Daily Podcast (03.31.25)
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And we're getting started. Welcome back, friend. Today, it's a Monday. Yes, it certainly is. And let's see, weather-wise, what you got today? We do have a chance for some isolated showers, maybe even some thunderstorms get into the evening hours. We'll look at rain starting tomorrow.

Midday-ish, depending on where you are. Today's high is still pretty mild. High 76. Tomorrow we cool off. Sunshine 55. Wednesday, we have the same thing. High 55 again. And then Thursday, we'll be back up in the 70s. But we're bouncing up and down as far as the temps go for the next couple of weeks. Hello.

And now, Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. All right, today's last day of March, the 31st. It is a Monday. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning in the news this morning. Police say around 6.15 Sunday evening, a Newcastle County police officer was traveling east on Route 273, Christiana Road, when a silver Kia Optima crossed the grass median and struck the marked patrol vehicle.

Three children and one adult in the Kia were taken to area hospitals. All are in critical but stable condition. As for the officer, they were headed to work at the time of the crash. The airbag in the officer's vehicle went off, trapping the officer. The officer was also taken to the hospital for treatment and is in stable condition. Route 273 was shut down in the area of Thomas Garrett Drive in Newark. And the road was expected to be closed for an extended period of time as they investigate.

A strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit near Tonga, prompting a tsunami warning for the Pacific island country. The U.S. Geological Survey said the trembler hit about 62 miles northeast of the main island in the early morning hours of Monday local time. Hours later, a second 6.1 magnitude quake hit the same area.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued an alert saying hazardous waves could be possible within 185 miles of the epicenter. There was some amazing footage of a building under construction that just collapsed. I saw that. And then there was another one that was, I guess, a hotel that was known for its huge rooftop pool. Pool, I saw that too. It was just astonishing. But can you believe the guy stayed in the pool? Yeah. I'm like, I think it's time to get out. Yeah.

You're going to slosh over the side, dude. You're going to die. But the threat passed with only minor sea changes detected. A warning was also canceled hours later by the country's disaster management office. Maybe it was Adult Swim and it was his only time to be in the pool without the kids going crazy. You don't want to get out too early. It's just an earthquake. And then the girl taking the video too, she's like, what the F is happening? What's happening? I mean, I guess you stay put, but they were at the top of a

building i don't know i don't know what i would have done but it was strange tanga is a country in polynesia made up of 171 islands with a population of a little more than 100 000 people most of them live on the main island it is more than 2 000 miles off of australia's east coast

Celebrations for the end of Ramadan took a violent turn in North Philadelphia on Sunday. Someone opened fire nearby, leaving a teenager wounded. According to authorities, Philadelphia police, according to the Philadelphia police, 12 people were arrested, 11 of which were juveniles. All were cited for various violations, mostly disorderly conduct and failure to disperse.

Philadelphia Police and Temple University Police responded to the shooting along the 1400 block of Cecil B. Moore at about 1 o'clock. It happened in a parking lot next to an alleyway. Upon arrival, they discovered a 15-year-old who was shot once in the forearm. Officers rushed that child to the hospital. Officials said video indicates the teens were in the area from the Ramadan event where one of them fired a gun hitting the 15-year-old in the arm.

Families were inside the Leah Cora Center celebrating the end of Ramadan. Meanwhile, outside following the shooting, officers were called to broaden Cecil B. Moore for large crowds and fights in the area. Officers could be seen trying to move the crowds along as the groups would go from one side of Cecil to the next. The shooting remains under investigation. In sports this morning...

What the f*** is that? The Phillies lost for the first time this season yesterday, falling 5-1 to the Nationals in Washington. What the f*** is this? Josh Bell and Nathaniel Lowe each hit home runs off of Phil's daughter, Aaron Nola, and the Nats avoided a series sweep with the win. Bell crushed an Aaron Nola fastball into the center field seats for a three-run homer in the fourth inning, and Lowe ended Nola's day with a two-run shot into center in the sixth.

Weather permitting, the Phillies are scheduled to have their home opener this afternoon against the Colorado Rockies. Christopher Sanchez will get the start. The first pitch is set for 3-0-5. The Sixers lost their eighth straight game, falling 127-109 to the Toronto Raptors last night in South Philly. What the f*** is this? R.J. Barrett scored 31 points to lead the Raptors to the win. The Sixers are in New York tomorrow night and will play the Knicks. Tip-off is at Madison Square Garden. We'll be at 7-30. On Saturday, Matt Veymichkov.

had his second straight two-goal game as the Flyers beat the Buffalo Savers 7-4. The Flyers won their second straight game after coach John Tortorella was fired on Thursday. They're at home tonight. We'll take on the Nashville Predators. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock. And over the weekend, the Union lost to interim Miami CF 2-1. Lionel Messi scored his second goal of the season only two minutes after his entrance as a second-half substitute. The Union are back home this weekend and will host Orlando City SC on Saturday night at 7-30.

And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champions. And that's what I have for you this morning. Thank you, Kathy. Here we go, Monday morning. We got a new Word of the Week prize given away. Five of the Bucks from Minecraft Movie. It's a family prize pack. And that does include...

Tickets to the film and you get for some movie posters and foam swords. Foam swords? Yes, most definitely. Can we get some? And sunglasses and an activity sheet and all kinds of things. And $500. That's pretty cool. We'll give that away on Friday. We do have a couple of guests on the program this morning. Titus Welliver and Michael Connelly are on to talk about Bolling.

Bosh, Legacy. I don't know the show, Bosh. And apparently it's the longest running franchise on Prime Video. So I watched the first couple of seasons, and you know how it became a regular. Sometimes when they're streaming, you don't know when it's back on. So I...

put on Legacy last night, and then ended up watching five episodes. Oh, yeah? So, I mean, it was, um, it's a great show. It's my dad's favorite television show right now, Steve. And same thing, like, he'll kind of wander away from it, and then comes back, he read, like, half the books or all the books. I was talking to him about it this weekend. He's super excited that we're having Titus on the show this morning. They're like 40 books in this series, right? There's a ton of books, yeah. And the writer's from the area, and it's based on a Philadelphia character. What's the basic...

He's a private detective. He was in the police force and he's he's an antihero type of guy, but he's no nonsense. Does it for the little guy straight up? You know what you'd want this? Think Reacher. He was Reacher before Reacher. You know, you know, the character Mike in Breaking Bad. Yeah. Like so he's a Philly cop who kind of lost his way a little bit and he does some private detective work.

Okay. All right. So we'll get both of those guys on. So Titus the star and Michael the writer in the around nine o'clock range. So we'll chat with those guys. And in the meantime, we'll go through some other things. Some of those things we normally do, like the stupid question and the entertainment report, which is up next. So we'll take a quick break, come back in a second. We'll freshen up and we'll get this Monday morning started. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, so we're going to do a stupid question. We're going to give away four pack of tickets to MMR Rock's Monster Energy Supercross Saturday, April 12th, and that will be at the link. Tickets are on sale now. So here's the question that I posed to you, and if you know the answer to it, you need to text the word ZOOM to our new number, 610-660-9333.

And here's my question to you. What is the name for a female fox? Female fox. Yeah, what's the official name of a female fox? Would it be Kathy? That's the one. What is this? This is one hell of a backyard. This is my backyard. Female fox. Is that you talking? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Sorry, I didn't realize that.

That's a Vixen call? Okay. Oh, God! There you go. He dumped out on it. I dumped out on it. Casey gave the answer in his exciting clip there. I think it's time for me to go home. Hey, hey, I have a great audio clip for this. I gave the answer to the question in the clip we just played. All right. So, we'll go through some birthdays while we're...

Bird! Well, yeah, totally. While we're waiting for your answer, let's see if you know. And, uh...

No, wait. We'll go through some birthdays. We're going to wait for your answer. Tony Cox, the actor. Tony's little person. 66 years old today. You've seen him in Bad Santa. It says Star Wars Episode VI, Return of the Jedi. Maybe he was an Ewok, I guess. No, he played Darth Vader. I don't know what character he played in Return of the Jedi, but yeah, possibly. As the legend goes, isn't he the reason you are married to Diane? Yeah, but we don't need to get into it.

It's one of the first questions. It's okay. Okay. I don't remember that story. I'll explain to you. They were talking about a female fox. Oh, and that's what it was. And then the subject of Tony Cox came up. Tony Cox is 66 years old today. It's Shirley Jones' birthday.

Mrs. Partridge, of course, from the show. She hits a big milestone birthday today. She is 90 years old. Got to tell Sean Cassidy that I had a major crush on his mom in the Partridge family. She was milf before milf. Yeah. Yeah.

And you know what? On IMDb, it says she's 91 today. So she's either 90 or 91. She probably doesn't give a damn at this point. She probably doesn't. But last week, Preston, I think your birthdays, I don't know, it's obviously not your fault. I think your birthdays were off by a year because we got a bunch of texts from people who were saying... Yeah.

For whatever reason, we were like a year behind her, a year ahead, and I don't remember which. Yeah, there's a service that I go to that gives me the celebrity birthdays, and I have a feeling they're not doing their job. Are you saying we have a year to live over again? Yeah, maybe. Maybe. So she is 90 years old today. She's been in some great musicals, too. She was in Oklahoma and The Music Man. She's an Oscar winner. The films, yeah. Yeah.

It's Gabe Kaplan's birthday today. Yes, Mr. Carter. And it says here he turned 79. I don't know. Nick, why don't you check with your source and see how old he is? At some point he will. Because he might be 80. Yeah. For all I know. But look up Gabe Kaplan. I just saw him doing stand-up for the first time in a long time. And he's really good. Yeah, he started off in that world, right? That was his world. And then Welcome Back Carter was actually those characters were part of his stand-up.

Okay, nice. And then, yeah, he went on to host Welcome Back, Cotter. And that was, when I was a kid, that was like the...

Awesome show. And, of course, it was the launch of John Travolta. Yeah, so it was huge. He's 80. He's 80! So my birthday's wrong. I've got to add a year to everybody's birthdays. Okay. Ewan McGregor. Yeah. Star Wars. Obviously, I thought he was a great Obi-Wan Kenobi. He was terrific. And I look back more fondly on that original...

that second trilogy, so to speak, he's the reason that it has its weight.

I agree. So he turns 54 years old today, doing my math here. Rhea Perlman has a birthday. Cheers, obviously. I'm re-watching Cheers. Are you really? Yeah, it's on one of the streaming services, maybe Hulu or whatever. How many times do you think you've watched? I have no idea. But it's comfort food for me. And here's the thing that I find. The writing completely holds up. It's still brilliant.

And you go back, especially like the early first five or six years, it was a really progressive comedy. It was just, it's brilliant and I love the character interaction. Years ago, my agent who was booking me in colleges when I was first doing comedy, he was friends with one of the writers on Cheers. Remember which one? I don't know.

Is it Glenn Charles? Yeah, wow. Right, so he used to get draft scripts before they aired, and it was so cool to see from the word, from the page to the performance. It was amazing. Rhea turned 77 today. It's also Christopher Walken's birthday. Oh, wow. Yeah, he turns 82 years old. Great in severance.

Oh, really? Yeah, you keep talking about it. Who's he paired with? John Turturro. John Turturro. They have this really fascinating relationship because the premise of the show is that you have an outside world and an inside world. In the inside world, they are together. They love each other. On the outside world, they don't really know each other because you're separated from your inside life. So they have this odd love triangle with two of them. There are two people involved in a love triangle. Oh, yeah.

If that makes any sense. I mean, the show's difference, you have to watch it really to understand what I'm talking about. Interesting. And a note of point that, or a point of note, either way. Whatever. In that almost, not every single one, but the majority of roles that he plays, he tries to include some form of a, even if it's a moment, a moment of a moment.

A little dance. A little dance. He will do a little dance move. You will find it in almost every single film he's in. He dances in Severance. Oh, does he? Yeah, he's a trained dancer and he did the Fatboy Slim video. That is correct. I think, and De Niro will back me up on this, I think his greatest performance, and he is an accomplished actor.

Revered actor. The Dead Zone. Yeah. His performance in The Dead Zone is so freaking awesome. Yeah, he turns 82 today. Musician Herb Alpert. Oh, yeah. Yeah, trumpetist, trumpet player. Trumpetarian. And the A of A&M Records, if you go back.

I don't even know if A&M Records is still around. I don't think it is, but it was a big player for a long time. Were you a fan of Herb and the Tijuana Brass? I don't fondly put the records on or anything like that, but yeah, sure. Absolutely. So he turns 89 today.

The great Angus Young turns a year older, and if my calculations are correct, I add one year to what I have written here. He's 70 years old today. 70. Which would be a big one for him, obviously. Now, I've seen him, and he's still wearing school clothing, so I guess he's attending, right? Yeah, he must still be going to school. But that was apparently his sister's idea.

Oh, really? Yeah, the little kid's school outfit. And he tried it out, I think, as kind of a joke one time, and it felt right on stage. Oh, now it's legendary. But, Steve, I do have to agree with you.

He needs to put the shirt back on. It's time. It's time. Maybe take this milestone birthday to mark the occasion where you will no longer go shirtless on stage. Preston, I have the impression he's coming home today and he's going to walk in and there's going to be like six or seven people sitting on couches in his living room. We need to talk. Yeah. They're having an intervention with him.

But clearly one of the greatest. I mean, just his solos are just raw and cool. And they resonate, man. He hits. So happy 69th, 70th birthday to Angus Young. On the last birthday, I saw his former vice president, Al Gore, turns a year older. And I'm guessing he's 77 because it says 76 right here. He's working. He now has a lucrative career as an international club DJ. Yeah.

I brought this one up for you, Preston. Sorry to distract you. Brian Tyree Henry. We just had him in studio a couple weeks ago. Dope thief and a fantastic show and shot here in Philadelphia. I'm all caught up. I watched the latest two episodes last night and boy, was he a cool interview. I just said over the weekend, Nick, I got caught up and the show is solid. It's so good. Preston, for you wanting to say, I know where that was filmed. I think I know where that is. This show is replete with those moments because it's all shot in Philadelphia. Yeah.

Man, and he was a nice guy. He was great. Super nice. The show's brutal, man. All right, we will see if you know the answer to this question. What is the name of a female fox? Via Zoom, we are going to Hard Hat Matthew, who's joining us this morning. Hey, Matthew, how you doing, man? How you doing, Preston? Good, buddy. All right, so do you know the name for a female fox, please? It would be a vixen. A vixen is absolutely correct, sir.

Hang on, buddy, because we got tickets. We got a four-pack. It's MMR Rocks Monster Energy Supercross. Saturday, April 12th at Lincoln Management Field. Tickets are on sale now. You can visit supercrosslive.com for all the details. Matthew, yes, is getting ready to go to work. He is wearing a hard hat. Where does that hard hat take you, Matthew, to work?

I'm downtown 17th and Market. 17th and Market. All right, stay safe, brother. Thanks for coming on this morning. Thank you, sir. All right, we'll see you. All right, so at the box office, we'll start with that. Jason Statham's working man took the top spot.

And it debuted at number one with a haul of $15.2 million. Snow White came in second place. The Chosen Last Supper Part 1 debuted in third. And then you have The Woman in the Yard debuting in fourth place. It's a horror film. And then Death of a Unicorn with Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega debuted in fifth place at $5.8 million. I've heard Woman in the Yard is basically...

That for the movie. That's it? The woman is sitting in the yard, and as the movie progresses, she gets closer to the house. So I don't know if you remember an old Night Gallery episode, Preston, with a painting that kept changing where there's like the cemetery, and then there's suddenly a hole dug, and then suddenly there's a coffin coming up. No. It has that same progression, but I've heard more than one horror critic I trust say it's the worst goddamn movie they've ever seen. No kidding. Just too slow? Just too slow. Wow. Okay. Okay.

All right, well, as the rumors continue about things going south for Sydney Sweeney and partner Jonathan DeVino, the clues are piling up and the rumors may be true.

The couple who have been together for seven years was supposed to get married this spring, but they have reportedly postponed their upcoming nuptials. And Sweeney has also been spending a lot of time without him on her arm, including a recent extended solo stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel. And now a new set of pictures of her. Beachside has her once again looking stylish, but without her engagement ring. What about her huge freaking hooters, huh? Those are there.

While she often goes out ringless with the headlines being what they are, it's rumored that this may be a pointed message to those that are watching at home. I know this sounds stupid, but for some reason I would really like her to be with Glenn Powell. I think they have a good energy, a good pairing. That would make you happy? That would make me happy. To see that beautiful couple? Yeah, when two physically perfect specimens get together, it makes me smile. Okay, well, maybe we can hold out hope for that. Yeah.

So flying can be stressful for a lot of people, even Dwayne Johnson. The actor was traveling from Hawaii to Houston recently to attend the United Football League's 2025 season opener, but his plane had to turn around due to mechanical issues.

About 35 minutes into the flight, one of the pilots let the actor know that it was not safe for them to keep flying over the ocean. Apparently, the aircraft was dealing with a hydraulics issue with overheating. Never want to hear that. No, especially over an ocean. Yeah, the rock...

who is a co-owner of the United Football League, shared in a video online that he was supposed to be there and help hype up the crowd, but that was, you know, he's not able to attend. And on the plus side, he was able to return safely after the mechanical issue was discovered. He had considered jumping out and swimming, but, you know, he's the raw. Wouldn't that be it? Wouldn't that just be, I'll just swim the rest.

So this was sad to see, but what a life. Legendary television actor Richard Chamberlain passed away and today would have been his birthday. Oh my God. What's his age? Did you say he passed away? It says he was 90. So I guess he would have been 91 had he lived to see his birthday today.

He played one of the original great TV doctors in Dr. Kildare, as well as starring in touchstone miniseries from the 70s, 80s, and 90s like Shogun and The Thorn Birds. Shogun, when it, I mean, so the new series is getting a ton of accolades, right?

and rightfully so. But when that original Shogun appeared on television, we hadn't seen anything like it. I loved it. He was fantastic. He was fantastic. And I was pointing out, we were talking about it last night, Preston, he was the judge in Chuck and Larry. Yeah, yeah. He was excellent. Yeah, he was great in that. What was The Foreign Birds about? It was a family drama, right? Yeah, forbidden love and a, I think, a

Minister, it took place in the Outback, as I recall. It was Rachel Ward and Brian Brown. I just remember those things, Shogun and the Thorn Birds, being like what you say, Steve, was appointment television. You had to watch them. It was required viewing. There were two legendary doctor shows at that time. So there was Kildare and there was Ben Casey. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was the more...

More buttoned up doctor. While he had frequent forays on the big screen, he was most well known for being one of the television's greatest and most popular actors for decades. He died Saturday in Hawaii of complications following a stroke, according to his publicist. But yeah, 90 years old. So but full life definitely lived that.

We have a couple of altercations that took place over the weekend. Kim Delaney, who won an Emmy Award in 1997 for her portrayal of Detective Diane Russell on the series NYPD Blue, is finding out what life is like on the other side of those bars. Saturday, police were called to her Los Angeles home for a domestic disturbance involving her and her partner James Morgan.

The couple reportedly got into an argument and it turned physical. After EMTs checked them for injuries, both parties were arrested. Yeah. And Kim was charged. Both parties. Yeah. She was wailing on him as well. Kim was charged with felony assault, likely to cause great bodily injury. Morgan was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence. So...

It'll be interesting to see exactly what went down there. She's had a couple issues over the years. She has. Yeah. It pops up every, like, every ten years. It's like the Caden Delaney thing happens. Yeah. It's like the Caden's. And then comedian actor Paul Rodriguez is facing some legal trouble. He's 70 years old. He was arrested on charges of possession of narcotics in California on Friday.

Officers conducted a traffic stop of a car for vehicle code violations that Rodriguez was a passenger in. And according to the police, during the investigation, narcotics were located. They alleged that Rodriguez was arrested and booked at the Burbank Police Jail for possession of narcotics. He was later released with a citation to appear in court on April 25th. Speaking with TMZ after his arrest, Rodriguez said that the car was his, but he was asleep in the passenger seat.

when he and his friend were pulled over. He alleged that a Caucasian officer was on a, quote, power trip and slapped him awake.

Rodriguez added to the outlet that he told police the drugs allegedly belonged to his friend who was driving. His car was impounded and the police told TMZ the star's friend is being held for outstanding warrants. Rodriguez has appeared in over 40 films in his career and he has been performing comedy for nearly 30 years. So with the relaxed rules concerning, laws concerning pot,

What are the arrestable amounts of cocaine? Is there any sort of... I'm sure that stuff hasn't changed. Yeah. You know, the other regulated stuff. Like if you're driving along just casually and you have five keys of coke in your backseat, can they arrest you for that? I don't know. Maybe you can talk your way out of it.

I was in Car Wash. I was in the movie Car Wash. Well, it is weird for the passenger unless the narcotics were on his person. The rest of it, like if you find narcotics in the car, that belongs to the driver, right? Yeah, but didn't your parents ever teach you if you're with those people and they have it, you're in trouble too. But here's the deal. It was his car and his friend was driving it. So maybe there's a, since he's the owner. I'll pay you in narcotics if you drive my car. I don't know.

But both of these parties, the last two stories, could use lawyers. And Kim Kardashian has taken an important step into her journey to become a lawyer. She took the multi-state professional responsibility examination, which is a key ethics exam for bar admission. A source told TMZ that Kim took the exam in California with her bodyguard posted up outside the building.

And this is just one of many steps that she's taken to become a full-fledged lawyer. She previously passed the first-year law student's examination, also known as the baby bar, back in 2021 after she failed that three times. While she's not a lawyer yet, she hasn't stopped working on criminal justice reform.

She successfully supported many incarcerated people over the years, including getting the sentence for Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender who was given the life sentence without parole in 1996, commuted in 2018. So when you pass the baby bar, are Fisher Price courts the only ones who can practice law with the little fake judge and everything? I think that's the only way to go about that. Maybe. Maybe.

All right, let me see some lighter stuff here. How about this? Dancing with the Stars.

And so You Think You Can Dance veteran Lacey Schwimmer has announced that she and singer Frankie Marino are getting married. Oh, I was going to ask if she had any relationship to David Schwimmer, but I guess not. On Instagram, the couple posted a carousel of pictures accompanied by the caption, 13 years in the making to being Mr. and Mrs. No, I don't know who these people are. Somebody's getting married.

It's magical, especially when you don't know them. They're getting married. The best marriages and the best weddings are the ones you have no chance of being invited to. Oh my God, yes. Yeah, this is true. So wonderful. Sony Pictures has announced that its big screen adaptation of The Legend of Zelda will be hitting theaters in March of 2027. God, I hope they do this right. I hope so. It's tough. That's a tough one to take on, man. I don't see...

How you can really capture it. But... Which story would you pick to be the... I mean, you and I, our favorite is Twilight Princess. So, um... Anybody come to mind for Link? No, I haven't considered this at all. Yeah.

No, I'll just wait and see what happens. I mean, to be honest, I think a CGI would probably be the way to go, a CGI animation. Am I out of line suggesting Bill Belichick? Yeah, probably. But live action? I don't know. But, hey, I'm on board. I'm willing to check it out. I don't know what kind of acting chops Bill Belichick has.

He's acting like he's able to be a boyfriend to a 20-year-old. I will tell you this, though. Kathy and I watch Landman, and there is a scene in Landman that Jerry Jones is in. The owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Nick?

He's freaking awesome. Really? Dude. Is he playing himself? He plays himself. All right. And the monologue that he delivers, it to me seems, for all intents and purposes, true to his actual life. But the way he delivers it, I was like, oh my God, I hate you a lot less right now. A lot less because of the

way you acted in this. Do you think there's something when they get down like they all have that kind of thing that makes the acting seem a little more real? I'm a better actor. Yes. Steve, I want you to watch this scene. It's probably five to ten minutes long. That's what I was going to say. You got to know what leads up to that to know why that's impactful. I'll tell you something. That woman don't love Bill Belichick. No.

What show is this? It's Landman with Billy Bob Thornton. It was the one where Kathy was saying there was a torture scene towards the end of the first season that she couldn't watch. And you have to watch it. Well, you have to watch it for the... I forget her name. She's also in 1923. She's a knockout. The daughter, Billy Bob Thornton's daughter. Oh, God. What's her name? I don't know what her name is, but in the show, she's 17. I know. I hate that. I'm like, can you please just make her 18 in this show? Because in real life, she's probably over 18. Yeah. Yeah.

I already checked out the clips of Allie Lauder that you told me to take a look at her walking around. She's a young Allie Lauder, essentially. Her name is Michelle Randolph. Michelle Randolph is Allie Lauder's daughter in the series. Both of them are just incredible. The series as well is really good. Kathy is comfier.

Dude, everybody in this... Yeah, this is a great cast. By the way, Casey, no offense, it's still creepy at 18. I know, but it's not illegal. Creepy I can live with because it's not like I went there for that. I went there for Billy Bob Thornton and then they gave me Michelle Randolph. You have no idea that Michelle Randolph is what she's going to be in the series and there was no need for them to make her 17. Thank you, Kathy.

All right, so, oh, we were talking about Legend of Zelda. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all right. So the release date was unveiled Friday on Nintendo's new app, Nintendo Today, nearly 18 months after it was first announced. And Wes Ball, the director of Maze Runner's trilogy. Okay. And last year's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes will direct as well as produce. No other details available as of yet. I like all that. Let's see what happens. Ryan Peele.

Coogler is aiming high when casting his upcoming third Black Panther movie. His big name choice to appear in the film would be Denzel Washington. He said, I'm dying to work with Denzel, and I'm hoping that we can make that happen.

I've got every intention of working with him in that movie and as long as he's interested, it's going to happen. What would they do with him? Yeah, I don't know. Make him a patriarch, obviously. Wouldn't it be great if he was just some throwaway secondary character? Anybody want coffee? Alright, alright. Anybody want coffee? I'll go get a rope! Kugler told Shannon Sharp and Chad Ochocinco-Johnson on their Nightcap podcast that it sounds like

The interest is mutual. While promoting Gladiator 2 last November, Washington let slip that Coogler was writing an unspecified role for him in the next Black Panther sequel. So, Morgan News on the film, when asked how long fans would have to wait for the third film in the franchise, Coogler said, not long.

I always thought they missed the mark a little bit by not finding a way to... And they could have. They had a legend that would allow them to reanimate Killmonger and make him the next Panther. You know?

Fans of the Good Burger movies get set. A third serving is on the way. Kel Mitchell, who along with Kenan Thompson, have starred in the first two comedies. And they told fans at 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut on Friday that a third film is coming sooner rather than later. The word this one is going very dark and will be a lot like Nosferatu. So, let's see. He said...

Who was the one who said this? I hate when they put the quote first and then who said it afterwards. So I'll just read you the quote. So here's the thing. We teased it at the end of the movie. I said, we're going to go to space. We're going to go to Fast and Furious, this thing. And he showed them and it wasn't a joke. He said, me and Kenan actually sat down and talked about the script for part three. All right, so it's going to go down.

We got to make sure that it's right, just like how Good Burger 2 was, he said, adding that we're not going to make you guys wait over 15 years. That original Good Burger is a seminal movie for a lot of the adults who just love that whole series and the movie.

School may be getting back in session at good old Hillman College. Netflix is filming a pilot for A Different World, a sequel to the late 80s sitcom of the same name, which will chronicle Dwayne and Whitney's daughters.

Time at HBCU. Initially pitched as Hillman, but may move to another HBCU by the time the pilot is filmed. They should literally put it on a different world. The project had been in development at the streamer since last year, but is now moving forward. In the original series starred Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy as Dwayne Whitley.

No word on whether they'll be returning as casting is currently underway with filming expected to begin this summer. That's one series that took a turn into it once popular characters were established, and I think it turned for the better. So we haven't seen much of John Lovitz lately, and if this actually happens, we still won't, but we will hear him. The SNL vet and comic actor is pitching hard for a revival of his 90s animated series, The Critic.

on social media this weekend. He wrote, Critic fans, you keep telling me that you want it back and I've been trying for years. Well, now creator Al Jean is on board. Tucked up!

If you want it back, we need your help. He said, please like this post and spread the word so we can show the studio how many people want it. The show ran for 23 episodes across ABC, which ran for 13 episodes before canceling it, and Fox, which picked it up for a second season. I enjoyed the show. Al Jean is associated with The Simpsons as well, is he not? Don't know. He's one of the creators and writers of The Simpsons. Okay.

All right, and then one more thing. Busy Phillips revealed that she, Katie Holmes, and Michelle Williams are working on a Dawson's Creek reunion. Dawson. And they're doing it to support James Van Der Beek following his colorectal cancer diagnosis. Oh, that's awesome. Not the diagnosis, but that they're helping out. Phillips said, we're really trying to figure something out.

And she told Us Weekly that the scheduling conflicts have made it challenging. She shared that she is optimistic, however, adding, I'm very hopeful that at some point we will. Vanderbeek, who announced his diagnosis in November, shared that he's feeling good and is receiving support from his family. Phillips, meanwhile, confirmed that the cast has been sending him every ounce of good wishes and prayers. If you want to see something good,

wholly moving and inspirational. He recently did a video where he talked about his perspective on things, about dealing with the cancer and what's really important. And it just, I think it would connect anyone who watched it because it was really a...

A profound message. Despite hopes for a reunion, creator Kevin Williamson previously cautioned a full reboot is unlikely, saying we keep talking about it, but as of now, it's not even in the pipeline. But they're trying to get something going. All right, some clips to play for you this morning.

Tom Hardy returns to the screen as a gangster, this time in a new show called Mobland. And in this clip, Tom talks about the roles that he enjoys most. I love playing Venom. I love playing the world of superheroes very much so. So I also enjoy, I enjoy a bit of everything, to be fair. And this one's gangstering, so I'm enjoying that too. And being back in England and doing something that's London based. So I love everything, really. What the f***?

Mobland premiered last night on Paramount+. Here's our next clip.

20 years ago, Carrie Underwood left the American Idol stage a winner. And this season, she returns as a judge near the country star shares her firsthand experience. I know what they're going through. And I know what it's like to be standing up there thinking, like, what song am I supposed to be singing? I don't know. And, you know, having judges say, that just wasn't the right song for you. And you're like, I don't know what that means. You know, so you are trying to discover so much about yourself in the process. Shut the up.

New episode of American Idol airs today and you will find that on ABC. And that is our entertainment report for this Monday morning. Thank you. Thank you. Please, please, please sit down. We have

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Everything that rocks. Thanks, Kathy. Nick, question about our text board here. Yes. The person who posted the text, is their name above? Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. I'm still learning it too. So I got this text, and I believe this is from Steve Hibbs, and he says, Kathy, please let the listeners know about...

Brownsville Road being closed in Lower Southampton Township between Bristol Road and Old Lincoln Highway in Middletown Township. It's closed for the next 18 months. Oh, my God. I hope that is not a major part of your commute. We have an area by me that's been closed because of a bridge for...

15 years now, probably. Oh, my gosh. They just never did anything about it. Because Gradyville Road, by me, was closed for a number of years because of a bridge. And it was a tiny little bridge, but there was a turtle that they were protecting. Okay. Oh, my gosh. And that's why they weren't able to... Leave me alone. Yeah.

One turtle. I don't want cars coming out of your nightie. It was basically a pipe that went underneath this little thing. It wasn't even like a bridge, really. But there was a protected species that they couldn't touch. And that was its home. So may I bring up something? I was finishing the Morris Animal Refuge event on Friday night, which is wonderful, at the Simeon Automotive Museum.

I'm leaving. I'm told there might be some issues. And so I go, okay. Other people are reporting as they're leaving. Our friend Steve McLean was leaving as well. He gave us some information. So I said, best to switch to Waze right now, right? That's always up to the minute.

And I'm hearing some reports because Waze says 76 is open and good. I got on 76. It was shut the F down. I mean, it was bumper to bumper and had been apparently for a while. How did Waze miss that? It shouldn't have. And that yet it was reporting correctly that there was a car off to the side disabled. Well, where were you?

So you know over by where that Subaru dealership is off 76? You know the one that is right up there where you talked about during the show? Right at that area. Yeah.

Go back a little bit. Was it like University, South Street area? It was shut down over the weekend. Right, but I'm like... There was nothing on Waze that was indicating that. I said Waze did me dirty a couple of times. Same thing. And I don't know if there's some sort of update I need to do or whatever, but I use the map now on my phone because Waze did that to me a couple of times. Wow. I've yet to have it steer me wrong. Like I am...

Faithful 100%. Is there like an update thing? No, you know what? It only steers me wrong when there's like minor road construction on side roads. Or turtles. Or turtles. I'm a Google Maps guy and I think they're related somehow. Maybe Google bought Waze or something at some point. I always forget. But Kathy, I'm the same boat as you. Waze, I took it off my phone. I don't even use it anymore. Wow, yeah. We were in Florida. I was asking you if you were using Waze or not and you're like, no. I'm like, are you?

out of your mind. But the thing about Google Maps is they do a really good job of similar stuff that Waze did and I'll get the little alerts and say, you know, is there still a police car here? Is there still activity? So user-based. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, because I'm a Waze reporter. Yeah, you love Waze. I know. If I see stuff on the road, I'm active. I make sure I contribute.

We're all in on this together. Have you downloaded Frampton's app, which is the I want you to show me the ways? No, no, not yet. I'll have to. It's really not good. All right, well, anyway, heads up on that. I missed a couple of shout outs last week. Apologies. I've been doing pretty good lately. You've been phenomenal. I'm going to parse some of these out through the show. So this one says, hey, my name is Matt Warren, and I'm hoping to get a shout out from my incredible mom,

Denise Patagna. She retired March 28th and took a huge leap by starting her own ice cream truck company. Wow. Called Ice Cream Emergency. And I couldn't be more proud of her. I can never thank her enough for being the best mom in the world to me and my brother, Billy. And she's always been our biggest supporter. And now it's our turn to cheer her on in this exciting new adventure. We've been listening to you guys for years.

You've been helping us get through some tough times and just wanted to send some love and appreciation your way. Thanks so much. And that's from Matt Warren. So here's the shout out to mom. Good luck to you. Ice cream emergency. It's a ballsy move. Totally. Here's another one says, Hey guys, how is everyone? Uh, I have a birthday shout out request to one of my longtime besties, Nick DeCastro, uh, Friday the 28th. If it is possible, I'd appreciate it. On a side note, a bunch of us are going to see, uh,

Hidden in Plain View Friday night and Granger Band is opening for them. Any of you going to that show? No, I don't think we did. Kind regards, Trina Hershberger. So here's the shard out.

And then I'll do one more and then I'll get to my other late ones later. It says, good morning, my husband. I listen to you every day. This Friday, March 28th is our 10 year anniversary. And we are just shy of celebrating our daughter Parker's first birthday. 10 years, man.

10. Her name is Kate and she says, Kyle and I have always bonded over your show and it's our go-to for our yearly road trips. And we greatly appreciate a decade-long shout-out in celebration of our milestone. Thanks to Stay Cool. And that is from Kate G. So here's the shout-out. And congratulations, guys. That's awesome.

I saw this little story over the weekend, and I was a little bummed out about this because I love this guy. Bob the Hound Kelly had a farewell over the weekend at the Flyers game, 74 years old, and he is passing along his time for his role as a Flyers ambassador has now wrapped up. He's done with that. Yeah, I always love seeing him. Oh, man. And I love, I love...

the ambassador role that they have for these older former players and you see it in a variety of sports now I think it is just that would be the greatest if you spent your time in a city and you are revered as a player you didn't even have to really be a star some of these guys weren't full on stars that have gone on to be ambassadors but they're good people they hang around it

you're delighted when you're at the game and you have a moment with them, it makes it, it moves things up a notch. I couldn't agree more. Bob scored the game-winning goal, the Stanley Cup winning goal in the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals against the Buffalo Sabres. I don't know if I shared this with you guys before. I'm actually related to Bob Kelly. What? My mom's

mom's maiden name is Kelly. And so my mom's great-great-grandfather was brothers with Bob's great-great-grandmother. So, you know, it's several trees up or whatever, but yeah, we're distant cousins. Nick, who had the issue with the Cassette player?

That was on the other side of the family. That was my dad's mom. So I don't know if Bob's okay with Cassette players or not. We'll have to find out. So they honored him over the weekend. I didn't see the details because the article that I was reading was leading up to the event. But they played Buffalo on Saturday.

And of course, the role as ambassador was not only at the game, but that would take him to schools and clinics. And if Flyers, you know, if they had an event, he was probably there and shaking hands and smiling and telling old stories. Are they all still with us?

Of the 74, 75 teams? No, they had an alumni game last year and a few of those guys have passed away over the years. A lot of them are though. And it's cool to see them show up. They honored the 74 team at the alumni game last year. And I like sharing this because it's painful. I was born in July of 1975. Casey was also born in July of 1975. Since Casey and I were both born, the Flyers have yet to win a Stanley Cup. So it is probably our fault. Probably. That was it.

By the way, just a little peek into his life and post hockey, professional hockey. He owned a liquor store and a construction company and a sporting goods store. Nice. And then he said, then Mr. Snyder called me. Snyder was joined that morning by former Sixer World B-Free and Dave Kosky, who ran the marketing for the Flyers and Sixers.

And the hound said, well, what is this? And Snyder wanted Kelly to be the world be free of the Flyers.

And Freehead established himself at that time as the basketball team ambassador, regularly appearing at events throughout the area. And Bob was like, yeah, sounds like fun. I'll do it. I'll do it. Yeah. So Kelly said, you don't say no to Mr. Schneider. He said, I was happy that he saw enough in me that he felt comfortable in hiring me. And that's how it all started. Uh,

And he ended up being a smiling face for the Flyers organization. Yeah, absolutely. And I agree, Preston, going back to your previous statements about how this is so cool, how it's so wonderful for the fans. And more sports should embrace it more vigorously. Yeah. Because it's...

You know, who, as you said, we're looking at him smiling and, you know, during the event and all that stuff. This means a lot. It means a lot to everyone. It's a win-win. So he would go to clinics and help teach kids. I saw him at tons of golf outings. Like, that's a regular thing, too. He was a guest surgeon over at Penn a couple months ago. No kidding. Good for him. And that lucky person who won that on the table. Yes, he just took your appendix out. Bob Kelly. The hound? Uh.

he honored military members at the games and spread the gospel of hockey just like the bullies did. And he said it's been a fun run. He said it's just nice to be a part of the Flyers. When you walk around, you're a part of the fabric of the city. And in this article I read, I love how it's wrapped up because this is what he says. He says, quote, I have stories.

And that's what life is all about. I'm like, you know what? That's pretty spot on. So do you see years from now in some radio station, we have Preston and Steve. And the wheel is in. Yeah.

Hey, where's the pudding? Yeah. But we have stories. We do. We've got stories. Yes. And I was kind of reflecting on that over the weekend. I'm like, yeah, okay. Stories. Stories are, you know, to some extent, a proof that...

You've lived a life that's worth talking about. Well, Kathy and sharing. We were talking at our spring training, Kathy, about the athletes, a lot of times, and more specifically, baseball players, their currency is their stories. The collection of stories. Oh, yeah. And that's everything. When we went to dinner with Brazier...

the whole night was stories. Yeah. That's all it was. Everybody took turns with their stories and that's, that's what the night consisted of. Yeah. It sucked to sit there and go, I have, I have no stories. Yes. I have nothing. I have no stories. Well, it's also hard to get your stories in when you're with someone like that who has so many stories. Oh, John? Yeah. Oh God, yes. And that are tremendous stories. Yeah, most definitely. So, uh,

Bob Kelly, man, you know, I'm sure we'll still see him from time to time. But he is officially wrapped up that that role as ambassador of the Flyers. But the great thing is, is they will, you know, they'll do it.

They'll continue to do it. Who are they going to bring in next? I mean, I assume there are people. I mean, I don't know if you want to have 1,500 ambassadors at one time. But, I mean, I assume they have a list of people that they want. Like Joe Watson has been an ambassador. Bernie does it. Bernie does it. Brad Marsh does it. Oh, my God. Bernie at the last camp out for hunger. I was thinking about that yesterday. He shows up dressed as Santa Claus. Yeah.

And just saying whatever he wanted to. Like we would ask him direct questions and he would say...

Oh, I say to you, mister, that I don't want no nothing to do. You know, I mean, like it would just ramble on and just did not care. So what are you doing for the holidays, Bernie? Hey, you don't need to cut your hair. You have none. Yeah. He had in his mind what he wanted to say and he would just wait to speak and then say it. It didn't matter what he said prior to that. And we were cracking up.

I was thinking about a moment, speaking of stories yesterday, and I forget what the context is. You guys are going to have to fill me in a bit. But there was a moment in time with Jose where he says, first of all, I'm not going to tell you that answer. Something like that. I'm not going to say any. I'm not going to answer your question. Do you remember what the context was, Case?

It was a direct question and it was a pretty easy one. Almost like, so how have you been? I mean, it was like straight ahead as that. And he just goes, first of all, I am not going to answer your question. Like a practice, like a lawyer or something. That is not germane to the topic. And Kathy, when he did it, I didn't, you know, my facial expression. I was just like, what? What?

I was like looking around like, did he just say that? First of all, I bleeped a fifth. So anyway, but Bob Kelly, well, congratulations, man. I hope you create more stories. Did you really get to retire? Yes. Did you ever? I mean, have you ever met...

from the athletic realm, someone who blew you away in person, who you looked up to or anything. I mean, I've never had that moment. I think, Nick, you met Dr. J, right? I met Dr. J when I was nine, and that was literally larger than life and figuratively. It was a hero moment.

And I was a nine-year-old kid, Steve. So seeing him on a plane and then shaking his hand and you share the story where anybody that's ever met Dr. J and you shake his hand, your hand disappears into his because it's just massive. I mean, professionally, meeting Eddie Vedder was just unbelievable. I was a hero growing up and...

still is, and so to be able to sit down and have some time with him, that was pretty damn cool. I mean, there are legends that I have yet to meet, but also because of what we do for a living have been put in situations where like, I cannot believe that this is happening right now. And I played golf

And it was in Barkhans Outing and Mike Schmidt was in the force behind me. So I spent the afternoon essentially with Mike Schmidt. Yeah. Chat with him from time to time. Like the best part was that the guy that I was playing golf with, I was like, dude, Mike Schmidt's in the force behind us.

So he goes and starts talking to a dude with a mustache who was not Mike Schmidt. Because Mike doesn't have a mustache anymore. It was actually the original drummer for Bruce Springsteen's band. Oh, okay. I wish I could remember. I mean, but he played drums on Rosalita and stuff like that. That guy, whoever that guy was. But I'm like, he thinks that's Mike Schmidt. And that's not Mike Schmidt. What was it like in the bigs? What? What? What?

No, but for people to meet Bob Kelly, I'm sure, is really special throughout the years, which is cool. So I wanted to pass that along. Something completely, totally different, though. Steve sent me over this article that I thought you guys might get a kick out of. And it has to do with couples and trying to find that spark in their life. And regular couples are apparently, according to this article... Yeah.

taking ethical non-monogamy to the next level by entering the adult industry as part of an X-rated experiment to enhance their marriages. A group of husbands have teamed up with adult website Wifey.com

So that their wives can have sex with professional male porn stars on camera as part of a new trend called hot wifing. Oh, yeah. Hot wifing. Hot wifing. Not hot pockets, Nick. It's hot wifing. It's a modern take on cuckolding. Yeah, okay. Okay, which is when men let their attractive wives have sex with other men as they watch.

So this sounds like the same thing. It sounds like exactly the same thing. The one thing I didn't realize was that so this so they the end result is that your wife will be with it with a an established porn star. OK. Yeah. So one couple, Sienna and Logan, who have been hot wifing the past two years, they compare it to test driving a car, Steve. No, no. I've test driven cars. Yeah.

Logan said, it's kind of like letting your friend test drive your car. He gets to see how well it rides. He's got to give it back, but it creates a sense of pride. You get a little taste of what my life is like, he said. It's not like letting, it's like letting Mario Andretti test drive your car. Oh, that's true. If you're like a porn star and then you, you, yes, then you finish on the back of the car. Well, I don't know about that.

Sienna said it'll be really cool for him to see me with two hot guys just living my best life. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right. You guys. Yeah. Oh, go, honey. Go. That's amazing. Yeah. That's my gal. Another husband. Yeah. Alex said that he'd never done anything kinky until he met his wife, Rebecca. Does that have any iteration of that at any level? No. Any geometric progression have any interest? None, right? To me, no. No.

If that's your thing, that's fine. If you're happy, you're consenting, everyone's cool. Yeah. I don't get it. Yeah, agreed. Listen, there are all kinds of people in this world. Yeah. And to some... There's a lot of cucks in the sea. This is their... This is what... This is not only what they're into. This is like what they really, really like. Yeah. So...

So Rebecca and Alex said that they eventually got into the world of hot wifing so that Alex could live out his fantasies of seeing one woman with two different men at the same time. Rebecca said, I think what this dynamic has brought to our relationship is just a whole other level of comfort and security. Yeah. Well, it's like Nick watching Cheers. He gets comforted by that. For some people, it's this. For some people, it's watching sitcoms.

I don't mind watching this type of thing if it's people I don't know at all. No, it's fine. Not my wife. Yeah, exactly. Is that my wife? Special guest, your wife. She said there's really nothing. I've seen people I know. Like the love boat, Steve. Special guest star, your wife.

We've all seen people we know do this. Yeah. We sure have. Okay. Well, yeah. Yeah, that's right. I did watch a video of her. So Nick's pulling up pictures. But that's not my wife. Yeah. But it's somebody we know, I guess, is my point. Yeah. So she says, there's really nothing like being able to share that experience with someone you love and knowing that it doesn't diminish what we have.

It actually made me a lot stronger, and it's weird to say, but I actually love him so much more because of it. So she loves her husband so much more because he's letting her have sex with two really well-hung guys. What it statistically is...

The other way where... Do women... I don't read a lot. Want to watch guys... Their husbands get it on with other women? You know that exists. I'm sure it happens. Absolutely. Percentage-wise, I wonder... Yeah, I don't know. Well, remember... If that breaks even or if it's, you know... Who...

One way or the other. The comedian. Nikki Glaser? Nikki Glaser, when she was here, remember, she told us that she would let her boyfriend be with other women and she wanted to hear about the experience. She didn't want to see it. But she did want to hear about it and it turned her on. Would you be okay with it if you didn't have to watch it and it was reenacted using hand puppets?

I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around it, so let me get back to you on that. It could hurt. Which, by the way, if this is your thing and you want to talk about it, you can text the word Zoom to 610-660-9333 and tell us a little bit about it if you like. By the way, Alex, was that her name? She said sex and love are two completely different things.

If it's done right. Another couple, Danielle and Richard, are pushing the envelope even further by having Danielle sleep with five men all while wearing her actual wedding dress, Cash. Richard. Okay. Yeah. Now, to me, that's the real pushing of the envelope is renting a hall. Yes. Catering it. And getting the dress cleaned.

We can't get this out. So why did you go with Taffer? Listen to his quote in this. So listen to this.

And he uses this word. He says, I'm going to see her defiled in a way that I've never seen her defiled before. In her wedding dress to add to the defilement. See, he's really stressing defile. Defile is not a word I would apply to someone I loved. Defile is a negative. It's debasing. It's negative. You defiled that. You should be doing this...

And you know what I mean? She might be, but his fantasy is that he's witnessing her being defiled. You defile a toilet after a taco dinner. This is true. That's the word you would use to describe that. I defiled it. Have you guys ever done a deep dive on random kinks and kink shaming? Random kinks? No. To me, this is a random...

To me, this is a random kink. This is one that I'm learning about as you're talking about it, right? But I really find the human psychology behind it fascinating. And I've tried in my life as I've gotten older to not kink shame. If this is something that turns somebody on, even if the word defiling is involved, which is not for me.

But it is for them. And like the separation of sex and love is also a fascinating one. It is. A lot of people are able to do it. Some people's emotions get wrapped up in it, which is also understandable. It's fascinating because it's tough for a lot of people to wrap their mind around. Absolutely. And therefore, it's like how, you know, there are a lot of things that are fascinating in that sense. If you're consenting and it makes you happy, that's what you do. And nobody's getting hurt. No one's getting hurt.

and I can access it for a subscription fee, then I am totally down with it. Yeah, so the word defile kind of muddies things up a little bit because, Nick, to answer your question,

If I sense that somebody is an unwilling participant, then I'm not down with that at all, right? No, no, no. Should you be? So when you use that word defile, it makes it seem like somebody is unwilling. Well, it depends on how you use it. You could say, put these papers in defile cabinets. Dude, are you serious? Yeah. Defile cabinets.

Right? Then you're using it safely. But, Casey, there may be, like, willing participants may say the words like, you know, treat me like the bitch that I am. Yes. You know, and stuff like that. I say that all the time. They want to be treated that way. I don't kink shame that, but I can't, I'm not down with it. I hear you. Don't kinksplain. Yeah. I'm not kinksplain. Don't kinksplain kinks. Stick that in the file cabinet and we'll talk about it later.

Gotta ask Denise and Denef you about it. So, anyhow, he had said, I just, he said, I just love the pristine wedding dress. Beautiful girl. My own wife just destroyed. Wow. Let me ask you. Destroyed. And part of the deal is, is this, don't you, isn't it sometimes the case where you hold on to your wedding dress for your...

Oh, for your child? Right. Possibly? Sweetie, I'm going to give this to you. I'm going to say some of those stains are going to be a bitch. Wow. He continued on and said, so every time we do this hot wifing situation, it's just a building block of love and trust. Wow. It keeps getting stronger and stronger and stronger. He said, so we're going to strengthen our relationship, and I'm going to get some entertainment and adrenaline from the defilement. There he goes again. So when you are a cuck and you are sitting in the room and you're watching...

Can you have movie concession snacks? Or is that considered inappropriate? I would sit there with a box of snow caps and some popcorn. Yeah, I think that really just depends on who's in the room. Okay. Yeah.

And maybe she enjoys that. I don't know. Watching you get your snack on. Eat those snow caps, bitch. I always think of Hulk Hogan and that whole thing. And that was a cuck situation. Wasn't that his Bubba the Love Sponge, right? His wife, yeah. But Hulk did not know

that he was being filmed. That's my recollection, but that was what was happening. I try not to think about that one. I try to move on in my life. We had the full audio of it, which was crazy. He had just eaten because he kept going on. He's like, I feel like such a pig.

I think he was using that as an excuse just to get the hell out of there. Oh. I honestly think he was ready. He was uncomfortable. I think he wanted to, I think he got his deed done and wanted to get the hell out of there. And I think he was using, oh, I got to take crap right now.

Rips off his shirt. Rips off his pants and takes a dump. Right here. Brother. So one of the most notable participants who take part in Wifey's experiment is

Very clever. Yeah.

Jack's dragon slayer. While her husband of 12 years, Anthony, watches and records all the action on an iPhone. What was her job, did you say? She was a cop.

I remember this story. She was a sheriff's deputy. Yeah, yeah. She said, we hope that we are able to provide insight into the hot wife lifestyle and show that a couple can remain deeply in love and play stronger together even when there are experiences with other partners. So we have a picture of Jack's slayer. Yeah. And he has an IMDB. Dude, it's time up. Yeah. Wow. He was in Monster Truck Press. He was in Monster Truck Press. I didn't know that.

So she said it's all about trust, communication, and shared experiences. We're just like any other couple. Except we go through a lot more drop cloths. We simply decided to embrace this part of our relationship. What job could you maintain? Teachers, probably out. Cop, I'm guessing out. If you were an administrative assistant. Publicly known to do this? Well, I don't even...

How about flyer's ambassador? What job would you deserve to be fired for? I could see how an administration would have an issue if a teacher were to do this on the side. It would make sense to me. But if you were just doing this in your private life away from work, should you be able to keep a job? I think you should if this is your private thing and you're doing this. This is what you do. There was the story of the woman who was, by all accounts...

in the PTA and was, you know, she was just simply had an OnlyFans. OnlyFans. And she advertised it on her car. Right. And so when she would come to pick up the kids, there were parents that had an issue with that. I think otherwise, if it had not been for that bumper sticker, no one would have known. Yeah. Except for the principal. Yeah. So that's a good question, Nick. I don't know. I mean, somebody working at Wawa is probably okay. Yeah. Right. What about somebody down the hall here? You know, what if it's Mac Alpert? Who is it?

Oh my God. I'm going to defy you. This is going to be so sick. By the way, there's some gift coupons for you here. I'm going to pay in trade. I'm going to shoot. I'm going to shoot all over you. I mean, not technically, but because I'm kind of sick.

Matt Cowper. Cowper's in shape. He's a good looking guy. He's a good looking dude too. He could get away with it. I think so. He's not a bad man. See Pacino agrees. I'm not finished. And we know Matt knows he's up to the task. Should he have to dive into that world. He'll tell you all about it. All night every night.

Now you sound like a James Sink. I want you to meet my friend Matt. Pleasure to meet you. You guys have some hot wifing.

But I mean, listen, that term, hot wifing, this is already... It is cuckold. It's already cuckold. That's already what it is. That's exactly what it is. So there's a new label that comes up all the time to rebrand stuff like this. Why not call it Doritos? Gets you talking about it. But usually it's all on an amateur level, like when you're researching. So there is a subsection. Nick, you talk about how there's all these...

Aspects. Kinks. Humiliation, Cuck, which is where you are, where the word defile is probably used a lot more. Well, humiliation wherein the woman is having sex with another man and the whole time is looking and saying to him what a joke he is, how ridiculous this is, I got to pick up eggs on the way home. No, but we're just talking about what an embarrassment you are. Yeah. And some, for whatever reason...

These guys enjoy that type of humiliation. I was watching an interview with a psychologist and she was talking about a psychiatrist. I don't know. Um...

Men who have a lot of power. Yes. Like to experience... Especially, yes, like to be dominated on. Like to be... Like to be submissive. So in their normal daily travails are exerting all this power and influence. Yeah, they're dominant. And they like to be subordinate. Yeah, in their real life, they're dominant. Yeah. And so therefore, to almost adjust or to compensate, they want to be subordinate in this secret life. Do you know anybody who's into the... Not that you know anybody who's into...

The baby thing. The infantilism. No. What about anyone here? Anyone at work here? You ever see a show up in a diaper? Aunt Tess is into it. Don't do that. God damn this safety pin caught my side. I only say that because Jim has a great sense of humor. Jim does have a good sense of humor. And I never say that about him in real life. Hell of a Yoda impression. Jim pretends to be Yoda. Baby Yoda.

He's broken. Wipe my ass, you will. My butt is dust. Powder my ass, you will. So, infantilism and... Yodism. Yodism. Listen, is it rule 39? Is that what it is? I think so, yeah. Yeah, if you can think of it, there is a kink. So, in fact, the kink was actually the first part...

The original script of Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come, had a whole other connotation. Totally different. Yeah. 34, rule 34. Rule 34. Sorry about that. 39 is something totally different. All right. Anyhow, I just thought it was an interesting Merce sharing this morning. All right. We should take ourselves a break. When we return, if that wasn't weird enough, we'll get to some bizarre file stories. How about that? And we do have some guests on the program. I'll bring up speed on all of it in a little bit. But we'll be back in just a second. So you...

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the spot you just did there, Kathy. I went home the other day and there was a box of it sitting on our counter at home. And I'm like, why do we have Narcan in the house? Why not? And well, no, it was because, uh, Rochelle was prescribed something with a, um, uh,

An opioid? An opioid in it. And they wanted to have it. That just, I was like, oh my God, really? Preston, I just had this conversation with a friend of mine on Friday night and same thing. She had surgery on her foot and I guess got some pain pills to take home after the surgery and they gave her...

uh narcan yeah i was like i and sometimes her stories are like fabricated so i was like really but it's so funny all right i'm a junkie i didn't know but it was like i'm like naloxone is narcan right like i saw it and those thing two things you know hit in my head i'm like why do we what is there something you want to talk about it's also great on steak yes it's not a bad idea for people to have in fact and my daughter was going to college you know like

We weren't worried about her needing it for her, but to have it just in case somebody on her floor... Is it relatively inexpensive, correct? Don't know. Not really sure. All right. All right. So anyhow, side note there. Enough of non-canon.

Two quick things before we get into the bizarre file. Number one, after the bizarre file, we have a quick guest on to promote an event that's coming up where we need talented high school musicians, right, Kathy? Yeah, kids. Okay, kids. And so if you are in that realm, stay with us through the bizarre file because this might be a really cool thing for you. And I told you I need to catch up on chart outs because I was running behind, so let me get these cookies here. This one is from Michael...

His last name is spelled W-O-G-T-O-N. Spiff. No. Walton. I guess the J is silent or might be Wadgeton. I'm not really sure. But anyhow, says, hey, President Steve Gang, if you could take a moment, I'd love to ask for a shout out for my daughter, Allie, whose birthday is on March 30th.

She listened to every day and turned us into full-time listeners. Nice. And she made us go to the Thanksgiving Day Parade last year despite the crappy weather just to see you guys. We're honored. Thanks from Mike and Linda. So here's the shout-out for you. That's so cool. And let's see. Then I have one that says, Hey, President, I'm hoping you can give my brother Matthew Summers a big shout-out for his 50th birthday, March 29th.

Big fan. Listened to your show daily when he lived in Philadelphia. Now he continues to stream you guys every morning in Columbus, Ohio. And I wanted to do something extra special to celebrate. And I think a happy birthday from you will make his day. That is from Amy Harter. So here's the shout out. And happy birthday to you, Mr. Matthew Summers. And thanks for continuing to listen to us in Columbus. And then the last shout out, and then we'll move along. It says, Dearest Preston.

Please send my MF-er husband a big juicy three years overdue shout out for his birthday on March 29th. There it is. Be new. You happy?

Okay, so I guess that's to him. It's a code for hot wifing. And it says his loving wife, Leslie. Oh. So here's the short out for you. All right. Now, we can get to some Bizarre Files stories, folks. Here we go. Now, WMMR presents Preston and Steve's Bizarre Files.

Bizarre File this morning brought to you by Sequoia Outback. You can stop in for their annual Spring in the Sequoia sale, which is going on now, Route 309 in Hatfield or at Decksupplies.com. You can experience the ultimate in outdoor living at Sequoia Outback. An Arab-American fashion CEO has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines after allegedly being forced to endure a herring in-flight ordeal during which a male passenger pleasured himself beside her for nearly an hour while crew members allegedly failed to intervene. Ha!

So where are you going? So Neil Esherif, a prominent New York-based businesswoman and founder of a luxury vegan leather brand, Mela, was traveling in premium economy on the transatlantic flight from JFK to Milan. And the airline, according to her, failed to take appropriate action when she reported the incident instead of offering to relocate her to economy. Okay.

Come on. Come on.

Her complaint states the man continued for approximately 60 minutes. An hour? Without a single crew member walking through for the premium economy section. I think at a point you'd chafe up. After the man finally ceased...

El Sherry said she left her seat and approached a flight attendant only to be met with indifference. A staff member allegedly told her there's nothing really I can do and proposed she move to a seat in economy class. Were you to do that anywhere, you know, you'd be arrested for doing that in public. Even more disturbingly, the flight attendant is said to have remarked, ah, men just do stuff like that. Why didn't you help out?

Adding that her own husband also engaged in such behavior. My husband pleasures himself on commercial flights all the time. A statement which, according to the suit, deeply shocked and offended her. The airline staff allegedly failed to speak to the man in question or file a report about the sexual misconduct. The lawsuit claims the crew's response made Alshari feel as though she was

Expected to endure such grotesque misconduct, perpetuating the dangerous notion that women should tolerate male predation as part of everyday life. Tell you what, I'll give you a dildo and you guys can have a fight. So she is obviously suing them and we'll see where that goes. That's why it's in the Bizarre File.

A Wisconsin man faces felony charges after he was caught on camera pouring super glue into his co-worker's can of coke at their place of work. Yeah. Super glue. Joseph R. Ross was taken into custody after the co-worker he reportedly targeted had spoke to police.

On March 20th, a colleague identified as J.H. approached Wisconsin State Fair Park police officers patrolling the park's exhibition center and requested a private conversation. J.H. told the officers that roughly two to three weeks ago, she began to suspect that beverages on her desk were being contaminated by a chemical substance.

JH was made aware of the contamination due to the strong chemical smell and taste and stated that upon consumption of those beverages, she became ill. What would be the end result of drinking superglue dissolved in soda? Can't be good, dude. Yeah. Moreover, she did not consent to anyone placing anything in her drink. Unsettled by those events, she set up a camera at her desk to record whether anyone was putting anything in her drinks and captured 34-year-old...

A gentleman named Ross, Joseph Ross, putting a foreign substance into her soft drink. When you walk away from your desk here, are you, would you, listen, I know everyone, you know, I'm comfortable where I work, but I still, I'll put, I'll hide the cup or I'll put something over it or I, you know, I'm. No, not me, dude. I leave this, I leave this cup of coffee sitting out all the time, half full. With coffee in it, you'll drink it again? Yeah, I'll sip at it through, absolutely, throughout the day. Yeah, right.

So they captured Ross putting the stuff in the drink. Photos showed him holding a brown and orange tube with a white nozzle and squeezing a liquid substance into a can of Coke. And Ross was also seen wearing clear latex gloves on both hands as he poured the substance into the can. Officers executed a search warrant at his office and after searching a trash bag,

They discovered a set of clear protective gloves wadded up into a ball. When they pulled the gloves apart, they found each contained an item. One glove contained a blue plastic cap. The other had a Gorilla Super Glue container. Oh, man. While officers interviewed Ross, he admitted to placing a supplement in the drink. A supplement. And did not reveal a motive for his actions. He was charged with one felony count of placing foreign objects in edibles, which carries a maximum penalty of three years and six months in jail. Oh.

Or a $10,000 fine if he is convicted. Yeah, you cannot do that. In Louisiana, an unusual visitor at Lottell Elementary on Tuesday afternoon led school administrators to call the Wildlife and Fisheries Department during a PE class. Students and coach Jordan Jason spotted a bobcat inside the gymnasium. Really? By the time he said, by the time we saw it, it was near the sports table and then it ran upstairs through the door.

Officials initially thought it was a house cat, but Principal Alcinda James initially didn't think much of the sighting. However, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries later confirmed that it was a bobcat. Bobcats can get to be a decent size. Yeah, once the sighting was reported, school officials quickly evacuated students from the gym and no one was hurt. They searched the school, but they

They never found the bobcat. Wow. To aid in the search, the school has been in contact with two professional animal trappers who will set tuna-baited traps inside the athletic room. I know how to get this. I'll put out tuna. Where the bobcat was last seen. We're coming for you, bobcat. The gym will remain closed until the bobcat is captured and they will have P.E. in the multipurpose room.

All right, and then we will wrap up with one more quick story. Wilson Munoz Suarez, known to patients as Dr. Wilson Munoz, prominently advertised cosmetic surgery procedures and medical supplements on social media and his website and was pictured smiling in medical scrubs touting his more than 25 years of transforming lives.

He worked at a surgical center in the heart of Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. But deputies said that he had no right to pour him any procedures in Florida. He wasn't a licensed doctor. Was he? Had he had any doctor schooling at all? His arrest report lists his occupation as surgical assistant. Uh-huh. Munoz was arrested at his home on Wednesday. But there's more to the story. Not before deputies said he tried to use his mother as a human shield. Oh, no.

So an Orlando woman contacted Munez in September after seeing him online, drove to Doral for a consultation. She underwent a cosmetic procedure a month later and recovered at a private home. Deputy said she tried to contact him in December about her procedure. After multiple failed attempts, she tried again to make the hours-long drive to confront him. And upon confronting him, she began to explain her concerns about her results. And again, physically examined the victim alone. An investigator wrote when asked,

asked if someone else did the surgery. He admitted to performing the surgical procedure and the meeting was captured on video recorded by the victim. Deputies said they confirmed that Munoz was not licensed in the state. Uh, deputies went to arrest him, but they said, uh,

of his subsequent actions would add a second felony and three misdemeanors. When they asked Munoz to step outside, he tried to close the door on them, leading a deputy to grab him. He said he proceeded to tense up and pull away. And then he put his elderly mother in a chokehold as he tried to use her as a shield. So the only way out of this, I think, is if he gets her a gold rose from Mother's Day. They said that...

He then grabbed his arms and stopped. They grabbed his arms and stopped him from harming her. Sorry, Ma. Deputies were eventually able to take him into custody. You know I love you, right? That is what I have in the Bizarre File for you this morning. All right. We have a guest who we're going to talk to via Zoom. And Kathy, you got this set up, right? Yeah. So Jace used to take like piano, drum, guitar lessons before COVID with Mike.

All right, so he is with Philly Sound Exchange and has a really cool opportunity to tell you about. So we're going to welcome Mike Schaller to the program. Hey, Mike, how you doing, man? Hey, guys, I'm good. How are you? Good. Nice to see you. All right, so Philly Sound Exchange. Can you tell us what that is exactly for those who may not know? Yeah, so Philly Sound Exchange is a program where we bring kids from city schools and suburban schools together for music projects. All right.

And kind of the idea was I had been working at a high school in West Philly and then teaching music camps and lessons and things. That's where I met Kathy out of my house in Glenside and was kind of like these kids are really the same while they're making music. They have the same frustrations when they're trying to come up with musical ideas, same excitement when they perform.

But they're just in these separate spaces. And what would happen if we brought them together and made music together? So that's kind of where it came from. Kids are like setting up next to each other at science fairs or playing against each other in sports, but rarely have the opportunity to collaborate in this way. I love that. So you're taking people from different cultures, different lifestyles.

Bringing them together with the common language of music and working together. It's a really cool thing, man. Yeah, thank you. And so... Oh, sorry. No, I'm going to say, so you guys, there are some events or an event coming up that you want to get people involved in. Yeah, exactly. So over the last three years, we've been writing this musical called...

And writing musicals really hard. It took Lin-Manuel eight years to write Hamilton. And so we're kind of at the point now where we have this episode one that we're planning to take around to schools next year. We got an incredible director. I couldn't believe she said yes. Amina Robinson, who's a professor at Temple, is actually the first black woman to win a Barrymore Award for Best Director of a Musical. So she's directing musicals.

And so we're casting right now. We're looking for kids age 14 to 21 to audition. They can send in a one-minute video of them singing or rapping or dancing to either connect at phillysoundexchange.com or to our Instagram. It's probably the easiest, at PHLSoundExchange. Just send a video in. We're going to be doing callbacks May 3rd at Temple University. So, yeah, if you're a kid listening, if you're a parent listening, definitely.

Definitely hit us up on Instagram. It's probably the easiest way to get in touch and learn more about the project. All right, so Mike, you're specifically looking for singers and dancers. Do they need to be able to do both, or are there other musicians that can qualify for this too? Yes, singers, dancers, rappers. We are going to have a live band too. So, yeah, if you play an instrument, really rhythm section, horn section, guitar.

is what we're looking for. We have a bunch of that filled, but yeah, if you're a talented guitarist, bass player, keyboard player, drummer, we're also doing some master classes. So we have Trey Lambert, who is like Meek Mill's drummer, Lil Durk's drummer, Future's drummer.

Doing a session on Monday, April 7th. So if you want to come see what we're all about, that could be an opportunity to check it out. So you kind of indicated that this is part one. Is this part of a planned trilogy? Yeah, exactly. So we...

The kids got together and they've written like 25 songs, but then they keep graduating every year, which is the problem with working with high school kids. So we kind of put together this act one as a way to be able to go into schools. The schools probably aren't going to be able to have us come in and do a two hour full musical. So we were like, let's make it into an hour. It's going to be an interactive performance where there's like talkbacks with the characters in character, having conversations with the audience, you know,

And then, yeah, so we're trying to recruit new kids to kind of write act two after we go through this first round of school performances. So you're saying it took three years to do this and Hamilton took eight. What a loser, Lin-Manuel Miranda. You know what I'm saying? What's the time frame to have a full production ready to go?

So we're looking, we're doing an intensive summer program. So August, we should be ready to start putting it on stages. We're booking for the fall right now. So we've been talking to a bunch of different schools, a bunch of different venues, and it's looking pretty good for the fall. So we'll eventually do some kind of a small tour in the area? Exactly, yeah. Okay, that sounds pretty cool. Yeah, so you're a school administrator and you're looking to...

Have us come to your school and perform. We'd also love for you to reach out. On a second note, do you ever lead a safari through your living room? Because behind...

That is a lot of vegetation behind you. I love my plants, man. Nice. All right. So for those, should people look at Philly Sound Exchange on Instagram? That's what you're saying is the best way to reach out? Yeah. Yeah. PHL Sound Exchange on Instagram. PHL Sound Exchange. Okay. Well, we will put the word out for you, sir. And it sounds like a great project. And it sounds like you're going to give us a lot of support.

Give some people a really cool experience, man. Yeah, really appreciate you guys helping me amplify it. Our pleasure. All right, thanks, Mike. Best of luck. Philly Sound Exchange. And there's...

tons of talented kids in this area. Yeah, and you look for that break, your first experience. So cool. Mike's pretty talented himself. Obviously, he teaches these young kids and that's how I met him. He did this really cool thing and I actually am so sad that he doesn't do it anymore, but he did something called Garage Band. So Jace wanted to get into playing an instrument. It was his first insight to it and Mike would teach them current music and he would have them all

Basically, he had his garage set up as a studio. And then at the end of the session, the kids would perform in his garage. And he called it Garage Band. I mean, it was awesome. COVID hit. It kind of went away. And then Mike started working on this project. And he does this mainly now. So I'm kind of bummed that it doesn't exist. But he's really talented. And he's got some good ideas. I like that idea of learning. Instead of sitting down and learning how to read music...

Everyone learned how to play a song and build project-based learning. That's the only way I really learned. Rock band at Southerton Area High School. That's what they've been doing for the past several years. It's a unique and interesting way to introduce kids into music as opposed to the...

just sitting down and learning how to read and write music. That's a great way to go, too, but there are other opportunities out there. In three years, you'll play a song. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. A little later on, if you watch the show Bosch and Bosch Legacy, we will have Titus Williver as well as writer Michael Connelly joining us. We'll be back in a moment. Stay put.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Before we dive into any conversation, I'm now going to refer this past Saturday as last summer. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It was gorgeous. Wasn't last summer great? Yeah.

The 24 hours of summer that we got. I literally just sat outside. Dude, that's what Rochelle and I did. I just sat outside. No music, nothing. Just sat outside and we just five or six times said to each other, we're like, this is so great. Yeah. This is just so great. At any point, you'd go, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. You know what's funny is I had basically two different Saturdays because I spent the first half of my Saturday...

up in the Scranton area. It was a little bit cooler up there. And then when we got home, it was 85 degrees. What were you doing in Scranton? Well, that's what we're going to talk about here. It was my son's accepted student day at University of Scranton. So we went up there to tour the campus. Now, Seamus and I went up there

in the summer to do a tour, but my wife hadn't been there. So we wanted to go out for Accepted Students Day. We didn't accept anything yet, but we spent the afternoon up there. Just to clarify, when you say accepted students... Actually, morning, I should say. So they have been accepted by the school, and now you are going to go tour and determine whether...

you want to go there. Yes. Okay. And so, for instance... Not you, your son. My son, yeah. So when we did this last year with my daughter at Michigan State, at the end of the tour day, we went into the gymnasium and she signed her letter of intent and we left a deposit and that day...

we guaranteed that that's where she was going to go. And we had that option to do that on Saturday as well. But there's still a few other schools that are... He's got a top three. It's so funny because my school was not... Do you have the money? Yeah, okay. There was no letter of intent. There was no... Yeah, just standard stuff. But it's an elaborate process, it seems to be. It really is. But what's really funny is that my sister texted and she was like, Hey, how was your... How was the... Except the students today...

And, you know, I'm texting her back and I'm like, this is so funny that this is my meter of how the day went. I go, well, it was a good day. He wasn't miserable. You know? No excitement? No. And so here's the... And so he had a friend with him. And actually, there were two friends. So...

He was kind of like self-contained, but I've done a few different college tours with this kid. And I don't want to say that he's miserable because he really is a great kid. But I will say that I am a walking embarrassment. You know what I mean? And I can't do anything right. It's like, why are you asking that? Why are you talking to that person? Why are you doing this? And Nick, I don't know if you had the same sort of thing when you were walking around and doing college tours with Ben. Yeah.

Was he embarrassed of me? Not embarrassed of you, but like... I know what you're saying. Disinterested? Yeah, sometimes there's distance. Sometimes there's disinterest. When it's the opposite, you absolutely feel it and you know when he's excited about something. And sometimes I was surprised when he was excited about certain schools. And then I was also surprised when he was

turned off by certain schools. So I know exactly what you're talking about. When you get that connection and there is that spark, you're like, holy crap. And then when it's not there, you're like, yeah, that's pretty much par for the course. So at one point, it was the end of the day. Someone was playing rugby, so we went to go drive past where the rugby kids live, right? And there's a section of the...

I guess off campus. It's called The Hill. So we're riding up the hill and it was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. It was last summer. And as we're driving up the hill, people were outside playing beer pong. At one point, I look up on a roof and there's a kid just sitting on a lounge chair on the roof. I was like, yes, that's it. But I was driving slow so that my son...

could see everything, you know? He didn't want to race down the street. And he was like, Dad, what are you doing? He's like, you look like a cop. And I was like... He said that? Yes! He looked like it. I was like... Oh, you've turned into the narc dad. Right? So that's the embarrassment. Yeah. I'm like, I think I'm a pretty cool dad. You know what I mean? You're not. It's not you. It's just you're the dad.

You can never separate the fact from... You can be the coolest dad on the planet. You're still the dad. And there's always going to be that separation between what's cool and what's dad. You're a liability until payment time. Yeah. But I thought, like, I'm like, cool dad. I'm like, hey, let's drive slow down the coolest part of the tour. Dad! Did you have your fancy pants on? I was wearing shorts. It was the shorts day. Okay.

What are we looking at here? Pictures of... Sorry, I brought up University of Scranton. I was like, what is that? So, I don't know. Do you get the same thing from your kids? The coolness? Because we're not doing the college tour thing, so I don't have that as a reference. But, yeah, listen, we had that last night. My youngest, Caleb, had the final...

Musical of the year. And so we had the pleasure of having the rap party at my house last night. And by the way, there's like 120 kids in this performance. And you found out about it seven minutes before. I found out earlier this week that it was going on because the person initially who was going to have the party was going to do an all completely outdoor one. And then they were starting to call for rain during the week. So my youngest says, well, maybe my parents will let us do it. So...

And of course, you're like, they talked to Rochelle and there you go. So but it ended up being a blast. So, yeah, we had like 75 kids come over to the house last night. It was actually a lot of fun. But I'm still I'm like, I'm staying out of the way because I'm the dad. And I, you know, there's that there's that point right now. And I don't have kids, but I know I know that is a standard thing. And it's not out of lack of love.

But you become... I mean, Modern Family did a great episode about it where, you know, Julie Bowen's running around with her daughter all day and they're having a good time. And then she sees her friends and she wants to, you know, mom, sit down in the seat. And she's like, I just spent like...

getting stuff. And so she goes, sweetie, it's okay. We'll go training bra shopping later. Yes. Well, when I, this is a little bit different, but when I went skiing with Jace, I wore that metallic, purple metallic one piece that we got from Tipsy Elves. And I put it on, I showed it to him before we did Cardboard Classic. And he was like, you're wearing that? And I said, yeah. So then when we went skiing, I had it with me and I pulled it out of my backpack and started to put it on. And he was like,

you are wearing that today. I go, you bet I am. I go,

amazing he's like you are so embarrassing he's like i don't want to go up the lift with you like he was so embarrassed by the outfit and i can't tell you how many people stopped me and said something they were like well that probably made it worse probably one guy was like what we're not gonna miss we're not gonna lose you another guy was like if i had my camera on me i'd be taking pictures of you yeah he was like mortified by the outfit so kathy i saw you and dennis and jace on on thursday night we had that lana dickerson thing at the daisy davern and conchie at we're

when you balance the I'm the mom wearing the outfit on the ski slope with I get to introduce my son to an active Philadelphia Eagle, does that earn you any cool points? Oh, no, not at all. Like when we got home, he gave me attitude and I was like, you're welcome for taking you to do something fun. Yeah, yeah. That's a shame. Last night, we were talking briefly and I said, knowing, I said,

You need to make sure that this goes into your allotted over you account because because because you, you know, you begin to realize gratitude sometimes is in short order. Yeah. And so, yeah. And so remember it so you can pull it out. But I mean, really, isn't that since time began? That's the dynamic. Were you that way with your parents? No. No.

No. Justin? Embarrassed of them? Probably. At some point, maybe. There was only one time where I had an embarrassment with my dad. Otherwise, my dad was the cool dad. Friends wanted to come hang. My mom, wonderful, always taking care. And I hung with my parents quite a lot because it was good. But we were waiting to go to see...

It was back in theaters. It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world on a Saturday. And it's at the elementary school and we're all out there and it's the middle of the winter and we're waiting for the bus to come. And my dad had a habit, I've mentioned this before, of wearing shorts but wearing like an overcoat.

And he also would wear like work boots occasionally. That was his casual outfit going out and about. He looked like the classic flasher. Right. I mean, absolutely. And he came up to me. I forget what it was. And everyone's looking like, what? And that's the one time I felt, holy Christ, dad. Dad, why that outfit now? So I, listen, and this is probably a genetic thing, but because I know my sister is guilty of it too, but like I talk to strangers about,

You know what I mean? And that's embarrassing to my kids is when I just strike up a regular conversation with a regular human being, whether they be the person checking me out at a store, like a cashier, or just somebody walking down the street. I thought you meant somebody watching you, checking you out. Yeah. Yeah. So do they sink down? Do they walk away? What do they do? Well...

All of it. Sometimes I get called out on it in real time. I'm like, I don't know. This is what I do. Any of them exhibit that trait? Probably Casey. But

It's like one of those genes that doesn't kick in until you're like over 21 or 22 years old or something along those lines. Do you ever try to reel it in a little bit? All the time. Okay. All the time. I listen. I want to talk to this guy so bad. I want to talk to this guy so bad. And I do do that. Like, you know, I'm like, you guys would be so proud of me. Like when you're telling a dad joke. Yeah, I was going to say something to that guy about his cool pants, but I didn't. Aren't you proud of me? You know? About his cool pants. Yeah.

Do you see somebody with cool pants there? No. No. No. But Kathy. We were sitting in the lobby of the hotel in Clearwater. The dude with the cool pants. I tried to find them for you. It was so hard for me to not say something. That sounds like the worst spy novel ever. The dude with the cool pants.

I don't know. Impressed, I struck up a conversation with her server at the Boxer. Oh, yeah. And you were like, dude, just let her go. I was like, I don't know. We're all hungry here, and

And would like to get some food maybe. Something like that. Casey was literally going down the life story of this person. The Florida Keys lady. Or when we have signing events a lot of times. You know this. We're looking. It's like a dam has gone up. And then we look down. And from Casey on is the Mecca that Moses led. In my defense.

That's not my fault. Everyone's wearing cool pants these days. I know full well that we're trying to cycle people through, that there's people in line or whatever. So if there ever is a logjam in a situation like that, that is on the listener. That is not on me. I am ears at that point. I am not a mouth at that point.

point um no but casey's a people person it's a wonderful attribute right but it's not a wonderful attribute when you're walking through a college campus with your son you know and like they're not going to ask questions so at that at this age you sort of need to be an advocate for them right now i can see that yes because you're there for a reason you have driven x amount of minutes or hours to get to wherever you are let's let's get something out of this let's let's

let's ask the questions that we want to know the answers to.

But, I mean, you're talking about a kid who's 17, 18 years old, something like that, who is just going to go, you know. They're going to do what they're going to do. If they're not crazy passionate already about, you know, their future and their line of work potentially, then it's just going to be like, I don't know, it looks like a pretty good place. I mean, what 17-year-old really knows what questions to ask, what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Will you ask an education question? Hey, fellas, where are the gals at? No.

No, but it was more embarrassing and more Casey-like than anything else. Because we walked past the hall, I was like, oh, it's Casey Hall. And then I'm like, oh, Casey Hall. That's my name, you know?

I know a KC. I know a KC. I am a KC. I know a KC. How about that? So did you guys... She must really love that one. Did you guys have a tour guide? At some point, we did. There was a lot of like, you know, go and check out things on your own. And then there were guided tours as well. So my buddy's daughter...

very outgoing. She's going to be an incredibly successful executive someday. This is predetermined. I'm certain of it. She went to James Madison and she went, took the tour and loved it. Went to school there. The next year, she's the person giving the tour. Oh, really? So there are some people that are

way into it and do want to know. But there's so many different personalities. Years ago, schools used to hire me to come in and give fake orientation and tours. Get out? Yeah. Like comedy-wise? Yes. I was introduced as a member of the faculty.

Oh, my God. That was the thing, a show I used to do with my agent. And so I'd come up and, you know, and the students would be there. People ask, what is the difference between high school and college? Well, that's a difficult thing to explain. It'd be like asking someone, it'd be like asking me, what's the difference between a county jail and a federal prison? Yeah.

And then they start, they're like, what? And I go through the whole, and these different things that are saying, and then sometimes if they went a little further, they would give me some landmarks to go around and take a few groups with. And it was always a blast. It always went over. Who used to give tours at Ursinus College was Matt Calper. Really? Yeah, he was a tour guide, yeah. It's going to get thick here. Dining hall's just thick. You guys are going to love it. Thick. Fruit loops whenever you want them. Yeah.

If you're not feeling good, where should you go? Thick Bay. No, it's funny because I never had that experience. I kind of, again, I went to like a commuter school. Yeah. So it's like, I never toured a campus when I was like my brother. Not under Sinus? No, my brother and sister went there. Oh. I had already known. He's a legacy. Yeah. They had to accept him.

So question. Usually. So you had a tour guide at one point. Were you with other potential students? I'm done talking now. Were you with other potential students? So a group. Yes. So there was a group of us. Were the other kids as disinterested as Seamus was? All of them. Okay. Yeah. Do you think it's really the manifestation of the general nerves? These are things, and you forget about it.

When the world sort of looks to you and goes, okay, now you're starting life. Yeah. Make your decisions. And it can be a little foreboding, you know? Yeah, no doubt. We got a tour. I took Ben to see Columbia University in New York last summer. And we got a tour. And the kid that gave the tour was fantastic. He actually worked at the radio station at Columbia. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it was really cool. And Steve, he was so enthusiastic about it that I think initially... And Ben was interested in that school anyway. But it really helped sell him on the place. Because the kid was...

really proud of where he went loved talking about he wasn't from new york he was from chicago or someplace in the midwest and so like he was psyched about showing this school off to other kids and that made the tour much more engaging has to benefit schools to have someone who's charismatic leading those things yeah you can't have a dead fish doing it casey here's an interesting text um not sure this from it says uh casey don't worry i'm in my young 30s and i do that too i tell my kids

We could be making the difference between someone having a good day or an awful day, especially when speaking to a checkout person, meaning talking to a stranger. Right. But then they followed this up with and said, also, don't be afraid to take them aside and say, hey, can I talk to you real quick? And then you say, you know, I get that I'm the dad and you're the teen, but I don't deserve to be spoken to how you're talking to me. And I'm kind to you and I deserve that back. I drive up here for you, not for me.

That's good. That is good. I just can't think of stuff like that when you're supposed to say stuff like that. Do you understand? The reason I'm calling you at all hours is because I love you and can't stop thinking about you. No, yeah, I think it's...

To me, I had a commercial parody. There was a commercial series for a while, and the guys go, getting up, come on, Cupcake, get up. It's five o'clock. I'm going to take you to practice. And this dad is like...

squiring the kids at all hours. And even in the commercial, the kid seems like, oh, I was like, you get the goddamn, you better get up. And he's this guy's busting his balls for you. Here's another text says, looking back, my parents had my best interest in mind. We went to college visits, but everything they did, I thought was embarrassing. Yeah. And they said, looking back, though, it was just fine.

But at the time, yeah, for whatever reason. So, for instance, Scranton's colors are purple and what, I guess? I have the most beautiful royal purple pants. I did not wear them. I wore just regular shorts. Sometimes it's not what you do, it's what you don't do. Did you notice which pants I didn't wear today? I have very cool pants I could have worn.

You don't understand what it's like to hold this beast back. You have no idea what it's like to, honestly. You know what you are? And this is a wonderful thing. If guys are throwing a football around, you're like, over here. That's you. That's me. Yeah. A thousand percent. That is me. I cannot walk past a piano without hitting a key. I have to.

Or two guys are throwing a piano back and forth. There is a scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where they want to try and find a tune in this bar or whatever. He walks around. Shaving a haircut. And Roger Rabbit cannot contain himself. And he goes, To be!

That's me. He gets caught by the judge. Yes. Yeah. I am too big. When they show him, he's just going, his teeth are rattling, his eyes are spinning in circles. He just can't contain himself. That's Casey. That's me. I'm too big. Casey, when does Seamus have to make his decision? Well, right now...

It's a bidding process, right? Because, listen, we have a top three. I mean, there's a top three that we're very, very comfortable with. It's good to be in that situation. Yeah, I agree with you. Yeah. I agree. I mean, that's where I'm going to leave it at that. Are you trying to exert influence one way or another? No, no, no. I mean, I definitely know where I want him to go. Think about the school where he felt least embarrassed by you and pick that one. That was probably the one that I never went to, you know? Yeah.

Wow. Do you have more visits? No, no, no. That's it. That's it? Yeah, we went to all the schools. Okay. And ultimately right now it comes down to, well, I mean, it doesn't just come down to dollars, but that has a huge influence in where we go. Well, if he goes to Scranton, he'll be right there for a cardboard classic. I know. Which would be really, really cool. Then he can come out and see, you know, I mean, don't they listen to the show? Is it a little bit of a, is there a little bit of pride that the dad's... I'm not sure.

Does what he does? Oh, Seamus? Yeah. Yeah, he listens to the show now. Yeah, okay. Yeah, and when he drives in with his little friends. He gave him a shout out, too. I gave him a shout out. His little buddies, playing with their Play-Doh. Well, right now, he's in school, so I can't...

so he's not going to hear it, but he said that he said Thanos wants to shout out as well. Is that one of his little friends? No. Sheamus and I were having a football catch yesterday, and I texted him this morning, hey, man, I just wanted to let you know I had a great time having a football catch last night. He goes, me too. Not so much the tackling, because at one point he goes...

He's like, I don't think you can tackle me. Oh, no. Okay. And I said, all right, well, out of how many times? And so he's like, 10 out of 10. And I was like, okay, let's do it. And so...

He embarrassed me. He thought 10 out of 10 times he would get away from you. Yeah. Okay. On the fifth try, I made him fumble. And that was lucky by me. But he basically said that him playing against me was like Thanos and Gamora. Like I didn't have a chance. Wow. That's a little bit of an insult. Though Gamora is pretty amazing. First in my defense, I was wearing Uggs on the first attempt. And he literally juked me out of my shoes.

That sounds gross. Dad, you're going to remember this forever. Dad, you'll never forget this day. So then I took my shoes off and then he embarrassed me three more times. And then the fourth time I ended up making him fumble. But anyway, he said... Dad, can I talk to you for a minute? He said... So he wanted a shout out to Thanos. So he's not listening, but it doesn't matter. Okay.

See? We weren't embarrassed by that. I'm done talking. Casey's done talking now. We have to take a break because our guests are going to be joining us in just a moment. We...

are going to be joined by Titus Welliver. If you watch Bosch or Bosch Legacy, he's Bosch. And he's fantastic. So he will be joining us. And writer Michael Connelly, who Nick, you said has ties to the area. He's from Philly. Is going to be on the program. They both have Philly ties. Yeah. So we'll take a quick break and we'll come back with those guys. Stay with us, please.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you, Kathy. All right, so I'm being told we have one guest on via Zoom right now. We're waiting for the second one to join, and so we need to wait for both of them to get on board before we dive in. Do we have, what? Oh, then you say go right ahead and do...

I don't know what you guys are talking about. Figure it out, please, and let me know. Marissa, what's going on? Sorry. Oh, we have our one guest just joined right now. So give me a few moments and we'll have him on. Got it. Because Casey had told me that we had one guest and not two. But now we have. I don't know. I don't know. My apologies. I was saying that we have one guest. We can talk to Titus.

without Michael, and then if Michael decides to join us, then he can join us. Okay. All right. That sounds about right to me. All right. And it looks like, yes, we are all set to go. All right. So, Bosch Legacy.

By the way, I love the fact that they do two episodes a week. Two. Not one episode a week. I like kind of parsing things out a little bit, but one episode a week? Come on, man. Well, and in this show, I will say, and I immersed heartily as a fan of the series, it's addictive, and really, you'd mainline the entire season if you could. Yep, and we're excited to have him on. He's got ties to Philadelphia as well. Please welcome actor Titus Wellerberg. Yeah!

To our program from Bosch Legacy. How you doing, Titus? I'm well, I'm well. What's going on over there by the school kill? Very good. And you said over there, too. I like that. You got the full one. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I had an aunt who had a... She was from... My parents were from Philly. And she would... Everything was going over. I'm going over to store. I'm going over town. Yeah.

And I thought that she had a pilot's license or something when I was a kid. She literally was flying over. Flying over, yeah. Hey, by the way, Titus, with your connections to Philly, just reading up a little bit, your dad was the dean of Penn at one point? Yeah, for 25 years. He was the, not the dean of Penn, he was the dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts. But, yeah.

Both he and my mother went to PCA, which was then known as the Philadelphia Museum School. And then my dad, my mother went to Girls High. She was a West Philly girl. My dad was from northern Pennsylvania, Millville. And my mother's most of her family were from the

Wissahick and Creek area. Okay. So your bona fides are top notch here. Yeah, you're a son, even though you're West Coast now. And the thing about Bosch that is so great, especially Bosch legacy, is it's in the vein of the great Raymond Chandler. You know, L.A. is sort of a character as part of it. It's got that whole element to it. I mean, but you always keep your Philadelphia roots at some level, correct? Correct.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, they're deeply ingrained in me. I mean, I go back now and again. I'm actually going to go there at some point in May because a friend of mine has three rock bands. What? They're doing the Sosanta tour. And so my friend Maynard, he's the lead singer for Tool, Perfect Circle, and Pussifer. Okay. And so Pussifer and Perfect Circle are touring with Primus doing the Sosanta tour. Okay.

So I'm going to try to shoot down to Philly for that. Oh, we know them well. Yeah, we play them. So, yeah, that's very cool. So, yeah, by the way, I have to tell you, I'm a huge Sideshow Collectibles guy as well. I know you are collecting. Oh, no. I envy your... I know.

I envy your collection. You've actually done videos for Sideshow. I'm watching it. My wife's looking at me like I'm an idiot. I said, you don't understand. He gets it. Titus gets it. Titus and all the stuff that he can't fit in his house, he brings here and puts in our office. That's exactly. Or now my eldest son has gotten...

bitten by it and he went it really is a bit of an addiction isn't it no yeah yeah i don't want to talk about it i refer to sideshow when i when i go to their headquarters where you know which i do with some frequency i call it the crack house because he literally you go in there and you start to shake yes uh yeah well i have a question then because i noticed that you got some ink what's more addictive uh tattoos or your collectibles

Well, if I had as much ink as I have collectibles, then I would literally have to leave this business and join the circus. No, it is impressive, and I bow down to your collection. It's formidable. But on the note of Bosch Legacy, which you want to get people watching...

On Prime, by the way. I need to make sure I mention that. Yes, on Prime. So I started watching the series years ago and loved it, as is the nature of streaming shows. You're never quite sure when a new season is coming on. So I detached. And watching last night, I kid you not, Titus, four episodes, it's as crisp as great. And I love the conceit of Bosch now being a private detective character.

And that whole element, I think in a way that is a major step forward for the character and realizing all the attributes he has in the best way. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, I completely, I get it. And that happens in the books as well. And then eventually he kind of, in the books, he finds his way. He does the PI thing, sort of juggles it, and then becomes a volunteer cold case homicide detective for San Fernando Police Department.

But I think that, you know, Michael and Tom Bernardo and Eric Obermeyer found a great way when we spun off and started Legacy to kind of keep him active enough doing his private eye stuff and also having Maddie being a cop that those things really blended well. That's his daughter. You also...

Yeah. There's the sense, though, of him, a bit of the fantasy regret. He's asked, do you miss the job? And, of course, he always says, I miss the work, not the politics, which is what we know about Harry and anything that involves that. As he says, it's above his pay grade. Yeah, so many of these... Listen, he, to me, is one... I would consider the character of Bosh, and especially the way that you portray him, as a classic anti-hero. The classic...

There for the little guy, you know, it doesn't like the, it's like a dirty justice, like, you know, you have to do some stuff to get the right stuff done, which is, I think, what establishes Bosch as such a unique character, such a hero.

He's the quintessential anti-hero, and he does things like what he refers to as a workaround, but he never does things that are necessary. I mean, they skirt to the edge of being unlawful, but he's not corrupt. Bosch would never beat a confession out of someone or plant evidence on somebody. He's just relentless, which makes him kind of...

even more formidable, particularly as he, you know, working as a private eye, he doesn't have the same accessibility to the tools when he's, when he would be working regular cases. Let me ask you, this is a cherished series, so many books and you'll be in. So you have a long time with the series at the beginning of it all, you take on something like this. I assume you have the weight of the fan base that exists for the books looming over you. Was that ever an issue?

You know, I, for about a nanosecond, and then I thought, you know, also having Michael Connelly there, you know, it was not your typical situation where the writer is never present. You know, Michael and I worked directly together for 10 years, wrote a couple of episodes together, stuff.

So you just have to kind of move past that daunting task. Not everyone is going to necessarily come on board, but I, you know, I found the show has been, you know, obviously very well received. So, yeah.

I think that hurdle kind of naturally just worked itself out. Over the years? Sure, yeah. You think about it for a second, you know. Yeah, no, of course, yeah. Reading Moby Dick, you know, I'm sure people saw the movie and went, oh, I don't think Gregory Peck is...

That's not who I'd cast as Ahab. Right, right. You can't please everyone. So over the years, Ian Fleming admitted after a while, as he wrote one or two Bond movies after knowing Connery, he was not a fan of Connery at the beginning and then started to give Bond Scottish heritage and so on and so forth. Have you influenced the way the books have been written as Michael incorporated Bond?

both ways vis-a-vis, you know, you going, you adopting attributes of the character and the character in the books adopting your performance and who you are as Bosch. I don't know so much in my performance influencing the character, but Michael has said that when he writes that he can hear my voice when he's writing Harry's

When Harry's speaking in the books, he will hear my voice. So I suppose that's as much influence as... But I'll take anything. And I love doing the audiobooks. They're a lot of fun. They're so cool. Well, you've got a really cool resonant tone. And I love listening to audiobooks regularly. So I've got to check out some of the work that you've done. But one piece of work that you've done and I was not aware of...

was being the voice of Rorschach in the animated Watchmen, which is phenomenal. Thank you very much. And that is a cool character to take on, especially with as breathy and as gravelly as Rorschach is known to be. Does that affect your voice? Do you have to go tenderly into those sessions when you do Rorschach or when you did that?

Yeah, I could only record for about two, two and a half hours at the most because I would blow out my voice. I mean, regardless of, you know, voice training and all of that, that's a, that's a lot of wear and tear, um,

So we'd record until, you know, even the engineers would say, yeah, it's starting to go. So we'd back off. But that was a lot of fun. And, of course, being...

being uh an avid comic collector and and fan the the privilege to play Rorschach of all the characters yeah yeah in that and and I thought it was a great realization of it because they really took it panel you know it was it looked like it was lifted directly it was it was true to the source material which is great and then this is a side note but Steve and I are big we're friends with Zack Snyder he comes on our show regularly he's got Philly ties as well and

And we loved his interpretation of The Watchmen. I think it was one of the best comic films ever made. And as a fellow nerd, did you enjoy his interpretation of it? Oh, yeah. I loved it. I mean, I was excited because, you know, for years, they kept calling it was being, you know, it was going to be this director was going to do it. And then that. And then it just sort of it was bouncing around, bouncing around. And I love Zack Snyder's stuff. So, yeah.

when I finally heard that he was doing it, I was like, okay, that's in really, really good hands. The film is fantastic. And you know, however it comes out, Alan Moore was not going to like it. But I mean, I don't know how much closer you could get than that. I mean, literally, as you say, panel by panel was represented in the movie. So let me ask you with this, we're talking Bosch Legacy, but in a perfect world, what...

What geeky character would you love to play? What Star Wars character? What superhero? Who would you like to play? Who's on your bucket list?

Well, I played a commander in the Empire on an episode of The Mandalorian. But, of course, I think my dream thing in the Star Wars world would either be a Sith Lord or playing a Jedi, something like that. The character I always loved from the Marvel Universe was Kraven the Hunter. Yes.

and they finally made a film of it, but it was a bit, it was a different version of the Kraven that I knew. He was kind of a good guy, and Kraven was always a favorite because he didn't have any superpowers. He was just incredibly strong and, you know, formidable. I mean, he used to wail on Spider-Man. But I just, I loved, well, I loved the Ditko thing

uh the early dicko drawings and and uh very cool those guys yeah romita and of course gil kane all the guys who drew spidey well you're playing a formidable character in bosh and bosh legacy obviously and uh every thursday there's two new episodes it'll wrap on uh april 17th so uh you want to get in and get these while the getting is good but we'd love to have you if you come back to philly and you got time love to have you here at wmmr man it'd be great to sit down for a longer conversation

I would love to be there in person and share a butterscotch crimpet. By the way, cannot endorse this enough. You have to watch Bosch Legacy. It is top-level television. I love it. Excellent. All right, Titus, take care of yourself. We'll talk to you soon, okay, man?

You too. Thanks for having me, guys. Anytime. Tight as well over guys. Bosch and Bosch legacy. I got to go back and watch the whole thing. Do you know what it is? It's, um, and I was talking last week about Raymond Chandler and the script for like, uh, the, you know, the, uh, the, the Maltese Falcon and double indemnity and these, these where, where every kid,

Every sub-character is written really well. And William Devane is in the series, Preston. And a lot of great performances. And everything makes sense. There's no more where you're going. Remind me who William Devane is. He played Kennedy in the...

Oh, I know. Yep. Yeah. Great actor. Sells gold on. Yeah. But he's and then the cast is tremendous. Every time I ever go over to my parents' house or my son goes over to my parents' house, we are called upon to be tech support. And one of the main goals is to make sure that the DVD players are operating properly and streaming functions. The number one request every single time we go over there is, am I going to be able to watch Bosch?

And my dad loves the show. It's Abash and the Sopranos on repeat. And so my dad is super excited to have another season of Abash Legacy coming out. By the way, he's got this house, Abash does, in this series, Preston, that is one of those on stilts, classic L.A. homes with the most magnificent view. Oh, like on a cliff? Yeah. In fact, in the second episode, there's an earthquake and he gets red carded.

So they're saying this is not safe until you get in this country to come out. But it's amazing. Wow, that looks like the house that Mel Gibson pulled out with the truck and Lethal Weapon 2. Yes, you're right. You're right.

Hey, so we got some time, right, to chat about stuff. And there was, yeah, now Phil's have a home opener today. Yeah, yeah. Did you guys see this thing about the torpedo bats? No. Oh, yeah, yeah, with the Yankees. With the Yankees. Yeah. So there are these new bats that they're using, and they are regulation. They meet specifications. How long?

But they had a nine home run game. Yeah, most in franchise history. Yeah, and some people are wondering if it's because of these new bats that they're using that they call torpedo bats. Is it the shape? Yeah, they're a different shape and they're a different consistency. Is there an actual live torpedo in each bat? There is not a live torpedo in each bat, but they are made of, I believe, ash. Hang on a second here.

Made of birch wood, which is an ounce lighter than the maple that's usually used. And the barrel is a little bit of a different size and the weight is distributed a little bit differently. And some of these guys are just banging home runs off of us. They get so persnickety about this stuff. I'm surprised this cleared.

This will be banned in no time. No, it meets the standards. It meets the standards. Major League Baseball approved it. And listen, if the Yankees are using it, everybody else can use it. But I bet if this continues to happen, they'll ban it. But the Yankees put up four runs in the first game. They put up 20 runs in their second game. And then yesterday they put up 12 runs. So the bat is definitely meeting the ball. You can...

give all the credit to the bat or, you know, or what did I say? Don't blame the, uh, a good craftsman never blames his tools. That's right. So that's like, listen, you can go out and you can spend a thousand dollars on a driver for golf. It doesn't mean you can hit the thing. So, you know, to your point, they were showing it may have been germane to this bat issue that you're talking about now that I was unaware of, but they had a guy out showing different,

cost bats, cheap bat, mid-level bat, expensive bat, and he was blasting them all out. All of them? Yeah. Okay. So there seemed to be, you know, could it be that, you know, but in a game with people who know how to really swing, you know, listen, if they're having success with it, then Phil should have it then as well. So Cody Bellinger estimated that four or five Yankees are using the new torpedo bats.

And they, let's see, they had switched, a few of them switched before opening day. This is according to Bellinger. He said, I tried four or five different models this spring, including my own. He tried first the torpedo bat during one batting practice session last

last summer with the Cubs. He recalled the Cubs thinking, hmm, what is that thing? It was so unique, but never considered it for a major league game since his brand didn't yet make the torpedo model. So that changed over the winter. Louisville Slugger sent him some sample bats.

The torpedo bats were made of birch, like I said, an ounce lighter than the maple. And he found one that felt comfortable. He said, the weight is closer to my hands. That was the biggest benefit. And with the larger barrel, the bigger the sweet spot, the greater margin of error. You know who I'd like to hear talk about this? Charlie Emanuel. Yeah, right? He's such a student of batting. He knows the mechanics so well. I'd like to see what he says about this. So, by the way, former Yankees analytics supervisor Aaron Leinhart...

An MIT physicist now with the Miami Marlins is credited for innovating the torpedo trend last year. One thing that I thought I read was that they studied each player's swing and where their tendency on the barrel of the bat they would hit the ball. And that's where... How they determined this design? Yeah, well, but I don't know if all torpedo bats look the same or...

Let's say I'm closer to hitting the ball closer to my hand. So is that torpedo a little bit low? You know what I mean? I don't know if they all look the same. Right. And if Bryce Harper determines at some point that using a torpedo bat will allow him to hit more home runs, he'll pick up a torpedo bat. Right. You know this is the same company that had the failure with the landmine bases? Yeah. It's a bad idea. It was a horrible idea. It's a good defensive idea, but when you're on offense, you don't want that. Yeah.

It was a fun promotional night when they did that. Everyone caught a piece of player. Landmine bases. Landmine night here at Shea Stadium. Wow.

It was a bad idea. So, and there'd be a different kind of landmine in each ballpark. Yeah, that's it. Like Claymore's at one and, you know. Change it up. Bouncing Betty's at another and, yeah. Wait, why aren't you getting off the base? No, if I do, it'll click. So, if it's, apparently the torpedo bat is consistent with Major League Baseball rules about barrels being no more than 2.61 inches around.

So the Yankees feel that it's just another advance in sports like golf clubs. Do you remember the difference? I remember when aluminum bats were all the rage. When I was playing hardball, that's all I used. To me, I could easily tell the difference. College ball uses aluminum bats, and there are some proponents, Steve, who want to have aluminum bats in the bigs. I don't know.

I don't think it'll ever happen, but I never thought that the National League was going to have a designated hitter. Aluminum bats just naturally hit the ball farther. So if you go in and hear a college game, you don't hear the sound of the ball hitting a wooden bat. You hear a blink, blink, blink over and over again. I prefer the crack. I do too. Over the tink. Well, then play it over the system. Yeah, you can do that. Except someone hit the button. Timing it out.

But, you know, when I was coming up playing baseball, like, nobody owned their own bat. There was a bag of bats that belonged to the whole team, and that's what you played with. But now everybody has their own bat. And when my son was playing, I bought him a bat, let's say, in sixth grade.

and then in seventh grade that bat was banned so the however much money i spent on that bat that i wanted to last for a couple of years i had to go get him a new one what is a good so for a high school or what is a good average three four hundred bucks yeah real hundred dollars for a bat oh my god baseball you're kidding really next time you're in uh dick's sporting goods take a wander over to the baseball bat section and uh check i mean it's like good god well how much do you spend on golf clubs

More than that, but I mean, those are going to last me several years. I just never think of a baseball bat as being hundreds of dollars worth of technology. Oh, God. I bought one. I think it was like, it was 250 maybe, and Jay's decided not to play baseball this year. You little son of a bitch. Oh, that was fun. We're looking at a Louisville Slugger for $349. You get two more seasons minimum. Do you hear me? You're playing.

Oh, and forget the hockey equipment. Oh, I know that. It's just like I'm looking into loans. Do you play it against sports for any of those for hockey, Kath? Oh, what's that? So basically, it's gently used equipment. I'm sorry.

No, thank you. On hockey equipment, I'm not taking anything gently used. It is disgusting as it is. I'm not going to smell someone else's sweat in my car every day. Man, my brother used so much Play It Again Sports stuff because of how expensive it is. And look, it's already going to be gross and sweaty and smelly. So who cares? They clean the stuff, don't they? In theory. But I mean, ultimately...

It doesn't matter. No. The answer is no. We used some used stuff when he started to make sure he wanted to play. Yeah. Some of it was so nasty that I wouldn't. It's ridiculous the price, but I'm not putting somebody else's sweaty. Literally stinking on ice. Yeah. It's so bad. Yeah. We would take like old soccer balls.

equipment, cleats and whatever else, we'd always take it back to play it against sports because Ben was an only child for a long time. So when he was done with shin guards or soccer cleats, take it out, play it again. You get a few bucks out of it or whatever, but mostly you're just putting it back into the system so somebody else can use it. It's a good way to recycle. I guess that's your theory.

I'm in the same boat with you. I had no idea they were that expensive. I would have thought maybe like $80. I'm thinking even less than that, like $50 tops. You can spend that, but if you want good equipment, you've got to spend more. You're kind of keeping up with the Joneses at a certain point. My kids didn't stick with it until... They made it to 5th or 6th grade tops. I'm not spending that kind of money on a 6th grade baseball bat. Same thing with the baseball glove because...

Listen, you can get a baseball glove for 50 bucks, but they also have like $300 baseball gloves. Right. Well, and also once you get to high school. Oh, yeah. You're considering, all right, maybe this could be a career college or, you know, yeah, or career. Yeah. So my mother used to make it when I was in elementary school. My mother would make my gloves out of paper bags like she would covers.

It really hurt. Can I remember book covers out of your grocery bags? Paper bags, absolutely. I never had a textbook that didn't have some name of a supermarket on it. All right. Well, anyhow, I was not familiar with torpedo bats. No. I'm curious if those, they probably haven't made it into stores yet, I don't think. Well, I'm a little alarmed, not alarmed, but I would say if this is the great game changer, then we need to get on it. Yeah.

Speaking of game changers, there was another thing, another completely different article. Steve sent this to me. I found this quite interesting. Ford Motor Company has just filed a patent to bring back a classic driving experience, but only 18% of Americans would know how to use it. The automaker has submitted paperwork to bring stick shifts to electric vehicles. Now, they're not needed at all.

Manual transmissions have all but vanished from the American new car market. Last year, less than 1% of new vehicles sold in the U.S. had manual gearboxes. In 1990, that figure sat between 25 and 30%, so 1%. Now, the patent application outlines a system designed to replicate...

The tactile experience of shifting through gears, even though there are no actual gears to shift. Well, the research found that the one issue of people who love electric cars and enjoy driving them, the one issue that was the issue is they felt less connected to the driving experience. Yeah, so it says in this article, the Ford Mustang Mach-E, for example, can sprint from 0 to 60 in 3.3 seconds. So they're...

These cars are really quick off the lines. Case, you know, you've driven like electric golf carts. Like the first time you ever get in one of those, as opposed to the gas ones, you hit the gas, there's a slight pause, and then you start moving forward. Electro, and you touch it, and boom! You just take off immediately. Same thing with the cars. So, the fast...

These can take off so quickly. Like that Mustang Mach-E is faster than some Porsche 911s as far as their off-the-line speed. But once cruising at higher speeds, it says many EVs settle into a near silent and even delivery of power that can feel monotonous on the highways. And so Ford's simulated manual system aims to break that up. You know what?

I kind of like the idea. I love it. When I sent it to you, I'm like, if this is so dumb, why do I kind of like it? I like it. Number one, I do miss driving sometimes a stick. There were other times where it was just, oh, you got to be kidding me. Bumper to bumper traffic. Yeah. It was a real pain in the ass.

But, and for the last few cars I've owned, have had paddle shifters where you can manually change the gears if you want to. I hate those things. I've never used them. I can't stand them. Yeah. Because, and I'll tell you why, and the reason I like this idea is...

is because where the paddle shifters are on the steering wheel, when you rotate the wheel around, you don't know where that paddle is. Even, and we had the chance years and years and years ago, Steve, we had a pseudo-advertiser who gave us these exotic cars, and I got a Lamborghini for the day, and I got to use it. It had paddle shifters, but they weren't on the steering wheel. They were on the column, so they didn't move. But even that didn't work too well because your hands are moving around in this area. Yeah.

If you have a stick shift planted in one spot that does not impede your left hand on the steering wheel, you get a real feel of driving that car. So it's been decades. You get control. Since I drove a standard. Yet even now at this point, I have the shift on the center console. And I find myself periodically muscle memory just gone.

like jostling a little as if it were. Oh, I always keep my hand there. Yeah. Yeah. What I liked about driving stick was that I could tell you how fast I was going without even looking at the odometer. You know what I mean? Just based on what gear I was in and how much resistance maybe I'm getting on the accelerator. From the engine. Yeah. We shift! Yeah, but I know that if I'm in third gear and I feel that

Those RPMs, I'm like, yeah, I'm going 30 miles per hour right now. And even when you're in fifth gear and you're just cruising on a highway, you can feel how fast you're going. Dude, the first time I ever drove, my parents were away and we had this Mazda that had a standard stick shift. I'm going to get out. I'm driving on the block.

I'm like, oh my God! What a... I remember one time it was something went bad with the clutch on my buddy Chet's car and...

We could only drive it in first gear. Oh, yeah, yeah. You're going 10 miles an hour. Because I had the clutch cable snap on me one time. Oh, my God. And I wasn't in gear, so I was stuck. If I was in gear, I'm, you know, because you can actually shift without using it. Yeah, it's horrible for the gears, obviously, but yeah. I think now, I mean, listen, also, you know, with this electric configuration precedent, you can probably flick a switch and...

It doesn't matter. If you want to engage and use this stick shift, you can engage it. You hit a button and it's regular driving. That's my assumption. I assume so, yeah. It's all performative.

So, yeah, it says fewer drivers in the U.S. know how to operate stick shifts at all. 18% of Americans today know how to operate a clutch. But there's been renewed interest in manual style controls for EVs for a little bit. I love driving. I love the feel of being connected to the vehicle. That's why the whole idea of the autonomous driving. Maybe there's some aspects that might be kind of cool. But I find it therapeutic. Neat.

Nick, you mentioned going out to drive when we're talking about food delivery services. Sometimes I'll go to the location that's further because I want to drive. Yeah, absolutely. There's freedom in it and the American road underneath your tires. My mom taught me how to drive stick and for me, that's a really fond memory. I was terrible as most people are when we start. Preston, I drove from Villanova on Route 30 to Paoli. The length of Route 30...

in second gear because I could not figure out how to get to the third gear. And my friend Meg McDonald's Honda Prelude. And Meg, if you're listening, I'm sorry for what I did to your car. I like driving too. Steve, you drive. I know that when you and Clara are together, you always drive. Yes. Right? Yeah. But Rochelle and I split our duties. We'll be like, you want me to drive? I'll drive. You can drive. So we go back and forth on that. There's something to be said for being a passenger too.

Being a passenger is pretty awesome because I'll drive a route regularly all the time where it's just me. And then on occasion, if it happens to be Rochelle driving, I'll be like, well, I never saw that before. Oh, there's that house over there. Do you want to hear something weird? If so, if that's the case, I prefer to be in the back seat. Okay. You get a better view of what's kind of looking...

out in the passenger seat i'm more like in driver adjacent yeah and my reflex like i can't chill in the back okay i can chill more and do exactly what you're saying which is yeah yeah just ride just look yeah yeah but when you're in the back too steve like that's your driver up front that's you have yourself a driver uh i'll get you to the piggly wiggly right right

So I think there might be a market for this, Steve. Not a huge one, but I think people might buy it based on having that as an option. It's not your only choice, but it's an option that you have. This is something completely different, but one thing I would love to see car manufacturers do is offer up brand new cars.

retro-looking cars. So we were less... Off-air, we were talking about how we love the 68 Camaro. Wouldn't it be so great if they had a 68 Camaro that's brand new? Do you know what I mean? What they do, unfortunately, is...

Again, it took like Tesla and some other companies to start to make sexy looking vehicles. So, and those, like the particular Ford that's mentioned in this ad is a sexy looking Ford. It's an EV. But I mean, I would love that. What was it? The Charger Preston that actually had a faux combustion engine sound generator in it. So, I mean, at a certain point,

Yeah, if you like driving it for that, do it. Casey, if you could have the exterior look just like a fastback 68 Mustang or something like that.

And the interior and the mechanisms are all modern and up to current standards. That'd be pretty awesome. That'd be pretty awesome, right? Because I do love a good-looking classic car. But what I'm not is a gearhead. Yeah. And you are in for a world of repairs. If you're using it...

As your day-to-day car, you know what I mean? Let me ask you, like you had an old Mustang or whatever. I mean, like I love my bucket seat. I love those amenities. So you do something that's a hybrid somewhere between both. Everything on the interior, the engine would all be up-to-date, like modern stuff. But just the body itself would look... So if it's an EV, the engine is actually a latte machine, right? There you go. That'd be nice.

By the way, I think Mustang might have a 68 fastback. I'm not 100% sure. Some car nerd will correct me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm certain of it. But it's a pretty interesting idea. And they have apparently applied for a patent. But there's no official word if that's actually going to happen. You know what? For the EVs, have a crank up front. Like really old style. Right? All right, stand back. Got to start this up.

I was mentioning the Simeone, the Automotive Museum, which is a great place if you've never been. I mean, it has some of the most legendary vehicles there. And they had, you know, Ford versus Ferrari, that whole socket is represented there. But they had a number of hand crank, you know, automobiles. Yeah.

Those who are too young, before keys, you literally, there was a crank that was on the grill of the car and you would go and you would turn it. It's almost like kickstarting a motorcycle. And so that's how you would start it. And an interesting thing about that is if you've ever ridden motorcycles and you kickstart those, on occasion there's a kickback that happens. So the engine will force it back at you and it kind of jams your leg up.

And the same thing apparently used to happen with cranks. And, like, people had broken their arms trying to start a car. Because you'd be turning it this way and it would kick it back the other way. And it could actually be dangerous. Do you know what blew my mind? And you forget it until you're standing in front of one. They have a Stutz Bearcat there, like a beautiful, you know, at the museum. Those wheels on that thing, Preston, are like wagon wheels. Really? They are huge.

huge mother effing wheels. What was it? The Stutz Bearcat, classic older vehicle. I don't know if I see a picture of it. If we could call up a picture of what is Stutz, the manufacturer Bearcat. It's a beautiful car. Like an old race, very old race car. It's like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. A lot like that. That's awesome. The wheels are huge. Wow.

All right. Well, anyhow, maybe we'll have fake stick ships in the near future that you actually do get to use but are not really necessary. Do you know what they should also install so that when you're just sitting there idling, fake breeze. Yeah. Fake breeze.

Everything is completely artificial. Okay. All right, one other quick story here, and then we'll take a break. But this was a... I know from time to time we talk about baby names, but I'd never... And there are articles that come out regularly on most popular baby names, least popular baby names, blah, blah, blah, so on and so forth, and trends. There's a woman named Colleen Slagan...

who's been obsessed with baby names for her life. And she made lists and stuff like that. And she would keep up with baby trends. Well, in 2022, she turned that passion into a full-time job. She left her career as a nurse practitioner to become a professional baby name consultant. And she is known as Naming Bebe.

That's to her 100,000 social media followers. And she gets between $300 and $400 per session from parents who want to help naming their kids. Suddenly that baseball bat doesn't seem so expensive. Right? So Slagan says thanks to her lifelong hobby, she developed a kind of repository in her brain where she keeps track of unspoken patterns and aesthetics that make her so good at what she does. We use the service. This is our daughter, Flurb. Okay.

Some clients have a very specific type of baby name in mind. She said people would be like, I want an Ivy League name. And so she says, picture a pro golfer. We are country club people. So she explains, she gives them a list that sound like people who would go to an Ivy League. And then she gives some examples. So these are her Ivy League names. These are Ivy League names. Baker, Cooper, Merritt, and Kensington. And Cheddar. Cheddar.

Yeah, Kensington doesn't work here. No, not here. It might work in other areas. My name is Kensington. These are my track marks. I would say that Cooper, certainly. Definitely. Cooper. I like Merritt. Merritt? That's an interesting name. Bring the Stuntz Bearcat around. I just heard that. Somebody just named their baby that. Merritt. Isn't Merritt also a cigarette? I think it was. It was, yes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's right. My uncle used to smoke. Either Ivy League or a cigarette. Hmm.

A micro trend for parents expecting baby boys right now are cool cowboy names. Cool cowboy names. I know. What comes to mind when I say cowboy names to you guys? Chet. Trip. I was thinking Rip. I was thinking Cole. Cole. Like Cole Hauser, right? Well, he was Rip. But, yeah, I guess. Pud. Pud.

See, I think what would help here is knowing the last name, right? Yeah. If you wanted a cool cowboy name and you told me your last name was... Hopalong Abramowitz. Yeah. Abramowitz, it might be a little bit harder to come up with a cool cowboy name. But if your last name is Cassidy, you know... Trey? So Wyatt is on the list. Wyatt's a great name. Wyatt Earp, yeah. What about Doc? Doc is a great name. Like Doc Holliday. Absolutely. You know? If you had two boys...

Wyatt and Doc. Why not? Dude. Yeah. And just get one addicted to laudanum. Here's the ones that she mentioned. So Wyatt, Rhett is another one. Dutton. Dutton. Well, there. That's Yellowstone. Right out of Yellowstone. Coulter, which is like coal, Kathy. Ace and Bridger. Ace? Yeah. For a cowboy name? Yeah. Huh. Yeah, maybe. What was the Lone Ranger's actual name? Oh, wow.

It wasn't Lone. No. It wasn't Lone? Moore was the actor's name. Right. The actor who played it, but in the story. That's a good question. John Reed. John Reed. John Reed, yeah. Yeah, you want single syllable, strong sounding names.

With baby girls, the micro trend of the moment is romantic and feminine. Romantic? With a strong classic vibe. Okay. What are some of those? So she says Olivia. Olivia. So, yeah, my niece is Olivia. What about Grace? Grace.

Grace could be a good one. We have Grace here, works as our intern. She's wonderful. Or she's intern plus. I would say assistant producer. Then we have Charlotte, Emma, and Amelia. Charlotte's always been a wonderful name, also because of Charlotte's web. And it says here, so people want something, so it says there are a lot of girls with those names already, so people want something similar but less common, like Margo, Eloise, and

Georgia and Vivian. So my younger brother Tom's daughter is Lily and my older brother Gene's daughter is Olivia. And I think both those names are lyrical. Yes, very much so. Lily's a classic for sure.

Lily. Lily legs, Lily. Lily, Lily, Lily legs. Lily, Lily. Grace! There's Grace. What is that from? That's Ferris Bueller. Grace! Oh, he yells for her in the other room. He's talking to Cameron's... Was it Cameron's dad or...

He's on the phone with Cameron, but he thinks that it's Ferris' girlfriend's dad. It's the best. Right. Sloan Peterson. That reaction. Christ! Sloan, come along, darling. Oh, so that's how it is. Gender neutral names for girls are also trendy, but within that category,

Slagan suggests names that she refers to as my best friend's dad names like Stevie, Andy, and Scotty. Love Stevie. Andy! Stevie, Andy, and Scotty for gender neutral names for girls. What about Daryl? Daryl's a good one. Yeah. Daryl! Are there gender neutral cowboy names? Uh.

I don't know. How long? Rhett. Rhett is like Rhett Butler. That's a lady. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to say yes again. Okay. Vintage names are becoming trendier. So we've said many times that there are names that come in and out of fashion and some become antiquated over time and so they drop off, but they circle back around. So now we're heading into vintage names.

Like Evelyn, for girls, Evelyn, Hazel, and Violet. Huh. Hazel is a...

That one's been gone for a long time. Hazel, yeah, I love that name. I love the color Hazel. And, yeah, I think it's a beautiful name. Now, for boys, Harvey, Archie, and Oscar. So, Archie's big. My friend has Archie. Really? Is Archie short for Archibald? It is. Okay. His name is Archibald. That's a tough one. Wait, one of the royals is named Archie, right? Yeah. Okay. Harris kid? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, and then finally, pop culture has a huge influence on baby names. Once a celebrity uses a name, it becomes more popular. It happened with Luna after Chrissy Teigen used it. And Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne surged in popularity after Angelina Jolie gave the kids names. Is Tiger King on the list? Tiger King is not on the list. But Slaygan encourages more parents to consider Sasha, Kit, and...

Nell. Nell. Shay. Kong Kong. Kong Kong.

I'm sorry, what did your daughter say? She said cong-cong. Cong-cong. But not Seidel and cong-cong. And Simon for their babies as well. How do they spell Shea? S-H-A-Y. Okay, so not like the stadium. No. Casey, can you pull up the Nell rap? We were playing around with that the other day, and that was off air. I wouldn't mind playing that on the air again. It's pretty. If you wouldn't mind. She had no idea she had this hidden talent. I wanted this and that and my whole thing. If I don't go, got damn to come.

I'm running in time.

I love to see her like in a Snoop convertible with the new mask. Oh, bouncing up and down. Nell speaking her native language. Yeah.

Con Con. Con Con. Con Con. Yeah, just driving along. Instead of sipping gin and juice, eating roadkill. Steve, tell the story of a guy that drove by and recognized you one time. Oh, yeah. I'm out doing decorations in front of the house. And truck pulls up. Working guy. Window rolls down. Side of the con car! Yeah.

And I started laughing and it was great. Here you go. Now be Ty Ty. Now be Ty Ty. I'm so Ty Ty. I like. Yep. All right. We do need to take a break. So thank you, Nell. We appreciate you jumping in here real quick. We will come back with some Bizarre File stories. We shall regale you with the weirdness of their tales. Be right where you are because we will be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, let's, yeah, let's do this thing. It's Bizarre File time. Now, WMMR presents Preston and Steve's Bizarre File. Let's start with two different stories out of the same airport to begin with. And this, they've had some problems at this airport.

A Delta Airlines flight carrying 136 passengers narrowly avoided a collision with an Air Force jet Friday afternoon near the same Washington, D.C. airport where 67 people died in a midair crash just two months ago. Close call happened at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Delta Flight 2983 was set to take off with 131 passengers and five crew members on board at the same time. Four Air Force T-38 Talon jets were

We're heading for a scheduled flyover of Arlington National Cemetery. Cemetery was opening day, right? There you go. No, this was a cemetery. I'm sorry. It was a different event. But they've had some, you know, flights like this around that area. As the Delta flight was cleared for takeoff...

The pilots are warned by an onboard alert about another aircraft nearby. Air traffic controllers quickly stepped in and ordered both the Delta plane and the military jets change their flight paths over the crash. Uh, thanks to intervention of air traffic controllers, uh,

Flight changed course. No injuries reported. The FAA is investigating near miss into figuring out what went wrong. And just to let everyone know, we came very, very close to crashing, but we avoided it. And we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight and prevent similar incidents in the future. Now, fast forward to Saturday. A United plane made contact with a kite while attempting to land at Reagan National Airport.

What the hell is going on over there? The pilot of United Airlines Flight 654 can be heard over air traffic radio giving details about the kite to an air traffic controller. The pilot, who apparently could see the kite from the cockpit, said it was over the park about 100 feet over the ground. It looked like it was right on the flight deck. Those guys were a little bit low, he said. Dylan Oaks, former flight attendant, was consulted and apparently he watched this happen. He watched United Flight make contact with the kite.

He said there was a kite that looked a little higher than it should be. Thought it might be a perspective thing from where we were standing. Lo and behold, the plane got a bit closer and it came into contact with the kite. You float kites, you can get kites up pretty friggin' high. Absolutely. The kite fell to the ground. The plane landed safely. Thankfully everyone's okay, but it's just a little scary given the recent history at DCA. Gravely Point is about a thousand feet away from the runway. That's where they said this took place at

at Reagan National Airport, and flying kites in the park is not allowed. There you go. So, listen, we talk about Fort Mifflin, right? I mean, if you were to fly a kite in the parking lot of Fort Mifflin, you could definitely hit a plane. They would hit it. Airports Authority police responded, reports kite flying at Gravely Point. They warned some individuals about flying kites and briefly confiscated a kite. The kite was then returned to the owner shortly later, and no charges were filed.

United Airlines responded to the incident Saturday saying there was no damage to the plane and nobody on the flight had been hurt. Those are two close calls, man. I've been to that park and some of my favorite photos ever are me and Ben. He was like five years old and I had him up on my shoulders and you can watch the planes take off and land. So like it was it was really a fun experience for me being there. But obviously you got to be careful with what you're doing there, too. Yep.

An Australian man is accused of breaking his country's nuclear non-proliferation laws for ordering a sample of plutonium online in a bid to collect all the elements in the periodic table.

Oops. You know what this guy's like. 24... I'm almost done with all of them. 24-year-old Emmanuel Leiden was arrested at his parents' house in Sydney during a major operation that involved Australian Border Force officials... Yeah, sorry about that, Mom. ...firefighters, police, and paramedics. He pleaded guilty to breaching nuclear nonproliferation laws by shipping...

plutonium into the country. A charge he carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. Yeah, I wasn't going to build a bomb. But his lawyer is arguing that Leiden is not some maniac or mad scientist with a nefarious agenda, but rather a scientific nerd. He's just an idiot, sir. Who had made it his goal to collect all the elements in the periodic table, even radioactive ones. And he's never kissed a girl.

Leiden is apparently an avid collector who owns an impressive number of stamps, banknotes and coins. Prosecutors disagree that he is just a misguided, harmless collector claiming that seeking illegal materials like plutonium create a market that might otherwise have not existed in Australia. Now, the 24 year old man ordered the tiny plutonium sample from a U.S. based science website and had it delivered to his parents home. His lawyer claims.

that the package had his name and address on the box, which suggested he had no intention of using the material to do any harm. This is right out of Big Bang Theory. Sheldon, the story is Sheldon as a kid, ordered plutonium and the government came to check on him. Since being charged for bringing plutonium into Australia, Leiden has been fired from his job as a trainee train conductor.

and is currently earning a living flipping burgers at a fast food restaurant. But things could get even worse for him as the charges against him carry, like I said, a maximum sentence of 10 years behind bars. His sentence is due from a judge on April 11th. So hopefully... It's pretty clear there was no malicious intent. I would think so.

All right. And then we'll do one more story. Yeah. A is typical Florida story here for you. A man and a woman ran afoul of the law when they were caught having sex on a grave in a cemetery, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A trooper with a canine stopped to give the dog a rest break near the Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery. Was the guy's husband watching on another tombstone? I don't know. Cemetery cuck? The trooper spotted a white Nissan parked in front of the cemetery where the windows were down and no one in the immediate area.

So other troopers who were present observed a white male and female at the rear of a cemetery engaged in sexual activity on top of unknown grave number 43.

The troopers approached the couple who went back to the vehicle to obtain clothing. The search warrant of the search of the vehicle turned up a purse which belonged to the woman identified as Stephanie Wegman. I contained two pill bottles. One had 13 Alprazolam and the other had 20 oxycodone pills. Wegman, who has prior criminal history, did not have a prescription for the pills. She was arrested on several drug charges.

And the man who had suffered a leg injury was transported to the hospital. I don't know how that happened. Imagine going through life with the name Unknown 43. The report indicated a warrant will be sought for his arrest. So maybe don't bang on the grave. Absolutely. And that is what I have in the bizarre file for you. All right. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. And we'll dive into less in question trash and music news when we return. We'll be right back.

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The Blimey 93.3 WMMR. The song that takes us back to last summer. Last Saturday. Man, it was nice. Yes. 80 some odd degrees and oh, I just we were in as the sun had set and things were leveling off temperature wise. Rochelle turned to me. She's like, I would take this.

Every day for the rest of my life. It's a bold statement, but that's definitely how you feel coming out of winter into early spring. And then you get a flare-up day like that. It's like, ah, yes, this makes me feel human again. It's funny. You did the same thing that I did, which is just I was listening to no music. I was just listening to the breeze, wind chimes. I sat out there for like an hour and a half, two hours and just enjoyed singing.

soaking it all in. We just sat there and it was nice. Like you said, Stevie, at some point you sit there and go, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

It's what you do. By the way, for those of you who are watching on our YouTube channel right now, thank you very much, YouTubers. We love you. We've told you about our phones being an issue. Well, Steve bought me a phone. Yes, it's our new system. That we can now use here to take your phone calls. Oh. Ooh.

State of the art. This is state of the art technology. You got the instructions there, Preston? Oh, yeah, the instructions? Yeah. Hang on. It's really fascinating what they're doing these days. I haven't read these yet, but this came with my phone. The new request lines here at WMMR. It says, welcome to the world of telephone.

Telephone meaning literally far off voice or sound is a revolutionary technology that will now allow you to talk to people across town or even at great distances. Below are the instructions you will need to begin exploring the world of your telephoning. Number one, lifting the receiver. It goes through all the technical, but yeah. Okay. Is this actual? Those are the actual instructions on how to use that telephone. Are you serious? Yeah, yeah.

Wow, I thought you made this up. The opening I did. I'm just pissed that the thing doesn't come out of the cradle. Yeah, it's actually a little statue. It's decorative. And so the next one that actually allowed you to do it, Preston, is a riff on it so that

So, an actual working phone, that was like $160. Oh, my God. This was like $25. Need that just for fun. But they did make these for a while. I mean, after modern phones have been invented, though. I like that design. My mom had a business for a short time, and I...

for them to get the old-timey phone. Yeah. And so we got it. If you're not watching online, it's the two-piece. It's where you actually take the earpiece and you hold it up to your ear and then you have to hold the rest of the unit and speak into this speaker-like...

contraption, but we had one. It was cute and it was a conversation piece and people loved to see it, but for conducting business, it was the most inconvenient thing ever. That's a candlestick design. Candlestick phone, yeah, thank you. Thank you, Steve. No problem. This is our new state-of-the-art technology here. It's as good as what we have right now. WMMR. That's all we have. That's it. Lesson question.

So we are going to give away, let's see, a four-pack of tickets for Body Worlds. Oh, wow. At the Franklin Institute. Very cool. We had Derek Pitson not that long ago, and even though he's an astronomer, he was telling us about this exhibit at the Franklin Institute. So really, really cool thing. Question we're going to ask is as follows. When he was a guest surgeon at Penn Medicine, which part of the anatomy was Bob Kelly allowed to remove? Oh.

Steve had mentioned this earlier this morning. Bob Kelly retired the hound from the Flyers ambassador program. But he was a guest surgeon at Penn Medicine. And what part of the anatomy was he allowed to remove? According to Steve, if you know the answer to this, don't call us on our new phone. It's not up and running yet.

But what you can do is text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. And then we'll go amongst the people that send in those texts. And we'll grab one randomly. And we will see if that is indeed you. And you tell us what it was that Bob Kelly was allowed to remove when he was a guest surgeon at Penn Medicine. While you're doing that, we'll do this. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

With Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. I will get some stories while we wait for your Zoom. What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, Preston, a German recording artist is suing Kanye West for sampling some of his music, saying the reason he's doing it is because West is a Nazi supporter. West is vehemently denying the accusation, saying he is not a Nazi supporter and is actually a Nazi. Oh, Mike.

Haley Welch, a.k.a. the Hawk Tour Girl, has been cleared of any involvement involving a cryptocurrency scam. Welch thanked investigators for restoring her reputation as the girl who spits on boners. Oh, my God. Hey! And finally...

Britney Spears posting Instagram pics of herself in a tiny red thong on Friday. Spears explained it was her way of acknowledging the date of the first recorded case of the Spanish flu. All right, we will find a Zoomer and see if we can get an answer to the question that we are posing as of now. Well, apparently we don't. All right, so...

Flip those case. We'll do music news and we will see if someone in that time. So it takes. Here's the deal.

Especially with the trash, it's a very quick segment. And even getting the request line callers up quickly, like we would get it the last second. Do you want to use your... Because there's a delay on our signal that goes out to you guys. Do you want to use the new phone? Hello. Hello. Hello. Yeah, Maud. Maud.

All right, we'll start music news and we'll wait for an answer. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Well, look at this. Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro got married to actress and fashion designer Vanessa Dubasso on Saturday. And they did it at Dunsky Estate in Stranreer, Scotland.

Welcome to Denskastet. Dubasso, founder of Venta Black Lamb, I guess is how you say that, wore a Victorian-inspired white gown with black details, including Marie Antoinette-style corset. Don't you look lovely? Featuring a cross emblem with freshwater pearl beading and black velvet lacing paired with a flowing skirt and angel wings.

Dave complimented her in an all-black suit from Generation Tux. He should have worn a kilt. Look at his outfit. Yeah. You can almost see her cooter. Oh, my God. She's gorgeous, by the way. Yeah, she is. Yep. And so... The last story that involved him was him being throttled

By Perry Farrell on stage, right? Yeah, yeah. And that kind of put things on hold with Jane's Addiction for a little while. So the couple picked the estate featuring an Edwardian castle surrounded by woodlands and sea views for its moody, ethereal charm. The way he looks in this picture is exactly how I looked at my wedding. Wow.

Puerto Rico. Very goth looking, as you would imagine. Dave and Vanessa met eight years ago after Navarro saw a movie trailer featuring her and arranged a meeting through the director, a mutual friend. I guess you can do that when you're a rock star. Now they are getting married, or have gotten married. Mumford & Sons have expanded their 2025 tour with 32 North American concerts announced on March 28th alongside the release of their fifth album, Rushmere.

Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, and Ted Duane will perform across various cities, accompanied by several special guests. And tickets are available through several pre-sales. Agora Pass Holders Wednesday, the Artist pre-sale on Thursday, and General Public Sales starting on Friday. Additionally, $1 from every ticket sold will support the charity War Child.

And Rushmere. So please bring it on, Casey. I didn't even think of that one.

Rushmere. So, Bashmere supports Point Break. Yes, and War Child. So, Bashmere and War Child. Back off, War Child, seriously. That would be a waste of time. Rushmere symbolizes a new phase for the band linked to their creative roots in Wimbledon. They will be at the Wells Fargo Center on October 14th. So, yep, and they've expanded that tour.

And then one more story, and that is all. Linkin Park has released Up From The Bottom, their first new song since last year's From Zero album. The track will be featured on the upcoming deluxe edition of the album, set for release on May 16th, and the band wrote and recorded Up From The Bottom during their massive From Zero world tour. It's about a concept album about a proctologist. The deluxe edition will include...

Sorry. The deluxe edition will include, that's how it starts, three new songs and an expanded vinyl edition containing five live tracks captured during their live shows. Wait a minute, where is that, Casey? Right here. All right.

No, I know. I was going to do something. Farts. That's all right. Farts. So in addition to Up From The Bottom, the edition will feature Unshatter and Let Your Fade. No, Let You Fade. What? Both previously unreleased tracks. All right. And then we have...

Emily, who's coming to our rescue because Emily may know the answer to the lesson question. Good morning to you, Emily. Good morning. All right, Emily, when he was a guest surgeon at Penn Medicine, what part of the anatomy was Bob Kelly allowed to remove? I hope I'm right. Appendix? Appendix! Yeah! Yeah!

That's correct. All right, Emily, hang tight. You win. We are going to set you up with a four-pack of tickets for Body Worlds at the Franklin Institute. See 20 stunning full-body plastinates and over 150 real specimens, and you can explore the wonders of the human body like never before. Body Worlds at the Franklin Institute. Buy tickets at FIW.

We have one more break to take, so we're going to do that and come back in a moment. And we will get our first letter for the word of the week. And we'll see what Pierre's got for you back in a moment.

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I'm Steven Singer. Yep, that's me, the I Hate Steven Singer guy. People ask, what does this mean, I Hate Steven Singer? Well, most other jewelers love to sell diamond studs that are cheap. They have a name for it, Frozen Spit. I'm serious. That's what other jewelers call their own products.

Frozen spit. Can you imagine buying a cloudy diamond that's milky color? Oh my. Buy real diamonds from a real jeweler. Steven Singer Jewelers, who backs up every diamond with a real lifetime full trade-in value. The best money-back guarantee in the business. Here's why. Other jewelers hate our beautiful and needed diamond studs because ours are 100% eye-flawless and near colorless.

Beautiful stuff. They come complete with our 14-carat safety silicone backs, so she never has to worry about losing them or outgrowing them because our diamonds are such nice quality that we offer everyone a lifetime upgrade. You can trade in your Anita Diamond studs and get exactly what you paid for them. I wish I could trade in my old iPhone and get what I paid. Visit me, the real Steven Singer, at the other corner of 8th and Walnut or online at IHateStevenSinger.com. One place, one price. ♪

Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Dorothy on 93.3 WMMR playing the MMRBQ coming up on May 10th. We're just watching a little snippet of a video of an interview that Brent Porch did with Dorothy. Excited to play the show again, of course. She's great. Yep, so we're looking forward to her set as well as the others. And if you want the information, don't forget to check out the show.

WMMR.com is where you will find all of that. And there are ticket sale prices right now for packages. If you want to, you know, treat some people and have a party. And who wouldn't? So get those now. Imagine a, I mean, it's all wishful thinking, but imagine a day like Saturday. Oh, yeah. At the MMRBQ. Not out of the realm of believability. Yeah, how phenomenal that would be. Man, I hope they get to play the Philz game today, though.

Yes, I was reading there may be some severe storms. I know. Really? They're coming through the East Coast. I don't know if it'll hit us directly or not. But yeah, there was some nasty stuff that made its way over the Midwest and is headed this way. I assume they're doing... In fact, they aren't doing a flyover, are they not? They always do. Yeah. John said they're doing F-16s, man. I mean, you know, that's...

freaking cool. So hopefully that comes together. I want to mention a big freaking deal that's going on. It's the latest this week at WMMR.com and it's with The Funplex in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Years ago we did one of our Granny Grand Prix's there. Really cool. So you can get two single day wristbands for the price of one.

Wristbands offer unlimited access to indoor and outdoor rides, one hour of bowling, and select video games as well. So you can go to WMMR.com slash deals. I think that's where it started, Granny Grand Prix, wasn't it? No. No. We moved it there. We moved around a couple different places. A couple times, yeah. I thought it started there. That was a great location, though, and what I love about it, Kathy, lots of parking. WMMR.com to get that info. All right, and thank you to the following people. We had Mike Schaller on the program. Yay!

With Philly Sound Exchange. And they've written this musical. And they need performers, singers and dancers, and even pit orchestra people who are between the ages of 17 and 21. There's going to be a summer long... So 14 and 21. Oh, I'm sorry, 14 and 21. And this is going to be a summertime project. There's going to be rehearsals and everything. And then by the end of that, they should have this production ready to go. And this is just... If you've got a kid who's into the arts...

and wants a really juicy, cool project to get their hands on. An outlet. You need to take a look. phillysoundexchange.com or you can check them out at phlsoundexchange on Instagram and find the information there. And then we had Titus Welliver. Amen.

For the TV show Bosch Legacy. And it's the longest running franchise on Prime Video. They have four new episodes that came out on the 27th. Two episodes every Thursday until its final bell on April 17th. But he was super nice, man. Terrific, man. And this Legacy series is...

really good and he gets back here from time to time because he's originally from philly and said he would love to stop by and hang out in the studio i love it he said he's gonna be here in a month or so because his friend's in a band he's in a few bands he's like yeah so you know maynard's gonna be around yeah my friend maynard my friend maynard is in three bands and uh which of course he is tool being one of them and so he's gonna be in town to see them so that was kind of cool hi pierre

Hi there. It was a great conversation. He really was nice. And I just love, I mean, I've read every Bosch book from the very beginning all the way through to watch the character grow. And then he is now teaming with this other detective, Renee Ballard, in the books. Yeah. And then... They have a spinoff series with her, with Maggie Q. Yeah. Are you happy with the way the series is or are you watching the series? I've watched the original and I've watched Bosch Legacy. And it's really very well.

done. You try to, I watched the first couple of seasons and the way streaming is, I said this on, you know, the show earlier, is that, oh, is it back on? And so you lose track. But jumping back in for Legacy, the dialogue is just as crisp, just as Philip Marlowe, just as Raymond Chandler asked, just as L.A. detective as you'd want it to be. It's great. Well, and Michael Connelly, I guess it was supposed to be on with you, but didn't he, I read an interview in the New York Times with him yesterday about

L.A. is actually the star of the series, of the books, and of the TV show because all these iconic spots. And when you read the books, having not, even though I'm from California, I wasn't as familiar with L.A. as I am now when I started reading the books.

I took the 101 to the 10, and I got off and had dinner at Joey's Steakhouse. And a lot of those places exist. They really are. And it's pretty cool. So, yeah, it's really well done. Check it out. Yeah, I've got to watch the show for sure. I recommend it. Letter of the Day? Yes. Here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

Now, the Daily Letter. And the Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter. H as in Harry. All right. And we give away a $500 Minecraft movie family prize pack. And that includes...

It says, features two admit to Fandango tickets, which means four seats. Four official film posters, two Minecraft foam swords, four Minecraft sunglasses, and two Minecraft activity sheets.

And a Minecraft movie is going to hit theaters on April 4th, mind you. So we will give that away on Friday. What's happening today, man? I forgot. I have a little piece. You were debuting to Telephone? Yes. I found a little piece that we... Oh my God. There it is. What era is that? Oh God, that'd be like the 40s. Even before that, probably.

It's fake. Right, it's fake. But I found an ad, a TV ad, an early ad, which actually explains in visual form in front of a giant dial how to work a dial phone. And we have a little bit of it here. We don't have to play the whole thing, but here's a little bit of this nice lady explaining it.

Hello, everyone. I'm from your telephone company. And the message that we have for you is that we are changing your telephone service over to dial. There's been a lot of planning, preparation, and work in order to bring dial to town. You may have noticed that lots of work has been going on. Instead of hearing the operator's familiar number, please, you'll hear the dial tone. Ha, ha, ha.

Not anymore. No. She's got a giant dial, though. That means that the equipment is ready to handle your calls. Oh, my God. I mean, that's... And she's standing in front of a five-foot rotary dial. And then she actually says, you know, if you... And in the early days of, you know, of...

Phone numbers, they would have two letters. So where I grew up, it was Porter and 76. 76, it was Porter. P-O, Porter, 24333. Yeah, it's like the old song, Pennsylvania 65,000. That's you dialing the phone, essentially. You told the operator, hey, operator, Pennsylvania 65,000. And then they would connect you. My dialing game, even though I was a kid, was pretty good. My, you know, that...

You know? Yes. And you would get good at it. The worst would be when you go through that whole process and your finger would slip. Oh, yes. You have to do it all over again. Anyway, that's there for your, I don't know. I love it. On the program today, we have tickets for Garbage. And they're coming back on September 16th to the Electric Factory. Also, we have our final block on the last day of March, Women's History Month.

of ladies, and we're going to do all of them from the MMR cast. So I believe Dorothy, no, it was... Was it Dorothy on your show, or it was...

Dorothy was on the show. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. One of the lovely ladies. Lizzie Hale. Yeah. Anyway, we're going to do songs that were recorded at MMR from current, you know, down to Bonnie Raitt at the Sigma Sound Factory. Nice. So it really will come out cool. And we have ACDC for Angus' birthday and a block of Bush. Cool. All right. Thank you. And I want to thank our sponsors. President Steve's Show has been brought to you today by A.D. Moyer, trusted expert since 1939.

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Don't miss the Take It Outside Spring Showcase on April 5th. WorldwideStereo.com. Rockin' Backyard since 1979. Tomorrow on the program, Tuesday, so we'll give away some free tattoos. And we will have Steven Weber joining us tomorrow. We love him. Always a great conversation. We'll see what else we can get into. That's it. We're done. And rage on and have yourself a great day. And we'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Preston and Steve.

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