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Hello, everybody. WMMR Philadelphia. Housekeeping. I don't think you're sleeping. Housekeeping, you want towels? Towels need sleepy.

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

Nick McElwain. I'm just not the hero type. And Marissa Magnata. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Good morning and welcome. I know it doesn't really feel like morning yet, but momentarily we'll see some sunshine and it'll bring us...

Sunny skies all day long. High's going to be about 54 degrees. And then we just start moving up in this really cool way. Tomorrow's high, 64 degrees. It's 4 degrees, mainly cloudy. Saturday, here it is. Sunshine and 83 degrees. Summertime on a Saturday. It's wonderful. And then Sunday we'll top out around 70 with some clouds. And then Monday might have some rain moving in. So take advantage of your weekend.

Now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano. Today is Thursday. It's March 27th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, investigators say a police officer was wounded by friendly fire during a struggle-turned-shootout with a man who they say stole an officer's gun.

36-year-old Aaron Rainey was shot by police after investigators say he charged at an officer and stole his weapon when he became agitated outside of Friends Hospital. During the exchange of gunfire, investigators now know that the unnamed officer who was struck in the vest was shot by his partner.

The wounded officer sustained minor injuries from the gunshot striking his vest. Vaney, a Philadelphia man, was pronounced dead at Albert Einstein Medical Center. The unnamed officer who was struck during the gunfight was actually shot in the vest. The wounded officer was brought to Temple Hospital for minor injuries related to the impact of the projectile striking his vest. The internal affairs investigation is ongoing.

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday plans to slap 25% tariffs on all imported cars, escalating a global trade war just weeks after previous tariffs touched off a market route and triggered concern about a possible recession. I think our automobile industry will flourish like it hasn't before, Trump said. The auto tariffs are set to target a sector that employs more than a million U.S. workers and relies on a supply chain closely intertwined with Mexico and Canada.

tariffs placed on the auto industry risk raising car prices in the United States. Mexico and Canada make up the top two U.S. trading partners for both finished motor vehicles and car parts, according to Cato Institute analysis of data from the U.S. Internal Trade Commission.

A Michigan couple has been held in a maximum security prison in Mexico because of a timeshare billing dispute. Christy and Paul Accio, both six years old, were arrested shortly after they landed at an airport in Cancun for a family vacation. Mexican authorities told ABC News they arrested the Accios for fraud to a hotel chain. The two have been held for 22 days by state police. Their daughter, Lindsay Hull, said their mother is terrified. She tells us every single day, every single phone call, how scared she is. She obviously cries a lot.

Family attorney John Manley said the couple signed up for a timeshare with Palace Resorts. The hotel chain has resorts in Mexico and an office in Florida. If only we knew someone who fights these kind of things, who maybe advertises on them. Is that the whole thing, right? Fighting timeshare issues?

However, they said when the resort didn't allow them to use their time as promised, they disputed the contract and reached out to their credit card company to dispute the charges. American Express refunded the couple over $100,000 of wrongful charges. But Mexican authorities saw the refund issued as the cancellation of 13 transactions, which were done maliciously by not recognizing the charges. The people I know who've gotten involved in timeshares, I don't know anyone.

say for maybe one couple who were thrilled by... Does it ever work out well? It never seems to be. And the continuing issue seems to be getting out of it. Now, this is more dramatic what's happening to them. I mean, these poor people are in a maximum security prison in Mexico. They never say that during the pitch. Thank God.

Referencing a Facebook post obtained by ABC News, in the post, Christy walks other timeshare owners through how to get out of the charges Mexican authorities said in a post described how they committed fraud. So they're saying because she wrote how she got out of it and how she was advising others that they could get out of it. There is clearly no length.

and that they are not willing to go to make an example, Hull said. This is exactly what is happening here. On top of corruption and extortion and the fact that this has gone on now for three full weeks, it's time for it to be done. A judge gave the timeshare company six more months to gather evidence to make their case while holding the couple behind bars. The Palace Company issued a statement saying the Palace Company subsidiary, Palace Elite, filed a criminal complaint with Mexican authorities after Paul and Christy Accio fraudulently...

fraudulently disputed legitimate credit card charges and publicly encouraged others to do the same. Mexican prosecutors reviewed the evidence and following failed attempts to serve notice, obtained a court-approved arrest warrant. Interpol validated the case and issued a red notice leading to the Accio's detention at the Cancun airport on March 4th, 2025. A judge has since ruled there is sufficient cause for the case to proceed to trial and ordered the preventative detention of the Accio's.

I feel terrible for them. God. In sports this morning. Ballsacks are yummy. Ballsacks are yummy. What the f*** is that?

The Phillies begin the regular season this afternoon in Washington with a game against the Nationals. Zach Wheeler will get the start for the Phillies and Mackenzie Gore will pitch for the Nats. The first pitch is scheduled for 4-0-5. The Sixers lost again, falling to the Washington Wizards, 119-114 last night in South Philly.

Alex Starr scored 24 points and had seven rebounds to lead the Wizards to the win. Quinton Grimes scored 22 points for the Sixers, who have lost six in a row and nine out of their last ten. The Sixers are at home again on Saturday night. We'll host the Miami Heat. Tip-off is at 7.30. The Flyers, who have lost six games in a row, are at home tonight and will host the Montreal Canadiens. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs.

And that's what I have for you this morning. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. We welcome you to a Thursday morning. We got a lot happening on the program today. Love it when things line up like that. And joining us in the studio will be comedian Annie Lederman, who's going to be at Helium Comedy Club tonight. So she is stopping in today, which is cool. She's great.

We will chat with her in our 8 o'clock hour. Then our buddy John Brazier of the Phils is stopping by because, as Kathy was saying, it's opening day today. Very exciting. And we're going to just talk Phils in the season. John will have the inside scoop on some of the things you can expect, at least in the beginnings of the season. And if you're good, maybe a chance to win some tickets. We'll see about that. So mind your P's and Q's today.

And then we will have on this very program around 9.30 actress Natalie Dormer joining us. Natalie is in the starring role of Audrey's children, Audrey Evans, who created the Ronald McDonald House, a pediatric oncologist at CHOP, just a legendary woman. And...

Obviously, local ties to Philadelphia. It's the biggest story you might not be aware of from this area. Yeah, so we're excited to have her on. She's a great actress, a really cool person. So we'll talk to her at, like I said, around 9.30 this morning. All with this circulating, I mean, but the big talk is our new text number. Oh, my God. It's on the nightly news last night. You can feel the buzz, right? So if you do need to get in touch with us, the number is 610-660-9330. That is going to be our new phone.

phone number when the technology comes together, Steve, where we can talk to people in real time. I mean, it boggles the mind. I know. It boggles the mind. So we're working on that. But for now, Watson, come quick. That is how you will be able to text in. And if you do want to join us via Zoom, if you want to chime in at any point in time, just feel free to text the word Zoom to 312-610-6609-3333.

and we'll send you a link and you can jump in and be a part of the conversation. So just save that in your contacts because it's going to take a little while for us all to commit that to memory. You may as well just stick it in there and have it ready to go. So we got a lot to look forward to today. We'll take a quick break, come back in a second. Of course, you know the Entertainment Report is up, so we'll dabble in that when we get back. Stay with us.

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Of the Preston and Steve show podcast. Stupid question time. We will be giving away a pair of tickets as MMR rocks Eliza Schlesinger at the Met Friday, November 7th. If you know the answer to this question, you will need to text the

the word Zoom to our new text number, which is 610-660-9333. So here's your question. When was the first year the three-point shot was introduced to the NBA? Okay, if you know the year, then you need to text the word Zoom to 610-660-9333. When was the first year that the three-point shot was introduced to

to the NBA. Let's see if you know the answer to that. Birthdays, we'll mention those when we wait for those calls. Today is the 27th day of March. Did I say yesterday that it was actor Austin Pendleton's birthday? We were talking about him. We were talking about him in relationship to my cousin Vinny. Yeah. And it had to do with, Nick brought up the

the story, which is true, that when he was doing his stuttering thing, everyone was breaking up so much behind him that they had to blow the scene. But I don't think it was in relation to his birthday. So we were just talking about my cousin Benny. I think we just randomly talked. He's great, man. And we were talking about what a great comedic actor he is. By the way, he's 85 years old. Oh, my God, yeah. But he does great dramatic roles, too. Yes, yeah. Steve, what was...

Oh, man. A Beautiful Mind. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. In the latter stages of his life, he's talking to him in Princeton and telling him they're going to bestow him with this award. I forgot about that. Yeah, so he does smaller roles like that as well. But I was like, there's something likable about that guy. He plays this kind of guy who's almost... I'm trying to think who I'd liken him to, but he can be a little persnickety, but he's always kind of likable. Yeah, and in My Cousin Vinny, yes, it's...

As the stuttering defense attorney. Well, they're sure he's going to be able to help them. Well, he seems like he's got his head on straight. And yeah, no further questions. I love it. So he turns 85 years old today. It is Elizabeth Mitchell's birthday.

Oh, yes. Yeah, she was on Lost. She played Juliet. Gorgeous. Beautiful. Yeah. Most definitely. We talked to her a few times. She is 54. I think she... Was she in a movie with Angelina Jolie where they make out? Yes. Yeah. There's like a really steamy...

portion of whatever movie that was. It's called The Boner. No, it wasn't The Boner. It was Woody. Woody. She was in the third Purge movie with Frank Grillo. Or was it called Hard On? Hard On. I think it was like a girl's name that you get with a J or something like that. Anyway, Elizabeth Mitchell. Yeah, Juliet. Full-blown erection. Casey...

Was it Gia? It wasn't Full Blown Erection. Are you still... You started re-watching Lost, right? Wasn't that you? You have too, but I did too. It's more of a...

Just kind of pick and choose episodes? Yeah, if I can't really land on something and I'm trying to go to sleep, I throw Lost on it. Jace is watching it. He started from the beginning and he's super into it. No kidding. Yeah. Okay, well, don't tell him. Don't tell him that the payoff is not worth it. You know what? Maybe he might be okay with it, not with all the talk surrounding it. You have the ability to sort of pad it and mitigate expectations. I think...

There's no arguing the show is great. It's just if you don't take the weight of how it resolves, which we were all doing because it was being spoon-fed to us in that way, it's a great show. Also, I mean, I think it was like episode one, season one, where we're like, oh, they're in purgatory. They're like, no, they're not. That's what I mean. All of that was surrounding it. He might not have that, you know what I mean? So when it gets to the end, when they're like, no...

Yeah, I think you're right. Oh, cool, they were in purgatory. So Elizabeth Mitchell is 54 today. Polly Perrette, you know, from NCIS. She left acting, right? Yeah, yeah, I think she did, Steve. She had her own show for a short bit. We had her on to talk about that, and it just didn't hold, and I'm not sure what she's really doing. I don't know if she's fully retired, but she is taking a break for sure. Did she have issues with, like...

with the... Yeah, Mark Harmon. Mark Harmon. It had to do with his dog on set and the dog may have attacked her and he kind of laughed it off or he was making fun of her or something. It was a weird thing. They had issues, yeah. So she's 55 today. Actress Brenda Song, who we know from Suite Life on Deck, Nickelodeon, and wife of Macaulay Culkin. I think they have a baby on the way.

I think they do. Yeah, I always liked her. She's sweet. I thought she was fun. And she is in something coming up soon, I thought I read recently. Oh, Full Blown Erection. No, no, no. I don't think they're remaking that, Steve.

But she's 36 years old today. Halle Bailey, who played the most recent Little Mermaid. I think she did a good job. I didn't see it. Listen, all these things, just by their very nature, missed the mark because the originals were so good. And animation is so much more enchanting. But beautiful voice, brought everything she could to it.

There you go, Cass. I know. Just the F off! Shut the f*** up! But you're right, Steve. Like, even... I know you loved Beauty and the Beast and Emma Watson in that. Yeah. But it's not as great as the...

awesome animated version. It was really good, but yeah. A very telltale thing is that, and I forget which one they recently did it with, but for example, the quote-unquote live-action CGI version of The Lion King where they recreate the animals very specifically and correctly. What they lack is, you know, most lions won't go like this, Preston.

You know, so like they shrug their shoulders and so they need to have that for a lot of this stuff. Well, she turns 25 years old today and her star is just beginning to rise. The great Michael York celebrates her birthday today. Yes, Basil Expedition from the Austin Powers. Exposition. Exposition, I'm sorry, in the...

Austin Powers films. He delivers one of the best lines where Austin Powers introduces a really conflict of logic. And the line that he delivers is, best not to think about that. Of course, he was in...

Logan's Run way back in the day. Big fan cabaret. Romeo and Juliet. Yes. He played Tibble in that. Yeah, so he turns 82 years old today. A couple of birthdays from the world of music. Wonderful keyboardist from the band Genesis, Tony Banks.

I love Tony Banks. Celebrates his 74th birthday today. Absolutely. Multiple rows of keyboards. He also did a couple of soundtracks. He did the soundtrack for the movie Quicksilver with Kevin Bacon. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Love the keyboard work in Abacab. Oh, yes. He came up with some really unique...

Beautiful. Synthesized, you know, generated sounds. I love, there's always shots of him, like, hands on separate keyboards playing. Yeah, that's back in the day when you had to do that. Yeah, I know, I know. They didn't have MIDI, and you had to work from these, all these different units. But, yeah, here's signature sounds from him. Love this song.

So happy birthday, Tony Banks. He turns 74 years old today. It's also Mariah Carey's birthday. Mariah Carey turns 55 years old and has now become the quote-unquote queen of Christmas. What the hell is that? It's a shirt out for her. Oh, okay. Listen, you gotta...

The entire Mariah Carey unplugged album is fantastic. And when MTV was doing those unplugged series, it was awesome. But hers? Because she hadn't really performed like that in front of a small audience. Oh, yeah. You're right. And she even says it in the recording. She's like, you know, I'm not used to doing this. Wow. But I remember when Vision of Love, her first hit, came out, and I was like, A.

A, listen to the voice on this gal. And two, I thought she was gorgeous as well. In a next door girl kind of way. You know, that was her look back then. And she's actually also a pretty good actress. Isn't she also in Precious?

I think so, yeah. I never did see that movie, but yes, I believe you're right. So she is celebrating her 55th birthday today. Did you do that on purpose on A and 2? Or was that a slip-up? I don't even know what you said. Oh, you said A, she was a great singer, and 2, she's gorgeous. No, I did not. I thought you were being tongue-in-cheek. No, I'm just being stupid.

You know me. No, you know me. It's my trademark. You were being intentional. Always say that. Totally did it on purpose. Absolutely. All right. Next up, we have Fergie turning a year older. Oh, yeah. Let's do this. Fergie. Fergie. Fergie. Fergie. Fergie.

Listen to the sheer weight and bulk of Nick's... I mean, it's just... It's beautiful. That's when he found out that Hot Pockets were being recalled. Very emotional time in my life, if you remember. Right. So, Fergie... First of all, she was born Stacey Ann Ferguson. And B, she was...

She has a son named Axel Jack with Josh Duhamel. Alpha. And the pair split in September 2017. I think of all her achievements, she's probably best known for pissing herself on stage. I was going to say trying to do the national anthem with her own little take on it at the NBA All-Star Game. Or there's a picture of her where she looks like one of the Gremlins, too. So, you know, A, 2, and 1.

What's another thing? Semicolored. There's a three. I don't know. Zeta. Thank you. Last birthday. It's Quentin Tarantino's birthday today. Quentin turns 61 years old today, and it still remains to be seen if he's going to do one more movie and call it quits for good, which he has said that he is going to do. I don't know. I hope not. He spaces them out.

far enough. The movie he's supposedly working on involves Brad Pitt as a film critic. Now, I think his stuff just keeps getting better. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is my favorite Quentin Tarantino movie.

But man, the Kill Bill movies. They were just on like a week ago and I happened to just be surfing through and I'm like, I'm going to stop here for a while. Yeah, phenomenal. And I love, and Glorious Bastards is probably my favorite. Django is one of my favorites as well. But then you go back to

All of them, man. When Pulp Fiction hit, you're like, what is this? I actually didn't get Pulp Fiction at first. I remember it being this big thing when I was in college and watching it. And I didn't like, I was like, what the hell's going on here? Like the timelines all over the place. Case, I left the movie theater. No kidding. I walked out of the movie theater. I was like, I don't know what that was, but I did not like it. It was unique and it was an acquired taste. And at first you might go, this is too archaic.

arty for me. I don't know what this is, you know? I had to go back and watch, like, you know, obviously years later, went back and re-watched it. I tend to run the more applauded films of his or the ones that I like less. But, yeah, Pulp Fiction, when he first came on the scene, he was distilling, he was a big fan of Hong Kong cinema. So he was taking movies that I had already seen and kind of reworking them. And I loved what he was doing with them. But, yeah, I hope, Preston, that it's not just one more movie. Yeah, yeah, without

question he is a he is a unique guy and and his directing obviously is unique and writing all this is dialogue dialogue is crazy in his chin one of the last uh the oscar that he won it might have been for uh the screenplay for once upon a time in hollywood when he gets up for his acceptance speech he basically just thanks himself because he's like i did it all you know he was right he's like i wrote it i directed i edited so like i'm the guy

I could lie, but it's me. He's 61 years old today. All right, we'll see if we can find a Zoomer who knows an answer to today's... Okay, kind of on our Xfinity mobile guest line. We are going to go to... Casey pointed to a sign. I'm going to go to Luca. Hey there, Luca.

Kat Zooks, guys. Kat Zooks, my man. All right, so here's our question. When was the first year the three-point shot was introduced to the NBA? The 79-80 season. Yeah, 1979. You got it, buddy. Hang on just a sec.

And we are going to give you a pair of tickets as MMR rocks. Eliza Schlesinger at the Met Philly 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. All right, on to those Entertainment Report stories. We'll start with Sidney Sweeney and her fiancé, Jonathan DeVino, hitting a rough patch. And a source tells Us Weekly, Sidney and Jonathan have been having a hard time.

major issues but are not fully split. It's over! That's, I don't know what, maybe Rambo, or no, Rocky. No, it's Rambo. Rambo. Yes, we would say that. That's it, it's over! It's over! So, Sidney and Jonathan, like I said, have a

Not fully split, but their wedding, which was supposed to happen this spring, is now off. Yes, off. They aren't having further discussions about it, according to the source. And they revealed that Sweeney wanted to cancel everything and couldn't handle the stress. Preston, all your years reporting on entertainment, all your years dining at the Brown Derby, hanging with the Hollywood elites. You've seen this before. Is this marriage going to happen at all? No. No. No.

No. The In Demand actress... He says he agrees. Throw him a fish, would you? The In Demand actress's career could be to blame for being a major strain on their relationship. A source said that she doesn't have a lot of downtime and it causes tension in their relationship. Sydney is really focused on her career. Jonathan wishes they were able to spend more quality time together. Listen, she's a stunner, obviously. But I mean...

Every interview and the project she's working on, she's really trying to make a legit career. So, and I think, I don't know if you can be, you know, doing both things at the same time. Yeah. So, to add even more evidence of breakup rumors, and we mentioned this yesterday, fans noticed that just a couple of days ago that a New Year's Eve photo of Sweeney and DeVito kissing has disappeared from Instagram. They've been together since 2018, got engaged in 2022, and they've kept their relationship pretty private during that time.

So, actress Olivia Culpo, or is she a singer? No, she's a dancer. No, she was a dancer. Oh, my God.

I don't know much about her. She was in The Other Woman and I Feel Pretty, movies I have not seen. But anyhow, she's excited to be a mom for the first time. Speaking with people, the model shares that she is so excited and grateful to be pregnant. She said, I've been dreaming for this for a long time and it's very special. Culpo is excited to start making traditions with her new family. Meh.

And is excited to watch her husband, Christian McCaffrey, grow as a father as well. Oh, okay. All right. So her husband is, you know, one of the elite running backs in the NFL? Oh. Okay. Okay. All right. It is fun. She said it's fun growing your family with someone that you really love and just being able to see Christian as a dad would be really exciting. To think this little bundle of joy came out of my butthole. No, no, no. No, that's wrong.

She said, I just know that he's going to be such a good partner and husband and father. And I can't wait to see him step into that role. And it will just be unlike any other experience. So in case you were wondering, they're very happy. All right. Okay.

All right, so this was a big deal yesterday. Marvel revealed the cast for their upcoming Avengers movie, Avengers Doomsday. Chances are you're going to recognize a couple of people because the movie is featuring actors from a ton, and I mean a ton of past Marvel projects. It is.

Blew my mind how many people are in this friggin' movie. So it was a five and a half hour long live stream that they revealed this. Now they have since reduced it to a roughly two minute version now, but the studio teased Marvel Mainstays and they did it by showing...

The chairs that they sit in on set, they have the names on the back of them, the captain's chairs, and they slowly, over five and a half hours, hand across these and slowly revealed the names, and that's how they rolled it out. There were two relatively significant missing names, in my opinion. One was Hugh Jackman, and the other is Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, so I'll roll down the list of ones. Mainstays like Chris Hemsworth, Sebastian Sand, Tom Hiddleston, Robert Downey Jr.,

And all, I mean, more are set to return. But some of the cool standouts were from Fantastic Four First Steps. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Evan Moss Bacharach, and Joseph Quinn are also set to join. Plus, actors from the original X-Men trilogy, including Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, and others are set to appear. So I'm not going to go through every single one of them, but listen to this.

Anthony Mackie, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Simu Lee, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, who was Beast, if you remember. Yeah, in the third movie. Lewis Pullman, uh,

David Harbour. I said Tommy Hilson already. Alan Cumming is going to be back as Nightcrawler. I mean, that introduction of that character, him playing that character is one of the great scenes in comic book movies. We were blown away by that. Rebecca Romijn, Channing Tatum. So Gambit's going to be in this one. Yeah, and that would not have happened without Deadpool and Wolverine. So big.

Big, big, big, big deal. So, of course, Robert Downey Jr. is playing Dr. Doom. That's correct. Yeah. So these are, you know...

They're pulling out all the stops on this one, man. I hope they deliver. And they need this to deliver. Yeah. Overall, the studio revealed that all these characters are on board, and they haven't revealed everyone as of yet. So Avengers Doomsday hits theaters May 1st, 2026. Steve, I've gone back and rewatched all versions of the Fantastic Four First Steps trailer. I'm excited for that. It's going to be a blast.

It looks like a fresh take on things, and I'm very much looking forward to it. I hope that delivers. I mean, if they stay with that, I agree. I love the sort of parallel period piece, retro look. I love that they're doing everything to look like the original comics, in vibe, in color selection. These things that do matter to comic book fans.

So I agree with you 100%. I haven't felt this way about a movie in a little while. So I'm excited. The leading theory for Doctor Doom and Robert Downey Jr. is that it will be a variant of Tony Stark. So at some point there will be a multiverse crossover and Tony Stark will become Doctor Doom. I think that was actually in the comic books. Wow. Do we know who's going to be doing the score?

For this one, yeah. Good question. Yeah, we were watching a movie yesterday, and at the end of it, it popped up, and I just see Michael Giacchino on the screen. I wish I remembered what it was, but yeah. It's so cool. I want to see what the status of his...

Dem movie is. He's been working on it for a while. About the giant ants. Oh, the ants. Yeah, he talked to us about that. That's right. Yeah. Okay. We shall see. All right. So some other stories. After a weekend in which former Impractical Jokers star Joe Gatto was hit with not one but two different sexual assault allegations, by the way, which he has denied the allegations.

He has now voluntarily begun inpatient care at a treatment facility and canceled all upcoming dates on his current comedy tour. Kathy, I think he got in touch with dumb bitch PR. We have, what's it called? Privacy. Client privilege. Yeah, so I can't speak of it. There's an NDA. So he said in a statement, having taken some time to reflect, I've decided to voluntarily enter an inpatient program to continue working on myself.

I just want to thank my friends, fans, especially my family for all their support. Never more so than over the last few days. So as we're recalling his recent history, he had left the group. We believe, at least it was painted as him leaving the group voluntarily to go whatever he was off doing. And we think it's probably misplaced.

in relationship to this, right? Maybe. I mean, it raised my eyebrows a little. I'm like, okay. The show's a huge hit. Yeah. Why leave? We couldn't figure out why he was walking away from it. And, you know, those guys have been buddies since high school. Forever? Yeah. You know, maybe this is part of it. I don't know. It's a little conjecture, but you never know. You'll see us pop up at charity events next. Oh, okay. That'll be nice. Yeah, that's this. We're putting splints on puppies. Right. Broken legs.

Superstar ghost hunter, Zach Baggins. You know this guy, Steve? Oh, I know him very well. Ghost Adventures. Every Saturday night on TLC. Well, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Holly Madison, are off again. So to understand this guy, like when Ed Hardy shirts are right there, they were the big... Yeah, yeah, yeah. He would wear those. He is...

He's quirky, though. As much as I enjoyed hating him, I've sort of come around to I appreciate. And goober is a perfect word. That's what he is. Goober. Is his girlfriend the Playboy? Yes. So Baggins and the former girlfriend, she was the former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, have dated with breaks for the last six years.

But it may be for real this time. He was very candid. He said he could still taste the tapioca. TMZ spoke to Baggins, who said, I won't get into the details, but I'll just say that we have shared so many great memories and fun times. I'll always have love in my heart for her and wish the very best for her.

I'm dating now and moving on. So Zach Bagans has that paranormal ghost museum in Las Vegas. We've talked about it a number of times. And he, if someone's putting a bid like on a piece of Manson memorabilia or John Wayne Gacy stuff, nine times out of ten, it's him. The two have reportedly unfollowed each other on Instagram. It's serious, people. You know this. She ghosted him. Uh,

Just days after the news broke that Teresa Giudice and her husband Luis Ruelas were on the hook for over $3 million in taxes, the reality star showed up on social media in a T-shirt that many thought showed that she just didn't get it. On Monday, she shared a hashtag Monday motivation Instagram post showing off her glam, which she paired with an ironic T-shirt that reads, I speak fluent French.

And followers were kicked to point out the bad optics with comments like, you should get a shirt that says, liens and taxes. I think that's more appropriate. And, oh, the prosecutors are going to love this. The general sentiment was read the room because they had just been hit with that lien. So what's her general, what do you think her general level of wealth is? I mean, she's been at this for a long time. She has a couple of companies.

I mean, there were rumors of a billionaire a while back, right? So I don't know. Can she absorb the three million? Is that going to be? Yeah. If she maybe not billionaire, but but hundreds of millions, I thought I remember hearing. So this is not her. That's the other one with the skinny. Who is that? Same. Judice, right? No, no, no. The one you're thinking about is a skinny water. That is who I'm thinking about.

Yeah, no, that's not her. Now, Teresa Giudice and her husband both did jail time for maybe like tax evasion or something like that. She's one of those. She's had that. She's been a long time. Bethany Frankel. Bethany Frankel. But she's one of the OGs as well, Giudice, right? Yeah. What the hell am I talking about this bitch for? Bethany Frankel made a ton of money on the skinny girl stuff. Yes. And that's who Preston's thinking of. Then I don't know.

To answer your question, go to hell, right? I don't know. Go to hell, Teresa Giudice. All right. Zendaya has been tapped to portray girl pop icon Ronnie Spector in a new biopic about her life. I think that's good casting. I do think that's good casting. Be My Baby will be directed by Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins. Kathy, are you and your friend going to do the soundtrack? Oh, yes. Oh, yeah.

Just like we're on a date. Yeah, they haven't called us yet. Casey, can you do me a favor? Yeah. Can you find the voicemail messages of Kathy's friend?

calling her and leaving her these messages. If you've never heard this before, you're a long-time listener to the show, you know it, but we'll play this in a moment if he can find him. Before the singer died in 2022, Spector was an executive producer on the film and hand-picked Zendaya to play her on screen. Well, there you go. Doesn't get better than that. She chose her. Hey, Marissa. Nope, that's not it.

Just checking voicemail here. The film is expected to focus not only on Spector's life as leader of the Ronettes, but her tumultuous marriage to superstar producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector. She was brutalized by him. Most definitely. And stalked for years after they broke up. No word yet on when production will begin. So, nothing yet, Chris? Ah, man, I just don't... Be My Little Baby?

He's asking. Would you be my little baby? I would be your little baby. Come here. Let me suckle you. Come here. Let me kiss you. You want to kiss me?

Give me. Wait. So while you're looking for that, let me just tell you a quick story. You want to kiss me? This friend of mine, Amy, who now lives in the area, she lived in Denver for a long time. And when Marissa's husband, Matt, had his first brewing company out there, she was like well aware of him, knew the beer, loved it. And she now, you know, has moved here. But I just told her that Matt's back out there, you know, working again in Denver. Oh, that's wild. Yeah, yeah. Nice.

All right, so we'll move on to some other stories. Sorry, guys. That's all right, man. No problem. But we do have to track that down at some point. The Mystery Machine will roll once again. Netflix has announced that it is moving ahead with a live-action Scooby-Doo series. The eight-episode series will serve as a prequel of sorts, investigating the origins of the famous mystery-solving teen gang and their talking dog. You've heard the revelation with the casting, right? Shaggy is Daniel Day-Lewis. What? Shut up. He's back?

Hey, listen. If they really said that, I know that he would pull it off. He is that good. He would go that immersed into it. He would. The official storyline and spoiler of sorts here. During their final summer at camp, old friends Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled in a mystery surrounding a lonely, lost Great Dane puppy that may have been a witness to a supernatural murder.

Just the word puppy gets you to go home. It does. Well, Great Dane puppies. Together with the scientific townie Velma.

And the strange but handsome new kid, Freddy, they set out to solve the case that is pulling each of them into a creepy nightmare that threatens to expose all of their secrets. Always loved this series, even though I was probably, maybe I was a little bit older than, you know, when it first came out. But the, and I said this many times before, as the animated series evolved, it was always some guy pretending to be a werewolf or whatever. And then they actually...

started having werewolves and monsters and things like that. Dude, Parker, my oldest, he still likes watching Scooby-Doo. They're fun. I can't watch the new ones, though. The movies or the animation? The animation. I'm OG when it comes to Scooby. Yeah, I agree. Preston, you know what I was watching? I've been watching last night. Somehow it came up on Amazon Prime. I was watching episodes of Electra Woman and Diner Girl.

Remember that? Yeah, Sid and Marty Croft. Yeah, Dr. Schrenker. Absolutely. Rochelle and I were watching an episode of MASH last night. Get out. Oh my gosh, I used to watch that with my dad. So casting for the series has not yet begun, by the way. Hulu's Only Murders in the Building is adding on to its already stacked star-studded lineup.

with two-time Oscar winner Renee Zellweger for season five. Now, this is slowly becoming like the A-list celebrity cameo show.

I mean, you know, it's obviously got the star power with the three stars of the show. Who's going to be on is now a thing. Yeah. They're trying to get Daniel Day-Lewis as Shaggy. As Shaggy. While details about her role are under wraps, the new season will focus on solving the murder of Lester, the doorman, played by Teddy Kaluka.

Zellweger joins a growing list of season five's A-listers, including, as we said earlier, Christoph Waltz, Taya Leone, Keegan-Michael Key. The last season featured names like Meryl Streep, Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis, and Ava Longoria. And that earned them their first SAG Award for Comedy Series Ensemble. Where did you bail, Preston? How far did you make it in? I...

most of the way through the first season. Okay, all right. And I never finished it. All right. So I'll come back. It really is one of my favorite shows on TV, but what they did with Paul Rudd is fascinating because he was one of the stars in season three, and then the way that they brought him back in season four is really well done. So it just continues to be innovative and fun and creative, and I love it. Do you know what I say? If you get involved with season two, Preston, uh,

And I think we talked about this, Nick, is that it actually has a real, I don't want to say darker, but there is, you know, it becomes more a murder, murder mystery. Yeah, you're trying to figure out who the murderer is and why they got murdered. And every season it's one main murder, but it's kind of dark and scary in points. Do all the murders indeed take place in the building? Most of them do.

Why have the police not cracked down? They have. Okay. You would think people would start moving out. That's what I would think, but I know it's a TV show. Yeah. All right. We now have the audio. This is Kathy's friend. Oh, Amy. Amy. We'll call her regularly and leave messages with a note to... And the reason we're bringing this up is because there's a Ronnie Spector biopic that's in the works. And of course, she sang that part in the Eddie Money song of, just like a Ronnie sang. Yeah.

Be My Little Baby. So here we go. Be my little baby. Hey, it's me. How are you doing? Bye. End of message. Be my little baby. Baby, my darling. What?

End of message. Just like Ronnie said, I should have just like a Ronnie said, be my little baby. End of message. I'm not sure if you've heard, but just like Ronnie said, just like a Ronnie said.

Didn't know if you heard what he said, so far, that's fine. I think my favorite one is coming up. End of message. I said I'd get to ride around the stage. End of message. I can feel you breathing. I can feel your heartbeat.

End of message. Hey, it's me. What are you doing this weekend? I don't know.

That's my favorite one. Does she still do it? No, you know what? Not really. Oh, man. I can't remember why we got on that song. When she lived out in Denver, we would call each other and leave messages. And that was part of it. I did it with her as well. I would sing on her voicemail as well. And I forget. It started somehow in college. I'll have to ask her what the...

original story is. Well, you probably don't leave voicemail messages anymore. Yeah, texting back and forth. A lot of people don't. Yeah. But you need to do it for old school sake. You know what? Just text the lyrics. Yeah. You could leave her a voice memo. You could like text her a voice memo. Yes. You can do that. That might be, that will guarantee so you don't have to worry about her not being there to pick up the phone.

and you can send it to her. She lives here now and she listens on her way into work. I don't know if she leaves this early, but she's an everyday listener now. If she is, she'll text you the lyrics this morning. She will. All right, and then, Kathy, this one to wrap up with, a new Yellowstone spinoff could be headed to CBS with early talks underway for a procedural series starring Luke Grimes reprising his role as Casey Dutton. While details are scarce and no details are set,

The show would be produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, just like the original. Just like the original said. The potential series follows news that Cole Hauser and Kelly Riley will reprise their roles as Rip Wheeler and Beth Dutton in another upcoming project, Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone Universe keeps on expanding with prequels 1883 and 1923, plus the series The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, set to come out next year. Good God.

So anything that Taylor Sheridan's involved in now, I'll watch. But Luke Grimes, his character and his wife, that was kind of like I was bored by their storyline on the show. Yeah, I mean, it was okay, but it was like the least impactful for me. So this spinoff has not a lot of interest to you? I mean, I would definitely be more of the Rip and Beth spinoff. Rip and Beth? Yeah. All right, we are ready to roll some clips.

Oh joy, the Paul twins are now reality stars with their new show, Paul American. And in this clip, Logan Paul talks about how parts of both him and Jake's romantic relationship are no longer private. We got the ladies on board and truthfully, it's part of why this show is even being made.

Because it's a side of our lives, our love lives, that the internet has never seen before. I don't think I want to see it. Paul American is now streaming on Max. I call him Paul American. I get it. Okay. All right, next clip.

Mufasa, the Lion King, was a smash hit in the box office. And in this clip, Aaron Pierre relates himself to the noble King Mufasa and what qualities they have in common. I think for Mufasa, I really empathize with the fact that he is...

unduly hard on himself and expects himself to have answers to questions that he hasn't had the life experience to know. I don't think I want to see it. Mufasa, The Lion King is now available to stream on Disney+. And that's all I got in the Entertainment Report. That's all you need.

We have a few things happening on today's program. Joining us in studio, Annie Lederman, who's going to be at Helium Comedy Club for one show tonight, 8 o'clock. Stopping by our studio today. The Phils get started. Season begins. It is time for baseball, folks.

And the Phils are kicking off in Washington. Our buddy John Brazier, director of fun and games and our travel companion, of course, for spring training. We'll be here this morning to tell you what you can expect during the season. He's also an elephant handler, Preston. He's an elephant handler. And we will also have your shout out winning some tickets. We'll get set for that. And one we're very excited about as well. Natalie Dormer will be on the program today around 930. And she is in the movie Audrey's Children Rebellion.

which is about Audrey Evans, who created the Ronald McDonald House, an oncologist right here at CHOP. Cool little story in our town and a really great actress. So we will talk to her about that. So we'll take a quick break. We'll come back in just a moment and we'll journey through this Thursday morning together. Stay right back. Got an Alexa device? Tell her Alexa, play 93.3 WMMR to stream us live.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kat. By the way, we have a new text number soon to be followed by a new Xfinity mobile guest line. Right now, it's just for texting, and that number is 610-660-9333. You're going to want to hang on to that if you want to text in.

the word zoom and uh you know jump on the show with us but eventually that's going to be the number that you call as well so you and use that it's it's a is it a phone how's it pronounced phone oh okay ph it sounds like an f all right that's the new device yeah so we will we will have the phones running in in near so so contests will eventually go to that as well we'll include it all you know we'll do we'll do contests and interactions with with

with Zoom and text and phone as well. It's just the Xfinity mobile guest line is not available.

Yeah, but it will be soon, soon, soon, soon. So I just want you to be aware of that. By the way, we did get a text, Kathy, referring to the audio we played earlier. It just says, I love you, Kathy's friend. That's her singing the Just Like Ronnie thing. Hey, there is a lot going on in our city. So it's time for the beat, folks. City beat time. Wow, wow. He's the man with the beat on the street. Only pausing to beat his meat. He's Preston Elliott. Wow.

That took a change. All right, so saw this story in the Philly Voice this morning, and wow, the Eagles are parting way with the Eagles pep band. Saw this in the Enquirer today, and I literally had a whiplash moment. I think, to me, it seemed almost inextricable for me.

The band started in 1996.

And they traveled with the team last month to New Orleans for the Super Bowl. But they were stunned to hear about it yesterday that they are done. Now, Bobby Manshore, who we've had on the program and the band many, many times throughout the years, has said we are not bitter. He said it's been glorious, Super Bowls and being on the field and meeting families and players and friends. He said...

We walk away with a smile on our face. The Eagles, as reported by CBS3, have decided to evolve their in-stadium entertainment, and the team now has a DJ at every home game. The Eagles' pep band will be let go in early April, so very, very soon, and it will play an already-contracted gig for the Eagles this morning in Montgomery County. I don't have the details on what that is or where it is, but...

yeah, they're going to be done. My question I asked, sorry Kathy, to Casey earlier this morning is does this preclude them from

Going out and simply doing Eagles? Will the organization step in the way if they're going out and doing parties and stuff? Feast and desist, essentially. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, they may have an issue with them using the name Eagles Pep Band, and it may have to change to something else. Yeah, this is so weird. Well, if it's just terminating them getting bookings through the Eagles organization, maybe that's an aspect of it. I don't know. I mean...

It's an important thing. Yep. So they regularly make appearances throughout the area, playing their version of Fly Eagles Fly at weddings, parades, and other functions. They perform at tailgates before kickoff. They sing the song on the field before home games. It's played after every touchdown at the link.

It was played minutes after the Eagles won their second Super Bowl. And, yeah. Oh, they did funerals. Yeah, exactly. It would seem... The timing is weird. We just won the Super Bowl. Yeah. You know what I mean? The fight song was a huge, huge thing all season long. Mm-hmm.

To do this now is weird. It would seem more likely to do it in a lull for the organization. There's no rhyme or reason. Apparently, what Bobby's saying, and I don't know if this is just a brave face forward, that they're okay. So here's the history behind how the song came to be because they helped create it in a sense. The Eagles hired the pep band in 1996 to play music in the parking lot of the vet and

And it was Bobby Manchur, Brian Saunders, Anthony Scaldameo. And they wore Ricky Waters jerseys and they called themselves the Fly Guys. That's how they started. And then the team gave them at the time an old tape of the Eagles victory song, which was originally written in 1957 by Charles Borelli and Roger Cortland, who were two Philadelphia advertising guys.

The lyrics, Fight Eagles, Fight on your way to victory, it began, were printed in the team's programs at Connie Mack Stadium. And the song was performed by the Sound of Brass, a marching band that the Eagles introduced in the 1960s. But the original victory song didn't really resonate and it faded away. So that never really took place.

Until these guys got a hold of it. That's it. That's the song. They picked up the tempo. They wrote the now iconic phrase, Fly Eagles Fly, which was not in the original song. They changed about 20% of the words. They swapped out the lyric, on your way to victory to on the road to victory, and then transformed the old tune into a sing-along. I love it. When did the Eagles chant start?

E-A-G-L-E-S? Yeah. I just think you're spelling it wrong. I know. E-A-G-L-E-S. I don't know the history of that one, Case. So they soon, according to Saunders, he said, when I put the words Fly Eagles Fly in, it fit like a glove. It was perfect, and I wanted the masses to sing along. So they soon became the Eagles Pet Band. They ditched the Waters jerseys, and they took their tune back to the parking lots.

And he said, we handed this, I think it was Bobby said, we handed out pieces of paper to every tailgate we went to. We sold it to the parking lots. Instead of parading through, we'd stop at tailgates and talk to people. And we got phone numbers and we just connected with people. And soon they were like, can you show up at our tailgate? And so that was their thing. They would bop around from tailgate to tailgate and play the songs. And so they did this real grassroots thing on the parking lot. So I wonder if they are, again, they could get.

Can they continue doing that? Because just if they're not simply working and being booked by the Eagles organization and giving that moniker, the official pep band of the Eagles, but they can still do what they were doing in this way and be hired for various things. Does that leave that open? You know, we should check in with Bobby and see what the story is, because I mean, I think we're all kind of.

you know crestfallen that they're yeah i just don't understand why why they there seems to be no reason to be honest i think that this that the eagles pep band uh should almost be like um when a a a cast member moves on they bring somebody else in yeah and just keep this going for decades you know they should they should keep they they should as and and it should be

Per the band, if somebody moves out, somebody else comes in and they just keep... Eventually, it'd be a new lineup of guys after everybody dies. Yeah. And just carries on, you know? I think that should absolutely be a part of this. So, I have a feeling...

With enough noise being made that they'll change their minds. Don't you think so? I mean, I'm surprised it made it this far. Yes. They had meetings and they were like, okay, yeah, and people signed off on it. Yeah, they're no one's second guess. Well, let's find another iteration or let's find another way to use them. Yeah. Even if you don't want to do this. Dude, the corporate guys again. The suits. Just...

sitting there smoking their stogies. I mean, they don't have their finger on the pulse, I feel like. I think the other angle that we're kind of missing is like, in my mind anyway, the more Eagles stuff, the better. There's room for all of it. And not only is there room for all of it, if you expand, Preston, you alluded to this at the beginning, like they want to do more in-stadium stuff. Fine. Keep these guys outside or have them in the parking lot or wherever. None of that matters. I don't know. Maybe they can't afford it. Yeah, you're right. They have been struggling lately. Jesus, come on.

You know, for one season, they moved Matt Cord out of the announcer position in the arena. And people went nuts over it. People were not happy with it. They weren't happy with the replacement. They weren't happy with where they moved Matt and what they had Matt doing. And the very next season, they put him back in his spot. Well, I think...

I think there's going to be a lot of blowback on this because, again, they've revised and they've created the chant the way it is today. It's everything. I mean, Kathy, people are angry at our new text line. So like any change in Philadelphia that people struggle with. No, it does not always go well.

How about this? How about we put the pep band in charge of our new tech platform? Yeah. They could be our new tech support. Didn't we just recently talk about how 6ABC got rid of the action news theme song for a hot minute and that didn't go over well?

They were briefly using smack my bitch up. That's weird. And it just made no sense. I think there's comfort in that. There's comfort in having this. I can't think of anything that's more jubilant than those guys. And they're just quirky cool. You think they pissed somebody off? No, because I don't think Bobby would make a statement like that. Me neither. I'm just wondering, is there a part of the story that we don't know?

By the way, season tickets went up 11% last year. Why? This coming season. Listen, I'm okay with a price hike if you win a Super Bowl, right? If the Sixers, you know, with the abysmal season... They're talking about raising it to $3, Chase. Ben bailed on that game last night. They had those tickets for $20 for him and his friends. It was funny. I was chatting with him yesterday afternoon. He's like,

It's just so bad. He's like, I don't want to subject myself to it. I don't know anybody who's a bigger Sixers fan than my son. He absolutely loves the team. He was like, it wasn't worth the $20 to go to another game last night. I wonder, can you get sweet tickets for real cheap? You probably can get any ticket you want at this point. Yeah, real cheap. Wow. No, thanks.

So going back to the pep band, next season the song will still be played after the touchdowns, but the band that helped get it going will not be there to perform it. I gotta believe this will change. We need to find out if they're going to be in the parking lot, if they're still going to be as an entity unto themselves available for bookings and events. I think there's a happy medium there someplace, but I think it's a misstep to extract them from the organization. Okay.

I've got some other shitty beat things. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, this is a pretty wild story that Nick came across in, Kathy, what's the website, the Conchie website? Anything but no. More than the curve. More than the curve. Not anything but the curve. Dear God, not the curve. Anything but the butt. Dear God, not the curve. Not the butt. You should buy that.com too. More than the curve. So this is wild. Conchie Hawken-based company, Lunatrain.

has announced, or they announced in February, that it is developing a privately owned, operated, and maintained passenger rail service to connect major cities and destinations.

The service will focus solely on sleeper trains in express nonstop service. In the announcement, it states that Luna Train is designed to serve the growing number of solo travelers, couples and families living in major metropolitan regions that want a practical alternative to short haul flights and driving long distances. The company was founded by a gentleman named Mike Avena, a Conshohocken resident.

The 2019 Drexel grad was previously the head of IT at Ori Biotech and Community Therapeutics. And in 2024, Avina was named to Drexel's 40 under 40 for his leadership in several early stage companies.

Luna Train is working to establish, it says here, a network of night trains that extends across the East Coast and Midwest connecting cities that are too far for daytime trains to serve effectively. And the focus will be on creating a service network between cities that mainly involves trips that can be completed in a single night. And comfort is going to be key. Like they're going to make these long,

really cool and nice. So I follow a guy who's a traveler who kind of focuses in on this sort of stuff and he focuses on, I think I mentioned it on the air before, about a bus line that's catching on that's

Very impressive. You have like your own little berth in the bus. And it is exactly for that. Overnight travel. So you sleep and they have all the amenities and like Tempur-Pedic and the mattresses and the linens and all that stuff. And so you're not going to get a full jammed in bus. It's a little bit more of a premium price, but you arrive in comfort. And so this is the focus now is instead of we think of these long-term trips, these overnight trips. As I said, something that might be an inconvenience for...

As a driver, I got to get there. This can take care of that. I think he's a young guy, too. Yeah, he is. Yeah. So, yeah, he was 2019 Drexel grad. Oh, my God. Yep. So comfort will be key. Like I said, the service will offer special types of sleeping cabins to accommodate various passenger types from solo to groups. And will include the latest technology to keep travelers connected.

Avena completed a feasibility analysis for the project in the first half of 2024 and has since developed robust financial projections for North American night trains. And he is now working with potential customers and industry partners on the detailed design and development of Luna Train. Have you ever taken a long train trip? No. Longest I've taken was to Boston. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

I have not either. I would love... I had looked at these Scottish... I forget the... Oh, yeah, like the Grand Executor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is the one that's $25,000 or whatever. That, Nick, was the reason I did not go with that. I've actually been lucky enough to do a bunch in Europe, and it's a really nice way to travel. Yeah, you can go from city to city, fall asleep. Casey, I did the...

The one from London to Paris and it's three hours or whatever. You're going 300 miles an hour or 200 miles an hour. And it's just, it's a really nice civilized way to travel. I love it. Yep. So Avina, like I said, is we're going to launch a demonstration unit by the second half of 2026 to gather initial feedback on cabin design and use a rapid, uh,

iterative design process to reach product market fit. And by the way, with the name Luna Train, don't you think that this should be the theme song for this? Luna. Luna Tick, Luna Train, Crazy Train. It all ties in together. I mean, he'd be the perfect pitch man for it.

How much are we talking here? I'm just saying. I'm annoyed. It doesn't say case as far as like what it would cost you to go to what destination. Yeah. I don't know. Okay. And get this. The guy losing control of his car. From there, Lunar Train will build a fleet of stress-tested and scrutinized sleeping cars for full revenue service. So I don't know, but it sounds interesting to me.

I don't know where. I'd like to take a fairly short trip to. What about like Chicago? Yeah. A distance like that where you don't really want to get on a plane, but for the most part, the plane travel is the only real way to do it. Right.

To me, that'd be like a great distance. I think in this case, like a cruise ship or something like that, the travel is part of the time off as well. Right. Because you just sit back and relax and if you have some room, as opposed to being shoved in one seat, it's a little more fun.

You're having some fun. Yeah, exactly. What about to Raleigh or to Georgia? Yeah, sure. Right? Absolutely. Down to the Carolinas? You wouldn't think to fly there necessarily. Nick, my cousin did the Chicago sleeper train. Okay. I think the Phil's are playing the Cubs out there and he always wanted to do it. Any idea what it cost? It was expensive. That's what I thought. Hundreds of dollars. Yeah. They're putting sleeper berths on the buses locally in the city, which is good. Wow. In SEPTA. Yeah.

Man, oh, man. Sleeping birth, please. Wake me up when we get there. Pretty interesting. And I don't know when. I mean, it's a few years away. Like I said, they're going to have a demonstration unit by the second half of 2026. So nothing's going to be, you know, really up and running for a while if it happens. So this website or this YouTube channel that I was talking about following. So the guys were in a number of these things. What they will do is they will wrap the, in this case, the buses in.

in this light killing sort of thing. So looking out the windows option doesn't quite exist. The idea being that you're going to be asleep and not really, I mean, you can, but so it's not really a sightseeing, you know, deal. It's just meant to get you from one point to the other while you're sleeping. Can you imagine creating your own

train line? What kind of money we're talking here? And it amazes me though, like that's why I said, and he's young, like it just amazes me that these young people are doing this. It's a super lofty goal. Yes. And good on you, man. I hope it happens. If I train romantic, you know, that's where the Coldbrookdale thing, the whole Polar Express thing that they do out there with the

the restoration and the train tracks and adding trains on. It's cool. Well, and they're doing so much now. They do every season. They have an Easter ride and into the spring they do summer rides. So they're all year round now. Yeah. So Mike Avena of Concha Hawken, good luck to you, sir. And hey, maybe we can do a live broadcast or a trip on the train. Wouldn't that be awesome? Maybe give us some money. Yeah, maybe give us a little money. Maybe a guppies for a drink, Mike. All right. Here's another City Beat story.

This is kind of a follow-up to something we were talking about when we were in the general store the other day. So I had mentioned that the number of female sports-oriented sports bars is about to quadruple. Yeah, because there's only...

I don't know, like eight of them in the country. And so I saw this story in Philly Voice that I had missed out on and did not know. And it was already written, I think, when I had mentioned that story the other day. But Watch Party PHL, a community of women's sports fans, is looking to open its own bar in Philly next year that would show only women's sports on its TV. So we were wondering out loud, would this type of thing work in Philadelphia? They're going to take a

Crack at it. Any chance they'd want to open one on a train? We can combine both, yeah. Group leaders Jen Leary, Lori Albright, and Fawn McGee and Megan DeTola...

have launched a GoFundMe. It just came out recently, or just recently, last week, with the goal to raise $50,000 to get the project started. Did you say Fawn Lieberman? No, Fawn Lieberwitz. Fawn Lieberwitz. No, Fawn McGee. So, Leary said the business will be open seven days a week, functioning as a coffee shop in the mornings and as a bar in the evenings, and will feature an event space, studio for live podcasting, and

beers from local breweries, including Love City, Dock Street, and Yards. While it won't have a large food menu, Leary said that they will be selling soft pretzels from Center City Pretzel Company and bring in local vendors and food trucks for events. You know what I've seen popping up a lot? The places that are, say, like a Scotch

or a particular type of booze bar in the evening, but in the morning, a cafe. So they're dealing with sort of gourmet coffees and things of that nature in the morning, and then they roll over so that they're not losing the business at that part of the day. That sounds like what these guys want to do. Organizers don't have a space yet, but they are looking at spots in Midtown Village and Center City.

Larry first started Watch Party PHL in April 2024. She said it was born out of her love for the WNBA. During the height of the pandemic, the

The virtual community watching games together was a bright spot for her. And when lockdowns were lifted, she wanted to find the same connection in real life. But she had a hard time finding it. She said there was nowhere, absolutely nowhere in the city showing women's sports on TV with the sound on. And it was really born from a need. That's something that I read in that story the other day. They said you could sometimes get them to change the TV to women's sports, but they wouldn't turn up the audio. Yeah.

Because the overwhelming amount of people wanted to see the men's sports. So the first watch party by the organization was for the title game of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, which featured Philly native Dawn Staley coaching South Carolina to a championship over Iowa, which of course was led by phenom Caitlin Clark. The game had an average of nearly 19 million viewers, and it was the first time the women's NCAA championship game outdrew the men's final.

While Leary was concerned that the group would have a hard time continuing the momentum from that game, she said Watch Party PHL now hosts multiple events per month with around 150 to 300 attendees and even more for big games. That's workable. So it sounds like there's an audience there. So they are going to try to get something going. And we wish them luck because that would be pretty damn awesome. If they put something together, we could have maybe a sorority event. Thought I would pass that along to you. Yeah, totally.

All right, so let's do another City Beat story. There's an event coming up this weekend. Runners are going to be taking the scenic route through Philadelphia for the Love Run Half Marathon. I'm going to kill you! Expected.

To draw more than 11,000 participants for its 12th iteration. The race, which begins and ends at Akins Oval in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, of course, takes participants past City Hall, Love Park, and Boathouse Row. You going to do the run, Preston? Because you tried a little running a while ago and it worked out well. I ran two miles and...

and tore my meniscus on my knee. It was a jaw. A part of your spine was protruding out your rectum. Dude, it sucks. Man, life slaps you in the face with that stuff. It does. There comes a point.

Where your body says, uh-uh, not anymore. Nope, nope, nope. And I wouldn't mind. I do, when I have gone, and I'm done with it. I will never be able to do it again because that tear, that meniscus tear is permanent. It's permanent. But you enjoyed the actual, you enjoyed the running. I liked it. Now, it wasn't a regular distance run or anything like that. I would go out and do, you know, two miles at most.

But I always enjoyed it. I always got a kick. It was nice being outside. Are you looking for substitutes? Would you consider javelin? Javelin? It's not the same. I hadn't considered. Is that good exercise? No, I'm sorry. I'm an elliptical man. You have to be a real incredible athlete to throw a javelin, but is it good exercise? I don't know about that. You have to be in good shape, as you say. Looks fun. Preston, you know what you could do, honestly, though I hear them vilified. I think they're kind of cool.

Oh. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, the ellipticals, the mobile ellipticals. Right. I mean, if I want to get outside, yeah. And look like a douchebag. That's the one problem, is that you look... I was close to getting one, and then I got a ton of feedback that says, yeah, if you want to look like a dick... They look fun, though. They do. But listen, sometimes, you know, for people, some people can't run, and some people can't ride bikes because of their hips and stuff like that. So these...

Stupid looking things like recumbent bikes and these elliptical bikes, they exist for people that can't... You're spot on. But they're always showing the people using them and the ads are always in good shape. It's not like they just got out of... My brother's in great shape. He can't ride a bike. His hips do not allow it. He is a candidate for a young hip replacement. So there are people who are quote unquote in shape, but their bodies can't perform certain... Are those the people riding them though? Yeah.

I mean, that's a good point. No, seriously, that is a good point. If you see somebody doing something like that, rather than immediately judging and going, why are you doing that, douchebag? It might be, this is my only option to get out and do this type of thing. Nick, Terry, who we were hanging out with at Camelback Mountain, she was a long-distance runner. She can't do it anymore, so she has to ride bikes. Okay. Right? Right.

There's something about people that ride incumbent bikes, though, where it turns them into a-holes. And that is an overgeneralization, an unfair stereotype, but it's 100% true. There was a dude who had a recumbent bike who'd ride it on the Wissahickon Trail. Total a-hole? Quadruple a-hole. Like the shuttle of a-holes. And I mean, I'm just walking to your left, to your left, to your left. Shut up!

Isn't that him just warning you that he's coming up? It is. I got it the first 85 times he said it. Oh, he kept saying it. Yes. Well, maybe he hit somebody one time. I don't know. Maybe he hit him. I'm sure people will be angry with me saying that, but you're wrong. They are a-holes. Wow. Okay. I was looking at one for a while. The one issue with the recumbent bike is that you're down so low, if you're taking it out on the street or anything...

Your view, your ability to see and discern what's around you is greatly limited. So the race on Sunday, besides the half marathon, there's also a simultaneous 7K that follows part of the same route. It is sold out, but it's going to be happening rain or shine. It kicks off at 7.30. Road closures and parking restrictions.

will begin as early as 3 a.m. on Sunday. So just a heads up, you can easily do a quick search and find out where those closures are. City officials said traffic delays should be expected during Sunday's run and drivers should avoid the area by using alternate routes. So, Preston, is the height of douchiness using one of those glider things...

With those rounded shoes. Oh, yeah. They're supposed to make you, give you my walking extra exercise. Was it sketchy? Yeah. All right. One more story from the city beats. And this is pretty cool. Highlights from the Eagles Super Bowl season. We'll get an orchestral score. Wow. At the Mann Center this summer during a performance hosted by Meryl Reese. And it's called a championship season. And it will bring the best culture.

clips from the team's dominant run to three giant screens as the Philadelphia Orchestra performs symphonic music from the NFL film soundtrack. So is Merrill Reese conducting because he did the 2001 theme one time. Do we have that recording case? Do we? Yeah.

But yeah, I think that might be kind of cool for the hardcore fan. NFL Films, which is based in Mount Laurel, will have a vast archive to draw from to help Eagles fans relive the season. Yeah, this is Mel Risa directing the Philadelphia Orchestra. In his defense, it was his first time. His first time. Yeah.

You get better as you practice. I want to hear a little more of this. Oh, crap. I hit the button. Okay, never mind. My bad. It's fading out. Much of NFL Films' original music was written by Sam Spence, who served as an in-house composer from the 1960s to 1990. Spence's scores, like Classic Battle, The Magnificent Eleven, and March to the Trenches, are among the hundreds that he wrote for NFL Films.

Is that him? His music has become inseparable from the lore of pro football. I don't know. Is this from NFL Films? This is NFL Films. Yeah, he would have written this if it happened before 1990. I don't know. So name some of the... What we have here is that's called A New Game. The other one is called I Want to Bite Your Heine. This one is called Up She Rises. Up She Rises.

That's NFL films right there. That almost sounds like a bullfighting entrance. And then this one is called Roundup. Okay. I like that. Yeah. What was the one just before? That was Up She Rises.

I want this to play when I flush the toilet. Actually, you know what? We had him, we actually called him out of retirement. Yes. To write a new jingle for us for our new text line. Oh. Do you want to hear that? Yes, please. And there's a vocalist on this. Here we go. 610-660-9333. That is our new phone number. You can also text it.

as well. We had him write that. I know it sounds like a Christmas song. No, it's not. Wait a minute. Originally, it was the tune of Silverbell. Oh, yeah, it was. Remember that? 6-1-0 6-6-0 6-6-0

9-3-3-3 is our number. Oh, dear God. A little pitchy on that. In my defense, I sang that without music. Really? Oh, this is you, mate. 9-3-3-3 is our number. Yikes.

Yeah. So they added the music afterwards? Yeah. Well, then they shouldn't have done that. Okay. So, uh, fans who attend, by the way, uh, this screening of, uh, NFL films and, uh, the Eagles, you know, they're, they're going to be covering highlights from the season. Uh,

They're encouraged to wear Eagles gear and pack a picnic as well. So you can come out and have a bite to eat, enjoy the music and all that stuff with the family. Can you wear a full football uniform? Yeah, I would imagine you can. Tickets or you can get tickets through Ticketmaster or at the man ticket office. Case, does that appeal to you, that notion?

I think so. You know, my first, it was just this past Christmas. We did the Muppet Christmas Carol with the Philadelphia Orchestra. And that was my first foray into doing anything like that. And I know that you guys have been to things like maybe Star Wars, Harry Potter, whatever. Back to the Future was fantastic. It's so much fun. It's really, really great. And I couldn't...

As I'm watching the movie and the music is playing, it just felt like it was part of the soundtrack. Now, I don't know what this is going to be like because there's no movie to watch along with it. Do you have the recording of the Super Bowl on your DVR still? Of course I do. Yeah. In fact, I got to go back and watch that again. So it's going to be Thursday, July 24th at the Performing Arts Center TD Pavilion in West Fairmount Park. So...

Pretty cool little thing that they're doing there. All right, that's City Beat, folks. That's it? That's what's going on in our town. Just thought we would share. We will actually be talking a little bit more about Philadelphia when we have actress Natalie Dormer on the program this morning. She is in the movie Audrey's Children. We just spoke to the writer and producer of the film the other day. It's in theaters nationwide tomorrow, and she plays Audrey Evans, who was the creator of the Ronald McDonald House and a pediatric oncologist and just an

Brilliant woman and a really cool story. And obviously she was at CHOP. Yes. It's rooted right here in Philadelphia. She cut the mortality rate for children in half. Unbelievable. So we will take a break and that's going to be around 930. We'll have Natalie Dormer on. We have some other guests too. We'll tell you about them in a moment. And we're going to get to the beat file when we return. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right. Thank you, Kathy. A little shout out, a little dipsy-doo. A little dipsy-doo. Before we get to the bizarre filing. A little dipsy-doo. If you don't mind, I want to send this out. Kathy, this is to our physical therapist, Christine LaCatta. It is her birthday today. Oh, no. I'm supposed to have margaritas with her today. Oh, no.

Yes, it is today. And we want to send a shout out. She just had knee surgery on Tuesday. And she needs a little shout out and a little feel better. So this is a shout out. She's got magic hands, that Christine. Yeah. She's fixed us up on many occasions. Yes, she certainly has. She's incredible. And somebody came up to me in clear water and was like, I see magic hands too. And I was like, oh, all right. Nice. I see dead people. All right. Let's get to some Bizarre File stories. Here we go. Hey, Chad.

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Brought to you by Helium Comedy Club, bringing Philly the best comics of today and tomorrow live every week. Tickets and lineup at heliumcomedy.com. Wow, how scary is this? A motorcyclist died after he fell into a sinkhole. Yes! And the South Korean Capitol Authority said yesterday. The man was in his 30s and was found in cardiac arrest the day after a sinkhole about 65 feet wide and 65 feet deep.

opened up without any warning as he was driving down a street in Seoul. Dash cam video showed the motorcyclist plunge into the sinkhole while a car in front of him jolted violently as its rear wheels barely avoided the chasm. Yes, he basically fell the height of a six-story building. Yeah, the body was discovered about 160 feet below the center of the sinkhole. Wow. After an overnight search involving about 40 rescue personnel, rescuers also found...

Yep.

Passengers on board Cunard Luxury Cruise Liner Queen Anne were warned to stay vigilant while the 113,000-ton vessel passed through waters known for piracy. A TikTok video showed an announcement.

to passengers as they traveled from Darwin, Australia to Manila in the Philippines through the Sulu-Celabez Sea. And you hear in the announcement, this area is known for piracy threats. They said in the loudspeakers on the rooms, as a result, the crews would be, quote, operating at a heightened level of security alertness during this period, which included the external promenade deck being closed overnight and deck lights on to reduce the ship's external lighting.

And passengers were also asked to turn off their stateroom lights and keep their curtains drawn. Sounds like a fun cruise. Yeah, right? So the announcement said, I assure you that measures to prevent an unlikely incident have been well planned and the likelihood of this happening on a big ship like Queen Anne is absolutely minimum.

A representative for Cunard said, as a part of standard maritime procedures, our captains make precautionary announcements when sailing through certain regions. And they said there was no specific threat to the ship or its guests, and our onboard experience remained uninterrupted. In a follow-up post...

The TikTok user praised the Queen Anne's onboard security writing. So all the blinds were shut. Lights were down to a minimum last night. The security did an amazing job keeping watch over the ship last night. Well done, guys. You can be extremely confident that you're safe. Now, please return to your cabins. Stay in the dark and remain completely quiet. In another video, she showed off the cruise ship's sonic camera.

cannon. Many cruise ships are fitted with a long-range acoustic device which emits a high-pitched targeted noise that can repel attackers. Does it sound like that Star Wars thing? Yeah. The Sulu Celebes... That's it. That's it. There go the pirates. The Sulu Celebes C... God, that drags on. Has...

Previously been a hotspot for kidnapping for ransom incidents, particularly involving groups such as Abu Sayyaf, a violent Islamic separatist group operating in the southern Philippines. So maybe I don't know how to plan a vacation, but I probably would not take that line. So three teenage girls are in custody after allegedly planning to kill their mother.

Because she turned off the Wi-Fi in their home. Deputies say the incident occurred overnight on Sunday. The girls, age 14, 15, and 16, reportedly grabbed kitchen knives and chased their mother through the house and into the street, attempting to stab her. Well, that's actually a good commercial. A Wi-Fi so fast, you'd kill someone for it. Authorities say one of the teens struck the mother with a brick. Wow! Their grandmother was also knocked down while trying to protect their mother. Despite the violent attack, neither woman survived.

sustained serious injuries. All three teens were arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. All have been booked into the county juvenile facility. There was a guy I went to school with who pulled a knife on his parents and locked him in the basement. I'm sure it wasn't over Wi-Fi, was it? No, Wi-Fi didn't exist back then. But yeah, it was a well-known story. Did that guy end up in prison eventually? I don't know what ended up happening to him. That's a good question. I should probably do a little research. Yeah.

A man and two children were found with non-life-threatening injuries Monday near the wreckage of a small plane on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula that had been reported overdue the night before. The wreckage was spotted by what Alaska state troopers called a Good Samaritan aircraft. The pilot and two children were taken to a hospital after the wreckage was discovered Monday morning. And the footage is wild because they landed on a lake. Yeah. The plane sunk.

But the wing stayed just above the water and they were on top of the wing when they saw them. They were Schellenberging it. Yeah, so the three were immediate family members, by the way, in that group.

So the two young passengers were of elementary and middle school ages, and troopers previously said they received a report Sunday that a Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser was overdue and listed suspected locations as Tustamina Lake and the Kenai Mountains. The 60,000-acre lake has been described as notorious for its sudden, dangerous winds. So I don't know exactly what happened, and maybe we'll get a follow-up on that.

All right, and then we'll do one more story and we'll wrap it up. Here's just a, there's just weird things going on in this story or interesting things. A man known for playing his bagpipes at events around Atlanta died in a scuba diving accident while on vacation in Hawaii. And if that's not tragic enough, when his family went to his home to settle his affairs, they found skeletal remains believed to be the missing brother.

Okay, so he's this bagpipe player who dies on a scuba accident and he might very well have murdered his brother. I don't know about murdered his brother, but his brother's body was there. So, Channel 2... It's the same old story. In Atlanta, Channel 2 local news correspondent Tom Jones... Wow. ...talked to a man who said that he's been friends with Henry France Jr. for more than 50 years. He said, we've been friends for so long... This is Leonard E. Wood...

And he said that... Let me ask you something. Did you kill your brother? He said, I'm the godfather for one of his daughters. They were also part of the Atlanta Pike Band.

Of which France was a founding member. The 74-year-old Franz was well known for playing his bagpipes at events all around Atlanta for years. Police in Maui say Franz was killed March 10th during a scuba diving incident. Wood said it's a huge loss, not just for Franz's family, but for the community as well. And then six days after his death, police say family members located skeletal remains...

In a tree house. Oh, man. At Franz's home. This is going to take a while to decipher. Did they explain how he died on the scuba accident? No. Because here's a guy who spends all his time breathing into various things. You'd think he'd be good at that. An investigator said it's probably Hank.

But he said they're still trying to confirm his identity. He also said that he doesn't have a cause of death and doesn't suspect foul play. So they don't suspect foul play at this point. Wow. Wood said that Franz was a great man. He said he didn't know much about his son, though. And it was killing on the pipes. Police in Maui continue to investigate Franz's death. So there you go. That's what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning.

All right, gang. Marisa Magnata has got an event that she wants to tell you about. Yeah, well, surprise, guys. I have been invited to be a woman of impact. Oh, nice. What are they going to drop you out of a plane? Wouldn't that be cool? I've done that before twice, actually. It's true, yeah. Well, no, this is for the Go Red campaign that benefits the American Heart Association. Oh. So I've had a lot of people impacted by heart health issues.

in my life recently. My dad has gone through some stuff. I told you guys about my friend a couple weeks ago who passed away. But bigger than that, my Aunt Joanne has been a proponent for the Go Red Society campaign for years.

And my family has always participated in that. And she is in charge of Go Red this year. Her and my uncle are both working on it together. And they've invited me to be part of the campaign. So here's what it comes down to. I am here for heart awareness. I am here to share with people that, you know, pretty much cardiovascular disease is a number one killer of women. But we tend not to take care of ourselves. So that's what Go Red is all about.

is heart health and encouraging um the women around you and yourself um you know look within to um

Get checked out. Make sure you're doing well. And help women around you as well, too. It's funny that it's the leading cause, and yet we don't... It's not something that we automatically connect with women. It tends to be one of the things that we push off. We worry about all the people around us and forget about ourselves. We recently had within our staff a very... A heart condition that turned very, very bad and almost fatal. I mean, it's obviously your heart. Yes. I was...

with a friend at lunch yesterday and she's 52 and she said that, you know, she had gone to the doctor and she just wasn't feeling great but never thought about it. It was just a routine checkup and the doctor's like, you are moments away from a stroke. Like, like high bread...

high blood pressure medicine could just fix all of this. And it's hereditary. It's not your diet. It's not what you're doing. It's just what you were born with. So it's easy to take care of. Yeah, and you can do things to help with exercise and diet that can help you fix things. So that's what Go Red is all about. And I am on the campaign trail, just similar to what Nick did a few years ago with the LLS. I'm raising money because all the money that Go Red funds is to help women in research,

and awareness. So I have my own campaign and I have some lovely women who are on the campaign trail with me and we're trying to raise money. So we can donate right now? You can donate. There is a link on PrestonandSteve.com and WMMR.com

If you can't find it, it's also linked on my Instagram currently. It may pop up, you know, in the next day or two on our websites. But you can go right to my Instagram, Marissa Magnata. And there's a link right in my stories. I will make sure it's everywhere on Preston and Steve on all of the things. But if you are able to donate, that would be amazing. And if you are the lead donation getter, do you get some sort of accolade? I do, Steve. It's not my main.

goal but what it does is it helps the big overall campaign um my aunt and uncle have a big goal in front of them yeah so i'm trying to help that as much as possible is there a time frame for this uh fundraising that you know of yes it ends on april 10th oh wow okay so soon yes yeah so please get on it i will say when you click the link um it is asking for some big donation numbers i understand it's a little intimidating um go in and you can do custom amount i think

$25 is the lowest. It's just the way the American Heart Association works. So don't be intimidated by the big numbers. If you can donate anything, donate it in the name of a family member or a person that has been affected by heart health in your life or just help somebody that you love. All right. Go red for women. A woman of action. Marissa Magna or a woman of impact.

Yes. I'm sorry. So, excellent. All right. Yeah. Well, good luck with everything. And if you, thank you. And if you click on the page, there's some really fun throwback photos of Go Red events over the years. I dug up and I was like, whoa, I used to be really skinny and cute. John,

And there's some press and you would wear red on Go Red Day. And we got dressed up. So it's really fun. And thank you in advance for anybody who donates. And we do have some events that will be coming up that I'll announce soon. Excellent. So thank you all. You got it. All right. Thank you, Marissa. Good luck with everything. Go Red, everybody. We're going to take a quick break. We will come back in a moment. And Annie Lederman is going to be in our studio appearing at Helium Comedy Club. A little later on, actress Natalie Dormer joining us, too. We'll be back shortly. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you, Kathy, your next guest at Helium Comedy Club. She is shining bright as the sun here in our studio. And we are happy to welcome Annie Lederman. Hi, it's Lederman. Lederman, see? I'm like Lederman or Lederman. Give it to me. How humiliating. I know. It's so good to be here on your last day of work. Such a blemish.

No, it's great to have you back. Yeah. And you're doing a one night at Helium. I'm doing one night at Helium and then I'm going to Canada. Oh, really? What's going on there? Shows?

I'm doing shows. No, I'm just going to hang out. They love us right now, so I wanted to go. I wanted to bask in the... They're going to just be throwing flowers at me. I'm so excited. There you go. Going to Toronto? I'm going to Toronto, yeah. Okay. But we don't care about that. We're in the present. I'm so excited to be here. We're excited to have you, yeah. Yeah. You're fully LA? I'm in LA. Listen to you guys talk about the weather. I want to laugh in your faces. Ha ha. We're very warm out there. We have the sun and the fires, and it's...

It's keeping you warm. It's just so warm out there. I was reading an interview with you, and you were talking about something we've talked about recently, and it's an interesting phenomenon. It's the notion of celebrity and how the notion of the, you know, we used to think, who are the big celebrities these days? But that's sort of changed. Yeah. It sort of changed dramatically. Now, you were out there a lot. I remember when we, you know, going out throughout the years, and you might see a celebrity who was a big thing.

That has changed, hasn't it? I mean, isn't the notion... Because you try to think about who are the big celebrities and the thrill of seeing somebody...

It's not as big a thing as it used to be. Well, there's a lot of, there's still celebrities, they're just the same celebrities. The same celebrities. It turns out Harvey Weinstein did have a big hand in making celebrities. And now that he's off the grid, it's the same. Do you get impressed by? Oh, I get starstruck, but I get starstruck by like realities. There's certain reality shows I'm obsessed with. When I met Greg Probst, I almost like. Oh, really?

Really? You're a Survivor fan? Oh, of course. I haven't seen last night. Don't spoil. So you've watched all the 59 seasons? I've watched them several times. I half watched them so I can be surprised when I rewatch them. We got into the first couple of seasons. I remember that first year, we were consumed by that. Yeah. Because you've not seen anything like it. Eating rats and all that stuff. It became, as with all these things...

everyone in subsequent years starts to I'm going to be this guy of this season and it gets a little but you think it's still as good and fresh as ever? I think they're so hungry, they're so tired they're cold or hot and I think the truth comes out I hate to point this out I got your name wrong but you got Jeff Probst's name wrong too you said Greg

I said Greg. You were thinking of Greg Proops from Whose Line Is It Anyway? Yes, I was. I'm always thinking of him, honestly. Aren't we all? Usually when I'm alone in a bathtub. How would you fare on Survivor, do you think? I ran into him at a coffee bean in LA and he was like, you should come on the show. And I was like, I'm not good without sleep. And he goes, no one is. Oh, I would be a nightmare. I think my fiance could win. I think I would be so...

When I get uncomfortable, I just tell jokes really, really fast. And people don't seem to like that when they have like splitting headaches. And they're being bitten by fire ants. I'm like, are you guys awake yet? It's like, oh, God. You mentioned fiance. So congratulations on that. Oh, thank you. When are the impending nuptials? And are you going to be a bridezilla? You know, I don't even know if I'm going to be a bride. I'm already a zilla. Yeah.

I just... The idea of planning a wedding sounds so insane to me. It's a lot. Yeah. And I'm 40. It's like everyone's already divorced. It's kind of disrespectful at this point. I don't know. My dad's 83. I'm like, I guess I could give him a wedding. I just... I always think like...

We'll probably get married in Vegas, let's be real. Yeah, so Marissa did. She got married at the Punk Rock Museum. And my wife and I did sort of a... I was 37, you know, and it was Destination... Rub it in, you were just a child groom. But I'm like, at that point, you're right. You're like, past the initial early years where you're really going to go nuts. It's like...

We kept it really low key and we've never regretted doing that. Yeah. Like, is the idea of a destination wedding? Are you going to do a full Martha Stewart thing? What's the... There's no Martha Stewart in my heart. There's just nothing. There's no Meghan Markle. There's nothing. I have no interest. Is there a date set? There's no date. Okay. Wow. We love each other and, you know, we have a cute little family of... We have about 27 reptiles and a...

cute dog and I don't know I think we'll probably do Vegas we got engaged in Vegas he proposed to me on a party bus we were on the way to see Criss Angel oh my god we talk about Criss Angel all the time I have a lot of Criss Angel deets we got to have a continue yeah sorry but we so we went my manager got us like all these tickets so my mom was there my dad was there his mom and dad uh

my brothers, their wives, and a couple friends. So they got us all these tickets to the Criss Angel. My twin brother, his wife, me and my fiance got to go backstage and hang out with him. Keenan Thompson was there at the same time. It was really fun. But I had just been proposed to, and the guy who made the ring, he didn't resize it, so it was a pinky ring. Oh, wow. So my wedding, my proposal video is, there's so many profanities, like it couldn't,

My parents were, you could hear the bus was shaking. He went to put the ring on me and I went, oh my God. And I just looked at the camera and just started cursing off the guy who made the ring. It's just basically like a hate, like a threat. I'm threatening the life of the guy who messed my ring up. How romantic. So then I go to the backstage with the pinky. I have all the places to go with a diamond pinky ring. I think Criss Angel is the right place. So we kind of had a big,

proposal where everyone was at and stuff like that. So we'll probably do something like that. Was Criss Angel aware? I mean, because you have celebrity, import yourself. He was aware and he said, do not propose during the show. So I was thinking, I knew it was probably going to happen around the Criss Angel situation. I thought maybe Criss Angel would drop down. He'd pull it out of one of his abs. Yeah. But I think it's just so, his show is so choreographed that if one thing got in the way. Yeah.

Yeah, they can't deviate from it at all. We're fascinated by the Criss Angel thing, and we love also the Jim Carrey parody of him in that. Wonderstone. Wonderstone. But, I mean, the dude has done things like, you know, the piercing hanging and all that stuff. Does the show get very graphic, or what is this stage show like? It actually gets kind of sentimental halfway through, and I knew it was going to happen because I talked to him backstage beforehand, but his son is a survivor of childhood cancer, so he turns into, like...

a very kind of lethargic set is very surprising. You go, oh! Halfway through the show, he just shoots up in a sheet of little kids' handprints, and you're like, oh. It's like, I didn't know I was going to feel these things on a Criss Angel show. That's an entirely different vibe he puts out. Yeah, it's very sweet, though. He's a nice guy. I was reading, so is your fiancé of...

Laotian descent? Yeah, yeah. So, and you were talking about the area he comes from and what distinguishes it or that his parents live in there? I'm sorry, Laotian? To Laos? Yes, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Weren't you impressed that he said Laotian? Yeah. You can't say Letterman, but you can say Laotian. No, I'm just kidding. Everyone gets my last name wrong. But so...

Sorry, I'm sitting weird. No, it's cool. Yeah, no. So his mom is from Laos. She came over when she was young. Her dad was a spy for the Americans. Wow. So they escaped. But her mom had to go across this minefield to get their one sister from... And I'm just... These women are traumatized. They're the funniest. My mother-in-law and her sisters are the funniest people in the world because they were...

you know, hopping over bombs and stuff. Yeah. Oh my God. If you can't appreciate life at that point, right? Oh, they're great. It's so awesome. Yeah. So, so you have that going and, and obviously now you're doing the one night tonight. We didn't ask, are you recording? Is this for a, um, uh, you know, an album or something? No, I'm,

I'm just doing it coming through. I didn't realize how close Canada is. It's an hour and a half flight. My agent is usually like, how much time can we have on an airplane? And this time he actually did me real good. What about yesterday? No, yesterday was my... Okay, so this is on me. So my flight was at 9 a.m.

I woke up. I slept through my alarm. I woke up at 7.15. I hadn't packed yet. So I'm throwing all my stuff together, trying to get ready. We get in the car. We get to the airport with like 20 minutes. I got TSA pre-check. I'm like, I can probably do it. It's like boarding now, but I'll probably get in there. I get in there. My fiance leaves. I realize I don't have my cell phone. I left my cell phone in the car. Oh, no.

Oh, no. And I have, as a bit, no one thinks this is funny except me. I have purposefully not learned my fiance's phone number. I just think it's funny to not know it. He's always like, why don't you know my number? I'm like, I'll never know it. And then jokes on me. So I'm trying to call my parents from TSA, you know, the information desk. No one's picking up. And then I have to get my computer out, log in, get the WhatsApp, get my fiance's phone number. Oh, okay. We call and he comes back around.

This is basically an ad for Tesla. They're very fast. Is this LAX? This was LAX. So you can loop around there. He was on his way home, but we live close to the airport. So it all worked out perfectly. And I got there with four minutes to spare. So then I spent three of them getting a water bottle. And I got my booty on that flight we got here. But it was a miracle. Wow. It was a miracle. Are you a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of traveler? Or are you usually well-prepped? Oh.

to run to the gate like my fiance is going to meet his ex-girlfriend. Like it's Molly Ringwald in the airport. I'm Ross and Rachel. I don't have much semblance in my life, but when it comes to travel and packing, I love to have all that stuff set and ready so that when I wake up the next morning, my outfit is... I don't pick outfits. My outfit is waiting there. Oh, you didn't pick that outfit? No.

No, no. I'm not traveling today. No, you look great. I like your fish shirt. It's my uniform. Adidas pants, fish shirt, or something along those lines. But no, I just get satisfaction in having my stuff staged. And then all I have to do is just wake up, brush my teeth, and go. Yeah. You know? Well, I mean...

I would probably get satisfaction out of that, but... It's not your way. Well, I do a show the night before. You know, I'm like at a show by the time I get home. It's like, you know, and then I'm like, I don't want to pack right now. I'll pack. I'll just get up at 6 in the morning and then at 7.15, I'm like, oh. Our midday guy is literally the... They're closing the door. You know, he's running, you know, it's every time. Every time. He went out...

He knew he was taking a flight and went down to Rodeo, drive this out in your neck of the woods, and bought like nine types of conditioner and all this stuff that well exceeds the amount of liquids you can bring on. And he had to throw it out. Oh, bummer. All of it, yeah. It was like hundreds of dollars worth of product.

That's what you get. You're getting Chanel shampoo. When I was just traveling, I had two water bottles that were unopened on my backpack. And I didn't realize it until I was going through the security check. And I was like, oh, crap, I'll just throw those away. And they're like, oh, no, we can check it. And so they took the water bottles and put it in this little machine. The machine made sure that it was just water. They let you have it? They can do that now? No, I've never seen that before. I wouldn't rely on that. That might have been one specific thing.

One cool TSA guy. I can't remember if it was in Venice or if it was in Frankfurt. I can't remember which airport, but it wasn't in the United States. That pisses me off, the variations. We talk about this. So leaving Philadelphia, I have my computer and an iPad in the bag, and they didn't make me take it out. It's different machines. Is that what it is? If you see the bigger round machine, they'll let you keep your electronics in. So sometimes you're in the wrong line.

And you're looking and you're going, oh, I wanted to go into that one. You got to get pre-check, everybody. I'm here. I'm here. I stand pre-check. It's life-changing. Keeping your shoes on, the disrespect of them making you take your shoes off. Yeah. The disrespect. We had a shoe bomb in 1992 and we got to take our shoes off.

Meanwhile, the planes are duct taped together. Guys, let's focus. Focus. It's a problem, though, that so many people are doing it now. Preston, you'd mentioned there's a few different versions now. So I've got Global Entry, which gets you the pre-check as well. Oh, my God. My Lord. But there's another one now. No, there's another one, Annie. And I saw it at a different airport. And it was like the line was even shorter than the pre-check clear. Clear is such a rude one. I love clear. It's like you're just...

You get in the front of everyone else that has early access. And then they just put you right in front of them. They'll push the wheelchair people out of the way. And they go, sorry, this person paid an extra $10. They're beating you. I have clear, but sometimes, and they want to look at your eyes and just go, oh, I have not washed my face in three days. I always look and go, oh, there's a mask here on there. But yeah, no, it's awesome. But I had a thing at TSA that was almost really, I almost was going to have to be a bus comic.

Because I had my mother-in-law who's from Laos. She gave me this bracelet. There's this company that goes and they set off all of the bombs. Because Laos is the most per capita bombed place in the world. That's it, yes. Because after the Vietnam War, they just were like, we don't know what... The Americans were like, we'll just drop these bombs on Laos, who cares? And I think Obama was the only president to acknowledge that we ever did that.

And, you know, where is he now? But, you know, but there's other things you could acknowledge. But anyway, so we, so she got me this bracelet from this company and it's made from some of the bombs. It's this metal bracelet. So she gets it. It's hard to take off. So I had it on and I'm going through TSA and it keeps beeping. It keeps beeping. I go, what is going on? And then I realized it's the bracelet and I was 10 seconds away from going, come on.

Guys, this is a bomb. Like, explaining what it was. This is my bomb bracelet. Guys, it's a bomb. But I didn't. Jesus. I caught myself right before. But can you imagine? But no. I wonder if it has any, like, lingering material on it. Because, you know, they, like, you know, sometimes they'll pull you aside and they'll swab your hands. Bomb-making material. Well, even if you put lotion on your hands and then touch your...

I think that test is a thing. There's weird things. Every time I go through. So in 2014, I had prostate surgery and my prostate removed. Ooh, sexy. Too early for this. Yeah, I know. But what happened was... I'm just imagining you on the table. Cutting away. It's all good.

But the weird thing is, it leaves something that shows up on the x-ray machine when I go through and they are forever patting me down in that area. It's a gerbil. It's my gerbil. It's my support gerbil. The doctors gave it to me. It's weird how...

The machines are sort of, you know, finicky that way. I wanted to say before Annie came on, I assaulted her, Preston, because she is... You're now horror royalty. We were talking about this. You're in Terrifier 3. You're a huge fan of the Terrifier series. I mean, if you're not, what are you, crazy? You don't want some people getting chopped up? What are you? Some people... And I get it.

Listen, this is a movie series you can get if people can't process it. I get it. No, I think that's the goal is to be like, how messed up can I make this movie? Right. And you've been a fan all along? Oh, I loved it. We saw the first one on Amazon or whatever it was on streaming. Yeah. And then we saw that the second Terrifier was going to be in theaters. I'm like, we got to go see it. Oh, my God.

God, heaven. We got to go see it. So then we go see it and I go on a live, and we only had a limited time in the movie theater, so I go on a live stream on Instagram and I'm telling everyone, I'm like, you got to see this in the movie theater. It's unbelievable. People were screaming. It was so funny. It was like, it's

I love horror because it's basically the same as comedy. It's all this tension and release. And particularly this series is so hilarious. It's so funny. It's so bad you can't even believe it. It's inherently meant to push it so far that you cannot... Some have tried to do it and they don't understand. They don't get it. Damien Leone gets it. And the cast gets it. When they're eviscerating a dude from his balls up with a chainsaw... When they split the balls...

Oh, God. He always went up. You're always like, he's never going to be able to one-up what he did the time before. But you start laughing. Did they actually show the nutsack hitting split? It's amazing. Oh, my God. I got to see the nutsack before. I got to see the prosthetic one. I got to see the booty and everything. But so I went on this live stream and I was raving about this movie. I'm like, go to the theaters before it runs over.

And then someone was like, you should follow Damian Leone on Instagram. So I go to follow him and he's already following me. And that's where it all started. And so you got in the movie. Well, I made him on camera on my podcast. I made he was going to put me in it. And then when they were casting it, people were like, you know, they're casting. Are you going to be in it?

And I went, oh, I don't know. So then I started just DMing him nonstop and being like, Damien, if you don't kill me, I'll kill myself. And then, spoiler, I don't die in it, but. No, you're cool. You're really cool. And then Chris Jericho, bye. Yes. And then a friend of the show, Daniel Roebuck, who is in a great Santa scene in the bar.

Oh, yeah. Wasn't that amazing? His death is particularly brutal. Yeah, it's so good. Now, do you feel a little rooked because you didn't get to get an on-screen kill? Listen, I'm always hopeful to be murdered in another one, and Damien will never get rid of me. I mean, I badgered this man. He goes, we don't have the budget to fly you out. I go, I got miles. My friend was flying private. I ended up going on a private jet. I sent him a picture of me doing the tongue between the fingers on a private jet. I'm like, Damien,

I'm coming. It was really fun. Oh, that's awesome. And he let me come watch some kills and stuff. It was really fun. I wanted to ask you about your time in Philadelphia when you were younger. And we don't have to go too deep into it, but I listened to the Honeydew podcast not that long ago. And you went to the Creff Old School here in Philadelphia. You have some incredible stories about that place.

But you have something in common with Preston that I wanted to share. And you went to high school with a guy who's had some success in Philly. And I would like to, if you're all right with it, share the hotbox story that you talked about when you were going to school that one time. And then the dude who made the bongs. Sure. Yeah. I was getting picked... This guy would pick me up from school to give me a ride because we lived in the same area. And one time he brought...

I've never said his name, but I don't think it's incriminating. It's his job. So he picked me up with this kid, Luca, who is a great guy. And they picked me up and they hotboxed the car with weed. And I'm 14 or 15 and I smoke weed, but I'm not like... I'm not like a fish concert. So they hotboxed it. I'm so high. We used to also go to this place, Rex Avenue, which is a dead end street. I don't know why we thought that was a good place to smoke weed where the cops could just...

Yeah, just corner you. For no reason. Yep. But so we, so they hotbox the car and they think it's so funny they've gotten me so high. But I'm like, I can't go to school. I'm like, I cannot go to school. Like, I am not functioning right now. I can't pull this off. Right. You know, you know what it starts to be. And it's a school where they would notice, right? Yeah. It's just like, it's, you know, it's to the point where, you know, when you smoke so much weed, it becomes like a hallucinogen. I'm like, oh God, are we already at school? But they thought it was funny. So they bring me to school anyway. Yeah.

And we come into school and I'm like so nervous I'm going to get in trouble. And then they go, it's movie day.

And it was just a movie day. So I just was like, okay. Awesome. And nothing happened. But Luca is now, he started, they had a glass blowing studio at the school. Don't send your kids there. Listen to the honeydew. But they had a glass blowing studio there. And so Luca, my friend from high school, he would always make vases, you know, with holes in them.

And they make these bongs that were really beautiful and amazing. And he ended up having a bong empire. His Illidel bongs. Oh, Illadelphia. Get out of here. They made a custom bong for me. Is that the one that broke? Yes. Some son of a bitch. It had my name and our logo inscribed on it. It was gorgeous. It would have been so funny to just tip it over and smash it in front of you. Somebody broke it. I know. It was just a stem that got broken. It's terrible.

Totally salad. Do we still have it? I thought the whole tube got busted. Well, Luca, if you're listening. Yeah. Yeah, here it is. But I haven't seen him in years. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. That was a great bone. That's good stuff. Isn't that cool, though? I missed that bone.

It's like when you look at pictures of your dog from years ago. Oh, I remember you. That was a good boy. That dog was so cute. I had a three-foot bong, and for Mother's Day one year, I took a picture of me putting its backpack on and a hat on. Did you name it? Did you name your bong by any chance? It was named Allie Bong. Okay. Instead of Allie Wong. Allie Wong. Oh. Yeah.

We had a bong named Ford because we found it. And Ford stood for found on road dead. I don't know why, but that was the Ford bong. And then the collection of graphics that we had, too. Those were always the best. Isn't that so cool to be like a stoner, juvenile delinquent kid and turn it into like an empire? Yes. Oh, my God. It's a dream come true. Do you know what's the most amazing and bizarre and...

The perfect example of bad timing is Tommy Chong did time in prison for selling bungs. And now...

I know. Sometimes you're like, you kids don't know how you get... They don't have any smoking weed. You're like, you're not even smoking it because it's not even cool anymore. Yeah. Yeah. There's vaping. Yep. Do you indulge in anything or no? Vaping? And weed and vaping. I got to vape, but I'm, you know, I'm in town. My parents are around, so I'm like a 12-year-old. What about ketamine? Ketamine.

ketamine well of course I love my ketamine I tell people because I don't drink instead of saying California sober which is when you smoke weed but you don't drink I'm Kentucky Derby sober I just do whatever the horses do I'll take ketamine I'll boop an ivermectin shove it right up that hole let's go baby I'll even sniff some glue I like that Kentucky Derby what does ketamine do? I don't even know anyone oh it's just an amazing is it a high?

It's yes. By the way, here's her alarm clock. Right in my head, I'm on cat means. I was like, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Well, you've done the ayahuasca, right? Ayahuasca, yeah, all of it. But ketamine actually will help you retrain the neuropathways in your brain. It's really a therapeutic, beautiful thing. You can use it at a rave or you can... So it can help with anxiety and things along those lines? Oh, it's incredible. It's really cool. So you have tangible results. You can actually feel yourself. Yeah, it's so helpful. It's a really cool thing. I also like, you can use it. I've become my own snake before. I've burrowed in my own...

A little dirt. It's very fun, but it's a cool medicine. And when I first started my podcast, my ad lady was like, well, what are your interests? I'll get you ads with them. I said, well, I love spray tans and ketamine. And she got me. I didn't get a spray tan sponsor, but I did. I had this company Mind Bloom. It was really awesome. And they're not sponsoring me anymore, but it was very cool.

You watch the docuseries with Aaron Rodgers by any chance? I actually have. I do want to watch that, though. Yeah, because he really delves deeply into ayahuasca journeys. Does he? Really? Oh, yeah. And not only that, but there's footage of him. He's at some quarterback camp of some sort. And Jared Goff, who's a quarterback for the Detroit Lions, who just looks like, you know, Mr. Clean Cut. And he's like, hey, I want to talk to you a little bit about that...

medicine is what he calls it. And he's like, yeah. And so, you know, he's kind of like a high profile guy. He was until he did ayahuasca. Ruined his whole career. He's going alright. No, I'm just kidding. Your parents are still here in Philadelphia? Well, they're moving. I'm staying at their place, but I can't go home after this because...

They're having someone come take pictures of their house because they're moving. And I'm used to my parents letting me do whatever I want. So I'm like, the only time they told me I couldn't come home was one anniversary of theirs. They're like, why don't you just stay out? I had moved back to home when I was like 23. And I didn't have any friends in town. So I just was like, are you sure? And they're like, I guess you can say. And I just heard like, I was like, oh, God. It's traumatic. They're quarterly banging. Oh, no.

Are they moving out of state? They're moving to Cherry Hill. Oh. Yeah, to be near my nephews. All right. So we're going to be a whole Jersey. There's no more Philly. No more. So, yeah. And so how many years were you in Philly, old tall? Well, I was in Wincott. I was in Cheltenham. Okay. You got to tell everyone that. Yes. You don't want to be a fraud. Yeah, it's stolen valor. Yeah, exactly. But we were there. I left when I was like 17, and then they moved to...

Yeah, they moved around, but I was always coming back and stuff. But I never really lived here full time since I was 17. Do you feel that you're now, you consider yourself a West Coaster now? Do you fit in? Do you feel like you're... Because so many people move out, but still there's always that. They keep the Philly irons and the fire. The problem is with LA is the Philly ball busting, they really don't...

they think they take it very seriously and they're like oh my god just be mean to me yeah i mean it happens in all of comedy i ran into a guy even when i was in new york an old friend of mine and he was he was saying something like well you were like really mean to me you know five years ago and i go well what did i say and he goes you looked at my outfit he said where'd you get your outfit the trash can and then i looked down at him i go you're dressed like i go you still well i go well and he goes you're being mean to me again i go i'm four

I'm 40. I'm wearing a leopard print jacket. I look bipolar. I'm like, is there nothing you can make fun of me for back? Oh, my God. I'm insufferable. My voice is gravelly. Like, you got nothing? Yeah. It's a tennis match. Yeah, it's a back and forth. I look like I had top surgery. I look like Scarlett Johansson's wax figure if you just took a lighter to the boobs. I'll tell you this, though. These days and over the course of years, you're looking extra Scarlett Johansson-y. Mm-hmm.

Well, thank you. Well, I have the hair extensions and stuff. I don't want to look like her in a marriage story. Remember she cut her hair? I never watched the movie, but I assume the plot line of that movie was that she cut her hair and then her husband wasn't attracted to her anymore. Your hair looks so good. What kind of extensions do you have? We were just talking. Oh, I clip them in. At night, I'm Homer Simpson. I got three hairs on top of my head. One curly hair.

I was looking at your promo photos. I was on Helium's website and I'd seen it a few different times, but it wasn't until this morning that I realized that your abs in the photo are painted on. I had no idea. I went through an ab drawing on Faze and then I got on Ozempic and I said, oh, I guess we could just

I just thought it was funny. I learned how to draw abs on and I was like, oh, this is hilarious. Because I wouldn't draw them all the way to the side so they would just stop when you'd see me from profile. Yeah, I just always thought it was so funny. I mean, you're in shape. Do you exercise? I do Pilates and yoga about once every three to six months. Okay.

they recommend once every six months yeah it's a good it's a process no I go on and off I have ADD so I go hard for a little while yeah you just fall out of it for a bit but I like yoga and Pilates yeah there you go that's where I'm an LA girl but I do love LA I can't is everyone doing Ozempic out there everyone's doing Ozempic yeah I think everyone's doing Ozempic everywhere now yeah which is kind of cool yeah

Except your muscles. I've been noodle armed since I did it. But I got off of it six months ago and it changed my brain. It's easy to not overeat. Oh, really? I don't know. They say that you need to be on it forever. You did not. That's so crazy. What about taste? Anything change? Nope. Because some people have had taste issues where either your sense of taste kind of deadens or...

Some things don't taste the same. I had not one bad side effect. Really? No nausea? Nothing? Nothing. Wow. Okay. Because Casey, you said you had a little bit of nausea. I had the nausea thing. The taste thing, I think I connect that with COVID. Yeah, COVID messed everyone up. COVID definitely changed the way things taste in my mouth.

But the Ozepic... Quick, someone put something in his mouth right now. Drink some pineapple juice. No, no, but the Ozepic definitely helped with portioning your control. My brain just isn't... I just didn't realize how much I was thinking about food all the time. I just don't really think about it like that. They say that Magerno is the lighter...

one right yeah well my doctor my doctor I have like a telehealth doctor who is the one who was prescribing it to me which I'm not taking it anymore but I was talking to him first of all he goes guess what I'm a fan of story wars which is this awesome show that the legion of big J.O. and it's actually like the most epic it's so fun watch my episode please and watch every episode I'm so proud of these guys they made the coolest thing

But my doctor's like, yeah, I watch Story Wars. And I was like, I don't know if I like that or not. Like, do I trust you anymore? But he was saying they're coming out with like new stuff where it won't attack the muscle at all. It'll only go to the, they're really perfecting it and it'll be a pill. So there were muscle side effects to it? Well, you get a little weak here.

A little weak. Okay. But you look cute. There you go. That's important. That's a trade-off. You look cute. Well, listen, Annie will be looking fabulous tonight at Helium Comedy Club. One show, 8 o'clock. Tickets at heliumcomedy.com if you haven't seen her in Terrifier 3. Yes. See that too. She's our royalty now. Yes. I'm so excited about that. Damien rules.

But get your tickets now for the show, heliumcomedy.com. It is great to see you. Thanks for taking the time to stop by here. You guys are my favorite. So I'm honored that you always have me on. You got it. Anytime. Annie Letterman, guys. Got your name right that time. We're going to take a break. We'll be back. Natalie Dormer will be joining us shortly. Stay with us.

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So Flyers associate coach Brad Shaw has been named the interim head coach and will assume duties immediately. Danny Breer...

I released a statement and said, today I made the very difficult decision to move on from John as our head coach. Said John played a vital role in our rebuild. He's set a standard of play and reestablished what it means to be a Philadelphia Flyer. John's passion on the bench was only equaled by his charitable work in our community. And we move into the next chapter of this rebuild. And I felt that this was the best rebuild.

For our team to move forward, I'd like to thank John for his tireless work and commitment to the Flyers. Nick, the Flyers have the fifth worst record in the league right now. Yeah. Which, listen, it bodes well for draft picks and stuff like that. Do they do that the same way the NBA does with the lottery, or is it worst team gets the first pick? It's a little different. There are similarities, but...

yeah finishing with a bad record can help uh get you secure you the number one pick um just off the bat i hate this move i really like torts a lot i think that uh the team itself wasn't great um but he was a guy that could help guide them uh to to getting better i think he's a really good nhl coach also in the nhl there's kind of a bit of a revolving door when it comes to coaches there's not a lot of new coaches that enter the league um

So they're going to recycle someone else? They'll hire somebody who's been a head coach elsewhere. But I liked Torts a lot, and that sucks. Just a nice guy. And approachable. A transparent... A no-nonsense guy, that's for sure. Yeah, I wonder if the team just kind of gave up on him because they've been fairly crappy for the last month and a half, two months, and yeah, it's a shame. Is it possible... I'm sorry, go ahead. No, I was going to say, he butted heads with Mitchkoff quite a bit this, and that's...

Right now, he's the star of the team. But John's the coach. And Mishkov's a kid. And you've got to listen to your coach, man. I love Mishkov. I love what he's going to bring to this team. I think he's a superstar in the making. But John Tortorella has earned the respect. And Mishkov should have given him more. Is it possible that there's such a small pool to pick from that they'll accidentally rehire him as coach? Honestly, dude.

I wouldn't be surprised. It really is a revolving door. That's a shame. It is. That's hockey. Look over there. It's baseball. Our friend John Brazier is here with us this morning from your Philadelphia Phillies. Hi, John. I like the music. Is this my walk-up music right here? Yeah.

What movie is this from, Casey? The Natural. The Natural, man. The Natural? Yeah. Yeah, I like that. We were spending time with John in Florida for spring training. I had a great time with you guys. It was, you know my highlight? The highlight definitely was Charlie Emanuel in the tent. Yeah.

Right? I mean, he just was so... I can't say enough good things about Charlie Manning. Yeah. And you guys have a nice relationship with him. And I got to tell you, the players we had on Thursday were phenomenal. I didn't know Jordan Romano, so I kind of took a little risk on that one, right? And I'd seen interviews with him. But man, what a great interview. And then obviously you have Martian Stubbs.

And Stubbs will be back. I know he's down in AAA now, but he'll be back at some point. Romano was awesome, dude. Or Romano. Romano. He said we can call him either. He said either. He was super nice. He was really approachable and easy to talk to. So that was cool to get to know him. Yeah, and same thing. I didn't get to know him, but just listening to him, you kind of, you know, there's not too many Canadians that are bad guys. Right. Yeah. So, yeah, it was great. That was great.

All right, so obviously Washington, opening day today, they get started. I got to tell you, this is, believe it or not, this is my, I know I look really young, but this is my 32nd opening day, which is crazy. And it's still exciting. Every time, I mean, you get a fresh start. I know last year ended poorly. We did have 95 wins. We can't forget we had 95 wins.

But it ended poorly, so you got a new start. I got to tell you, talking to a lot of baseball, national baseball writers, people are very excited about this team. Maybe not, we don't have the buzz because, again, the way it happened last year, we didn't go out and get a Soto, but we got Romano, we got Kepler, we got Lozardo, guys we really need to fill needs.

And I tell you what, some of the guys like Sanchez, who will be starting on our home opener on Monday, people are, a lot of the national writers are saying that's a dark horse for the Cy Young. I mean, he looks nasty. He added a new pitch.

And same thing, Alvarado. Did you guys see Alvarado down there? No. I mean, he slimmed down a little bit, and he didn't give up much down in spring training. So if that's basically a forebearing of what's coming this season, look out in the back of the bullpen. So I'm excited about this team, and we'll see. Who's leading off?

Well, I think Rob said right now that it's going to be, you know, Turner and Schwarber. It'll be kind of back and forth and we'll see what gives. And the good news is we know what we get with Schwarber and we're hoping that maybe, you know, with Turner just gives us a new look. Hey, how's Alvarado's English, by the way? Pretty good. Yeah. I find him to be hilarious. I'd love to get him on the show. You know, sometimes guys that are Spanish speaking aren't great radio guests and, and, um,

But if his English is good, I think he'd be really fun and funny. I can certainly, yeah, he's got a big personality. I can certainly check that out. Okay. Quick question about the spring training and everything. Obviously, we were bearing witness to a lot of what was going on. And so, overall, and you've been through so many of them, I assume you have a good inclination as to how it went. Would you say that at the end of this spring training, everything was achieved that needed to be achieved? Because we know, we learn now more that it's,

These aren't supposed to be indicative of what the season's going to be like. It's more an active exercise in getting to play against other actual human beings and work out the kinks. Well, spring training used to be, way back when, the time to get in shape. Now, with the money that's in the game and just everything that's at stake, these guys come in and they spend their off-season right in the get-go. The season ends, they're getting in shape, both baseball shape and just physical shape.

So that's not the case anymore. I think what you want to see in spring training is, at least for me, is see some of the new guys and how they fit in. And then see also some of the guys, whether it's a pitcher, whether they're working on new pitches. You can't look at the numbers in spring training anymore.

you know, Aaron Nola could be working on, you know, a new pitch. And in spring training, in game situation, he's going to be using, he's going to be toying around with that new pitch. And then all of a sudden he gives up, you know, let's say he gives up three runs. Everyone's like, oh my God, what's wrong with Aaron Nola? Well, they don't know that he was working on something. And sometimes too, the hitter in spring training, they're working on their timing, but they know that if the pitcher's thrown like three fastballs in a row, he's probably working on maybe location on the fastball. So they're hunting a fastball and then boom. So

It's tough to look at stats down there, but what you can see is you want to make sure that you come out of spring training healthy. That's

number one, right? Right. Because some teams basically fall apart in spring training because they get hurt. Second thing is just see how the new guys play and how they're fitting in. My favorite thing to do on opening day is if a Philly hits a home run is to time that by 162 and proclaim that they are on pace to hit 162 home runs this season. Right. My favorite thing to do, I think I've done it every single opening day. Yeah.

for as long as I can remember. Yes, it's fun to extrapolate. I mean, I was watching the Sixers game last night and they gave up 45 points in the first quarter. I said, wow, they're looking at 180, they're going to give up 180 points, right? And that's the negative side, but on the positive side, right. For opening day, someone goes four for five, right? Yeah. You're like, wow, this guy's...

The Major League Baseball season started already with games overseas. Are there any more games overseas this season? No. As far as I know. The Phil's played the Mets in London last year. The Dodgers played the Cubs in Japan, right? Yep. I want to say there might be a...

There might be a Mexican series. I got to get back to you on that. But I know there's not a London series this year. Do you like doing the long distance stuff? Did you like being in London last year? I don't know if the players loved it. I think the players loved just being in London and checking it out. But just from the grind of a season schedule, I think it was pretty tough for them.

but I think they enjoyed the experience. I personally love it. You know me, I love traveling everywhere. Well, they're all worried how you're going to fare. Exactly right. But the London series, I mean, you can't beat that. No, it's cool, but the travel is just enervating, and I can see an athlete going, oh, man. Well, especially the grind of a baseball season. I mean, 162 games, and then you're putting in international, or the Cubs and the Dodgers played over in Japan.

Which is pretty far away. Yeah. So home openers on Monday, right? Yep. What's coming up at the ballpark? All right. So when you get down to it, first of all, the opening day is spectacular. I mean, today is great because we're going to all get excited for the season. Monday is, if you want to come down, if you don't have tickets, the team store opens at 10 a.m. So you can go in there. There's all kinds of merchandise in there. A lot of fanatic merchandise. A lot of opening day merchandise. A lot of 2024 NLE's champion merchandise.

We have a block party. Again, that's open to the public. That's from 1230 to 230. If you're lucky enough to have tickets, please come to the game on or come into the gates about 230. Make sure you're in your seats by 235 because that's where we're going to do the opening day walk where the players walk through the crowd down on the field through the stands.

which is pretty cool. We unfurled, all fans are going to get a 2024 NLE's Champions pennant, right? Every fan. We're going to have a highlight video. We're going to have 50 safe flags. We're going to have the giant American flag, which to me is the coolest part of opening day. We're going to have player intros.

Kane Cowles, son of Harry Cowles, will be singing Become Our Tradition. Wow. National anthem right in front of his dad's statue, which is always cool. We're going to have a flyover during the anthem. 177th Fighter Wing. So we're going to have four F-16s that'll be coming over. That's always cool. First pitch, we have a Nemours...

divorce children's health patient uh we throw out the first pitch and we have a uh a surprise first pitch so we just got to keep that as a surprise all right uh and then we have let's play ball is it sold out it's sold out love that yeah so it's going to be of course we're doing pretty really well on ticket sales but there's tickets available for you know various games especially in april and may and of course

They're calling for rain on it. Are they? We don't say those words. I know. Dude, every year. Every year. And it can change. It does change. Well, we've had it. If you remember, we've had it where we've canceled the game. And then that's why we have a day off on Tuesday. We have a day off the next day. And we've canceled the game in the past. And then next thing you know, of course, it's like beautiful. And we could have played through it. But I mean, the reason I brought up, it's sold out. So it's okay.

But I think you'll be all right. And we've been there for opening day on several occasions. Pretty amazing. Rain or shine, it's a great time because everybody's in a great mood. Everyone's in a great mood. It's so much fun. You guys do all kinds of extra special pomp and circumstance for it, so it just makes it a fun event to be at. And it's going to be cool when you come into the ballpark. I can't get into the particulars, but just the sound and the visuals will be like...

No other you've experienced. Really? Yeah, when you come in, you're going to be, get ready because we've done a lot of things in the off season. So it'll be pretty cool when you come to the ballpark. Okay. What about during anything in the season, any special nights you want to mention or, you know, like musical guests or anything along those lines? I know you guys work on it throughout the year. We do. Yeah, we are doing postgame. We have Nate Smith, who's a country artist, June 10th. We also have Nelly. Nelly, Nelly. Down the road at a postgame concert.

Actually, we have four giveaways in the first six games. So, I mean, throughout, we have McDonald's opening night t-shirt. That is on Wednesday, April 2nd. We've got a Cavity Busters kids opening day knit hat because it's a little cool weather out there. So, yeah. We still have a lot of the same giveaways. We've got a lot of

Bobblehead dolls, I know Zach Wheeler, JT Rolamuto. We have a Brandon Marsh basketball jersey, which will be a cool thing. Oh, wow. Nick Cassiano's wristbands. Cool. Yeah. And actually for women, we have, it's probably the best giveaway we've ever done. It's a puffer. It's a white puffer vest.

Oh, really cool. Nice. Yes. Like a down. A lot of good giveaways. Yep. But go on Philly. You can see all the promotions this year and a lot of good ones. It gets you ready for the postseason. Yeah, exactly. Right. That's awesome. Well, we do have a pair of tickets to give away. I've been told, which is fantastic. So we can do that right now. And we will. Let's just take a text or Marissa. That's OK. What does one mean? You're holding up a.

Okay, anyway, we'll take a texter. We're number one, Preston. Not texter number one. Just text the... Marissa, I'm turning your mic on. We didn't set this up ahead of time. We've got a guest coming up in a moment. What word would you like people to text? Phillies? Oh, I was not ready for that. Sorry. We can do Phillies in about 30 seconds. All right, wait about 30 seconds and then text the word Phillies...

to our new text number, which is 610-660-9333, and then we'll randomly grab a winner, and we will set you up with those tickets, and we'll make sure we acknowledge who that person is. But we do have an interview in about one minute that's going to start, so I wanted to make sure that we got that done. But, John, yeah, we're stoked about the season, man. I'm hoping for big things. Well, let's hope and pray. So here we go. All good. Great to see you, buddy. All right, love you guys. John Ray Jones!

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We're your Philadelphia Phillies. And yeah, that game is today. It opens at, or the game starts at 4.05 today. And play ball, my friends. Yeah, in just a little bit, we're going to have Natalie Dormer. Our MRSA is getting that set up. I just handed it out. She's like a minute or so away. So while we are awaiting that, what did I want to mention? We got so many. Yeah, you have a lot of papers in front of you. We have things.

You know what? I want to mention, and we'll have giveaways a little bit later on, but I have an appearance tonight. I'm actually hosting Comedy Night at Parks Casino at the 360 Lounge at Joe Conklin Comedy Night. How long are you up there? I'm just for... Why?

You're set. How long is this set? Oh, yeah. What I do is I throw out t-shirts. That's my big gag. All right. Well, have fun with that. Our guest is on the line. There we go. Ready to go. We just had the writer and producer of this film that she is promoting on the show the other day. It's great. This Philadelphia connection is so wonderful. She's going to be portraying Dr. Aubrey Evans in...

And, of course, we know her as the creator of the Ronald McDonald House, pediatric oncologist, groundbreaking scientist, and an inspiration for women everywhere. And it's called Audrey's Children. It opens tomorrow. This is going to be a phenomenal movie for you to get out and see. And we are excited to have on the program the star of that film, Natalie Dormer, joining us. Good morning, Natalie. Good morning.

Hello. Hello. Natalie, I'm curious, before you took on this role, were you aware of the Philadelphia connection of Ronald McDonald House and CHOP, obviously? I was not, and I was flabbergasted that I didn't know. I didn't know that this incredible British woman had gone over and made Philadelphia her home and had had such an impact at CHOP and on...

cancer treatment for children internationally and I didn't know that the first Ronald McDonald House Charities house was in Philadelphia either so it was a wonderful learning curve for me and I was like why doesn't everyone know this we have to tell this story. Well you know what here it's not well known and I mean we obviously CHOP is beloved and we're very proud of the Ronald McDonald House and we've had many interactions and charities that are based around it but this story itself is elusive to even people here so to shine the light on this

And this amazing woman, I mean...

In preparation for this and throughout working on it, I know the stories are many of you encountering people who are walking on this earth because of her endeavors. That has got to be an emotionally amazing thing to experience. It really is. I genuinely don't think I'll ever have the privilege to play a role like this ever again. As you say, I've had people clasp my hands and say, thank you. I am an Audrey's child.

And I would not be here without her. And that's so incredibly moving. And we were just embraced. Jimmy Simpson, you know, he's a tri-state boy. Wonderful Clancy Brown. Like we were just, all of us as a group of actors, we were completely embraced by the

the community of Philadelphia going into CHOP, meeting families, meeting doctors, nurses, lab technicians who are right there now at the coalface of research now, going into the Ronald McDonald House, Philadelphia, you know, seeing the...

being within the original neighborhood, looking at the original neighborhood where the first house was, whether it's seven or eight rooms or whatever it was. And also, you know, obviously the reference of the Eagles as well. Like Jimmy Murray, the general manager of the time, he co-founded the Ronald McDonald Foundation.

house with Audrey. And it's like, so there's a real nod, you know, there's a real, how more Philly can you get? There's a real nod to the film as well. Well, damn it, we have to get out because it's Philly and then you hear this amazing story. I have to ask you when you're playing somebody who's, who teeters on, you know, angelic and beyond human almost. Yeah.

you have to still convey the humanity and make the person real. And sometimes you can lapse over into such idolatry that it doesn't resonate as real. Was that a chore that you had to deal with? I mean, I think real credit has to be given there to Amy Kanan Mann, our incredible director, who she, to my mind, everyone...

everyone can have an opinion. But to my mind, she never allowed it to veer anywhere near saccharine, schmaltz, over sweetness. I mean, it's also very hard because it can go the other way. You know, we're dealing with children who are facing their mortality as well. So it could also be a terribly grim story as well. So I think the real gift of Amy and the direction of this film is that she gets the tone

right. I believe. Yes. I believe she gets it really in the sweet spot in the middle where she, it doesn't get too grim and it doesn't get too saccharine and it's, ultimately, it's an inspiring story about the strength of an individual, you know, and the, how when, the, the,

how one person can affect so much change. It's a story. It's an inspirational story. I was looking for the cracks in Audrey. I asked everyone. I asked everyone. I was like, come on. Because I knew it was also BS that she didn't cry. She liked to tell people that she never cried.

But, you know, she never let it when she lost children. I found out that she, you know, that wasn't 100 percent true. She was very, very careful with not ever letting her emotions. It was always about the children. Right. About the children and the families. Natalie, Dr. Evans was alive when this project was underway. Did you get to spend time with her?

I met her. Okay. And what was that experience like? I mean, it was off the charts. It was absolutely off the charts. I knelt by her bedside a few days before we started shooting and I held her hand and I spoke to her and she was too weak to speak that day. Oh, my goodness. And I gave her a kiss on the forehead, which made her smile. And I sort of talked to her and I sort of, you know, sotto voce, I just kind of asked for her permission. Mm-hmm.

And I felt like I was getting the nod. She was very aware that the production was happening. And we all kind of feel... She met Jimmy, she met Clancy, she met Amy, the director. She met all of us individually, which, thinking about it, must have been taken, you know...

must have taken some digging deep for some strength when she was so ill towards the end. But it's almost like she was hanging on to make sure we'd gotten into the production that we were shooting, that her story was going to be told for the children. It was like she was just keeping an eye until the last moment and then almost like, okay, you guys got it. I think I can go now. I think I can go and be with Dan.

It was funny because Julia Fisher-Farbman, who is the writer and producer and lifelong friend of hers as well, I think she also, she mentioned to us as well, looking for those things. And you're dealing with someone who, you know, whose efforts, you know, have saved people many times over. But I mean, it is ultimately this story of her being in England, not being able to become a doctor, coming to the United States and

and plowing through. And I think why this resonates and why we've kind of, you know, we're really trying to get behind this is because everybody in some way has, you know, cancer has touched their lives. And when you're in that moment,

When you are there, and I'm going to get emotional talking about it, to find that person who looks at you and smiles and takes your hands with authenticity and connects and I really care about you means the world. And so somebody in this case and this movie and the story can serve as inspiration for people who are currently dealing with children in CHOP or people in Ronald House or people who sadly will have this news announced to them today. So in a way...

It's uplifting on a factual, real-world basis that people can really benefit from. 100%, and the job's not done. I mean, Audrey didn't retire until her 80s. She wanted to eradicate cancer. It's crazy that she thought that she had not completed the job, God love her, when she had done so much. But as exactly what you're saying, the...

the heritage, what Dan and Audrey achieved for posterity is conversation. They initiated conversation and communication between the Philadelphia hospitals because before everyone was sitting on their own data and their own cases and they weren't sharing the information. And without the data and the stats, you can't get a broader picture and start to understand.

So they managed to inspire the hospitals to start talking to each other. That then happened on a national level. That now happens on an international level of, you know, pediatric cancer research. And they are, you know, they are absolutely pivotal in that now current day continuing fight to eradicate child cancer. That legacy continues. And it's so important that your listeners understand that, you know, we still...

They still need the funding. They're still every day getting breakthroughs and cures. The lab technicians at CHOP are absolute heroes. And in my own country, at the Royal Marsden and so forth, this is, as you say, in real time happening right now.

And, um, it's, uh, it's, I mean, as a parent, obviously it's the worst conversation you can imagine having. But the beauty is now we understand holistic care. We understand what Audrey understood that a sick child is a sick family, that the whole family, the siblings, the grandparents, the parents, the cousins, the, the, the, the next door neighbors, everyone gets affected when a child gets sick. And, um,

anything to do with holistic care spiritual financial practical all of it it's so important that you know you wrap your arms around these families as well as these children and that is her legacy it's a great message and we're blessed to have CHOP in our city it's amazing to have this resource here Natalie thank you for taking on this project

This is wonderful. Cannot wait to see this film. It opens tomorrow. It's called Audrey's Children. You owe it to yourself to go see it. And best of luck with you, Natalie, and hope we'll talk to you again another time. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Natalie Dormer, guys. Wow. She's something else. She is. And I wanted to ask her, but they gave us the wrap-up, unfortunately. I wanted to ask her if...

She had the nerve to ask Clancy Brown to do his Mr. Krabs impression. Or not. Because, I mean, how can you? You'd be a little starstruck by that guy. He should have played C. Everett Koop as Mr. Krabs. Wouldn't have he? He's under the hospital. Under the...

Uh, she is, she's wonderful. I mean, I was a mega nerd fan of hers in a game of Thrones as a Marjorie Tyrell. Um, would love to have had a chance to talk about that, but we've talked to her, uh, you know, before and, uh, and her, her, her star is rising. I mean, even though she's part of a pop cultural phenomenon, like game of Thrones, like the hunger games, uh, mocking Jay and, uh,

The Tudors, the truth of the matter is that those are big ensemble pieces. So she needs her real breakout roles. Yeah, this could be it. This is the real deal. So it opens tomorrow. And we didn't even get a chance to ask this to Julia the other day when we had her on the whole movie.

It's unbelievable. It was shot in 23 days. Yes. Do you have any idea, production-wise, what it takes to put together films? I mean, I can't believe they did it that quick. If you're running and gunning and you've got to have your pre-production down, one of the legendary stories, again, the original Little Shop of Horrors, was shot in two days. You know, I've never seen that movie. Yeah, Jack Nicholson's in it. Is it any good? I mean, I know it's, you know. I didn't really like it. It's...

It's the seed of what you've grown to love with the musical. It's quirky. Because you've seen all that, you may not like it. I enjoyed it when I first saw it because it was so dark and bizarre. And like, wow, this is the whole conceit. But when you hear from people like Scorsese and John Milius and all the people who worked with Roger Corman early on in their directing careers, the fact that he was...

Super economical. Sets were built to just what would be included in the camera range. And a one-to-one ratio. Whatever. You had to do it right the first time. I don't think they ever took a second take on anything. And that was it. Maybe.

I know me. I won't have a good time. I'll never get around to it. Do you have anything at the top of your list right now that you're like, I really, really actually do want to watch this? That I've never seen that's like a classic? Yeah, because there's a few that come to mind for me. I'm just like, I never... What do you have? Three girls and a cup. No, no. I will go my entire life. I will never, ever watch that.

No, like some original westerns. I've never seen Shane beginning to end. I've never seen the original True Grit. I saw the remake. I've never seen Casablanca. I love Casablanca. That's one of my favorite movies of all time. And that's one I should probably see. Steve, you know what my dad loves and I just have never gotten around to watch it is Maltese Falcon. Oh my God. So you've got some good choices there. And I tell you what, they will transcend...

You have to remember when they're made, but you will never hear dialogue. There's Raymond Chandler dialogue in the Maltese Falcon. You'll never hear crisper dialogue, as you will in that, double indemnity. I mean, if you're looking for Westerns, one of the classics, which is a different approach to Westerns, it's many, even people who don't like Westerns, The Searchers with John Wayne and Montgomery Clifton, Natalie Wood. And it's John Wayne being kind of a...

a dick, you know, in the movie, but he's got a mission. It's a great movie. When my mom and sister, a few years ago, I watched for the first time in its entirety, because I had seen pieces of it, but was White Christmas. Yeah. And I loved it. White Christmas is terrific. I mean, it's super duper cheesy, but it's so... If you don't feel good at the end of that friggin' movie, then you're... And that movie was a response to the song... Holiday Inn. Which appeared at Holiday Inn. Yeah. Yeah. But no, I should give...

In fact, we have a poster at my house and it's a hundred great movies and it's a scratch off thing where it's a poster hanging on the wall and as you see the movies, you scratch it off. And me and Caleb have planned on watching all those movies on there. We've just got to get around to doing it. I'll tell you one, I've seen it probably 70 times. All About Eve, you're familiar with the classic line, you know,

This is going to be a bumpy ride. Betty Davis, and it's about a young starlet who you think is so innocent and is trying to get onto Broadway. And it's just, again, when you hear dialogue written the way they used to write dialogue, Preston, and it's so sharp and funny and brilliant. I mean, not that they don't do it now, but it's fewer and farther between, so...

Yeah. Any recommendations? No, Marissa, I'm going to go to you. What are you talking about? She's pointing at her shirt that says Philly on it. When you guys were done this conversation, I had something to say. Oh. Since my microphone is open. Yeah, I think we're done anyway. Okay, great. Preston, I was begging for years for you to watch Clueless because you haven't watched that. Oh, yeah.

But I've switched that and you need to watch Airheads. When I learned that you have not seen Airheads, I think that you are going to love that. That is like the beginning of your radio career, that movie. I will tell you something. Clueless is a better movie, though Airless is more tangential. Airheads? Airheads is more tangential to that. And also I think Days of Confusion needs to be on your list as well. You never saw that? No. Oh, wow.

It's funny, though. With all the things to see, I like them. You never saw it. It's like, well, there's a lot out there to see. Do you want me to bring my DVD versions or VHS? Because I have both and I'll lend them to you. Oh, let's go VHS. If you master. Yeah. Or just a real, real. A flip book. All right. The Phillies contest is still open for a few more minutes. If you missed texting it earlier, it took me a minute to set it up. All right. Text 3DVHS.

Philly's to 610-660-9333. If only there was a song we had that would remind us of that phone number. 610-660-9333. That is our new phone number. You can also text it

As well. There you go. So you'll never forget it now that you have that. Real quick, and I wanted to bring this up to Natalie. Well, we had her on, but our time was cut a little bit short. But my friend, one of my closest friends, Lori's niece's daughter, Megan, who is, I think she's eight or nine years old, is a cancer patient at CHOP. And she just sent me a video of her today running down the hall because she's cancer free. Wow.

How phenomenal is that? Oh, my God. Incredible. I mean, dude, this is like a year ago, we didn't think. We saw only the worst. So this is just wonderful news. And just to echo, what a great...

what a great institution it is to have here anywhere in the world, but it's here. Anybody who endeavors on the behalf of children dealing with, you know, which is so criminal that children, you know, no one should have to deal with it, but we tend to think, why children, you know, and it's such a thing, but

Yeah, it's an amazing thing. And I will say this as well, something to always remember. If you get a diagnosis today or God forbid or anybody does, know that you're living in great times for this stuff. And you have every reason to remain optimistic and hold out hope because there are many stories that will prove that. Yeah, and Lori had texted me earlier this morning and said that Ronald McDonald House on top of it was just...

One of the greatest things they could ever hope for. Well, the whole notion of that they have a facility within the hospital itself, not just Ronald House, where you can stay within the hospital. Yeah, and that's for, I was reading about that yesterday, for people who live too close to Ronald McDonald House, you know, because it's for people who are geographically...

not convenient to the area to have a place to stay. But if you are considered too close for that, they actually have a place that's inside as well for certain situations where people can actually stay there. So they try to cover absolutely everything if possible, which is amazing. And then it also sort of lives on through, um,

I guess maybe imitation is the best word I can use because, you know, like you have like Headstrong Foundation who created Nick's House. And Nick's House is exactly what Ronald McDonald House is, you know, because we are here in the shadows of some of the greatest cancer care you can find in the world. And then they just built one in Boston as well because Boston is also, you know, I don't want to say a mecca for cancer.

Well, it's a major city. It's a major city, yeah. And you're going to have a lot of sick people. And more people are together, and more chances there's going to be for people to be ill. And they make beans. Absolutely. All right. We are going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. Bizarre File stories are on the way. Don't you go anywhere. You stay right there. Be right back. Looking for fun things to do this weekend? The Arrow Bears Weekend Calendar has you covered.

Shows in town, movies to see, exhibits and specials around the Delaware Valley. Just use keyword weekend calendar at WMMR.com to get the list.

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Brought to you this morning by Yoga 6 in Conshohocken. Celebrating their grand opening. You do go there? I do go there, yeah. This month only, if you mention WMMR, you can get your first class for free. Visit Yoga6.com to schedule your free class today. And maybe you'll end up in one with Kathy Romano. Who knows? In Washington, Seattle police say that they have arrested a 63-year-old man after someone found 14 binders.

Full of pictures of child porn in a dumpster. Police say two people who are homeless were actually rummaging through the dumpster. They found the binders and they called 911. That's pretty cool. Yeah, officers dug through the dumpster and say they found loose papers containing the man's name.

And some of the material in the binders appeared to have been printed out of the computer with dates ranging from 1998 to 2013. Following the discovery, Seattle police detectives got to work tracking down the man. Officers served a search warrant at the 63-year-old man's Seattle apartment. They took him into custody and interviewed him. During the interview, police say the man admitted to tossing the binders in the dumpster near his apartment. Police say he admitted to molesting about 50 children, but he stopped when he was arrested for it in 1983.

Officers say he also admitted to viewing and printing child porn in the late 1990s and 2000s. As Seattle police officers continued their investigation, they claimed to have found more images on the man's home computer and found more printouts in boxes in his apartment. He was arrested and booked into the county jail. So it's a good thing he's an idiot on top of a psycho. Yeah. And they were able to get him. But kudos to the people who were digging through the trash. And they found that and they contacted police. He did the right thing. Yeah.

Hey, listen to this. Let's talk about doing the wrong thing. A prison governor in England said of a warden, they called him a governor. Uh, the governor began a relationship with a drug dealer who gave her a Mercedes after she illegally approved his early release on license from jail. Yeah, but a Mercedes, man. Carrie Pegg is on trial. She was seen as a rising star in the prison service and quickly climbed the career ladder, uh, from graduate errant to HMP Kirkham governor for six years. The court heard, uh,

And it is alleged that she didn't play by the rules. And while governor apparently the prison, she began a relationship with inmate Anthony Saunderson, who gave her a car. When police raided her home, they found a toothbrush with his DNA on it. The job. Wow.

Peg joined the prison service in 2012 and by 2018 was the governor of the prison where Saunderson was reaching the end of a lengthy sentence for drug offenses. Jurors heard that it was noted she spent a lot of time in her office with Saunderson. And in October 2018, he put in a request to be released on temporary license. Though such requests are routine, there are specific rules for how they should be dealt with, which she broke. You know what she was doing with him in her office, don't you? Brushing their teeth.

That's what they were doing. That's how they found it on the DNA. She did not have authority to approve the release, but intervene and approve the application. So Saunderson was released from prison in May 2019, early 2020, and was using EncroChat, encrypted mobile phone used by organized criminals to send messages and secretly communicate. And in April 2020...

text, Saunderson sent a message that said, car for you, bird. 12 quid or work? Yeah. Blimey! And a photo of the black Mercedes. The 12 quid meant $12,000 and work meant drugs, jurors heard. Saunderson asked what they want and he was told her top

or weed, meaning cocaine or cannabis. Are we missing a step here in the States where we don't allow our wardens to take payment for injuries? Maybe. Let's be clear, you know, and try these things out before we, you know, poo-poo them. Scuff at them immediately. The trial continues in that, by the way. Catherine Gordon was arrested in Sebastian, Florida after allegedly using the banana trick to sell $83 worth of groceries, steal $83 worth of groceries from Walmart.

This involves replacing barcodes on items to pay lower prices at self-checkout. I don't know why they call it the banana track. Maybe because they take the sticker off of produce? It doesn't say that, but we're not going to fall for the banana track. I mean, bananas are insanely cheap.

Yes. You got this 80-inch TV set for 48 cents. Yeah, right? Upon her arrest, Gordon informed police that her two children were in the car and officers found the children inside the locked vehicle with windows rolled up at 85 degrees. Yeah, that's a good mom. The children were sweating heavily, but had normal vital signs, according to EMS. Gordon was charged with child neglect and second-degree petty theft. She reportedly told officers she didn't think that leaving children in the car was a problem, noting that her parents did it regularly.

They're in prison. The banana trick is when you scan bananas instead of expensive items like electronics and stuff like that. Yeah. Okay.

A group of moms in Missouri are working to change how people view marijuana use. It's a woman named Kimberly Kesterson is the founder of Canna Moms. I just saw a video segment on this. Yeah, Canna Mom Game Night is just basically a night out, she said, with your besties away from the kids. You're meeting new friends. You're going to be gifted some joints. You're going to play some games and you're going to live your best kid free life for a couple of hours.

recreational marijuana use in Missouri was legalized in late 2022 and every few months mothers from the community come together to consume. Kenna Moms member Jamie Serta said it gets me out of the house. The women here are all very accepting. And attendee Dara Serti

said that mothers who smoke weed should be just as acceptable as moms who drink wine. She said, I never in the world understand how marijuana was illegal for so long and alcohol was legal when alcohol has literally killed and destroyed so many people in my family's lives.

The founders, Kesterson and Jessica Carroll, told CNN that they founded the group to help mothers like themselves and others support each other. Carroll said, if you're any parent like me, you put your children first. So to be able to step away and give yourself some time and do some self-care, it's hard to do. This is like that grandmom book club where they gather, read, and smoke crack. Yeah, just like that one.

All right, and then one last story, and we will wrap it up. What do we want to end with? How about this one? A former Pittsburgh resident is accused of trying to murder his wife while on a hike in Hawaii.

The Honolulu Police Department took 46-year-old Gerard Conning into custody near the Pali Highway. And according to authorities, Conning hit his wife in the head with a rock and attempted to push her off a hiking trail near the Pali Lookout the morning of their arrest. I know.

uh, Pali Lookout is offering panoramic views of the sheer Ko'ola'u cliffs. Did you do that one, Preston? I don't know. I don't think so. Oh, there's one in Maui that takes like four hours because it's so slow going from one side of the island to the other. Oh, uh,

Yeah, the road to Hana, maybe? That's what I was thinking of. Okay. Yeah, we went up part of it. Okay. It's all switchbacks. Okay. And that's why it takes forever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we turn around after driving a little bit into it, but it's gorgeous. According to Hawaii News Now, Connick allegedly attacked his wife when she refused to take a photo with him. Yeah. They added... I should take a good reason. He attempted to prick her with syringes, too. Oh, hey!

She was taken to the hospital. She's in critical condition. Following the attack, Connick left the scene but was later captured after a brief chase with police. And charges against Connick are still pending. A biography of University of Pittsburgh website listed Connick as an assistant professor at UPMC and a UPMC anesthesiologist. Consider that a divorce. Oh my God. And that is what I have in the bizarre file. That was... Total recall. Total recall. Thank you.

All right. So we have some stuff to give away. And as is true press informed, I haven't figured out how we're going to do this yet, but I need to do it now. Marissa, I'm going to ask you because you're in charge back there. I have these tickets to Parks Casino. Casey Boy's hosting Joe Conklin's 360 Comedy Night tonight. And Dustin Ibarra is the headliner. So how you want to do this? I have...

five of these to give away. Give me a keyword you'd like to say. Parks. P-A-R-X. P-A-R-X. Got it. Text the word parks to our new text number, which is 610-660-9333.

And we'll draw those random winners from there. Okay. So the word is Parks, P-A-R-X. And just a heads up on the number, 610-660-9333 is our text number. It will eventually become our Xfinity mobile guest line as well, which means that's the line to call in to request songs and to play contests and to call in to win things and all kinds of stuff. But we'll eventually get that up and running. Well done. All right.

Thank you. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll have less in question trash music news when we return. We are getting closer and closer to this year's MMRBQ. Saturday, May 10th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. A full day of partying with friends, family, and MMR. With eight great bands, including our headliners. Somebody check my brain. Alice in Chains. Yeah.

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I'm a nice guy because other jewelers just want to throw up when you ask, can I trade in my old diamond studs? Why? I guess it's because they're in the business of selling. I'm in the love business. I love to see my friends come back and trade in their old diamond studs. It's true. You can start with any size and upgrade them for a bigger pair anytime you want. Get exactly what you paid. Not only do other jewelers not want you to trade in your diamond studs, but even if they do, they don't give you back what you paid.

Why are their diamonds worth less? Oops. Come see me, the real Steven Singer, a real jeweler, whose diamonds are always worth what you pay. Visit me at the other corner of 8th and Walnut. By phone, 888-I-HATE-STEVEN-SINGER. Online, IHATESTEVENSINGER.COM. Oh, by the way, these stunning Anita Diamond Stud Earrings are always 100% eye-flawless, near-colorless, brilliant cut diamonds, magnificent and bright white, topped off with my 14-carat safety silicone backs. IHATESTEVENSINGER.COM.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Jake Dillon, Wallflowers, 93.3 WMOR, one headlight. I dig that sound of that band. Always have. I like hearing that song from time to time. It's about 11 minutes after 10 o'clock. We got you on a Thursday morning. Preston and Steve Show. Man, is it going to be beautiful this weekend. Mm-hmm.

Looking forward especially to Saturday. 83 degrees and sunshine. I mean, we got sunny skies today. Temperatures are going to linger in the mid-50s. But that's almost a 30-degree difference. It's amazing. On Saturday. And it's going to be clear tonight so we can see the Nova. The Nova. If that happens. Maybe. Okay. Nova! Yeah.

Literally, we were talking about that yesterday. Like a celestial event and a constellation in the sky. You should look up the information about that. They give the warning, though. It could be tonight and it could be in a year. It could be sometime this year. Yeah, we'll see. So just look up. Today's lesson question. We have a pair of tickets as MMR rocks not dead yet. John Cleese and the Holy Grail.

at 50. It's Sunday, October 19th, Keswick Theater. Tickets go on sale tomorrow for this, by the way. But you can get them ahead of time. You're going to need to text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333 if you know the answer to this question because we will send you a link to the ZOOM. In fact, you can just text the word ZOOM right now to 610-660-9333 before you hear the

the question, and you'll just have the link ready to go and click on it if you know the answer. Smart move. The question is, what legendary actor will be playing Shaggy in the new live-action Scooby-Doo series?

Not really, so don't look it up. It's something Steve made up. All right, what legendary actor will be playing Shaggy in the new live-action Scooby-Doo series? Not really. Text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333 if you know the answer to that. And while we're waiting for you to get through, we'll do this. The trash business is a goldmine. 93.3 WMMR.

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Dustin Ibarra must be 21 and older. Steve, what's going on this morning? Well, a woman reportedly stripped down buck naked and ran around Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in Texas earlier this month. Apparently, the incident was a promotional stunt for Delta Airlines' new ad campaign titled, We Love to Fly, and Here's This Old Chick's Droopy Vagina. Whoa. Ah.

Impractical Joker show Gatto announcing he's seeking professional help after multiple women alleged inappropriate behavior from him. Gatto says he knows he can beat this, which means he can stop asking random women to beat it. Oh, my God. And finally, Vanderpump Rules star Jax Taylor says at the end of 2024, he was taking enough cocaine to kill a horse. Many have pointed out that it was still not enough to kill a jackass. That's a lot of cocaine.

Thank you, Steve. By the way, and I failed to mention this. Nick pulled this information up when we were playing the Wallflowers. They're opening for Clapton. Yeah. And that'll be Wells Fargo Center on Saturday, September 13th, by the way. So that is a really cool show to see. All right. Over to the Zoom we go. Trying to find the answer to this question. What legendary act will be playing Shaggy in the new live-action Scooby-Doo series? And look who we got. We got Alex, who's joining us via Zoom. Good morning to you, Alex.

Good morning. Good morning to see you, buddy. All right. Do me a favor. Tell me what actor is going to be playing Shaggy, please. Mr. Daniel Day-Lewis. The Grinch. Yeah.

It's going to be powerful. You got it, bud. Hang right there, Alex. We're going to get your info. We're going to give you tickets to see a really cool event. MMR Rocks. Not dead yet. John Cleese and the Holy Grail at 50. Sunday, October 19th, Keswick Theater. And tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. And for more information, you can go to WMMR.com. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Yes!

All right, music news also brought to you by 360 Comedy Night, Parks Casino, and you've seen him on Jimmy Fallon. Now see him live on stage tonight at Parks as comedian Dustin Ibarra. And that's the night only at Parks Casino. Dustin Ibarra must be 21 or older. Let's begin with this one. Six months after Dave Grohl admitted to infidelity and fathering a child outside of his marriage,

His wife, Jordan Bloom, has decided to give their marriage another chance. I had a feeling. An insider has revealed that despite being completely devastated by the situation, Bloom is standing by Grohl's side. The couple, who have been married since 2003, is attending counseling with Dave, making efforts to regain Bloom's trust. I would imagine...

in a bizarre way, she's in the catbird seat, so to speak, because he's going to be towing the line like crazy. Yeah. Neither wishes to see their family broken. Recently, they've been seen spending more time together, including a lunch outing in Los Angeles.

It was in September of 2024 that Dave publicly acknowledged the birth of his daughter outside of the marriage and expressed his commitment. Guys, I can't come today. I'm going to the succulents festival. His commitment to being a supportive parent and restoring his family's trust. So they're working on it.

The return of a band that hasn't had a new album in almost 30 years. I'm talking about Sublime, and they are working on their first new album since 1996. Featuring Jacob Knoll, son of late frontman Bradley Knoll.

collaborating with producers Travis Barker, of course, at Blink-182, and John Feldman of Goldfinger. Wow. The band plans to release the first single this summer. Jacob joined the original members, Eric Wilson and Bud Goff, in late 2023 and said that he felt a deep connection to his father's legacy after immersing himself in Sublime's catalog.

The upcoming album aims to blend the classic Sublime vibe with a fresh sound. The band will release the album under their newly established label, Sublime Recordings. We have a down track off the new album if you want to hear it. Okay. Yes, I hear it. You hear a little bit of Sublime. Dude, don't you wonder, I mean...

We were left a decent amount of music from Kurt Cobain. Obviously, more would have come out. But I got to believe that Bradley Knoll would have written a lot of other great songs. He had a quirky ability. And yeah, I agree. We lost a potential wealth of good music. Did he die before the album hit? He did. Okay, yeah. So the fame...

All the sales and attention came after he died, which is just tragic. That's reflective.

Without being overt, they're saying exactly what you just said. No, but I thought he had the potential to be a great songwriter because what he left behind was awesome music. You know what I love is they did the three, right? Three is a magic number? No, that was Blind Melon. Blind Melon, that's it. And that was Shannon Hoon, another guy. Another one, yeah. Who was taken before his time. And that guy, I think that band would have had a bunch of other hits too.

So it's not just a new tour. Chebel has now released new music. The band has released Rabbit Hole, Cowards Part One, their first new song in four years. And the band invites listeners to put on, quote, our tinfoil hats, slam a donkeys, and go deep doom scrolling with this new release.

The 10th studio album from Chevelle is expected later this year. You talked about the bizarre animal. So you were the music director for DRE for many years. Correct. One year. One year. Many weeks. Yeah. And so, but I mean, the process that used to be in the release of an album...

And coming in and pitching it and talking and listening and making a case and how the strategy is of the album. And then the tour. That does not exist at all these days. It's a different story. It's a completely different animal. They do it their own way. And a lot of money comes from touring now and selling merch and stuff like that. Ticket sales, yeah.

HBO has announced that it will be airing a two-part documentary on music icon Billy Joel this summer. Oh, wow. It's called Billy Joel and So It Goes. It's a great song. It is a great tune. It's one of my favorites from him. We'll explore the life and music of the piano man and is reported to include never-before-seen performances, home movies, and personal photographs, along with one-on-one interviews. Two previous documentaries have covered specific parts of Joel's life.

The last play at Shea Stadium, concentrated on Billy's string of 2008 Shea Stadium concerts. And A Matter of Trust, the bridge to Russia, focused on his journey to perform in Russia in 1987. This will be the first attempt to chronicle a complete career of Billy Joel. I thought this was kind of cool. The Guess Who's lead singer, or lead guitarist, Randy Bachman,

has revealed that he and Burton Cummings, the band's original frontman... I'm sorry, let me go back again. The Guess Who's lead guitarist, Randy Bachman, has revealed that he and Burton Cummings, the band's original frontman, are getting back together for a new tour. Speaking with American songwriter, Bachman says that the two are looking to hit the road next year.

He said Burton is finishing up his stuff this year. I'm finishing up my Bachman Turner Overdrive stuff. The Canadian rocker shares saying that we have a plan for 2026 to be the Guess Who? Where? We do a set of the Guess Who? Where? How does he say that? What the hell is he talking about? Hang on a second. It says we have a plan, Twain.

2026 will be the Guess Who, where we do a set list of about 30 hit songs. And it's probably going to be a two or three hour Marathonic show. Interesting. Great band. I enjoyed them. All right. And then one last story. A demo believed to be a Beatles audition tape has been found in a Canadian record store, Neptune Records.

The store's owner, Rob Firth, posted his discovery on social media sharing a video of the tape playing. And the recording is believed to be the band's at Decca Studios recording session from January 1962. He said on Instagram after hearing it last night for the first time, it sounds like a master tape. The quality is unreal. How is this even possible to have what sounds like Beatles music?

A Beatles 15 song, Deca Tapes Master. So... That seems... Haven't heard it yet, so maybe some of that will... There was like a tiny itty-bitty clip of it, but I want to hear more of that. It's tough to think about a band... What band has been more scrutinized than the Beatles? Yeah. We research, and we still find stuff. Every now and then. Still find stuff. Yeah. When they found like the lost...

films from when they were in India. That's right. For the Maharishi retreat. You're like, we didn't know about this already? Yeah, so it's pretty amazing. Preston, I know you follow the Beatles on Instagram, but they've been sharing some cool stuff lately, like historical stuff, and they've been doing these quotes from all the members of the band, and they just scroll through. And for me, it's new. Steve, to your point, this stuff I didn't know about, and I'm sure that it's been around for a while, but to be able to discover...

At any point in time, new Beatles quotes or new insights into how they think. I find it fascinating. And, you know, the fact that the Beatles are on Instagram in 2025 and there's still relative stuff, I think is really cool. Yeah. All right. And that's all we have in music news today. We will take one final break. When we get back, wrapping up the show, letter of the day, you know the drill. Stay with us.

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on this Thursday morning. By the way, all the details for MMRBQ, and I know we've been banging the drum on this for a while, WMMR.com. Get those tickets. There's a special for a four-pack right now, $100 plus tax. I think it totals out like $105, $106 or something along those lines. So that's a pretty sweet deal. If you got the change, treat a few people and take them and make an event and come and hang out with us and see us over at the President's Deep Show side stage.

Very, very soon, we'll start soliciting for our singers to audition for that again because we're going to do it again with Sidearm. It is coming up quickly. Working on maybe another band to be on that side stage as well, but the real stars that day are the average everyday people who want to take a shot at singing in front of a nice, chunky live audience. Yeah. So we have that for you very, very soon. We will tell you.

When that's all engaged and when you can get on board for that. We'd like to thank our guest. We had Annie Lederman. Who will be at Helium Comedy Club tonight at 8 o'clock. It's one show only. She's really cool. She's very funny, obviously. She's at Helium Comedy Club. But it's great to have her stop by this morning. And wearing like a summertime outfit, which was pretty wild. Yeah. And she's from the area. What's that? It was long sleeves. It was long sleeves.

Was it long sleeves? Yes. It's kind of a joke. Oh, yeah. Because her entire midriff was completely exposed. There was nothing to it. It reminds me of Jackie at the at the barbecue who came out and he goes, look at you. You're topless. Oh, yeah. Larkin Poe. Yeah. It was Rachel. And he goes, Rachel's sitting here. She's topless. And I'm like, sleeveless, Jackie. Sleeveless. Sleeveless.

Wait, was she wearing, Annie, who I'm talking about now, what I was talking about with these girls when I was at Michigan State, they were basically wearing a bra with sleeves? No. Hers was a crop top. It showed her midriff. But yeah, what Casey's talking about is literally just sleeves and like over the shoulders a little bit. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you also to John Brazier. Yay!

Director of Fun and Games for your Phils who start the season today in Washington, but they'll be back on Monday for the home opener. All kinds of great stuff happening with them. You can check the website for info, but let's go Phils. And then we have the amazing Natalie Dormer on the show. She was great and is excited to...

Bring the story about Audrey Evans, who was a pediatric oncologist and a groundbreaking scientist and helped create the Ronald McDonald House Charities Foundation.

And it's in theaters nationwide tomorrow. And the writer and producer is local. And so we want to put our support behind this. It's a great story to get out there, first of all. But we also want to highlight the city and what great work that Chop does. It was all shot on location. Yeah. So it was really cool to have her on this morning. All right. We need to do the letter of the day. You got me? I am your con con. Con con. Okay. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

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