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All right, let's get our Friday off people. Welcome. The weekend is within grasp and let's see how the weather is going to cooperate or not. Kind of not. Uh,

We have cloudy skies today. Not really calling for much in the way of rain. Although, Nick said as he got here this morning, the sky ripped open. It was nice and clear when I got here. Not clear, but it was dry. Oh, get out. Really? There are pockets of rain. Yeah, you got drenched. Did you get drenched as well, Kev? Oh, it was...

It was awful. Thunder, lightning, yeah. There was flooding on Belmont and lightning and thunder when I got into the car and when I got out of Wawa and when I got here in the parking lot. It was bad. So we might get some spots today. High of about 67 tomorrow. Cooler, high 55 in clouds. Sunday, 58. We'll top out with some showers expected. We're going to cool off even more at the beginning of next week. We'll only make it to the mid-40s or so. So get ready. I know.

Now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano. Today is Friday, April 4th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, three family members were killed Thursday after they were struck by an Amtrak train in Bucks County. Bristol Borough Police Chief Joseph Moore says officers initially responded around 6 o'clock in the evening for people on the tracks at Beaver and Prospect Streets in Bristol at the Bristol station. Three people were cricked

quickly spotted but soon after they were struck by an amtrak train en route to philadelphia's 30th street station police say investigators have not yet identified the family members but moores called the incident a horrific tragedy service on amtrak and septa's trenton line was suspended for hours before trains began moving late thursday night police are still investigating why the family was on the tracks that was like the first thing i thought yeah what was going on there and you

always think like if you saw a train coming well i would get off of the track like i would you know like but but there's so many of these that happen that i think it just comes quicker than you think well the antrac trains definitely travel fast yeah yeah and from what i've heard is if it's like directly behind you like it's it's not as loud approaching as you think it might be like i think it's

As it approaches, that's when you really hear that sound. There's some sort of acoustic effect that takes place. And you're exactly right. I've heard the same thing, Preston. It seems almost inexplicable that you wouldn't hear a locomotive bearing down on you. But yeah, that's the case. My grandfather was a train conductor and he hit a woman with his train. And he said he thinks that she just thought she could get across. He said it was an older woman and he thought...

he thought that she thought she could get across quick enough and he said he was like honking the horn screaming out the window like trying to tell her don't do it don't do it and you know he said he put the brake on and tried to stop but it takes a while for the train to stop and uh it you know it lived with him for for his life that you know he had hit her let's wait thomas the tank engine had to enter therapy yeah or after a while he was a little cross yeah percy was very cross

Yes. That's where you guys took it. Police are still investigating. Economists say that while the impact of the Trump administration's newly announced tariffs will not show up on grocery store shelves for several more weeks, it is inevitable. And when reality does settle in, it will expectedly translate into a 20% increase on a wide variety of supermarket items. Dr. John Stanton, a professor of food marketing at St. Joseph's University, says one solution is to buy locally sourced produce and other food items. He says even that by...

even that will be short-lived buying local. He said, thank God for Jersey tomatoes, but for the most part, yes, because even with our locally sourced products, eventually the gas and all of the other things are going to require them to increase their prices.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, approximately 60% of fruits and about 40% of vegetables are imported to the United States. Then you throw in the imported items like olive oil, even most seafood, and the impact on your wallet will be significant. Dr. Santin's advice for people looking for ways to cut costs at the supermarket is to shop local. Shop at discount food stores, buy fewer perishable items, or even go to old-fashioned route of looking for sales and using coupons.

A police pursuit in Delaware County ended with the arrest of several vehicle theft suspects who tried to evade arrest in an unexpected way. Police attempted to stop a stolen vehicle after several vehicle break-ins were reported throughout Delaware County early Thursday morning. The pursuit came in to an end when the vehicle fleeing crashed into Tinicum Road in Tinicum Township about 1.30 in the morning. Four suspects then tried to evade arrest by jumping into a large pond nearby, according to authorities.

State police. They'll never find us here. Yeah, right? State police, along with local departments, surrounded the pond and took all four suspects into custody. The identities of the suspects have yet to be released and no charges have been announced at the time. Police say anyone who thinks they may have been a victim of a car break-in overnight to contact them as the group could be connected to other crimes. In sports this morning. Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo

Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy! What the f*** is that? The Phillies won again, beating the Colorado Rockies 3-1 yesterday afternoon at the ballpark. They did it!

Tywon Walker pitched six scoreless innings. Kyle Schwarber hit his fourth home run of the young season, and the Phils completed a three-game sweep of the Rockies. They did it! Walker, who was pulled from the team's rotation in 2024 because of his ineffectiveness, was making his season debut and allowed three hits and struck out four. After the final out of the sixth inning, Walker received a standing ovation from the crowd. They did it!

And did you see he said when he got booed, I guess, last season, his mom was like so upset and cried. And she was there at this game when he got the standing ovation. He got booed yesterday when he got introduced. And then he maybe that's what it was. And then he pitched a shutout and six really incredible innings. And they gave him a standing on when he walked out. So his mom got to see that. OK, maybe that's what he was talking about was when he got booed when he walked out.

This weekend, the World Series champs, the L.A. Dodgers, come to town. Tonight, Jesus Lizardo will get the start for the Phillies at 645. The Sixers lost their 10th straight game, falling to the Milwaukee Bucks, 126-113 last night in South Philly. Giannis Antetokounmpo became the first player in NBA history to have 35 points, 17 rebounds, and 20 assists, and he helped the Bucks shoot over 51%.

from three-point range. Rookie Adem Bona led the Sixers with a career-high 28 points on 13 for 15 shooting, while Quinton Grimes had 24 points with 10 assists. The Sixers will host the Minnesota Timberwolves tomorrow night, and tip-off is at 7 o'clock. The Flyers have only six games remaining in the regular season. They'll be in Montreal to take on the Canadiens tomorrow at 7, and the Union are at home tomorrow night at Subaru Park against Orlando City SC at 7.30. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs!

That's what I have for you this morning. All right. Thank you very much, Kat. So as if you hadn't had enough announcements over the past week or so from us, we have another one this morning. It's a mountain palooza. Yeah, we'll get to that around bizarre file time. So eight-ish this morning. We actually have a guest who's going to be joining us to help us parse out that information. So we'll get that to you later on. Before we do all that, we will check in with our friends Matt and Tam at CX.

6 a.m. ABC Action News. We do that at roughly 6.36 a.m. So 10 minutes maybe from now, we'll see what they have to chat about. We also have a couple of guests joining us on the program. Comedian Luis Gomez will be performing at Punchline this weekend, so we'll check in with him. And also from AEW Dynasty, Will Ospreay is going to be here in our studio.

It's pretty cool. If you're into wrestling, you definitely know who he is. He's the big man. So he'll be popping in because they've got about coming up a match, whatever you want to call it, April 6th at the Lea Corp Center. So that is this weekend. That's on Saturday. So we'll get him in around 9 o'clock. And we have the connoisseur for Friday, of course. And we give away our Word of the Week prize. We have $500 and a Minecraft movie family prize pack. And I'll tell you what all is in that one.

bit later on this morning. So, a lot on our plate today. Let's all have breakfast together. We'll take a quick break, come back in a moment and we'll dive into that entertainment report and stupid question and let's bring on the No Sad Bro. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thanks, Kat. So if you're interested in trying to answer the stupid question this morning, text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the ZOOM link and get ready to answer the question. And we have to give away a four-packet ticket to ZMMR Rocks the Monster Energy Supercross, and it is Saturday the 12th at the link. Here is the question. Unique one here.

From what language did English borrow the word caboose? Caboose. Yep. All right. So let's see if you know the answer to that. I don't know why we're still hearing the music, guys. I see your phone gesturing to your headphones. Sometimes it's like someone's computer or phone. No, it's bleeding through. Okay. All right. So from what language did English borrow the word caboose?

All right, let's see if you know the answer to that. And we'll mention some birthdays. There's a bunch of them. By the way, in about three and a half, four minutes, we are scheduled to go on 6ABC this morning with Matt and Tim. Yeah. We'll let you know when that comes up.

But in the meantime, we'll mention some birthdays. And like I said, there's a lot of them on the fourth day of April. This is David Cross's birthday today. I actually spoke to him not that long ago. We did. Great interview. Love talking to him. Super talented guy. Is he a chicken pot pie guy? He's a chicken pot pie guy. And he says he often gets recognized for that. That was from Just Shoot Me, right? Yeah. He was a guy who was pretending he was a learning disabled to get women. Yes.

That's right. He was a despicable character. He turns 61 years old today. Hilarious. Oh, here's a big one for you. Probably should have led with this. But it's Robert Downey Jr.'s 60th birthday today. Big one for him. And he's got, you know, he's going to have this new place in the MCU. Dr. Doom. With Dr. Doom coming up. Which will have sort of a connection through to Tony Stark and sort of an alternate universe kind of thing. It's interesting.

It is canon within the comic book realm. Talk about a guy who is about completely out career-wise and is now huge. Here's a movie I want to suggest. I really, really loved him in this movie. It's called The Judge. Love it. And it's a star-studded cast. It's him and Jeremy Strong and Vincent D'Onofrio and the great Robert Duvall.

And yeah, it's a drama, but I loved that movie. Every time I mention that, I think to myself, I got to go to that restaurant there that had that river right next to it. It looks like the coolest place. What is that, Ohio? Where is that? It's somewhere in the Midwest, Kate. I looked it up one time, but this raging river is right by the restaurant. Wonderful dramatic scenes going on, but I'm like, look at that view. He is 60 years old today. Christine Lottie.

Law and Order, special victims. Terrific. The Blacklist, yep. She's been in lots of stuff throughout the years. She turned 75 years old today. Natasha Lyonne, who we knew from American Pie and Orange is the New Black. She had a show called Poker Face. I think it's coming up for a second season. What's the conceit with that? She can tell when people are lying. She's just like a regular. She works at a casino as like a cocktail waitress, but...

At one point, she was a big-time poker player because she could tell when people were bluffing. But she overstepped her boundaries and won too much, and people will shut her out from the games. And so you watched a lot of it? We watched most of that first season, and it was good. So it turns into...

Like she ends up solving murders. It almost turns into a procedural. Exactly. Yeah, it's a new thing each week. And there's gangsters that are interested in her and stuff like that. It was pretty cool. A lot of famous guest stars. All right. So she's 46 years old today. It's Nancy McKeon's birthday. Joe. Yes, Joe. Take a look.

She was a tough girl, Kathy. I always liked her. I would be like her if I could. Were you a Joe or a Blair, Preston? I was Joe all the way. I was Blair because of the hair. Yeah, that was it? I was a Joe fan. She turns 59 years old today. We also have actor Phil Morris who played Jackie Childs on Seinfeld. Yep, he turns 66. He had some classic moments on that show. He actually had a good run on Bosch.

Oh, did he? Yeah. Really? Yeah, he was really good. He turned 66 today. We also have Craig T. Nelson. Love him. Yep, Mr. Incredible. The voice of Mr. Incredible. Coach, poltergeist, a lot of things throughout the years. He's also Blades of Fury. He's the coach who trains Will Ferrell. Balls of Fury? No, the... Blades of Glory. Blades of Glory, yeah, yeah.

He turns 81 years old today. Great actor Barry Pepper is also a year older. Saving Private Ryan, he's the sniper, the country bumpkin sniper. True Grady played Roger Maris in 61. He's excellent. He's 55 today.

Talk about a guy that will forever live in the genre world, Hugo Weaving. Yeah. Could you have bigger characters? Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, V for Vendetta. And, you know, his daughter is building quite a resume as well. His daughter's been in a lot of stuff. If you were to call up a picture, you would recognize her. Her star is rising. Very talented. Happy 65th birthday to Mr. Hugo Weaving.

Ah, Casey. Yeah. The Cobra kisser, David Blaine. Ah, yes. Yeah. Has his birthday today. Casey wants to kiss a cobra because you saw David Blaine do it. Kiss this cobra. Go ahead and kiss it.

Dude, they're beautiful. Cobras? They are beautiful. They're just incredibly deadly. You know what? The last special that he had, which was a few years ago, I was, yet again, I'm blown away by some of the stuff he does. He does the stunty things, but he also is a legit, awesome magician. I actually prefer that. A cobra? You're talking about a snake? A king cobra. Not a spinning cobra. Those are more dangerous. I would never find...

Something like that. You said you called it beautiful. Yeah. So the David Blaine special is on Disney Plus right now. It's basically a Nat Geo special. He tours the whole world. And in episode two, he spends time in Asia. And he does this thing with the King Cobra. And they do these close-ups. And you're looking at it like, wow, that is pretty majestic.

You guys don't think so? No, I do. I agree. Absolutely. She's the one you got to convince. I'm all on board. I don't think I would find any reptile beautiful. It's like cool, interesting, but I would never describe it as beautiful. So he is 52 years old today, David Blaine. All right, we've got about 10 seconds-ish.

What, 20 seconds, something like that, before we go on 6 ABC? So I'm going to bring this audio up, and we'll tune them in. I'll mention Clive Davis has his birthday today. Record executive. Legend. 93 years old. All right, I'm going to turn this audio up. Let's see what they're talking about. This just in, a new shot fired in the global trade war. Okay, that's serious stuff. They don't go to us for serious stuff. That was stupid. No. Trump's tariffs announced. 30 seconds. Chaos over there because of the weather. Oh.

Breaking news stuff. I got you. Do they want to do that? We can do the weather. Kathy's very good at it. He said they're doing breaking news stuff. We're talking about turtles. King Cobras. Not turtles. Cobra, turtle. Same thing. Actually, I have turtle news, which I'll get to later. Turtle news. I do. I have a breaking news story. The housing market isn't the greatest right now. It might be getting

worse we'll see but you can still dream well if you had all the money in the world where would you live a new list ranks the top 20 tv houses that americans want to live in and we know some people who might have some thoughts let's bring in wmmr's preston and steve good morning guys good morning morning so what is your top choice a top choice for fantasy tv or a

Pop Culture House. Pop Culture House, I guess. I saw the list, and I don't agree with many of them. Yeah, it's a bad list. I think they're aiming kind of low. But I did see one on there that I would agree with, and that is from the TV show Succession. I mean, come on. Yeah, these penthouses. The list for the talker, number one, Full House, number two, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and number three, Golden Girls.

Golden Girls. If you like tapioca pudding and you have arthritis, maybe that works for you. But no, no. To me, think bigger. Wayne Manor from the Batman series. Something that is a little bit more... I mean, I'm going older school, but like the Beverly Hillbillies Mansion or something. Right? Yeah. Something that had a little... I mean...

The Golden Girls? I mean, how is it too close for comfort? I mean, not too close for comfort, but the full house, home, like after a week or so, I think I'd be ready to move out. Makes you think of the Brady Bunch house a little bit. You know, there were some cool ones. The Bridgerton Palace was on there. Well, there you go. Harry's apartment from Sex and the City. But I think maybe it was more about the place. Like, do you really want to be with the Golden Girls?

Or did you really want to be on the beach in Miami and it's in Miami? Right, right. Because you're going to smell all the salves and ointments that they use at the Golden Girls house. Oh, my God. Bengay. Yeah. All that stuff. Let's say there's blue emu. Blue emu. It doesn't stink. Anyway, Tam, where would you want to be?

Oh, you know, I'm going to look. I'm going to go with Carrie's apartment and sex in the city. Look at you. The girl got into all the parties, had all the fashion, all the fun, all the love. What's not to like? I have my prepared list. You do? Okay, let's hear it. Number three, Hannah Montana's house. Okay. Number two, Seinfeld's apartment. Wow. Lots happened there. Number one, Sanford and Son salvage yards. Shut up. I can help you there. Yeah.

All right, guys, we're going to go back to our regular schmegular homes. Have a good weekend, guys. We'll see you later. Sanford and son. I was always a sucker for the places on TV that had a front stairwell and a back stairwell. Like, um, uh,

They had one in different strokes. Full House had one. Webster had one. Full House had one. Yeah, Dumbwaiter too. The Cosby Show had one. Yep. Webster was the Dumbwaiter. That was like, oh, it was so cool. Webster had a Dumbwaiter. They also had that secret stairwell behind the grandfather clock. Benson had, you would live in the governor's mansion. It was the governor's mansion. And there was that staircase for the support staff that was part of it as well. Yeah. All right. Yeah.

Anyway, reminisce amongst your friends about that. I have three more birthdays to mention real quick. We have TV producer David E. Kelly, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, legendary Michelle Pfeiffer. They've been together since 1993. Graham Norton.

Is 62 years old. He is treasured in the UK. I watch his show every week. Do you really? Yeah, I do. It really depends on the guest. He does something that used to be quite common in talk shows, which was to panel. He has all his guests come out and they're all sitting on the couch at the same time. And it's always a great time. But he is a great host. Why is that not done on American shows anymore? They try it occasionally. Carson used to do it all the time. Paneling was part of the deal. I don't know.

Yeah, because seeing those people interact was fun. Yeah. James Corden did it. Did he? Yeah. That show's not on anymore. So Graham Norton is 62 today. And then the last birthday, why, it's a guy we had on our program yesterday. It's Eric Andre's birthday.

And he turns 42 years old, probably going to have a little black tar heroin this morning. He's talking about that yesterday. All right. We will see if we have someone who knows the answer to our stupid question from what language did English borrow the word caboose? And we are going to go to Bill, who's joining us via Zoom this morning. Hey, Bill. Good morning. How are you guys? Great, buddy. All right. Do you happen to know where we got, what language we got the word caboose from? That would be Dutch. The Dutch. That is correct.

Hang on a second, buddy. The Dutch gave us caboose, and we are giving you a four-pack of tickets as MMR rocks. Monster Energy Supercross, Saturday, April 12th.

Link of an angel field. Tickets on sale now. You can visit supercrosslive.com for all of the details. All right, let's get to the entertainment stories. Tom Cruise honored his friend Val Kilmer during his appearance at CinemaCon. Kilmer passed away earlier this week at 65, of course, due to pneumonia. We spent a good amount of time talking about that.

He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, later recovered, and then, of course, he had this issue pop up and it took his life. Cruise paused for a moment of silence at CinemaCon honoring the actor. After the moment of silence, Cruise addressed the crowd saying, thank you, Val. I wish you well on your next journey. So that's really nice.

I'm very touched by their friendship. And I mean, we knew how profound the friendship was when he made sure he insisted that Kilmer be in Maverick. Yeah. And thank God he did because we have that wonderful moment of those two together. Yeah.

Jennifer Aniston sent Pedro Pascal a sweet message after the two met up for dinner last month. She shouted at the actor on his birthday, sharing a comic to her Instagram story featuring a therapist telling their client, lately, a lot of people are reporting that their faith in humanity is riding entirely on whether or not

Pedro Pascal is as nice as he seems. And Aniston added her own comment saying, can confirm as nice as he seems. She then told the actor happy birthday and tagged him. This new post follows photos of Aniston and Pascal at a fancy restaurant going viral online. And some fans think maybe a new couple was set to debut. But she shut down those rumors. It was a group...

dinner, but I'd be alright with those two being a couple. I'd be totally, in fact, I'm going to insist. Make it happen. By the way, the newest trailer for Fantastic Four drops today. Excellent.

So Michelle Williams has welcomed her fourth child. The new addition to the family arrived six weeks ago via surrogate and is Williams' third child with husband Thomas Kael. Michelle and Thomas got married in 2019 after they worked together on Fosse Verdon and got married in March 2020. She was really good in that. I watched that series. A source says they couldn't be happier to expand their family. Williams is also mother to her son,

Hart Cale, and the third child, whose name is unknown, born in 2022 with Cale, but she also has a daughter, Matilda Ledger. Of course, she's here with the late Heath Ledger. She's got a new show that I've seen the trailers for. There's a lot of

big names in that, too. I think it's based on a true story where a woman was diagnosed with cancer and then her mission was to sleep with a lot of guys. She left her husband and slept with a lot of guys. No kidding. I believe that's the conceit. Yeah, it's got a... And I wish I had the title handy, but it's got a...

It's got a funny title like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would suggest that that's what she's up to. Nick will look that up. It's Heath Ledger's birthday today or it would have been his birthday today. Oh, wow. That's true. Yeah. Hang on a second here. It's called... Dying for Sex. Dying for Sex. That's it. Yeah. Huh.

Nicholas Cage's son, Weston Cage, has dodged prison time in his felony assault case after allegedly attacking his mom, Christina Fulton. He was, however, told that he would have to complete a two-year mental health diversion program.

According to the judge, they said, Mr. Cage does suffer from an eligible mental health disorder. I'm satisfied. It was a significant factor in the commission of the charged offenses. It's obvious he was suffering a breakdown at the time. I'm taking the blame for this one, Your Honor. We fed him sand. Fulton attended the hearing employing the courts to consider therapy rather than time behind bars. And he had said...

Oh, it's he had said Nicolas Cage had said, now I stand here pleading for one thing that he gets the help he deserves. Please help my son. Oh, this was his I'm sorry, his his mom. Oh, OK. He's definitely in a bad way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He said there's been a history of issues with him, unfortunately. I thought this was fun.

Glenn Powell is playing the long game. He was on today with Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Olivia Munn to talk about his starring role in The Running Man, his sister's wedding, and more. So here's what came up that was kind of interesting. After playing a round of saucy questions...

based around his new condiment line called Smash Kitchen. Powell revealed a not-so-pleasant childhood memory that may have led to his new venture. He said, I used to be traumatized by ketchup.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with ketchup. I put it on absolutely everything. But he says that one of his buddies who had a little sister who was a year younger than he was would frequently have sleepovers at his house. And he said, if we had sleepovers at the same time, the boys would have to sleep outside. The girls slept inside. We slept on the trampoline at night. Fast asleep, the boys had no idea what was about to happen. In the middle of the night, he said, the girls snuck up and they poured ketchup all over us. And in the Texas sun, it baked.

He said, I woke up and it was terrible. Horrible smell. So he said, I jumped into the pool covered in stale hot ketchup. Powell said that it was absolutely had ruined the condiment for him for years until he developed his own. And on April 2nd, Powell announced Smash Kitchen, an organic condiment line now available nationwide exclusively at Walmart. It looks pretty cool. Yeah. We got...

When we were hazed in the sorority, it was dumb. It wasn't really hazing. It was funny and we all left. But they poured stuff all over us. There was one night where they would just pour like ketchup, mustard, hot sauce, hot fudge, like all this kind of stuff. Well, they used on me herbal essence shampoo. Oh, man. And like when I tell you like bottles and bottles of it and then that mixed with like the other stuff they were pouring on us. Yeah. I to this day cannot...

smell herbal essence shampoo and can never use it. It can traumatize you. You can lock that, the smell. So like he's saying, was it the smell? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The smell, you know, me and my sense of smell. And it mixed with like the other stuff, whatever it was that was in that shampoo just got me. And now you're scarred. I can't use it. It tastes like ketchup. It tastes like ketchup. But brother, it ain't ketchup. So if we were to bring in some herbal essence and hold it under your nose, would you freak?

I mean, I don't know that I would freak, but I will never use it on my head. If I had to walk around with that smell on my hair, no way. That's something to do with Kenan's. Yeah. Half the verbal essence. All right. So, but anyhow, the brand will offer eight organic flavors. Ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, barbecue sauce, honey hot.

hot honey ketchup, spicy mayonnaise, and hot honey barbecue sauce. You know what you just did? You just did a tease for the connoisseur. I thought about putting this in there, but I have other stories. So the lines ketchup, mustard, and mayo come in two sizes, and everything retails from $2.17 to $4.97.

And this is just the beginning. According to the co-founder and president of Smash Kitchen, Sean Cain, he said, our vision is transforming the entire pantry, bringing delicious organic options to every shelf, one category at a time. Look what happened with the Paul Newman's stuff. Took off. Still there. Powell says that he can't eat normal ketchup now. He said, I can eat my own, which is great. So this is a great redemption story. So you said he's in the show or this movie with Olivia Munn?

Oh, she was the co-host of the Bush daughter. I saw a, she's in the new Jon Hamm series where he's a wealthy guy who falls on hard times and starts robbing from his rich neighbors. And she's in it. I saw the trailer and she looks sensational. Like I've never seen her look this good after all she's been through. Wow. Pretty amazing. She is to look that great. She already looked great. So that's phenomenal.

So let's see. Bachelorette Deanna Pappas has issued a statement through her legal team about her arrest last month.

So according to this statement, it says, after full investigation and review of video evidence, he is a signed detective determined that Miss Pappas was not the aggressor. No criminal charges were filed. This matter is proceeding appropriately through the legal system and Miss Pappas will not be making further comment at this time. She was arrested on February 27th.

And it was an incident involving her husband, Stephen Stagliano. Pappas joined Bachelor Nation during Brad Womack's season of The Bachelor in 2007. And going on to star in season four of The Bachelorette in 2008. Come on. She and Stagliano married in 2011 and announced their split in 2023 with the divorce being finalized last June. I love you. But she was arrested. There's been a lot of conflict in that collective. Yeah.

Yeah, there has been. Well, I mean, listen, now it's on how many seasons now, so you're going to have a lot of people, and eventually some of them are going to be tool bags. Naturally.

So, Case, I'm curious what you think about this. Disney has been making a ton of live-action remakes of their hit animated movies for a while now. They've been churning out the remakes of classics, including The Lion King, Snow White, and the upcoming Lilo and Stitch. Fans looking forward to the live-action remake of Tangled may have to wait a while as the movie has reportedly been put on hold. Okay, I'm down with that. But I am like...

When they do this stuff with animals, it makes it really, really difficult. I was really excited for Aladdin, and I thought that that movie sucked. The live-action version sucked. It did poorly in the box office as well. I don't think you need to do these, or at least not Tangled yet. Wait until it's even more nostalgic, you know? So the word is, they could, for example, they have Lilo and Stitch coming out. They have How to Train Your Dragon live-action.

live action, quote unquote, because it's still a crap load of CGI. It's a dragon. It's a frigging dragon. But the deal is they could re-release the movie and do well. Goose it up, re-release the 3D version or whatever. But by doing this and basically remaking the movie scene for scene, they can double their box office take because people, even though they kind of go, I don't know if I want...

When push comes to shove, their market researchers told them they'll go out and see it. It's surprising that their market research had them looking to do this before Frozen because Frozen was such a huge... Or maybe it's too soon to... Maybe they can milk that franchise in a different direction. Right, right. The Moana one is the one that confuses me the most because there's Moana, Moana 2, and then live-action Moana. And I thought Moana 2 was really well done, but that's a lot of Moana. That's a lot of Moana.

That sounds like a TV show. A lot of Moana. That's a lot of Moana. A lot of Moana. A lot of Moana. That could be like a stripper name or something. Ladies and gentlemen, scene number two, a lot of Moana. I love that. All right. Well, anyhow, so Tangled is going to be put on hold. I don't know for how long or if they will even release it, but they could. A lot of Moana. A lot of Moana.

I love it. All right. Man, there have been a lot of trailers that have been coming out. And that's wonderful because it means we have some great things to look forward to. And the trailer for Megan 2.0 is now out. There you go. Yeah. Did you see it yet? Yes, I did. It was good. It looks pretty good. So I didn't see the first movie. I did, yeah. But this looks fantastic.

Pretty solid, I think. Well, it also has... They've done something pretty cool. They've given it a bit of a more... A correct edge to it. The first one was decent. Yeah. It was very successful. Oh, it was huge. So, if you thought this, the first movie, was crazy, get ready. Because Allison Williams returns as Megan's creator, Gemma.

Now on the run from a next-gen version of the robot named Amelia, who's out to kill her and anyone else involved in Megan's creation, or anyone human, really. And the only way to stop her is to bring back the original Megan, a plan which presents its own very real risk. Was that Dan Soder that we saw on this? That's Dan Soder, the...

the male lead in this... No kidding. In case I didn't even notice if it is. It looks like him. We'll need confirmation of that, Nick. If you could look up Dan Soder and see if he is in Megan 2.0. I don't think so. No, no case. Who is that guy? I don't. Who are you?

I don't know. All right. I'm going to look it up. So anyhow, yeah, this is going to be hitting theaters on June 27th, if you are interested. And I just saw this. Casey and Nick, you guys have read the books. Oh. I just saw this literally over my shoulder. There's a teaser trailer out for...

For Project Hail Mary. Oh, cool. Ryan Gosling and I cannot wait. How does it look? I haven't watched it yet. I literally just found it. Oh, I see. It's on my screen over here behind me. I'm going to watch it as soon as we're done here. I thought you were going to reference Naked Gun trailer. Now, I saw that, too. Okay, I do have that story in here as well. So, yes, Paramount kicked off CinemaCon with the first teaser for the Naked Gun reboot of the classic cop pop.

Priority series, of course. And it's coming out August 1st, and it stars Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen's iconic character. In the teaser, Neeson's Drebin foils a bank robbery while dressed as a schoolgirl licking a lollipop, and then coolly declaring that he's Frank Drebin, police squad, the new version.

Akiva Schaefer of Lonely Island and SNL fame directs with Seth MacFarlane producing. The highly anticipated reboot features a stacked cast. It includes Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter, Hauser, Lisa Koshy, and more.

The sequel appears to lean in on the franchise's signature absurdity, even featuring a nod to its O.J. Simpson era past briefly. That cracked me up when they did that. Yeah. So that's another one to look forward to down the road. So there's a host of really cool trailers that are out right now. Also had this story, FUBAR.

Netflix has announced season two will premiere on June 12th as the Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy slash spy series that stars Monica Barbaro and brings Carrie Ann Moss on board as the season two baddie slash former flame of Arnold's CIA operative. The cast also includes Fortune Feimster, Jay Baruchel, Scott Thompson, and others. I really didn't care for it. It's okay. Yeah. It's okay.

Late comedy legend Joan Rivers will be honored in an upcoming special on NBC. The special filmed during the 2024 New York Comedy Festival will feature appearances by such notables as Nikki Glaser, Bill Maher, Tracy Morgan, Aubrey Plaza, and Sarah Silverman.

Rachel Brosnahan, Margaret Cho, Tiffany Haddish, Chelsea Handler, Neil Patrick Harris, Howie Mandel, Joel McHale, Patton Oswalt, plus Jean Smart and Rita Wilson are also in the lineup. Yeah, I think they need this. As well as Melissa Rivers. So the special will air on NBC May 13th. Yeah, it's been...

She passed away quite a while ago. Quite a while ago. So Jean Smart is playing a riff on Joan Rivers in Hacks. The amazing Mrs. Maisel is sort of a nod to the career of Joan Rivers. So, yeah, give her her due. Yeah, most definitely. The MTV Video Music Awards have a new home, kind of. After 40 years on MTV, CBS will be presenting the big show. I don't give a shit.

It will also air on MTV as well as on Paramount+. This year's event is now set for September 7th, airing live from the UBS Arena in New York. CBS landed this new event as they deal with the loss of their partnership with the Grammys. CBS lost the Grammys? That's what it says here. Oh, wow. Disney recently landed a 10-year deal to present the Grammys starting in 2027 after CBS had been the home since 1973. So I guess it's moving to ABC. Huh.

Last year's MTV Video Music Awards brought in their biggest multi-network audience since 2020 and featured performances from fan favorites like Chapel Roan and Sabrina Carpenter. All right, we got movies opening this week. Let's talk about it. We tear up.

Well, we have opening today a Minecraft movie. It's a family adventure fantasy starring Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Myers as well. So welcome to the world of Minecraft where creativity doesn't just help you craft. It's essential to one's survival. Four misfits, Garrett, the garbage man, Garrison Henry, Natalie, and Dawn find themselves struggling with ordinary problems...

when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the overworld, a bizarre cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. It's an hour and 40 minutes long. It's rated PG, and it's a wide theater release with Rotten Tomatoes' score coming in at 51%. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Then you have Hell of a Summer. It's a horror comedy starring Finn Wolfhard and Billy Brick. We just spoke to them this week. Fred Hechinger is in it as well. Follows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Huckberg, who arrives at Camp Pineway thinking that his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers.

What he doesn't know is that a mass killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one. Hour and 28 minutes long. Rated R. Wide theater release. Rotten Tomatoes score at 55%. Then you have Steamboat. It's a horror comedy starring David Howard Thornton, Alison Patel, and Jesse Posey.

A late night boat ride in New York City becomes a struggle for survival when a seemingly harmless mouse transforms into a dangerous monster. Is this one of those Steamboat Willie properties? Oh, okay. Passengers must fight to stay alive. It's an hour and 41 minutes long rated R limited theater release. And Rotten Tomatoes score gives it a 59%. It's the highest of the three that we have seen.

mentioned here. It is the high. Stephen Howard Thornton is Art the Clown from the Terrifying Movies. Nice. Alright, now we're ready for the clips. Former SNL star Kyle Mooney.

successfully directed his first film, Y2K, about high schoolers on New Year's Eve 1999. And here he talks about where that idea came from. I feel like I was always sort of minorly obsessed with Y2K because it was such a letdown. And so one day the idea kind of came like, oh, it'd be interesting to see a bunch of teenagers go to a party and Y2K actually goes down. By no means set out to be like, this is a movie I want to direct. It was more like, I think this would be a cool movie to see.

Y2K is now streaming on Max. Our next clip. Jason Momoa hands over his action star card to play a washed up video game champion in the Minecraft movie. And here he and co-star Jack Black talk about the out of character role. Like I'm a big wuss and you know there's...

I love to laugh. I love to, you know, make fun of myself. And I think there's like little things from my childhood where we put into the character. I really admire you for playing against type because it takes courage to do that. And you really play a chicken in this. Yeah. And it's funny as hell. Ah!

The Minecraft movie is in theaters now. All right, there you go. Entertainment report for this Friday morning. A few things happening. We have an announcement coming up. We'll do that with our first run of the Bizarre File. Luis Gomez will be performing at Punchline, and he's going to be checking in with us today. We're also going to have wrestler Will Ospreay from AEW Dynasty, and they have a big show Sunday, May 9th.

at the Leah Core Center, so he's going to be stopping by this morning. So we have that and some things to give away, and it's a Friday morning with all those guests coming up. That means we're going to have to move into connoisseur territory too sweet. That's true, yes. We're going to take a break, and we'll come back with that in just a moment. Stay with us on your ride this morning, gang. Want to stop Alexa from secretly recording you?

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Kathy. On the program later on, wrestler Will Ospreay will be joining us. We have Luis J. Gomez here in our studio, too. And we have an announcement on the way. Yes, another announcement today.

We've been announcing all kinds of stuff for the live band karaoke, Kathy's Cuts. We had another announcement that Preston received 20 money. Kathy's Total Wine Concert. Kathy's Total Wine Concert, which is coming up. All these things. But we have another one we're going to add to when we get to the Bizarre File. But it's Friday. We got a lot going on, so it's time to eat.

Connoisseur, baby. It's time for the connoisseur, and we both have bells. Yes, we do. Bellapalooza. All right, we are so happy that we have a sponsor. Our fine friends at Acme Markets bring you the connoisseur. Yeah. The official supermarket of the Preston and Steve show. First story we're going to start with, and we'll do some giveaways with Acme and the movie clips here in a sec, but...

This was an article from Food and Wine Magazine, and it is the top, the U.S. cities with the best food scenes. I mean, we always go back and forth on this, and we always get boned on lists like this, though we should not. Am I going to be disappointed or happy? Well, let's find out. All right. So it's by Food and Wine Magazine highlighting the places that have some of the finest food

for a food scene. And it was the annual Global Tastemakers Awards that they are citing these cities in. So, overall winner, and we'll start at the top and we'll work our way down, is New York City. Wow. Wow.

It's usually the one that wins. So it says with tens of thousands of places to eat, you never have to go far for a good meal in New York City. From Michelin-starred fine dining institutions to food trucks that are destination-worthy, there are

amazing culinary experiences covering all parts of the city from Brooklyn to the Bronx. So they just have a lot. They have a lot. Who was that guy that we had on last week that guest during the connoisseur and he was talking about, Marissa said that one. Mark Murphy? Yeah. We had Mark Murphy and I was a little disappointed by the restaurants he called out. Well, I was a little disappointed at how much he extolled the virtues of New York City. Like, get over yourself. And it was like, it was a little... He brushed it off. Yeah. And like, look, of course New York has great cities, great restaurants. It's the capital of the world. But...

um acknowledge the other cities that's that's where i get all that's where i have a problem with new yorkers yes you have a great city there are other great cities and so pay attention to them too i'm gonna kill him number two we don't have to go number two on this is to chicago yeah i think i might have chicago you might have my best meal ever two of my best meals were not here in philadelphia chicago's one and then boston was the other was it the meal at gibson's yeah i loved it i know that you were underwhelmed you went with the tomahawk right no no no i went with their uh

I think it was their ribeye, which they pitched as the greatest steak in the world. And that was their first mistake. And it was phenomenal. Yeah. It was excellent. But greatest steak in the world? I don't know. You don't like that. You don't like when somebody says, like, greatest thing ever. I just don't think that it's possible. That it could be. Have you ever encountered something you yourself would call the greatest thing ever? Oh, probably to me. Like, I'm like, this is the best tasting blah, blah, blah I've ever had.

I've ever had. I get what you're saying. The delineation. When somebody positions that like that to him, he doesn't like that. Even TV shows, movies, anything. You're like, okay, yeah, it was good, but don't tell me that was the greatest thing ever. It wasn't. Ripping my heart out here, Kathy. No, you do. Build things up to give you a certain expectation in your mind as to

how this is going to taste, how it's going to sound, how it's going to look or whatever. And when it doesn't meet that expectation, yeah. It was wonderful. And I would go back any day of the week if I felt like spending that kind of money on a meal. But yes, for sure. So in Chicago, whether you're looking to taste a classic Italian beef sandwich as seen on the bear or deep dish pizza,

Uh, Chicago doesn't disappoint. Recommendations include virtue for refined Southern cuisine and the tasting menu at Esme in Lincoln park. Number three on the list is Los Angeles. Uh, they stayed by saying the city's creative energy extends to the restaurant scene and must try spots include classics like, uh, Philippe for French dips. Uh,

Cielito Lindo for taquitos and holy basil for Thai. Holy basil. Listen, we know, as you were saying, Nick, these are obviously food meccas. Yeah. I do believe. Think outside the box a little bit. Stop traipsing over the same familiar territory and let's get adventurous. I had the...

most expensive meal i've ever had in los angeles i went to nobu a few years ago and uh i was lucky enough to get in and um did it live up to the hype yeah it did at any point did you have to put a towel over your arm and pretend to be a waiter to pick up tips i did not pay for the rest of your meal uh i know we might be talking about sushi in a little bit best sushi in my life and look it was super expensive it was way overpriced i mean i'll be perfectly honest um but it was a really cool experience i'd like to be in there i don't know i'm sorry

Any celebs? Yeah, Pharrell was there. Oh, okay. And there was somebody else, I don't remember. But yeah, I mean, look, it's Nobu in Malibu. It's ridiculous. I don't need to go back, but it was a cool experience. All right, I'm going to quickly, rather than go into the descriptions of every single one of these, because there's 10 of them all together, but number four on the list is Austin. You've eaten their case. I have. Good food? Yeah, I mean... How's their back? God.

The Bats were cool. I didn't eat any, but I did go to the Bat Bridge. I'm trying to think if there was anything that blew me away. I went to the Salt Lake when in Austin, but that's not in Austin. And that's one of the most world-famous barbecue joints. Number five on the list is New Orleans. I someday want to plan a trip to go back to New Orleans and eat my way through the city. Eat yourself out. Party as hard as they used to. That used to be the focus. Let's go and tear it up. Let's go!

Yeah, but now I'm like, let's go and just eat. Where's your first destination? Do you have a restaurant in mind? No, I don't really know. Because Paul Prudhomme's place used to be the place, right? I ate there one time and I ate at the Commander, which was Emma Lagasse's restaurant. And they were great. I thought he was from there too. He is. Yeah. And so there's plenty of great places, but I don't know them, but I know that they're there. Yeah. So I would find them. So I still have, excuse me, I still have that same goal. Let's go get after them.

But I want to do it in a classier way. Like the bars that you would go to, you know, and just whatever. Get a beer and hang and drink nine million beers. Like I want to go to that restaurant with you, Preston. I just want to get the really good drinks that they have. Yes, I do too. I definitely will put a buzz on for sure. I love this city. But food's going to be a part of it. Definitely. All right. So that's number five. Number six on the list is Charleston. Yeah, I was there last year. I'm not...

I'm not recalling anything that really blew my mind. Okay. You didn't really seek out any fine dining there. I really didn't. Was it a cool place, though? Like, I've heard great things about it. Cool little town. Cool little town. I wish I would have done more with it. But, yeah, I was kind of holed up in my hotel, hoping. Because I was there with the rugby team, and I was by myself. And you were crying because the kids didn't want to hang out with you, right? I was not crying, but I...

Yeah, I just... Oh, cool. I was kind of holed up in my hotel room because my son wanted nothing to do with me. How was the room service? I didn't get any room service. Oh, man. Yeah, I know. All right, number seven on the list is Miami. Number eight is San Francisco. You would expect those... Rice-a-roni. Number nine is Houston. Wow, we're running out of cities here. Number 10 on this list is Philadelphia. Oh, yeah.

So, yeah, we made it into the top ten. And, you know, there are other worthy cities, but I'm glad that we were included. I'm going to kill the other cities. It says beyond the cheesesteaks they're famous for, you can enjoy Cambodian hot dogs at Mon, Thai cuisine at Kalaya, and whatever's on the menu at Her Place Supper Club. So they recognize that it is a budgeting thing.

restaurant scene. Double thumbs from Marissa. I ate at a great restaurant in Miami. Don't remember the name of it, but it was probably, I think it was like the first time that I had like a really good expensive bottle of wine. Like we were at the point where we were making some money and we

Actually, I think we bought a bottle and then we knew people there and somebody sent over a second bottle, which was really nice because it was expensive. But that's what I remember about it. I mean, the food was great, but I remember being able to have that, tasting that really good wine. Nice.

All right, so those are, according to Food & Wine, which is a reputable source, it is the U.S. cities with the best food scenes. We made the list. We made the top ten. We got into the top ten. All right, it is time to play our first clip of the morning. And Marissa has got a theme for us this morning. This Sunday is National Twinkie Day. Oh, Twinkies. It is believed to be the anniversary of the day that the Twinkie was invented in 1930 by James Dewar.

So these are all Twinkie clips. I can think of a few. Here's your first one. Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According to this morning sample, it would be a Twinkie...

35 feet long, weighing approximately 600 pounds. That's a big Twinkie. All right, text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333, and we'll see if we can get you on to answer. In the meantime, we'll do another order. Ladies and gentlemen, one of the first times ever, well, we had one last week, but we have a guest appearing as the connoisseur.

Because Steve Morrison had a culinary experience yesterday for the first time. Hi, everyone. And Steve went out to dinner for sushi for the first time. And we got to hear his feedback of the event. Well, Connoisseur, thanks for having me. It's great to see all of you here today. Big fans. I listen to you every day.

Yes, you do. Yes, I went to Sakura Ramen and Sushi Bar, Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill. Okay. My wife is a big fan, and Dr. Mike has been saying he was going to take me for the longest time, but I figured best to get...

Get my entree. Break. Yeah. Pop my sushi cherry. Dip your toes in there. And I did. So, and I talked to Nick, I talked to Casey and you guys, and my wife had a couple of go-tos. So, I had the Philadelphia roll, which is salmon, avocado, and cream cheese. Yes. I had, and tuna rolls. Yes.

And miso soup, I did the appropriate soy sauce and wasabi. Okay, you mixed that up together. I was told to put very little wasabi because I'm a newbie. Good call. Yeah, and so...

I loved it. You loved it? I did. I loved it. I loved the salmon more. Okay. But the key, I thought, was because it was, and tell me if I'm wrong. Again, I'm the newbie. I'm the young buck. Getting all those flavors together.

To coincide at the same time in your mouth. So when you're eating it, it's not the kind of thing you break it apart. No. It's got to be... Everything is at once. Yep. And I found it really good. I found it... And this is what my perception is. You're dealing with a lot of saltiness because of the soy and stuff like that. However...

Really excellent. The restaurant itself is very cool. Yeah, you don't need to go crazy with the soy. Just a little dip in there, I find. And here's an interesting thing about sushi that I did not know. While it is common to see people, and I do this as well, eating sushi with chopsticks, apparently in Japan, it's more common to just grab it with your fingers. And dip it on in? Pick it up and pop it.

it up and pop it in your mouth. That's what I do. I would prefer to do it that way. Yeah, I mean, I like using chopsticks, but when I get a little frustrated with the food or just hungry, I just grab the sushi. I know you're at home that you can do that, but at a restaurant, are you going to eat it with your hands? You can. Occasionally. Apparently, it's culturally, that's kind of how it's done. Oh, and I am now in the Yakuza. You're in the Yakuza. Yeah, yeah. Well, how did you consume yours? I was going to ask you that. Chopsticks. And they had very cool chopsticks. I see these occasionally. There are these separated chopsticks.

These are the attached to the top. Gives you a little bit more torque. That's for the little kids. That's all they had. Really? Yeah. All right. Well, I'm curious. So you had sushi rolls. Did you try sashimi? No. Okay. No. Probably best to take it one step at a time. Exactly. One step at a time. Even the guy said to my wife, not for this pussy. Yeah.

What did everybody else at the table have? Do you know, Steve? Yes. The other people at the tables were my wife. Because we went at 4.30. Oh, I thought Mike went as well. No, no, no. Mike is hardcore. Misunderstood. Yeah, I'm sorry. I probably didn't state that right. But I replicated her exact order. Oh, cool. But the miso soup. I love miso soup. I do, too. It's so good. I agree. And is your wife a sushi fan? She is a huge fan now. And listen, I've never been a big seafood dude, but...

And I think all of you said, because I love it, the landing over here in Bella Kenwood, Nick Elmy's restaurant. I love the salmon toast, which is, you know, it's raw salmon. Right, right. And I love that. So it was a good entree. But again, what I was surprised at, Preston, to the newbies like me who are going to try sushi...

don't order a lot. Oh, no, no, no, no. Because it fills you the F up quickly. It does. And what you can do, the thing that's fun about ordering sushi is you order a couple of rolls and then you just keep ordering. If you're still hungry, you order a few more. It's kind of a la carte. You don't have to order it all at once. And as you go along, you order more. And my plate had a little tree on it. A little tree on it? A little Japanese tree. But I will say this. So, yes, you fill up quickly. And...

But you don't feel bloated. Right, right. So as you get more adventurous with this, Steve, you'll find that the rolls, you started with some basic ones, which is great. That's the way to do it. But as you go, you'll find there are more kind of esoteric ones that have maybe fruit in them or they'll have peppers and things like that and a variety of different sauces that come with that as well. I'm down with that. I can tell you what, on the next visit, I'm probably going to take a dip into real Japanese ramen. Yeah.

I'm a big ramen fan, but I'm used to, you know. Yeah, cup of noodles. Yeah, and I want real, real ramen. Real quick, a couple of texts coming in. One person texted and said, did Casey just say to mix the soy and wasabi? Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of standard procedure. But then again, another text came and said, mixing wasabi and soy sauce is actually frowned upon in Japan. Is it? Good thing I'm not in Japan. Americanized type of thing. Maybe that was F&O, but also there was ginger.

Oh, dude, my buddy eats that. Oh, Rochelle devours it. It's a palate cleanser. It's a digestif. It helps you to digest afterwards. I always save a little bit of ginger for the end of the meal. So you don't blow my mind as well? We go in. We sit down. Nothing's...

cooked so they're bringing it except the soup is already prepared yeah you order it it's right to your table oh yeah and no our dinner lasted about 40 35 minutes you know i mean we just everything um mexican restaurants the food comes out so fast yeah and it's cooked it's you know prepared like cooked food kathy and i went to a mexican restaurant where it took an hour and a half for the mexican food to come out wait where you know the one i'm talking about

Plaza? No, no, no. Bite your tongue. Bite your tongue. No, no, no. This was a bad Mexican experience. I probably shouldn't have brought it up. Don't bring up a restaurant that may have had an off night. We weren't there together. You were dating at the time. Remember when we were dating back in the early 2000s? No, we went to a Mexican restaurant and you and I both had bad experiences there. We'll talk about it another time. Thank you. Yeah, we need to move along. All right, so anyway, Steve had a good sushi experience. Yay!

Wonderful. All right, let's see if you know what movie this clip is from. Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According to this morning sample, it would be a Twinkie 35 feet long, weighing approximately 600 pounds. That's a big Twinkie. All right, we are going to go to Richard, who is joining us via Zoom this morning. Hey, Richard, how you doing, man?

Hey, kazoos. Kazoos, buddy. All right, what movie is it from? Goosebusters. Of course. Yep, you got it, buddy. Hang on. We're going to set you up with a $50 Acme Markets gift card if you're hungry and in a hurry. Acme's Flash grocery delivery pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes. Less fast, fresh, and right to your door. Acme Fresh Foods. Local flavors. Let's play another movie clip, and it's about Twinkies. And let's see if you know what this one is from. Hey, I brought some Twinkies. Anybody want one? Twinkies and wine?

Oh, that's real class, Jan. It says right here it is a dessert wine. All right, so let's see if you know what movie that is from. And while you are reaching out to us, by the way, text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. Order up.

All right, this is exclusively out of West Virginia. I thought this was interesting. Four visitors bureaus have teamed up to share West Virginia's state food with people both in and out of the state by launching.

A digital passport to showcase the pepperoni rolls' delicious origins. Ah. I don't know that I've ever had a pepperoni roll. The original script for Raiders of the Lost Ark was not the search for the Lost Ark of the Covenant, but the origins of the pepperoni roll. I devoured pepperoni rolls when I was in college my sophomore year because my roommate at the time, he was lactose intolerant.

And his mom... So the option was pepperoni? Well, it was pepperoni rolls. That was a meal that she would make for him. And she would send dozens of them to the house. Is there usually cheese in a pepperoni roll? There was no cheese in that pepperoni roll. In that pepperoni roll. I'm not a...

I know this is sacrilege for a lot of people. I don't like pepperoni. I don't like pepperoni on pizza. I just don't like it. Love it. Clarksburg Visitor Center and the Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau released the West Virginia Pepperoni Roll Trail on a digital passport that allows visitors to check in at each location and earn points to collect prizes. That is kind of cool. Amy Comer, the executive director of the Clarksburg Visitor Center, said the pepperoni rolls are beloved...

Thank you.

I don't know what that means. I think it means vagina. We wanted to give people a map where they could go and what to try. Everyone has their own take on it. So to experience the variations, travelers and locals can register to participate in the West Virginia Pepperoni Roll Trail online and instantly receive a digital passport via email or text. So quick question. If you're hiking and you're walking along and you find food along the side, will you eat it? I will occasionally. Yeah.

That's trail magic right there. Yeah, it's trail mix. No, it's trail magic. People will leave food along the trail, especially along the Appalachian Trail. It's called trail magic. I didn't even know that. Yeah, absolutely. Especially for through hikers, if you're going to do a really long trail, trail magic is a common thing. Is it sealed properly? Sure. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I didn't know. Well, that's wonderful. It's the kindness of strangers, Steve. Oh.

I have family in West Virginia and I went there last year. Sadly, it was for a funeral, but I had forgotten what a beautiful state it is. And it's a hard state to travel around. The roads are so windy and it's not easy to get there and it's not easy to get through there. But man, is it a pretty state. It's called trail magic.

got trail magic yeah all right so uh pepperoni roll in honor of west virginia have one today all right let's see if you know what movie this is from we're gonna get somebody online hey i brought some twinkies anybody want one twinkies and wine oh that's real class jam it says right here it is a dessert wine all right we have lee that we are checking him with this morning via zoom hey lee

Hey, what's up, guys? Yo, bud. Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee. All right, Lee, what movie is the clip from, please?

That's from Greece. It is from Greece. Yeah, hang on, bud. We're going to give you a $50 Acme Markets gift card. Acme fresh foods, local flavors. Congratulations, my man. Hang on just a second. We'll get your info and we will set you up. All right, another clip to play. Twinkiepalooza. Here we go. Pick me up some Twinkies. There should be a little mini-mart open, a couple blacks from the scene. Twinkies? It's two in the morning, you fat f***.

I don't know this movie. I don't either. All right. Text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333, and we'll see if you know. All right. Order up. All right. Do we have this over? Yeah, right here. All right. I know I do the fast food roundup. I don't have one this week, but I do have an ice cream roundup. Ice cream!

Ice cream! So I actually look for more, but I only have two stories concerning ice cream. But I do find weekly that there are multiple ice cream stories, so I might start an ice cream roundup. Well, listen, we're coming into the season, and it is a part of the culinary experience that I think...

draws people's attention. Show me the person who can't find any type of ice cream that they like and I'll show you a piece of crap. Now, you guys know that ice cream is my... Your jam. That's my jam. That's my go-to as far as desserts. I have not...

had any ice cream in over three months. Wow. I've been really good. I've lost over 25 pounds. I've been working really, really hard on it, but I'm almost to my goal, and I'm about ready. What's your goal? Dive back into ice cream. 26 pounds? No, over, I think it's 28 altogether. There's a number I'm trying to hit. You like round numbers, right? Yeah, I do. And then you put it all back on during the summer. Yeah, I did some ice cream. All right, but I haven't had ice cream in a while. I'm dying, and I was happy to see this story.

We're in the middle of spring, but Dairy Queen is already prepared for the even warmer months, and they've welcomed its 2025 Summer Blizzard Menu. So the chain also celebrates 85 years of business with a limited time 85-cent small blizzard deal. We talked about this a couple weeks ago. So through April 6th, DQ Reward members can find an offer in the app good for an 85-cent small blizzard treat with a purchase of $1 or more. But here's what's coming this summer.

Excuse me. They will have the new mixing bowl mashup blizzard. New mixing bowl mashup blizzard. Vanilla soft serve swirled with brownie batter and chocolate chip cookie dough. Mm-hmm.

So like what's left at the bottom of the mixing bowl when your mom was making brownies or chocolate chip cookies. Digging that. They have the new dipped strawberry cheesecake blizzard. So cheesecake pieces, choco chunks. Choco chunks. And strawberry topping mixed into vanilla soft serve.

They also have the S'mores Blizzard, which is returning due to fan voting. The S'mores Blizzard has vanilla soft serve mixed with marshmallow-filled chocolate bars. I'm okay with that. And graham crackers. Not bad. They also have the Confetti Cake Blizzard. It's a mix of cake pieces, confetti sprinkles, or jimmies, and vanilla soft serve. And then finally, the Cotton Candy Blizzard. Oh, my God.

I'm not a massive funfetti fan. It's not worth it at all. Yeah, I don't dig on that or the cotton candy either. I don't kill those people. Vanilla soft serve spun with cotton candy topping and cotton candy sprinkles. So that's what they have coming up this summer. I was at HomeGoods earlier this week and there was a kid that was with his grandmom, two people in front of me, and apparently that kid loves cotton candy.

And he was just going on and on about how he loved... But he didn't say cotton candy. He was saying cotton candy. Cotton candy? It was like cotton candy. But this kid was just going on and on about how he loved cotton candy. Talking to the lady behind him. Cotton candy?

invited the lady behind him to go to Rose Street Park with them after they got done getting their cotton candy. He's like, we're going to Rose Street Park. Do you want to come? And she's like, yeah, I guess I'll come. Okay, we're going to be in the parking lot, but we have to go to the cemetery first. It was hilarious. It was adorable. And it went on for like 10 minutes. Listen, you know when you find something like that and you love it? I mean, you just want the world to know about cotton candy and Rose Street Park. Yeah.

Here's the other ice cream story I have for you. This is interesting. People thought this was an April Fool's joke, but it was not.

It was an airline's publicity stunt involving snail ice cream. Oh, God. EasyJet handed out escargot-flavored jet lotto, they called it. Jet lotto. You get it, EasyJet. To passengers and those attending the launch of its new base at London South End Airport on Monday. It was among five flavors...

representing different destinations that the airline is now flying to from the Essex terminal. However, several national newspapers assumed that the snail ice cream was a prank, and they included it in their April Fool's Day roundups. But it was legit. EasyJets CEO and senior figures from the airport all attended a press conference today

to mark the return of the airline's base. And other promotional ice cream flavors handed out at the event included Spicy Tajin. Tajin? T-A-G-I-N-E. I don't think that's Tajin. No, that's not Tajin. Then we have Sangria flavor. Pastel de Nata, which is a Portuguese custard tart.

And Cacio e Pepe. Has anyone here had escargot? Yeah. What do you think of it? It's good. Is it? Yeah. How can it be? It looks like snot. It's very garlicky. Is it? If you like garlic, and it's kind of got almost like a mushroom texture to it. Is this a case where are you putting garlic on it, and that's what makes it taste like garlic? Or is it a fact that in and of itself, it tastes like garlic? I don't know.

I've never had it without that garlic flavor. But, I mean, its texture is good. And with that flavor, yes, it's buttery and garlicky. It's really good. That should be the next thing you try. You've expanded to sushi. Just got sushi started. Sushi is my next thing.

The escargot ice cream was described as, now this sounds gross, a snail-infused garlic ice cream with crunchy pieces to give a snail shell effect. That's great. There's nothing like crunching on shells. It makes me go mm-mm-mm. I like some crunchy ice creams, though. That's true. With chocolate chips. Sure. Nuts. Nuts, if you will. I like nuts. All right.

let's see if you know what movie this clip is from. Pick me up some Twinkies. There should be a little mini-mart open, a couple blacks in the scene. Twinkies? It's two in the morning, you fat f***. We're going to go to Andy joining us via Zoom. Good morning to you, Andy. Good morning, Gadzooks. All right, name that movie, please.

Mad Dog and Glory. He is correct. Mad Dog and Glory. Hold on, bud. You got yourself a $50 Acme Markets gift card if you're hungry and you're in a hurry. Acme's Flash Grocery Delivery or Pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. Fast, fresh, and right at your door. Acme Fresh Foods, local flavor. Is Heather Graham in that movie? I don't know. I don't even know what that movie's about. I don't know.

Uma Thurman's in it. Uma Thurman, that's it. Oh, wow, okay. All right, we need to move along. We need to move along. Here's the next, I'm sorry, but we're running way behind. So here's the next clip. Let's see if you can identify this. Want a Twinkie Genghis coffee? Say please. All right, if you know, then text in the word Zoom to 610-660-9333. Order now. Um...

Not really. I stole the FF. I know. So on my notes here, I put an FF for fast food roundup, but I only have one story case. Well, does it have to do with Popeye's by any chance? It does. Okay, good. All right. Why? Because I was hoping that you would hit on this. I'm pretty sure I know what you're going to talk about. Popeye's is adding pickles to the menu? Yeah, man. All right. So it started April 1st. They are selling new menu items as well as revamping some of the old selections to feature pickles in the food.

This limited time offering will only be available at participating Popeyes restaurants.

nationwide. The menu will include a pickle glaze sandwich featuring chicken coated in a zesty pickle flavored glaze, bone in and boneless wings tossed in a bold tangy pickle flavored glaze. Is it chicken sandwich? Yes. My bone's gone. And fried pickles served with a side of creamy ranch dipping sauce. Pickles and chicken work well. Yeah, it does. I'm curious to taste this because Chick-fil-A kind of

Pickle juice is part of their ingredients. They marinate it. Yeah, they marinate it. So I wonder if this would be reminiscent. I don't get to Popeye's. I don't get to Chick-fil-A that often. And I do love the food. I love that chicken from Popeye's. Also, some drinks. Popeye's will be selling a tangy, sweet, yet savory lemonade that's infused with real pickle juice.

Making for, quote, a surprisingly addictive sip that pairs perfectly with every item on the menu. Yeah, I watched a reel where this girl taste tested everything, which I'm kind of over watching people bite into something and go, mmm. I hate it. Same people did that stuff like eating Tide Pods. Just watch Preston. But I trust him. He's not doing it for the camera. So when people do that online tasting, mmm, oh, what are you going to do? Stop it. Sorry.

yeah i always think of you kathy when i eat because i was doing it last night made a great steak my dinner i had a bite and i was just like i just it's i love great flavor i'm gonna shoot i emote wait speaking of chick-fil-a i ate at cantina feliz which used to be in fort washington and they've moved to ambler they're on main street and ambler and they have a uh what was it called like i think it's called chick-fil-a's tacos and it's

chicken tacos, but they make their version of like Chick-fil-A's sauce and all of that. It was delicious. It was so good. I like just the description sounded good. Steve, it was so good. Really? Yeah. All right. I love chicken tacos. All right. Let's see if you know what movie this is from. Want a Twinkie King's coffee? Say please. All right. Do we have a Zoomer, guys, who's ready to answer? All right. We will go next to Ryan. Hey, Ryan. Morning, bud.

Hey, good morning, Gadzooks, guys. Gadzooks, sir. All right, name the movie. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Yes. Cut it, X. Hold on, buddy. Got a $50 Acme Markets gift card. Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors. Congratulations to you, my friend. All right, we have one more clip and one more story, and let's see if you know what this Twinkie clip is from. It became quickly apparent, however, that he did have one weakness.

What are we doing here? Well, take a look. It's a goddamn hostess truck. Yeah, I see that. A hostess truck. So what? I could use a Twinkie. All right. What movie is that from? Text the word Zoom. You know what to do now. All right. One more story. Then we are done. And you know what? I'm going to go ahead and go with this one because of the subject of that film, which I'm not going to identify. We'll wait for a caller. But this has ties to that. Ties to that.

So, coffee lovers and zombie fans can unite. The Last of Us, the TV show, has teamed up with mushroom-centric coffee brand Four Sigmatic to drop a new brew that is made with real cordyceps, which is the very fungus that caused the apocalypse on the show The Last of Us.

It actually has it infused in it. I don't doubt that, you know, and it could be a good taste. Yeah, so it says don't... It makes you a mindless automaton. It says, don't worry, the Last of Us X4 Sigmatic Coffee won't turn you into a clicker. It's actually packed with brain-boosting nutrients. Lion's Mane, it says, and B12. I assume Lion's Mane is a plant. It's a mushroom. Okay. Okay.

And it's available on Dark Roast or Ground for $19.99. I never knew that lion's mane was a mushroom. You know what? They have interesting names. So Carter...

got way into mushrooms. He gets into these things. Right. And then he runs... He's like you. And so he was always telling me about the different names and types of fungi. And we would walk around and, you know, we would go take hikes and things and he would start to point out. He's like, oh, these are turkey feathers, you know, and blah, blah, blah. And he would start, you know... It's like band names. Yeah, totally. Yeah. That's anthrax. There's a lion's mane. Did he know which ones were edible when you go hiking and stuff? Not...

Not confidently enough. Yeah, it's a... You eat the tat. Well, it's a crapshoot. I mean, you can... If you get it wrong, you're in trouble. I discouraged him from that. That's smart. Because it's just, man, one mistake... It can be lethal. And you die. That woman prepared... I mean, we found out she did it on purpose after the fact, but I think she killed half her friends.

her family, feeding them poisonous mushrooms. Is that in Australia? It's in Australia, yeah. So it's available on dark roast or ground for $19.99. This fungi-fued coffee can be bought online now and is heading to store shelves in the next few weeks. So the new season debuts on April 13th. So if you want to order this ahead of time,

You can do it online. It's a cool idea. And maybe get that. Yeah. And you might love the coffee, too. Who knows? All right. Let's play this clip one more time and take a zoomer and see if we can get an answer. Here we go. What is this from? It became quickly apparent, however, that he did have one weakness. What are we doing here? Well, take a look. It's a goddamn hostess truck. Yeah, I see that. A hostess truck. So what? I could use a Twinkie. All right. We go to Amy joining us this morning. Hi there, Amy.

Good morning. All right, Amy, you know what movie that is. What is it? It's Zombieland. Yeah. Zombieland. Hold on, Amy. You just netted a $50 Acme Markets gift card. Hungry and in a hurry, Acme's Flash Grocery Delivery or Pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. Fast, fresh, and right to your door. Acme Fresh Foods.

local flavors. So congratulations, Amy. Hang on the line. We'll get your information. And that's all the food news I have for you today, friends. Thank you, Steve Morrison, guest commentator today. Oh, my pleasure. Great seeing you all in person. And may you dive more into your sushi journey, my friend. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. We have Bizarre Files stories and yet another announcement to share with you. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, let's make it Friday official. No sad, no sad, no sad, no sad, no sad, no sad, no sad.

Hey, y'all. WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Final.

Brought to you by Sequoia Outback. Stop in for their annual Spring in the Sequoia sale going on now on Route 309 in Hatfield or at Decksupplies.com. You can experience the ultimate in outdoor living at Sequoia Outback. And by the way, we have an announcement right after the bizarre file. So let's get to the first story. A 50-year-old man has appeared in court after being charged as...

A chicken thief. Chicken thief. This is true. A Port Orchard, Washington man allegedly violated an order of protection by breaking into his ex-girlfriend's house and then stealing her chicken.

The call for help came in the early morning of March 29th from a woman who said that her former boyfriend invaded her home and snatched her pet chicken named Polly. Where's my chicken? He allegedly screamed, I've got Polly, several times before running away, chicken in hand. After a brief but intense search, authorities found the man hiding in the woods.

Body cam footage shows the man hiding in bushes as police approach him at gunpoint. Steve, they had to bring in a hostage negotiator from KISS to actually talk him out of it. This criminal. So he can be heard yelling, don't hurt my chicken. Don't you dare choke that chicken. As the deputy quietly or quickly reassures him, I won't hurt your chicken.

Responding deputies allowed the man to place Polly safely in a patrol vehicle before taking him into custody and charging him with residential burglary and violating a court order of protection.

A county jail record showed that the man actually had only been released from custody less than three hours before the incident. And then turns right around and kidnaps a chicken? And steals the chicken. God damn it. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for the burglary and a year and some fines for violating a court order. The mayor of North Dakota, of a North Dakota city, promptly resigned after texting a city attorney a video of himself saying,

spanking it on his lunch break, which he claims was sent by accident. Another chicken choker. Yeah. The now former mayor of Minnit, North Dakota, Tom Ross. Look what I can do.

Pulled himself out of office Wednesday. I have something I have to do. After a short sexual harassment investigation into the lewd video he sent to a female city attorney in January. Ross said in a statement, I do take responsibility for the mistake. I tried to immediately correct it and was unable. He tried to immediately correct it. Stop!

Yeah. The decision I made falls in line with all of my work on behalf of the city of Minut. I put my heart and soul into this community. Into that pleasure. Ross tried to put the jack back in the box, explaining that...

to the woman that he recorded the sexy video for his girlfriend on his lunch break and requested the attorney delete the smut and keep the entire incident between the two of them. He later told city investigators that his girlfriend's name also begins with the letter C

Ah, that's the problem. Which is why the vulgar vid was mistakenly sent to a contact saved as city attorney. Show me the woman who would like receiving that video. Stahlheim filed an official harassment report two weeks later asking for a formal apology from the mayor requesting he consider resigning. Look, my boyfriend's always thinking of me. The investigation found that Ross directly caused Stahlheim, uh,

inability to work in an environment free from unreasonable sexual harassment created an offensive work environment. They will now have 15 days in which residents can petition to hold a special election or they will reappoint a new one. Have you ever made the mistake of hitting reply all when you have your self-pleasuring videos up on the company email? Not yet. Oh, it's so embarrassing.

In Washington State, the Linwood Police Department says its officers arrested 17 shoplifters in one day, all at the same store. On March 29th, officers and detectives conducted a special retail theft emphasis at...

at a store called Fred Meyer. And detectives say they saw countless people confidently shopping, loading up shopping carts, and then walking directly out of the store with a full cart. The department says that people made no effort to try and hide the items that they were stealing.

Over half the individuals arrested did not live in the city of Linwood. And in February, police arrested 14 people in a six-hour special emphasis targeting retail theft at that same store. No security guard? Nobody's standing up front to check receipts and stuff like that? Not sure.

All right, here's a cute story. These days, love is in the air at elementary schools. As even kids that young have been known to say that they're quote-unquote dating. Most parents think it's cute and harmless, so they don't worry too much about their little ones having a crush on a classmate. But one mom had to get involved when her first grader came home with an expensive piece of jewelry from her new boyfriend. Allie Phillips recently shared the funny story on TikTok.

after her daughter returned from school with the news that she had a new guy in her life. The little girl previously had the same boyfriend, Brandon, since kindergarten, and they were even planning to get married one day. But that all changed when the girl's classmate, Trevor, asked her to be his girlfriend and gave her a ring to seal the deal. Not a ring pop or a plastic toy one. This was a real golden diamond ring. Oh, my God.

So in the clip, the mom says she broke up with Brandon, her kindergarten boyfriend of almost a year for Trevor, who just rolled up with the ring.

Knowing it must be someone's ring, she reached out on Facebook to see who might know Trevor. And soon his mom responded. And it turns out the kid had swiped the ring from his great-grandma during a recent visit. And the family had no idea. And it's now being returned to her. And hopefully Trevor has learned not to give away family heirlooms. Sweetie, you've got to lock this kid down. And it's an engagement ring. It's a beautiful ring. Yeah. All right. And there you go. That is what I have.

in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right, it's announcement time, people. And we have a guest who is here to talk about this particular announcement. We are excited for the return of the I bleed for Preston and Steve Blood Drive. So it is going to happen yet again.

And we are excited to return once again to a couple of locations. Now, we have a new twist on it this year. It's going to be over the course of two days. And scheduling is why we had to make this happen this way. Sometimes you got to do it. So Thursday, June 12th at Live Casino and Hotel Philadelphia. And then Friday, June 13th at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks. We've been at both of those locations for the past few years.

We've usually done them on the same day, but because of scheduling, we have to do one on Thursday and one on Friday. But you can schedule your appointment now on the Red Cross Blood Donor app or by visiting redcrossblood.org. Use the sponsor code WMMR to get all the information. And we have here to talk about this this morning the CEO of the local Red Cross. Please welcome Jennifer Graham. Hey!

Good morning. Hi, how you doing, Jennifer? Awesome. It is good to see you. CEO. We got the big cheese here. All right, so we have June 12th and June 13th, and part of this is for us to get out in

in advance so people are still eligible if they want to donate. And I believe, is it 56 days? It's 56 days for a regular whole blood donation. 112 if you do our Power Reds. Okay. And you will be collecting Power Reds at our blood drive as well, correct? We sure will. People always do that. Yes. So the last day that you can donate blood and still be eligible to do so again is April 17th. All right. It's my wife's birthday. If you want to schedule this now, you've got a couple of weeks to play with here.

Uh, and you can, uh, you can get in that donation and then do it again. So if you're a regular donor or if you want to your first time kickoff, go to that one and, you know, take it out for a test drive and then come to our blood drive. You can do it that way as well. Uh, so by the way, so over two days, this actually might be, this might be more convenient for you and the volunteers, right?

Yes, certainly. And it will help us maintain that safe and stable blood supply, having a couple of days of collection being sponsored by Preston & Steve. Listen, we're happy to give up the safety if it means breaking a record. That's okay. Well, you know, technically if it's falling, so we're running it one day. If it's within a 24-hour period, they both sit within the same...

Absolutely. Because we do like to look at how much we collect, but I get it. And sometimes you just can't get it done. Well, your blood drive is legendary no matter what. So we'll be fine. By the way, I can judge by the amount of bombardment I get from the Red Cross as far as need. And we're just getting, I'm getting...

tons constantly. So I assume we are at really critical need right now, correct? Yes, absolutely. So the Red Cross supplies about 40% of the nation's blood supply. And we want to make sure your blood drive is right before the kickoff of summer. But the need for blood doesn't take a holiday, doesn't take a vacation, doesn't go on summer break. So making sure that we've got that nice supply at all times is critical.

You also think about right now, we have all those storms that happen right in our own region. That's right. Right now, Missouri, Ohio Valley, Tennessee, they're being impacted by major storms. And right now, they're worrying about shelter and food. They're not worrying about collecting blood. So the benefit of having a national supply is that we have the ability to support other regions if needed. What kind of inroads are being made as far as because it is an ephemeral thing, a blood supply, but...

lengthening the amount of time it can be stored, is that making any sort of progress? What is the average length of time that blood can be stored for use?

So it really depends on the type of product that we collect, right? So you have your regular transfusion of red cells, people that need those in emergencies and traumas. And you think about that trauma patient that comes in and before they're cross-typed and matched, they're getting that O negative blood, that universal donor. You think about that college student who has sickle cell disease, right? And they're waiting for that transfusion that's going to ease that burden of pain. Most of those red cell products last about 42 days.

And then you also have a colleague of ours, their son is going through cancer treatment right now and they're receiving platelet transfusions. But those only last three to five days. Wow. Okay. Yes. I didn't know. I knew that there's a fairly quick turnaround, but I didn't know that fast. Right. Okay. And that's why the constant need. That's why the constant need. And while technology and innovation is always out there, there's not enough time.

truly on the shelves for us to really kind of stockpile it all begins and ends with your donation they can break it into different things and get as many as 40 days for certain aspects of it but whatever it is the turnover is constant absolutely jim one of the things we like to drive home is for people to check out the um uh requirements ahead of time and uh there's information that you can fill out before you go for your appointment to make things move a

And it may be things that you haven't thought of. What are some of the more common reasons that people aren't eligible when they sign up to donate? Blood pressure may be too high, but we check your blood pressure that morning. Your iron may be too low. You may take a medication that, you know, excludes you from being able to donate at that time. But certainly we encourage people to look ahead of time to see their eligibility.

to make sure that they can come in and give. And then we do a health history check day of to make sure that you're ready to go that day. Yeah. And then there's travel restrictions. There are some travel restrictions, but they keep on changing a bit. So we certainly encourage people to go to RedCrossBlood.org to take a look at the current list and certainly call as well if they have any questions. So by doing that too, you...

Listen, we're looking to maximize as many appointments as we can. Listen, if you show up, a lot of times people have low iron or whatever. It's understandable. You made the effort. That's all that matters. But if we can make sure that you're ahead of time, do all the things you can to make sure you'll be eligible, that'd be great. I will say one thing, too. You want to make sure that this is...

You have about 10% of donors that come into your drive are first-time donors. Yeah. Giving for the, you know, really the very first time. And they could be somebody who just turned 16 or 17. They're coming with a parent. Or they're in their 40s or 50s and they said, I want to give this year. Right. We want to make sure that people come in. It's opposite from when, you know, fasting for a blood test. You want to make sure you come in well hydrated. Right. And that you've eaten. Have those Twinkies before you come in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, you know, make sure that you are full and hydrated.

And to that point, after your blood donation, you're going to get some kick-ass cookies. Lorna Dunes. Lorna Dunes. Apple juice. Sometimes famous Amos I've had. Yeah, it's all cool. A nice variety of snacks. Excellent. All right, so you can do this now. You can get signed up right now from what I understand. If you go to redcrossblood.org or if you have the app, it's even easier to do it on there. And use the sponsor code. Just type in WMMR.

And you will be able to track that down. So I'm going to reiterate this information again. Thursday, June 12th, Live Casino Hotel Philadelphia. Friday, June 13th, where we will be broadcasting live from at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks. And on that Thursday at Live, I believe we'll have representation of the radio station. I'm not 100% sure, but usually Pierre does a live broadcast. Yeah.

And Brent Porsche will do a live broadcast. So we'll get those details to you soon. But you can make this now. And we want to get this out in advance so that you can donate before. And the deadline on that is April 17th. So that will...

allow you to still come in and be a part of it. So I'm not sure if this is true or not, but is this the first time we've ever done a blood drive on a Friday the 13th? Oh, yes. It's very appropriate. There's a lot of bloodletting at Camp Crystal Lake. We've been doing it for over 20 years. Maybe. Preston, are we going to go for a...

another world record in the munchkin toss? We have to. Yeah. Please. I mean, it's become tradition now. It was amazing. My arm gave out on me last time we were trying so many times. But we did it. We'll give it a shot. And Jen, is there... If people would like to be a part of the Red Cross, they can also go to redcrossblood.org? Redcross.org. Just Red Cross. Redcross.org. There's lots of ways to get involved. Okay. Awesome. Well, we thank you guys. Listen, we know...

listen, it's obviously what you need, but it's also a big operation and a, uh, a couple of now two days that are going to take a lot of people, a lot of moving parts. So thank you for doing what you do. Thank you. All right. We got it. All right, Jen. Thank you. The red cross and the blood drive is on folks. So I would say go to Preston, steve.com or WMMR.com, but there might be some issues with the website. It's in the same box with our telephones. Uh, so, uh,

Just go to redcrossblood.org. We're going to take a break. We'll come back. And Luis J. Gomez performing at Punchline. He'll be joining us. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thanks, guys. So, next guest, got a couple gigs in town tonight, tomorrow night at Punchline Philly. Two shows each night, 7 and 9, 15. And, of course, you can get those tickets at punchlinephilly.com. Please welcome Louis J. Gomez. Joining us via Zoom. What's up, man? What's going on, guys? How are you? We're doing well. Thanks for coming on this morning.

I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on. Thanks for helping me try to sell some more tickets. Let's go, Philly. That's what we do, brother. Hey, listen, we know you're good friends with one of our friends, Big Jay Oakerson. You guys are tight, Legion of Skanks and all that good stuff. So do you, I know you have fans here in Philly, but by osmosis through Big Jay, do you also have an even bigger following in the Philly area? No.

Uh, no, I wish I did. That son of a bitch is not putting... We were just talking, Lewis, about the time that you, uh, the dude rushed him, I think it was at Souljoes or whatever, and he told the story, man, and you were like a Marvel hero. You jumped in and interceded, so he owes you. Well, you know, that is, you know...

You know, what is the statute of limitations on that story? I would say that we give the guy a nice talking to, as we would say. If you watch the video, what's kind of funny is because I was so out of shape at the time, the guy grabbed Jay's legs and I saw it happening. And I'm running like in slow motion, not because it's like dramatic, just because I'm slow. And I try to kick the guy, but I missed him. I

I missed the guy, and then we all jumped off a stage, and he pulled Big Jay on top of him, and Big Jay fell on top of him like a refrigerator falling over on a child. The guy did more damage to himself with Big Jay's fat body than Big Jay. When we first started, Jay was, I think he's a slighter image of himself these days. He's lost a lot of weight. When he first started coming in here, he was much bigger. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Have you ever been able to...

Because obviously you do jujitsu and stuff like that. You can handle yourself. Have you ever tried to interest him in anything like that? Or is that a, that ain't going to happen?

Jay is a lazy piece of crap. There's no getting Jay to do jujitsu. He just bought a house in Jersey now and he's got a gym in it. I promise you right now, all the weights are just going to collect dust. He's going to say dirty words to his weights. He's going to hang his laundry out.

Well, you're coming in town. You're not here yet, but you're getting in later today. Is that the story? Yeah, I'm getting in later today. I got a final... My podcast, Lewis and Zach, is ending today, so we're doing a final farewell show. It's a shame. I'm just very busy. My son's getting out of school in a few weeks, and I just want to be able to spend some time with him. I'm touring so much. I do...

Legion of Skanks with Big J. We do Story Wars together, which is a really new popular podcast that me and Big J do. And then me, you probably know these guys too. I do another super show with Robert Kelly, Dan Soder, and Joe List. Love them all. Love them all. Hey, listen. We were actually just talking about Dan Soder this morning because the trailer for the Megan 2.0 came out. He is not credited in this movie, but...

I swear to God, I watched his head get twisted off in this trailer. Can you confirm or deny whether or not he is in this movie? I didn't see the trailer. Oh, man. Is there any way we can share this with him? I would love to see it. Okay. I hope he gets his head really twisted off, to be honest. For real. It's a big head, by the way. It's a big head. It's huge. You need a few people to twist his giant head off. Yeah.

I got to commend you, Lewis. You know, you you are a classic take the bull by the horns kind of guy with with the podcasting and setting up the studio and and having a lot of foresight with this stuff. Did you have one of those epiphany moments where you said, let me get out ahead of this? Or how did it come to be that you were you were kind of the one leading the charge on a lot of this?

Yeah, I've been podcasting for a very long time, maybe 16 years or so. Yeah, you're one of the first names that popped up in all this. Yeah, yeah. We started our studio network. It'll be nearly a decade now that we actually started the network, Cast Digital.

And yeah, I mean, we were podcasting before there was a cancel culture. Like people are always like, oh my God, Legion of Skanks, you guys are crazy. You said all that stuff. You're like, well, no, no, no. We didn't know the way the internet was going to work. If I knew the way the internet was going to work, I wouldn't have said any of the things that we said at the beginning of our careers. But yeah, look, I'm always the guy that, you know, I...

I've never been an industry darling. I've never been a guy that was sort of like getting all the big things. And I did a lot of stuff. I did Just for Laughs and I did Last Comic Standing and I did a lot of things you're supposed to do as a young comedian. And none of those things ever materialized into anything the way that podcasting and building my own audience did. So yeah, as soon as I had an opportunity to do this with my partner, Ralph Sutton, we created Gas Digital. We created Skank Fest, which is the biggest comedy festival in the country as well.

That's been going on for eight years now. And yeah, instead of waiting for people to hand me things, I just make them myself. Do you recall one moment where you thought to yourself where you could kind of took a deep breath and realized your autonomy because of all the work you'd put in? Was there one moment that you can recall where you said, OK, I'm pulling all the levers now?

It was about three days ago. It's three days ago. About three days ago. I was like, you know what? I think I'm going to be okay. You never quite lose that. When they invited me on President Steve, I was like, you know what? I think I've made it at this point. Well, it's funny. We were talking about this. They're doing this tribute show to Joan Rivers. And I always bring this up, man, because she had this documentary a couple years before she died about her. And it showed her going through her...

her gigs that were up. And even at that point in her career, man, when she would see an empty date or something like that, she would freak out. So I guess it's something you never lose, right? Especially in your line of work, even with the podcast, even with the network, even with all that stuff. If you're a touring working comedian, does that still give you agita when you see empty spots on the calendar?

We're just desperate for attention. That's all it is. Our parents didn't hug us enough. We don't get enough attention from our wives and kids at home. So we need a bunch of strangers to validate who we are and that we're actually great. We're narcissists, guys. I know you've had a lot of comics on the show. You do realize the through line here is we're all narcissists and we think and talk about ourselves all day and every day. And that's why I could podcast for 13 hours a week. I know.

We've detected that. Lewis, speaking of narcissists, something that really fascinated me was you guys did a roundtable. It was you and Shane Gillis and the douchebag Martin Shkreli. And Martin kind of came after Shane a little bit. And I thought that you and Jay did a good job of keeping sort of the comedy going. But Shane seemed like he wanted to challenge Martin back. And I just watched it on YouTube. So I don't know what it was like being in that room. What was it like for you?

You know, it's all in good fun. We don't bring anybody on to the podcast to make them look dumb or to try to, you know, try to like we bring them on even if they're a horrible person. We do try to give them the opportunity to present themselves in the best light. So Shkreli, he, you know, he plays the villain. He likes being the villain. He does that online. You know, he did it so much that he went to jail. Yeah.

And, you know, so Shane wasn't having any of it. You know, Shane's obviously just always keeps it real and so hilarious. You know, what a brilliant comic. And, you know, Shane also in a very funny way trashed him. It did get a little heated between them. But, you know, the reality was it felt like a little bit of a show there and they were both sort of putting on. I see.

their ground. But yeah, Shkreli, he was cool. He was cool enough. He actually held his own with a bunch of professional comedians that have been doing this for a really long time. So I got to give him a little bit of credit for that. A long time ago, the notion of bringing on someone that we were just going to assassinate on air, we...

disabused ourselves of that idea because if we think someone's a scumbag, why are we wasting our time with bringing them on, right? So it's better to get an interview with someone you may not see eye to eye on or with and engage that way. You're going to get better content because the low-hanging fruit thing never works. Yeah, well, he's got an interesting story, interesting guy, you know, and at the end of the day, like,

I just don't really care about the world that much. I'm not a political guy. To each his own. If you're a right-winger, left-winger in the middle, if you're

I don't really care. I don't judge people based off of sort of their political beliefs or anything like that. Like I have, I'm friends with every comic. I don't care what their background is and sort of where they came from, or if you can sit down and just have a beer and talk some crap and, you know, smoke a joint with us.

we're probably willing to have that conversation with you. When people try to shoehorn it in, then it gets annoying, and then our audience kind of eviscerates them because our audience can always smell the grifters, you know? Yeah, no, absolutely. Let me ask you, and we talk about sort of the way everything old is new again. I keep bringing this topic up because you have so many podcasts. You have all of this going on, but we're talking about the world of influencers and how...

Like, I've drawn the analogy that when Uncle Miltie was on and there were only, you know, five or six other shows or whatever, three shows, it was easy. It was not saying he wasn't a legend, didn't deserve his legend. But now everything is, there's such a glut of stuff that really the same determining factors are as important as ever. Can you, are you talented? Can you engage? Are you a conversationalist? Are you seeing...

I guess the gold rush days passing by and we're getting more of a correction towards the people who can really do this? Yeah, I think, you know, podcasting for the most part, you know, obviously it is still very popular. But I think the format of sort of everyone was doing their own version of radio, right? Where a few guys are talking on microphone and talking about the same exact subjects that everybody else was talking about.

I think those days are sort of passing us by, right? We started this podcast, Story Wars, which is a game show. Me and Big Jay host it, and it's really funny. It's getting very, very popular, and it's a format, and it's a little different than three or four guys talking about the same exact subject that everybody else is.

You know, you're playing a game. We submit stories. We're busting balls. It is a much different show than truly anything else that's out there. And I think that's going to be the future of sort of podcasting as I know it. I mean, Kill Tony is a massive, massive show. There's a show, Are You Garbage? Those guys are from out in Philly originally as well. Yeah, they're great.

great, hilarious guys. But these formatted type shows, I think, are gaining a little bit more traction. And I think we're going to see more and more of that. So more of a unique spin on what everyone's doing because it was, you know, 100,000 shows that were doing the exact same thing. And I'm sure in radio, you guys know there are how many morning shows that you're like, they're just like the other ones, you know? The great ones obviously stand out and the cream rises to the top. But, you know,

it becomes oversaturated. And I think, once again, the cream just rises to the top. The great ones will stand out and the people that are creative and unique will sort of get pushed to the forefront. Yeah, agreed. It was fun, Louis, because a little while back we had heard, it was a podcast that was promoting, hey, we're going to have this thing

thing where we're going to be live and available to talk to you live while this is actually happening and take your phone calls and we're like, oh, you mean radio? Something we've been doing for 27 years over here? Listen, to go back for a second though, you mentioned your son and wanted to be able to spend more time with him this summer. How old is he first of all? He's 12 years old. Oh, wow. That's a good time. Great age. So, they

you know, he's got the full summer off. You're going to plan anything special to do to spend time? Yeah, we always travel somewhere. Usually him and I just do a father-son trip every year. Oh, that's great. We always pick a new place just me and him to go. This year we're doing the whole family though. We, I, I,

We didn't do a family vacation this winter, so I'm bringing my aunt, who's 87 years old, to Italy. I brought my son to Italy like three years ago, just me and him. We went to Rome and Ciccotere. Damn, you did big trips. Yeah, I like traveling. I waste all of my money on traveling. That's not a waste. That's not a waste. Traveling and good food. Well, it's memories. You create memories with your family. They'll never go away. He'll have them forever. Sure, he's not going to be able to go to college, but that's okay. He's got memories of Las Vegas with his father. Yeah, yeah.

My father, he passed away just at turn 95, and he'd recorded a whole bunch of audio about his life. It's okay. And the thing that he stressed, Lewis, and so he said, above all else, if you can, travel. He loved it, and that fed his soul. And I have to make up ground for that. So I think taking your kid to Italy and all that stuff, that's great. Now, the question is, do you travel well?

I'm great. I'm, I'm really great at traveling in the beginning. I wasn't in the beginning. It was me running late and me, you know, freaking out on TSA and the amount of times that I've almost been not allowed to enter an airplane. You just get caught. You're like, your pants are down. You're like, I can do nothing. All I can do is just take it on the chin from this TSA employee and have them talk down to me. Cause you have to get where you're going. Um,

But I've gotten pretty good. Once you do it enough, it's just like tying your shoes. You don't think about tying your shoes. So now I don't think about taking off my shoes or my belt or going through the scanners. So I'm pretty good at packing. I pack usually. I literally, this is how crazy I am. I order the Uber and then I start packing. Oh my God. No. I couldn't. I couldn't.

So I like to be exactly on time for things. I was two minutes late to this interview, but that's why, because I tried to be exactly at 820. I try to just click the button when it goes in. And if anything goes wrong, now it's messed up. And now I'm freaking out. Now I'm yelling at a cab driver. Now I'm freaking out on somebody in the street that I bumped into.

So it's a lot of my own ADHD that kind of causes this chaotic energy that I have. But it's so funny. My buddy, Zach Miko, who I do the Lewis and Zach show with, he described it as he's like, Lewis likes to do things like he was starting a comedy special. You remember the old comedy specials would start where the guy would leave the building, get into the car, walk out of the car, and then go in. It's like, welcome, Louis C.K. That's how I live my life every single day.

It's no way to live. It actually gives you a lot of anxiety. Yeah, but when you're packing for a vacation or something along those lines, I like to be a little bit ahead of time. I like to have everything perfect just waiting for me so when I roll out of bed, all my stuff is right there. Now, Louis, I just did a trip a couple of weeks ago where I pack my underwear as if I'm going to crap myself twice a day every single day. And for the first time ever, I packed...

perfect amount of underwear. The underwear that I put on the day I was leaving to come home. This is a morning show. This is getting sexy now. I know. But I was so amazed and so impressed because it was an extended trip. It was like a 10-day trip and I packed the perfect amount of underwear, which I've never done before. Do you set personal packing goals like that as well, Lewis, to make sure in case you crap yourself twice a day?

Well, I work out a lot when I'm on the road. So I always have to pack like double of everything. And then I'm walking around with a wet, smelly bag inside of my bag. It's horrible. You don't want to travel. You don't want to travel with you. Do you do laundry on the road? Sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. If it's a long enough of a trip, there's got to be like an Uber for laundry, right? I have no idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. There probably is 10 services like this, but I've never been able to muster the energy to, to use my thumbs for 10 seconds and find one. I always instead freak out and spend a hundred dollars on laundry at the hotel or, you know, sometimes, sometimes you say, if you're staying at a crappy enough Hampton Inn style place, they'll have washers and dryers in the hallway that you get. It's crazy. If you, if you get this hotel to do laundry, sometimes I remember, I forget what hotel I was at is maybe Preston. We were in Chicago for the, uh,

Radio Hall of Fame. But I had something cleaned and I'm like, for Christ's sake, I could have bought a small car for this. It was ridiculous. It took $120 to get four pieces of wood. Yeah, it was an eye-opener. Louis, speaking of travel, when you do Philly shows, how do you get back and forth? Do you do train? No, I drive. And I am a bad driver, just so you know. Wow. No, it's not good. I moved from New York City to New Jersey in 2020.

Right during the pandemic. And I bought a car. I was like, you know what? I'm going to buy an Audi. You know, I'm Puerto Rican. And I had to get an Audi. I spent $75,000 on a car that I crashed five times. I totaled it just before Christmas. Oh, man. My insurance was $1,700 per month. Jesus. And then how much did you pay for parking that thing in New York? Oh, New York? It's crazy. I mean, probably $50, $60 a day. Okay.

That's not even using a garage. That's driving around the block trying to find a spot. Wow. It's just gas. Maybe you should try the train. I can get a personal driver for this.

Wow. Wow, man. All right. Well, listen, Lewis, we're just going to hit this again that you're going to be at Punchline tonight and tomorrow. There are two shows each night, 7 and 9, 15. You can get tickets through punchlinephilly.com. So we're going to urge people to go to the shows this weekend and just get into it and have a good time. So we hope you have a great... Oh, wait, Casey, you want to ask one more question? Well, yeah, I just want to go back...

We can either do this now or just encourage him to watch the Megan 2.0 trailer. We can send that over to you. I'll watch it now, yeah, if you want to throw it on real quick. All right, we're split screening it. We got to get to the bottom of this. All right, here we go. We're watching this now. There's the robot. And then Casey thinks that guy is Dan Soder. I don't think that's Dan Soder. I don't think it is. What do you think? Can you see it?

I don't see it. That's Dan Soder. I'm sorry, guys. That is absolutely positively Dan Soder. Dan Soder would have a legit credit in the movie credits and he does not because he's a working... Now I see it. Not only is that not Dan Soder, that looks nothing like Dan Soder. The woman looks more like Dan Soder. laughter

And I think he would have told you guys about it if you were in this movie. I mean, not even close. What are we talking about here? Looks more like Steve. He's right. He's right.

All right. Well, thank you for the verification. All right, man. Have a great time in Philly. It's good to talk to you, Lewis. Thank you, guys. Great times. Lewis Jay Gomez. And you can see him at Punchline this weekend, like I said, punchlinephilly.com. All right. I know we have an in-studio guest, a big one coming up, like figuratively and physically. But real quick, Kathy had this follow-up that she wanted to do. Just the other day, we were reporting on

a street in Montgomery County that they have painted the lines really, really curvy to encourage people to slow down. And we had a couple of listeners that zoomed and actually drove down the road while we had them live on the air. So we discussed that and we went back and forth about roads and so on.

And then Kathy, last night we were chatting, said, I have a follow-up on this. Yeah, I just want to give you guys an update. So, you know, when something like that happens, there's an engineer that works on that project and, you know, is assigned to that project to get that completed, that roadway. The engineer is my cousin. Shut up.

She goes, I specifically did not text you during that conversation, she said, because I did not want you to say. She goes, we got so much, you know, they got a lot of crap for it. But what she said was it wasn't finished. So the pictures and the people driving down and the news out there and everybody commenting, it wasn't finished. It's not just the lines. There's actually, there's going to be, I forget what they're called.

called but like the poles with the reflectors on them you see sometimes outside of school oh i hate those friggin things they have them all at the corners through uh in conchahawk and i see them all the time yeah those are being added so the police if you see in these videos the police put the um cones out to kind of replicate replicate it until they can finish the project but it wasn't quite finished when everybody jumped on it this is what we're talking about on lincoln

Yes. And they have so many of these that people drive down the road and they suddenly think they're in some sort of video game. Yeah. So you will have no choice but to drive along the curve. Yeah. Kathy, what's the name of the road again? I think it was when I was out on Tuesday. Acid Trip Avenue. No, something with a G. Was it Gray's Lane? Yeah, Gray's Lane, I think, might have been it. Yeah. Yeah.

She said she, you know, she had been getting like a bunch of phone calls and stuff when all of this went out. And she said, you know, she got into her car, turned the radio on. She's like, oh, and now they're talking about it. Wow. All right. Another instance where Kathy Romano has her finger on the pulse of this area, folks. So, all right. Well, that's really interesting. We'll see how much people appreciate it or not.

When they put those up. As we are taking a break, Casey gave me some stuff to give away. The band Living Color is going to be playing the Keswick Theater on Wednesday, May 14th. Tickets go on sale today in about an hour or so at 10 a.m. But we have something to give away.

And all you have to do is text the word color and you can spell it either way because the band spells it C-O-L-O-U-R. But you can also spell it C-O-L-O-R. Text that to 610-660-9333. And we've got four pairs of tickets to give away. Nice. So we might set you up with that. So do that right about now if you're interested. All right, we're going to take a break. We'll come back in a moment. Will Ospreay is going to be here from AEW Dynasty. We'll get the details about the event later.

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All right, thanks, Kat. So All Elite Wrestling has their AEW Dynasty coming up on Sunday. It will be at the Leah Chorus Center and available on pay-per-view, by the way. And we are excited to have one of the stars of the show here in our studio. Gang, Will Ospreay is here. Yes, sir. Hey!

Yes, lads. Thank you so much for having us. The aerial assassin. It's good to see you, man. God bless you, sir. Thank you very much for having me. This is crazy. I've never liked these type of facilities before, especially over in America. Like, this is crazy. Really? Oh, welcome, man. We appreciate it. Where...

Where in England are you from, by the way? I'm from Essex. I'm just outside of London, about like 45 minutes away. So, like, I can easily get in, I can easily get out, and I can avoid the traffic. So, that's the main thing. The main thing is avoiding traffic. Yeah, man. Like, no one wants to be in traffic. Especially English traffic. We're all mad all the time. We've got...

Got no time for joy anymore. Oh, man. We were in London a few years ago. We went out there to do our show. I'm so sorry. I know. Well, listen. We had a great time. The ride from the airport was freaking scary, man. And by the way, so we're running down the clock. We left the airport and we're going right on air. We're going from the airport to the show. Yeah. And we're looking at the clock. We're never going to frigging make this. We got dropped off. Remember when we had to run across the airport?

across the street. We flew all night and didn't, you know, slept as much as we could on the plane and then got there and had to do the show as soon as we got there and we were like, we're not going to make it with this traffic. That sounded like my day on Wednesday. Like I landed in Chicago, I got my boy to meet me there, drove like two hours to, is it Peoria? Peoria. Peoria. Yeah. Once again, learning all the names of America. Like it was crazy, man. So I got there and it was just like, you're wrestling. It was like, all right.

Let's go. I'm going to bring it up right now because you have the most... I was watching a couple of interviews with you and reading about you. Your amount of air hours is insane. And I jotted down some stuff.

January and February, 136 hours in the air. Do you want to see the new one? Yeah, please. So, I mean, this is crazy. So, yeah, I still live in the UK. I travel every single week. Wow. So, this is April now. I haven't put in the one traveling over here. So, total time in the air this year is 211 hours and 53 minutes. This year? This year. Just a couple months? It's just turned April. Yeah, man. Oh, my God.

Yeah, I don't plan on moving here, guys. I apologize. I've got a great life over in England. You love your home. I love England. I love my missus. I love my little boy. I just don't want to uproot him. I love it over here. No, it's very commendable. But you come here for all fan things. You're very fan accessible. Yeah. And you love this. But I have to ask you, so when you're traveling that much...

You have to own compression socks and stuff. Of course, yeah, mate. I take care of my body the best I can. I take aspirin just to thin my blood to allow everything to go through. I got my compression socks. I lay down most of the time. I wake up every few hours just to do some stretching. I look like a psycho sometimes, mate. I'm like, I'm in the aisle. I'm like doing my deep sumo squats. Because you have to.

People have died from deep vein thrombosis. Yeah, man. That was a big fear for me. So that's the one thing I do my best. I go get my blood looked at all the time just to ensure my health and safety, man. Because I want to do this for a long time. You're really squatting in the aisle of the plane? Yeah.

A couple of the biddies as well, right? Because I travel business class. I don't think you guys know, right? But like, they look at me and they go like, what is he doing here? Because I travel comfy, bro. I've got my Zubers on, mate. Like, I'm walking up and down the aisle, they go, what is he doing back here? Yeah.

Send him back there with the commoners, they say, but I'm here. I'm here. No, you have to. People don't realize a long-term travel. My dad traveled for many years, traveling back and forth to Dallas every week from New York, and he picked up all those tricks. I mean, you have to. It's...

And your body is your machine. It's what you're doing. You can't take any compromises with that. No, especially with the style that I wrestle with in AEW. Like, I am very explosive. I go for it all the time. So I do my best to look after my body all the time. So I was reading that, you know, you're known for your aerial, your high-flying stuff. You like to get up in the air and boom, man, land.

Um, when you were a kid, were you the guy that was jumping off the roof of the house and stuff like that? Yes, I was. So I've got a funny story in school. My mom would always like get phone calls all the time. So like my auntie would get calls, oh Imogen, she's doing so well at school. Brogan wants to be a veterinarian. Like they get all that. My head teacher would call up and go, Bill's just done a backflip off a goalpost. Yeah.

Adrenaline junkie, man. I love it. I love it. Are you a parkour guy? Yeah, I used to love parkour. That's the main reason why I love Assassin's Creed, because it had that connection to the parkour route. Me and my friends would go up London, and we would climb up scaffoldings that we weren't meant to be on, and try and just jump off and stuff. You're a gamer. You play Assassin's Creed?

Love it, man. We've got like a little sponsorship deal with them. So like the new Shadows game just came out. Just came out. And we've done like a huge entrance over in Wembley Stadium, man. It was insane. When that game first broke, oh, wow, man. We're looking at a picture of it. When that series first started, I was like, this was...

I mean, because if you've ever played the Spider-Man game as well. My guy. Same thing. To climb up a building and jump off is pretty wild. So that's cool. So I don't know if Kingsman, Taron Egerton's character is from Essex or not.

But when... Is he? Kingsman? The movie. The movie. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're picking up a little bit on his accent. A little bit of that. But also, like, when you were talking about poor Cora, just thinking that the scene where he's coming out of his flat and then... Oh, and he's running up. Yeah, brother. That's sick. That's sick, man.

That's wild. And it was... I'm sorry. But there's so many places like that in England, like cancer estates and stuff like that, where you could just climb over and just jump off stuff. It seems, Will, to me that you were born to do this. There are some wrestlers that evolve into their roles. You've been doing this since you were a kid, haven't you? I don't know if I was born to do anything, but just to put smiles on people's faces. I love what I do. I think wrestling is such a crazy little art form where just...

Anything and everything can happen. I mean, like, look, man, AEW, someone burnt someone's house down to the ground. And it was just like one of these crazy things where I was just like, man, this is such a wild place to be. And here's me, I'm just jumping off of stuff and just enjoying life. Like, I'm living in a dream, mate. A year, right, with AEW? This is my first year, yeah. And the word back, I mean, I was reading some of the fan comments. I mean, they love you. I love them. And you talk about how, I mean, honestly...

It's something that we try. We've been, you know, 27 years, you know, doing the show. You build up trust with your audience. Like your audience knows that you are going to do, you're going to be the guy jumping off whatever to give them the best experience. And has that always been your mindset from the beginning? I just want the fans to have a good time. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, I treat wrestling like a little bit of a concert. And if they're not making noise and if they're not invested, then they're not my instruments. I'm a cappella then in that case. And I can't sing, bruv.

So, like, for me, I want the audience to have a good time. And, like, I am a stunt performer. I'm a live-action Marvel movie, for God's sake. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy the presentation that I give. And it's just the stuff that I learned over in Japan and I've just brought it over here.

while we were off air, Will first asked, is there any backyard wrestling going on around here? Because I'll go do it. I won't go do it. I'll go watch it. My backyard days are long behind me, man. But like, I love backyard wrestling. Like, I used to grab around it. Like, there's a couple of American backyard wrestlers that I used to go with. There's a lad called Scott Henson that like, he's recently just passed away. God bless him. But like,

We used to communicate with all the other backyard wrestlers. There was a company over in New York, I think, called 2KW. I used to love backyard wrestling, man. I supported it thoroughly. It was huge here, and I believe it is still. Occasionally, we have a lot of wrestlers come through, and that community still exists. But I remember, and I was saying...

It was my understanding that southern part of Jersey, here in this general area, is where you'd find a lot of it. You'd mentioned Japan. Yeah. And you was about 10 years... How many years in Japan, wrestling? I'd done eight years in Japan. Eight years in Japan. Wow. So that's a bucket list destination for me. Do it. Just for the food. Just for the food, man. The food is next level, but the culture is...

It raised me, man. As a 22-year-old kid, I went over to Japan. Didn't know anything about myself. Still learning. I found out that I had ADHD while I was in Japan, which is not the best place to find out about that. Not the best, but they were patient with me, man. I was a young, immature man and I needed to do a lot of growing up.

And they allowed me to grow up in a place where it was so understanding. And they're disciplined. They're disciplined, right? Super disciplined, yes. So the one place I've heard of, well, not the one, but of the couple of places that you go to where they say the language can be formidable and finding your way around. Japan is always mentioned as one of them. Did you find that? How long before you felt like you were...

a little bit autonomous. It took like three years for me to fully understand. Like I can hold a basic conversation, but like in terms of like I can order food. Yeah. I can say like, do you know where the toilet is? But like a lot of the time it would be just learning on the job. In your opinion, are wrestling fans the same around the world? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Like Japan is so different to America. It's like,

England, a wrestling crowd, it's a night out. Everyone wants to get drunk and have a good time. I'm not saying that. America is the same thing as well. Everyone likes to get drunk, but they're more passionate and they want to see, especially AEW audience, they want to see the technique and they want to be impressed with the athleticism over here. Japan, a lot of the time they're silent, but just because they're silent doesn't mean they're not paying attention. They are paying attention to things.

such minor details that you portray and that was something that I had to learn because I came from the night out. I came from everyone singing songs and then all of a sudden they're just like watching and they're analysing every single little bit that you do and it was...

It was such a crazy experience to be a part of. I became the adopted son over there, man. That's so cool. I got to get over it. So did you embrace sumo while you were there? No, I never. I'd done a Ryogoku, which was sumo arena. We'd done that building so many times. But like, I never went to go see an actual sumo event. But like, when we would go to the gyms, the sumo wrestlers would come into the gyms and they'd be wearing the New Japan Pro Wrestling tracksuit. So I was just kind of like...

This is amazing. Yeah. And to see those big boys doing pull-ups, it was crazy. Those guys do pull-ups? Yeah, mate. You would not believe it. These ginormous men doing pull-ups. It was unreal, to say the least. That's pretty weird. Do you get to go back at all? I mean, you can't with this schedule. No, no, no. I could if I wanted to, but right now, I'm so dedicated to AEW right now, and I can't

feel the momentum shifting back to our way. And I want to be front and center. I want to be at the forefront of it. I want to strap it onto my back and run as far as I can. Give me the bull, fam. So what do you think distinguishes AEW from other wrestling companies? Because I feel like a lot of the time the other places are more drafted towards the characters and that's how they do their storytelling is by using this microphone.

And not to say that we don't, but we are very much sports-based. I would always say, like, you wouldn't watch, like, Premier League football or soccer to you guys. And it's just kind of like the show is, like, 90% of them talking and then finally they kick a ball. We are 90% wrestling and 10% less talk. It's funny you say this because years ago when we first started the show, I did a parody of wrestling at that time, which I felt was tons of talk.

tons of talk and it's great and if you have the personality a larger life that's great but it was and then very little wrestling so it's just a lot of smack talking again the pageantry and stuff is cool you're saying what you guys deliver is the nuts and bolts you're going to get the physicality yeah I think that's the thing that separates us a lot of the time because we actually put the main presentation on

on wrestling. And I think that's not done that much. It is so like alien to people where they just go like, what do you mean? You just wrestle. And it's just like, it's in the name, bruv. It's all elite wrestling. You don't come in here with like all basic wrestling. It's all elite wrestling. Right, right. You've got to be the top of the game. By the way, who's loving him saying bruv? That's right. We're 10 Lasso fans. Yeah. I get passionate. It like slips out. I love it. No, I love it. We're not. I mean,

I love the variations on the English accent. I'm kind of fascinated by whether, you know, like a Manchester accent or a Liverpudlian accent. Don't talk about the Northerners. We don't like the Northerners up there. North versus South. We got you, lads. We got you.

But we might need Birmingham. We might need them. Maybe. If we could talk them into coming over to us, we might have a chance. You'd be good, yeah. When you started off in... I assume you went to London to begin. I mean, you know, like it was the nearest metropolitan area. Yeah, I was a part of a school called London School of Lucha Libre. So I studied, like, Mexican wrestling first. Wow. So then that was... They brought the Mexican Lucha Libre style over to this place called the Resistance Gallery in Bethnal Green. My trainers were Greg Burridge and...

Gary Vanderhoon. We would have so many luchadors come over, so I would learn that style. Then I would learn the catch-as-catch can. And then I went over to Japan and then they threw me in the deep water and they beat the ever-loving cat and me. Really? So you're a combination of all that. Yeah, I think that's the way that I've managed to survive in these waters before.

Because I've just been able to go left, right and center and learn all the different styles. What did you say? Catcher's catch can? Catcher's catch can. What is that? It's just kind of like the chain wrestling. The idea of the techniques of the wrist controls and the ground style of pro wrestling. Okay. All right. What's your favorite part of it? I do love the Japanese strong style, I must say. There is something about when two men are standing in a ring and...

and they're just giving each other their best shot. A lot of the times you would just stand there opposite your opponent and you would just grit your teeth, look them in the eye and they would just give their best shot and you would receipt them back. And it was just about can you hold your footing?

can you absorb the strike and a lot of the time it would be like it would be like one two one two and then one time you'd give them one and their feet would go underneath them and you would see like oh I've got you now and to take fans on that ride of just like because they're so invested you would be like in Osaka there'd be like 5,000 people on top of you and they'd just be looking at your footwork you'd be crazy wow

Hey, I have a question about your personal life. Growing up, siblings? You have brothers and sisters? No, no brothers and sisters. My mom wanted some, but she had a series of miscarriages, unfortunately. Okay. But, like, my mom got the best. Do you know what I mean? My mom got the best. Yeah, the best. So what did mom think about her one and only child going on to the world of professional wrestling? Initially, what did she think about it? She hated it. Yeah. Because it's a pipe dream, isn't it? Yeah. Especially, like, England. Like, all the pro wrestlers that came out of England, we got...

Dynamite Kid, William Regal, British Bulldog, right? And like, so think about that. Three wrestlers off the top of my head that I can name. Not many succeeded. Not many were like the big star study names. Right. So like, how could you ever like think your son wants to be a professional wrestler? And it's just like,

I can imagine her feeling like she failed a little bit as a parent. Did she try to talk out of it? No. So my mom was always like, go pursue it, but just have a backup plan. So I was a mastic man, which was kind of like the windows. You know your windows, you got all the rubber seals around it? Yeah. That was my job. And I worked for my uncle. So I would do that. And then on the weekends, I would go wrestle.

Oh, wow. When you were in Japan for eight years, did your mom get to come over and see you? On my last Tokyo Dome, I was able to fly her out because I signed with AEW. When I was over in Japan, I was making great money. I really was, but nowhere near enough to be able to bring people along the ride with me. I would never be able to do it. It must have been tough being away from her for eight years. Yeah, man. It was horrible. I lived in Japan for two of those eight years as well, so that was a hard one, but there's

She understood that this is something that I've dreamed about as a kid. Like I had this thing when I was 14 years old. I was getting in trouble a lot in England. I was a menace to society. And so my mom had this idea to be like, how can I keep him home?

got it, I'm going to put a wrestling ring in the garden. So then that's how we started Backyard Wrestling. We would film these YouTube videos. It's all out there. It's RCWA. My backyard name was Ace Payne, if anyone wants to look it up. Ace Payne? Yeah, mate. Yes, mate. But like, I'd go out and we'd film it and then we'd find out there's a community of Backyard Wrestlers. We all started wrestling. These guys found us, brought us to the London score, literally. There I am in the red. Wow.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm so young. What are you? You're 32 now? I'm 31 now, so I was 17 at this time. So look at you, man. Young buck. So what... And so you owe this to your mom. Whoa.

Yeah, I'd show this to mum. Mum would hate it. Mum couldn't watch me wrestle for ages. But I got to bring her to Tokyo Dome, which was one of my last ones with New Japan. It was like 30,000 people in the building. And like the greatest feeling in the world was when I'd done the show and the Japanese crowd finally done the, ah, spread.

During the song. I can only imagine what that felt like for mom. I've got like a video of them all like losing mom. My mom and dad's like just absolutely loving it. And she understood that this is my home. That's awesome. Watching this video, 17 years old. Had you had training at this point? Yeah. So like I just started training. I actually had like one of my, I had one of my like first professional wrestling matches like three weeks prior to this.

But this is why I say to people all the time, we didn't have the outlet in England to go and do... It was all nightclubs, not even nightclubs, like social clubs. I would love for you guys to see some of my first indie matches because they're like, you'd be hitting the ropes and the guy would throw a clothesline so you'd have to duck him but there'd be a projection screen there as well. So like...

So like, we cultivated our own independent circuit and we almost created an indie style in the UK. So I would do this. You see that ladder as well in the background on the car? That's my car. Do you know what I mean? That's 1999 Ford Fiesta, bruv. Boy, race the motor sometimes. This is very, very kinetic.

Very still. And I'm wondering if you ever had thoughts. I know that wrestling was appealing to you, but you could have been a gymnast as well. Yeah, I could have trained for the Olympic team at one point, but it never fascinated me. I love dancing. I love the gymnastic side of things, but I'd done a couple trampolining stuff, and I couldn't be bothered with it.

Will, who did you get to be the referee and how much did you pay him? I don't know. I would have to watch it again and just be like, who is that guy? But a lot of it would be like, it wouldn't be like kind of how we do wrestling now where it's kind of like it's a show. Bang, bang, bang. We would do a match and then we'd be like, all right, who's next? And stop the cameras and then we'd be like, oh, it's Brian next. Do you know what I mean? It'd be done like that. But yeah, honestly, we would just take turns being referees. I was the referee at one point.

I've even said, like, after I'm done wrestling, I would love to be a referee. Listen, we're looking at you. Clearly, your chops are, you know, you've got to hear. I mean, you're flipping around like crazy. This is what you do right now and then some. I have to ask because so many wrestlers we talk about all the time have that just great with people. They know how to deliver. You mentioned Marvel earlier. Movies, does that, I mean, has Guy Ritchie talked to you at all? No. No.

Any interest at all? I mean, I would do it, but I'll be brutally honest with you. I can't read very well. I have always struggled with it. You're dyslexic? Very much so. But I've struggled reading. The words get jumbled up. And I just struggle so much with it. And I'm kind of embarrassed about it. I never liked public speaking. I'm nervous talking to you guys. My number one fear right now is there's a blurt out.

the F word and my guy told me don't swear don't swear as long as I sit here don't swear don't swear we have a button so we're good in case you do thank god but like no I don't really enjoy public speaking very much and like to read something if somebody handed me a script and said we need you to read this word for word like it would

terrifyingly we talk to people all the time and obviously I'm a little bit dyslexic myself so I get it I'm not profound but like Henry Winkler we were talking to you know Fonzie from your Happy Days the actor and things since then

He's very dyslexic and now he's written like 30, you know, kids books and stuff like that. I mean, yeah, so, but I get it. But I mean, you have that charisma that I think would translate on screen. I appreciate it. I mean, I'm trying my best because now that I've got like a little stepson, I'm trying my best to do some reading more with him so I can help myself. Like I read him bedtime stories and stuff like that. So I want to try my best days so that way like he's way smarter than I am. I'll be reading something and he'll be like,

No. And he'd correct me. He'd correct me, man. So I was like, shut up. What do you know? How old is he? He's six. Okay. Any wrestling moves? Nah, mate. I'll be honest with you. He's not that fascinated about it. But like, there was this one really nice moment. So we just started AEW Revolution, right? Just done the steel cage over in LA. And I jumped off the thing. Like a Spanish fly off the top of a 20-foot cage.

And I picked him up, I ain't seen him in 10 days. And he does this thing where all of his mates run and they sprint towards the game. So we're trying to play catch up. I can see his mates looking back and looking at me. They keep looking. I can't hear a word they say. And then one of his mates goes, da-da-da-da-da, cage match. And then he just turns and just goes, oh, it's just my dad. And I was just like...

I feel like that might... He's called me dad before, but it was the first time he's kind of said it amongst a bunch of people. How did that feel? Really nice. It really made me happy. If you're just tuning in, it's Will Ospreay that's joining us. AEW Dynasty is happening on Sunday at Leah Core Center.

You want to go. It's going to be a big event. Who are you wrestling? I'm wrestling Kevin Knight. So I've known Kevin since back in Japan. He showed so much promise. And I'll be honest with you. I'm known as the aerial assassin, right? As time has gone on, I've grounded myself a lot more because I need to be able to throw the chops, throw the strikes a little bit more. And I was in the ring with Kevin as a tag team. And his jumps and his aerial offense is like crazy. So I'm going to have to really hone in on that and really dissect that.

his performance as well as we go like I'm really excited to be wrestling him because he's got so much star quality about him it's spectacular I mean you were saying and it's not flippant to say it's a live stunt show I mean you're seeing stuff I mean especially the way we talk about the wrestlers of your and how you guys are all in prime shape prime athletes you may not be sumo size but you're I wish I wish I could eat anything yeah

Yeah, exactly. But no, it's amazing what you guys are able to pull off. We've all been to various matches and it's like, wow, man, especially when you see it in person, it's a whole other level. It's one of those things where we're doing multiple jobs, right? So we're trying to like

these incredible stunts and do these incredible moves but we're also like conductors as well because we're trying to make the crowd come along with us. We're wearing many hats and it's such an improvisation sometimes when you're out there so it's a lot of the times where you don't know what's going to happen and when the red light's on, man, like anything can happen at any point. Sure.

Is Will Ospreay your birth name? William Ospreay is my birth name. My mom calls me Billy. Billy, yeah. No, I was just wondering because, you know, a lot of people change their names and get into characters and you had mentioned one earlier. But were you happy to get back to being the real you? Yeah, I mean, for me, Ospreay is such a cool name because he's a bird anyway. It is, yeah. It's spelled different, but I thought that's such a cool showbiz name. And I was like, you know what, if I want to get anyone famous, I'm getting me famous. I'm getting...

I'm getting my mum's name famous, mate. Do you know the benefit is when they write the check to your name, you don't have to go in and say, no, this is really me, you know, when you're here, right? Because that could be a problem if you have a pseudonym, right? Yeah, no, but any time that was coming over here, everybody would be like, look, what are you here for? Uh...

Wow. So you're in town this weekend, and then after that, you're flying right back home? No, we're going to go to... I think it's Baltimore afterwards, right? Okay. Baltimore afterwards that, but I'm going to stick around. I'm going to go do some stuff around Philadelphia. Awesome. With all of your miles that you acquire in the air, what are the perks that you get from the airlines? I mean...

I get to use the lounge and I eat all that food. You get more than just a frigging lounge, yeah. I get a little bed. I enjoy myself. I bring my missus along all the time. They're going to have to get you a little plaque or something like that for getting you millions of miles eventually. Oh, no. I'm just some guy. They don't care. They're just kind of like, oh, thanks for flying. Give us the money all the time. It's like, oh, not my money. I have to ask you, with all those miles, how much luggage has been lost?

Delta always loses my luggage. I'm calling Delta around on this, man. They always, without fail, anytime there's a connection, they always lose it. But I will give them credit. They go above and beyond to try and find it. Can you...

you just stop losing it. I beg of you. I beg of you, man. Like, one of these days, I'm going to be like, needing my kick pads, I swear. Do you put Apple, you know, we put, we talk about putting Apple AirTags in the luggage. I should do that. I don't do it. I just, I'll be honest with you, I'm just, I,

I'll land in England and it's not even on the forefront of my mind. I want to go pick up my kid. I want to have some fun during the weekends. I get Monday and then I'm out again Tuesday. Yeah, man. Wow, you're working hard. I work super hard, man. And I wear the AEW flag on my shoulders all the time. I want to represent the company as best as I physically can because we're the underdog, man. A lot of people don't want to see AEW succeed. I do. I was sick of seeing one wrestling company dominate America. So for me to come over here

It truly is a blessing, especially coming from England. Like, this doesn't happen. I don't know anyone other than, like, maybe one other guy that still remains in his country and flies over every single week to perform to you guys and to give everything that I can. And I'm super grateful for it. And I don't take this job lightly. So I really do perform to the best of my abilities. And I want this place to be around for 50-odd years so then that way we can have a...

an option and we can have an alternative and we can have something that we can be proud to call ourselves pro wrestlers. Absolutely. A little more action in the AEW, as you said. So much more action. Nice. Way better action. Way better action. The matches are taking place on Sunday at the Lea Corris Center. It's also available on pay-per-view, but get those tickets. Go and see All Elite Wrestling.

here in Philadelphia. Will, it's great to meet you, man. Yeah, man. Thank you so much for having me, guys. The tickets are available at awtx.com. So, like, I think, honestly, there's only 1,000 left. Okay. So, like, it is rammed. Rammed, mate. So, like, get them while you still can because, honestly...

You're not going to want to miss this. This one, Dynasty last year, I faced my hero, Brian Danielson. Tore it down. Dynasty is going to have such a great event. So I hope you guys can all come. Shout out to Swerve. I hope he wins the world title. Well, I'll tell you this. I don't think they could have a better ambassador than you. God bless you, mate. So keep at it, man. Yeah, you got to come back here next time you're in Philadelphia. Anytime, boss man. Just have your finger on that button just in case. Done and done.

And you passed with flying colors. I know. I can't believe I did it. My Lord, I've done it. We'll all spray guys. Thank you kindly, lads. We're going to take a break and we'll be right back. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. New music on 93.3 WMMR, and the song is from a band called Spirit Box. I like that. And it is called Perfect Soul, and I don't know anything about that band or anything about that song, so I'm not going to tell you anything. You didn't get a chance to hear a lot of it. That sounded pretty cool. Yeah, it had a kind of...

Evanescence wouldn't be the right comparison, but it had a cool vibe to it. You hear a little River Valley vocal band in there? A little River Valley vocal band. Slight influence, but not a direct descendant of their music. But nonetheless, that's some new tunes for you to check out. Sorry I wasn't prepared. I didn't know we were going to be playing that. We're going to be aware. We're going to be aware. We're going to be aware.

It's long-ending. Let's have a final look at traffic. Kathy, what's going on this morning? 95 southbound at the airport. We still have left lane. Flooding that's happening there. Looks like the northbound side has cleared, but near 320 south on...

There's flooding in the right lane there as well. Schuylkill eastbound jams Montgomery to University westbound, slowing University to south and then City to Gladwin. 796 in Chester County still closed between Kennet-Oxford bypass and 41. That's a downed utility pole.

In Valley Forge Park, Route 23 closed between 252 and Davis Road. That's construction. Allegheny Avenue closed in the city between Frankfort and Kensington. That's demolition of the church that burned down. Blue Route southbound, flooding cleared near Villanova. In New Jersey...

It looks like we have the Whitehorse Pike at 206, an accident area, traffic being diverted around the area. And that's in both directions actually being affected with this accident. This trafficker report brought to you by Unbound.org. A girl in Kenya dreams of becoming a doctor, an elder in Guatemala dreams of being part of a community. Reach out and change their world and it will change your own. Unbound.org.

And that's your traffic on 93.3 WMMR. My thanks, Kath. Kate, you look like you want to contribute something. Well, Spirit Box is a Canadian heavy metal band originally from Victoria, British Columbia. Is Spirit Box, Steve, is that what they use on those like ghost shows? I've seen a guy hold the thing and they supposedly picks up the EVPs. They'll call it that. Yeah. And then Spirit Box is another. Yeah.

Yeah. Connotation. And I watch a lot of those shows. Presto, it kills me with those things. It's funny. We were just talking about this. So like Ghost Adventures, a lot of those shows, they'll get their things like a spirit box and...

And so this thing will help you hear a ghost talk, and then they'll turn it on and be... And he'll say, did you hear it? Like, hear what? Like, you can't develop something that gets rid of that ridiculous extra sound? My guess is it's so noisy because it's all BS and there are no ghosts talking. But I digress. Yeah. All right. I was just curious.

I just had this conversation. If he said get out of the house because I'm going to kill you, I couldn't hear it because it sounds so crappy.

Hey, the drummer's from Philly. Oh, really? Yeah. Zev Rose. The singer has a lovely voice. Yeah. Reminds me of Nelly Furtado. She's a Canadian. And they'll be in town, actually, at the Fillmore on the 14th. Oh, okay. So, in just over a week. And the drummer's Zev? Yeah, Zev Rose is the drummer's name. All right. Cool. Nice.

I know we have the bizarre file, but if I don't ask this now, I'll forget about it. Do it. Kathy had mentioned some traffic because she was delivering the traffic. And you either mentioned White Horse Pike or Black Horse Pike. White Horse. Do we know the origin of White Horse Pike and Black Horse Pike?

I'm just curious. I mean, they are roots. No, I know that, but I mean, where the name came from. Well, like, Grace Street was where they used to race horses. Well, yeah, and we have Church Road and Meeting House and Cow Path out by me, and those are kind of self-explanatory. Marissa, you look like you want to jump in. Yeah, well, according to the legacy of New Jersey's equestrian roadways...

The White Horse Pike was named for the White Horse Tavern, a popular spot in the 1800s and early 1900s. And did they just, and then why Black Horse Pike? Black Horse Pike, 1903, it was designated the route as the Blackwood Pike. All right. I was just curious if there was like a legend of the White Horse or the Black Horse or something like that. So, okay. Curious. All right. Thank you, Marissa. I appreciate that.

We can now move on to the Bizarre File. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File.

Brought to you by Natural Lawn of America. That's Steve's Lawn Care Company that keeps his lawn greener and safer for his pets. You can get free seeding every year. Call 800-FREE-SEED today. All right, this has never happened in the Bazaar File. I have two very similar stories going back to back. We'll start with this first one. I mean, sometimes I do have similar stories, but not of this nature.

The Indianapolis Zoo confirmed its president and CEO suffered an injury while feeding a chimpanzee last week. Oh, man, what happened? The zoo said that president and CEO Rob Shoemaker had his finger bitten while feeding a chimpanzee through a mesh barrier. Shoemaker received medical attention for the injury. He's recovered. The chimpanzee involved in the incident suffered no ill effects.

Oh, that tastes terrible. The zoo opened its Penny and Jock Fortune International Chimpanzee Complex in May of last year, becoming one of the largest chimpanzee habitats in the country. At the time, the zoo said it featured the complex had three indoor and outdoor living spaces and a part of a quarter mile of overhead trail. Now...

Over in Seattle, a zookeeper at Woodland Park Zoo had a serious injury to their hand after they were bitten by an orangutan. Boo! Boo!

Through a mesh barrier. So in both these cases, to me, when you're dealing, especially like with a crazed chimp, could be way worse than just having a bit finger. But it's funny that I had two different zoo stories of the exact same nature. And what differentiates them? An orange butt. Yeah, so the incident happened during a routine training session.

The staff member was immediately taken to a hospital where they were treated for the injury. Ow, my finger. It's unclear exactly what kind of injury the keeper got, but orangutans have very strong, large jaws for cracking and crushing fruits with hard, thick shells. All right, can I jump in here for a second? Yeah.

Can we make it okay to say orangutan? Because I say it and I find it hard to say orangutan. Yeah. I've always said orangutan. There's no G at the end of the word. Can we just now, it is now a rule that we're instituting that orangutan is, because I say that all the time and I know it's inaccurate, but I can't help it. It seems the right way to say it. Well, can we also get away with saying porcupine?

No, I've never said porcupine. I'm sorry. You'll get no support here. I'm not supporting you. Do you say porcupine? No, but people do. Okay. This is the orangutan initiative. You can't muscle in on it. I've never heard that. You've never heard porcupine? No. You live in the Philadelphia area. Porcupine. Porcupine. So anyway...

Orangutans are generally non-aggressive towards humans and each other, and they can often exhibit very human-like behavior. I would like to submit the Orangutan Initiative as the title of Steve's autobiography. Yes, the Orangutan Initiative. Be there with the pipe. I love that. And Jane Goodall sitting on my lap.

So the zoo said it thoroughly is investigating how this incident occurred. And the animal care managers will also evaluate protected contact barriers to determine whether any modifications are necessary. Orangutan. Steve Morrison's new book, The Orangutan Initiative. An Air France flight. We were just talking about something like this the other day to the Caribbean airport.

returned to Paris last week after a passenger could not locate their cell phone, taking the precautionary measure to avoid a safety hazard if the unattended phone overheated. Okay, yeah, we talked about it, and flying down to spring training and flying back both times, the in-flight crew admonished you that if your cell phone fell out and fell into the chair, to not, to get them to remove it.

It was the airline's second Caribbean-bound flight to turn around because of a phone since early February as the aviation industry grapples with the risk of fires sparked by lithium batteries. I have a question about lithium batteries. Yes. I have a question more specifically about vape batteries. Right. Which use, I believe, lithium batteries in there. Yes, they do.

So can we take those on planes at all? Yes, but you're not allowed to put them in your... You have to do carry-on. You have to check. It can't be checked luggage. It can't be checked luggage. You can take them. Yeah, yeah. You just can't check them. You can't check lithium batteries at all, whether they be in a vape or whatever. Okay, they made me check my orangutan. Thank you for that. What the...

Off the coast of France, the Boeing 777 turned, circled, and returned to the airport. It landed back where it started a little more than two hours after taking off. Air France did not say where on the plane the phone was lost or where it was ultimately located. They said after checks by the maintenance teams, the device was found and the aircraft was able to take off again quickly. So this has become a more full-throated effort on their part because I don't ever remember them being as successful

or at least assertive about this. It seems to be something that they are now very attuned to. Yeah, it makes sense because when those things do catch fire, they're very difficult to put out. It's like a flame. I know that some airlines will carry like a flame retardant bag in case there is a fire and they can maybe throw it in there real quick in an emergency.

Running has been a part of Antonio Rao's life for 80 years, and the 92-year-old Italian man has no plans of stopping anytime soon. This year, he completed his 30th consecutive Rome Marathon in under seven hours. He is...

92, like I said, not your average senior citizen. I drove most of the way. He lives for running and still trains 20 to 30 kilometers each week. That's amazing. Born in 1933, he ran away from his home in Calabria to Rome where when he was just 10 and has not stopped running since, he claims that he started running daily as a teenager to keep up with a friend.

And it became a huge part of his life. And he hasn't missed a single Rome Marathon in the last three decades. Wow. Well, look at the picture of this guy. He looks much younger than his age. Yeah. He said, if I can do it at this age, anyone can. I'd like to be an example of that. I can't. I have a torn MC. Yeah. Yeah, you're just a pussy. I guess so. This year, Antonio Rao crossed the finish line of the Rome Marathon in six hours, 44 minutes, and 16 seconds, actually improving on last year's performance by 10 minutes. Wow. Is anybody here? Yeah.

Finishing under seven hours is amazing for a man in his 90s, but his top achievement remains his 2023 finish when he set a new world record for his age category, which is 90 plus.

And he finished the marathon in six hours and 14 minutes to break the M90 world record by a staggering 30 minutes. And he also wants to have sex with 500 women on his OnlyFans. And why not? Why not? All right. And then we'll do one more story and we will wrap it up. Yeah, here's another one out of France. A small delicatessen shop in Cannes, France.

has been making international news headlines because of its controversial name. It is called, and Nick and I will do my best. Ma femme est un cachone.

My wife is a pig? My wife is a sow. Oh, wow. Yes, exactly. Yes, so that's the name of the restaurant. My wife is a sow? Ever since it opened in mid-January, it's been getting a lot of attention because of the name, founded by a couple of bon vivants who love good food. The shop sells all kinds of treats, from cold cuts to spirits. And a lot of people are drawn by the name. Located right across the street from my balls itch.

It sounds like an insult, but the two male co-founders swear that they have nothing against their spouses. In fact, both of theirs find the name funny. They wanted a name that attracted attention, and they definitely hit the mark with their choice. But a man who attracts some unwanted attention, as local council says that they can't have a sign up that says that. So they had to move it inside. Awful.

Well, they have like a cute little character drawn, I guess, which is so. Yeah. Okay, whatever. And there you go. That is what I have to observe for you this morning. All right. We are going to take a quick break. When we come back, we'll test your knowledge of the program today. Less in question. We'll get our trash and music news, too. So stay with us. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. 93.3 WMMR. It's Everything That Rocks, my own worst enemy. Lit. See that song performed live at the Village Pub this weekend. Yeah. Really badass band called Beer 30. Yeah, baby. That's a night.

Oh, man. Oh, man. Super long extended set. Yep. They go on at 930. 930? Yep. It's always beer 30, though, right? You're right. That's Chuck's band, by the way. Yeah. And I didn't know what the name of the band meant until just a few weeks ago. I just thought it was beer 30, like a 30-pack of beer. And I had no idea. Oh, what time is it? Oh, it's beer 30. Yeah, exactly. Now you know. Now I know. The more you know.

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261-0660-9333. That way you'll have the link ready to go if you do know the answer. And then you can click on it and we'll try to get... So we try to do the trash and then come right to the winner, which we used to be able to do on the phones. We don't have phones right now. Well, you do. I have a phone. You got it right behind you there. Stop saying that. You have a phone. I love bringing this thing over here.

It's only good for a visual to our YouTube audience, but I love bringing this over here. Give us a call. It's an old candlestick phone that Steve got me. So...

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With Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. All right, let's get filled in, get some stories. Steve, what's going on this morning? Well, Preston, Charlie Sheen's daughter, Sammy Sheen, says she and her dad are no longer on speaking terms. Sammy says the only communication they have is through the chat app on her OnlyFans page. Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen. This time, it's apparently true. Bianca Censori has reportedly left Kanye West, and the word is he wants her back.

Sensori says she can forgive a guy for leaving the toilet seat up for not often. Oh, my God. For not what? But not for being a Nazi. There you go. Oh, my God. There we go. And finally, Melinda Gates giving an update on her relationship with ex-husband Bill Gates. Melinda says despite the divorce, Bill still has a seat where he can come watch her, quote, make love to real men. Oh, jeez. And that's a Hollywood joke.

On IT. We, I don't know. Yeah, we might get somebody here. Hey, it might work. It might work. So the question that we posed to you mere moments ago on this very radio program, the frequency of 93.3 FM, we asked the question, what stripper's name was inspired by a Disney animated character? And within that amount of time, we managed to get someone here.

who's going to join in and possibly answer that question and win a lovely prize. And it just so happens that our man is Craig, and he's on the line. Hey, Craig. Hey, what's up? Yo, bud. All right, so do you know what stripper's name was inspired by a Disney animated character? A lot of Moana. A lot of Moana. That is absolutely correct. Nice work, Craig. Hang on.

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on 93.3 WMMR. Not AF. It's F-I dot E-U. I keep thinking of A-F-I. Oh.

American Film Institute? Yes. And it's F-I for Franklin Institute. Maybe they're friends. You moron. Oh, you know what, though? There's also a crease in that page where it says buy tickets at. Yes. Thank you, Casey. And so the T is kind of creased out. So it does look like buy tickets A-F-I. Did you ever know you were his hero? It's not my fault. How about that? It's not your fault, son. It's not your fault, son.

Not you, not you, Nick. Come on, man, not you. All right, so a new Bruce Springsteen album collection coming out this summer will include dozens of never-before-heard songs from previously unreleased records. It's called Tracks to the Lost Albums and will feature seven full-length albums that were never released from 1983 to 2018.

According to Springsteen's social media. Comes with 500 never released albums, 61,000 never released singles, 200 books, 700 platters, a chicken, and a transmission from a 67-touch dart. Is that a full collection? Sometimes they put way too much in. Springsteen's new albums will feature 82 unreleased tracks, including 74 songs that have never been heard before.

The Lost Albums... The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and released, Bruce said. He said, I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now, and I'm glad that you'll get a chance to finally hear them, and I hope you enjoy them. He also spoke about the album in a trailer on YouTube. Order now and get a free year's supply of Flex Seal. Yeah, doggy!

He said, I often read about myself in the 90s as having some lost period or something. And he said, really, I was working the whole time. During the pandemic, what I did for that period of time was I finished everything and I had it in my vault. Tracks to the Lost albums will be released on June 27th via Sony Music, according to the announcement.

Let's see. The newest member of the One Billion Club is Metallica again. Are they billionaires? No, no. This is streams. Master of Puppets has now been played over one billion times on Spotify. Egg puppets. Yeah.

Do you have a favorite one? Yeah, Charlie McCarthy, the ventriloquist dummy. Okay. The band shared their excitement. Hey, Charlie, you look awfully sad today. I didn't have a good day. Did you see my lips move? No, I didn't see your lips move. I'm sorry. They're too swollen from you getting beat up in the ring all the time. Cut my lips. The band... Cut my lips. Cut my lips, Nick. Cut my lips, Nick. I can't do prose.

The band shared their excitement on social media saying, we're psyched to share that Master of Puppets has just made its way onto Spotify Billions Club. Thank you. Do you remember the horror movies in the late 80s, early 90s, the Puppet Masters? Yeah. There were like eight of them. No. Yeah. What was it about? This guy was like a German scientist or like a German clockmaker and he had all these... One was like a drill head and the other... But they were all... He would...

Send them forth to do his bidding and, yeah, the Puppet Master series. Oh, okay.

Well, anyhow, back to Metallica. This isn't the first time a Metallica song has hit the billion mark with Nothing Else Matters and Enter Sam and also over a billion streams. The song gained renewed popularity after being featured in the fourth season of Stranger Things on Netflix where the character Eddie Munson performs it during a big scene in the Upside Down. I wonder, you know, in retrospect, if Eddie Munson is a riff on Eddie Munster.

Yeah, maybe. The name. Because they're so pop culture oriented, the Duffer Brothers. That's a good question. Do you ever wonder what a song like that would sound like if they just changed the distortion a little bit? What, Master of Puppets? Yeah, any heavy metal song. If you took that heavy metal sound out and just, I don't know, maybe gave it a... Well, here's the deal. If you go on YouTube, there are videos of people playing heavy metal songs

With a clean guitar effect. Yeah. And it's totally different. Yeah. It's absolutely, you know, no distortion, just a straight, clean guitar effect. Yeah, have you ever seen Edge from U2 do that? Yeah. It's really cool. It was some documentary with U2 a few years back. It might get loud. That's what it was. Yeah, thanks, Case. Yeah, and so he'll play the riff that you know from U2's song, and then they turn all the effects off, and it sounds completely different. Yeah, Edge is very...

Very effectively in a big way. So I can imagine this doesn't sound much at all like what we're used to. Interesting. All right. And then one last story. The Russian general prosecutor's office has announced a nationwide ban of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, accusing the organization of opposing the country's, quote, traditional spiritual and moral values.

The office made the announcement today specifying that the ban applied to two foundations registered separately in the United States and Britain under the same name. Both have been deemed, quote, undesirable organizations. This is the AIDS Foundation, gang. The office said when a musician plays along with the promoters of democracy, you get propaganda. And if Elton John is at the piano, it's not just anti-Russian propaganda.

They said the non-government organizations actively participate in an information campaign orchestrated by the collective West to discredit traditional values and escalate social tensions. Since 1992, the Elton John AIDS Foundation has raised more than $600 million across 95 countries. And as the mission statement says, to increase access to health care, tackle LGBTQ plus stigma and end AIDS.

Although the foundation is focused primarily on AIDS prevention and control as well, the Russian general prosecutor's office took particular issue with its LGBTQ plus advocacy. In a separate statement on its website, it decreed the foundation for promoting, quote, non-traditional sexual relationships, Western family models, and gender reassignment. And it also suggested, without examples, that John's foundation was part of a Western campaign to, uh,

denigrate russia over its war in ukraine this this boggles the mind especially because there's a 900 foot statue of richard marx in saint petersburg wow and they allow that yeah uh russia's anti-lgbtq plus sentiment has been well documented in 2023 the russian supreme court banned the so-called international lgbtq lgbt movement deeming it quote an extremist organization

The Elton John Foundation has not yet commented publicly on its Russian ban. And Elton John will be on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Yeah, with Brandi Carlile, right? And Jack Black. That is correct. All right, and that is what I have in music news for you. We'll take a break, come back. We'll wrap up the show when we return. So stay with us. It's MMR's Local Shots. Artists of the Month. From Bridgeport, PA, it's Studweiser.

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Yeah! You gotta love that. We need to bring that game back. The Cowbell game. Maybe we'll do it again someday in the near future. 10.27 a.m. with the Preston and Steve show. Our morning coming to a close. Today has been a lot of fun. It has. I want to thank everybody who is a part of the program today. And we'll start with Matt and Tam over at 6ABC. A little Friday morning check-in, which has become our regular. I want to thank the CEO of the local Red Cross,

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To flooring. You're looking floored to flooring. Yeah. It's a new concept of what to do in early spring. You go flooring. Time to flourish. We're going to go flooring this week. Oh, yeah. I mean, pickleball, eat your heart out. Yeah, this is nothing compared to flooring. I mean, everybody's just starting to do it. Well, I've got the concession. I'll be at the Oaks Expo Center with my booth. Hey, let's go flooring now because everybody's learning how. Exactly. You know? Thank you. I rest my...

My case. All right. So. Oh, on the show today. Yeah. Why not? Well, sure. We'll have Pearl Jam and a workforce block for Mike McCready's birthday, which is tomorrow. We'll have a block of garbage just went on sale at the electric factory. That's going to be September 16th. And I'll have tickets for that. And a workforce block of Nirvana as well. All right. We're going to check in with a Zoomer. Here we got Frankie, who's joining us. Good morning, Frank. Hey.

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I asked him for the prize. I meant to ask him for the word. All right, we have this for you, buddy. A $500 prize along with the Minecraft Movie Family Prize Pack. And that features two Admit to Fandango tickets, which means four seats altogether. 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 April 4th. So congratulations to you, Frankie.

That's amazing. Thank you so much. All right. Have a great weekend, Bob. We're going to put you on hold and we'll get all the info and we'll take care of all that. I want to thank our sponsors. Uh,

The Preston and Steve Show has been brought to you today by Dunkin'. And the Preston and Steve Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors. And the Monster Energy AMA Supercross coming to Lincoln Financial Field Saturday, April 12th. Tickets at supercrosslive.com. Next week on our program, all right, for reals, Rick Springfield. On the program. So we're looking forward to that. Yay. Fran Dunphy. Hey.

Has just retired. So we're going to talk to our buddy Fran, comedian Brittany Brave will be joining us and we'll have a few other things I'm sure that we'll sprinkle about the week. Nice. That is it. We are done. A rage on and have yourself a great weekend and we will see you later, gang. Bye-bye. Steve. On 93.3 WMMR. Bing-dang. Do-do-be-do. Do-da-da-do-da-do-do-ba-do-da-ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-do-ba.