's like, there is no way in hell I'm going anywhere near Center City, Philadelphia. Which I was like, all right, I get it. And he has a connection to the Eagles. He was in that movie Big Fan, which is all about an Eagles fan. Or actually, he played an Eagles fan. He was about a Giants fan. Yeah, but he played Philly Phil. You're right. He's 55 today. The amazing Spike Lee celebrates a birthday. Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee.

And there's our tribute to Spike Lee. X. Malcolm X. Malcolm X. Incredible. Yeah, so good. I was watching again. There's that sequence where he starts to second guess

You know, what he's known about, the people he's associating with. Elijah Muhammad. Elijah Muhammad. Yeah. And that whole sequence, because there is a voiceover narration and the way it's depicted with the imagery is so good. Yeah. That movie's a masterpiece. 68 years old today. So actor David Thewlis, Nick in Harry Potter, he played Professor Lupin. Oh, he's great. Great character. Yeah. And he's really good in it. Yep.

Love what they did with that character. And it's a sad turn eventually on his part. But he's in Wonder Woman. He plays Ares. He's the main foil in that. You know, I was thinking about this with all the new casting stuff that's coming out about the series, the Harry Potter series, which I'm looking forward to. But these movie, man, absolutely.

Actors are so ingrained in our minds and did such a great job. I'm wondering how distracting it'll be. That's what I'm wondering. He's 62. He had a turn on a season of Fargo and Casey, his character was constantly jabbing his gums with

a toothpick. And it was, um, Fargo. Yeah. One of the seasons of Fargo season three or season four. Uh, and that show is really well done. I think that it's great, but I could not, it grossed me out because it was every episode of every season. And he's a, he's a bad guy. Uh,

And he would jam the toothpicks and make his gums bleed all over. Like a meth head, Nick? No, no, no. He's like a gangster, Steve. But maybe a means of intimidation or something like that. So this is just a character quirk of his. So did he have a North Dakota accent? No, he had a British accent. He's British, okay. Because he's a Brit. I was curious. I would like to hear his version of that.

But he is 62 today. Then you have actor Murray Bartlett. We know him two things for sure. White Lotus, the first season, he's the manager of the hotel. He does a very interesting thing with a suitcase in that show. And we've said one of the greatest hours of television ever.

was the episode of The Last of Us that he is in. Absolutely amazing. Beautiful, beautiful. And he's in something new.

A new right. With a great cast, and I forget what it is. We just mentioned him. Yeah. Opus? Opus. That's it. So he turns 54 years old today. And then I have a musical birthday, and I had gotten an email from somebody like weeks ago. And who is this from? This is from Harry, who had emailed me, and he says, Good morning to see you. March 20th will be the 75th birthday of Carl Palmer. Yes.

And he says, as a drummer, I am sure you know him. Please include him when you identify others born on that day. Thanks in advance. It means a lot. And that is from Harry. So I wanted to do that. And there was one day we were here.

And he just happened to be, he wasn't on for an interview or anything. He happened to be here and he came into our studio and we got to meet the great Carl Palmer. Emerson Lincoln Palmer. Yeah. Definitely sat right in that sort of, for me, prog rock realm. Yes. And really, really liked him. Yep. And I thought Asia was great too. And of course, he's the drummer for that song.

William Shakespeare. That is correct. Woo!

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I got some entertainment stories. We're going to start with this. Christina Applegate opened up about having to go to the hospital a ton of times during her multiple sclerosis. During, you know, dealing with multiple sclerosis. It was on her podcast. So she said that she visited the hospital over 30 times due to everything from throwing up to being in horrible pain. And she said, they've done every test known to man on me. Put so much radiation into my body from CT scans to everything else.

And literally just last month, I have figured it out. And she said one of the things with MS is that it slows down our organs. Not completely, but it's there. But it is there is a and there is a slowing of the function of your organs. And she also added that when she needs to go number two, she often pukes.

Oh. And she thinks that there's something going on there and that she's going to talk to her doctor about it in an upcoming colonoscopy. She was diagnosed with MS in 2021. Her doctor told her that this particular issue wasn't tied to MS, but she's going to bring it up again because she said there's got to be a correlation. Whatever it's tied to the medication. Well, but this is like...

Like you, what'd you go through? Well, no, but you know, like, like this is much more serious than some of the stuff that I've had. But like, that's what they say. Like, like it has nothing to do with that. Well, I've never had this problem in my entire life now. And I've had them say to me, like, I think it might be two separate issues. No, it's not.

No, it's not. This is all related. It's all happening at the same time. So I feel, I, you know, to try to connect it. Because you do, you have to be your own advocate and she has to try to connect the dots herself sometimes. So my sister has this condition called fibromyalgia, which is this mysterious condition

There's no definitive... It's a series of symptoms that eventually they go, well, I guess you have fibromyalgia. There's not a blood test. It's nerve pain, is it not? It's nerve pain. It's unknown pain. Yeah, it's a series of different kinds of pains that you have. And not unlike things like dementia and stuff like that, there's no...

definitive test. It's a series of, like I said, symptoms. And when they add up, they eventually go, well, we're going to put you in this category. In this cluster. You know what I mean? Well, and sometimes when they can't figure it out, stuff like that is diagnosed. They said that to me once before too. Like, oh, it's probably fibromyalgia. And I freaked. I was like, no, it's not. And it eventually ended up being an allergic reaction to some medications. But like, you know what I mean? It's...

It's hard when you know your own body and you know that that's not what it is or you know that things are connected because you see them and they're telling you, no, this is probably separate. Like the poor thing has MS. Somehow this is connected. You're saying a lot of very valid information. Know your own body. You know what happens. You know that you were doing something and you didn't have the situation and now you did another thing and you have it. And as you say, Dr. Mike is the first one to say, be your own advocate. Be an educated consumer.

So she continues to obviously try to track down how to get better, and she's working on it. So Tina Fey got real about her feelings on side hustles for the uber-wealthy during a chat with Amy Poehler on her Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast. When Poehler joked that Fey should launch

a glasses line or have a hair care endorsement. Uh, Faye responded, I do kind of hate money. Uh, she said, I don't waste money, but I don't get excited about money. Um, she made it clear that she's not a fan of rich people chasing extra dollars saying, I have a problem with rich people having a side hustle and a polar pushback saying, uh, Gen Z doesn't judge others for having multiple income streams, but Faye stood firm. She said, I judge it. Uh,

The conversation comes as celebs like Lily Allen reveal their unexpected side gigs with Allen revealing that her only fans' foot pictures make her more money than Spotify streams. Kathy, did you hear that? What? Okay, I saw you were reading something. So this is Lily Allen reveal that her only fans' foot pictures make more money than her Spotify streams. But is she actually like...

Yeah. Like, is it just like taking pictures of her feet or is it a picture of her and they zoom in on the feet? She's active. I assume so by this. Yeah. She actively has an account. You got to realize she's got all sorts of music. She's got a full musical library that's on Spotify. She's saying, Kathy, her OnlyFans account is making much more money. Okay. So do women have foot fetishes for men? No.

Rule 39 or whatever that is. Yes. There's got to be. But probably to the perversion of men, probably not. The ratio is probably, yeah, we're more perverted. We're pigs. She's got good feet. She has good feet? Better than yours? I'm not looking at her OnlyFans page. I'm looking at her Twitter page or X page. And yeah, she's got... She has like a picture where she's spreading all of her toes out. She has a perfect five-star rating on WikiFeet.

Wow. WikiFeet. Hey, can we get Kathy on there? Yeah. What's my rating on WikiFeet? Well, you got to submit, Kev. All right. So other celeb side gigs could include various liquor brands like Ryan Reynolds, Aviation Gin, Jennifer Lopez's cocktail brand, DeLola, or even the growing Kardashian empire and their clothing, makeup, skincare, and lifestyle brand. Isn't Judi Dench Flex Seal? Isn't that her side hustle? We doggie. We doggie. Yes. Yes.

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TMZ is reporting that Aubrey Plaza and her husband Jeff Baina had been separated for several months prior to his tragic suicide earlier this year. The separation came to light via the medical examiner's report in which they note that Jeff was separated from his wife since September of 2024. They have been married since 2021. I was wondering if he slipped into depression as a result of that, but the word was...

They split because he was having...

mood swings okay so he was on a trajectory and she was worried for him and that caused the divide either way that's got to eat her up yeah absolutely wow all right uh pete davidson it was reported earlier this week that he's uh dating again and that it was someone who was considered a non-celebrity and uh now it's more like a celebrity adjacent person so the mystery woman is a mystery no longer uh he was seen getting very physically affectionate over the weekend with

Elsie Hewitt. Yes. A model that, while not a household name, has dated a few in the past, including Jason Sudeikis, Ryan Phillippe, and Benny Blanco. She's had a number of celebrities in her mouth. Okay. Is how it's framed. Okay. We're looking at a picture here, and he has had a ton of tattoo removal done, but if this is recent, his back is still leaving a lot of work to be done. Yeah.

Paris Hilton is jumping feet first into the true crime craze with a new podcast. It's dedicated to the subject. So the 10-part series called My Friend Daisy will tell the story of Daisy DeLao, a 19-year-old woman from Compton who was murdered in 2021. Her killer was ultimately brought to justice thanks to social media sleuths on TikTok.

And it'll be the first true crime podcast produced by Hilton through her production company, 1111 Media, and will be hosted by journalist Jen Swan. It'll launch on March 26th, wherever podcasts are available. Now, what I don't know is if she is going to be on it, if Paris is going to be on it or not. So she does. Do we have the audio of her making the announcement? Because this, you would never know this is Paris Hilton speaking. If you're anything like me, you probably think of TikTok as a place for cute pet videos, get ready with me's, and viral dance trends.

But a few years ago, a group of teenage girls used TikTok for an entirely different and utterly heartbreaking reason. To track down their friend Daisy's killer. You would never know. So I have a... I'll call her a friend. Who... It's not like that. It's not like the Valley Girl and all that. Like what we know Paris Hilton. But she's very...

just kind of like you almost like what did you say you know she speaks very quiet no no not just just just quiet and you know kind of keeps to herself and stuff like that and i she left her phone i called her one time we were talking on the phone and she said oh i have to go she works from home and she has a landline she had to get on the landline and she mistakenly didn't hang her phone up when i heard her talk on her job she was like hello hi how can i help you i was like

Who the hell is that? Changes, right? It was a completely different person. Different than Paris Hilton, but from her kind of keeps to herself, quiet. I gotta go, Kathy. Yes, may I help you? No, but she was this peppy, upbeat person that I literally have never met in my entire life. Could you be work you to me? But it was...

But no, I mean, listen, I love her. It doesn't matter. But I said, you know, I told her and I said to her, I was like, I have never heard anything like it. She goes, well, she goes, I have to be a different person at work. Wow. So maybe Paris is, I don't know. Maybe she's got a more professional delivery when she's on the mic. So Bachelor Nation, it's a reality franchise based on the possibility of romance. So this should come as no surprise. But Serene Russell and Brendan Moriahs.

Oh, my God! I know. So you know me. I'm a virtual. My zip code should be Bachelor Nation. I'm there so much. And I live and love it all. But this comes as stunning news. Mainly because I have no idea who they are. So the couple hard-launched their relationship. Hard-launched how? Yeah, via Instagram yesterday. That's a hard launch. And they shared a carousel of pics of their...

And Russell was a contestant on Clayton Eckerd's season of The Bachelor. Oh, the Clayton Eckerd years. And had gotten engaged to Brandon Jones on season eight of Bachelor in Paradise. Oh, my God. Before breaking up less than a year later. So Mariah's appeared on the...

Tayshia Adams season of The Bachelorette, as well as on Bachelor in Paradise, dating fellow castmate Piper James for two years before they broke up in 2023. So, you know, Bachelor Nation is where everyone eventually ends up. So if you have no level of success on the actual various Bachelor Bachelorette shows, you can still find love

Bachelor Nation. You know what I find amusing about all of this is the hard launch that you described, Preston. There was a lot of forethought and planning into the timing of it and which photos would be shared and which would be posted. They probably had meetings. I'm sure they did. And what time are we going to launch it? And what is the caption going to be? They have people who review it. I'm sure ABC has their chosen. Think about when you first, when you're dating someone and the questions come up

Will you say, are we dating? Are we? Right. Like, what do you tell people when you describe our, this involves a whole crew, you know, of this announcement. Yeah. For your hard launch. And even for, you know, civilians of sorts. When you now want to, you know, listen, we're so old. We didn't have to do this stuff on social media. No, no. We didn't have that.

uh, you know, element of, of announcement. And, uh, now you have to, you got to do it properly. Put it through your people. You got to make sure it's vetted. In fairness, Marissa and I both did. I mean, cause I got divorced. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so like, you got married recently. And I got married and like, there's time, you know, Marissa shared her wedding photos and it like, it is kind of a big deal for a moment. And then you just go on the rest of your life. And, but like when you're sharing it and you're putting yourself out there, uh,

You know, Steve, we're not in Bachelor Nation. No, no one can. You can only hope to aspire to Bachelor Nation status. All right. Well, moving on. Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell might be teaming up for an updated version of Single White Female.

Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh starred in the original, in which Fonda's Allison Jones welcomes a new roommate, Hedra, played by Leigh. Allison has just broken up with her fiancé, Sam, and quickly forms a close bond with her new roommate. However, as Allison rethinks her breakup with Sam, her roommate grows jealous and violent. Did you like that movie? Yeah. It was fun. It was good. Yeah.

And best use of a heel for murder I've ever seen in a film. Yeah, we'll actually have him on, I think, next week or maybe two weeks. Yeah, Steven Weber played Sam, by the way. So there was a sequel starring Christian Miller titled Single White Female 2, The Psycho. Okay. You're not being subtle there. I never knew that. The Psycho, the crazy bitch. Ahead of Ortega starring in a second season of Netflix's

Wednesday, the actress has been busy with a recent horror comedy, Death of a Unicorn. And her co-star, Paul Rudd, recently told people that he was amazed at her level of coolness while at South by Southwest. So the two star his father and daughter who accidentally run over a titular, the titular mythical creature while driving to visit a group that includes Will Poulter, Tay Leone, and Richard E. Grant. I'm not sure when that is out, but that's what's up. Probably fairly soon. Yeah.

With the excitement for the fourth season of Ted Lasso still high, news comes of a possible shakeup in the cast. Actor Gus Turner.

who has played Coach Lasso's son Henry in all three seasons, may not be coming back. The reason? His story arc has him developing into a skilled young soccer player, so they need an actor who has that skill set. Oh, okay. And there's reportedly an active search for the perfect fit for the role. That poor little bastard. But it's also reported that Turner can audition to try and keep the role if he so chooses. Yeah. Get really good at soccer really fast. Yeah, get fast. Go train. It's easy.

John Wick's fate may be undetermined, but he will be back in theaters this spring in Ballerina. And the first trailer is out now in the John Wick universe.

So the film takes place between third and fourth films and features Anada Armis' Eve, the Russian ballerina turned assassin looking for vengeance against those who killed her family. The film brings back many familiar faces from the Wick franchise including Angelica Houston, Ian McShane, and the late Lance Reddick. Ballerina will be in theaters on June 6th, by the way, but he will make some kind of an appearance, I assume. They apparently started a small business called Good Burger. Oh! Sounds familiar. It does sound familiar. Yeah.

Going back to Ted Lasso for a moment. Brett Goldstein, Roy Kent is bringing his stand-up to HBO with his first ever comedy special. And it's called The Second Best Night of Your Life. You saw him, wasn't it? I did, yeah. Wasn't it funny? Yeah, it was great. Yeah? Yeah, it was a really good comedy show. It wasn't...

Oh my God, this is the greatest scene I've ever seen. It certainly wasn't lame by any stretch. It was very funny. He's a good stand-up. He's a great comedic writer. Yeah. Because he's a writer on both Ted Lasso and Shrinking. But yeah, his stand-up was solid. But he said the long hour special is slated to premiere in April and will be available to stream on Max. He said, I'm so excited to do my first special, not on TV, but on HBO.

Goldstein said in a statement known for starring as Roy Kent, like I said, and co-creating Shrinking as well. He kept his deep roots in stand-up comedy with his first Edinburgh Fringe show debuting in 2010, but never getting a formal release. So he's got a special coming. You want some really great news, Kathy? He is in a movie with Jennifer Lopez. Oh, really? Oh, I love my J-Lo. J-Lo.

All right, this was really cool to see. I watched the trailer this morning. The new Max series from J.J. Abrams has the trailer out now for Duster, and it stars Josh Horowitz.

Halloway. Sawyer from Lost. It was so great to see him back. And this looks like a perfect role for him. It looks really cool. So it's him, Rachel Hilson, and Keith David. It's set in 1972 where the first black female FBI agent heads to the Southwest and recruits a gutsy getaway driver who's played by Josh Holloway in a bold effort to take down a growing crime syndicate.

The series premieres on Max on May 15th. So this has a feel, intentionally so it looks that way, of 70s blaxploitation cinema, grindhouse movies, and the tone and tenor is exactly that. And he's perfect. Steve, they do a thing, I almost came in here to show it to you, and then I saw you had sent me the clip as well. But there's a scene...

where they show a lot of action going on and then they freeze frame it. Yeah, yeah. Where they're both pointing these guns towards the camera and I'm like, man, that is 1973 right there. It is, absolutely. It's towards the end. We're watching the trailer right now. Yeah, back at it. Just right there. Leave it right there. Watch this. We're watching and boom.

That's it. That is like right out of a 70s. So if you get a chance to watch the trailer, it looks pretty cool. And I'm happy for Josh Holloway. I think we did speak to him a couple times. We did. During the Lost Run. Yeah, I mean, even after he had one thing, a project that we talked to him about. So I'm glad to see he's back. Yeah. Saturday Night Live is confirmed. It's next round of hosts, musical guests. Mikey Madison is set to host on March 29th. She'll be joined by musical guest Morgan Wallen.

This will be Madison's first time hosting the late night sketch show, while it will be Wallen's second appearance. After that, Jack Black takes up hosting duties on April 5th. He'll be joined by Elton John and Brandi Carlile as the musical guests. That must be around the time of the release of the Minecraft movie? This will be Black's fourth time taking on hosting duties, while it will be both John and Carly's third time appearing. And finally, Jon Hamm will host the April 12th episode, and he'll be joined by Lizzo as the musical guest.

I was just watching one of the things Jon Hamm did on SNL, which is great. It was a riff on that saxophone player in The Lost Boys. Oh, really? And so, like, people would be in a corporate meeting and having a tough time, and you'd hear the music wail up, and the wall would break open, and he'd come through shirtless, oiled up with the saxophone. It was effing hilarious. I love it. Hamm and Lizzo's appearances will be the fourth time that they grace the SNL stage, and that's for both of them.

Power Rangers is looking at a new life with Disney Plus and a reboot in the works. And this time with Percy Jackson and the Olympian showrunner Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Schatz in talks to lead the project. I'd like to see them older, like in a retirement home. Yeah.

Wasn't it the Power Rangers or was it a Ninja Turtle who got dumped off the side of a boat down to the bottom, tied rocks to him and threw him off a boat? They murdered a Ninja Turtle? I know that. Well, hang on a second. Somebody in the Power Rangers was killed somewhere. I remember that. Yes, that did happen. I think that's how he was killed. Wow, wow. I was wondering if they were going to address that in a new show. So you're saying one of the Power Rangers killed a Ninja Turtle. I didn't hear that. That's crazy.

So Hasbro will produce a series aiming to bring a fresh take on the long-running franchise while keeping longtime fans happy. Originally inspired by Japan's Super Sentai in the 90s, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers became a pop culture phenomenon leading to multiple reboots over the years.

This is another project on Hasbro's ongoing list of game-to-screen adaptations, including a film TV reimagining of the classic board game Clue, as well as a live-action Dungeons & Dragons series, on top of setting the groundwork for a Magic the Gathering-focused film and television universe. Does Parker know about this? Not yet. I've got to tell him about it. Steinberg and Schatz just wrapped season two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians and are renewing for a

on Disney+. Season 1 did well and Season 2 did better. Now Paramount Plus has announced that Season 3 of School Spirits is on the way. The, quote, Breakfast Club Meets Ghost series stars Peyton List. She's from Cobra Kai, played Tori, as a high schooler caught between the lands of the living and the dead.

enlisting the help of friends in both realms to get back to her living body. Somebody told me to watch it. I forgot who and said it was pretty good. When I heard the plot line, it was described to me that way and it was also described to me as Frasier meets two girls in a cup. I didn't know what to make of that. You've got to watch and see.

Music is always at the ready. That, by the way, legitimately the soundtrack for Two Girls and a Cup. It is. All right, and then the last story I have for you, and we'll move on to clips after that. With Landman earning a renewal earlier this month, a veteran of Taylor Sheridan's television universe is rumored to be coming on board with the upcoming second season, Sam Elliott.

who played Shea Brennan in Sheridan's series 1883, is reportedly in talks to board the hit Paramount Plus series. Like a pop star. In an as-yet-undetermined role. He's great. Yeah, he is. So I'm going to start Landman probably this weekend because I wanted to watch it from the beginning, and you guys love it, and Billy Bob Thornton, terrific.

So maybe I'll go reverse then, Kathy, and get into Yellowstone and all the other Taylor Sheridan shows. It's so good. I think you'll like it. All right, we're ready for clips. Let's do this.

Natasha O'Keefe returns to season three of The Wheel of Time alongside its recurring cast. And in this clip, she talks about her character's relationship going forward with Rand. I don't think Landry has any reason to form a true friendship or strike up a true relationship with this woman other than, you know, getting Rand where they need him to be. I don't give a f***.

So a new episode of the Wheel of Time airs today. You'll find that on Prime Video. Here's our next clip. Gen Z is now in the workplace. Madison Chamond. Thank you for that, Casey.

Plays a young CEO at an ad agency on the Z-Suite. And in this clip, she reminisces on her favorite scene to shoot for the show. When I think about it, the thing that's burned to my brain is the last day on set. Because we shot until like 5 a.m. and I was like deliriously giggly and having a good time just down in sodas to stay awake. And that is always so funny when you're so tired, everything's funny.

That day will be like burned into my brain forever. I think I crapped my pants. Season one finale of the Z-Suite airs today. Excuse me, you'll find that on 2B.

There's too many damn channels. I know there are. Jesus Christ. I'm looking at the shows that are on Peacock and it's like... I mean, you just talked about this show about the ghosts and high school spirit. School spirit. I wanted to... I remember seeing it when it first... The trailer when it first premiered. We're now in the third season. Yeah, I don't disagree with you, Steve. The thing about Tubi, though, is that it's free, which is nice. And I believe we were talking about Looney Tunes the other day going away from Maxx.

I think they are streaming all the Looney Tunes on Tubi now. There you go, Case. You know what the interesting thing about all the streaming networks, Steve, is sometimes there's a show that I've been watching and maybe strayed from and want to come back to, and then I forget what streamer saw them. Yeah.

And sometimes it's not an easy search to find out where that show is. There are a lot of confusing links that pop up when you punch into Google or whatever engine you use. And it's like, can you just tell me where I can find this right now? So this has been the big sort of holy grail for a lot of the services. Are you going through the apps directly in your TV? Absolutely.

Yeah. Okay. I have a Roku on some TVs and some TVs go, it's straight through the phone. So when you go through the Roku, does it show the shows you're watching on the various streamers? No. On my TV, it does. On one of my TVs. Oh, good. Apple TV will do that as well. But yeah, it's like you have to CSI where you watch that last episode. And then when you get to it sometimes, the way it's arranged...

You've got to look for that little progression bar at the bottom of the episode if it's one you actually watch. Yeah, exactly. And some streamers are better at getting you right to the continued watching part. And others, they kind of bury it somewhere. Netflix is pretty good. I don't like it. I don't like it. They need to get uniforms so we can all...

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. We have a lot of guests on the program today. Our buddy Jim Florentine is going to be on the show. Also, I want to thank Marissa.

for rescheduling some stuff because we had the offer to have Alex Lifeson of Rush on and it was going to conflict with some other interviews and Marissa made some calls and moved some things around so we are having Alex Lifeson on this morning at about 9, 10 and then comedian Adam Ray is going to be on the show in the 9 o'clock hour too so we've got jam-packed 9 leading up to that. We have some other things though so including Survey Says and that's what we're going to do.

All right. Now I've taken a variety of different surveys and their results and present them to you. I have to ask you something now because you'd said you had a question for us as part of this survey. So I know I'm going to do it a little bit later. I have a question about something I got in the mail yesterday and I'm a little confused by it. All right. I don't want to find out who sent it and what it is.

So we'll get to that in a little while. But in the meantime, we were just talking about the streaming services and I saw this survey. There was a poll of 2000 U.S. streaming service subscribers and they asked a series of questions. And one in five think that it's actually harder to find something to watch today than it was a decade ago.

And that leads to a lot of scrolling time. And the average person spends about 110 hours a year or nearly five days just looking for a show or a movie worth watching. So where would you fall in this? Yeah, you know, a decent amount. I mean, it depends on...

Whether we've got a show going on or not, Rochelle and I like to have a show that we watch together. We won't intersperse other shows in between that. We will watch our program until we're done watching it. So we just finished Paradise, which I really, really liked. You did?

And so, yeah. And now we've got to find something else. So then we'll spend some time searching around. Yeah, but how... So when you do that, because that's the same thing that happens with me. Like when the show is over, how long does it take you to find another show? Sometimes a while. I don't dive right back into something because I don't want to waste time. It's a waste of time. You're a wealthy businessman. You don't have time for round down... What is it?

Flat pancakes. Flat pancakes. Pancake balls is what we go with. I'll save stuff. You know how sometimes Netflix will give you the newest show or whatever? I'll save it as one of my shows and then I'll go back to that list. If it looks good, it looks like something that I like because otherwise it takes so long to find something else to watch. Sometimes I will just sit there on the Roku...

like screensaver and I'll just sit there and scroll on my phone and the Roku screensaver and I really like it because they incorporate movies into it. Right. The latest one that I just saw is and I think I'm fairly certain it is Cameron's dad's car.

at the end of Ferris Bueller. So you know what I'm talking about, the screensaver. It kind of scrolls. Yeah, it's a landscape animation and they have nods to films in it. It's fun to watch. Sometimes that is what I will watch all night long as I'm scrolling on my phone. Wow, okay. The screensaver will just be on there. So to a part of what you just said about the setup for this, Preston, about having less...

I can see that to some extent because I remember when movies were opening up and there was something more limited, I would be more inclined to go, I'm going to give this a try. Because you would have more focus. It doesn't mean I don't like having a vast array of options, but I find that

given my druthers, I do spend a lot of time going, all right, all right, and I'll put things in, musket too, possibly, you know, like no hope, I'll go to here, you know, this is sitting in the queue for this. Don't have anything else to do. Yeah, absolutely nothing.

death or this and and that's how i sort of bracket it but yeah sometimes i will spend it and sometimes i sit there and my evening's viewing are all the trailers on apple tv for the movies coming out yeah and i'll watch a couple of hours of trailers well it's too many options that's the problem there's too much out there i will go to my phone and search like

newest shows or top 10 Netflix shows to watch instead of scrolling through because there is so much there. I want a list. I'll look through the list and I'll go, oh, okay, this is something that I might like and then I'll go to the streaming app and find it. I'm sorry, are you more drawn to

Will an actor that you like inform your decision, or is there a particular genre that you're more inclined to go to? I think it's genre, but also if there's somebody in it that I like, sure, I'll check it out. All right. So the biggest issue streaming customers have, Kathy, is content overload. Yeah. 41% say, followed by feeling like there's too much original content being produced. I hate original stuff. Yeah.

While three quarters of the survey responded to appreciate streaming service algorithms giving them accurate recommendations, 51% that there's too many of them because they want to watch everything that's recommended to them. The algorithms are funny because a lot of times they get me really well and then there's sometimes like, how dare you think I would like that? I know. Is that what you think of me? Yep.

Those who are streaming only say that they've cut the cord because they like variety. That's 43%. The shows they watch aren't on cable at 34%, and they find streaming more convenient when they're on the go. 29% of respondents say that. So you're like me. I will sit there, and I have the full cable array. I have all the channels. I have all the streaming channels. I'm a sad person.

sad person. But I will sit there and go through the movies and I will just, okay, bump, bump, bump, stop here, bump, bump, bump, stop here. And that's a lot of the times how I'm spending my evening viewing more movies than TV shows. Okay.

So the dream streaming platform, according to the survey, would look like this. Premium channels and networks included for no extra cost. Yeah. And an easy to use interface. Those are the things that people are looking for. And we talked about this earlier. That's the Holy Grail. To get that interface that reminds you what you were watching last.

get you to the episode that you want, and then it also curates and maybe uses AI to kind of guide you to what you might be interested in in a more effective way. So you will spend nearly five days just looking, five days out of the year, just looking for a show or movie worth watching. I spent five days last week doing that. Wow. All right, on to another survey. ♪♪

And we'll go with a YouGov survey that, no, we're not going to do that one. It has to do with watching TV, and I want to skip around a little bit. This is a different one. This is a YouGov survey of 2,000 people, and they have ranked, according to this survey, the most popular physical activities. The most popular physical activities. Like pickleball, like that? Yeah, anything. Anything that gets you moving. Jack in it? No.

Well, it should be. Hiking. Hiking and jacking it? Oh, my God. How do people do that? Good morning. Every now and then they're in the bizarre pile. Yes, this is true. Beautiful day, isn't it? So these are the top ten. All right, number ten is gymnastics.

Wow. Let's go do back handspring. Come on now. It's been a little while since I've done a back handspring. Could you imagine if you were attempting back handspring now? I think my wrist would just snap in half. Just snap right off. I would break my neck. I don't even think I can get around. How long ago was it that we did back handsprings in the green room? With who was here? Two of the Olympic athletes. Was it Carrie Strug? Who was it? You didn't do it with Carrie Strug.

It wasn't Dominic Mucciano. It was the Carrie Strug team. Who else was on there? Oh, the Fab Five or whatever? No, not Fab Five. I don't know, whatever. Whatever the name was. Tito or Toria. We've had a bunch of them in here. Yeah, we have. I don't remember. They look at us and they say, these are gymnasts. Case, I could still do it on trampoline. I'm just so worried that like, you know, I don't know, just that impact.

And I think that's what concerns me the most. The impact of my hands on the ground. They would snap in half. I hilariously, a couple of years ago, tried to do, because I used to do cartwheels all the time. I tried to do one and I'm like, I'm not doing that anymore. What happens now is you're thinking about the cartwheel. I could do it. Am I comfortable with having an injury that I get from this haunt me for the rest of my life? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And it's all my shoulders. I have shoulder problems. By the way, there's no way it was Keri Strug. She was on the team in 92 and 96. No, it wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't Keri Strug. She was here in our studio one time. It was definitely that team, though. Who was on her team? She wasn't here because she was still doing gymnastics. But she brought in her team?

No, not the whole team. She said it was somebody from that team. If it wasn't Carrie Strug, it was someone from that team. I'm so confused. Carrie Underwood? Who were the other ones on that team? Dominic Dawes? No. No. I forgot who was on that team. That all-star team. I think Marla Lanzato? No.

No, not Lyle Lytle. I think Marissa knows who was here. Marissa knows. All right, Marissa. I think it was Keri Strug. You do? Yeah. And I think she had a boy with her, too. Yeah, it was. Like a male gymnast. Yep. Barry Strug. That team was Dominique Mucciano, who, like, I freaked out when she came in. Me, too. Keri Strug. Yep. Dominique Dawes. Who am I forgetting? Shannon Miller. It was Shannon Miller. It was Shannon Miller. Shannon Miller. Shannon Miller.

Long-haired Carrie Struggs. Shannon Miller. Shannon Miller. Accepting Shannon Miller. Oh, God, that's so satisfying. That's who it was. Oh, my God. And it was like before we had any renovations. Yeah. Oh, we were in the old studio, I think. Yes. I'm looking for photos. I can see them in my head. These like blurry digital camera photos. I...

I'm going to spend the next 20 minutes finding out. We're looking at the blurry, cruddy camera. Who was the other gymnast that we had in here? I used to be a big fan of hers. She did the face. The side smile face. It begins with a K. You guys did K. See how wrong I was? Thank you, Nick. Did you see how wrong I was? Nailed it.

There was a K sound in there, but it did not begin with a K. You got a K? Give yourself some credit. Hey, Maroney, you said. Guys, we have them. We have the photos. We have the photos. There's video, too. Am I wearing cargo pants? And here you are injured on the floor. I will tell you, listen, Kathy needed a spot. I didn't need a spot, but I wasn't happy with how my back handspring looked. It was almost...

Almost a back flip that I kind of like saved with my hands. Before we had our art, we were where we had thyroid problems. Preston, the older pictures. I look like Kingpin. Oh, my God. Oh, we are in the new studio. I am wearing it. Is it called a unitard?

I don't know what it's called, but I can see your junk. That was the second time she came in. Okay. Glad we got that all cleared up for our sake. What are we talking about? We're talking about the most popular physical activity. Gymnastics is number 10. Oh, okay. I thought it was number 1. No, number 9 is fitness training. Number 8, playing pool. Oh my God. What?

Come on, man. I mean, you do... Yeah, that's like jigsaw puzzles. When you do it. Pool is like bowling in that after three beers, you're better. Really? For me. If I ever go bowling, two or three beers in, my game improves. Same goes for pool. And hearts. Is it possible that you've just warmed up a little bit?

No, it's the beer. Or you don't care anymore. I've been training for 49 years. Listen, I'm out of line. I apologize. Number seven on this list is miniature golf. No. Come on. These are the results. Let's go to pot pot. Is this Stephen Hawking's list? Number six is bowling. There you go. I hate bowling. By the way, number five, hold on, shopping. Cats.

Cafe! Now the list is valid. It is strenuous to carry those bags through the mall. I do sweat when I shop. When I'm doing extensive shopping, I can't stand it. Steve, you were going to ask a question about bowling? I forgot. Okay, sorry about that. I saw shopping and I had to jump on that. Number four is DIY. Do-it-yourself projects.

Okay, sorry. The list is... Most popular... Places you want to visit. Physical activities. Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily call that like a physical activity. I'm thinking hiking or exercising. Right, exactly. But it depends on what you're doing. Like sometimes Casey does some pretty intense... Shopping. Do-it-yourself stuff around the house. Building parts of your home. This...

We're talking, you're starting at the point of a coma. And then what is physical after that? So, some of these are very light, physically demanding, but it is still a physical activity. These are the most popular ones. I guess when I do full gardening, like do my spring. Tactical gardening? Well, I mean, it is a little physically taxing. Number three on the list is gardening. Yay!

I did some yesterday, the yard work. I don't call that gardening. Gardening is actually planting. I pruned all the dead stuff, and that's a pain in the ass, but necessary. So I got out and got something. It was beautiful. So I'm like, all right, I'll go knock some of this out. It's a lot nicer when it's nicer. And usually, and so we have, we pay for someone to come and do that because I'm like, I'll mess it up.

But this year, I'm going to do the increment. And plus, it's a lot of time to do it. It's also very expensive to have someone do it. So I'm going to go out and kind of pick at it and do a little bit here and a little bit there and hopefully get it all done. So you're going to handle it all by the picking method? Yeah. All right. Marissa? Just really quickly, back to gymnastics. I really want to do adult gymnastics.

Adult gymnastics? I saw it on TikTok. You literally just do the rolling over, the big wheels. The rolling over and the big wheels. And now, rolling over in the big wheel, from South Korea, Hong Fing.

Now jumping over the stick. I know what she's talking about. Yeah, I want to do like old school. Like I'm the person that when we're out, I'll try to do a cartwheel on the curb and then get mad when I don't land on the curb. Like I used to do gymnastics.

Oh, like the curb treating it like it's a balance beam. Marissa, the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, that's what they do. They do adult gymnastics or the aerial? I don't want to do the aerial stuff. I actually was just there. Yes, they have a whole... You can do adult workshops where it's just gymnastics if you don't want to be hanging from things from the ceiling. There's also a subsection of gymnastics which is

And maybe that's kind of what you're talking about, Marissa. Yeah, pretty much. Okay. I just want to jump in a foam pit and like play in a trampoline. Yeah. So number three on this list is gardening. These are the most popular physical activities. And this is in the fourth quarter of 2024 that this was done, serving 2,000 people. Number two on the list, Casey's all on board. It's swimming. Yeah, I love it.

Love it. My wife adores it as well. Yeah, swimming is everything to her. And then number one on this list, most popular physical activity is simply walking. Love that too. Love hiking, walking. Nice walk.

I like going for walks. Why not ping pong? Why is ping pong not on here? I don't know. It should be. It should be, right? You have a pool. It's so much fun. Yeah, Casey mentioned pickleball. Like, this is... Pickleball. I don't know. This list sucks. I'm throwing this list away. Except for the shopping. Except for the shopping. That list is terrible. All right, here's another safe, eh? Hey!

This has to do with March Madness and how Americans make their March Madness picks. It was a poll of 2,000 U.S. adults. Nearly half of those polled participate in March Madness in some way, and 24% of those are in to win some money. And that's especially true for younger folks, as 34% of the respondents...

34% of Gen Z and 29% of millennials are hoping to win some big money. May I ask a question concerning this? So I'm not, and you're in the same boat, President. We appreciate sports, but we're not completely embroiled in it. Especially college basketball. But I remember, and you guys perhaps can school me on this.

It was really cool. Even to the novice, we had such a wonderful series of years where, I mean, I remember like, man, the excitement and the swept up. Sure, Villanova, St. Joe's, Temple. Everything was hopping. And it seems like a no man's land. You want to tell them?

Two things. A lot of it, Steve, is the sport itself has changed. There's very little loyalty when it comes to players staying with school. For example, a decade ago, Jay Wright would cultivate a program where he would try to get the players to come for four years and be loyal to that program so you could watch these guys develop. That doesn't exist anymore because of the NIL and the transport portal where you can go from one school to the next like a free agent in regular sports. So that's killed that part of it. In my mind, anyway. The second part of it is...

There are, I believe, 0 for 12 Philadelphia's college teams making it to the men's and women's dance this year. Not one school from the city sits for men or for women. So college basketball growing up in Philadelphia, it really was a big deal. You paid attention to Temple versus...

The St. Joe's, the St. Joe's-Nova rivalry, all of them. Even the quote-unquote lesser teams would have good years where Penn would have a great year in the Ivies and they would win the Ivy League and then go to the big dance and there would be an upset here and there. Princeton, for example, they had a good team every now and then. So the local interest in college basketball has precipitously declined because the level of play in Philly, in and around Philly, has gone way down. I'm sorry. Do you still fill out your bracket? No.

No, no, no, no, no. Wow. I will pick a winner. So, yeah, I definitely I'm going to put 10 bucks, 10 whole dollars on Michigan State to win it all. But my mom, she it's it's kind of adorable because she spends February, March watching college basketball so she can hone her her knowledge. Right. Just so that she can select the

Catholic teams to win it all. It doesn't matter. You watch the whole thing and then she's like, Gonzaga to win it all. She just shows her support. Your daughter go to Michigan State? Yeah. Are they ranked number one? No, no, no. I think going into the tournament they were ranked eighth or ninth, but they're number two seed. Tom Izzo is a legendary coach. So $10, like I was saying on Bet Parks, $10 on Michigan State wins you $6.

25. All right. So is it getting pretty exciting for her yet? Yeah. Well, so not only that, but listen, you know, the football team wasn't all that great. But the hockey team was like ranked one or two. And they're in for the Big Ten championship this Saturday against Ohio State. And then, you know, then the Frozen Four will take place. So right now it's all about basketball and hockey there. I remember being down on Main Street in Manioc. I think it was Villanova making one of their runs.

And, I mean, the excitement was palpable. I remember with Jameer Nelson at St. Joe's. Yeah, that was a big deal. That was a huge deal. I ended up losing to Oklahoma State in, I think it was the Elite Eight, which sucked.

because we really had the potential to win it all. And they were perfect up until that point. But we were friends with Phil Martelli, with Fran Dunphy's retiring at the end of this year. I grew up rooting for John Chaney, running sort of like the blue-collar team in North Philly. All of these teams and all these coaches, there were a lot of attachment for Philadelphians, and much of that has disappeared. Who was the one-two punch with Jameer Nelson at St. Joe's? Who was the other guy? Delonte. I looked him up.

again, not that long ago. He's still having, you know, he's got mental health issues and drug issues and all this stuff. It's just terrible, man. So it's potential. Going back to what you said, I think Jameer's son did what you said and kind of bounced around to different schools. The transfer? Yeah, because it's super easy. And look,

the players deserve that. I mean, the schools make so much money off of those players anyway. I don't blame the players for wanting to make some money in a college basketball career. It's just really changed the dynamic of the sport. Nick, you mentioned Phil Martelli. His son is coaching somewhere. Where is his son coaching? That's a good question. Oh,

All right, because, I mean, when you don't essentially have a horse in the race, that's when you go, oh, Michigan State or Phil Martelli's son. You know what I mean? That's when you start rooting for, you know, any sort of connection to home. What if they switch to donkey basketball? Huh?

Remember that? Was that what they called it, right? Yeah, yeah. I did that one time. He's at Michigan Case. Okay. So, by the way, when it comes to creating what they hope will be a winning bracket, only 16% of respondents make their choices based on their limited knowledge of basketball, while 14% go with a hunch.

And Gen Z is more likely to make their picks based on families or friends' preferences at 23% or just vibes that they have at 22% than relying on actual basketball for understanding. And for one in 10 millennials, their picks come down to whether or not they like the team's mascot. That's how they make their choices. All about the mascot. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to come back to that, Casey. All right, so let's do another. Let's do another survey. This one is a survey of, well, it's through WalletHub. And they reveal how strongly people about tipping, how people feel about tipping culture today.

So we're asked to, you know, hand out tips all over the place now. And this survey finds that nearly 90% of Americans feel that tipping is out of control. Almost three in five think that businesses are using customer tips to replace employees' salaries. And 83% believe that automatic service charges should be banned.

I almost feel like I need to know what your hourly wage is, right? Ask. Well, because when you talk about servers, their hourly wage is like $2 an hour. Is it still? I don't know. I don't know. But if you're making $20 an hour, then I'm less inclined to tip you. But that's typically who you tip, right? Like servers. But now everybody's got a tip jar out. Well, I know. If you go just to get coffee, now you're being asked to tip, whereas we never did. So some people are hesitant because...

You know, are they getting an actual salary? I don't know. So I think what a lot of people in that 90%, you're probably, a lot of those people are reacting to, you're at a kiosk and you just bought a cover for your phone and they turn the screen around and ask if you want a tip. Yep.

Wow. So you're being over-requested and solicited for tips. You know me. I'm a consistent, generous tipper. But even that seems like, really? So I think there's a general...

There's a general reaction to that. And also, I do, in case, you know, having known, having you got anybody who's worked in the service industry, the tips will become a tremendous part of your salary. Now, by default, businesses can't just go, well, you know, we're going to just keep you paying you less and just hope you get it in the tips. That's not good either. I was at an outdoor rink ice skating. Jason was playing hockey and there was a food truck and I had to get him something at the food truck outside.

And this is the worst. When they say, do you want to add a tip? They don't even turn the iPad around. They ask you. So then I was like, oh, yeah, sure. He handed me like a bag of Skittles and a water. And he was like, do you want a tip? I was like, oh, sure. Well, if you'd be comfortable saying, would you mind giving me $5? Yeah. So that's another way of asking. You can't solicit a tip that way. You can put up a sign.

Tipping is appreciated and let that be the voluntary decision of the person your customer to make. But you can't just say, so how big is my tip going to be?

Wait, you know, oh, sorry, go ahead. I was just going to correct something I said earlier. Phil Martelli's son is a coach at Bryant University. He was at Michigan before, but he's at Bryant now. This is a donation, though, so if you don't want me to go here, I don't have to, but I meant to bring this up. I wanted to ask you guys about it. There are people now, I've seen them in Plymouth Meeting, Conchahawken, mostly at the Metroplex. I've also seen them at the Plymouth Meeting Mall. They set up

A little table, they're asking for donations. They say they work for a nonprofit, right? And they're asking for donations for abused children, children in foster care. And then they give you a QR code. You can scan it and you can donate. But it seems a little like...

Like Shadi, the setup, like it's like a trash can with one. The other day it was a trash can with like who they were and their logo taped to it. Now, I didn't go into further investigation and look them up and all that to see if it was legit. But if they are, they need to do a better job. I think you're well within your rights to be cynical. There was one. There were a bunch of kids at an intersection. I passed through and I saw they had really it looked cynical.

suspicious and later on I saw on the news that they had been the organizer had been arrested and that it was a scam so you know I mean of course I want to donate to your charity and help out if I can but I think you have if you get a little something in the back of your mind or in your stomach that says this seems weird

don't do it. Well, and they're a little aggressive. That's what I didn't like. And I had said, I walked into old Navy. They were outside of old Navy. And I said, I spoke to you guys at redstone last week. And they were like, Oh, okay. And then when I walked out of old Navy, they still grabbed me. And I was like, look guys, I said, I spoke to you already. Like if I was going to donate, I was going to donate a redstone. And it was just, it was too aggressive to, for me to be legit. It was, uh,

This is years ago. There was a gas station in Delco in Drexel Hill area. And, you know, sometimes you'll see those, you know, it's like a jug for a charity. And this these people, they all they wrote like it handwritten on this jug. It just says money for sick kids.

It was like written in crayon. In general. Money for sick kids. So were the sick kids, if you were a sick kid, could you reach your hand in and pull out some money? You should. Just grab some money. I'm sick. Going back to the tips and not the donations, this person says, I'm a server at Texas Roadhouse. Make $2.83 an hour. $2.83 an hour. So I live for my tips. They said I had a table and I had a bill of $238 and they tipped 15 bucks. Not even 10%. Now,

Now, I'm sure you did a fine job and maybe they were just a chintzy person or they made a mistake. But I still do tip on merit on did I get good service or not. Now, I will do the 20% for standard service. That's fine. I will do more if somebody goes above and beyond or just adds whatever flourish that happens to be. But if you underestimate

I'm going to under tip. Yeah. I mean, I still think that's part of it. That's part of the pact. And I'm not asking for much, but if you come in with a certain attitude, and listen, I don't know what's going on in your life, but for your job...

You need to compartmentalize and put on... You don't know what's going on in my life. Yeah, so anyhow, but I do tip on performance. You know what? I over tip on breakfast because it's always so cheap and I feel like they've done just as much as lunch or dinner and they're getting a smaller tip. I always try to be, again, taken into consideration with the amount of work that they're doing. But listen, again, having, you know,

known and family who have made their money through tips and they're living off of tips. It does matter. All right. So anyhow, 90% believe that tipping is out of hand.

um and uh more than a quarter of american things said that tips should be taxed so people have some strong opinions about it i mean listen i just got back from italy you don't tip there you know what i mean and uh you do and and like it's it's more of like uh this is what we agreed upon the agreed upon price is twenty dollars give me twenty dollars so i saw real quick and then we'll move on because you mentioned that i saw a really cool uh

a video on Instagram recently and it was weight service in America versus in Europe. And it showed a dramatization of a guy sitting there and the server coming up in America, hi, how you doing today? Okay, here's some water for you. And they were jokingly over pouring the water and doing too much stuff. And then in Europe, it's like,

the server comes walking by your table and doesn't acknowledge you whatsoever until you hail them and have them come over, essentially. I think their brand of service is different than it is over here. More machine-like? More just like, you tell me when you're ready and I'll come over and I'll bring you what you want. But as opposed to here, it's

They're waiting on you. They're checking on you. They're making sure that you have what you need. So therefore, maybe they don't quite earn that. You know what I mean? Did you get the perception that they would have been insulted had you have tipped? I had a bartender when we were in Ireland one time. Right. Give me the side eye because I don't need your charity. I threw him a couple of

punts as a... You're a big media star in the United States. As a thank you, Stephen. It was almost like in the scene where in Ferris Bueller, where they're at the restaurant and he throws five bucks and he just kind of laughs and just kind of almost barely picks up the money because he doesn't want to touch it. It was almost like that. I felt like that. I don't know. It's different cultures. All right. We're going to wrap up, Survey Says, and we are going to segue into...

Breaking news. Breaking news. Breaking news. This was posted on the Facebook page, a Facebook page at 6.15 this morning. Pika's Pizza in Upper Darby is closing this summer. Come on, man. Whoa!

Listen, the only thing... Then it says, but not forever. Oh. I thought it was forever. Oh. Maybe they renovated? There was a text that I saw earlier that said that Pekas is closing. It says, after nearly 70 wonderful years of serving Upper Darby community, it is with heavy hearts we announce that Pekas Restaurant Upper Darby will be closing in the summer of 2025. As we prepare to close our doors, we want to express our deepest gratitude for your unwavering support. Okay, now I haven't read this. There is a Pekas in Westchester, so...

Same owners? Okay. Yeah. We're excited to share that we are taking this time to plan for a new and smaller location in the Delaware County area that will allow us to continue serving you with the same love and dedication. Stay tuned for updates on our journey ahead. Okay. And that is from the Peek Up family.

Listen, we lost Gaetano's last year or two years ago. That was a, you know, a Springfield staple. And there were two different locations and they're both gone. I need that back in my life. And that I believe there was a, you know, sickness. This just in from Marissa Magnata, Casey. Sorry to interrupt you. No, you're good. Westchester is staying open. Okay. Westchester is staying open. You'll have that.

I mean, it is... You're not happy. It's... No, no. That's... Peekas is your jam. He's done a lot there. Yeah, I've done a lot there, but, like, Last Stand's gone. Like I said, Gitanos is gone. You know, I can't have a Peekas gone, and then... What's next? Charlie's? You're going to take Charlie's away from me? You can't do this to me. Well, that's just it. No. Listen, I've said this before. Yeah. You know, I'm sure...

Would you ever, because of all these things in these places that have such importance in your life, would you ever consider going in with a couple other people and opening up a stand or something that replicates some of these beloved institutions in Delco?

I mean, don't you think maybe... Dude, do you know how tough that business is? I know. There would be a lot of work. There's no way. I know the owners of The Last Stand. I remember hanging out with them. I was at an event and they were like, do you know how many hot dogs you need to sell to make a profit? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I get it. What if they had the media machine that is Casey Boy? I don't have the hustle in me, man. All right. Well, anyhow, so they're closing that location. And that's sad because it's an institution. It's been there for a long, long time. And people have done...

Important things in their lives there have had important things. They're going to remain open, but in a different space. And that building is special to a lot of people. I don't like original and I don't like different. I've never had it, Case. I want to have... Oh, we'll take you there. Press is not the hugest fan. Stop it, Preston.

Listen, it's... It offends Casey. It does not. It does not. It is... It's a unique pie, right? There's no other pizza like Pika's in Delco. That's what you say when you've had sex you didn't enjoy. It was unique. It was unique. No, but you always talk about it, so I want to try it. All right. Yeah. I'll take you out on it. You need to do it. I've had it. It's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. You need to do it before the end of the summer for sure. Or we can just go to Westchester. It's the same place. It's the same. Although...

It's got to be the same. I've never actually been to the Westchester location. I've only gone to the Upper Derby location. Okay. All right. Well, anyhow, that's our breaking news. All right. I thought I would share that with you. All right. We are going to take a break. We're going to come back in a second. We have the Bizarre File stories on the way. Alex Lifeson of Rush is going to be on our show this morning talking about his band, Envy of None. That'll be on 9 o'clock hour. A few other guests, too. Adam Ray, Jim Florentine. We'll take a break and we'll be right back. Stay with us.

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and he'll be listening between 7.30 and 10 a.m. We listen every day. Thank you so much. Love you guys. Renee Fisher. So here is a shout-out, and happy birthday to you, Spence. And then this one says, hey, Preston, my name is...

Sean, long time listener. And I'm just emailing you to say hi and asking for a shout out. I'm going through a rough time right now and I could use some cheering up. Thanks again. Keep rocking. Love you all. And listen every single day. So that's from Sean Hammer. Sean, hang in there, bud. Hope it gets better for you. It certainly will. And then the last one, this is a plug.

I sent the information to Nick. Hopefully, he's got it up on the community page of PresidentSteve.com. It says, hey, guys, it's Alex, the fire juggler who did food trucks and fireworks and was juggling at the Cardboard Classic, watching the fun. My friends recently had their RV where they were living burned down in a fire four days ago. Oh, man.

I was hoping you could give a shout out to them. And they're GoFundMe listed in the Facebook post that I linked. They are instrumental to our local music community here in New Jersey. They're sound technicians for a lot of local festivals and events and could really use all the help they can get.

I sent the link over to Nick and I did not click on it, so I don't have their name and the story of this, but I'm assuming Nick put it on the community page. He's out of the studio right now. I don't know. He needed a minute. Okay. He's taking a smash. No, I don't know what he's doing. All right. So anyhow, I will mention that. That is from Alex Romano, our juggler, and we'll find out about getting that up on the community page. All right. We need to do the bizarre foul right now. Bizarre.

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Brought to you by Helium Comedy Club, bringing Philly the best comics of today and tomorrow, live every week. And tickets and lineup are available at HeliumComedy.com. Well, the FAA and law enforcement are investigating after a passenger allegedly attacked a number of people on a Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles on Monday. Come on! Shortly after they landed in L.A. at LAX, staff on board reported an adult male was restrained after biting one passenger and hitting some others.

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So a Texas woman, listen to this, who won $83.5 million in a jackpot in February through a courier service, said the Texas Lottery Commission advised her that her winnings may never be paid out. What? As the Texas Rangers investigate the lottery drawing. Huh? Are we talking like Walker? No, not Walker, Texas Ranger. But-

A Texas Ranger, probably. So the woman who wished to remain anonymous said of being treated as a bad guy. So the woman, here's the deal, and I'd never heard of this. Walker told me I had AIDS. The woman used Jack Pocket. Jack Pocket? Yep, which is an app that allows you to buy lottery tickets and scratch-offs over the phone to purchase $20 worth of Texas Lotto tickets for the February 17th ride. Now, couriers are mobile and online applications that buy lottery tickets on people's behalf for a service fee.

Lottery courier services have come under fire from many Texas lawmakers who feel they are illegal under current state law and are upset that the Lottery Commission allowed the services to operate in the state. The Texas Senate passed a bill that would ban courier services. So if I understand correctly, you're hiring someone to go get...

Lottery tickets for you? That's what they do, yeah. And they charge you a service fee. So after her lottery win and after increased pressure from state lawmakers, the Lottery Commission said that lottery courier services are not legal in Texas and it is proposing a rule change that would revoke the license of any retailer that works with a courier service. Now, later that same day, Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Rangers to investigate her lottery win and...

A $95 million jackpot win in 2023 where a single group were able to purchase more than $25 million worth of tickets. I see. And buy almost every combination of numbers. An investigation found the group purchased the tickets from four different retailers that work with courier services. Now, the woman, though, said her lawyer said that his client is rightful as the rightful winner and deserves to be paid. He said we played by all the rules.

Sometimes there are reasons to investigate things, but I don't think mine is one of them, she said. She said that she does not understand why she's being grouped with the other jackpot where they bought all those tickets. She only bought $20 worth of lottery tickets. It doesn't seem like she was trying to corner the market on it. No, just a regular purchase. And that's far fewer than obviously the $25 million tickets that were bought by this other group that she's being lumped in with. So...

That doesn't sound cool at all to me. No, it doesn't. Hopefully they'll rectify it. Now it has national attention. Maybe that'll make a difference. We'll see. We'll put Kathy on it. She's good with this kind of stuff. All right. I'm going to tell you about a new business in Las Vegas. It's called Rent-A-Grandma. Rent-A-Grandma. It provides a variety of services such as nannying, babysitting, in-home care, cooking, and domestic staff and is currently employing individuals with a large breadth of life experience to help those who need it.

So Magdalena Brandon said that her business was experiencing a slow period and wanted to lend her time and a helping hand. And she decided to enroll and rent a grandma. Hi, grandma. She said, I always looked like I always like to look for other means of doing things. And the flexible hours and variety of duties appealed to her. Smash, smash, pow, pow, pow, waka, waka, dooga, dooga, dooga. While she was running the grocery store or running to the grocery store, taking someone to the doctor's office. So Brandon said,

recounted her time with a 99-year-old in assisted living with whom she would regularly go to lunch. And the experience included a historical perspective on the Korean War. And she added that she found it rewarding to bring some happiness to the veteran's life. And it's that type of experience that Rent-A-Grandma looks to provide for its staff and its clients, placing individuals with families as nannies, babysitters, in-home care providers, chefs, cooks, and domestic staff.

So she decided to do this in Vegas. And apparently, she said the service brings a warm and friendly approach to the task. When a client calls and they're asking for a grandma, she said, I try to fit them with the best grandma that can suit their needs depending on where they live and the hours they want to work. We have one of those calls. I'll look for it, President. Okay. Since its grand opening...

25 grandmas and 5 grandpas have been enrolled. Each of them undergoes a background check and a CPR train. So they can come in and you can rent a grandparent. Can't find it. That's all right.

A federal judge dismissed the charges Monday against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers. This is another follow-up to this story. Oh, boy. That Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz after prosecutors informed the court that he had died on Sunday. So they have dismissed the charges.

Jerry Hall Slitterman, 77 years old, who had been in poor health with lung disease and other ailments, had been scheduled to change his plea, but the hearing was postponed because she was hospitalized. She's the slippers. And now they said that he has died. He was hospitalized in January for inability to walk and sepsis as well. I'm surprised no one has been killed over these slippers over the years. They are the hottest auction. They might be...

The hottest auction item ever to come out of Hollywood. So the sequined red slippers were stolen in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum and their whereabouts remained a mystery for 13 years until the FBI recovered them in 2018. They fetched a record for movie memorabilia at $32. million in December 2018.

The slippers were one of several pairs at Garland Ward during filming. Only three remain. Now, Terry John Martin, who's now 78, used a hammer to smash the glass at the museum's door and display case to steal them. And you remember this. According to his attorney, an old associate with connections to the mob told him the shoes had to be

had been adorned with real jewels to justify their $1 million insured value, but he got rid of the slippers when he learned that they were just fake and sequins. No, no, yeah, not real jewels. And they ended up with this guy, Salitterman, who pleaded guilty in 2023 and was sentenced last January, but...

He died. You know, a recent thing came up about the Yellow Brick Road and Wizard of Oz. So the Yellow Brick Road spirals around when you're in the Munchkin Land. But there's also a Red Brick Road that is... Really? If you're looking at it, and this is a race to... If they can call up a picture at some point, the question is, where would that road go to? Okay, see, there's the red...

Where does that chisnet go? Good question. I don't know where that chisnet goes.

Yeah, I do not know. The mystery remains. All right, and that is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. Oh, here. Nick just pulled this up, Steve, and apparently it might... Oh, it says some interpretation suggests it might lead to Glinda's Castle or the Munchkin Houses. Huh. So they have like another suburb? Maybe. Welcome to Munchkin Pines. All right, and that...

And with that, we're going to take a quick break. So we'll come back in a moment. We have a number of guests on the show. Like I said, Alex Lifeson is joining us from Rush. Adam Ray will be on the program. Jim Florentine, too. But we'll come back with some other stuff. So stay put. We'll be right back. This weekend's featured MM artist, Disturbed. Oh, wow.

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Foo Fighters on 93.3 WSMR. Learn to fly. Is that what the name of that song was? Learn to fly. I'm like, wait. We didn't just play Tom Petty. Learning to fly. I'm like, get that time right. I want to learn to fly. I'd like to take flying lessons. 827 and the President and Steve show on a Thursday morning. Let's have a look at traffic and then we'll dive into stuff. Gap, what's going on so far this morning?

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British guacamole. Limey is a term for a Brit. It's kind of a derogatory term. Or lime. Yeah, limey. This is really good limey guacamole. I love this limey stuff. This limey's really nice. Limey's not a cook.

You know why they got that nickname? Yeah. Because of the limes and gin and tonics, yeah. No. It goes back further than that. Well, they would use the limes in a gin and tonic to fight scurvy because the only access that they had to anything in vitamin C was that. And so a gin and tonic, there was what? It was a

quinine in the tonic and that helped as well. I just thought they literally sucked on limes or any kind of citrus. They would bring lemons too, but they focused on limes. This is when they would be out on ships for months at a time. I did a lot of sucking. There were two diseases they were trying to fight at the same time. Malaria, which is where you get the quinine for the tonic. Oh,

and gin and then the scurvy with the citruses. And thus was born a great cocktail. Yeah, I'd like a daiquiri. And an insult. And an insult on top of it. By the way, going back to Learn to Fly, Nick pulled up a Songs About Flying. Yes. So here's some titles for you. So in case I was confused about titles that have fly in the title. So Fly Me to the Moon.

Fly Away, Lenny Kravitz. Fly Like an Eagle. Come Fly With Me. Come Fly With Me. It's another Sinatra. Learning to Fly, Tom Petty. Given to Fly, Pearl Jam. Good song, by the way. Pretty Fly for a White Guy? Pretty Fly for a White Guy would be one of them, yep. Fly Away, it's another Lenny Kravitz song that has fly in it. Let's see, Learning to Fly by Foo Fighters.

And I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky.

They included free word on this list. Sorry about this. Fly by night. Oh, yeah. Fly by night. We're having Alex Lifeson on in a little while. You should sing that for me. Hey, Alex, give me a second. Can I sing this for you? Fly by night. I've got to go now. All right. All right. So I'm trying to figure out which direction to go. You want to talk about the mystery item? Yes. Thank you. Oh, my God. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you, Steve. This is real quick.

Not really a topic, but I do need some help. Yesterday, I received an envelope. Is that that big thing that's ticking? No, but... But? I have a question. All right. It says, to the Preston and Steve show, and it has an arrow to my name, and it says Preston. And this is from someone named Rachel Lane. Rachel Lane. Who lives in West Hills, California. And so she sent this to me.

and it's a little baggie in here with some stuff in it. Uh-oh. And I'm not sure what it is. Is it? Hang on, I'll show it to you. So it's this. It's Coke. Well, it's not. No, it's our Coke. It looks more like crack. Wait, hold it up. What? Is that foot shavings? So here's the deal. Oh, wait a minute. It comes with a note, all right? It comes with a note, and I reached out to somebody because of this note. It says, call for instructions, and it's signed Mr. Pop-Up.

So I was wondering if this is from Tom Papa and is this some kind of stuff that you use for making sourdough bread? Like a starter for sourdough. So I texted Tom Papa yesterday and I took a picture of this and I said, hey, I go, is this a sourdough starter or did a disgruntled listener send me a bag of ricin? Yeah.

Because I'm like, this could be toxic. I don't know what the hell this stuff is, man. And I haven't opened it up because of that. Can I see? Can you get it over here?

I texted Tom, and he has not gotten back to me. So I'm wondering if it's not from Tom, Papa. I thought maybe Rachel Lane might be like an assistant of his or something like that and pop this note in here that he signed. But I didn't hear back from Tom. And so I went last night on YouTube to look up.

sourdough starters and what all is involved in getting that going. And this looks nothing like sourdough starter. These look like, so on one side it looks like eggshells. It's very, these are very brittle little... Yeah, it's brittle flakes. Brittle flakes and

And they're white on one side and they're kind of yellowish on the other. And I was wondering maybe that's... And I've seen yeast before. It doesn't look like yeast, but I don't know much about making sourdough. And I thought maybe this is some kind of special sourdough yeast. I want to see if Google can identify it. What do they call it? The mother yeast? Yeah, the mother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe it's that, but I didn't hear back from them. I'm definitely...

saying no on Tom Papa. I think, I believe, and I can't really see it too closely, is it sea glass? There's a woman that listens to us that collects sea glass and she wanted to send us some. Do you think that's it? That doesn't look like sea glass to me. No? Okay. No. So, but it says call for instructions. There's no phone number. Yeah. So this says here, Preston, hand this over to Preston if you could.

You take a picture of it? This says epoxy paint chips. Someone's trying to kill you, by the way. Maybe. Someone's trying to poison you. But if you look at it, that's Preston on the phone. Kathy?

What? That's what it looks like. It looks like... It's like epoxy paint chips. What would you use... No, I think someone's trying... No, someone's trying to poison you. Okay. Don't open that. That's what I was wondering about the ricin thing. I was like, you know... Smoke alone. I don't know. So, anyhow, maybe they want to give you brain damage because if you eat paint chips, you can get brain damage. Well, I just wanted to throw this out there and see if anybody can help me out with that. What could you do? For example, if you could...

go to lab examine that if you receive something in the mail and you're not sure what it is and you think it could be something harmful who do you contact first well can't i don't um contact us well no no maybe like one of our police officer friends don't they have like don't they send little baggies of things to be tested male sniffing dogs so press and i googled image uh dried sourdough starter and it kind of looks like it does look like that

That's got to be it. If Kathy's going down the poison route, I'm going to take the dried sourdough starter route. So Nick, it looks like that? Yes. If Tom Papa sent you a little baggie of stuff with a cryptic note...

No, there's no way. Well, I think last time I think last time we had him on because he had sent Steve. Now he sent you some Steve. Did it look like that? No, it was an actual it was it was a little mini dough. OK, all right. So that's in a jar. That's after you create the starter and then you have to you have to apparently feed it every day. My God, is it a lot of work? Not every day.

This starter, the video I watched said every day you need to feed that stuff. When we talked to Tom Papa, was he supposed to send you something? I think so. Because I told him, I said, if you send it to me, I will do it for sure. But now I've watched the tutorial videos. I don't know if I'm going to do it because it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. It takes, to create starter, to actually create the starter takes about a week just to create it.

And then to make the bread, that's like another three days just to make the bread. So once the sourdough starter is there, alive, for all intents and purposes, it doesn't need to be maintained as rigorously. But you do need to maintain it. Not according to this baker that I watch who said, every day for the rest of your life, if you want to keep that, you have to do it. It doesn't take long. It takes like five minutes to mix this stuff in there.

So anyway, okay, we're looking at pictures. Yeah, this might be it. Dried sourdough flakes. Can I see it? I didn't get to look at it. Oh, poison! Stop it. I threw it to her. Scared her. Kathy, just inhale a little bit of it. And you simply rehydrate it, Preston. Oh. All you got to do is add water.

All right. All right. Well, that might be it. But it said call for instructions. I texted him and he never got back to me. Well, he didn't. He's a busy man. He didn't say text for instructions. He said call him. All right. So if you're keeping it at room temperature daily, if you're keeping it in the refrigerator weekly. Okay.

I don't think this is Tom Papa. If it is, I'm a little upset. I think this is how he said it. I'm going sour now. All right. This is what we need to do. We need to find an autograph from Mr. Tom Papa, and then we can do the... Ah, comparison. Comparison. Can I just call him? What time is it? Where is he? Can you search Tom Papa autograph? Cancel checks. And I will compare him, and...

That's it. Done! This is from Tom Papa. Tom, this is what you're sending? A baggie of poison with no context or instruction whatsoever? So who does it come from again? His assistant? Rachel Lane. Is that his alter? Maybe it is. And then to put some random name on it that we don't know. Tom, come on. We need to let Tom Papa know that we thought we had a dangerous...

That's him. That's total him. Look at the two P's and the A. That's exactly his signature. Okay. All right. All right. Thank you. We need to talk. I was a little scared. Why would you be scared? I'd be a lot of scared. That's something. I'm scared.

Might be happening. Okay, so now I need to get in touch with him and find out exactly what to do with it. Well, now we know Tom Papa's trying to poison you. And let him know you have no intention of maintaining it because he said you don't want to do it. No, I am going to do it. I'm going to go the distance. But while I was watching the video of this... Dude, you clocked him right in the face. I could never do that

That was unbelievably perfect. Kathy threw the bag at me and it hit me right in the nose. And hit his microphone. But anyway, while I was watching the craft of creating sourdough bread, in my mind I'm like, I could just go to Panera and buy one. Yeah.

I just had one last night. Their sandwiches are on sourdough. Everybody's making these protein bagels now. You can use cottage cheese. Guys, I gave it a whirl. Whoa! You made a bagel? I mean...

two batches that both went into the trash. They were awful. They were terrible. I followed the instructions exactly how my sister-in-law told me to do it. She's like, they're amazing. I love them. You should do it. It's so easy. You can definitely do it. I definitely can't do it. Picture a shot of Kathy sitting outside with a blanket around her as a hazmat team is putting out a fire in the kitchen. She goes, okay, you just overcooked them a little bit. Try another batch. I tried the second batch. No.

No. No, man. How did you... Did you actually literally bake them or did you boil them as well? No, I baked... There's just baking. Wow, those look great. I got to see a picture. Oh, no.

It looks like if you were to salt a turd. They don't even look like pickles. It looks like sea, what is it? The sea urchin? The large salt, the largest version of salt that you can use. Like rock salt? Rock salt on turds. There is a sourdough outfit in California called Rise and Grind Sourdough, and the owner of that company is named Rachel.

And I'm trying to figure out if her last name is Lane. It's L-A-Y-N-E, by the way. Okay. Not like Lois. Good CSI-ing here, Nick. Yeah, thank you for everyone's help on that. Yeah. No, go ahead. Okay. Now you have something not to do. I'll try it. All right. I'll give it a shot, for sure. Speaking of Lois Lane, Nick, there's a Lois Lane in...

In Avalon? Yeah. I don't know if it's an actual street named Lois Lane or if the people who own the house, because it's like one of those beachfront houses, if the people who own the house is named Lois. Huh. That's all I have to say about that. But it's an actual street? Well, it's a street sign that I pass when I ride my bike through there. Oh, it's a street sign? Yeah. And you're not sure if the... It's probably...

It's probably just the driveway. It's a 50th Street beach path. It's called Lois Lane. Oh, so it's like legit called Lois Lane. You know, speaking of Lois Lane, Rachel Rosnahan was on Celebrity Jeopardy last night and she's going to play Lois Lane in the new James Gunn movie. Is she? Yeah. Okay. And she looked lovely. I like her. What else have we seen her in? Mrs. Maisel.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's great. And I really want to get... Speaking of Superman, Steve, I really want to get David Cornswet. Oh, let's keep doing that. Absolutely. Yeah. Because he's local. Yeah, he got his acting start at the People's Light and Theater out in Malvern. And... We have to imagine he was weaned on this show. Probably. I can't imagine why he wouldn't be. And...

And that's his name, right? Yeah, of course. Yeah, David Cornsweat. Yeah, so I know somebody who knows his wife. Oh, please. This is the weirdest part of my job. It's like, hi, I'd like to be friends with you. But more importantly, can you tell me a little bit about David Cornsweat and how I can get him on my show? Do you know what he played? Basically, he essentially was the Cary Elwes of the movie Twisters, where Cary Elwes was the Cary Elwes of Twister.

All right. David Cornswet was the Cary Elwes of Twisters. Of Twisters. Okay. Is there a Twisters connection back to Superman other than David Cornswet? Well, yeah. I mean, who do you call it? Helen Hunt? No, the dude, Clark Kent's dad gets sucked up in a Twister. He's talking about the actual movie. Or if Superman spins around real fast, he can create a Twister. And there's, of course, we're trying to get...

chubby checker into the rock and roll hall of fame of course he had a huge hit with the twist there's a documentary let's twist again like we did last time let's twist so hard we create let's twist so hard that we create a tornado no there's a documentary on it's brand new on netflix it looks like it's a documentary about these people who get sucked up into a twister have you seen the coming attractions of that yeah they basically get sucked into this twister now they're looking straight up come on twister uh

And they're in the eye of the tornado. And they can see blue skies. And then next thing you know, they get sucked. But they live to tell the tale. I want to go back to Chubby Checker first. All right. Okay. So he's up for fan voting for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And, of course, he's local to here. And I know his son. And we need to get Chubby into the Hall of Fame. He has a great sourdough bakery. Vote if you can. But did you ever...

stop for a moment to consider that Chubby Checker had two big hit records about the exact same thing. He had the twist and then he had Let's Twist Again. Which, by the way, I kind of like part two a little bit better than the first one. I'm a doer. Yeah, I mean, I like them both, but I love that. Let's twist again like we did last summer. Oh, let's twist again like we did last

A little more wistful. Yeah. Are there any other songs, I think maybe we've talked about this before, that have sequels? That have sequels. I don't know that if we have. Unforgiven, right? I'm sorry, Casey. Unforgiven and Unforgiven 2. What about Major Tom? Wait, who did Unforgiven?

Metallica? Metallica, yeah. I didn't know there was Unforgiven 2. Yes. Okay. All right, what if it's on the same album? So like Incubus, for instance, they have a song called Earth to Bella 1, and then later on in the album, they have Earth to Bella 2. Yeah. All right. To Bella? Yeah, John to Bella. John to Bella? Earth to Bella. Oh, I literally thought you were saying Earth to Bella. I mean, we've gone from to Bella where to Earth to Bella now? Dude's taking over the world. And then there's to Bella dialogue. Shit.

So, Major Tom. Oh. And then there was that song the other artist did that has Major Tom in it. Yeah, that's... Is that simply a mention or a sequel? I don't think it's a sequel. But it was about a guy who goes to space. God damn it. Because the Earth below. Yeah.

Sniffing, falling, floating weightless. Coming home, that's what it's called. Coming, coming home. Yeah. Cause Major Tom, I'm coming home. That's Aussie. Yeah, that's Aussie. Was there a follow-up to the Billy Joel song? No, there was not. They should. I started the fire. Here's one, Steve.

Oh, man. What was it? Same time? No. Damn it. I thought there was a follow-up, Steve, to the song where the guy meets the girl in the grocery store. Oh. Same old anxiety? Yes. Same old anxiety. I think... I thought there was a follow-up to that. There was... Leader of the Band. He did that one, too, right? For his dad. Yeah. You were talking about... I've forgotten his name. God damn it. And I listen to that all the time. I...

I thought there was a follow-up to Same Old Lang Syne. The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are grow. By the way, text us if you know songs that have... Oh, it was Peter Schilling that did...

The song, well, maybe it's called Major Tom. Somebody wanted to know if Major Tom was actually Tom Papa. Major Tom Papa. Sourdough and Porym. Nick, is that song a sequel of sorts? To Major Tom? Yes. Yes. And then to answer something else that we were talking about. Space Oddity. There are apparently three songs in the Unforgiven trilogy by Metallica. There's Unforgiven 1, 2, and 3. Okay. Pink Floyd has a few sequels. And Pigs.

Oh, here's a good one. Hey, hey, my, my, and then my, my, hey, hey by Neil Young. There you go. Good point. That's pretty cool. Trilogies, Rush does that. We're having Alex Lifeson on later today, this morning, but they had a trilogy called the Fear Trilogy. It was the weapon. They were on all different albums, but they made them part of a complete trilogy. Damn it, I forgot what those three songs were. Google says Surf and Safari.

There's a sequel to Surf and Safari? I don't know. Is there? That's what Google says. Surf and Sabbatical? I can't find the sequel, though. The police have Synchronicity 1 and 2. True. Somebody texted in. I don't know how those songs are actually connected, but... They're essentially the same song, are they not? No, no. They're completely different. I'm misremembering then. Yeah. Um...

Synchronicity 2 is another suburban family morning. Yeah, grandmother screaming at the wall. But the other one is synchronicity, synchronicity. But they don't really tie together. All right, anyway. Sourdough. Sourdough, sourdough. Wait, Surf and Safari and Surf and USA, is that two different songs? Yes. Surf and USA. That's it. That's it.

Oh. So, Surf and Safari is the sequel to Surf in USA. Is it? Oh, yeah, because Safari is in Africa, right? Mm-hmm.

And then you're back in the USA You enjoyed your safari You paid for it and you got to see gorillas But now you're back to surfing Are there two Bad Outta Hells by Meatloaf? Yeah, there's Back Into Hell So there's Bad Outta Hell and then Back Into Hell Those are two different albums And then What The Hell Apparently, we've talked about this before But Coheed and Cambria, they just have ongoing songs So I don't even know if it's sequels But their songs just wind up throughout the records Yeah, they have a Jessie's Girl 2 apparently

Oh, by the original by Rick Springfield? Yeah. And then a follow-up by Coheed and Cambria. Oh, by the way, Rick Springfield is going to be on our show next week. That's right. Now we can ask him about Coheed. Yeah, we can. All right. I don't know how to bring it back full circle. Well, somebody also pointed out this is the real stream of consciousness, sir. Yes. We're all over the place. It's a sequel to the stream of consciousness, sir. All right.

The real stream of consciousness there. We do need to take a break. Tom Papa's in Texas. He's doing shows there. Oh, yes. Okay, Marissa is just bringing something in to me. Marissa Sen. Here we go. This is how the progression of that break. Preston's mystery package into paint chips, into Tom Papa, into sea glass.

Sourdough starter, protein bagels, rise and grind sourdough in California. Then we have Lois Lane, Superman, Lois Lane, Avalon. Rachel Brosnahan will be Lois Lane. David Cornsweat into the twist and songs with follow-ups. There you go. That was the breakdown. It's sort of obvious. It's sort of obvious.

The notes in the real stream of consciousness, it makes perfect sense. All right. We have to take a break because our guests are going to begin when we return. All right. So when we come back, we will have Jim Florentine right after Jim Florentine. We will have Alex Lifeson right after Alex Lifeson. We will talk to Adam Ray. So we've got several people in this next segment. And you better stick around. We'll be right back.

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The official supermarket of the Preston and Steve Show. Our next guest online, he's going to be performing in Clifton Heights at the Columbus Club on Saturday at 8 p.m. We always need to play some Maiden leading, of course, so we try to do that every single time. Welcome our good friend, Mr. Jim Florey. Hey, Jim. How you guys doing? Good, bud. How you, man? I'm good. I like the black and black background. You kind of look like Max Headroom a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah, it's, you know, I got this whole thing. I have a green screen, but then it doesn't work on Zoom. I don't know. I don't know how this stuff works. You just hope for the best. That's all that matters. Do you have people you call for tech support? Do you have friends that when you don't know how to run stuff that you can reach out to?

You always have to have that one nerd friend to make your life a lot easier. We have a former intern that ended up working for Apple who is like, he's the guy. He's the guy. It's Jeremy. I reach out to him every single time. Thank God.

That's what I want my kid. My kid is 14. I need him to know all this tech stuff. I'm trying to tell him I'll hire you because you have to learn this stuff because it's making my life chaotic. Well, obviously, you have your podcast and everything. You branch out a little bit. But, I mean, do you really get frustrated and stifled? Or if you spend some time, do you think you can figure it out? Which of those scenarios is the reality?

I don't want to spend any time on stuff that I'm not interested in. Okay. I've been like that since school, too. If I'm not interested in the one class, I'm out. Dude, that's the same. I'm ADD like crazy, and if I can't buy it, that's why I'm terrible at board games and stuff like that. I have no interest. But music has been your outlet, your release.

It has, but listen, I don't blame it on ADD. If some, like the most beautiful woman in the world goes, listen, if you learn this, you know, you can go home with me tonight. You think I'm not going to learn it? So it has nothing to do with ADD. Okay. It's motivation. It's all motivation. That's it. It's properly motivated and you can do anything. So our midday host, Pierre, is late for everything, always, every single time, no matter what. And I've tried to tell him one time, it's a matter of motivation.

If, say, if Jerry Garcia were still alive and he was going to be here today for an interview, you'd show up early for that. You could make that. It's all on how you're motivated. Most definitely. So you got to find that motivation. But look, as a comedian, it's like I just want to focus on writing jokes and coming up material. To me, I think all that other stuff is just taking away from that time.

Are you a disciplined writer? Is it whatever catches your fancy at the time and you pull out a pad and paper? Or do you sit down in a room every day at a certain time? Once again, I have no good study skills. You need to learn this when you're in school. It all goes back to that. No, I don't sit down with a pen and paper. When something comes to me, I'll write it down. I don't have the discipline to sit there and I'm just not going to come up with stuff. I have to...

You know, it has to come into my life and go, I think I can work this out. You know what's frigging awesome? Robert Kelly was in here, and I'm a big tech guy. He knows I'm a big tech guy, and he brought the Plod. This thing that it's magnetic, goes to the back of your phone, and it records. It'll record you in a room speaking or just driving. It'll record conversations. Then you hit the button on the software in the phone. You hit Generate.

I'll tell you this, Jim. Guys, it's astonishing, isn't it? It gives you a summary of everything that was said, and then not only that, it offers tips at the end on how to achieve the things you were talking about. It's crazy. He uses it for...

riffing comedy as he's driving or whatever. And then it puts it into concise notes and subheadings. Like it blew my mind how accurate this thing was. In fact, we had a big meeting. It was identifying our voices and saying who was giving what ideas. And it's just, it's not that expensive. It just sticks on the back of your phone.

I know Bobby Kelly for a long time and he, every new little thing, tech thing that comes out, he buys. And three weeks later I see him, I go, hey, how's that thing working? He goes, ah, it's not that good. I got another thing. That's me. That's me. Bobby Kelly has cost me probably $3,000 every year.

It's stuff that I didn't need three weeks later. No, this one's good, though. I have to say, this one's, at least right now, standing the test of limited time. Hey, Jim, we were off air talking about your voice. You've got what I would describe as like a chainsaw-sounding voice. It's gruff, and it projects and everything. How old were you when your balls dropped, and all of a sudden you realized, oh, my God, I've got this resonant tool here. Were you a teenager still?

14. No kidding. You sound like you sound now when you were 14? Yeah, but I think going into ninth grade. So when I was in class, the teacher would go, okay, Mr. Florentine, what's the answer? I'd go, 34. And the whole class would start laughing. Oh, no. Yeah, and then I'd be walking down the hallways like, hey, kids, say something. I'm like, what? And the whole class would start laughing. Ah!

But it was good because by 10th grade, I was able to call all my friends out. We would skip school and say I was their father. Oh, yeah, man. You were a godsend. Yes. Yes. I love that. I'd be like, this is Mr. Bondi. Tony won't be in school today. He's not feeling well. Okay, no problem. Oh, my God. My friend Tom tried to do that. We skipped school one day, and he called me.

The school, I had a time to do that very thing. And he put on this voice like this and like immediately hangs up the phone. He was trying to be my dad. Yeah. Within 60 seconds, we got a call back at the house. I was just busted. You can't do that. And with that, Jim, have you do you do voiceovers? Is that is that part of your repertoire? I always say until what's his name?

I'm a black guy that does all the voiceovers. James Earl Jones, who passed? No, and the other guy. Ving Rhames? We have the meats. No, not him either. Why am I forgetting his name? The old guy. Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman. Until Morgan Freeman dies, I can't get a gig. He takes everything. He's getting up there, though. But you've never done any video game work or stuff like that?

A couple little things. And, you know, obviously I did the voice on Crank Anchors, but no, I haven't. You know, it's a whole little, it's a tough gig to get because it's like a union thing. There's only about 20 guys that do all the voices. That's true. That is really tough. Yeah. No, there's sort of an elite group. Yeah.

I don't want to let you in with that. You know, so if you've got this unique voice, like he's taking money away from us. So I haven't cracked that club yet. Hey, Jim, we, we hate to keep the interview short today. Did Marissa tell you that we've got another guest come up here in a moment? Yeah. And what she told me, I said, why even have a me on? I was telling the gang, I'm like, Jim will understand. He'll get it. This guy, he'll get it. Yeah. So, uh, so we're going to keep this kind of short because Alex is going to be signing on here in just a minute via zoom. But, uh,

Jim is in our area Saturday night. The gig is at the Columbus House, and that's in Clifton Heights. You can take us through Jim's website, jimflorentine.com as well. Columbus Club. What did I say? The Columbus House. Oh, the Columbus House. Yeah. Columbus Club. Got it wrong. And then Friday night, Emmaus Theater, Emmaus PA. All right. Right outside of Allentown. Yeah. If you're in the area. We'll put the word out. All right. And then we'll talk longer next time. You know that. All right, brother?

Absolutely. I appreciate you guys always. Good to talk to you. Jim Florentine, guys. And they're going to sign him off of Zoom. And then we're going to get Alex Lifeson on in a second. So excited. We talked to him before. He's great. He's terrific. But I get nervous when I talk to my heroes, man. Thank God he's a super funny guy, too. I love watching his speech. Yeah.

Oh, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He can go up there and play the pompous guy because he's got the rep, he's got the cred, but he's not that way. I just wanted to add for the Florentine show at the Columbus Club on Saturday night. Doors are at 7, shows at 8, but check this out. Tickets include a light buffet at the Columbus Club. A light buffet. I'll have some more chicken franchise, please. Don't mind if I do. Uh,

So, Marissa, are we waiting for them to... Oh, he's on. He's ready to go. Excellent. All right. So our next guest is all set to join us. Obviously, the major part of his career was with my favorite band, Rush.

But he has got a band that we actually, we spoke to him when they first debuted not that long ago, Envy of None. They have a new single out. They've got an album out. And we are going to talk to the one and only Mr. Alex Lifeson. Oh, thank you so much, guys. Nice to be back. Hey, great to have you on, Alex. Thanks for joining us today. I love the new single. It's called The Story. And I was checking it out last night and this morning again. And it's such a cool song.

smooth sound. I am in love with your lead singer, uh, Maya Wayne. Uh, what a talent. Uh, she's got it all going on. She is, uh, she's beautiful. She's cool. She's talented. She's got this really ethereal voice. And, um, I, I just, you know, it's gotta be great having somebody like that in your band. It's for me, I mean, it's, it's, it is such a blessing for me. Uh,

You know, when we started working on the first record and met Maya for the first time, we were kind of feeling each other out to see how we were going to work together. And after the first record, I

We started working on the second record, I think maybe an hour and a half after we released the first record. So we just dove into it and we were really looking forward to continuing the experience. But Maya has blossomed on this album. She's gone through a lot of personal things and growth. As a vocalist, she is so professional. She provides her or she submits her tracks like...

Unlike anyone else, you know, normally with a singer, you get four or five tracks of vocals, you know, some harmonies and a lead vocal. With her, you get 25 tracks of all this incredible information. I'm going to play just a little bit of the hook from the story here, just so people can get a feel for who haven't heard the band and what it's like. So.

I love the lush production of this sound. It is a really full sound. You guys are a four-piece band, is that correct? Yes, that's correct. You've got a really big production in there. Were you a part of that process as far as how the music was presented in its production form?

You mean in mixing? Yeah, you know, just, yeah, the whole producing. Yeah, we're all involved in that. I think maybe I'm a little more involved, you know, with my experience. On the first record, Alf and I shared mixing responsibilities on the first record. On this one, I let, you know, Alf do everything because I think he's an amazing producer.

engineer, an amazing mixer, and he's a producer and his sensibilities are very, very strong. So I had total confidence. He's done an amazing job on this album. As far as you guys writing together, you went through this whole career with Rush and you guys had your method, you had your ways, you went about it. Maybe it changed a little bit when you had different producers come in to tweak, but for the most part, I think you guys had a formula that you worked on. Did you have to change that

when working with a new group of people? I'm sure you did. And what was that change? Was it uncomfortable at first or was it welcoming in that you wanted to try something completely different? I think in Rush, we evolved through many different ways of working. Towards the end, it was similar to the way I'm working with Envy of None.

I think what really influenced us more than anything in Envy of None is the pandemic. We were forced to work separately. So we would work from our own studios. You know, three of us are in the Toronto area and Maya was in Portland, Oregon at the time. So we would share files and, you know, you'd get a file, you'd drop it into your arrangement and you'd update it. You'd add your tracks, send it to the next person and you'd just continue the circle until you finally decided that that was enough.

And the advantage of it is that you don't have people in the studio to distract you. You can concentrate on what you're doing. If you don't like something that you've done, you just erase it and do it again until you get it right. Instead of having people throwing ideas at you and kind of just getting in the way and distracting you. Okay.

I love the sound. I love the sound. And this sound reminds me of some of the great, the female artist person that we were doing early on in our radio career, not doing, doing in the biblical sense, but playing artists that were really like PJ Harvey and these very innovative sort of progress. They call it alt rock or progressive at the time, but it has that very,

cool comfortable innovative sound were you a fan of that uh that genre well you know i i was not not a fan but i didn't really um spend a lot of time with those artists that you're mentioning um you know maya has her uh

you know, her influences over the years. And she would be the best person to speak to about that. But, you know, I hear Sherri, uh,

being from Garbage, Wanda Connelly. I think there's a parallel there, but Baya is very unique. My lyrics are very, very personal and very strong. So in my mind, it's very, very fresh. And just working so closely with her, she has such a high level of professionalism and bordering on the genius at times. It's

It's remarkable. We've been encountering a number of artists lately that are inspired by Clearly, but not ripping off or copying or, you know, where you can see the roots, but they've taken it and they make it something of their own. And when you see an artist like, you know, her that you're dealing with,

all your years in the industry, that has to be a, for lack of a better term, a second wind that you might not have seen coming this far into your career. But it's got to be an amazing thing.

uh yeah it absolutely is listen you know you listen to the first rush record this led zeppelin is obviously a major influence but if you listen to clockwork angels at the end of the our recording career it's not the same band you know there's growth you start from somewhere for sure and you're influenced by the music that's most powerful for you i think

With this second record, we've really come to be the band that we want to be and create the kind of music that we want to make. I had a wonderful career in Russian. I loved the whole thing and I'm so proud of it.

But to have a second opportunity to create valid music is really a blessing. And that's certainly at my age and after my career. I'm playing guitar more maybe than I've ever played now. I play every night for an hour before I go to bed and I must play...

probably three or four hours during the day on various projects and just sitting around playing. That's great. This is rejuvenating for me, this whole project. I'm lucky to be able to do that. Alex, speaking of projects, I'm reading Getty's book, My F in Life, for the third time right now. It's funny because I started it just a few days ago and didn't know this interview was going to happen. So he is, it's two to zero against you and him as far as books go. Yeah.

You got to write a book, man. I want to hear your side of things because you've had such a cool life, man. Well, you know, a kid's book, My Asset to Life is an amazing book. It's an amazing story.

And having been there for a lot of it, it was a great read for me. Geddes warned me about writing a book. He said it's not as easy as you think, and he spent years on his books. And the editing is brutal.

But my wife has been pushing me to maybe start doing a collection of some of the road stories and put out a little short book that's funny and fun to read. So I'll give that some thought when I have a little more time. Awesome. We were talking before you came on, and I just watched again your speech when you guys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is legendary. You're very funny, gentlemen. I assume if you would...

I assume there'd be humor in whatever book or pamphlet that you write. But it's funny because I was watching old SCTV and they did a bit and they were talking about how it is the desire. It used to be the consideration that it was the desire of rock musicians or musicians to be comedians and for comedians to be rock musicians. Have you found that has any merit to it, that notion?

Yeah, actually, I've met a lot of sports guys. You know, the top tennis players in the 80s, McEnroe and Daryl Leitis and even in golf, they

Everybody wants to be a musician. And we, in turn, want to be the athletes or the comedians. So, yeah, there is truth to that. Well, listen, we know you've got a busy day. And we just want to remind people that MBF Nunn's new album is called Stygian Waves. Which, by the way, I had to look up Stygian. It has to do with the River Styx. That's correct. But the story is a great song. The video is out. You can now watch it. I found it on YouTube. Which, by the way, is it fun for you to not have to be in music videos anymore? Yeah.

Absolutely. Who wants to see a 71-year-old guy? I was looking for you, but anyway. Yeah, check the new album from Envy of Nuns. It's a great band. And Alex, it's such a treat to have you on. We're huge fans. Thank you for joining us today. Good luck with everything. Thank you so much, and love you, Philly. Thank you. Appreciate it. Alex Lifeson, gang! So cool. He's so cool. I love it. Well, yeah, hopefully he's going to get...

a book. I would love to read his book. If you weren't watching on YouTube, you couldn't see he had a wall of prime guitars behind him. I wanted to ask him about that. We only had 10 minutes, but he clearly was in his guitar room. I looked behind him and I saw this white semi-hollow bodied guitar

that he played for years. And I just, while he was on, I pulled up because I wanted to see if it was the one. But apparently that sold at auction a while back. That was his signature series ES-355.

that he has. But yeah, it was all Les Pauls. I saw one Fender in there, but he's a big Les Paul fan, a big Gibson fan. So the question always has to be, which is your favorite? Which is your favorite? You could answer, though, throughout your life, what has been your favorite drum kit to have? Wow, man. Or could you? No, it was my Tama Superstar, which is the same thing.

that Neil played. Okay. When he played Tama drums, it was a superstar, uh, which was a higher end, uh, um, uh, model that they had. And, uh, yeah, and it was, and it was, uh, the color was called super mahogany and it was the same color that Neil had that he, uh, used for, um, uh, the moving pictures album. So I was really proud of that one. That was, that was my favorite. Listen, you don't want to be as obvious as to completely emulate someone you adore, but

Oh, you do. You do. You can't help it. My earlier, my drum kit before that was a lesser known or a cheaper brand called CB700. And so therefore, I was able to buy more drums for less money. And I had the full, not the full, but it's as close to Neil's setup as I could with the

concert toms and the two kick drums and everything and I just, I would take pictures of myself holding my sticks like I saw him in the pictures. At the height of his largest, most robust kit, how many separate drums were in that kit? No idea. Oh,

No idea. Let's see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. That was on the main kit. I think there were like 12 on his main kit and then he had the kit behind him. And that would be just drums. And so I don't know about all the cymbals and all the other things. Have you ever seen the, it's like an entire drum kit.

kit that like you it's all in like one piece and it's just like easily travelable. So you sent me that or I saw it. Yeah, there's a there's a what is it like one one connected piece? Yeah. So it's a it's essentially as a box that is it's got a handle on it too with wheels and you can move it around to a gig really, really easy. In fact, I saved a video that I found on Instagram but I forgot what they're called. They're like these little compact kits that you can buy. Is it essentially like a pop-up book? Yeah.

Kind of like that. Yeah, the little pieces come up out of it and it's small and quiet. It's kind of like the one that we're looking at in a picture on our monitor here, but a little bit different than that. But yeah, those are pretty cool. I right now have a, what I call a cocktail kit, which means it's smaller in size and it's by this great drum company called Sonar. And that one I'm really happy. Like I'll go down and just look at it sometimes. Look at that. And just spend some time. I will go up to my studio with my equipment and all my stuff and my recordings. I go,

Look at that. Look at that. Look at that new monitor. It's great, right? That's a 57-inch monitor. Look at it. Is there anything at your houses that you guys will go and admire? Yeah, his wall. My wall. My intro wall. Her wall. What's your wall? Remember we were talking about favorite piece of furniture, and I was like, I don't have furniture, but I have a wall. Okay.

to really focus in on this wall. And you'll admire it? Yeah. Okay. I'll pull up a picture for you. You'll understand. It has like some woodwork on it. So I admired my wall. I will walk into the Batman room that is my bedroom and I'll go. Like do you just look around? And I say, boy, I am an ambassador. No, I do. I'm a child. I'm a man.

I am a complete man. I do. I love it. I do. I love it. It's something that as a kid, it's been part of what my love throughout my life. And despite the natural and probably well-deserved castigation I've received over my life, it is. I love it.

Oh, wow. Okay, so I'm looking at Kathy's wall. And yeah, you've taken some pieces of wood and made accents on the walls with them and painted them. Yeah, it looks like a display. It looks like something I'd see on Etsy. Do your wrists go into those straps? Stop it.

But Steve and I talk about this a lot. After you get done mowing the lawn, I will. Oh, yeah. Not only will I go stand out in the street and just look at everything, but then I'll find myself because I have a big window above my front door. And if I'm standing in the hallway, I'll just look at those lines. Look at that. Look at those lines. So for me, it's my bedroom window. Yeah, same thing.

uh yes and uh cleaning we've talked about this before cleaning out the garage the garage cleaning out the basement yeah and then when you get done you have to admire it right look at that kathy on uh monday or tuesday i did uh what was our tired day it was monday right so tuesday i did uh the linen closet upstairs i washed all the towels all the sheets and completely reorganized it and steve i stood outside that closet i was like

look what i just did hey that is badass speaking of linen closets and towels um are you a three folder on your towels that's a great question i think women are trifold and men are are not oh no i'm trifold now because i am i have to be i i am when it comes to uh but but organizing those towels sometimes the way that they are fitting across the shelf you have to go double and sometimes you have to go triple so i like going triple

But sometimes in order for them to fit properly, I have to go double. You ready for a bomb? Yeah.

Claire, my wife, will clean them. And now this thing is the rolling them up. Oh, yeah. So we have rolled up towels. You're like in a hotel. Yeah. You live in a hotel. That's nice. I wish I lived there. So, okay, I read something. I think it was just like a meme on social media. And it said, why do women take the extra step to fold the towel a third fold? And I thought about it. I was like...

That's true. Listen, it's not taking that much more time, but it is an extra step. So I've changed and I actually just do the double. You're a doer. I know why. I don't do the tri-fold. Menstrual cramps. What the freak does that have to do with it? You're so angry. Kathy, what outranks for you in your brain, efficiency or cleanliness?

Efficiency or cleanliness? I think it's in the same though. It's wrapped into both, Nick. I can't answer that. Okay, sorry. Sometimes when you're overly clean, you're not overly efficient. But sometimes being clean makes you more efficient on the back end. So if we define efficient, efficient can be space-saving, can be time-saving, like that, right? That's what I bring. Saving resources. Clean is just straightened.

Right. They cross over. It's like a Vendry diagram. Right, but I think you can be efficient and have things in order, but those things might not be clean. So I guess that's what I'm asking. Oh, okay. Kathy, if my linen closet is organized and everything's stored properly, but the things in that closet aren't clean, what would bother you? Should I have everything in there disorganized but clean or organized but not clean? Nick, I can't answer that question. No, because it would have to be, yeah. It's both. She's

pleading the fifth. Neither. All of you have. Poison! It's the top pop of poison! Shannon Miller! Get this out of here! If you're just tuning in, I threw a bag of sourdough at Kathy or something because she threw it at me earlier. I still want to talk to this guy about it. Okay, throw it back. And try not to hit me in the face. Did I hit you in the face, by the way? Yeah. It was like,

It was like a shoulder slap. I got a text from your buddy Steve. He said, rolled towels over here. He said, I used to be a three-folder. Now I'm a changed man. Wow, he rolls the towels. He and I, we could get along. You do the rolled towel? Rolled towels in my house. Like Alabama. Rolled towels. Rolled towels.

that would be a good name for like a linen uh roll towels roll towels roll especially if they're based in alabama somewhere yeah you know like that's a business that sells itself oh that's perfect all right all these great ideas go right out the window all right uh our next guest is getting set we got another minute or so all right i'm gonna bring this up real quick while we have a second and we uh nicks i saw this in a text um

Garrett Stubbs has been knocked down to AAA ball. What the hell? There were only two or three spots for competition on the fills this year, and one of them was backup catcher. There was a chance, and now it's confirmed that Garrett was not going to make the bigs. He'll be up at some point. Is anyone ever going to want to talk to us again at spring training? Yeah, right? Reese Hoskins? Injured right after we talked to him last season, and now Garrett gets knocked down to AAA? That sucks. I hope that Garrett...

gets in an announcer booth at some point and starts to work on being a playboy. He'd actually be a better color guy, probably. He's tripping with personality. The guy's fun, funny. I hope he does look into that. All right, well, anyhow, I won't have passed that long. It sucks, man. We love that guy. All right, well, our next guest is... In the middle of a bank robbery. He is. It looks very dark where he is. We're going to find out what that's all about. He's going to be at Punchline tonight, by the way.

So wherever he is, he's far away because it's dark and he looks like he's outside. Please welcome Adam Ray to the show. Hey, Adam. Thanks for having me. Good to see you guys again. I am in a bank robbery. A lot of bank robbers don't like to go live, whether it's on Instagram or...

I don't get that. For the radio. Yeah. For the radio. But I feel like I'm far enough away that the people that matter to crack down on this are not going to give a damn. So my Uber driver's name is what, sir? Simon. Simon. Simon. Wow. He just said it without even thinking twice. So that lets you know that this is 100% real. We are on our way to Wells Fargo in Inglewood, and we will not stop until we walk out with at least, what do you think, $1,000? Yeah.

Simon and I need to work this out before we get on the same page with this improv. God damn it, Simon.

Well, there's a new service, a courier service, car service called Improver. So you can probably check into that. Improver. Yeah, they'll engage you. So this is one of the more unique visions that we have here with this connection. So you do look properly film noir-ish. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to, I knew if I couldn't be in

in studio and I couldn't you know give you the full Jew face live in the flesh that I might as well get a little artsy and you know it's I've been dressing up so much lately in other character makeup that I feel like if I I just don't even know who I am anymore so this is

well adam it's it's nice you to get up early and come on with us this morning uh you and i were chatting a little bit yesterday uh there i believe all of your shows this weekend are sold out except for one it's the late show tonight so you're flying into philly this afternoon and then there are a few tickets available uh for the late show but the rest of them are sold out so uh thanks for you know coming on with us this morning to chat about oh boy thank you it would have come on regardless but i mean any little push from you guys is great yeah we sold out five and then we added a late show and

I was told by many people that that would sell out very quickly, too, but we are still available. Well, you're working your ass off. You're really putting in the time. We had Bert Kreischer on yesterday, and we were talking to him. He brought up your reaction to a particular spice on his show. He said your body convulsed in a way he never knew a human could convulse. Yeah, he was legit concerned. When I watched that clip back, I was like, oh, I...

I wish I would have controlled my reaction a little bit more because he was... I hated watching him... Like, you know, I don't... My dad left when I was nine. Thanks for bringing it up. So I don't know what it's like to have a dad look at you like that when you're in so much pain. So I really felt bad for him. But yeah, it makes me want to go on Hot Ones. I don't know if that's...

If that's the clip that makes them. Yeah. Rotation. Well, question though. But so the hot sauce and really even super fiery hot sauce is different than wasabi and horseradish. There's something that goes on. You know what I'm talking about? That whatever that vapor is.

Yeah, the horseradish was on one of the bites, and then the other one was straight-up hot sauce. Oh. And my wife attests that I am a wuss with even, like, salsa, and I...

This is grounds for divorce, but we'll get past it. But she is just like, yeah, you can't handle anything. And then I was like, I'll be fine. And then that happened. So now I don't really have a leg to stand on. No, I'm likewise on that. I mean, I can take a little bit. But to me, I start to panic if I feel that heat coming on. And to me, it just wipes out the taste. So I'm right in the same boat. Go ahead. Wait, one question. Does it make you, when you see a clip of that,

like as a guy, I don't know if you guys have seen it on my Instagram, but I had a few friends reach out and go, bro, you got to take that down. That's like a mask heading. And I go, Hey man, uh, not really going to listen to you. You're the same guy that when the, um,

came out about Gene Hackman, his wife, and the dog, you were the only friend of mine that said, you think the dog did it? I don't think I'm going to really listen to you on anything moving forward. Pick the context. We all collectively think it's hilarious. I think it's hilarious, this whole Dr. Phil thing, which is kind of a

you know, out of left field call that has become so huge for you. And I know you've talked about this a number of times, but the genesis of you playing Dr. Phil on stage and to have it culminate with Phil himself coming out is just, we were talking with Chrysler about this yesterday, about things you could never imagine happening. That had to be a complete mind blower.

Yeah, it was. I mean, look, you at least for me, the business has been all about throwing darts and just you. I quickly realized that, like, oh, there's not one. There's really no carve out path for anybody like there's no you guys know this is no like you do this and you do this and this happens and.

I mean, you know, L.A., I've been here for about 20 years post-college. I graduated from acting school at USC in 05. And, I mean, every street I like am flooded with the memory of, like, oh, that's where I worked on Punk'd for six weeks. And then it got shut down.

down and then or here's where I almost got this job or here's where I just went to this here's where I stood in line for five hours at the wrong commercial place for a Dr. Pepper commercial that I for one line and like and then drove home being like maybe I should move back to Seattle like just every spot has something that makes you here's where I went in hungover

to a callback for an Olive Garden commercial wearing a Reading Rainbow t-shirt and a sport jacket. And when the casting director said, all right, improvise a little bit up top, you know, before we get to the scene. And I, very hungover, on the verge of throwing up, said, anyone seen Jurassic Park 2? And the guy goes, cut. He goes, what are you doing? And I go, you said to like small talk. He goes, who talks about Jurassic Park 2? I go, it's the Olive Garden, baby. Anything goes, right? I thought we were family.

He asked me to leave the audition. Anyway. But now I am in this place where it's like you have to create your own opportunities. The actor strike hit.

I was it shined a bigger light on the fact of like, wow, I'm just waiting around to be in other people's stuff. Stand up podcast voiceover like that's all fun, consistent stuff, but like not really. I was getting monotonous. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I was. I was like, man, when was I the most happy? And it was in 2006 when I graduated and I started making YouTube videos with a few buddies, we would.

write these sketches and then we'd shoot them all day and then we'd stay up late and edit and put them out the next day and it was like truly the most fun and I was like I need to get back to that so I'd always want to do a live character show after I saw George Bush the Will Ferrell Bush show and then Mulaney and Kroll's Oh Hello I was like I want to do a character show

and I've been messing around with these Dr. Phil, you know, lost episodes on YouTube. Yeah. And that kind of allowed me to hone whatever version of him I was, because I've only seen maybe eight minutes of an actual Dr. Phil episode. I didn't want to see too much to like,

give like try to perfect it or anything i was just like let me just get close enough and yeah and then have my own vibe to it and he's known for being likable and abrasive that was kind of what i was running with and then and then bill burr was gonna do i was doing these adam ray and friends shows at the comedy store and everyone started doing it and friend shows so then i also felt like i was not doing anything different so i hit a burst since i knew i had him on the show and i go think about dressing up like phil doing this late night show i don't really know what it looks like i do a monologue some crowd work than you

He couldn't have been quicker to be like, dude, yes, make fun of my anger issues. I love it. I'm in.

and that really gave me a little juice to take it serious. And then we sold it out real quick and, and it went great. And then it was the challenge of like, all right, I should try to do this again. And then I asked a few other people to come on and then Nikki Glaser and Whitney and Santino and Bobby Lee, and then realizing, oh, I can, a lot of people want to want to come play around with me on this. And this is a new format. And now we're doing three to five. Now we just did 3,600 seats in Chicago sold out last Sunday. We had Santino, Mark Norman and Chevy chase. And, uh,

And then we have a big show in Boston next weekend that's going to... And my agent goes, you got to get the show to a point to where it sells out so that you can... On the show. And so where you're not announcing the guests. So we got there. But what's also great is that the guests are a total surprise. So people...

That's another engaging thing with people online. It's just like, who's going to be there? I'm really going out of my way to bring people out and not just rely on the local weatherman. You're doing a show. You're doing an old-style variety show a la The Tonight Show when someone would walk out from behind the curtain you weren't planning on, and there's no energy like that in the world.

And I got to say, Adam, it works. Everything that you've built and even honing those skills in 2006, the way that they're presented on Instagram, it's really well done. It's really well cultivated. And I follow a lot of comedians on Instagram. But when I see your stuff, I stop and I watch it. And I don't scroll past. I really enjoy spending time on your account, watching your YouTube channel as well. But I have to point out,

The one that made me laugh the hardest over the last few weeks is you and Brad Williams because Brad Williams made you laugh so freaking hard. And his quick delivery, and you referenced small talk earlier, there were moments in that back and forth between you guys. It was just priceless. It was so damn funny. What was that like for you?

Oh, yeah. Well, Brad's, you know, one of my best friends. When I met him, I was lost in the woods one day and I saw him. I saw, I felt some chocolate chip cookies drop from the tree. And I said, who is that? And I heard this little voice, no pun intended, but he was like, who goes there? And I was like, oh, what's...

what's going on? And then I said, oh, are you the cookie man? And he's like, I am, but I also make shoes. Anyway, so I pulled him out of obscurity. I said, do you want to go on the road with me? He, um,

he didn't really know what that meant we taught him how to read i introduced him to his wife so brad is i've known him forever and he uh what the great thing about the show too is you know everyone that's been on i've got a solid amount of rapport with some better than others even just having mark marin on uh uh the show at the economy store with johnny knoxville and teddy swims uh this is about two months ago it'll come out maybe in about a month on my youtube and um

Marin was like, you know, we've got to know each other more in the last few years, but he definitely was like more nervous than others. What am I going to do? What am I going to like? What is that? Do I have to prep anything? Like when I'm like, dude,

I just tell everybody it's not it's not a podcast. It's not a I'm not Jiminy Glick. It's a more more grounded character. It's me through all this. But like, it's just it's just be down to clown. It's a silly chat. And Brad is, you know, one of the best at just being down for whatever. And he'll go wherever. And, you know, you can be controlling the wheel, but he'll take it anytime. And and having a trust between us where it's like, I know I can make any joke.

or he like when i think soon as he came out for that um his portion on that show in san francisco he goes all right dr how are we going to do this because it's basically standing at the chair because he's you know couldn't get up in it so then everyone starts laughing he gets like i'm sure everybody was anticipating this moment and here you go you got it you know and then i just walked over and i knew i could just pick him up and lift him up and put him in the chair and not think anything of it and it was like a funny moment and uh

And yeah, Brad is just, I mean, one of the quickest people I've ever been around. And his wife is like a super badass, right? She's like a five-time taekwondo champion. She's a black belt and she did the wordle in like two moves. She's...

She's very, she's multi-talented. Yeah, he's telling stories about being heckled in places where she gets up and takes care of these guys. Oh, yeah. I wanted to ask you, you mentioned Chevy Chase. Is that what you said? Did I catch it correctly? So we've had Chevy on the show a couple times. Know all the reputation, know all the stuff. Don't doubt that he can be a problem for other people. But the times he's been on this show, he's been a blast. How was it with him?

I mean, you've got to assess people on your own accord. And his daughter works at the comedy store, and I got to know her. And one night, Chevy was at the comedy store, and I started freaking out because I'd never...

You know, you're in L.A., you have to store enough. You do run into, I mean, you know, the first celebrity I ever met in L.A. was Larry King. And I was baked out of my mind at the Grove seeing a movie. And Larry's in the lobby. And I was like, I was going out to get a popcorn refresher. And I walk out there. I was like, I got to go see what's up to him. Which, by the way, no, you don't. So I walked up and I go, oh, my God, Larry King is at the automated snack machine. And he goes, how are you?

And I go, better now, man. I go, they say never meet your heroes, but this is pretty awesome. And he goes, all right. And then I go, so you guys seeing a movie or what's going on? What snacks are you getting? Just like dilly-dallying and loitering. And he looks over at me and he goes, I'm with my nephew. Do you mind? And I go, not at all. I just got interviewed by Larry King. I go, you guys enjoy your movie. And then I walked away and he just shook his head.

And then I walked back into the theater and didn't get my snacks. My buddy was like, dude, what? Anyway, so the amount of people that you run into is like so, you know, seeing Chevy at the comedy store that night, I was like, I can't believe it. And then my friend, his daughter was like, man, he said you were one of his favorites. And then I got him and her to do my podcast. And yeah, Chevy, he's

You get, I guess, whatever version you get of him that day is what you get. And they said, I kind of wrote out a few bits for him to come out and do. Because I saw he was in Chicago, basically. And I hit up his daughter and said, do you think he'd be down to Popeye and make 3,600 people go bananas? And we figured it out. And they came over right before their dinner. And I wrote a couple things down. And they said, Tevye's going to do what he wants to do. I go, great. And so I played. Anytime we have a crazy special guest,

In Minnesota, we had TJ Hawkinson and JJ McCarthy come out and do Viking trivia against a buddy dressed as a Viking. We played this cool montage video that we had Ken Jeong in Vegas come out as Mr. Chow for the first time ever. That's great. And we have...

Basically, I go, you guys want to keep the show moving? You having a good time? Boom, lights go out, montage video plays, and the person comes out. We did that for Chevy, and they went nuts. Then I didn't think he was going to sit down, but he goes, you know, we sat down and we chatted for about seven minutes, and

I busted his balls. He busted mine. We had some good laughs. It was, you know, got a little nostalgic. He commented on how sweet this was and how much he appreciated it. He's like, I just don't get... He's like, I'm not in these positions a lot. And you realize, yeah, like, who is? To get their flowers like that live. Like, he does these Christmas vacation movie watch Q&As, but they know he's going to be there. And it's...

It's just a tamer crowd. These Dr. Phil Live crowds are comedy fans, but it's so weird and cultist. I run out at the beginning of the shows after this awesome intro, and they all get on their feet, and they're all going nuts. Man, I really wish we hadn't started off the whole tour in Philly and we could come back and run it back because...

Because I would love for you guys to see how crazy it went. Oh, we'd love for you to bring it here. Because there's really, it's found its own lane. There's nothing really like this. There are variations, but the way you're doing it, the fact that you're playing this quasi-iteration of Dr. Phil, who thankfully is on board with it, not overly litigious about anything. I mean, it's awesome. No, no. Yeah, when it came on the Netflix special, that was really kind of a stamp of approval to...

that he was, you know, all right with it. He even said to me, he was like, you would have known a long time ago if I wasn't cool with this. And, you know, and even when we sat down for the Netflix special, you know, we only talked about an hour before. He's like, you're the star. It's your show. He's like, but I'm going to mess with you. I'm going to F with you. And we sat down and I go, Phil, it's good to see you. I'm glad you're here. And he was like, I'm sure you are. This is exactly how you plan this, you know. But, you know, I want to...

I'm going to stop the tour in July and then I've obviously put the punchline this weekend and catch tickets to the Late Show tonight, 10.30, that's all that's available. And what's great is that the Phil show, you never know what's going to be the thing that gives you a little boost. And this is giving me more exposure. So now all my stand-up shows are getting packed out. And so we have a big tour in the fall and a handful of shows more this spring and summer and then a real big one in the fall. And then I'll stop Phil in the summer. And then I really want this to be

Again, it's like I came out to L.A. to make shows and I want to have movies and I just have such bigger... But this has been a really fun thing that we're taping a whole documentary on it and hopefully find a cool spot for that. Because it is a moment in time with all the people that are willing to fly out and do the show. Yeah, big names. The crew that I've assembled for it.

to come through. And, and, uh, so, but I, I definitely want to look back in five years and be like, Oh yeah, I remember when he did that thing and, and onto the next thing. It's well, it's well deserved. You put the time into it. These are one of those pivotal moments where you, you know, it catches heat and you can parlay this, which I think is, is, is terrific. So again, you needed to get, you need to get your Dr. Phil on to get to the next level. I want to know, I know a buddy of mine goes, he's like, man, I'm thinking about maybe I should do like a Montel Jordan.

Like a live show. I go, yeah, that's no, that's that's clearly what I cracked here is that people just wanted to see daytime go nighttime. Judge Judy. Well, that's yeah, I tried to get Judge Judy on the New York show and we got close, which would have, I mean, to me, been insane. But that show ended up being Jason Biggs and then my friend Jeremiah Watkins dressed up.

The pie, and we reunited the pie and Jason Biggs. They got slippery on stage while Johnny Resnick from the Goo Goo Dolls came out and played Iris. That's cool. That's awesome. Not on my bingo card, but people went nuts for that. I wanted to ask you, you were born and raised in Seattle, right? Oh yeah, die hard. Did you hit your teenage years about the time grunge was taking off? Yeah, I was probably...

My sister was into hardcore rap, and then the kids in my neighborhood were listening to Oasis. I think I was 12 and 95 or 13.

I think grudge is what? Like 90, 90, right? 92. Yeah. 93, somewhere around there. Yeah. So I think I was just about like, that was eight, nine. And I think I just, I didn't, I missed it. So I didn't, not until high school really did I understand what was, what was happening, what had happened and, and, and who, and,

everybody was. I was still trying to figure out how OMC didn't have more hits than How Bizarre. Oh my god. How Bizarre. Good song. But yeah, I've seen them...

live now a handful of times. They're so good, dude. It's also like Eddie Vedder, his stories versus like, you see like a Taylor Swift. You know, my wife and I were in London and we saw Taylor Swift at the Wembley Stadium. It was her last of nine shows sold out, 90,000. She'd like do these quick changes and she'd tell these quick little stories about how great this was. The stories were just like

And this morning I couldn't find my red coat. And then I found a blue coat and I was like, well, maybe the crowd will like blue better than red. And everyone's like, but like any better was like, you know, there's one time me and the band, we were in Wisconsin and we were after the show, we went to an IHOP and,

And we found ecstasy in our banana pancakes. And we started tripping our balls off and we wandered into a forest where we met a magical elf who'd been separated from his family. And we helped him rebuild his home out of pine cones and he taught us how to make shoes out of the wind. After about an hour and a half, we noticed that there was a van driving by screaming at us, Mr. Vetter, Mr. Vetter, you found our baby. Turns out that elf was actually a baby. His name was Jeremy. Two, three, four.

This guy is a true rock star. The stories. No, it's true. It's true. Well, you got stories to tell as well. And that'll be tonight, by the way. One show remaining. That's all the tickets are for Adam Ray. Better get him now. 1030. It's a later show. Punchlinephilly.com to get those because the rest of the weekend is great.

everybody's already got their tics, man. All right, well, listen, Adam, we got a break, buddy, but it is great to have you on next time in the studio. Hopefully we can work that out, but we love talking to you. I love you guys too. I appreciate you making time. I want to say this too. There's a few...

Phillies that I've, you know, in getting to do the show, I start taking these Hail Mary on first down passes. And there's a few, you know, stud Phillies that said they'd be down to clown. But we got to make sure the timing's right. So it's probably have to be postseason because now it's too tough. But yeah, I mean, Trey Turner being one of them and some of these guys don't get back.

You know, look, did I DM Katy Perry one night late night? Yeah. She left me on scene. Yeah. Guys like Trey Turner get back and they're like, I'm a fan. If I was in town, I would do it. That's awesome. I got to figure that out and same with Jason Kelce. So we're going to have to get that show going and get you guys to come in and, I don't know, just do a collective five or something. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right, Adam, have a good one, brother. It's good talking to you. Adam Ray, guys! Yep.

And that is tonight, like I said, at PunchlinePhilly.com. You can get those tickets. He's great, man. He is terrific. He's wonderful. All right, we are overdue to take a break, so we're going to do that right now. We'll come back in a second. The Beat Files stories are up next for you. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

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Brought to you this morning by Camelback Mountain. You can join Marissa, Casey, and Nick. They will be at Camelback Mountain's 20th annual Pond Scam. And it's this Saturday. It's going to be the wildest end of the season party on the slope. So go to camelbackresorts.com and you can get your details. So an 81-year-old French hunter has gone on trial accused of killing an endangered bear that attacked him in the Pyrenees.

The brown bear is a protected species in the mountain range, which separates France and Spain. Didn't you know I was protected?

And Andre Rivers was boar hunting when a female bear nicknamed Caramellas attacked him. Two bear cubs emerged from the woods in front of Reeves, and then their mother appeared, charging at him and then dragging him for several meters. He shot and killed the animal. He sustained leg injuries and was in a state of shock. A fellow hunter managed to stem the bleeding before Reeves was actually evacuated by helicopter. And according to the investigation, the bear...

killed was about 400 meters outside an authorized hunting area. The case has caused an uproar in the department of Areej, where hunters have had demonstrations in support of this guy, Rives. When the cubs emerged, Rives told the court that, "...I looked at them with admiration. I made myself very small. Then the mother saw me, our eyes met, and she charged."

And he said he had no choice but to shoot. He was going to get killed. He said, she grabbed my left thigh. I panicked. I fired a shot. She backed away growling. She went around and bit me on my right calf. I fell. She was eating my leg. So I reloaded my rifle and fired. Fifteen other hunters who also took part in the hunt were being prosecuted for various offenses, including hunting in the Mont Vallier Nature Reserve. Your Honor, I'm the bear's husband. And I have to let you know, she was on the rag. Oh, Jesus Christ.

I believe that's germane to this case. I loved her dearly, but she got her. You know what I'm talking about? You've been with the bitches, right? About 20 associations had filed a lawsuit. Jean-Luc Fernandez, president of local hunting federations. That's fun to say. No, it's Francisco. Said Rives killed the bear in self-defense. Said he fired and he should have let her do it. No.

Saved his own skin. I agree. Listen, I loved her. I mean, I got my freak on with her. Even you know. Yeah, I know. Bitches be crazy. The central Dutch city of Utrecht has

has installed what they're calling a fish doorbell on a river lock that lets viewers of an online live stream alert authorities to fish being held up as they make their springtime migration to shallow spawning grounds. So I was telling you guys off air that I had this really nerdy thing I was going to bring up. Listen to this. The idea is simple. It's an underwater...

camera that sends live footage to a website. When somebody watching the site sees a fish, they can click a button that sends a screenshot to organizers. And when they see enough fish, they alert a water worker who opens the lock to let the fish swim through. And now in its fifth year, the site has attracted millions of viewers from around the world. I'd watch it. Quirky mix of slow TV and ecological activism. My

Much of the time, the screen is just a murky green with occasional bubbles, but sometimes a fish swims past. As the water warms up, more fish show up. And without the help, the native freshwater fish like brim, pike, and bass can become backed up behind the lake and form easy prey for predators in the spring when the lock is rarely open for passing boats.

The bell is the brainchild of ecologist and concept developer Mark Van Huckelum, who's been happily surprised at the response of millions of people from around the world tuning in over years to help the fish out. There have been a couple of these, like eagle cams and zoo cams and newly born giraffe cams. And listen, I think we're watching it right now. We are. There seems to be a dark specter, a shadowy fish in the back perhaps.

Yeah. So then you hit the bell and it lets them know it sends them a screenshot of the fish. And then they can know whether to send them through or not. Wow.

All right, as stupid ideas go, this one's a winner. At a recent New York University Stupid Hackathon, partners Rebecca Zunn and Lucia Camacho created the Vape-O-Gachi, which is a device that combines a vape pen with a virtual pet resembling a Tamagotchi. And in this version, the digital pet thrives only when the user vapes. If neglected, it dies.

Initially, they considered designing it to discourage vaping by harming the pet with each puff. No. But eventually, they decided on a... That's the wrong direction. A satirical approach, rewarding vaping to highlight concerns about nicotine addiction. Okay. Okay.

The creators aim to refine the design, making it more compact and enhancing the pet's appearance. Why don't they put a Tamagotchi on a heroin needle? They also plan to introduce a good mode that discourages excessive vaping by limiting device activation after a certain using threshold. Years ago, you know, when you had like Ultraman and those sort of cartoons were very popular, there was a series called Eighth Man. And Eighth Man would increase his...

superhero powers, I kid you not, by smoking radioactive cigarettes. Really? Yes. That's funny. Eighth man. All right. And one last story is in England. A woman who became stuck in mud for nearly two hours has praised her rescuers. This is the second stuck in mud story we've had in a couple of weeks.

Gil Pyra, 70 years old, said that she was unable to move after sinking in a quagmire while walking her dog Luna on Lincoln South Common. She screamed for help as she felt herself going further and further in. A crew from Fire and Rescue dug her out with their bare hands after spades proved ineffective.

Mrs. Pira had been trying to avoid a puddle near a pond by walking through an area that she thought had dry, dry crusted top on it.

But she said, four steps in, I realized I was done. I'd gone wrong. I was sinking. I shouted and screamed, I'm stuck, I'm stuck. Debbie Berman, another walker, heard her shouting for help and said, I tried to get in there, but as I tried, I was sinking. And it was going very cold, and she had been stuck in there for 30 minutes already. After another 15 minutes, Fire and Rescue arrived. They began digging, and she said... A fire truck! As time went on...

And I got colder and I kept thinking I was worried. She said it was very, very cold. A check by a paramedic confirmed that she was cold and had a high heart rate but was otherwise unharmed. Ms. Pyra thanked the rescue teams and said she wanted to talk about her experience as a warning to others. She said if someone became stuck in the evening, they'd be there overnight and might not make it. So, yeah, stuck in the mud, it's a real thing. And that is what I have.

in the bizarre file for you this morning all right we'll take another quick break come back in a second and we'll pose a lesson question to you we'll also dive into the trash and the music news as well so stay with us

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The Warning on 93.3 WMMR. Saturday Night Rocks, I just mentioned yesterday, they're doing a headlining tour.

They'll be in Philadelphia. I didn't look it up just now. I want to say May 17th at Union Transfer. You can find the information if you want to take a peek at that. Saturday, I know that. You did mention that. Great band, MMRBQ, performed here in our studio before as well. Love them. It is 19 minutes out of the hour, 10 o'clock. And we are going to pose tonight.

A lesson question to you. And we will give away as a prize today. And you're going to need to text the word ZOOM to 39333, by the way, in order to give us your answer. So we're going to give away a pair of tickets as MMR Rocks Live Thursday, April 24th at the Excite Center at Parks Casino. So let's ask you the question. And we will go with, let's see here.

This is from about 6.54 this morning. Surprisingly, what fictional fast food franchise will appear in the John Wick movie Ballerina?

It was mentioned very quickly. Let's see if you heard that. Surprisingly, what fictional fast food franchise will appear in the John Wick movie Ballerina? You don't want to guess at this. It was the title of a movie. Yes. That'll give you a little bit of a hint. But let's see if you were listening and know the answer. And we will do the trash while you are getting zapped. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. It's brought to you by...

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Baldwin apologized but did playfully remind Hilaria that he has, quote, no problem shooting a bitch. Oh, my God. Defense attorneys for Diddy have successfully acquired the names of the three people accusing him of rape. Diddy says just as he thought, not one of those people are the actual people he's raped. Oh.

And finally, Ellen Pompeo telling the Call Her Daddy podcast that people can't seem to understand her need to walk away from Grey's Anatomy. On the contrary, I felt the same thing five minutes into the first episode. Yeah.

All right. Thank you, Steve. So we will see if we can get an answer to today's lesson question. Surprisingly, which fast food franchise will appear in the John Wick movie Ballerina via Zoom? We now check in with Rob. Hey, Rob, how you doing, man?

He's muted. Oh, I think you're muted there, bud. Let's try. Oh, we muted you. Let's try this now. Hey, Rob. I can hear you, Preston. There we go. All right. Rob, so what fast food franchise will appear in the John Wick movie, Ballerina? Good Burger. Good Burger. You got it, brother. I'm going to put you on hold. Woo.

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It's July 19th. I was just ever so slightly off. There was a teen in there. There was a teen. This year. They're going to be playing Union Transfer, their headlining show. Wanted to make good on that. The longest tenured drummer

And Guns N' Roses history is leaving the band. Frank Ferrer, who is the guy who manned the kit for GNR since 2006, is moving on. And he's leaving on good terms. On their Instagram, the band posted pics of Ferrer on stage and a statement that said, Guns N' Roses announced the amicable exit of Frank Ferrer.

The band thanks Frank for his friendship, creativity, and sturdy presence over the past 19 years and wish him success in the next chapter of his musical journey. Which is what? I don't know. The band kicks off a European tour in May, so you can expect an announcement about a replacement in the very near future.

Billy Corrigan just welcomed his third child with his wife, Chloe Mendel. Their new baby girl, Juno, was born at home on March 18th, and she was 9.9 pounds. Wow, that's a big baby. That's a big baby. It's a gorilla. And 22 inches long. Corrigan shared that both mom and baby are doing great. And the older kids, 9-year-old Augustus and 6-year-old Philomena...

are thrilled about their new sister. And the couple had announced the pregnancy last August, shortly before their first wedding anniversary. They've been together since 2012. I love those names. Those are great names. I like the winners for the next visit to Willy Wonka's factory. Yeah, Juno, Augustus, and Philomena. So congratulations to Billy and his wife. That's great.

Two months after a batch of unreleased Eminem songs mysteriously surfaced online, a former employee of the rapper has been charged by the FBI with leaking the music. A guy named Joseph Strange could face up to 10 years in prison after being charged with criminal copyright infringement. 10 years, man. And interstate transportation of stolen goods.

Strange was paid about $50,000 in Bitcoin online by a Canadian man who raised the funds with a group of fellow Eminem fans in exchange for the unreleased song track. For that. Yeah. For that. Representatives for Eminem on Wednesday described the unauthorized music leak as significant damage caused by a trusted employee. The FBI says that Strange was responsible for at least...

25 unreleased Eminem songs that were distributed online in January. All of it material in various stages of development and recorded by the rapper between 1999 and 2018. So a big chunk of time there. So you imagine you're a fan of a band and you get together with other fans and this is the plan that you hatch? Yeah. If convicted on the copyright infringement charges, Strange would face up to five years in prison and fine him up to $250,000.

conviction for interstate transportation stolen goods as a maximum 10 years man prison sentence and 10 years man 10 strange was an audio engineer at M&M's effigy recording studio where he worked from 2007 till his dismissal I once paid a thousand dollars to have somebody hum the new Ann Murray song to me okay before it was released to get your money's worth no okay so it's no bird to you talk about sequels

Let's see. And then two more quick things. Styx, the band, has had multiple singers over the years from Dennis DeYoung to Tommy Shaw from Glenn Burtnick to currently vocalist Lawrence Gowan. Now,

Who of them, in Gowan's opinion, delivered the definitive version of the Styx classic Come Sail Away? None of the above. Gowan recently told an interviewer that the Cartman version from South Park, he said, to me, to my mind, that is the definitive version. I think that's in the prep, if you want to grab it. And he says, and then I'd put the original recording of a song by Dennis C. Young, and then I'd put my version, maybe third.

In a season two episode of the animated comedy, of course, Eric Cartman explains that if he hears the first line of Come Sail Away, he's forced to sing the rest, which his friends test just for fun. We might have that in a second. Coming on over. Not yet. Yeah. I kind of threw it at it last second, but yeah, it's a super quick version of it. This is the... I'm a sucker for this song. It's a great song. Always loved this song. Yeah. Sit there.

All right, we're ready now.

And that's what he has to do every time. That's got to hurt Trey Parker's voice to do that. Yeah, I would think so. It's so much strain and effort to do it that fast. Yes. All right, and one last story. Oh, yeah, I want to mention this again. Our buddy Sammy Vile, his band Vilebred, is doing a tribute to Radiohead's The Bends at 118 North in Wayne this Friday. And he said they're going to perform the whole album plus many other Radiohead tunes, Doors at 7, Show is 9. Cool. So I want to pass that on. Huge!

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Full beat. It's on 93.3 WNMR. It's by Monster's Hand on the Preston and Steve Show. It is 10.35. Why is my microphone like this? Okay, I moved it. I was trying to fix it. Fix it?

Well, I was moving it around, seeing if it was making noise. You were out of the studio. And then I got done with it. I'm like, oh, this doesn't look right. I don't know how she keeps it. I forgot. I was nine feet tall. It was all twisted and out of place. So sorry. You also rubbed some of that powdered stuff on your mic. Yeah, I did. Yeah.

The poison that Tom Papa sent? No. Wait, we got confirmation. Tom Papa texted Casey, and indeed, he did verify that, yes, that was a package from him. He said, yes, I am Mr. Papa. I am Mr. Papa. But he still has to reach out to me. He's got to tell me what to do with it. And he still has to answer to me, because that's a ridiculous way to send someone something that looks like poison. Yeah. All right, if you missed it earlier, I got this mystery package, and it was signed Mr. Papa, and it's...

apparently a sourdough starter that he sent. So now I've got to take a shot at it. It's laborious, but I'm looking forward to it. Thank you to the following people who are our guests today. Jim Florentine, performing at the Columbus Club in Clifton Heights at 8 o'clock on Saturday night. Tickets available at jimflorentine.com. And don't forget, there's a light buffet, too, as well. It says it in the ad. It does.

I was telling Casey off air. It just dawned on me. I got to talk to Alex Lifeson today, man. He's so cool. I love that guy. And his current band, Envy of None, it's really good stuff. It's kind of female alt-y, very lush, cool production, and kind of haunting sounding. Did you agree with my kind of...

time frame that i this this yeah yeah very much so and i love that stuff me too and so uh he was cool and they're just making music they're not touring or anything like that but it was great to have him on uh this morning via zoom and he was in this room filled with guitars it was so cool and by the way uh their album which is called stygian waves comes out march 28th and uh the rush uh

50, which is a 50-track super deluxe box set, is coming out on the 21st of this week. That'll be... What's today? Tomorrow. So tomorrow, yeah. And then finally, we had Adam Ray. Yay! Adam is hilarious. He is performing at Punchline tonight. There's only one show left. It's the 10.30 show. He's got...

Two shows on Friday, two shows on Saturday, and two tonight. And the 1031 is the only one that you will find tickets for. So it was great to have him on this morning. Pierre Robert is here. Hey, man. And good day. Good to see you. Would that 50th anniversary package hold interest to you? Or is that not something you think you'd like? I don't do the box sets.

No, I'm not really into owning that stuff. I mean, you can... I already have all the music anyway, but... What's often true in those giant re-releases is they'll throw in stuff that you've never heard before or demos. Somewhere in the next month or so, I want to do a demos week. Ooh, that's cool. Ooh.

You know, earliest versions of songs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I've got Roger Waters singing Money in a two-minute demo. Oh, wow. Just acoustic. Kind of echoey with the cash register coming at the end. Things like that. I have alternate versions of Green Day's...

But you hear it at the end. Yeah. But you don't even hear that version of it. Green Day's Basket Case. Entirely different lyrics. Same song. Roughly done. Entirely different lyrics. You know, so stuff like that's fun to hear. It is cool. Before it was called Daughter, the Pearl Jam song was called Brother. And there's a version of Eddie and Stone working it out on the tour bus together. And I have that. Oh, I want it. Yeah, it's really cool. But you hear...

Where the song is going to go. Right. You can hear what Daughter eventually ends up sounding like, but it's before it became that. It's a cool version. Well, Wings for Wheels that we have in our archives from 1974, the live Bruce show, if you've ever heard it, it's fantastic. And fascinating because it's the earliest version of Thunder Road. Yeah. But many different lyrics, many different parts in the song. It's called Cars for Kids. Yeah.

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Oh, my. And that, I mean, hearing that Cars for Kids version in 1974 before Cars for Kids even was around. Yeah. I mean, shows the foresight some of these artists have. It's amazing. Truly stunning. How about the letter? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's keeping you on track. On 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter.

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No sad bro, first and foremost. Christopher Titus always has a lot to say. He will be in our studio. And we will have Super Bowl champion Landon Dickerson joining us as well. Nice. Do all Friday things like the connoisseur and give stuff away. We're going to have a good time. You are invited. That is it. We are done. A rage on. Have yourself a fantastic day. And we'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye.

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