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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. That's a hit.

Let's get started, people. It's a Monday. The work week has arrived. And with a little bit of wet weather, we're going to start off with some light rain on your drive in today. High is going to be about 55 degrees or so. We're going to have breaks of sun later on this afternoon leading into the evening. So just at the end of the day, we'll get a little bit of sunshine.

A break there tomorrow. Partly cloudy, high 61 Wednesday. Partly cloudy, mid 50s. We're kind of going to be in that mid 50 to upper to low 60s zone for the week. So just heads up. And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

And today it is Monday, March 24th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican from the hospital on Sunday after surviving a five-week life-threatening bout with pneumonia, making a surprise stop at his favorite basilica on the way home before beginning two months of prescribed rest and recovery.

The motorcade carrying the 88-year-old Pope entered into Vatican City and Francis was seen in the front passenger seat wearing nasal tubes to give him supplemental oxygen. During his trip home, Francis took a slight detour to take him to the St. Mary Major Basilica where his favorite icon of the Madonna is located and where he always goes to pray after a foreign visit.

Before leaving the hospital, Francis gave a thumbs up and acknowledged the crowd after he was wheeled out onto the balcony overlooking the main entry. Hundreds of people had gathered on the Sunday morning to say goodbye. Doctors who announced his planned release at a Saturday evening news conference said he needs two months of rest, during which he should refrain from meeting with big groups of people or exerting himself. When he got back, Kathy, he realized he had left his Xbox on. The whole time? The whole time.

But they said eventually the Pope should be able to resume all of his normal activities. Four brothers were inside a car that went off of I-95 overpass in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, resulting in a crash that left two of them dead. Police say a Mazda with four brothers inside somehow traveled off of I-95 and landed on Castor Avenue below the interstate at 830 on Friday evening. A break in the guardrail could be seen where the vehicle plunged about 20 to 30 feet.

Police say the occupants were identified as four brothers from New Jersey. The two rear passengers, ages 18 and 22, were ejected from the vehicle and died as a result of their injuries. The driver and the front passenger, ages 18 and 23, were taken to nearby hospitals where they remain in critical condition.

Now, witnesses told police that the Mazda and a Dodge Challenger were racing down I-95 northbound at a high rate of speed when the driver of the Mazda lost control. It's unclear what caused the driver to lose control, but sources say street racing may have been involved. The victim's names have not been released.

This weekend marked the final days of operation for the Macy's at the iconic Wanamaker building in Center City. Hundreds of people gathered all day Saturday and Sunday to listen to the historic organ one last time. People gathered to listen to organists like Peter Richard Conti, Wanamaker's grand organist. He performed at the soon-to-be shuttered Macy's. People stopped in all day for the hourly recitals wanting one last listen before the historic Wanamaker organ is silenced.

Yeah, it's appropriate, right? Listening to the iconic sounds made people sentimental as Philadelphia's fixture played its last notes. After the Wanamaker organ played its final note, Conti bowed and then signed autographs for the loyal fans after a champagne toast assuring fans this isn't goodbye, but see you later. I hate you all. I'd like to take this time. If I may, I'd like to take this time to tell you all, in every way possible, I despise you. Thank you.

You've had no appreciation for my talents ever. You ignored me until today. I'm just a monkey who plays the organ.

While the future of the property is still unknown, T.F. Cornerstone, the landlord of the building, confirmed the historic organ will stay inside the Wanamaker building. It would have to, right? How would you move that friggin' thing? There's a woman I follow on Instagram, and it's a fascinating follow. She is the organist for Royal Albert Hall, and she does all kinds of great videos of her not only doing performances, but explaining what the mechanisms of that incredible piece are.

of craftsmanship. The organs are incredibly complex. I can only imagine. Amazing. Yeah. It's really worth checking out sometime. Many of them are like...

multiple rooms of... Oh my God, yeah. So when you go to Longwood Gardens, the organ there, there is a part of the tour. It's not really a tour. It's just areas that you can go to. But you go into the areas where the pipes and all the baffles and all those things are. And Steve, it is like five or six...

rooms that are huge. I mean, these rooms are floor to ceiling, probably 20 feet tall, and the pipes go up that. It's amazing. In essence, they're playing the building because they're using the harmonics of the building to get the sound. It's wild.

We need an organ. Yeah, because the sound comes up from those rooms. There's essentially like vents that come out of those rooms, and that's where the sound comes off. It is something else, man. So if you ever get a chance, go to Longwood Gardens. Check it out. It's in the indoor portion, and yeah, you'll see the inner workings of that organ.

organ in something else. Cool. But the organ at the Macy's at the Wanamaker building no more played its last notes. And they're going to, I assume, dismantle that and move it to the... No, no, no. They're leaving it. Well, they are going to leave it. Yeah. Yeah, the owners... They're going to use it as an ashtray. Well, the landlord said that the organ will stay inside. Okay. What would be the most meaning thing to do with it, you know? I mean, it's such a... It's a work of art if you stop and think about it. Yeah. All right, let's do sports this morning. Woo-hoo! Yeah!

Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy! The f*** is that?

The Flyers lost to the Blackhawks 7-4 yesterday afternoon in Chicago. Ryan Zanotto scored twice and Conor Bedard had a goal and an assist for the Blackhawks in the win. Jamie Drysdale and Travis Konechny each had a goal and an assist for the Flyers who lost their fifth straight. The road trip wraps up tomorrow night with a game in Toronto against the Maple Leafs. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock.

The Sixers lost to the Hawks 132-119 last night in Atlanta. Trey Young scored 28 points with 12 assists, and former Sixer George Niang added 20 points, including five three-pointers to lead the Hawks to the win. Quentin Grimes led the Sixers with 26 points and six assists. The Sixers are in New Orleans tonight to face the Pelicans at 8 o'clock. The Phillies beat the Tigers 4-2 yesterday afternoon in Clearwater. There you go. They did it!

This afternoon, the Phils play their last Grapefruit League game of the spring with a game against the Rays. The first pitch is at 1235. The regular season begins later this week. The Phils will head home first, Nick, then head to Washington Thursday for a game against the Nationals. Zach Wheeler will get the start in the season opener. And on Saturday night...

Sorry, go ahead. Saturday night at Subaru Park, the Union beat the St. Louis City SC 1-0 to improve to 4-0 and won five games into the season. The Union are in South Florida on Saturday night and will face Inter-Miami CF at 7.30. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champions.

And that's what I have for you this morning. Never one to welch on a belt. Bet it looks like Nick McElwain is prepared to pay up. I was wondering if it might come up in sports this morning, Kathy. And of course, you were right. And I am and was wrong. So I actually ended up buying three bottles of champagne. I would like for you to choose two or one if you like.

quickly to explain what was the bet for those who don't know. Well, it started with the over-under for amount of times that Taylor Swift was going to be shown at the Super Bowl. And I said, you know, people were kind of over that. I didn't think they were going to show her as much. So I won that bet. I was way off on that one. And then I said double or nothing because we were talking about when the Phils were ending in Clearwater and if they were going to go right to Washington or if they were going to come back to Philly. And I said, no, they're going to come back to Philadelphia first.

Nick was like, no, that doesn't really make sense. And then we got a message from the orthopedic, the Philly's orthopedic surgeon that we met down in Clearwater. And he was like, no, the team's heading home first, Nick. All right. So I know you like rosé. Okay. Here's a bottle of Moet rosé. If you like. I like this one. This is my favorite current bottle of champagne. This is called Tattinger. Okay. It's also a French champagne. And then...

This is the best of the three, so you can choose whatever ones you want. This is a Pierre Jouet Grand Brut. Okay, I'll take all three. There we go. Two bets, one, and then a bonus. All right, making good. It's good for the soul. That's right. You can do that. It's fun shopping. You think Kathy can knock those off during the show? That's right. Oh, my God. Yeah, let's give it a shot. Yep.

Mimosas. Mimosa Monday. We welcome you back from the weekend. We have a new Word of the Week prize this week. We're going to give away a VIP experience for Disturbed. And that show is Wednesday, April 2nd at the Wells Fargo Center. It includes a pair of premium tickets for the show, meet and greet and photo with members of the band.

And autographed disturbed merchandise as well. VIP laminate and a bunch. And it's courtesy of Q Prime. So we will get the letter of the day at the end of the program and get you in the running for that because we'll give it away on a Friday. And other than that, we're going to hang. We're going to have a good time. We're going to set up the work week.

and prepare for the worst and the best. So we'll get ourselves prepared for that. Let's take a quick break. Come back in a second. The Entertainment Report, lots of stories to share, so we'll have it when we get back. Stay there. Is Alexa copying an attitude when you want to stream MMR? Not to worry. Tell that corporate she'll suck up. Alexa, play 93.3 WMMR, and she'll get her shit together right quick.

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Who is it? Eliza Schlesinger is going to be at the Met on Friday, November 7th. I like her a lot. All right, so here's the question that we posed to you. What plant does the Colorado beetle attack? The Colorado beetle. Yeah, so you got to text the word ZOOM to 39333 and we will send you a link to join us via ZOOM to answer that question correctly. What plant does the Colorado beetle attack?

Text the word ZOOM to 39333, and we'll see if you can get it correct. So, oh, we're playing Beatles. Yeah, these are the Colorado Beatles. Colorado Beatles. Not as famous.

Alright, so today is the 24th day of March. By the way, it's National Cheesesteak Day. Yes, I heard that. We're not aware of that, so get out and celebrate if you will. Just the Delco Cheesesteaks had their cheesesteak eating contest yesterday. That's right. Do we know the winner? I just saw a video. It just looks like a dude chomping down on a giant wiener.

On a giant wiener. Weird looking. But anyway. So we'll go through some birthdays today. Many reported that it looked like a dude chomping down on a giant wiener. There's a bunch of birthdays. We'll start with a very beautiful Lake Beth.

Yes. Turns a year older today. Boston Legal. She's great in the movie. It's complicated. And she is 46 years old. She was on a really, got off to a good start science fiction series called, I think, Surface or something. And it was about basically like a version of The Abyss. And it's one of those shows, Preston, where you're watching it, you're watching it, and it stopped. Oh.

Oh, really? Nothing. It just absolutely lost its audience. It's too bad. So, Laura Flynn Boyle turns a year older. She is 55 today. I was blown away when I was looking at your credits there, Preston. I didn't realize that she was the psycho hose beast. Oh, yeah.

Oh, in Wayne's world. Yeah. Yeah. She's the one that keeps bothering, has the fixation on Wayne. Uh-huh. Gets him a gun rack. She brought herself to the edge, to the precipice of too much cosmetic stuff. She looked really scary. I think she's pulled back a bit now, which is good to see. Sometimes you can snap out of that. She's 55 today. Robert Carradine. Carradine turns a year old again. Here we go. Lewis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds.

And a bunch of other things throughout the years. I always mention the movie Cowboys, the John Wayne movie. Love the Cowboys, yeah. He's a kid in that, and he was great. But he fell on some hard times, man. Like, his acting career dried up. Yes, yeah, absolutely. He was auctioning off all kinds of stuff, trying to make ends meet, and I hope he's doing okay. Quentin Tarantino threw him a little bone. He has a very, very small role in the movie Django Unchained, but...

Other than that, I'm not really sure what he's been up to. But he turned 71 years old today. Very beautiful and talented Jessica Chastain. Man, do I love her. She's great. She is a wonderful actress, and she is just exotic. I'm not exotic. What's the word I'm looking for? Enchanting? Erotic? Yes.

Not erotic, but more enchanting. No, no, just glamorous. Glamorous. She can be. When she's done up, she looks like a Hollywood star, man. We had Aaron Sorkin in to promote the movie Molly's Game, and I didn't see the movie when he was in to promote it, and it took me a long time. I finally watched it within the last year. It's...

really good and she's the star of it and she really shows her acting range in that movie too. She's great in The Help and The Martian and Interstellar. She is 48 today. You know what you might like her in? She rocks sort of a quasi goth look in that horror movie Mama.

Oh, I only saw a little bit of that movie. Yeah, okay. Another great redhead celebrates her birthday. Beautiful and talented as well. Allison Hannigan. The American Pie movies where we got to know her. How I Met Your Mother, huge success for her. She also briefly hosted the Penn and Teller. Fool Us. Fool Us show, yeah. She is 51 today. Love her.

Kelly LeBrock turns a year older. Yeah, Lisa in Weird Science. Do we have the Gary clip?

Oh, yeah. That's right. So, yeah, she was one of the bombshells of the 1980s. Married Steven Seagal. Yeah, in fact, I guess they met on Hard to Kill. Yeah. Actually, that's a Seagal movie I kind of like. There's a couple of them I like, and that was one of them. She nurses him back to health? She does. I love it. I want to toss it off!

I never touched them. Kelly the Rock is 65. Jim Parsons, man oh man, did the Big Bang Theory put him on the map. Yeah, absolutely. And he had the lion's share of the most complex dialogue during the run of that series because he was, they actually had like top level scientists to help with the pronunciation and stuff, but his dialogue must have been a frigging nightmare. He turns 52 years old today. Mark the Undertaker Calloway.

Wow. The wrestler, The Undertaker, is turning 60 years old today. That dude, man. He's a big guy. Yeah, huge. He's an imposing looking son of a bitch, man. So happy 60th to The Undertaker. Designer Tommy Hilfiger is also... Tommy want wingy. A year older. Tommy wants his wingy and he turns 74. I never got into Hilfiger. I might like...

I remember, and it was at the time, like, when my mom was still buying me clothes when he hit, and Michelle as well, once we were together, every now and then I'd get a Hilfiger thing, and I just never really got it. I didn't care for it. Tommy Hilfiger duffel bag that was pretty good, and it lasted a long while, but I agree. I mean, obviously I'm not really what you'd call a fashion play, but it never spoke to me. But, I mean, not that, a year or two ago, I was at the premium outlets, and I went into the Hilfiger store, we were just shopping around, and I'm...

I was looking at some of the prices and I'm like, damn. It's still expensive? Yeah, really? God, yeah. It's really expensive. I mean, they're still, you know, respectable in the fashion industry. I thought that ship had sailed a little bit. No, it's still, still. Still in port. So he is 74 years old today. Star Jones.

Used to be on The View. Yes. Yeah, she's 63. Not sure what she does now. She is a lawyer, an ex-lawyer. Yeah, she was a lawyer. The big thing with her is that she basically sold for sponsorship every aspect of her wedding. Yeah. Do you remember that? Which was embarrassing, I thought. It was really...

Come on, man. All right. And the last birthday is Peyton Manning, NFL star and Super Bowl champ or MVP as well. Yeah. So he turns 49 years old today. Peyton Manning. All right. We will see if a zoomer knows the answer to this question. What plant does the Colorado beetle attack? And we are going to go via zoom right now to Frank, who's joining us. Good morning, Frank.

Good morning, Preston. How you doing, buddy? Awesome. How do you see with your sunglasses on while you're driving this morning? Well, my eyes are photosensitive. I got burned in a welding accident when I was younger. Holy cannoli. Wow.

Wow, in a welding accident. Were you doing the welding at the time? I was doing the welding for about four hours with the wrong grade goggles. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That's terrible. How bad was the damage? Obviously, bad enough that you have to wear sunglasses at night. Well, I burned my retinas. If you put them to degrees, I had second-degree burns on my retinas. Oh, man. Wow. So eyesight in general besides that is pretty decent? Yeah.

Pretty decent. I lost some of the colors. Some of my blues look green. Some of my greens look blue. Some oranges look red. I mean, I lost a little bit. Yeah. But overall, not bad. All right. Well, at least that's something. We'll see if we can play some Corey Hart for you later on just to bring it all home. But I do need to know what plant does the Colorado Beetle attack, please? That was the potato. The potato plant. Yeah.

You are correct. All right, Frank, hang on. We're going to give you a pair of tickets to see Eliza Schlesinger at the Met on Friday, November 7th at 7 p.m. And for more shows and information and another chance to win, you can head to WMMR.com. Hi, this is Corey Hart telling you never surrender and keep listening to the Rock and Roll Animals, WMMR Philadelphia. There you go. Never surrender. Never.

Wow. I had no idea we had that. One more time, please? Yeah, can you do it again, Case? One more time. Hi, this is Corey Hart telling you never surrender and keep listening to the Rock and Roll Animals, WMMR Philadelphia. You can hear... Corey Hart, so when he sings the chorus to...

at night. He purses his lips. So he even says it in his speaking voice. Hi, this is Corey Hart telling you never surrender. This is Corey Hart telling you to never remember. I love you. He sounds like one of the bachelors. I love you. I wear my sunglasses. That was his thing. So I can. So I can. And I still love that song. It's a good song.

It kind of sounds like the Dana Carvey Chopping Broccoli guy. Chopping Broccoli. Chopping Broccoli. It's a good point, Case. There's a lot like that. All right. Might have been the impetus for it. So let's move into the entertainment stuff. We'll start with the fact that Disney's Snow White grabbed the number one spot at the North American box office this weekend. Scored $43 million in this debut weekend, which is solid.

Spy thriller Black Bag managed to take second place in its second weekend. Marvel's Captain America Brave New World was right behind at third. And then you had the top five rounding out with Robert Pattinson's Mickey 17 and then Jack Quaid's Novocaine at number five. Whenever we have a celebrity pass,

Yeah.

One of his most memorable punches was a knockout blow he landed against Michael Moorer in 1994 when Foreman became the oldest heavyweight champion in history at 45. He was inducted into both the World Boxing Hall of Fame and the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

He was married five times. He had 12 children. Yeah. A lot of them named George. And one of them, Frida, passed away in 2019 by apparent suicide. So that's a late life tragedy that he had. He always, he admitted that in his earliest days of boxing when he gained his momentum, I think he called himself like a caged feral beast. Like he was out of control. Mm-hmm.

One of his most famous fights came against Muhammad Ali in the so-called Rumble in the Jungle that took place in 1974 in Zaire. He vowed to kill Ali in the ring. Instead, it was Ali who knocked out Foreman. Foreman said that he was less demoralized by being knocked out than failing to knock out Ali. He said in an interview in 2014, I just knew no one could stand up to my punch. But Muhammad did. His taking those punches...

I went away thinking, what is going on here? That is not supposed to happen. And he said, that bothered me more than anything. Just three years later, he retired from boxing, but in 1979 he returned to the ring at 39 and eventually stunned the boxing world. In 1994, two decades after his loss to Ali, Foreman fought Michael Moore then 26, so he's

Think about that, the age difference. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. For the world championship, and he won by knockout in the 10th round, and news of the feat elevated him to champion for the second time in his career. He retired for good at 48 with a record of 76-5 and 68 knockouts.

He evolved from a villainous boxer who once promised to kill Ali in the ring a few years later. He experienced what he referred to as a religious awakening and later became a preacher and businessman, of course, who sold millions of George Foreman grills.

And Foreman Ali, who had passed away in 2016, went from bitter enemies to close friends. After becoming the oldest heavyweight champion, Foreman said that he received a congratulatory letter from his old nemesis. And he said, who would think almost 20 years later, there's Muhammad, my conqueror, congratulating me and fighting for the championship of the world and winning it. And he said, I was pretty close to hating him. I wanted revenge. He became the best enemy.

And one of the longest friends I've ever had. And I love him till this day. It works out so often like that. But yeah, and it became beloved. I mean, he was, you know, George Foreman as the pitch man. And of course, the classic stories that the call was originally placed to Hulk Hogan. And because he was not available. I don't know if this is a myth, but it's what's been repeated often. George Foreman got that grill and it made him toxic.

Tons of cash. They made him a household name, too. I mean, like everybody knew who George Foreman was after that. He was a troubled youth. He dropped out of school at 15, and boxing provided his salvation. He took up the sport at 16, and a mere three years later, he won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. You remember the footage of him

He was just a brute, man. It's like Tyson. How could you look across a ring at that? Oh, he was so scary. Very intimidating. He turned pro in 1969, and his power became legendary. He knocked out 10 of his first 11 opponents, and most of his fights ended with opponents on the canvas. In 1973, he became heavyweight champion for the first time when he beat Joe Frazier by a second round TKO, and his record improved to 40-0.

before Foreman suffered his first defeat against Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle. But what a story. What a story. George Foreman, 76 years old. I'd have some lighter stories to cover. A while back, it seemed like Cynthia Erivo was...

or had shaded one of the people who auditioned for Wicked. And it turns out that actress may have been Amanda Seyfried. Seyfried recently appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast and talked about how she had hoped to be a part of Wicked and

It's like some fans think that she was the actress that Erivo was talking about. So, Seyfried had an audition for the movie, and she revealed that she sang alongside Erivo at one point. And she said, I was able to really prepare. And I'm telling you, I've never felt that solid in my voice. And I did at the auditions. And that's kind of what I got out of it. And she said, I think everything happens for a reason. I also got to sing with Cynthia. And that was a moment in itself. Now...

Some fans were quick to connect the dots, or at least connect the dots that they saw. So back in November, Erivo had hyped up Ariana Grande getting the role of Glinda, while shading other people with a remark saying, thank goodness because it was not the two ladies that I was auditioning with.

While she didn't mention who those actresses might be with Seyfried's new reveal that she auditioned with Erivo, some think that they finally know who she was throwing a little shade at. I don't know. It's a little loose. Yeah, it's a little loose. I like Amanda Seyfried more and more. Yeah, I like her a lot. I see her in other things. I see her expanding. You know, she was really good as Elizabeth...

Holmes, the. Oh, yeah. She there was a. Or no, no. Next time. But yeah, Elizabeth Holmes. Yeah. Created that blood testing or said she created that blood. Yes. Technique. She's really good. Really good. Multiple reports have surfaced and claim that Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have sent out their wedding. Jeffrey Bezos. Their wedding invitations.

The couple first stepped out together in 2019 and they've been engaged for two years. If I was them, I would go contrary to what everyone would imagine and just send out an e-vite. Okay, just do it that way? Right. No fancy stationery, no butterflies in a box.

Jeff proposed to Lauren in 2023 when they were hanging out in his giant super yacht while sailing around Europe. The wedding is rumored to take place in Venice over the summer Venice, Italy. Hey, now that we're sitting here in my giant super yacht, do you think you'd want to marry me? Now, he was previously married to Mackenzie Scott for 25 years. They divorced in 2019 around the time Bezos went public with Sanchez.

Jeff and Mackenzie share four children, but only his oldest son, Preston Bezos, is publicly known. I didn't know that. You might be one of his sons. I didn't know he named his kid after me. I had no idea. What an honor. And by the way, Mackenzie Scott, she's still giving away all that money, man. Loads. She just is unloading it to charity. What a thoughtful person. It's pretty amazing. All right, I'm going to put this in the entertainment news. Steve sent me this.

It's from Philly Mag. Victor Fiorello wrote an article about Wilson's secret sauce. Yes. And our good friend Steve Wilson. Well, apparently they were closed to the public last week and various trucks and equipment were seen outside. A television crew, quite possibly. And then on Friday, the dining room was open and had a new look. The menu went through a drastic change from 70 some items to 13 items.

And local residents had also spotted a gentleman by the name of Gordon Ramsey in and around, strolling down the street, just steps away from the restaurant.

No one at Wilson's Secret Sauce was commenting on this. And residents in Redding also spotted Ramsey walking around in recent weeks. And he was reportedly working at Marvel Ranch, a quaint spot known for its cheeseburgers and pancakes. Marvel Ranch was closed the week before. Wilson's Secret Sauce closed. And also a TV crew was there on top of things. And there was another Gordon Ramsey spotting. And he grabbed a coffee at the Starbucks at Ursinus College. What?

They have a Starbucks on campus? Two things are shocking you. One, there's a Starbucks on campus, and two, Gordon Ramsay was there. So they're wondering if Kitchen Nightmares might be what's going on here. Sorry, I'm a fan of the show, and he'll do these makeovers. But Steve, you know...

the establishment's running well, but maybe they, you know, I don't know, maybe they set up a dynamic for trimming the menu. He always does that. Maybe he wants it to run better. Steve did put on his story last week that he was closing down for a redo. Yeah. They were redoing the dining room. Yeah. Everything he just said, but he teased it. The one thing is that usually there's somebody who's sort of a, not a

Not a dick, but somebody who's kind of slack. Nobody over there is slack. They're amazing. To be beat up on on the show? A little bit. A little bit. To be corrected. I think the show is called Restaurant Revitalization. Okay. They found Wilson's because of all of the...

the charitable relief efforts they do. And so with the hurricane relief, with all that flooding down, I believe, in Asheville, they went down there and made brisket for all the relief workers. He's amazing. There's nothing better than that. So that's how they found him. He said the show is a lot like Bar Rescue, but on a more positive note. Good. Excellent. I'm very excited for him. So...

Ramsey, by the way, why he was at Ursinus is possibly because he's a big fan of bicycling. He's competed in triathlons, and he was apparently told fans that he was there biking back to Philadelphia. Because you can take all the way from Reading all the way down to the art museum, you can take the Schuylkill River Trail, which runs right by Ursinus College. Yeah, yeah. And right by me, too. Oh, really? In and around my area, yeah, which is pretty cool.

All right. Some other stories. Southern Charm star Vanita Aspin is moving on from Jared T.J. Thomas. I know you're torn up about this. This is really when my mother passed away and this. All right.

She's aiming high, though. Watch what happens live with Andy Cohen. The reality star revealed there's no shame in her game. She said, there's a man on NBC that I have my eye on. She revealed during Thursday's appearance on the show. He's a Chicago PD star. And when Cohen told her that she'd send him a DM, Aspen was way ahead of him. She said, I slid into his DMs. And I said, it's so funny that we work for the same network and never ran into each other.

I got a follow-up response. So who's the actor we're wondering here? A little digging shows that Benita and Chicago PD star Leroyce Hawkins. Leroyce. Follow each other on Instagram. And that's the only actor on the show that she currently follows. So it's got to be him. We'll keep an eye on that one for you. How about that? Who are we talking about here? I don't know. Some chick from Southern Charm. All right. And Leroyce. Fortunately, I have a pamphlet that explains it all. Okay.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are opting out of the upcoming Met Gala. And while some may think this has everything to do with the very public battle with Justin Baldani. They're Yankee fans. The fact is that the couple haven't been since 2022 when they co-chaired the event. And as to why the couple is skipping out this year, a source told Us Magazine that

referring to Blake specifically, she's not a Kardashian that goes every year. Okay. I guess so. Where did you come from? I'm always there, lurking in the shadows, ready to comment when necessary. Duh.

It looks like the rights to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is getting shops around Hollywood. Oh, but on a side note, Preston, I watched The Sailor Man. Oh, no, you did not. The Popeye movie. Yeah, I had to. The Popeye horror film. You didn't really have to. It was streaming. And?

It's better than I thought. Okay. It's crap. Better than the Winnie the Pooh? Yes. Okay. Yes. All right, good. The first Winnie the Pooh, horrible. Second Winnie the Pooh, a little bit better. This,

It's kind of trying. It's horrible. Don't torture yourself. Don't take what I'm saying as an approval of it. It's a waste of time and horrible. But I have been trained to absorb these movies in a different way. So not as bad as I thought. So Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the whole thing is apparently in pretty early stages, but there's said to be a lot of interest in the franchise. And the rumor is even that Glenn Powell has showed some interest.

Uh, that said, everything is very early, so no guarantee where the franchise will end up eventually, uh, if at all. And the text Chainsaw Massacre first came out in 1974, uh, was one of the most profitable movies ever made, ranking in $31 million after being made for less than $300,000. There's a couple of good swipes at that. There's the one with Jessica Biel, uh, which was the, the, uh, Michael Bay produced. And then there was the one with Alexandria Daddario, uh, which was pretty decent as well. Um,

But, yeah, I mean, do we need more? I don't think we need more. But this I think this I'd be open to. They are no longer Utes. But Ralph Macchio and Joe Pesci reunite in My Cousin Vinny reboot possibly. Could that happen? Macchio, No Stranger Reboots and sequels obviously Cobra Kai and the Karate Kid franchise. Start in the 1992 hit.

With Pesci, Marissa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, and the late Fred Gwynn. At Paley Fest over the weekend, People Magazine asked Macchio possibly revisiting the film. And he said, yeah, I've had conversations with other writers about that. Here's your plot. You could have him. He's now a lawyer as well. And Joe Pesci's a lawyer. And they're arguing a case in front of The Hague.

In front of the world court. Okay, why not? So he said, yeah, that one's a beloved piece. It's about finding the smart angle in. Macchio did add that Pesci would have to be a part of it, even if it's a smaller role than the original movie. He said he could FaceTime it in here because Joe is 82 years old now, by the way. I haven't seen him in a long time. What is his IMDb career?

saying about his current amount of... I haven't seen him in a lot of stuff. Nick, we'll look that up right now and we'll see what his most recent work was. The Fight, which came out in 2023. Okay. And then

And then he was in The Irishman, obviously, Steve, back in 2019. Yep. I saw on Instagram not that long ago a breakdown of Austin Pendleton, who played the other lawyer. Oh, yeah. He was the stuttering defense lawyer. The stuttering defense lawyer, yeah. And so it was a comedic breakdown of him when he just can't stop stuttering and he's going up to the jury. And it's a brilliantly hilarious scene. But what I never noticed before until I saw it in this...

on Instagram was that Pesci and Macchio and the other actors sitting at the other table cannot stop laughing. They literally had to blur out Joe Pesci and Ralph Macchio in the background because they were laughing so freaking hard at Austin Pendleton's delivery. Nick, you can see them though. Even in the blur, you can see them like kind of pulsing. I love that.

That's great. It's terrific. Austin Pendleton, very funny comedic actor. And he's like that, you know, he's a character actor. He pops up in just tons of stuff. But, yeah, he's one. I'm keeping a list of kind of people like that that I would love to talk to. He is great in a movie called What's Up Doc? with Ryan O'Neill and Barbra Streisand. It's a Peter Bogdanovich movie. It's a tribute to the Looney Tunes. Oh, yeah. And he plays this guy who gives, almost like a Bill Gates kind of guy. Steve, I saw that movie when...

When I was a kid, because I thought it was a Looney Tunes movie. And so I went into it and I was like, I don't get any of this. Where's Bugs? What the hell's going on? This movie makes no sense to me. It was like nine. It's not a cartoon? I love in the sequence as the attorney, when he asks the guy about his glasses, he's like, they're reading glasses. And he just goes, no more questions. It's just a great line. I got them right where I want them. I'm done with you.

All right. So a couple other quick things and we move along. Christoph Waltz has joined Only Murders in the Building for season five. This will be great. His role is... That's a bingo. That's him. His role is expectedly under wraps at this time. Known for roles in movies like Django Unchained, The French Dispatch, and more. Obviously, Inglourious Bastards, that clip is from. He joins other big...

Another big name announced for season five, including Keegan-Michael Key. Nice.

They featured tons of stars in season four, including Meryl Streep, Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis, Eva Longoria, Jane Lynch, Richard Kind, Melissa McCarthy, Kumail Nanjiani, and Molly Shannon as well. So they keep adding on to that. I'd like to see them do the young Sheldon approach to his character in Inglourious Basterds. Yeah, it's funny what he was like. Yeah, growing up. Ooh!

That's a bingo. Oh, this is out of left field, but a guy we've had on the show many times, former impractical joker Joe Gatto, on Thursday, it was a bad weekend for him, on Thursday, a TikTok user who goes by Juicy B said,

accused the comedian of sexually assaulting her when she was 19 in a series of videos that have since been deleted. Gatto immediately denied the allegations, but now a second woman claims that the comedian exhibited unwanted behaviors that she described as sexual harassment.

Um, the second accuser is reportedly someone who worked for Gatto during his time on the show. Uh, after the first allegation, Gatto put out a statement that read, I have used poor judgment and as a result have violated the trust of people I love most. But anyone who knows me at all knows full well, uh, that I wouldn't assault anyone.

When People Magazine reached out to his reps after the second alleged victim surfaced, they referred the outlet to Gatto's prior statement. Is he the one that stepped away? Yeah. Which, of course, now might connect the dots. First thing he goes, okay, did they ask him to leave because maybe they saw this thing coming because he's walking away from a gold mine. Right. I don't know. Everyone's due their day in court. We've got to let that play out and see what happens.

If there is a day in court. All right, and then one last story. Steve, this one's for you. Hallmark has announced a renewal of When Calls the Heart for a 13th season. It is now the longest running series in the channel's history. Ah, yes, When Calls the Heart. The announcement was made during the show's 12th

Season 12 finale. This is a continuation of the series Who Dat? Which aired last night. The series stars Aaron Krakow, Kevin McGarry, Jack Wagner, Chris McNally, Pascal Hutton, and Kevon Smith. To be honest, I've only seen one. Yeah. The new season is set to premiere in 2026 on the Hallmark Channel and will be streaming the next day on Hallmark Plus. I just...

I just point all Hallmark stories towards him. So here's my deal. You got to stick it. It either has to be a Columbo-esque crime thing, you know, one of those type of dramas, quote-unquote drama, or firmly rooted in Christmas. And I'll even take the Mark Summers Hanukkah movie. Sure, sure. All right, we are ready to play some clips.

So, in the hunting party, a mysterious explosion at a secret prison allows the nation's most violent serial killers to escape. And here, Melissa Roxburgh...

talks about how cool it was to see the massive destruction. Honestly, I was hoping that there would be flashbacks or something somewhere in there because, I mean, I think it's expensive. I think that's the reason. They had to blow up the expensive thing and get it out of the way. But I think it's so cool, the panopticon with all of the jail cells that you can see into. I thought it was so cool.

I had three testicles. Wait, did she say octagon or panopticon? Panopticon. What is a panopticon? A penitentiary, I guess, shaped like an octagon, if I'm guessing, man. I've never heard that word before. I don't know. I think they created it maybe for the series, but that's probably the name of it is the panopticon. Steve, you nailed it. Panopticon. So here you go. Circular prison design where a central watchtower allows guards to observe.

All inmates without the inmates knowing if they're being watched. Self-discipline and a constant sense of surveillance. You know that series that goes and revisits sites around the world that have long been abandoned buildings? And I love the series. It's excellent. They actually went to a panopticon. And we're looking at a picture, I think, Preston, on the screen right here. Up to the upper left, I think, is the actual one for this very reason. Everyone...

Oh, you know what this kind of looks like too in Guardians of the Galaxy? Exactly. Yeah. Okay, so the tower is inside in the middle. Right. Wow. All comes back to Marvel. It does. Yeah, I got to need that guy's leg. But I love that. Yeah. I love that name, Panopticon. You now enter the Panopticon. Only one will leave. A new episode of The Hunting Party airs today on Peacock. Here's our next clip.

The neighborhood has a lot of guest appearances from Tracy Morgan to Patti LaBelle and Jack A. Harry. Uh, in this clip. That was a little bitty. In this clip, uh,

To Tina Arnold and Cedric the Entertainer revealed their latest dream guest. If CBS can get Anthony Hopkins on this show, sir, sir Anthony Hopkins, I want somebody that's like made mega hits in films to come on our show. Imagine if he came on our show. Imagine the viewership we would get.

What the f***? A new episode of The Neighborhood airs today, and you can see that on Hulu. And I bet you Anthony Hopkins will do it. Oh, yeah. Think he'll jump right out there and do it? There you go. That's what I have in the entertainment report for you this morning. If you happen to be texting in today, you're going to notice a bounce back message that we're going to send to you. And it is our new text number. Now, that is not initiating until Wednesday. That's when we switch over officially to that. We just want to make sure that you have it.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. High school locker combination. I hate when they do numbers and they spell it out for you. I wish they would just put the number there. I mean, not that I can't read it, but sometimes it messes you up. Okay. Speaking of new numbers, we have a new text number. It'll be starting to be used on Wednesday.

So if you text in today, you're going to get a bounce back from us that's going to tell you what that number is. And it also asks if you want to enter your name and email address. You can if you want to. You don't have to, but it will help us identify you. If we want to give credit to your text or something like that, it makes it very simple for us. And we'll just have your name right there ready to go. But if you...

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being used until Wednesday. So just a heads up on that. There's a method to the madness here. We're told that everything's going to dovetail into a wonderful higher tech way of doing all this. All right, so I got an email. I want to read this to you guys. This is from a listener, a guy named Rob. He emailed this to me, and I'm curious as to what you guys think about this. So he says, Thursday is trash pickup day in my neighborhood, and when I got home...

and saw the empty cans. I went to grab them to put them away. And inside one of those cans was two dogs of dog poop, which means somebody walking by saw that the trash was already picked up and decided to throw their own dog crap in my empty trash cans.

This also means that they know the trash was already picked up and now I get to hold on to their dog's poop for a whole week. I went on our neighborhood Facebook page to complain about it and asked the multiple individuals who do that to please stop doing it.

Uh, I personally don't know, uh, the individuals doing it, but I have it on camera. Who is doing it out of respect for their privacy and the fact that they aren't coming, uh, committing any crimes, uh, just being completely inconsiderate. I won't post the videos while most people agree with me. The ones who don't are telling me what a horrible person I am because they could just leave it there instead of picking it up and throwing it out. Uh,

Apparently, I'm wrong and such an evil person for being angry about holding on to dog poop for a week. That doesn't belong to me. And I figured this would be a fun topic to discuss on your show. If you choose to do so, what are your opinions on this matter? And then he says in a Charlie Sheen voice, that's what he writes here. You guys are the freaking best.

Freaking mask man. He's talking about dog poop. From Rob. Oh, he does leave his name, but just as Rob doesn't say where he's from or anything. He doesn't say. No. Because I think this is in my neighborhood. Oh, really? Or at least in that community because it sounds very similar to a message that I read last week on the Facebook page.

And it was, I believe it was maybe written by like wife or girlfriend or something like that because it was from a female. But I wonder if it's not the exact same story. And they said the exact same thing about not, they know who it is, but they're not going to post the video. Okay. And I got this email on Thursday. So I don't know when you saw that on Facebook. Yeah. Sometime last week. It sounds very similar. So if it's not them, there's a similar problem going on on our Facebook page. Well, Kathy, I just got an email that says this is the biggest issue in the Fishtown Facebook page right now. Oh, well,

So I think this is a common problem. This is one of these things that I get why it would bother some people. It doesn't bother me at all. Trash to me is trash. Toss it in the trash can. Somebody, you know, it's going to be taken away at some point. So it doesn't get under my skin. I understand why it would bother some people, though. Yeah. So I feel like I can speak to this a little bit because I live on a corner and

Every animal in the neighborhood uses my yard. Like it's just, and then they must smell the other animals and you know, everybody wants to go to the bathroom there. So I constantly am seeing dogs and, and full menu stuff. 98% of the time, the owners are picking it up, which is great. Thank you so much. Should be a hundred. Um,

I have cats, so I scoop their crap from inside my house and put it in the trash can. It's disgusting. It smells awful. And I would never put it in somebody else's trash can. Okay. So...

So listen, if it goes in my trash can, not a big deal because my cat crap is going to go in there later in the day and we're going to smell it anyway. But if you don't have animals, I kind of understand that. That's interesting. So yeah, you wouldn't mind if somebody did that. However, you would never do that to someone else. Because I...

I don't know if they have animals and I don't know if they're putting their animals crap in their trash can and I know what it smells like in my garage. No, I wouldn't do that to somebody else. I'm kind of in Nick's camp where I'm like, it probably wouldn't bother me that much to see somebody doing that. Now,

But then again, part of me wants to go, hey, couldn't you just take that home to your trash can? What if the dog owner took a dump in your garbage can? Only if I could get video of that would I be a happy person.

What did you just do? So if you're any dog owner, you've got your 10 million bags that you do. And usually if they're tied up properly, disposed in my garbage can. And I mean literally on Thursday when we put out our garbage, I put out the weight of an adult human male in cat litter. I mean it's so –

I have no issue. I'd rather have that than them not, because I'm a corner house too, crap the dog crap and not pick it up. So I will accept that over that, over the former. And I...

I might, if I were walking through a neighborhood and I had a couple, because I have two dogs and I walk them both at the same time, if I got a couple of bags of crap in my pocket or whatever I'm holding on to and I walk by a trash can that is full of trash out at the curb, I'd probably dump it in there. Now, if it were empty, if I look in and the trash can's empty, I'm probably not going to do it. I've done

I agree. I will look for... If trash pickup appears to be impending, or like a dumpster that's... This won't screw it up, and I'm not stealing the service that they pay for to toss a small bag of dog poop into it, properly tie it up. I've seen people...

You have the dog bags with the dog poop. And just leave the bag dog poop on the sidewalk. Yeah, no. No, no, no, no. No. I think we're all pretty much... And a lot of people are listening. Same thing. No, am I pissed off about them leaving the bag? No. Would I ever do that? No. And so when we come to this conclusion, it's like tough...

Tough crap. Like, walk around with your bag of poop until you get home. I've done that. Am I mad at you for it? No, but also at the same time, don't do that. I wouldn't do it, so you don't do it. Preston, didn't you have a bag of dog poop in your pocket at Steven Singer? At Steven Singer.

Rochelle and I went there. It was like her birthday was coming up or something. I forgot. Or maybe it was Christmas and we went to look at some stuff. We're sitting there. I'll retell the story. First, we get in the van and I'm like, wow, did you rip one? And she goes, no. And I'm like, oh, okay. Well, I'm smelling gas or it smells like a fart in here. And so I just dismiss it and I'm like, whatever. Um.

And we get all the way down to Steven Singer Jewelers and we're sitting there and we're talking and I'm like...

Are you sure you're not farting? In Steven Sands? Yeah, yeah. So the salesperson had left and we were just sitting there by ourselves. And she's like, no. And I was like, oh, whatever, man. Look, just admit it. Yeah, come on. Come on. Would you own up already? This is horrible. Just admit it. And at some point, it was cold out and I was wearing my jacket still. And I reach, I put my hand in my pocket. And I'm like, oh, my God. Oh, my God.

And I'm like, I have a bag of dog crap in my pocket. And I snuck out. I was so embarrassed. She was going to tell the person. I'm like, don't say anything. And I went outside and I threw it in the trash can out on the street. You should have asked for a jewelry box. Can you make sure Steven gets this? That would have been my opportunity.

That would have been great. Tell him he's always setting us up with jewelry. We wanted to give him something. It is funny how you were super embarrassed in the store and now just telling the story. No problem at all. Face to face. I didn't want to go to it. But there was there was another time. And this is a completely different story than this. But it's got a little tendril to it. I was at Casey. I was at Sunrise Park.

down at the shore in Wildwood Crest. And I walk up. I'm walking my dog. And they have complimentary dog bags. I love that. It says, here you go. Help yourself. And I am walking by there. There's a bag hanging out of the thing. And I look down and at the base of that sign, of that stand, is a huge pile of dog feces. And I'm...

Really? Really? Come on, man. And there's no strays running around. It's a straight up F you. I mean, especially I've I have had a case where I'm out deep into like the Wissahickon Trail. This is outside. This is in a park. Yeah. Along the path.

Chelsea at the time, my former dog, goes to the bathroom. I went back home, hiked back to where it was and bagged the poop. Because I'm not... It was close enough to the trail. Had she been deep in the woods? Maybe not. But it's right by the trail. I'm not going to leave it there. Yeah, I went... I let my dogs out...

They usually just go in my front yard, but Reggie, he just beelined it for my neighbor's yard. This is just like a month and a half ago. And he must be crapping Volkswagen, right? Dude, I mean, honestly, they're just enormous. But I see him squatting, and I'm like, no! And I have a bag on me, nothing. But I run over to him. As soon as he gets done, I had trash in my pocket, and I had a white receipt. And I laid the white receipt on top of it so I could...

go back to the house and grab a bag. Look, someone bought that. No, no, but it was, you know, it was like 10 o'clock, 10.30 at night, so it was dark and it would have been impossible for me to find it. But like, you know, just trying to be considerate. I know, you try. See, that's half the battle. It's not that hard. But listen, we've all seen people just chuck trash out their car window. Like, listen, some people. It's the Jason Segel, you know, I love you man approach. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, I, you know. Ah!

I think we're all pretty... But some people suck. Some people just aren't as involved as we are. By the way, Rob, the guy who wrote this email, texted in. Nick had it up here a second ago. And he had said that he and his wife... Yeah, it says here, I'm the one who wrote the email. My wife and I are even separated on this issue. Oh, my God. So they haven't got a clear...

agreement on it. I think because a lot of times it's so, there are people who are not considerate, the way you're saying, and will let their dogs scrabble over the place when they're walking, not even make the effort. At least to me, that qualifies as an effort. And so I'm not that mad at it. It's also, we have trash twice a week. Oh, lucky you. I know. So lucky, man. Not as bad. Wow.

But if you are in the neighborhood and you know that the trash isn't getting picked up for another week... This week I'm going to take a picture of the... So I have...

The cat litter bags. I have to put them in separate, you know, like the garbage bags you use for your kitchen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fill that. So there are regular separate cat crap bags. Yeah, yeah. Because we have 13 boxes. So that goes into that. Jesus, man. Then those all go into that. And I have to put them in separate bags to keep the weight nominal so they can pick it up. Yeah.

Because they refused to do it one time because it literally felt like 160 pounds. I was so glad when one of my cats died so we could knock it down to just one box. And you have 13. That's a level of hell to me. I would hire someone to come over and clean the boxes. Yeah.

Arm and hammer kitty litter. God save you. God save you. So what, man? No. God bless you. It still takes time. That takes a special person. But then it takes time. Like, that's going to take you a little. Listen, what I also do is I take that time to read scripture. Oh. All right. So we're going to go via Zoom audio. We have Ryan who wants to share a story of some dog poop in the can. Hey, Ryan, you're on the air. Good morning, bud. Good morning.

Good morning. Is this dumb bitch PR? Dumb bitch PR? You dumb bitch. You got to move ahead with that. All right. What's up, Brian? Well, I think my neighbor needs one. So I went to get my trash cans from the curb and I noticed that there was a bag of dog poop at the bottom of my trash can. I don't have a dog. So...

I look closer and I can see maggots at the bottom of my trash can around the bag. So I'm like, great. Now what I do, cause I can't just leave it in here for another week. And you know, so I take the trash can out. I had like a field in the back of my house.

So I took the trash can back there and I dump it. Maggots, worms, poop all come out the bottom of the trash can. So then I took bleach and my hose and I just completely cleaned out the trash can and picked up the bag and moved on. And I was kind of upset that someone would just do that. But at the same time, I kind of get mixed emotions.

in the beginning where he was like, trash is trash. Right. Do you kind of fall in the middle then? Because it sounds like you're kind of vacillating. Well, I'm sorry. I'm the elliptical. Um...

I guess I was kind of more of a step of the trash man doesn't like look to see if he got everything. I don't know if I can think of like that, but. Yeah, I mean, sometimes they don't dump the entire trash can out into the back of the trash truck and they like will just take the bags out and they'll leave stuff behind. And if it's totally empty and you've already got maggots crawling around in there, it may have been in there for a while. Yeah, yeah. Hmm.

Unless the dog is crapping maggots. Yeah. You're right. That's what I'm thinking. It was in there for a while. Yeah. Yeah. That's a whole other... By the way, this all goes to... There's a whole series of garbage can questions like, how do you effectively throw out a garbage can itself? Yeah. Right? Right.

That's one of the great dilemmas. Yeah. All right, Ryan, continue your exercise. And by the way, don't forget to do a series of that going backwards too. I found out just recently. That's good for you. Okay. No, I haven't. I, I, when I heard that, I started doing it. I started doing it too, dude. Did you start feeling it in your quads like the next day?

100% an impression because I also drum. I felt it on my kick leg. Oh, nice. That's hilarious. You guys should work out together. You guys take a steam together. See you, Ryan.

I did. I started doing it last week. I started going backwards as well. Wait, do you feel it in your kick leg though? Totally. Totally. You guys are made for each other. All right. We have next another Zoomer who will be joining us in a moment. We have to wait for it to connect. And yeah, now we are going to Amy. Hi, Amy. Good morning. Hang on, Amy. That's on my end. We can hear you now. Hi, Amy. How you doing? Hello. Hello. All right. It says you are a pet sitter.

Yes, I'm a pet sitter. I've been pet sitting for about 25 years. Wow. All right. What's your take on disposing of feces in someone else's trash can? I never put it in an empty trash can. I will carry it back to the house. I'm going, you know, walking to the dog back to the owner's house.

And honestly, even if the trash can's full, if I sort of kind of, you know, I know most of the neighborhood stuff, I know they don't own a dog. I won't put it in that trash can just out of respect.

I think that's the optimum way to approach it, though I have. As a dog owner myself, if the garbage, I've walked past and I'm well away from the house and it's clear that all the garbage cans are out and garbage is soon to be collected, then I might drop it in, you know, in passing. But I think the model that you set up is probably the right way to do it. Take it back home with you. I mean, I have, like, on occasion, I mean, like, if it's like,

If it's a big dump and the bag's a little cheesy, you know, if I got a grocery store bag and I think it's going to break or something, maybe I've dumped it in. And to be honest, if my trash can's out front of my house and somebody wants to drop their dog poop bag in my trash can, go for it. Because I'd rather have that than cleaning up somebody else's dog poop in my front yard. Exactly. Amy.

really big dogs. So like, I wouldn't mind giving you my dog poop if you're not going to clean it up in front of my house. Amy, I have a question. Are you, since you're sitting dogs, you're probably walking them as well. Do you ever have the occasion where you're walking like five or six dogs at once? Are you that type of a sitter? No. Okay. I just go house to house. Okay. Gotcha. All right. Well, thank you. We appreciate the call. Thanks. You've seen the people walking. Mm-hmm.

all those dogs. I don't know how they do it. The dogs are walking them, basically. And then how do you, if one of them has to stop, and then, you know, how you wrangle all those dogs and clean them up, man. I don't know how the hell you do it. Yeah. I have a hard time because I have two, and when one of them stops, I've got them to where now they pay attention and they'll both stop. If one craps, will the other one crap? Not, no. It's usually one and then another. On very rare occasions do I get a... If one craps, will you crap? A double deuce. I feel like it.

but i've never actually done it so all right we go next to via zoom we have uh daniel who's joining us hey daniel morning bud good morning how you guys doing doing all right it's all good buddy all right so yeah you heard uh the email this guy uh saw somebody dropping dog poop into his empty trash can at the curb what's your take on all this um i gotta agree with the guy um about 20 years ago we had a dog and um i used to i was responsible for walking him and um

I pick up his poop, bag it. I always went out with like, I always made sure I had like four bags. Now he was a small dog, but I always made sure I had the extra bag. If I was walking him that early in the morning before the garbage picked up, if I saw an open top garbage can that was still full, I would throw my dog poop

tied up. I would throw Kirby's dog poop into that garbage can because I knew when pickup was because I lived in the neighborhood. Now, my parents and I, because I lived at home, we had a garbage can out front that was specifically for the dog poop. It was covered so the smell, because even tied up, that garbage can smelled. But people would literally walk up to our house, walk up the driveway, and they would throw their dog poop

into this covered garbage can. That's weird. And it drove me, yeah, I was going to say, it's like, it's a 75 foot driveway. Why would you do that? Why would you walk up onto somebody's property and do that? Yeah, unless it's curbside at that point, why not walk into the house and throw the garbage away in their kitchen garbage can? That's too much.

Curbside, full, you know where the garbage pickup is. It's clear it's eminent. And then I should say, yes, then that's fine. But yeah, that's a little presumptuous. Did you ever have a chance to say anything to anyone?

Unfortunately, no. I mean, this was back before, you know, ring cameras were really around, you know, the household camera. So we we would never see it. We could only tell when it happened because all of a sudden, you know, there would be a boatload of flies. Yes. Yeah, man, that sucks. Yeah. What you do is you go up and you spray black spray paint on the wing ring doorbell and this road where you're making like an elaborate heist. No, I agree with you, Daniel. All right. Thanks, man. Appreciate you checking in, buddy.

Thank you, guys. Fun talking to you. I mean, it is weird. Like, but, you know, and I understand you not wanting to walk around with a bag of poop in your hand. But it is what it is, man. Yeah, exactly. It's part and parcel. It's part of what owning a dog is all about. All right. The gentleman who wrote the email is joining us now via Zoom. We've got Rob. Robert, how you doing, man?

Yeah, it's good morning, guys. It's funny. OK, so you and your wife are slightly divided on this issue. Yeah, she's we're we're dog people. She's more of a dog lover than me. Yeah. She sees nothing wrong with it. My only problem is I'm now holding on to it for a whole week. Yeah. And especially with it getting warmer. It smells maggots, all that fun stuff. Yeah. And.

I just don't want it. I don't want to be the one who's happy enough to accept that gift. All right, so, Robert, you said you have video footage of the people doing this. Do you know who they are? No, but I see them walking their dogs constantly. Like, I know their face. I don't know their names. I don't know them personally. So they're people in the neighborhood. Have you thought about hiring a private detective?

I was hoping to hire like a military sniper. How many times has it happened? Oh, it's every week. Okay. All right. Now I'm on your side. Now I'm fully on your side. I've lived in my house now 10 years. Every week I can count on somebody. And they choose your house. There are other houses. There are other trash cans on the street. Is it possible they have an issue with you?

No, I think it's everywhere. If I get home quick enough from work where I can get the trash cans collected before they throw it in there, it's no problem. But if I'm not home and they're walking their dog and they have the bag of poop, they just toss it in there. Do you have a dog or you don't have a dog?

I have a dog, yes. All right, because if you know who they are and you find out where they live, I would just start leaving bags of poop in there. I have a good idea of that yard for when they go out there. Yeah. You're stockpiling. If you have a baby and you're taking the baby for a walk and the baby poops, would you put a dirty diaper in somebody else's empty trash can? Yeah. I think it's the same thing. Well, if you were to seal it up in a plastic bag, you raise the point of the summer.

In the summer, as you start to do that, you're leaving a poop dog poop bag, say, on Monday and trash pickups not till Friday. And you have a heat wave week. Then you've got a real nightmare going on and not by your own design. So I can see that. And where does your garbage does your garbage go in the in the garage or something along those lines? Or does it stay outside?

It stays outside. Okay. So you say you don't know where these neighbors live, but they're people that you see in your neighborhood all the time. Yeah, there's plenty of my neighbors who have dogs and take them for a walk. I mean, this may seem drastic, but I would pay to have them killed. No, if it's the same people doing it over and over, that's an annoyance. It is. You raise the point about does someone have an issue with you, but you say no. No, I'm...

I generally get along with everyone. It's hard to pinpoint who it is also. There's an apartment complex down the street. Everyone there are dogs, it seems like. So, Robert, at what point will you decide to go ahead and publicly shame them? I'm not going to, only because they're

Not doing anything illegal. It's just more of a giant annoyance for me. You know, I wonder what the... You bring up a good point. The legality of it. Is there a law? No, it's just a dick move. That's all. Well, you never know. If you are dropping... If people have, for example, if their garbage cans are back...

Back from the street, it's just a couple of feet to where my garbage cans are lined up. Is it a, are you breaking the law if you were to pop garbage in there? There might be some kind of technical or legal issue there, Steve, if you think about it. Number one, you may not be stepping foot on their property per se, but you are touching their property. That could be a form of potentially trespassing. Yep. You are also, this is a service that Rob,

pays for and you're taking advantage of that. It's another one. There might be some kind of technicality. Would it be worth pursuing? No, probably not. You're out of order. You never know though. Yeah, so there's a Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Code. This code makes it unlawful for anyone to dispose of waste within the Commonwealth at anywhere other than to a facility that has a DEP permit or operates. And everyone's in violation of that. Well, it says no person shall throw or deposit...

upon a highway or upon other public or private property without consent of the owner. Oh, all right. So there you go. You're well within your bounds then to hire a high-powered attorney and take him to court. Yeah. I think you got to call Morgan Morgan, man. They're not licensed by my staff. Nice work. Very good. Very good. Not in Missouri. All right. Robert, good luck with your issue. We're going to flesh this out a little bit more, but I think most people probably...

agree with you to some extent especially if it's empty if the trash can yeah right i'm not seeing a lot of militancy on this i'm seeing flexibility but i there are certain scenarios in which i think everyone agrees you know if you can bring it back to your house and it's not a big issue do that yeah and robert you know maybe you don't have to say anything to this particular person but we're saying it to them for you uh you know and i'm curious anybody listening right now who's like yeah f you i'm just gonna leave it in your trash you know what i mean like

Because I haven't heard from anybody yet who's like, yeah, I'll just leave it in anybody's trash can. I don't care. All right, Robert. Thank you, bud. We appreciate the email. All right.

Thanks, guys. Love you. I love you, too, man. All right. Here's a text says we would as kids in the 90s take a hockey stick and shoot the dog turds from our backyard into our neighbor's yard. All right. One more call and then we're going to have to take a break. Joining us via Zoom. We have Kramer this morning. Hey, Kramer. Good morning, bud.

Morning, Presbo. Nice to see you, man. All right, so you worked for a trash company, correct? Correct. All right, and tell us what you experienced. We had a customer over your way, Presbo, in Harleysville. Oh, no. That used a specific trash can to clean up his dog crap in his yard. All right. But he would wait until it was full, the bag in the can was full, to throw it away, put it out for the trash. Well...

We would dump the bag that was tied into the back of the truck and then you engage to smash the trash. Well, part of the bag was sticking out and it had a hole in it.

And as the trash was squeezing and the bag was squeezing, there was this continuous dog turd. It was terrible. Not only the smell, but just having to see that was awful. Do you remember a thing as a kid called the Play-Doh Fun Factory? Yeah. Yeah, and you'd squeeze. Yeah, but it didn't smell that good. Yeah.

Oh, my God. It's not like Play-Doh. Oh, my God. That is too funny. Yeah. So to that point, yeah, Kramer, again, we break up. We have so much kitty litter at the end of the week. We break it up into separate bags so it's easier for the garbage collectors to pick up and toss in because it gets away from you. You don't realize how heavy it gets after a while.

Yeah. Ma'am, we should one morning take calls only from garbage, you know, trash workers to tell us the most disgusting thing that they've ever seen because I'm sure they've forgotten more than we'll ever know about gross. Kramer, what's one or two things that comes to mind besides the dog poop story? Well...

rotting maggots yeah you get one maggots die just the smell is you can't even describe it yeah uh but yeah i mean seeing maggots in the trash we called it disco rice i mean you gotta get through the day somehow

When a maggot dies and rots, what comes after that? Right? Oh, my God. Yeah, double maggots. Double maggots. Double secret maggots. All right. Kramer, thank you, brother. We appreciate it, man. All right.

We'll see you around. When you get that, like Kathy, the time you had that in the stroller. When maggots are on the scene, the stench is going to knock you off your feet. That was a sandwich you left in there, right? A tuna sandwich. Oh, even worse. For a week.

And I was like, God, I thought I brought that home from the restaurant. I don't know where it went. It was in the, like, you know, in the stroller, you put the, like the umbrella, the hood, and it was pulled back and the sandwich was in there. And, you know, it kind of like accordion style. So I didn't see it. Wow.

And then we went for a while and I ripped Jace out of the stroller and like dumped the stroller over into the street because I was like, I was scared. That's done. We're done with that now. Wow. Okay. All right. Well, listen, guys, thanks for your comments. We appreciate that. Hey, as we take a break, can I do a shout out real quick? Please. I want to do this. I want to celebrate...

all of our young listeners. Uh, so if you are in high school driving into school right now, I celebrate you. I love you. And I'm giving a special shard out to a, uh, three young gentlemen, uh, one Christian Hasse, one Luke Reger, and then the other Seamus Fahs. Uh, you're listening on your way into school right now. Here's your shard out. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm sorry. I think the Tom Jones is still my favorite. Okay. All right. Well, let's take a break. As Kay said, we'll come back in a second. Bizarre File stories aplenty when we return. So stay put. Want to stop Alexa from secretly recording you? Just say, Alexa, play 93.3 WMMR and then crank it up. She won't hear a damn thing you say after that.

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Back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right. Thank you, Kathy. Real quick, a shout out. I'll pass along. This is a present. I would like to give a birthday shout out to my wife, Amber. We live in Stratford, New Jersey, and we listen every day. I sent a previous email, but left out the chart. If you could do this on March 24th between 8 and 9 a.m. Thank you so much. Look at me. I did it. How about that?

So here is a shout out to you, Amber. And it does not, your husband didn't sign it. But if you're Amber in Stratford, New Jersey, then I guess you know who you are. Probably, yes. Happy birthday to you. All right, let's get to the weekend. Bizarre Files. Bizarre Files. WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Files. Bizarre Files.

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How about this one? A passenger on a United Airlines flight claimed that he was forcibly dragged from an airplane bathroom with his pants down by a pilot who broke the lock of the door for taking too long. You're taking too long! Yes, roll. Lieb is his name. 20 years old. Was on the first leg of his journey home to New Jersey with the airline, but was led away in handcuffs when they landed in Houston after a humiliating ordeal caused him to be ripped from the airplane bathroom with his genitals exposed.

He said he suffered physical injuries, extreme emotional distress and anxiety. He added that he felt sexually violated and embarrassed after being publicly exposed in the news. That seems a little outlandish to yank somebody off the bowl. He said he had gotten up from his seat to use the toilet about a half hour into their journey from Tulum, Mexico to Houston, where he was then scheduled for a connecting flight to New York. Around 20 minutes later, a flight attendant woke up Leib's neighbor, a fellow traveler named Jacob Sebag,

to check on Lieb. Now, Seabag knocked on the door and asked if he was all right, to which he replied he was experiencing constipation and would be out shortly. The complaint stated that Seabag relayed this to the flight attendant, returned to the seat, yet 10 minutes later, the pilot approached Seabag and asked him to join to once again try and get the guy out. The pilot, however, began yelling loudly at Lieb, demanding that he leave the bathroom immediately before loudly demanding that Seabag force Lieb out of the bathroom.

Uh, he responded that, uh, he was okay and he was finishing up and he would be out momentarily. You son of a bitch. The pilot became visibly enraged. They said, broke the lock on the door and forced the door to the bathroom open, pulling Lib out of the bathroom with his pants still around his ankles, exposing his genitalia to several flight attendants and the nearby passengers on the plane. And look folks, he has a small penis. Lib quickly pulled his pants back up, uh,

But he injured his head and legs when they smacked into the doorframe of the bathroom. The pilot proceeded to repeatedly push the two back to their seats while making threats of getting them arrested and making scathing remarks about their Judaism and how, quote, Jews act. This is according to the lawsuit. The two Orthodox Jewish passengers were robbed, I'm sorry, were robed in religious attire at the time of the incident. As they landed in Houston, customs and Border Patrol officers placed them in handcuffs.

While being escorted from the plane, Lieb stated that the two of them had a legal right to know why they were being detained. But the CBP agents responded that this isn't country or state. We are Homeland Security and you have no rights here. I'll tell you why. You were taking too long to make boobies.

The two passengers were then allegedly placed in detention. Both were released without charges, but missed their connecting flights. This has lawsuits all over it. Yeah, absolutely. And they essentially, they had to pay for their own food and accommodations. And the passengers are seeking damages to be determined. Listen, if they're being obnoxious or whatever the story was, the guy was taking way too long to yank the dude out with his pants around his ankles. Yeah, come on, man.

All right, now here is disturbing story number one. And like I said, I have a few of them. Sometimes it just happens. So a Missouri father thought that his teenage daughter was talking to a nice guy online and allegedly invited him to come live with them, even though that guy is 31 years old. Frederick Copping was arrested, along with Travis Kupchak.

Kalkbrenner, who is 31, the Florida man who called Copping's 15-year-old daughter his girlfriend. Police were called to the home in response to a possible domestic incident. Now, when deputies arrived, they observed that the teenager was extremely intoxicated, and she claimed she was 22 years old. Deputies soon found out she was

and her living situation raised some eyebrows. Copping said that he explained to police that his daughter had been talking to Kalkbrenner for a few years on the internet and the two communicated on the Discord app, including video chats. Copping told police that Kalkbrenner

seemed like a nice guy and allegedly invited the man to move to his home with his underage daughter. Copping stated that he believed Kalkbrenner was 25 or 26 years old, but reportedly admitted he wasn't sure. Copping and his daughter allegedly drove to Florida to get Kalkbrenner. When the trio arrived back at their home in Missouri, Copping allegedly provided the boyfriend, listen to this, with condoms and told Kalkbrenner he better not get her pregnant.

I hate everything about this story. He was the best dad. So he was asked about his daughter's alleged intoxicated state, and he said she has a habit of getting into his alcohol, and he can't control that. You having a good time with your adult boyfriend? Wow. Deputy said that Kalkbrenner allegedly admitted to several sexual encounters with a teenager whom he thought was 22 years old. He said these guys are both in jail without bond right now, obviously. Wow.

All right, let's get to another fun one here. A man is recovering after having his ear ripped off during an altercation that turned violent on a Florida beach during spring break. 18-year-old Jack Turner was arrested and faced felony battery charges following the brawl that took place at Fort Myers Beach on St. Patrick's Day. Officials said on Monday deputies patrolling the area were flagged down for a reference of a fight. The victim, who was not identified, told deputies...

He was involved in a physical altercation. A portion of his left ear had been bitten off. Wow. A bystander shared footage of the brawl with deputies and claimed that she could hear Turner calling the victim racial slurs and then jump him from behind. It was just a misunderstanding. Deputies reviewed the...

the video and confirmed seeing the victim lying face down in the sand with Turner mounted on his back, striking the victim in the back of the head with a clenched fist. Spring break. The footage then showed Turner grabbing the victim by the hair on the back of his head and pressing it into the sand. Turner then pulled up the victim's head and appeared to bite the victim's ear, causing a traumatic auricular amputation. What?

Yeah, exactly. Deputies also learned the victim and Turner knew each other. Turner was arrested on felony battery charges and booked into the Lee County Jail. The sheriff's office said the victim is currently recovering, receiving medical treatment and is being seen by specialists for his injuries. Wow. You have to imagine getting your ear chunk bitten off and have to hurt like a son of a bitch. Yes, absolutely. All right. And that...

That is... Well, you know what? Okay, I'm going to end with this one. We have time for one more, right? Yeah. Just because a person drives a horse carriage doesn't mean that they can beat your ass when the time comes. In Dublin, a couple of American tourists in town to celebrate St. Patrick's Day thought they could get away.

was doing the old ride and dash and stiff the driver routine. So the driver said not so fast and was able to corner the punks and proceeded to horse whip them. Oh, get out. Yeah. You're going to put a fast one. Yeah. You stupid bastard. So he's got the whip. These guys are trying to rip him off. He started horse whipping them.

The boys ended up ponying up the 100 euros and the driver proceeded to whip them some more. It's not over. Now I'm going to have sex with you. So he got his money and one of the guys apologized and said, we've learned our lesson. And I didn't know this, but there's video footage of it. We're watching. Oh, my God. He's whipping them. Wow. And the stupid bastards ran into like an alleyway without an exit. All right. And there you go. That's what I have.

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I'm messing this up already. It's me. It's Brett Schwartz. And he says, once again, back by popular demand, my funeral home, Goldstein's Rosenberg's Funeral Directors, is hosting our annual Saturday Slamdown Showdown Pro Wrestling event. All net proceeds will go to the Bucks County Suicide Prevention Task Force, a dynamic group of professionals and volunteers committed to decreasing the rates of suicide in

and ending the mental health stigma in the country. And we are also the funeral home that brought you the procession for life at the Camp Out for Hunger. I remember it well. They were great. Brett was awesome. And he says, like last year, you're going to get to see the wrestlers of the 3WA duke it out in the ring. However, this year, we decided to up our game and bring even more action and excitement to the event with an exhilarating, rarely seen casket match.

And he said, you'll also have a chance to meet Shane Douglas, wrestler best known for his careers in ECWWCWWFXPWNTNA. That's all the letters. So the event will be Saturday, April 5th. It's at the gymnasium in Bucksco at Community College Newtown Campus.

And so Bucks County Community College, Newtown Campus. I'll get it right eventually. He said the bell rings at 6, doors open at 5. Tickets and more information can be found at goldsteinfuneral.com. And then he signs it, Oobah, Brett. So I wanted to send a little butt plug along. You know what's great about that? Yeah.

The perfunctory sound, got to have that. Obviously, the business is based around death, but they do so many life-affirming things. They're dialed in that way. I think it's very refreshing. And Brett, by the way, had peppered this email with all kinds of Preston and Steve-isms. I left a few of those out. But, Brett, our pleasure to help you guys out. We hope you have a great event. It is going to be, again, Saturday, April 5th.

And it will be at the Bucks County Community College Newtown Campus. And exciting wrestling and a casket match.

Which I love the idea of that. Yeah, I can't wait to see what that's about. Now listen, speaking of that subject of suicide prevention, yes, it's odd that he had emailed me yesterday because I was doing some cleaning out of my bedroom and I have a bookcase and I wanted to weed out some old books that I don't read anymore and donate those and it was just straightening up. And I found, I came across

an email that I held on to. From time to time, I'll save some messages that for whatever reason might inspire me or give me some good ideas.

And I saw this when it was dated Thursday, January 26, 2017. Wow. And yeah, and I'd held on to this. I hadn't seen this in years. What could this be about? And I read it and I wanted to, I kind of want to do, I just want to throw this out there and do a check on this guy if possible. It says, Dear Preston, my name is Stephen.

I've been listening to you guys for years, ever since you first started at MMR, and I've always enjoyed your show when I could, either here in PA or when I was living down in Maryland. However, you did something today that really had an impact on me. I've been going through a really hard spot in my life this last year, and lately it's turned to severe depression, and he said thoughts of suicide. He said it's been hard to try to find the help that I need and have been thinking about taking my own life quite often.

I just started a new job after months of searching and my medical benefits don't kick in until March. So trying to keep things together, trying to keep things together has been extremely hard. And for a lot of different vectors, today has been the worst it's ever been.

And he said, that changed when I was driving in. You came back from a break and for whatever reason you said, hey, if today is a difficult day for you, for whatever reason, it's okay. You got this and we believe in you. And he said, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I had to pull over and compose myself. I was so overcome.

And I know it may not seem like much, but I needed to let you know that you and the gang has made such a big difference for me over the years. And today you really came through when I was in a dark place. Your show is one of the reasons that I want to stick around. So I remember when you read this the first time on air. Yeah, it stuck with all of us. He said, thank you again for everything you do. Please keep it up. And you

You never know when you're going to be that factor that makes a horrible day into a better one, most sincerely, Stephen. And so he didn't sign his last name. There's no email on here. Sometimes when you receive it, you actually see the email account. It just says Stephen. So...

Steven, if you're listening, I hope you're doing all right. That's what I wanted to throw that out there. And if you can reach out, we'd love to hear that you're doing all right. If it's you, I would love to hear how things are for you. And listen, this is a good reminder, and I'm glad I held on to this because...

From time to time, just whenever I feel motivated, I like to throw just a positive message. Because, listen, there's tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of people that are listening to this program. And chances are, I'm going to catch somebody on a day that's difficult. And maybe hearing the right thing might be enough to just, whatever, change your attitude, your mood, and throw some positivity out into the universe. So I'm glad I held on to this.

And I will continue to hang on to it. And I hope Steve's doing okay. Sadly, that has been around our sphere collectively as a show. There have been some instances where people that we care about have lost loved ones because of that. Yeah.

Can I ask a question too that pertains to that? I don't mean to bring it down here. Yeah, sure, sure. There has been a couple of stories in the news and the one recently about, you know, I forget which band it was, Preston, but his girlfriend jumped overboard on an ocean liner. Oh, yeah, it was Enough's Enough. I thought it was Thunder Pussycat. Oh, I'm sorry. Faster Pussycat. Faster Pussycat, not Thunder Pussycat. What's Thunder Pussycat? I don't know.

It's a condition. But you're right. You're right. It was a faster pussycat. Sorry about that. Yeah. And then there was another story about someone. I was wondering, do or have they thought of doing something?

or people aboard ships, since that appears to be something that, because that also led into an article about the frequency with which people take their lives on cruises. Is that something, have you ever heard of any cruise line taking that step of having a therapist or getting, like in other words, this may sound stupid, it probably is stupid, but like somewhere on the Golden Gate Bridge or whatever.

Having a mental health crisis. On premises. Yes. Where people think to... As dumb as it sounds, you know, I've never heard of anything like that. And then to hear about the frequency with which these occur, it's like, if you could get that person, the way you're a little...

Your little message made all the difference. That is a great idea. In that industry, on each... I mean, there's thousands of people on those ships. They should have a designated doctor or a trained professional of sorts that is available... Yeah.

in a crisis. It doesn't need to be in the commercial with Kathie Lee Gifford. Hey, we got suicide. But I mean, when you're on board, I don't know. Just throw it out there. It's not at all stupid, Steve. I think it's a great suggestion. There was an article that was written about it in USA Today last year because there is a clear need for it. And so there are some...

People calling for the cruise lines to kind of band together and come up with something. Apparently, and I'm just scanning this article right now, so I might be misspeaking, but there's not an overarching, I don't know... Resource? Resource within the cruise industry to combat this, but it's needed. Yeah, it just seems to be, you know, the saddest thing, you know...

You know, as Pierre often says, we quote him, you know, a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Yeah. So, all right. Well, anyhow, that's a good idea, Steve. I like it. I'm a thinker. Well, listen, we got some other things to think about. And there's a place where we can find everything we're looking for. It's the old general store. And there's the proprietor, Preston Elliott, standing up front, waving ya on.

He's got a jug of hooch in one hand and he's got his cowboy hat in the other. And he's got his pet egg as well. For shaving off the dead skin on his mountain man feet. Alright, so we're going to start with, we're going to go to the liquor section. Huge. Actually, liquor and sports section. So, I saw this article this weekend and

Apparently, the number of sports bars in the United States dedicated to showing women's sports...

is expected to quadruple this year. Yeah, it's going to go from six to about two dozen by the end of the year. So apparently that's how few there are. In the entire country, there are six sports bars that are dedicated to showing women's sports. But apparently it's an emerging...

fan base and people want to see more of it. So three women's sports bars have opened so far this year and 14 more are expected to join them in the coming months according to an NBC news analysis. Solely women's sports or will show women's sporting events when they are available? Mm-hmm.

I don't know. So the venues have broken ground or plan to in every region of the country, including major cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, and smaller Midwestern cities like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Kansas City, Missouri. So two of the venues had their grand openings this past week. Title IX Sports Grill in Phoenix.

and 1972 Women's Sports Pub in Austin, Texas. So these are clearly with the names alone. Yes. They're going directly after, you know, just setting a spot where you can see women's sports anytime you go there. And then there's another one called Set the Bar in Omaha, Nebraska. These are great names, by the way. What about Beef Curtains?

That is not a name. Oh. But this is all in time for the Women's March Madness Basketball Tournament. So, Molly Huig...

Huck, I'll say is her last name, is the owner of Set the Bar. And she said she was inspired to open her own space after she read about the United States' first women's sports bar, which is called the Sports Bra in Portland, Oregon. I get it too. And visited another one, Seattle's Rough and Tumble. Those bars, which both opened in 2022, seemed a world apart from the typical sports bars that she was accustomed to. She said...

The vibe that I feel when I go into other sports bars is it's dark. It's kind of cement block. You definitely have to ask to get women's sports on for sure to get the audio on women's sports as well. And she plans to dedicate the bar to her late sister, Kelsey, who loved women's sports and died two years ago at 35. And if they make it, give it an angle and set it apart in its own way. I mean, you just have to...

get people excited to go pay their money to participate. There was supposed to be a franchise awarded to Philadelphia when the Sixers were going to get the new arena in Center City for the WNBA. And now that that's not happening, I wonder if that is completely stalled. Because there should be

a WNBA team in this city. It's such a basketball city, or at least it used to be. I think there's a market for it. I don't know why there isn't one yet. And I hope that when the Sixers and the Flyers do get that new arena in South Philly, that we get a WNBA franchise. I think the thinking, Nick, is that the Sixers are on fire right now and you don't want to pull off any heat from that. By the way, speaking of the new building...

In South Philly. I was telling Rochelle about this. We were talking about it. Are they going to tear down the Wells Fargo Center? Yeah. Right? I mean, it'll be open until the new one is finished. Yeah. Which is 2031 or something like that. Yeah. I mean, they haven't even broken ground yet. Preston, what better place for our museum than the stuff that you have in your arms right now? That we can fill up the Wells Fargo Center with it? There are a few sports that I prefer. The women's...

Version, whatever. So gymnastics is one. Women's tennis and women's soccer, I think, are the three. It's funny you should mention tennis because throughout my life I've been a tennis fan and would go to the U.S. Open and all of that. And I preferred, loved to see the guys play, but I preferred the same way...

Preston, in a video game, when you play the woman, a lot of times you're playing the more inventive way to solve things. And to see true women's champions compete, there's a lot more... At least to my mind, it's usually a more engaging match. Not always. You can't say in general, but...

I enjoy it. But even like basketball, it's obviously the same sport, but it's a different approach. And so we watched a lot of women's college basketball, especially last year with Kaitlyn Clark and everything. And it's just the fundamentals, I think, are better in women's basketball. And then like men's basketball is just sometimes like, dude, do you

Did you guys ever hear defense? Yeah. You know? Yeah. I'm sorry. Caitlin Clark did. I took notice. Yeah. You started, you pointed her out to me a little bit earlier on before the big, you know, explosion sensation. You're like, watch this gal play. But the, you know. And I was like, oh my God. You just gotta keep making every single thing she shoots at. It's pretty amazing. Yeah. You just have to keep the heat going. Yes. That's the issue. There's no superstar right now in the NBA.

And I don't want to misspeak. There are definitely a lot of... You're saying there are no talented female athletes. That's all I'm trying to say. No, there's no Caitlin Clark. Last year... Did I miss? Right, a breakout above everyone else. You had Caitlin Clark. Standout superstar. Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, Angel Reese and, you know, Paige Buckers and, you know, a lot of... Pudlickers. Pudlickers. A lot of huge names. But I was talking about this... Paige Buckers, Pudlickers. Yeah.

Sorry. Never fuckers. Go ahead. It just felt good to say. Great brownies. I just, you know. I had a good brownie for dessert last night. Did you really? You had fun with her? No, no. A place called The Refactory. It's in Villanova and they have this, it's so rich and

And like a little sprinkles on the top of it, which sometimes get in the way, but this one accented the brownie really well. Nick, would free brownies from the place that you're mentioning at all women's sporting events help to propel it further? Hear me out, Steve. Every women's sport at Villanova sponsored by the brownies at Refectory. There you go. Brought to you by President Steve's Show. There you go. Soon to open the Wells Fargo Museum. So.

So, anyhow, the women's sports bar boom coincides with the surge in interest in viewership of women's college and professional sports in recent years. The sports bra, the one that I mentioned, opened by Jenny Nguyen in April of 2022, is thought to be

The first women's sports bar in the United States. It has become so well known in Portland and across the country that Wynn announced plans to actually franchise it last year. If there's an audience and you can work it, then you can corner the market on it. I didn't take the time to look up photos of this place. I'd like to see what it looks like. Sports bra. It looks like a Pet Boys. In Portland. But it's got to be cool if it's doing this well. It should look like a huge bra.

So Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of Reddit and the husband of tennis legend Serena Williams, has pledged to help fund the franchise expansion. So what's their signature? You know, like you have Buffalo Wild Wings and you have all these different, you know, what would be the would be a little bit more cultivated and cultured? I don't know. It's a good question. Not really sure. We're looking at a video footage of it looks like a sports bar. It looks like it looks like a regular, you know.

Kind of hole-in-the-wall sports bar, to be honest. But it's just all women's sports. And, well, all right. So this might be a move. I was wondering if a bar like this would have an audience in Philadelphia or not. I think it would. You think so? Yeah. Okay. I hope so. I'd like to see that. All right. We'll go back into the shop.

And we are going to go next in the general store to the...

The stationary section. By the way, I only get my stationary from this store. So imagine a time when children can't read historical documents. I'm trying to imagine a time when there were stationary stores. Young adults can barely conjure a driver's license signature. And even some elementary school teachers confess they don't know how to write in cursive.

And it's the alarming reality of today, some New Jersey lawmakers say. A bipartisan proposal to require cursive handwriting instruction in grades 3 through 5 in the state won approval from the State Assembly Education Committee earlier this month. And it's the first step toward exposing a new generation of New Jersey students to the lost art of...

of cursive handwriting. Did you guys have penmanship class? Yes. I had cursive, I had everything. I didn't have a class, Casey, but it was part of the grade. Casey had just invented language when I was in school.

No, because I was just thinking about this over the weekend because I was watching college sports and there were pen commercials. I was like, when do you ever see pen commercials? People don't even use pens anymore. But I was thinking about this on when I was in third grade. That is when we transitioned from pencils to pens. You always had to use pencils in math.

But you had to be approved by your teacher to use a pen. And they would judge your handwriting. That was funny. Yeah. I remember that. It was like a big deal. It was because you were held to a higher standard if you were writing everything in pen. And then, of course, the old pen eraser, which basically ripped everything you were writing apart. But to that point...

To be able to have a distinct signature, which is always at least written in cursive, should be. But then I've read also that if you're signing things online, there is that they suggest a signature for you. You just put a line. And you just click.

Just click. Yeah. So, I mean, even that's becoming not as necessary. I know. And you know what? The standard now for penmanship, like it drives me nuts. I look at what he's writing and I'm like, and I still say like what my parents said to me or teachers said to me. I'm like, you know, when you get to, you know, whatever grade, they're going to start deducting points because of your penmanship. But they're not. These kids...

Their handwriting is terrible and they just let it go because the majority of the time they're on a computer. By the way, I think, and I'll have to check on this, I think both Parker and Carter just...

I don't think when they sign, I don't think they use cursive. They just write their name. Yeah, they just write their name. I think so. God, their handwritings are atrocious. My two, Parker and Carter's handwritings are atrocious. My youngest who goes by the name Caleb now, by the way, if you don't know that, has impeccable penmanship. But the other two just got, I don't know what happened. I mean, like it's not legible. I can tell you at least to some extent what happened because my handwriting was serviceable.

Legible. Pretty good. Over the course of time, though, for that very reason that the vast amount of writing I do is on a keyboard, I often find myself having to apologize for my signature, and I will write my signature in a way I don't normally write it,

Because if someone's asking for me to sign something, I want them to be able to read my name. And if that means something to them, I'm honored to be asked for that. And so I don't want it to seem like... What was he having, an aneurysm when he wrote this? Yeah, I've never had...

solid penmanship. I mean, you can read what I write, but it's not pretty. I did, though, as a kid, I tried to learn calligraphy. I don't know if you guys remember that or not. I thought it looked so cool. It does. And that was too much work. Way too much work. Let's go with geography. They still do calligraphy classes. Somebody just sent me one. There's one out in Kennett Square in a couple weeks, and I was like,

I don't know. You got to be an artist. You have to be somewhat of an artist. And what are you going to employ that for unless you're writing legal documents for monks? I just was like, I think I would get too frustrated with it. Yeah, it just takes too long. Nick, your signature is done in... You print it. It's not cursive. Yeah, but that's also for the same reason as Steve. It's just gotten worse over the years. When I'll sign a check or whatever, Casey, it's...

in quotes. It's just terrible handwriting. And my dad's is bad. My mom's is good. I don't know about my brother's, but man, mine is just terrible. And it gets worse. Mine's like half and half. Like half cursive, half print. Right.

New Jersey stopped requiring cursive instruction in schools about 15 years ago. Several proposals to make cursive instruction mandatory since then have languished in Trenton. The plan wouldn't start cursive instruction until third grade instead of requiring it as young as kindergarten because they did try to get you, I guess, to learn at that early of an age, at least the beginning portions of it. Preston, this is my current signature.

Yeah. Steve does an M with a line and a dot. And that's pretty much it. I mean, and then it's completely illegible. But but it would be distinguishable on a line. Yeah. But I mean, and so we are losing that ability. I do see the merit in being able to write a discernible, distinctive signature. Steve, this is how I sign a check.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the same thing. It's just there's a dot on there, I think, for one of the eyes in my name. That's it. The eye in Morrison. Yeah, I know. And it hovers somewhere about where it would be in the word. I think there are some things in my signature that I've forgotten why I do it that way. Why is that up there? Why do you draw the donkey, Preston? I've only wanted to ask about that. Do you know the only word in the English language that has three letters in a row with dots above it?

Three, wait, the only word in the English language that has three consecutive dotted letters. Is one of those letters a J? Yes, it is. It's got to be. J-I-N-G-G, ninja. What else have you thought about it? Well, an I and a J are the only two. Yeah.

J-I-J. What is it? Hijinks. Hijinks. Hijinks. What about hijinks? Hijinks. That's cool work. That's it. There you go. I'm going to write that down. I'm going to use that in a dad joke. You should. All right. So, by the way, the...

According to lawmakers, learning cursive can unlock creativity and improve brain function. Yes. But the practical application shouldn't be overlooked as well. The measure would need to be passed by the full state senate and assembly and signed by the governor to become law. We have determined the need for cursive is a pressing issue. And we declare it shall be so. The commission of handwriting has concluded.

It seems like they're really taking a lot of time with this. Not everyone is on board for the proposal. Mr. Potter, this looks like Harry Pitter. Harry Pitter.

On your parchment. But not everybody's on board. The school boards, association, and other education advocacy groups oppose another new mandate from the state legislature. So we'll see if it goes anywhere. And some schools do it and some don't. There's an ineluctable fact that tech and what we're using on a daily basis is... Things are changing. Like, for example, the ability to read an analog watch online.

is right it's all you know disappearing from any um and i have a follow-up on that but real quick nick has received a number of texts that uh people are saying the word fiji yeah as uh iji in it so yeah but that's a proper you're you're not talking proper yeah and i guess not a proper word it is not a proper noun just a good old regular word like hijinks um by the way so we got uh you mentioned the clocks

We got our interior done. Sort of pro painters that came in and painted our home. I'm endorsing them. They're wonderful people. And so we had to take everything off of the walls for that. And a lot of the stuff has remained off the walls for now. We're just kind of going to reassess where we're going to put everything. And in the living room, we have a very large clock. It's a regular analog clock. Love that. And...

And I did not realize how much I like having that there and need that there because it's just a constant reminder of the time. And it's just an easy just to glance up and look on the wall. And I realized how much I like analog clocks and want more. How many times have you had watches and or clocks without the numbers and you simply know by placement of the hands what the time is? Yep.

For the longest time, I had a binary watch which is dots. Did you get used to it? I did, yeah. And then I got rid of it. Whatever happened to it? You just got rid of it? It broke. Stinking piece of crap. Alright, let's move on to another section. What is up, everybody?

We're in the store and we're going to the hair care section. It's the little like ultra section of the odds and ends store. Yep. So a person from Maine is sourcing ideas for better and safer hair extension options.

After learning about the negative impacts that synthetic hair extensions can have on people who use them and the environment. You know what I think would be a good replacement? Asparagus spears. Really? Yeah. Well, what this person is using is going to surprise you, Steve. So an entrepreneur who goes by the name Endy is in the startup stages of creating hair.

His brand, which is called This Is Your Beauty. And he said the brand will offer hair extensions made from seaweed as an alternative option for synthetic hair extensions. There's a hermit crab in your hair. Steve, I automatically thought of Sigmund the Sea Monster. Right, yeah. Because his hair was all seaweed. That's all it was, yeah. So synthetic hair, cheaper than human hair, virgin hair, and raw hair products are...

by the way. Quality hair extensions can cost as much as three grand. Are those the ones you get from dead people? And in some cases, more with prices fluctuating based on factors like length, texture, and desired style. So the cost also heavily depends on the hair being used for various styles is real hair or synthetic. So,

There's growing research that various synthetic hair brands contain several toxins and are not safe for users. And the product...

which is often made from plastic fibers like acrylic polyester and cane cologne, contains carcinogens, lead, and volatile organic compounds and has been linked to causing cancer. What about the ones made from radium? Endy started braiding his hair as a form of self-care and anxiety relief as he worked to recover from the traumatic loss of one of his close friends.

And at first he was unaware of the harms that synthetic hair can cause until he started to see testimonies online from women who complained about having adverse reactions to synthetic hair products. Interesting. So, Marissa, you've done the extensions thing. Was there a particular type or brand that you were using?

Whatever Joseph Anthony recommends that I use. And you like them, right? Oh my God, I still have them. Oh, you still have them? Yeah, yeah, yeah. In fact, my hair has never been healthier since I started getting them. Joseph Anthony's the best. Yeah, that's where I go to the Glenn Mills location and Shannon helps me out there. She's like an expert.

extension person. But yeah, so like you use heat less on your hair, so you're curling it less, you're straightening it less because it just holds better. So my hair's gotten longer than ever. So you still have extensions? I do. You guys want to see them? I never, I didn't even think of that. I'll come in. You can see them. You know who also got them recently is Cecily. Well, we're guessing Cecily did. Do we know for sure she did? She said she did. Yeah, she talked about it. She posted it. Okay.

All right, hang on. Marissa's coming over here. My hair normal. Right. On the YouTube. Okay. And then here are the extensions. Wait a minute. Touch like the root of the hair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Back here. So are they woven in? Yeah. Yeah. A lot of them use glue too, or some sort of glue that's like melting. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What about Flex Seal? I can see the ties. Okay, wow. Oh. So what's it like washing your hair with those things? Same thing? Yeah.

Fine. You can actually wash just the crown more often because the rest of the hair doesn't get as dirty. Can you brush it? Does it get caught in the brush? You're just supposed to hold your roots more when you're brushing. But not a dramatic difference from just regular hair? No. And how long do they last?

Um, you're supposed to get them moved up every six weeks. Okay. Um, I pushed it. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. I mean, you guys couldn't tell I had them in. No, we could not tell. So that tells you how quality work. So, apparently, because of extensions and wigs, some people experience skin irritation, allergic reactions, redness and swelling of the scalp, extreme itching, and even hair loss after using various brands. Gosh, sounds like one of those.

So, Andy is currently developing better options working on his startup brand, This Is Your Beauty. And the hair extensions... Dad, can I talk to you for a minute? The hair extensions he's working on are made from seaweed using a machine called an extruder.

Yeah. And he said it's a lot like 3D printing. You put stuff in and hair comes out. Extruder will take the horseshoe crabs out of your weave. Now, listen, if this is something that's a little bit more...

organic? Yeah, they try to find a healthier version of everything. Right, right, yeah. Then one's made out of asbestos. Because a lot of people that need hair extensions or want them have thin hair or thinning hair. And I think a lot of times for those people, that's who it doesn't work for because it makes it worse. Like,

It weights down the hair and exposes the thinness more? No, not that it exposes. It just damages the hair. Oh, okay. I think Marissa used hers for length, not for fullness. Yeah, not for fullness. And a lot of people, I have a friend who does extensions. And for me, she was like, it'll never work for you. Kathy, is my hair too short for extensions? No.

Let me see. I mean, could I? Oh, yeah. No, it's too short. Oh, really? Yeah, for sure. Well, they're really just tying it into the base. I don't know. Yeah, but if you... Look at how short his hair is in the back. But you've got to look at the top. Oh, the back. Yeah. But I was saying, like, yeah, no, they wouldn't be able to do the back. But, like, where you have a little bit of length, they could give you a couple extensions there.

We should do that, right? Oh, put hair extensions on you. That'd be great. You know what came up as a memory? I was with Angela at Gravity Hair Salon last week and the blue hair, when you had blue hair, that came up and we were watching that video. I don't remember the blue hair. What was it?

I just got my hair blue first. You got it dyed? Yeah, I had her do it. She basically stripped my hair of color. She had to do that. And then they actually had to dye it kind of gray first because it was like blonde and it would have been blue. It would have been green. And actually, the gray...

Looked pretty damn cool. Very, very sort of regal. Yeah. Distinguished. Well, it worked for me. My name is Lord Kasington. You look like somebody from Game of Thrones. Yeah. It was like a Baratheon or whatever. Yeah. Wait, who had the blonde hair? Targaryens. Targaryens. Yeah, you look like a Targaryen. We have a visitor from the Running Away Club. Where are you from, stranger? I can't remember. I ran away.

Where are your fists? All right. Oh, they're hidden. So this guy wants to make... His fists are hidden. And he's with the running away clown. What is your quest today? I still do hidden fists, by the way. Be careful. He's throwing pine cones now. Pine cones. Seize him. All right. So this guy's going to try to make wigs out of seaweed. Your Majesty, I've heard tell of flying squirrels.

All right. Now we're going to the Arizona section of our show. Arizona resides in the entire Arizona section. We have an entire Arizona footprint of the In-N-Out. Dude, I saw the best odds and ends store in Arizona, and I took a picture of it because out on the sign, it basically just said, like,

Beer, guns, and ammo. Yeah. Yeah, I have to show this to you sometime. Yeah, my first radio job was in a little bitty central Missouri town called Salem, Missouri, and across the street, we literally had a... It was a sports...

A sports store, which for out there, that means guns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And booze. Yeah. That's what they sold. You got to diversify. Yeah. Exactly. All right. So this is in Phoenix. Number one, did you guys know they have snow plows in Phoenix? I did not. I know it's going to be 98 degrees there tomorrow. I don't know why they do, but they have Arizona snow plows.

And they had the contest. You remember Boaty McBoatface? Yeah. So they have a contest to try and name the snowplows. And I have to hand it to them. These are pretty creative names. Sometimes I'll see the name contest thing. It's like, eh, those are kind of cutesy. These are good ones. So last year, the Arizona snowplows were named Scuba Cabra. Okay. Good. And Snowby Juan Kenobi. And this year now is Plowasaurus Rex and...

And Darth Blader. So they only have two. Those are solid names. More than 14,000 votes were tallied in the Arizona Department of Transportation's third name a snowplow contest. Unless they're doing it as a joke, like they don't need snowplows. Maybe it's that. Well, listen. So in the municipality there...

Say like in Scottsdale or something. Was there ever a substantial, or not a substantial, but at least something that registered a snowfall in those areas? In the Grand Canyon, yeah. Well, it snowed in Sedona this year. I guess statewide, yeah. So this is done out of Phoenix and that maybe is what caught my eye. Because it's the capital? Yeah. They haven't had snow in Phoenix proper since 1998. Oh, that's okay. Because it's like 107 right now.

It is quite literally. It's 98 degrees tomorrow in Phoenix. Yeah, the snow was on fire, Kathy, when it fell. But Casey, you're right. In other parts of the state, they probably get more snow. So anyhow, here are some of the ones that didn't make the cut, but I love as well. Control Salt Delete is one. Blizzard of Oz. Scoop Dog. And I like this one. Sleetwood Mac. Sleetwood Mac.

That's another one. So, Darth Blader, Control Salt Delete are stationed at, oh, actually, they did get names. Okay, are at a maintenance yard in Flagstaff. Oh, Flagstaff. And Blizzard of Oz and Sleetwood Mac are in Williams, Arizona. Scoop Dog is in Payson and Plowasaurus Rex will patrol highways near Globe, Arizona.

You can't go to the north rim of the Grand Canyon until late May, early June because of the snow. Okay. The south rim is like 1,000 feet lower in elevation. Wow. And the south rim is a lot more accessible from Phoenix and Flagstaff. You're driving me to think. They make a trip to the Grand Canyon on...

Before or after that quote. Yeah. So the six winners for this year's contest joined previous winners. Like I said, Snowbee won Kenobi, Fast and Flurious, and Scuba Cabra. And from the 2023 contest, you have Alice Scooper, Snowgardo, and Frost Responder. The ones that didn't make it were 12 Years of Snowplow. Yeah.

That was not good. No. And Schindler's Snow Plow. No. And House of Sand and Snow. No, those are all sad and we don't want that. Very sad, yeah. All right, think maybe we do one more case? All right, let me see. Let me see where we're going in the general store. It's really a sprawling store. It is. It's deceptive from the outside. You wouldn't know. Let's go with this one. This has to do, this is in our job fair section of the store.

I have the list of the best places to work in the United States in 2025. The best places to work in 2025. Top Workplaces USA has chosen the winners. The rankings are based solely on employee feedback. On weight. In surveys and weight. Are these companies that you're talking about or are these like actual like locations?

These look like companies. Over there is number one. So companies with at least 150 employees, Casey, are eligible. And this year, over 39,000 workplaces nationwide were invited to participate, and 2,251 of them did. Is Beasley at the top of that list? Beasley is number one. It's the Beasley best. Okay. No, number one on this list is Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation. Wow. Where they do mortgage lending. A mortgage company. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. So I guess they, for whatever reason, they're doing it right there. Well, they have Naked Fridays. It's got to be it. They used to do Hawaiian, Gonzo Hawaiian Shirt Fridays here at MMR, right? Yeah, and they evolved into the thing that Steve was talking about. The Naked Friday. Yeah. Number two is Plant Moron. Plant Moron. Plant Moron. Plant Moron. Plant Moron.

Which is a certified public accounting firm. Wow, man. I wonder what they're pulling out of their asses to make these places so attractive. Yeah, because these sound like boring jobs to me. Got that, moron? I'm sorry, one more time. Got that, moron?

I didn't even know he had that. I'm a moron, man. How many people work there? Does it say Preston? No, it doesn't. It doesn't give the breakdown on each one of these, Nick. All right. Hang on. There might be a little... How many morons? They're hiring over there at Plan Moron. No. So, by the way, the family independent mortgage had the title last year as well. So, people must love being there. Wasn't the...

Caterpillar Home Office Is that here? It's right off the turnpike I remember because they would have a sign out For a couple years standing Where they were voted the number one Place to work in the country For a couple years in a row

Maybe. Hell, I don't know. Maybe. Maybe Moron took it away from him. Then you have number three is Fannie Mae. Fannie Mae. Mortgage lending group. Fleetwood Mac, Fannie Mae. Well, I worked at Fannie Mae, but it was a candy shop. Really? Yeah. Fannie Mae Candies. Yeah. That's where I was a porter, Steve. There you go. Along with you. I held the same title. Literally, they called me. I was the porter.

I wonder if Fannie Mae's still around. I was the CEO of Merrill Lynch, but it was a place that raised earthworms. Yeah, Fannie Mae's still around. No, the chocolate place. No, the chocolate place. The candy place. Okay. I know the Fannie Mae's. They're the third best country or the workplace in the country. Oh, I got you. I got you. Yeah, look up Fannie Mae's candy. Candy. If you were a place. Maybe that's where they're so popular is they give free candy to their employees. Man, they had these truffles there that were so good.

good. I love truffle. Oh, man. M-A-Y instead of M-A-E like the mortgage company? It's been a long time. What about Freddie Mac? Yeah, it was. But it was a nationwide company. Based out of Chicago? Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah, the founder, of course, was H. Teller, ultra bald. Of course. Are they still around? They are. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, they had this thing. It was called Trinidad's. What was the name? Where their lead selling candy was a truffle. Well, you can buy a mix and match online. Out of this world. See if they still have the Trinidad's next door. Who was the founder? You know. Archibald. H. Teller Archibald. You know what that guy looks like. Yep. H. Teller Archibald. We believe a penny saved is a penny earned.

Everyone loves hoarding money, keeping it from the filthy people. Trying to take our riches and better their lives, we crush them down. As if we're crushing a bun into the sidewalk. I don't know why I selected a bun. I'm eating one now. Wait, you make candy, though. Go straight to hell.

Oh, we're looking at the Fannie Mae Trinidad now. That is a little slice of heaven. Yep, those are solid. You know what? Maybe I'll order some of those for you guys. Guess who bought... I would take it aggressively in the buttocks with that bag. All right. Guess who bought Fannie Mae in 2006? Guess. Give me a hint. It's somebody you've endorsed.

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Everybody loves to receive a bouquet of flowers, be you at work or be you at home. Nothing says, I'm thinking about you, my sweetheart. Is Archibald still? Archibald is about everything. A lot of people don't even realize that. How about that candy, young one? When I first started working for WDRE in New York...

It was, we were there and then quite quickly, it became the 1-800-Flowers building. They bought that building. Whoa! Yeah, so we were the one non-1-800-Flowers entity within that high rise. God, they're probably not around anymore. Yeah. I mean, with 1-800 in the name, nobody really calls 1-800 anymore, do they? I don't think so. Real quick, so...

We have to wrap up, but the other top workplaces, CHG Healthcare, Progressive Insurance is number five. Wow. CMG Mortgage Landing. So again, these are all companies that are considered the best places to work. By the people that work there. By the people that work there, which is pretty telling. Number seven is the Baldwin Group, which is an insurance company. New American Funding, Mortgage Landing. Excuse me. Today, you'll all be filling out a form that says this is the best place to work or you'll be fired.

Mountain American Credit Union is number nine. And then Latrim Intralox is number ten. They're a machinery company. Johnny.

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who went to Camelback Mountain for their pond skimming event. It sounded really cool. Yeah, so I had never been to pond skimming before, and it's been a little while since I've been to Camelback. Same. I'm telling you. So we got there on Friday night. I didn't get up there until close to 10 o'clock.

And listen, my only complaint about Camelback Mountain is that you don't get to go through the Lehigh Tunnel. When you're driving up there, you get off before that. So when I pulled up to this resort, I was blown away with how massive it was and with how nice it was. I mean, you just pull up, you're just driving up the mountain, and then all of a sudden, you just see this giant...

I don't know how else to describe it. Just an enormous resort. And then you pull up and then they have a water park that's attached to the resort. So they have an indoor and an outdoor water park. The outdoor water park is closer to where the ski mountain is, but the indoor water park is attached to the hotel.

It's just gorgeous. See the live camera feeds from the news channels will have, I think 6ABC always has something from there. From Camelback? Yeah. Okay. I hadn't been there, Casey, I don't think in like 20, 25 years, something like that. I went skiing there in the early 2000s, so it had been a long time for me as well. I was blown away at how impressive the facility was, how nice the hotel slash resort is. And then like,

Steve, there's a La Cologne there and there's a couple of different places to grab a bite to eat or whatever. And you can sit in one of the bars and in that bar, you're overlooking this water park that they have. And they have one of those wave pools where you can go surfing on the wave pool and it shoots you back up and you can surf back down. Oh, I love those things. I've never done it, but I love them. Kathy, I was thinking about you. There's a swim up bar. Oh, wow. Oh my God, how cool.

I know. It was really an impressive thing. And so I got there Friday evening a little before Casey and Marissa did. And then we got up on Saturday morning and went to this pond skimming event. And I had never seen pond skimming before, I don't think. It was so much fun. There were about 80 contestants.

I would say, Case, maybe 10 or 12 made it all the way across. No kidding. That was it? Yeah. Yeah. It's hard. And it was... The length of the pond was, I don't know, 25, 30 yards, something like that. Yeah. And by the way, Press, Peanut showed up.

he was like, I don't think about doing that. He was checking out the conditions. He's like, I don't know. And then he did it and he made it all the way across. Shut up! You're saying 25 yards, the distance? Longer than that, it looks like. Yeah, it's pretty decent. And the water is freezing cold. And people get dressed up and everything. It looks like the skiers...

make it across better than the snowboarders. Who was the guy? He was doing a beer bong while crossing. This guy does as he hits the water, does a beer bong and makes it all. He was one of the first contestants. I think he was like the 10th person who went across. Was he skis or snowboarder? He was skis. Him and his dad and his sibling, they went one, two, three in a row. They all made it across.

It was awesome. While we're watching the footage, clearly the skis have the advantage. Yeah. Case, I am surprised we didn't see you try it. You know what, man? You didn't want to get wet?

Well, I didn't know. Like, I'd never been to one before. And as I'm watching it, there was a guy there who was one of the judges. His name was Trip. And he was a total trip. And he's a veteran of this. He's like, no, I'm done. I'm done doing this, blah, blah. He's like, you know, I'm just going to judge now. And then probably about two-thirds of the people went through. And he's like, I'm going to see if I can get in there.

He's one of the last guys you see. And you would see, like, when people are coming down, he's like, they're not going fast enough, not going fast enough. And so he knows what he's doing. And he did it. He's one of the last guys that you see. He was wearing a judge's, like, robe. Can I ask you a question? So how far back did they start? Um...

Not that far. No, but they got enough time, Steve, to gain some speed. So if you were skiing, you could sort of propel yourself as much as possible to get down the hill. It was not a steep portion of the hill to get to where the pond skim was, but you had a bit of a ramp and you could accelerate as you were going down. Oh, wow. What's the technique to get it, like when you hit the water?

Are the ski tips supposed to be up? Tips up and then crouch down. So you want your body weight leaning back. And you have to transition from snow skiing to water skiing immediately. So as soon as your snow skis hit the water, you then have to lean back and lower your center of gravity in order to try to make it across. Yeah, your explanation was just borne out. As you were saying it, Nick, there was a video of a guy doing exactly that. So you can see the snow technique shifts to the water technique immediately.

and then that seems to be what works. Yeah, and so we took a bunch of video, and Marissa put together a really, really great reel. So if you want to get an idea of what this looks like, you can go to Marissa or my or Nick's Instagram page because we all collabed on the reel. But Steve, the last guy who went straight up like a pimp comes down in a snowboard, goes across the entire pond. His velocity took him across the pond, into the snow, and then he just...

took off. I saw the video. He just kept going. He just kept going. And that was, he won, right? That was the last guy, the last contestant. Hey, he's got a GoPro in his hand. And then he's like, see you later. Later nerds. Just kept right on going. Uh, so Casey and Marissa were judges and I was, uh, the MC for the event. So I was, um, calling it from down where the DJ was set up and he was a bit removed from where the pond was. Um,

But I was in charge of announcing everybody that was coming through and a little bit about them, where they were from, etc., etc. And there were three or four doulas from New York City, Russian doulas. Doulas? Yeah, and I don't know... In case there was a birth? Well, there were some people, Steve, who were dressed up as if they were pregnant. And I was doing a little bit of background on them. And then they shared some stuff on their Instagram page. And they were...

Russian doulas from New York City who bond over pond skipping events. Wow. They weren't the hot ones that were dressed up like Santa and then there's another one. They were kind of hot, yeah. Okay, yeah. There was one at the very, very last second just stripped and she was wearing a skin-toned like dress. Yeah. You both sound so gross right now. Just talk about somebody like they're normal. Because it's not supposed to be like... You can say she's hot. It got so hot. No.

God. He was like, are they hot? Nick was like, oh, yeah. They're hot. We're not on air, Kev. Stop normal. Were they hot? They had the drippiest, wettest clothes I've ever seen.

Yeah, Russian duelers, man. Who'd have thunk? So it looks like a cool event. So you're blown away. Did you go to any of the other parts of the complex? Yeah, I mean, we were all over it. But the other thing is there was a full-on tailgate going on the entire time. So this is a big event for those guys and for a lot of the regulars. And so...

I can't wait to go back next year. I'm armed with the knowledge of the things that I learned this year. And then next year, I'm going to do it. I was going to ask. You need to give that a shot. But the skis that I have, I have Snowblades. Don't make fun. I love them. No, you need full-length skis. You need length and girth with the skis. With veins. Yeah, you definitely need skis that are more...

Making it creepy. I'm trying not to, Kathy. Did I say purple and throbbing? No, no, no, no. That are built for water skiing as well. So, yeah.

And then if you're doing it right, there should be a little bit of pre-ski. Yeah. Oh, God, Jesus. I didn't do that, Kathy. I know. I know. It's him. I didn't do that. I didn't do that, Kathy. What I was going to say is don't you love when you do an event and when it's over, you're like, I'm coming back next year? Oh, yeah. That's how I was at the Westchester Parade. The first time I did it, I was like, sign me up. I'll be back next year. I love that. We have so many great...

Great event. So cool. Well, I'm glad it went well, man. So my son is a... So we're going to the University of Scranton on Saturday. It's accepted students' day. So we're just going to go and tour the campus. And I'm like, well, that's about a half an hour away from Camelback. We should probably go up to Camelback on Friday night and stay over there and do some snow tubing. Because the hill is open.

all week and through the weekend. This is the last weekend for skiing and snowboarding. They actually take a week or two off where they clean up the mountain and get things ready for spring and summer with Camel Beach. Can you stay on property there? That's where I stayed. The hotel, the resort. It was gorgeous. It was so nice

I'd say it's probably 10 years old. And it's just it's an impressive place. It's really cool. Do they have indoor water park there too? Yeah, they do. Yeah. In fact, so when I was getting my coffee on Saturday morning, I'm looking at this pool. I'm like, wow, they got the outdoor pool set up already. And I was like, oh, no, that's indoor. You know, you're looking around like, oh, that is it is a massive indoor water park. And then they also you can ski out of the of the lodge as well.

Oh, that's cool. You can ski out of it? Yeah, so you don't, like, the mountain does come down to the lodge, so you don't have to, like, you know...

You don't have to shuttle to the mountain. You're literally on the mountain. Yeah. Wow. Awesome. Good stuff. You almost said it. You almost dropped the S, Bob. You're about to say the S word. Also, thank you to Terry and thank you to Marissa for setting everything up. Marissa Boyd over at the... All the Marissas. All the Marissas. Two S's and one.

All right, Kathy. Can I recap something quickly? Yeah. I just want to say thank you to Robin Gupta from Guppies. We had a goodbye party. So yesterday was the last day that Robin will own Guppies in Conchahokan. And it's being passed on to new owners who I was able to meet. Rick Mahoney is the new owner, was a great guy. Him and his wife,

They're cool? So cool. Are they going to keep the Kathy Romano sandwich? So, Steve, you know, of course, I said, I was like, listen, the one thing you have to keep, I go, I don't know what you're going to do in here, but you have to keep my sandwich on the menu. He was like, we're keeping it. We're keeping the sandwich on the menu. That's not cool. Yeah, but so we had a going away party and it was great. I mean, some of the faces that I saw last night, I mean, from...

back in 2009, 2010, people that we hung out with for hours at Guppy's and probably haven't seen since then. And I was able to catch up with a lot of people. So it was really nice. Robin got on the microphone. People were crying. I mean, Robin did...

I don't think he realized and I don't think the community realized almost until it's over. You don't know what you have until it's gone. But Robin did a lot for the community. He did so much charity work for myself and our show included. And I think that's kind of what brought everybody together. Everyone loved Guppies, obviously, but all the good that he did in the community. And I think he brought...

other businesses and other people in that community together and kind of had them join in on the charity angle of everything. So yeah, people were crying and it was really sad, but the new owners are great. They're going to keep it the same. They're going to make a few updates.

And they're going to keep the Kathy Romano sandwich, so that's good. Hold on, question. So he lives in Florida, right? Yep, he lives in Florida. He actually owns a Guppy's in Florida. He opened that there. Is the Kathy Romano sandwich on the menu there? So it is not on the menu there. I know. I wish it was, but it is not on the menu there. The Gary Lauer kebab. What town in Florida? Where is it? Longboat Key, I think it's called. Yeah. Yeah.

Is it going to stay Guppies in Conchie? It is going to stay Guppies. They're not changing the name. They're not changing much. He said just a few updates. I think the bar is kind of cracked and so the frame of it is not real sturdy or something. So they have to replace the actual bar inside of Guppies. But other than that, he said they're going to do a few things, but nothing major. They want to keep it what it is. They think people love it and they don't want to change it too much. I love that.

And keeping all the staff that's staying there. I mean, they've had longtime managers and bartenders who were all there last night, and they're keeping all the staff. Well, now we know what everybody did on their weekend. Steve, what did you do this weekend? What happened to you? Well, yeah, this is this thing, and it's catching on in my area. It's called blow out your tires in a pothole. Oh, my gosh. And what you do is now you come down, you wear skis.

And you take the pothole at really not too much of a fast speed, and yet it still manages to blow out the tire of the car in front of you and yours. So two cars pulled over, checking their tires at the same time? One car ahead of me, which is kind of like a suburban-ish kind of looking vehicle, a larger vehicle, which you figure would have had no problem.

So here's this goddamn Mount Pleasant Avenue. You get off Lincoln. In my area, which is the Mount Airy area, and the guy who eventually towed me for Audi road service, super nice guy, great guy. Long story short, though, he says in my area and Germantown and by Temple, he says he has never seen it worse for pothole season, like always.

Like not just, oh man, I bottomed out on that pot. Like tire killers all over the city. And I have low profile tires, which are going to be problematic, but they're good. They're sturdy. They're all weathers. But I mean, if it took out a Suburban or whatever the hell that thing was ahead of me and me as well. And here's the bitch of it. I knew about this.

I actually leave reminders on my phone. Don't forget, this road, pothole. Okay. You know, because they're so bad. In a couple of cases, and this is the one on Mount Pleasant, Mount Airy Avenue. They were clearly doing some work from one side of the street to the other. And they didn't touch the pothole? Trench, put in sand or something. Yeah. That all came out. Yeah. And so you're thinking, oh, it's fixed. And it's not. And so, I mean...

I get it. They're besieged with these things, but some of these are like, you got to get on them. I mean, like the, the, the tote drug driver, the guy who could not, again, could not have been nicer. Super great. You talk about a great service, you know, and, and, and they were, they were top level, but he's saying he was, he goes, I'm the only one who could answer your call today because everyone else is out.

You know, hauling cars all over the place. And here's the other thing. Cars these days, it's a crapshoot whether you're going to have a spare tire. Yeah. I don't have a spare tire. I know. I was depressed when I said to you this morning, I would love to have a full spare tire in my car. I know. Me too. So Steve Wilson from Secret Sauce, there were two potholes that were out in front of his store. He just filled them himself. I was thinking of doing it myself because...

There is... And by the way, the two potholes that killed... This happened to me not more than two months ago. A month and a half ago. And it was about 150 feet from...

This pothole around the corner, there's a tattoo place on Germantown Avenue. At the time we're going to work, by the way, in the morning, if something is opened up, it's fresh. It hasn't been filled in. It's ready to accept your car into its gaping maw. And that's what I did. I hit this thing again. And then later on, there was a road cone in it. But I mean, I'm like, God damn it. I mean, yeah.

These are horrible. Preston, it's not even like it's a dump down. Everyone pulling up to this thing has to literally stop to a crawl, go down, ease back up on the other side. And you have to go over into the opposing lane to get past it. As we've learned from the bizarre file, Steve, if you really want them to move on it, you spray paint a penis around it. A big penis around it. I'll stand there with my penis out if that gets it done. That might get it done.

Yeah, that sucks. I had low profile tires a couple of cars ago. Listen, I love the way they looked. They were really, really nice looking. But I ended up getting three flat tires in about two weeks time from potholes. And then I immediately went into an SUV after that. Yeah, yeah. I can't do it. And that was the one time where I was like, no, I don't want the tire insurance. Are you really kidding me?

I do have the tire insurance. I always recommend you get that. Yeah, I do have it. It's still a pain in the ass, though. But I mean, these are absurdly deep potholes. And you guys are around? Are you besieged by horrible potholes? There's just one stretch of road that is year after year after year after year, and we can't figure out. It's called Crossroad. It's near where I live in New York.

Every single year. Massive. I mean, it's just like you avoid the road at all costs. And I don't know why they can't figure out a way to... Listen, I understand if after a couple of years you have some problems, but it's consistent. Year after year after year, same spot always. It just turns into a minefield. And it doesn't seem like they just put these...

temporary patches on it's like just call an audible and just do the whole goddamn thing at some point yep but it ain't working it's unfortunately this is the time of year when uh when this happens uh you know right at the end of winter and i get it yes we know it's a lot of work it's a ton of work and these crews are busting their asses trying to get to it but there are some of course i'm going to say the ones that are affecting me are the most outlandish i'm sure there are other ones but but i mean

It's still, it's absurd. Yeah, there was a pothole that I ended up hitting on the way to the Subaru live broadcast. It was on 95 in front of the airport. And I kid you not, this pothole was the size of a baby pool. Yeah. And when I hit it, I was like, oh, that's, I'm done. You know what I mean? I'm going to have a flat. Sure enough, I was going over the Girard Point Bridge. And he's like, ah.

I'm not pulling over on the bridge. I ended up pulling over and chasing it. Didn't we talk about that on air? It got fixed as a result because you brought it up on air, maybe even that morning. I think it did. Because a few other people knew exactly what we were talking about. It was near the airport, right, Case? Right at the airport. Yeah, yeah. And so other people had experienced it right around the same time as you or just prior or just before or just after or whatever. And they fixed it fast. It was loud and scary, too. It scares the crap out of you. It jars your entire

your body you think about your rims you think about your alignment going out you know crack if you can crack something and that it just jars you and so i'll say this if you're doing any sort of work that involves tearing up street or like this isn't just a natural pothole that occurred they were doing some work and didn't fill it back in the right way that's what's pissing me off yeah man when you hit those pigments it's literally it's bang yes i mean like just that really loud you say so

Son of a bitch! Yep, yep. And you can feel it. You know it's coming. Look at the little indicator and sure enough there it comes on. They should be like a little like with his thumbs in his ears. Yeah. That sucks, dude.

All right. Well, listen, you're in company. There's lots of people that are going through the same thing as well. All right. Listen, we want to take a break because we have Bizarre File Stories on the way. But we also have everybody, Kyle Seip, who's stopping by, Cast Iron Kyle. The Hot Sauce Festival is coming up. We'll get you the details on that. I know there's a lot of hot sauce fanatics. So we'll come back with that and B-File Stories. Stay put. We'll return momentarily.

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Okay, so I got nothing but messed up stars three guys. I'm looking at these and I'm trying to arrange them. Just go for it. In a way. Tear the band-aid off. It's going to lighten it up, but let's just do this. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Findings.

All right, I will ease into it. All right, so it's brought to you by A.D. Moyer, trusted expert since 1939. A.D. Moyer Lumber is your professional source of decks, windows, doors, kitchens, millwork, and more. Visit them on the web at aadmoyer.com. You guys probably saw this on the news, but I'll pass it along. High school basketball coach has been fired.

After he was caught on camera pulling the ponytail of one of his players following a game. You can't do that. The incident involved Northville girls basketball coach Jim Zulo and player Haley Monroe. And it was captured during the basketball final at Hudson Valley Community College.

The video shows Zulu pulling Monroe's hair after the Falcons lost to Lafargerville. And Monroe, a senior on the program and the program's all-time leading scorer. Yeah, so you're tugging on her ponytail. Had fouled out of the game. After the incident, a teammate is seen stepping between Zulu and Monroe before the camera cuts away. Shortly after the incident, the district released a letter to the school community

They said the school district is aware and deeply disturbed by the conduct of the coach. We hold our coaches to the highest standards. This behavior is completely unacceptable. It's not a ponytail. It's a discipline loop. The individual will no longer be coaching there. So they fired him. Yeah, it's as clear as can be on video, too. All right, here we go. We'll start with messed up story number one.

A teacher from Indiana is facing a series of child sex abuse charges and she allegedly had a very specific sexual scenario that she asked the children to act out.

using replicas of the killer's mask from the Scream movie franchise. Yeah, that's what turned her on, apparently. Brittany Fortenberry, a 31-year-old former teacher at Eminence High School, is facing a slew of charges for allegedly abusing multiple children that she met at two different schools last year. A 13-year-old...

whose name has been redacted in the document, told police officer Fortenberry picked him up and to his friends and brought them hundreds of dollars worth of clothes before taking them back to her house. The boy said he believes that Fortenberry called the kid's parents to see if they could stay the night before giving them a dose of magic mushrooms and asking if they wanted to, quote, gangbang her.

And by the way, I'll explain how they ended up letting them spend the night. So they accepted and they said Brittany had one condition. The kids wear scream masks during the interlude. I can't believe that. The affidavit also includes their sworn, other sworn statements detailing abuse, including a 14-year-old to tone investigators. He believes Fortenberry may have drugged him on one occasion. Worth noting, several individuals say that Brittany befriended their parents and has...

a son their age, so there were more ties between them than the average teacher-student relationship. So they thought there was a more friendly basis that they were dealing with. Okay, so that seemed kind of weird for any parent to go, sure. Right. So Fortenberry... You want me to send a screen mask along with him? Fortenberry is currently being held in the Morgan County Jail. Jeez. Yeah, that's messed up.

All right. Well, I did find some things to put in between here. So here's a lighter story. Okay. In Naples, Italy, tourists are being warned about a potentially lethal mouse problem. Specifically, a street performer dressed as Mickey Mouse has been threatening tourists with a knife after posing for photos and demanding payment. I'm going to kill you. One mother shared on social media that she was relieved to have escaped with her daughter after taking a picture with Mickey with the knife.

A local member of parliament, Francesco Emilio Borelli, has reported the individual to the police. That'll be 100,000 liras, bitch. Emphasizing the need to protect Naples' image and ensure the safety of both residents and visitors. Authorities are now seeking the impersonator that's operating in the popular tourist area. Sounds like their version of the drunken, pissed-off Elmo in Central Park. Exactly.

All right, here's another messed up one for you. McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenberg Schaefer reports that following a two-day jury trial at the McKean County Courthouse, Donna Simmons, 67 years old...

Man. Man.

testified at the jury trial that the male victim was intoxicated. Damn it, I don't have my Freddy Krueger mask. And passed out one of the witnesses recorded event, which showed Simmons performing on the young male while he laid unconscious and barely moving.

The video also captions Simmons making sexually explicit statements to the young people who were present. The defendant was asked to leave the property only to return early the next morning. She then learned that one of them had taken a video the night before and she demanded the video be deleted while threatening to kill the victim and holding a knife in her hand. What do you say to that?

So Simmons was convicted of rape of an unconscious victim. Yes. She was found guilty of furnishing alcohol to minors as well, but did that while he was passed out. 67 years old today. 67. These are teenagers, so man. All right. And then we'll do one more story and we will wrap it up. Was that the story, baby, by the way? Or that was...

No, those were the, you know, it just dives into a sexual relationship. But it's the truth and it is bizarre. All right, and the last one. A bag containing dismembered body parts was found in a flower bed on a promenade in Osaka, Japan. Lucky. According to police, passerby saw a green bag with its top open on the promenade along the Dojima River. Take one.

He called the police and said something that looked like part of a body was sticking out of the top of the bag. Police said the bag contained human skin tissue, parts of a rib, and about 10 pieces of flesh and 20 bone fragments. So is that a package deal? Yeah. Wow.

An autopsy. It's Steve. It's like a bucket from Kentucky Fried Chicken. An autopsy. And rolls. Showed the remains were that of a man, but his age is unknown. And the cause and time of death have not been disclosed as of yet. Clearly suicide. Police said that they are examining security footage.

and try to determine who left the bag on the promenade. And there you go. Those are some heavy stories, man. That is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right. We have a guest who is in the studio. He's been here before to promote this event. It is the third annual Philadelphia Hot Sauce Festival. It's a big thing. And

And it is going to be taking place March 29th through the 30th. So we would like to welcome our friend Kyle Seip. Cast Iron Kyle. Hey, guys. Good morning. How you doing, Kyle? Good, guys. How's your skillets? My skillet, I was just telling you off air. So Kyle deals in cast iron skillets. And he got me one a while back. And I was telling him I am a, for cooking steak, a chef.

On the stovetop. That's it. I'm a convert. I love it, man. Good to hear. Thank you very much. Yeah. All right. So the Hot Sauce Festival, where is this going to be? It's going to be, we're going back to Neshaminy Creek Brewing in Croydon, PA. That's this weekend. They're fantastic hosts. The layout of the brewery is just really conducive to a festival. Great people there. And we're going to be doing that.

Two days this time. Okay. Two days. And there's how many different groups of hot sauces will be there? We got 25 plus vendors. We actually got guys coming in from Florida this year, Tennessee this year. They saw how it went last year. Okay. And, you know, thanks to, you know, you guys, it was a big success. We got, you know, brands from other states. And that's what it's all about. Getting small businesses from everywhere. Yeah. To participate. Make it bigger. Yes. Okay.

So Kyle, a few years ago, decided actually initially to a portion of the proceeds are going to be donated to Phil of Bunz. He knows that's near and dear to our heart, which is really cool. So at the Hot Sauce Festival, what do you guys do? What are people getting into? So we lowered the ticket prices this year because everything's expensive. So we brought it down a couple bucks, nine bucks, under 10 bucks. That nine bucks gets you, it's unlimited tasting. You can taste everything.

and try anything there. You can bring, you know, some people bring chips or popcorn or whatever food they want to try on the hot sauce and that's just unlimited. And you get to, you get to watch all the different food challenges. We have people that eat like wing, hot wings and like super hot pizza and then we do these things called marshmallows from hell. So you're basically playing hot sauce and marshmallows?

Yeah, so there's a company called Hell's Kitchen Hot Sauce. They're from New York. He was tired of people coming up to him saying, hey, what's the hottest thing you have? Completely like nixing his full lineup of sauces that he's worked his life to create. So he's like, all right, I create a tincture. And it's like three million Scovilles. It's like biting a Reaper direct. And they just apply that to marshmallows. We see who can hang on. Wow. It's pretty cool to watch. It's insane. Like you can't even, we have to wear gloves and masks to set that up. I would imagine you get anything.

of that near your eyes or whatever you'd be oh it's game over goner oh it's it's game over has anyone ever had i mean as you're handling all of these this very volatile we're talking the creme de la creme of hot sauces has anyone had an injury i got some on the side of my nose one time and i almost had to go to the hospital but other than that we've had a couple guys they need to wear gloves and stuff kyle what's your what's your threshold like scoville wise what do you stop at i'm

I mean, you're not one of those that can handle a gazillion. No, because I'm a food guy. I like cooking with it. You can't really cook a meal for your family with something that's got Carolina Reapers or Trinidad Scorpion in it. It's like, here, Mom, go to the hospital. My uterus fell out. Exactly. So, yeah, I'm more like a...

like a high habanero, low ghost kind of guy because that's kind of where you can throw off flavors and textures and different things. I'm done at jalapeno. That's about as far as I can go. Okay. Jalapenos and serranos are about as deep as I want to go. You can do a lot with that though. You can do a lot with that. I'm more of a flavor than heat guy. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. And my,

my go-to i'm a frank's guy yes you know uh i don't even know what kind of peppers they use in frank's red hot sauce commercial commercial all right i love my commercial peppers yeah it's uh it's cool because the hot sauce festival meets all those requirements for people like you have the people that are the hot heads and there are sauces that are made specifically for those super hot crazy people but a lot of it is very culinary based i have to say that a lot of these companies like

White House Station, Sauce Co., my partner for the whole event. His son is the chef. He went to Johnson and Wales. He's a culinary mastermind. A lot of them are. The different hot sauces that are there for your tasting, are the vendors providing the appropriate food to have it with? You said people bring their own food to taste it with. You can. Would it be advised or are they handing out, this is it

the way you should have it on. Oh, yes. Okay. There are some brands that get super deep into it. And I think it's really special when somebody says, this is something I've created. Here's the best way to enjoy it. Yes. One of the brands, like I said, from Tennessee, he creates these hot chutneys called Harmacy. Yeah. He has these recipe cards. Like he's literally crafted recipes specific for what he makes and says, this is the best way to enjoy my product. One of the things I've come to enjoy now, and it's not crazy spicy, is hot honey.

It's amazing. It's the next big thing. Is that represented at the Hot Sauce Festival? I'm seeing more and more brands doing it. We're actually going to have a complete hot honey company there that has like 15 different hot honeys. Okay. Tasted them at a winery in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. We got to get you on board with this because this is the next, I think that's the next big thing. Okay. Is it in fact honey with hot sauce? It's just different spices and it's infused. The guy's just like, these guys are so laser focused on things. Like I have trouble finding this spice.

same two shoes in the morning sometimes. But these guys are so like dialed in with what they're doing. It's so cool to see. Sounds great. It's a fun world. Tickets available at phillysaucefest.com. Yes. That's the best place to get them. Yep. What about your Instagram page? Castile Chiron. Castile Chiron. Castile Chiron. Cast, what did I say? Castile Chiron. Castile Chiron. Castile Chiron. Castile Chiron.

I'm Irish. That's cast iron. He makes honey with hot sauce in it. It's the goddamn thing.

Cast Iron Kyle. Yes, sir. Okay. Do you have information posted on there too? Yes, I do. One thing I wanted to say before I go, we have a balloon maker this year because we're trying to make it more family friendly. We want you to bring the kids. This dude, I've never seen anything like this. Like if I had to make one of the things that he makes, it would take me a blueprint and a whole weekend and like a ton of broken, it would,

It blew my mind. If you come for anything, check it out. Make me a bicycle. This guy Faraj. It's crazy. What's his name? Faraj. He just does... You tell him, I want a bird bot balloon. And he'll make a bird bot. Is he a local guy? Yeah, he's from Philly. Faraj? Yeah. I'll put a story up on Instagram. Yeah, we got to meet this guy. It's super. It's nuts. It's like insane. He's like, I'll do anything for you, Kyron. Yeah.

I say a lot of words. Great. Now I'm going to have to say that when I call. I got trashed last time I was here because I didn't say hi to the YouTube guys. So YouTube. Okay. They got mad at Camp Out. Yes. You're one of, you're definitely active on our YouTube account and in that community. Yeah, they got upset. They're watching you right now. They're loving you. Yeah, absolutely. I did, um, uh,

ornament making, uh, glassblowing at that brewery over the holidays. Yeah, it was great. And that brewery is great. The beer is good. They even have, if you're not even a beer drinker, they have some other stuff too. Sweet stuff. Yeah. A little everything. By the way, so there are two other, uh,

competition is taking place, Hot Wing Eating Challenge on Saturday and a Spiked Pizza Eating Challenge and those are both sponsored by, and I love the name of this, DEFCON Sauce. That dude, talk about a guy that would dress up as like a mad scientist, go all over the country before hot sauce was a big thing.

John Dilley was his name. He passed away from COVID and his wife is carrying the torch and still having the sauces made the way he did it with the vision that he had for these hot sauce festivals. We incorporate that. Super cool company. Very cool. All right. So the event is coming up March 29th and 30th this weekend. It's the 3rd Annual Philadelphia Hot Sauce Festival and it will be at the Neshaminy Creek Brewing location. So details available at phillysaucefest.com or

Cast Iron Kyle.

I can't even say it again. It's one of those mistakes that you can't even repeat the mistake. What did I say? You said cast-ile-kyron. Cast-ile-kyron. Cast-ile-kyron. All right, hot sauce, get some. Thank you, guys. Thank you, Kyle. Good to see you again, man. All right, let's take a break, shall we? Come back in a moment, and we'll tee up our lesson question, our trash, our music news. We'll be right back.

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Not Dead Yet. John Cleese and the Holy Grail at 50 on Sunday, October 19th at the Keswick Theater. Oh, wow, man. That's terrific. That's right. Last time we talked to him, he was promoting the Not Dead Yet tour, so it must be that successful. He's coming back around. All right. I didn't get a chance to look at these. Let's see here. That one. What state is contained entirely within our general store? Okay.

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And finally, Wicked director John M. Chu shutting down rumors about three big names considered to play Britney Spears in his film adaptation of her autobiography. Those names are Sabrina Carpenter, Millie Bobby Brown, and Michael Madsen. Nice. All right, let me see where we're going to next. Ah, yes, we're going to pose that question one more time to you and see if you indeed know the answer to this question.

what state is contained entirely within our general store of which I am the proprietor. We are now going to go to William and check in and see if we get an answer. William, good morning to you. Good morning. You can call me Bill Preston. Call me Bill. Oh, I can call you Bill. Oh, Bill, it even says it on your shirt. Sorry there, Bill. All right, Bill, so what state is contained entirely in the general store?

Arizona. Arizona. Yeah! It's amazing. Hang on, Billy. We're going to give you a pair of tickets as MMR rocks the Not Dead Yet, John Cleese and the Holy Grail at 50 on Sunday, October 19th at the Keswick Theater. Tickets go on sale this Friday.

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No sign, bro. It's Friday. In a wide- Kirsten O'Kiron. In a wide-ranging interview with NME, Tobias Forge of Ghost casually dropped what could be a bombshell for some fans. Are you ready for a bomb? When talking about the explosive growth of the band, the website asked Forge if there were any plans to change things in the future, and he responded with,

I think there might be an end to the storytelling because it's not productive to have this endless soap opera.

The lore of the band, which is said to be the front for a satanic church, has been an integral part of the band's look and performances. Forge said if fans need the lore in order to like the band, then that element will probably be over quite soon. So he's going to change it up a little bit. So we've talked about this. I'm not deeply entrenched in the ghost lore and legend. I know how he presents the band. And we often comment that the music is not...

all the time congruent with that imagery. So I don't think it'd be hard to disconnect from it. Yeah, but I guess there's been, you know, with these, the Papa Emeritus and all these other characters. Papa Smurf. I don't know them all either, Steve, but I guess maybe there's a semi-continuing theme that goes on through the whole thing. Yeah, but the time you asked me, you were looking for deeper meaning in one of his songs. Yeah, it was called Rats. Rats.

I'm like, so who are the rats? Are they, are the, you know, is that society? Is it? He's like, no, it's just rats. Bozo animals. The rats. Did you call him a bozo? I was doing him. Oh, right. Yeah. Bozo. Just rats. Bozo. I wonder if they know who Bozo is over there. Do not know. He's a clown.

It's a big red hair. Well, it's not done yet, but the eighth studio album from Shinedown is getting closer to completion. Lead singer Brent Smith said that it's about 85% done. This upcoming release follows their 2022 album Planet Zero. Even though it's not done, the band released two singles in January from the upcoming album, 365 and Dance Kid Dance.

No word on how long that last 15% will take. No release date has been hinted at as of yet.

Have a clip to play with this next one concerning Dorothy. It was a fantastic surprise for people in the audience last week in L.A. during her performance at Los Angeles' El Rey Theater on Friday night. Dorothy was joined on stage by Slash. Yeah. And they performed three songs together. The Blue Standard, Key to the Highway, as well as Dorothy's Originals, Gifts from the Holy Ghost,

and Tombstone Town. And we have a little clip to play of them playing Tombstone Town right here. ♪♪

The two know each other very well. Slash had previously collaborated with Dorothy on the studio version of Tombstone Town, featured on her latest album. And she contributed vocals to Slash's rendition of Key to the Highway on his 2024 album, Orgy of the Damned. And, of course, we will see Dorothy at the MMRBQ. And, hey, who's to say that Slash might? You never know. That is a good point. He's in town. He could pop up on stage. I like her a lot.

She's a veteran of the RBQ, and she killed it, you know, when she did it before. Yeah, absolutely. Case, do we have this other clip? Yep, ready to go. All right, so the founder of the band, the Standells, has passed away, Larry Tamblyn.

And I'm not really familiar with the Standells. I've heard the name. I know the song Dirty Water, which I guess was their hit. I need to hear it. I think this is the same song. Yeah. Hopefully it's a Finlay.

Every time the Sox win at Fenway. They play it next? Every game. So they had a long time feud with another band called the Sitdells. Oh. Instead of the Standells? Yeah. And they never reconciled. Yeah, they play Sweet Caroline, I think in the seventh inning stretch. And then anytime they ever win, they play that song that we just played. Okay. And I really don't know much about the band or Larry, but I do know he passed away and was 82 years old. But that song carries on. He had to have been pretty damn proud of that. Yeah.

Play that at the ball game. I assume that came with residual money for that. All right, two more quick things. The best-selling album of Dire Straits' career, Brothers in Arms, is getting a special three-disc reissue to mark the 40th anniversary of the landmark album.

The set will include the original album. This is not on that. Money for Nothing. Money for Nothing, So Far Away, Walk of Life, you know, the hits that they had in the late 80s. And so the set will include the original album along with a previously unreleased live recording from the August 16th San Antonio stop of the band's 1985 world tour.

The issue comes out on May 16th. If you want a great, there's a double live album of them in concert. Yeah. You know, the band. It's a quintessential collection and live performance of their work. So it's a great sampler, too, if you're not that familiar. Any idea what time frame that came out in? So this would have been... I think after Telegraph Road. Yeah, 90s. Okay.

So look for this new one to come out, this reissue. It'll be hitting stores on May 16th. Hitting stores. Maybe late 80s. Yeah. All right. I guess because you get all your music online now, right? Oh, God, yeah. You can find all that. I love the soundtracks that he's done for Local Hero, and he also did the music for Princess Bride.

All right, and then one final story. We have a new MMRBQ ticket offer for you, friends. MMR four packs are available for a limited time. Four tickets for $100 plus tax. And with tax, I think it comes out to like 105 bucks. Oh! I saw the break. I saw the breakdown of it. Freaking amazing.

So if you get those tickets, keep in mind the first half of the show is all GA and you can get a front and no, not God general admission and as close as possible to the first four bands. And then afterwards you go to your assigned seats. But it doesn't matter. Everything is going to be great. Allison James, Three Days Grace, Mammoth, Dorothy, to name a few. You know, Return to Dust is playing, Deaf Poets Society.

Octane and Fat Mez and our side stage and live band karaoke, which, by the way, pretty soon. Oh, yes. We are going to be soliciting for auditions for our live band karaoke with Sidearm. I saw Brian Quinn last night. He's going to play with Octane. And we were talking about the MM BBQ. He was at the Guppies going away party. And, yes, they're excited about it.

That's great. Excellent. So if you want to get the tickets, they're on sale now via Ticketmaster. All the details, and for these four packs as well, is available at WMMR.com slash MMRBQ. How about you just pay for four tickets and you take some friends and that's a little gift to them? I mean, you owe it to them after what you did to them. You remember? Yeah. We won't talk about it here, but you know. But we'll never forget. And that is what I have in music news. We

are taking our final break. We'll come back in a second, wrap up the program, get that first letter for the Word of the Week prize. So stay with us, please. What's going on in the world of rock? You'll find it at WMMR.com, your one-stop outlet for all the rock news you need to know. WMMR.com.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers, 93.3 WMMR. It's everything that rocks. By the way, is the song. It is 10.41 a.m. on a Monday morning. The President's Deep Show. Kind of a drab day today. It is. Not going to see much sunlight. We did have some rain earlier this morning. That seems to have ceased in our area. But it's supposed to break open a little later on as we get into evening time and then

By tomorrow. Today's high only 55. Tomorrow, 61 is the highest. Kind of the best day of the week. Partly cloudy skies. And then Wednesday, high 53. Thursday, high 54. Low 60s on Friday. Any chance of a sun tonight?

No sun, but clearer skies. So you will be seeing stars, which are little suns. Well, they're not little. They're just far away. In fact, most of them are way bigger than ours. Do you know there was some northern lights spotting in north Pennsylvania over the weekend? No, I did not. Because Casey and Marissa and I were up there for the pond skim thing on Saturday, and somebody texted me that there was some stuff, a possibility of some activity. I didn't see any. It was mostly clouded where we were, so I didn't see any. But I did go out and look.

I recall how cool that was when we had that, where all of us were seeing it, and it was just solid purple sky at night. It was so awesome. My back patio. Can't wait to see that again sometime. I would like to thank Cast Iron Kyle. There it is. Not Cast Isle of Kyron for stopping in.

The Hot Sauce Festival is coming up this weekend at Neshaminy Creek. And you can get tickets at phillysaucefest.com. And a portion of the proceeds are going to go to Phil Abundance. That's very wonderful. And if you're into the hot sauce thing, then that is your place. Jason Fayon makes his own hot sauce. He does. He certainly does. He should be involved in this. It's actually barbecue sauce. Oh, I thought it was hot. Okay. I thought he made both, but maybe it's just barbecue. I don't think so.

His dad was named Bill, and then he made a barbecue sauce his dad did when he was alive and would just give it out. They still had the recipe after his dad died. They started making it and selling a portion of it, going to charity. And then they added a second hot sauce. It's called Bill's Best BBQ Sauce.

They carry it in Whole Foods now, which is pretty wild. That's excellent. Good for him. Soon I'll be working for Jason. Yeah, right? And then he opened a brewery in Kensington, also called Bill's Best, right down the street from the Keswick Theater. Not Kensington.

What did I say? Glenside. You said you were thinking of the Keswick Theater, but it's in Glenside, right? Right. Did I say Kensington? Yeah, that's all right. It's not in Kensington. It's near the Keswick Theater. But Jason's done amazing things and is on our show, on our air on Saturday mornings. Yeah, yeah. He survived producing for me, as did me. Yeah. And he regularly runs the board when we do live shows, so he's awesome at that. By the way... Yeah.

When you guys played Lose Yourself from Rick Springfield, you finished the song and then you had Bizarre File and then you had the barbecue guy on or the hot sauce guy on.

and all I could do was sing it all through B-File, all through the interview, into the commercials, right until another song took its place. Does it remind you of another? We're beating our heads against the wall trying to figure out what song it reminds us of. I heard you say that. Every song, I hear some other song in it. Yeah, yeah. So I can't place that. I heard you mention that, but I don't know. But...

So damn catchy. I love that song. Catchy tune, yeah. I love that Chuck just found that out in the stratosphere and said, why not? Let's play it. Yeah. So we were scheduled to have him on today, but they're going to reschedule it. He wasn't feeling well or something like that. So we're looking forward to talking to him. Should be cool. All right. Letter of the day. Yes. Here we go. Kristen and Steve.

On 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. And the President Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter. G as in God smack. All right. And we will give away a VIP experience for a different band, Disturbed. Wednesday, April 2nd at the Wells Fargo Center, including a pair of premium tickets to the show.

Meet and greet and photo with the members of Disturbed. An autographed Disturbed merchandise item. A VIP laminate and more. And it's courtesy of Q Prime. And Daughtry and nothing more are also on that bill. So it's going to be a hell of a show. Tickets for it are on sale now via Ticketmaster. We'll give that away on Friday. It's a Monday. What you got going on, man? Well, we got continuing our blocks of...

International Women's History Month. Lovely ladies. The lovely lady today is Pat Benatar. So we'll do a full block of her incredible music, which MMR played back in the day, like we play Hailstorm, you know, now. She's just great. Also the cars for what would be Rick's birthday today and Block of the Offspring. All right. Thank you, Pierre. And thank you to our sponsors, Preston and Steve Scherr brought to you.

Today by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors, and by Dunkin'. The President's Eve show runs on Dunkin' tomorrow on this program. It's Tuesday, so we'll give away a free tattoo to someone from Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. And we will also have from whose line is it anyway? Colin Mockery joining us via Zoom, which will be cool. At this point, he's a friend of the show. He's great. We've got him on a lot. Yep, that's it. We're done. Rage on. Have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Tee!

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