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All right, let's get started. Welcome. We have Monday and all it's Monday morning glory, dear friend. And we'll jump right in with the weather forecast. It's been dreary past couple of days and that continues today. We have some showers this morning on your way into work, some clouds for the continuation.

High of about 45. Tomorrow, some sun returns, but so does that wind. That seems to happen. When we get the return of the sun, the wind comes with it. And it's still going to be cold. High of about 46, or cool, I should say. Wednesday, high 51 and sunshine. And we're going to stay in that mid-50s with some cloud and rain potentially all the way through the week. Yay!

And now, Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. It is Monday, April 7th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, a Pottstown police officer was shot on Sunday after responding to a car crash. The shooting happened at 6 o'clock in the evening near Winding Road and Wilson Street. Officials say police were dispatched just after 5 o'clock to a two-car crash.

at the corner of Beach Street and North Mount Vernon Street. At the scene, officers struggled with one of the vehicle's occupants as he attempted to reach for a firearm in the vehicle, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. Authorities say the suspect fled on foot to his home on Winding Road. Once there, the suspect allegedly shot at officers, hitting one in the shoulder. Police returned fire but did not hit the suspect, the DA's office said.

The officer was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Officials say the suspect was barricaded inside the home for several hours. According to the Montgomery County DA's office, one person was detained just after 11 o'clock. The tense moments forced nearby residents to shelter in place, but the order has since been lifted.

The Trump administration announced Friday that it is not moving forward with a Biden-era proposal that would have expanded coverage of costly anti-obesity drugs to more than 7 million Americans on Medicare and Medicaid. The Centers for both services did not explain why it was not finalizing the proposal, which the Biden administration unveiled in November. However, the agency said in a statement that it may consider future policy options for anti-obesity medications.

New U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made statements strongly disapproving of the medications in the past, although the new CMS administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, frequently touted anti-obesity drugs on his television show and on social media. Last night's Simpsons

was an entire attack on ozempic oh really yeah i forget what they called it the product line but i mean from beginning to end and there was a like a closing song about it and the like where the hell did that come from yeah it was wild i'm actually doing a uh glp1 special on her story and i have a bunch of people that that you know took it some great experiences some not we're talking to different doctors that um you know are for it some that are worried about

you know, side effects, long-term side effects and stuff like that. I don't have an air date yet, but when I do, I'll let you guys know. Yeah, be curious. But expanding coverage would have been expensive and the Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has said that slashing federal spending is one of their primary focuses.

Crews battled a boat fire near Cherry Street Pier in Penn's Landing on Sunday. Did you guys see the pictures of this? Yes, it's pretty wild. There's nothing more ironic than something on fire on the water. In the water, yeah. Flames and heavy black smoke could be seen coming from the area. The fire broke out just after 11.30 in the morning near Ray Street and Christopher Columbus Boulevard. Cherry Street Pier was evacuated as crews worked to extinguish the flames. The fire was placed under control a short time later and the pier has since reopened.

No word yet on what may have caused the fire. In sports this morning. Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy. What the f*** is that? The Phillies beat the LA Dodgers 8-7 yesterday afternoon at the ballpark. Hey, Danny!

With the win, the Phils took two of three from the World Series champs over the weekend. Nick Castellanos hit his eighth career grand slam, and the Phils rallied with two runs in the seventh inning for the win. The Phils are off today and open up a series against the Braves in Atlanta tomorrow night. Zach Wheeler will get the start. The first pitch is set for 7-15. Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin scored his 895th goal, passing Hall of Fame Wayne Gretzky to become the NHL's all-time goal-scoring leader.

39-year-old Ovechkin scored a power play goal in the second period on a pass from longtime teammate Tom Wilson. The record-breaking goal came in a 4-1 loss to the New York Islanders. It was the 1,487th game of Ovechkin's career, the same as Gretzky's career total.

And the Flyers have won five games. Sorry, they have only five games left in the regular season. And they are in New York on Wednesday night to take on the Rangers at 7.30. The UConn women are champs once again. The Lady Huskies dominated top-ranked South Carolina and won the school's 12th national title. Baby!

It had been a nine-year wait for UConn to win another national championship, but the number two seed Huskies finished a run through three number one seeds, USC, UCLA, and an 82-59 win over South Carolina in last night's NCAA finals. Huskies senior guard Paige Beckers is expected to be the WNBA's number one draft pick on April 14th, and last night she went out with her first national championship. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs.

And that's what I have for you this morning. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. And Monday morning has arrived. We got a new Word of the Week prize. We're going to set you up with a pair of two-day tickets as MMR rocks Metallica May 23rd and 25th at The Link. So how about that? So you will need the letter of the day in order to spell the Word of the Week, which we will have by the time we get to Friday. So listen up for your chance to win. Speaking of winning...

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Or we have a special contest short code number, which is 45911. We'll remind you of all of this when we get that underway. But it's going to happen five times a day, 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, 3 and 5. And then we will not only give away $1,000 to a winner, but also a pair of MM barbecue tickets to boot. And it is brought to you by United Tire and Service. So that starts today. Excited about that. We'll hit it as close to 8 o'clock as we can. So be with us.

We also have a guest on the program. Mr. Rick Springfield will be on this very show today. We've been playing new music from Rick Springfield. We like it. And we've been waiting for this interview. Yep. And so the I Want the 80s tour, I Want My 80s tour is coming to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City July 11th. So he will be in the vicinity for some music too. So we'll talk to Rick Springfield.

About 9, 10 this morning. I was hearing names like John Waite and Wang Chung. And I mean, it sounds like a really good collection. Yeah. Of the artists on this tour. Yeah. John Cafferty. Yeah. Is on this as well. Solo or with the Beaver Brown Band? I don't know if the Beaver Brown Band still exists or not, but we'll have to see about that. But anyway, it should be fun. So with all of that, let's take a break. Come back in a second. We'll get our momentum moving and we'll share a Monday together. We'll be right back. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Hi, thanks, Cass. So, stupid question. Today, we're going to give away a four-packet ticket to turn five at Maple Grove Raceway, Saturday, April 26th. And there's going to be all kinds of stuff like monster trucks, modded vehicles, jet cars.

Cool. Track racing, raffles, and all kinds of things. So, an apropos question this morning that Nick came up with. Who is the only player that played in the NHL with both Wayne Gretzky and Alex Ovechkin? Who's the only player in the NHL played with both Wayne Gretzky and Alex Ovechkin? And here's a little tip for...

Former flyer. Let's see if you know the answer to that. Now, in order to get the answer to us, you need to text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. And we will send you a little linky-poo.

And then you click on that. Yes. And then you get in line with the other Zoomers and we'll go until we get a correct answer. That's the way things work now. Making lemonades out of lemons. Our version of the Xfinity mobile guest line, which will be up sometime in the next decade or so. We'll get that back and running.

All right, so we'll go through some birthdays. There's not that many to mention today. But we'll start with a guy who we love having by here. Bill Bellamy has his birthday today. Yes, he's great. Bill is hilarious. You know what? He is one of those raconteurs. He has a lot of great stories. And he has a lot of great stories that sit in the pocket of stuff we want to hear. Yeah, and he's just always up.

and fun and energetic. Like you said, great stories to tell, man. And he turns 60 years old today. Oh, wow. He does not look... Black don't crack. I mean, he looks fan-freaking-tastic. It's amazing, yeah. Super nice guy. Happy birthday to the great Bill Bellamy. It's Jackie Chan's birthday today. Jackie Chan turns 71 years old today.

And we're playing this because he was in Cannonball Run? Yes, sir. Okay. Listen, he looks phenomenal in this new Karate Kid movie. Oh, man. They've let him age, or at least I guess he stopped dyeing his hair for the movie. It looks really good. You know what's funny is I have come full circle on Karate Kid because even when the movies initially came out and they were very, very popular, I looked at Ralph Macchio and

He didn't look like he was really doing any suave, fluid martial arts moves. Johnny and those guys would have kicked the crap out of him in real life. But I bought into it anyway, and I enjoyed the first two movies. And after that, I kind of bailed on it. And then Cobra Kai came around and just brought me back into that world. Isn't that funny? 100% all in.

I agree with you completely. To me, it was Mr. Miyagi, that sort of paternal thing that he had with him in the movie was the big thing. I could tell you're right. He would get his ass kicked. Yeah. But yeah, that was the part. So...

At some point in my life, I hope to buy it. At least get a little further in the series. I know you love it so much. It's so good. I was watching it when it was on YouTube. Yeah. Yeah. And now I'm stoked about this new crossover with Jackie Chan and, you know, the return. Daniel LaRusso is going to work together. And they're going to bring this kid and they're going to train him. And it looks great. What happens if there's a new...

A new movie trilogy or dynasty. I mean, you can't wrap your mind around the genesis of the story. So Jackie Chan is 71 today. It's also Russell Crowe's birthday today. Sort of, yeah, in the MCU. At the end of that Thor movie where he comes out as... Love and Thunder. Yeah, comes out as Zeus.

It's terrible. It was bad. But not that long ago, I went back and watched L.A. Confidential. That's one of my favorite Russell Crowe movies of all time. That's where you had a stellar cast with everybody, from Kevin Spacey to, you know, who, I mean, God, I'm trying to think of the other ones. They're so amazing, I'm forgetting all the names, but it's a great movie. I just started watching Kraven the Hunter, by the way. He plays Kraven's dad, Cliff Kraven. Yes. No, but...

It's wild. He's like a Russian gangster of sorts. He's not bad. Yeah, yeah. The movie is, you get so used to hearing it's a piece of crap, it happens a lot. Yeah. That when you finally do see it, and it is a piece of crap, it's less of a piece of crap than you think it is. Yeah, I wasn't hating on it. Yeah, yeah. There was a time when Russell could do no wrong. No. If you remember that, in the 2000s, he was just on fire. So he turns 61 years old today.

Actor and comedian Nico Santos. He's actually been in our studio before. He was in Crazy Rich Asians. He played Oliver, the gay nephew. He's great. He is wonderful. The movie was on yesterday, and it's kind of like...

comfort food for me. If it's on and I've got time and nothing else to do, I'll sit down and watch it. You know what it is? It's a great rom-com with Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Yeah. Yeah. So he turns 46 years old today. It's John Oates' birthday. Oh! We actually spoke to John Oates a few months ago. We did. And he had a solo album out and he continues to, you know, put out some music. He and

He and Daryl Hall are done. Done. It'll never, ever, ever happen again. They really kind of have a beef against each other. To be honest, in preparation for that interview, and I mean, I've loved those guys forever and I've seen them many times in concert.

I didn't realize just how integral John Oates was to their hits. Yeah. He wrote a lot of their hits. Wow. Let me ask you a question. Yep. Is this considered yacht rock? And if not, why not? I would say no. I'm listening to this right now, and this sounds very yachty. Yachty. Some of their songs have that vibe, have that flavor, for sure. But they're more considered blue-eyed soul, blue-eyed soul, which, you know, I guess they can kind of cross over a little bit, but yeah. Yeah.

This one would fall under that umbrella, I think. Just the sound, tone-wise. But happy 77th birthday to John Oates. And then the last birthday of the great Francis Ford Coppola. Turns 86 years old today. I don't know what the hell is going on, but there's like a whole spate of internet channels now that are on...

my cable listing when I'm going through and looking at movies. And it seems the Godfather's on 24-7 on one of these internet channels. It's like, what the hell is this whole thing about? It's so good. It is a masterpiece. Yeah, just that's another one of those. Speaking of comfort food, if it's, you know, the right tone, it's on. I'm like, all right, I'll go again for the 150th time. How does this end? Yeah.

Francis Ford Coppola is 86 today. All right, we will see if we indeed have someone who might know the answer to this question. Who is the only player that played in the NHL with both Wayne Gretzky and Alex Ovechkin, former Flyer, mind you. We have Cindy, who we are going to chat with and see if we can get an answer to this question. Good morning, Cindy. Good morning. How are you guys?

We're doing great. How are you this morning? Good. Wonderful. All right. Can you enlighten us who happened to play in the NHL with both Wayne Gretzky and Alex Ovechkin? Mike Neuble? Yes, Mike Neuble. Yeah! Yeah!

You got it. Hang on a second, Sydney. You get to go to this cool event. We are going to give you some tickets, a four-pack of them, to Turn 5 at Maple Grove Raceway on Saturday, April 26th. Over 1,000 modded vehicles, jet cars, monster truck, track racing, raffles, and more.

And it's all for a great cause, benefiting the Travis Manion Foundation. And the tickets start at just $10. You can learn more at driventoserveshow.com. So hang on, Cindy. We will take care of you. Yeah, that's an interesting crossover, Nick. Yeah, I mean...

it means a few things. First of all, that Knubel had a really long career because, you know, Gretzky really played a while before Ovi did. Alex has played his entire career with the Washington Capitals, which is impressive. Wayne played with a few different teams. But yeah, towards the end of Wayne's career, he played with the Rangers. That's where Knubel played with Wayne Gretzky. And then a few years later, played in the Washington organization with...

Alex Ovechkin. Wow. All right. Well, I have a few things to mention. We'll start with the box office. Minecraft dominated this weekend, brought in $157 million in its debut. We haven't seen big ones like that in a while. So they were expecting big numbers.

It overperformed. Ben saw it on Saturday night, Steve. We went to the Phillies game on Saturday afternoon. He went and saw it on Saturday night, and I asked him about it when he got home. He said he loved it. It's fun. It's brainless. He says Jack Black is hilarious. It's exactly what you want him to be. And he said the CGI was off the charts great. They played to the audience. Yeah. Loves the game. Apparently right now, Preston...

The global standing is somewhere close to $400 million. Yeah, it's massive. It says it took just over $300 million if you look at the global box office all, but that probably added up even more since this was written. A Working Man took second place, followed by The Chosen Last Supper Part 2.

Third, that was third, I'm sorry. And then we had, rounding out the top five, Snow White in fourth and the woman in the yard was in fifth place. The woman in the yard! So we'll go back to the Blake Lively, Justin Baldani thing. She is firing back after he opposed her motion to dismiss his lawsuit accusing her of orchestrating a smear campaign.

Baldani's legal team claims that he has a First Amendment right to sue over what they allege are false accusations. So are we legally at the point where it's uh-huh, nuh-uh? Yeah. Yeah. So Lively's attorneys...

argue that Baldani is trying to silence victims. And they said, Justin Baldani believes that the First Amendment rights of victims of sexual assault and harassment to speak out should give way to the rights of perpetrators to sue their victims into oblivion. Okay, so that's the whole genesis of everything. Because the longer this goes on, you're like, okay, are they just fighting about she was mean to me, now he was mean to me? Or was it the genesis?

Is there an accusation of assault? Dude, I don't even remember. Right? To be honest, it's... Because if there is not... There is an allegation that someone killed President Lincoln. Okay, that's why. That's how far this goes back. It goes back to there was being made uncomfortable on the set. There was no suggestion of actual physical assault.

Sexual assault or anything like that. No, no. There was an atmosphere of what they called uncomfortability. They are saying, the other camp is saying, his camp is saying that since the beginning, they were trying to wrest production and ownership of the movie away from him. That's what this, okay. That's what it was 50 billion years ago. I wrest my case. That's it.

In response, Baldani's lawyer, Brian Friedman, insists Lively is trying to block his client's right to clear their names. He said, Ms. Lively and her circle of Hollywood elites cannot prevent my clients from exercising their constitutional right. Isn't his...

and a Hollywood elite too. He's a Hollywood elite, not on that level, but they're all full of crap. I swear, this is like the Hulk and the Abomination at the end of that Hulk movie where they just beat the piss out of each other for so, so, so, so long. And then just for some reason, they were like, nah, fight's over. Can we just like let it go at a certain point? You know what I'd like to draw a parallel between the Hulk and the Abomination that's featured at the end of the Ed Norton and Hulk movie. They fought to a standstill and eventually just said, why are we fighting? Mm-hmm.

I'd like to introduce that as evidence. Let me get this straight. You want to introduce a Hulk and the abomination as evidence? Actually, it's a good point. I think he's...

My thing is like, it's like an eroding orbit. And they think of the money. Now, mind you, they have lots of resource. But how long do you want to be distracted with this? How much damage is done with this nonsense? Stop it already. Have we learned nothing from the Hulk and the Abomination? Well, I mean, they have to sit down and have these meetings. Is it worth it for us to continue to pursue this? Abomination, let's talk.

And thus is the nature of lawsuits, man. I mean, because who do you call it? At the end of that Hulk movie, she just screams like, stop it! Right, right. And then they kind of look at each other like, Tyler. Yeah. It's been so long since I've even seen that movie. I don't even remember how it ended. It's actually a pretty good movie. I mean, they got a lot of it right.

But nobody gets knocked out in this movie or anything along those lines. It looks like Hulk is about to maybe kill the abomination. Liv Tyler's like, hey, what are we doing here? And they're like, fuck. Do you know a funny thing? This movie is played quite often at Yale Law School. Because, yeah, as a teaching tool. Maybe they should bring in Liv Tyler for this. Absolutely. As a mediator. Give a lecture. Yeah.

Freeman also slammed Lively's sudden advocacy saying she does not need discovery to find out who smeared her. Snap. Wait, just a mirror will do. Oh, damn. No, he didn't. No, you didn't. Yeah. Where's Marty Singer in all this? I know. We need him. I was just dawdling around in the back. We need Marty Singer. I'm watching the Incredible Hulk back here on FX. It's going to take some time.

I'm doing research. I'm doing discovery. All right, this year's Met Gala, taking place on the first Monday of May, will spotlight the theme, Superfine, tailoring black styles. I thought this one had already happened. With the dress code tailored for you, benefiting the Met's Costume Institute. Expected celebrity attendees include singers Dochi, Shakira...

Lizzo, Mary J. Blige, and models Amelia Gray and Ashley Graham. Not the Duck Dynasty guys? College basketball star Paige Bukers. Is it Bukers? Well, she shouldn't spell her goddamn name that way. The moment that I saw this name, I'm like, Preston?

don't go with the obvious here because you don't know these people and i knew i was going to get a correction no matter what way i decided to go it's actually beckers uh and uh the only reason i know right the only reason i know that is because it was in sports this morning and i had to look it up so that i gave the pronunciation to kathy correctly so i i said bukers and then i said buckers like an a-hole no you're right you're right and you said it's actually backers yeah like uh

Mother Becker. Fuck you. There we go. You mother beckon son of a bitch. Fuck you, Paige. With a name like Becker's, it's got to be good. It's Bakers? Becker's. This is bonkers. It's Bikers. Bikers. It's Pose Bikers. So she's a big female basketball star? She's going to be the number one pick in the... You should listen to sports in the morning. It's good.

Was it mentioned? Twice. I don't listen to that. I know. I'm getting ready for the next moment. I know. All right. So, Poge. Becker's. Binkers. Poge Binkers is also expected to make an appearance as this year's guest list leans heavily into the athletic world.

Though invited, Rachel Zegler will miss the event due to rehearsals for Evita in London. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, as we have said earlier, opted out. They did this before the lawsuit and all this stuff happened. Maybe they'll have their Incredible Hulk moment if Justin Balde shows up or whatever. Co-chairs this year include Coleman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, ASAP Rocky, Pharrell Williams,

With LeBron James serving as honorary chair. The host committee boasts major names like Andre 3000, Ayo Edeberry, Spike Lee, Janelle Monae, Usher, and Sha'Carri Richardson as well. So get your tickets now.

I thought they were going to stop it. Chris Evans made a Marvel superfan's life with a surprise appearance during his tattoo session. Scott Clayton spent over a year and a half working with artist Luke Attey at Eastside Inc. in New York to create a hyper-detailed winter soldier-inspired sleeve with Captain America battle-scarred shield ripping out from his skin.

Josh Lord, who co-owns the tattoo shop, famously gave the original Avengers members, Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, and Chris Hemsworth, their matching tattoos, which I didn't know they had. Didn't know they had that. We're looking at the artwork. It is pretty impressive. It's a cool way to go. Pretty cool.

Yeah. So Lord calls Clayton such a solid guy and always is so nice. And he says he's the ultimate Cap fan with an extensive collection of Captain America memorabilia, including three shields. He said so when Cap himself showed up to see the 18-month-long tattoo session come to an end in March, Clayton was in shock.

Lord told people about the exciting meeting, saying Chris went out of his way to introduce himself and ask God to wait and take a picture together, adding that he's a classy guy. So aesthetically, would you go this way? Because it looks like it is bursting through the skin, which is not accurate. It is an entire arm. I would have done the entire arm to look like the Winter Soldier's arm. Right. I think he's doing it to indicate that underneath, he's the Winter Soldier. You know what I mean? Yeah. Sometimes they do that. Chris has got a...

No, you have a clothespin that's going through your skin, right? Yeah, that's it. Sometimes people do these claw marks and then underneath you'll see what they're really made of. She has the final battle from the Incredible Hulk on her back. Have you seen that? Who does? Marissa. Oh, yeah. She's saying, shh, that's private. So Johnny Depp's

Settling up for a new Dior commercial, donning a cowboy hat and Clint Eastwood style poncho while shooting in the desert. I showed up as Eeyore. I misunderstood. The actor shot the spot in the hills of Vila Spisa, Spain.

The same country where his ex-hammer herd lives now, by the way, looking rugged against the dry countryside a la Clint Eastwood. Is Johnny Depp still mysteriously attractive or where does he stand right now? Does he just look like a peasant from Three Amigos?

That looks like Rockstar Rob a little bit. Yeah, it does. Yes, it does. On the right. Rob Templeton. A new fragrance called Past Your Time. He's not looking rugged, by the way. I mean, those are all like really nice clothes. You know what I mean? Like he's not. I don't know. There's nothing really rugged about the guy. They'll rugged him up in post. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I think he looks rugged. Do you think he looks attractive?

Sexy. Just after everything with him? No, not really. It's gone, right? No, yeah. There's not a wrinkle in the freaking thing that he's wearing. That thing is perfectly... It doesn't mean it's not a rugged look. All right. Yeah. So Johnny took some direction from the director. He even waved to a few onlookers, smiles on location. And Dior is one of the few brands that backed him after Amber Heard had accused him of abuse while many other film producers and business partnerships dropped him.

Uh, Johnny signed a new deal with the company back in 2022 months after his legal victory over Amber reportedly worth over $20 million. How do you like your bet? Uh, depth also landed some new projects since his court went, including an upcoming flick in which he's plays the devil himself. Satan. Uh, Johnny looks happy to be back at work, completely moved on from his past legal troubles. Uh,

Here's an interesting story that just came up. Jeff Ross, comedian, friend of ours, was hospitalized over the weekend after suffering an allergic reaction while he was on tour. Shared a series of Instagram photos from his hospital bed on Sunday. He showed off his swollen face and lip. He told fans that the item that landed him in the hospital was a new flavor of Burrata ice cream that he tried. Which actually sounds pretty good because I love Burrata. Mm-hmm.

But yeah, he apparently, I guess, he found out the hard way. So following the performance of his one-man show, the celebratory atmosphere between him and his band turned alarming when he started feeling unwell and his face began to swell. He said, afterwards, me and the band celebrated with some burrata ice cream at a restaurant down the street, courtesy of the nice owner. It was delicious, seriously yummy. However, after eating it, things took a scary turn. He said, my lips blew up.

and I spent the entire night in the ER. It was my first allergic reaction ever, and I guess that's pretty remarkable considering I'm constantly shoving whatever food's in front of me into my face. Despite the medical setback, he promised fans that he would return to the stage in Mill Valley tonight. Burrata ice cream blends the distinct flavor and creamy texture of Burrata cheese into a sweet and sometimes more savory ice cream base.

It's not a traditional or common ice cream flavor, making it more of a gourmet offering. But it's unclear which component of that ice cream that Jeff was allergic to. So I don't know what all it was flavored with, but something in there. Something to try it again. Yeah. What would they do? Take a sample and put it on his back? Is that the usual? That's what you had, right? I did have that. But stuff like that.

Yeah.

He figured out what it was because he had a salad with this in it too. Again, forget which greens it was. But yeah, he's allergic to and out of nowhere. He's been eating it his whole life and now all of a sudden he's highly allergic to it. That's what he said. So Ross said he really had no idea that he was allergic to anything. And it's not even a case of being lactose intolerant because you have both milk

Yeah, both are milk items. Yeah. Ice cream and the cheese. No, and it can happen. Your body changes and it happens out of nowhere. Lucky you. My mom loved mushrooms my entire life. Now, if she eats them, she breaks out in hives and her throat starts to close. It's really weird. Like out of nowhere. That was her favorite way to get high. Yeah. I used to be allergic to penicillin and I'm not any longer. Get out. It changed out of nowhere. Yeah. I wonder if I am because that's the only thing I'm really allergic to. I went and got tested for it. Okay. It takes all day.

And they give you a little bit, these micro doses. Oh, just penicillin? Yep, a little bit. They start with a small amount and then they increase the amount. You have to sit there for like five hours. I thought you got all the way to the end and then you still were. That was for NSAIDs, ibuprofen. And I'm still allergic to that. The penicillin, I passed. I went two different times to do this. Because, I mean, I want to be able to take that stuff. Yes!

and uh yeah all right um so kathy need help on pronunciation of something here i've already messed up one today i don't want to do another one uh kara tase kara stays come k-e-r-a-s-t-a-s-e it's a hair care products say it again okay k-e-r-a-s-t-a-s-e i i think it's a fashion thing

I think they're hair care products. I don't know what this is. Oh, okay. I see it. Oh, it's not two words. Okay. I don't know. I don't know what this is. I can't use this stuff. I'm allergic to it. I would say Kerastase.

Karatsozzi. I'll go with that. Sidney Sweeney and Emily Ratajkowski bought serious glam or brought serious glam in the streets of New York on Friday during a Karatsozzi campaign shoot that looked straight off the fashion runway. The two stars matched in neutral tone fits.

Sweeney in a sculpted mini dress and Ratajkowski in a curve-hugging mid-length dress serving major hair goals and sleek style for the high-end hair care brand. That's what it's all about. It was called a celebration of jugs, Casey. Oh, is that right? Yeah. This marks Sidney's first major outing since calling it quits with her fiancé, Jonathan DeVino. They were planning to marry this spring, but sources say that the Euphoria actress has been leaning into work late, late. I do not like either of those two.

I'm or Jonathan DeVito or these two girls? Yeah, Sidney Sweeney and Emrata. But Emily's had some lip work done. Has she? Yeah, you can see it pretty clearly. Okay. Yeah, I'm looking at a photo right now and trying to...

That's just injections. Those are injections? Or it's Burrata ice cream. Or she had it. Or she just did the Jeff Ross. All right, so I thought this was sweet. The four main cast members of Happy Days reunited on stage for what Henry Winkler claimed was the first time in more than 50 years. Wow. So Winkler, Howard, Ron Howard, Anson Williams, and Donnie Most all met up at Steel City Con in Pittsburgh on Saturday to talk about their time on the legendary sitcom...

And Howard explained the lasting impact of the show. He said, we were so cohesive as an ensemble unit. We really connected in a great way. And it's one of the reasons that the show has endured. There was a sweet video of...

The two of them together, Ron Howard and Henry Winkler. And Henry had saved something from the original set, which was this shelf where they would just kind of place their belongings and everybody would write notes on it. So in the Al's diner, when they would go through the swinging doors or whatever the hell, in the entrance...

That was where they were backstage and they'd put their coffees. That's what he took. And it would be like, you know, Ron's daughter was born. You know, they made these little notes of, you know, milestone moments. And yeah, and he held on to it. I thought that was pretty cool.

Anybody watching the studio on Apple Plus? Yeah. Because Ron Howard had a nice little turn as himself or playing a version of himself on that, which he's, you know, he's like a worldly known great guy and like the nicest guy in Hollywood. And so he kind of plays against that a little bit. Yeah. And they're all savoring the ability to play against types. Same thing happened with Martin Scorsese. And yeah, it's very cool.

So the star of the 60s series Dennis and Menace has passed away. Jay North, who portrayed the lovable title character, lost his battle with colorectal cancer, according to a friend. The series, based on the popular comic strip, ran from 1959 to 1963. Did you watch that at all in repeats? They would have it like after school up in New York. They had it. I remember watching it. I watched it all the time. I watched it.

All the time. Oh, yeah. And I thought his mom was so hot. She was probably, she was hotter than Mrs. Cleaver. I think she was the hottest of all those TV moms. Of all the TV moms, yeah. I forget what she looked like.

Was she topless a lot? Always topless. I did not see Dennis. I was a Leave it to Beaver guy. That was on in reruns when I was a kid. Two Leave it to Beavers yesterday on MeTV. After the show ended, the actor segued into voice acting before leaving Hollywood behind entirely to pursue a career as a correctional officer in Florida.

He was 73. I was reading a little bit about it. He was unfortunately, he had an abusive aunt who was his guardian on the set and everything. He had a bit of a rough life. So the kid who played the son on the Donna Reed show became a champion of child actors. And he was friends with this guy and then started the whole movement to make sure that...

kids were protected and they were receiving proper schooling and all that sort of stuff. It was pretty abusive back then. Yeah. All right, a couple other things. 43 years after the original Tron and 15 years after its sequel, Tron Legacy, the third movie in the franchise, Tron Ares, is finally coming out. Casey sent me the trailer over the weekend. What are you thinking? I was very excited to see it. It looks great.

The trailer debuted at CinemaCon last week and featured Jared Leto as Ares, an advanced program who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with AI beings. The movie also stars Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, Asa Manaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, and Cameron Monaghan, as well as a vocal appearance by Jeff Bridges. Of course, he was the star of the original Tron.

uh it will come out october 10th i'll i'll be on board for that for sure uh i love this concept that everything has moved into the real world and they're bringing that into the real world and uh yeah um i thought the second movie was was solid in a lot of ways yeah i enjoyed it um like you said though when it first came out steve the um

The uncanny valley of the CGI and creating humans is not quite there when they made it. But it's looking better now. Because they had to play Jeff Bridges as the character Clue in that movie. And it was kind of a little off a little bit. But I'm looking forward to this in a big way. All right. And then one last story and then we'll move on to the clips. Before stepping into The Running Man, Glenn Powell made sure to get a green light from the original star himself.

He said, Arnold Schwarzenegger gave us his blessing. He told this to people. He revealed that he reached out to his buddy Patrick Schwarzenegger and asked if he could talk to his famous dad. He said, I hadn't seen Arnold since we shot Expendables in Bulgaria.

At CinemaCon, where he was named Star of the Year, Powell excited fans with high praise for the remake using practical stunts, sharing that when you're falling and you're hitting the ground and you're really doing it, the audience feels that. And this is supposed to be closer to the original Richard Bachman source? I guess so. Yep. The action remake is set to hit theaters on November 7th, so we'll see how that plays. All right, here are the clips. ♪

David Blaine, Do Not Attempt. Don't do this. Features the magician's most daring stunt shot, including kissing a cobra. I kissed a cobra. And here David Blaine. And I liked it. David Blaine talks about how dangerous it is. The cobra's unpredictable, so if he decides to strike...

then that becomes a crisis situation. I did train with incredible experts that were meeting around the world that were masters. He's much more kinetic. David Blaine, Do Not Attempt is streaming now on Disney+. I want to kiss you. Here's our next clip.

Those who stayed up to watch a 90-minute finale of The White Lotus were delivered a wild ending. In this clip, Charlotte Le Bon and Jason Isaacs share their audience predictions about the series' creator. I think people are going to hate Mike White a little bit. Sorry.

But that's his signature. Hitchcock said there's three important parts to every film, the ending, the ending, and the ending. And Mike is a consummate storyteller. And this end is protection. What the hell are you talking about? So is Mike White, the guy who, the writer, is he the guy that also wrote School of Rock and also plays the roommate in that movie? Yeah.

That's him, yeah. He created the series. He created White Lotus. He wrote School of Rock and he plays that kind of...

uh quiet jack black's uh roommate yeah uh in school of rock and yeah he's a talented writer he's married to sarah silverman this is the annoying wife um yeah so uh have you are you i didn't say no i i have one more episode we're gonna start it this week yeah i mean i love it i think it's great um that one girl um with the teeth yes what's her name i don't know i know i i

can't stop looking at her teeth i know she's been doing a lot of interviews uh uh the actress's name is amy lou wood she's been doing a lot of interviews and she says everybody just talks about my teeth she's like this everybody just they're real right like those are her teeth you wouldn't ask someone to do that separate them more in the very first episode they say uh the one of the hot girls was like i like your teeth oh yeah well who's the one you just mentioned charlotte

That's the model? She's the one that they're friends in the show. And that's what she says. There's a line. She goes, I like your teeth. Charlotte Le Bon. Yeah, you're right. She's not French. She's French-Canadian. Oh, okay. Yeah. So she is... Yeah, she does have big teeth. She's really cute. Yeah, she is. She's got very big teeth. And...

And they're kind of Freddie Mercury-like. Yeah, they are. But I like her and the other girl. And they kind of, the way they make them in the show. And they're, you know, they're hot. But, like, there's a little something to them. Exactly. Lauren Hutton years ago was a model, a very popular model and actress who had a big gap in her front teeth. Yeah. These kind of stick out.

as well, which is kind of interesting. And they're big. Yeah, there's a lot of teeth. But she's getting some recognition in this show for sure. All right, and that is our entertainment report for you this morning. We are going to take a break. Later on today, Rick Springfield is going to be joining us. But before any of that, 8 o'clock, we get your first shot at $1,000 today. We kick it off. It's the Preston and Steve 20 Money Contest. So we'll tell you what you need to do. It's 8 a.m. that we'll begin that. We'll be back in just a second. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kath. Later on this morning, Rick Springfield joining us in the 9 o'clock hour. Kathy's Cuts is coming up. We've got like 20 slots available. Don't go to our website. It's garbage. It doesn't work.

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to where they called a website, but nothing came up except the word oops in 409. I'm hitting the point of, you know, in the movie Major League when Bob Uecker just goes, ah, to hell with it. That's where I am right now. You said last week, though, and I agree, you've been doing really well with this. Like, you could, like, typically you would have...

gone off the rails at this point, but you're keeping yourself together. You're almost there. You're doing a good job. I laughed out loud at the photo that Casey sent over the weekend and then Marissa posted it on social media or on Instagram and relating it to our phone issues. I was hysterical laughing. I'm like, this is amazing. I'll explain that. We took an old timey photo

Way, way, way back when. And Steve had grabbed a couple of props and made it look as if it was an old-timey candlestick telephone. And Marissa posted that saying that 10 years ago, Steve Morrison predicted the future of radio. I did. I'm an innovator. I'm the Steve Jobs of our time. Oh, that's great. Yep. I mean, when do you ever have the confluence of your phones and website going down at the same time? It's amazing. Yeah.

The only thing we need is one of those smart bombs, dirty bombs to wipe out all electronics. Maybe we should start taking, you know, like telegraph. Telegraph, yeah, absolutely. That's how we'll communicate now. Telegraph and Morse code. I'll set one up in the studio if someone has the equipment. We could do that. We've just got this coming in. Yes. Kathy's Cuts. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I actually do want to share this interesting story that Kathy was able to send over electronically. What? Because you can do that.

A thing called e-mail, which e stands for electronic. So even that, Preston, so this article became a word of both of you, but you couldn't access it because I was the only one who had a subscription. You had the subscription to the Wall Street Journal. By the way, totally forgot about because I don't really read it. But apparently I got it at some time for some article. To me, I'll put that in the Tom Sizemore and dwarf porn websites I forgot I had.

So, this is an interesting article about verbal flubs that people make at work. And if you would like to contribute, feel free to text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. And we can get you up and running. The reason you might want to contribute is because you've probably heard people say some interesting things around work.

They were trying to make a point and they were off just a little bit. So there's this guy named Mike O'Brien. He worked for Ford Motor Company for 32 years. He was a sales executive.

And as he was exiting, he retired, and he sent out an email to the group, which you normally will see when someone's leaving. Thanks for everything. This has been wonderful. I've loved the last 32 years and so on and so forth. With that, with his signing off email, he also sent a spreadsheet detailing thousands of

Of verbal violations committed by his co-workers over the year. And it's all in good fun. This is stuff that people meant to say one thing, they said another. They had mixed metaphors or flubs or whatever. Mixed metaphor classic. It's the best. We do it all the time. Everyone does it, especially when you get a little...

you know tired or relaxed good morning it good morning good morning to see you yeah they like when they would mess something up they would kind of go damn it because they knew they would end up on his list like so everyone knew about this running list that he was keeping i don't think they realized uh how large the list was but you know when they messed up in a meeting or whatever it was they knew they were going to end up on it how many times was he on his own list

Oh, several. He's made it on his own list, so he's not the only one. And he kept them on whiteboards, so he would write it out and people would come by his office to see him. So he made it into a spreadsheet. So I'll give you an example of one. During a 2019 sales meeting to discuss a new vehicle launch, a colleague blurted out, let's not reinvent the ocean. Stop it. No.

Listen, this is me, though. I don't know any of them, and I will combine four of them in one sentence. Well, a lot of people hear them in passing and never quite absorb the original correct one, which is let's not reinvent the wheel. And it happens, too. Your mind just goes to different places, and so you combine them. So here's another one. In a meeting in 2016, someone started a sentence with, I don't want to sound like a broken drum here. Oh, my God.

So that'd be a broken record. When it repeats, skips over and over. Maybe marching to the beat of a different drum is kind of in their head and they confuse the two. Maybe so. That's probably how a lot of these end up that way. O'Brien kept a meticulous log of the mixed metaphors and malaprops and it documents, this is how many, 2,229...

breaches, including the exact... He also wrote down the exact quote, context, name of the perpetrator, and some color commentary. It's pretty extensive. Yeah. So the color commentary would include like after a colleague declared, it's a huge task, but we're trying to get our arms and legs around it. And he said, adding legs into the mix makes it sound kind of kinky. So that would be the commentary that he would add to each of these. Okay.

And nobody was above the grammatical roasting. So Ford CEO Jim Farley made the list twice. So he wouldn't stop at the top, top, top. He's going to have to do it. He scribbled the first on a whiteboard one day in his office in 2014. And he doesn't recall the first example or why he decided to formally call it out.

But he's an avid reader and crossword fan, but no English major. And a botched expression simply caught his ear one day and he decided to record it for a laugh. And then he kept this meticulous record for all these years. And it took on a life of its own. Word of the board, words spread within the company. And O'Brien would get tips from people in other divisions.

of people that they have heard making mistakes. I don't know if he wrote those down or not. I wasn't sure if he had to hear it in order for it to make the list. It seems that way, but I mean, we've all done it. I'm trying to think of ones that I've done again, and then you...

The second it leaves your mouth, you're like, oh, come back. Oh, yeah. I think I probably do it the most. Yeah. Good morning, Nick. Good morning to see you. What was the one that... Yeah, but those are like... I mean, they are flubs, but you know the sayings, right? You'll just flub it because you're saying too many words or trying to get too many words out in one sentence. Yeah.

Like, I think sometimes people don't... Well, we used to joke about, you know, put a bug in your back. You know, or the... John McClane does it in a... The Monkey and the Ranch, or, you know, you're mixing... Those are loose interpretations of it. But I mean, you know...

When you talk this much, it's going to happen. And like another one of mine was office. Oh, office. I meant to say awesome. And I just go, oh, office. And you guys just pounced on me, which you should. Jersey Black Rock was one of my favorites. Oh, Jersey Black Rock.

And if you were to go through the... And I'm like with you. I'm like, I know where he was probably going with that. But a celebration of Jersey Black. Rock. Rock. Rock. I like that this is just a flaw pressing from a listener. Here's a text. It says, I said to a customer at their doorstep, I'm Carl and I'm your... What? Well, read what he writes. I'm your greenest...

cervix pro but his job title at the time was greenix service pro oh cervix but he was the cervix pro oh my god green is awesome i'm your cervix pro uh-huh um let me give you a and he would categorize these and we're going to go to some uh some zooms here in just a second but uh so he would categorize them like sports exercise related yeah

And here's an example or two. Somebody said, we're really low on money right now. We're dancing on thin ice. Oh, my God. Another one was, we need to keep running in our swim lanes. Yes.

Do you know what one used to rear its ugly head? And it was, in your defense, it's the same mistake I've made occasionally. If we were talking about an improvised explosive... Oh, yeah. I-U-D instead of I-E-D. I-E-D, right. Yeah. Here's another one in the sports category. Someone had said...

I know these are swing for the moon opportunities, but I think we should pursue them. Shoot for the moon. Swing for the fences. But going back to that dancing on thin ice. That sounded good to me. It's walking. Yeah, but it falls within the realm of acceptability. Or would it be skating on thin ice? Skating on thin ice is the absolute way to go. All right. We have Christian who's joining us. Hey, Christian. How you doing, bud?

Hey, good morning, guys. Case, I have a sister. Oh, you do have a sister. Oh, Christian has a sister. You got to give us one moment. That's one of my favorites. So you keep your own list, by the way, Christian? Yeah, that's right. By the way, just to hide it in your youngest listener. Oh, adorable. Yeah, so I keep a list, guys. My wife, her name's Dana. She's very successful in her career.

However, she cannot get these phrases right. So I have a full list of them. Her first one that she said was robbing Peter to save Paul. All right. Throwing someone under the mud. I wouldn't know my ass or my hand or my ass, my face or whatever the phrase is. I wouldn't know my ass or my face. Yes.

Turning your tune. I'm standing with my balls in my hand. I think she meant the D word. I'm standing with my balls in my hand. The squeaky wheel gets the crown. Wait, the squeaky wheel gets the crown? Yeah, I don't know. It might be heavy as a head who wears the crown. The squeaky wheel gets the oil. Yeah.

Right. Absolutely. No, she has that one. Can you stop second wheel driving? I think she meant driving back to driving. Oh, my God. Second wheel driving.

Yep. She's kicking herself in the foot. I think she meant shooting herself in the foot. Yes. There are so many good ones. Smart as a tack. I don't even get sharp as a tack. Tacks aren't sharp. They're just pointy. Well, they are sharp. No, they're pointy. There are some tacks that are sharp. Yeah.

But yeah, so that's a really quick list of all the wonderful phrases she said. I have more, but I know you guys have other callers. I love those. All right. Thanks for sharing, Christian. Say hi to your sister, please. All right, man. We'll see you later. All right. Hold her hand.

I wish I had some examples, but my friend Lori Chapman, we call them Lori-isms, and she gets stuff wrong all the time. It's like in the ballpark, and so we play a game of, hey, what do you guys think Lori would have called inglorious bastards? Oh, I love this. And so I'm just making that up. It would have been...

It would have been like unusual dirt bags instead of Inglorious Basterds. So in fact, I had a painting made. Okay, so you guys know Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Yes, which I love, yeah. Classic, beautiful painting. They're sitting in a diner and it's Bogey and Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and I forgot who the fourth one is. James Dean, I think. James Dean, yeah. So I had a painting made with me and Rochelle and I hired an artist, Evie, by the

Eva. Eva, I'm sorry. And Lori and Will were in it. But it's called, it's not Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Damn it, what is it? Oh, it's Alley of Despair or something like that. Oh, my God. A riff on that? Well, she legitimately thought that was the name of the painting. Alley of Despair.

Oh, my God. It's something alley. It's like desperation alley or something along those lines. I have it at home, but we had to memorialize that for sure. Let me go to Megan now via Zoom and check in with her. Hi, Megan. Good morning. Morning, Ed. Good morning to see you, Megan. All right. So you have one of these flubs?

I do, and it was really bad. A couple of years ago, I worked for a guy. The business has since closed, so I think I'm safe. But he used to just get caught in the worst situations. And one time he was arguing with

one of our salespeople about the temperature of the office. She's saying it's too cold. It's too cold. He said, it's not too cold. She said, well, it's bad for any women around here. It's real bad. I mean, if you're a young woman and you're trying for something, it's really bad. And around that time, I think my 22-year-old self just rounded the corner and he just wheeled around on me and yelled, do you want to get pregnant? Right?

What? What? I was like, I feel I've missed something. The basic intention was a colder office was more conducive to pregnancy? Yeah. I've...

When I was young, I had just moved in with my boyfriend who became my husband. I was not ready to get pregnant. And I just kind of turned around and left. And he was like, wait, no, no, no, no. That is bizarre. Yeah, that's an HR nightmare. Did he explain how that happened?

Yeah, apparently some conversation he was having earlier with that same person. Just for some reason, that was what leapt into his mind. That like, no one in the office is trying to get pregnant, so it doesn't matter. Oh, my God. Okay, because I've heard that. I've heard that a cooler office is more, and I don't know if that's true or not. The temperature is more conducive to procreating. Really? That's what I've heard. Yeah.

I've never heard that before. That's interesting. Yeah, it seems like BS to me. My dear departed grandfather who used to say, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it. All right. Thank you very much, Megan. Good to talk to you. Desperation Alley. I remember the painting instead of Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

All right, so the guy who made this list, he also had some other categories of the flubs. And feel free to jump in if you want to. You can text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. But he also had said, someone said, we need to make sure deals have some skin in their teeth. It's by the skin of your teeth. And skin in the game. Skin in the game. Skin in the game.

And then there's another one from Body Parts that said, it's no skin on our back. All right. To which O'Brien appended that it sounded like a horrible medical condition. Are there any phrases you've heard recently that you've adopted? Adopted?

Yeah, because sometimes one that there is the one that was quite popular for a while is we need to unpack this. Oh, standard office. Standard office stuff. No circle back. That dog don't hunt. I've heard used frequently recently. There's one that Casey started using. I got it. What? It's something about a wheel. Yeah.

No. No? It was kind of like, oh, yeah. I mean, these are, by the time they get to me, they've been used to death already. You have to understand that. But that tracks. I've heard you say that. That's been out for a while now. For a long time, yeah. Yeah, but I'm late to the game. Very late to the game. On all these. If somebody starts saying something around here, like everybody just jumps on and then I feel like the saying gets so overused. Yeah. Not on the air. Like, what did you say? I said that tracks. Yeah, right. Right. Right.

Is there anything that comes to mind? Yes, and I can't... Let me go on with the story and I will think about it. One that I don't use that a lot of people use is I appreciate you. Oh, yeah. I don't say that either. I say thank you. Yeah, thank you. I say appreciate it. Yeah, appreciate it. I've always said that. Because in general... Well, let me...

Let me assess you now. I have to see, are you someone I actually really appreciate in the broad sense? There are times where I've not appreciated you. I appreciate the act that you've just done. But in general, I don't know if I appreciate you or not. You're on the fence right now. Yeah.

So, in the animals category, here's a couple more flubs that he had. He said, by the way, it was the largest category. There were 80 entries. Somebody had said, I'm not trying to beat a dead horse to death.

And another one said, we need to talk about the elephant in the closet. The gay elephant. That one's good. Another one going back to, let's see here, food related ones. Somebody had said, too many cooks in the soup. And read between the tea leaves. It's just read the tea leaves, right? Read the tea leaves. Or read between the lines. The other one as well.

One person had three duck-related violations, which they don't have the examples for. Yeah, we've got to hear these. Oh, they don't have the examples? Oh, I'd love to hear what the examples were. Ducks in a row, I would assume. Probably. Water off a duck's back. Yeah. If it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck. Recalcitrant like the residue around a duck's ass. Something like that.

And we have another one who is on the line. We're going to go to Kelly via Zoom now. Good morning to you, Kelly. Good morning. How are you guys? We're doing great. So is this a work-related flub or mixed metaphor? Yes. So I had a boss. We were actually in a business meeting with another company trying to partner up with

And the meeting had went really well. And at the end, he said, you know, I think everything went great. We're going to have I'm going to have my head nacho reach out to your head nacho. We're going to go from there. And I let out a little chuckle and we get back in the truck and he goes, you know, I think that went really well. But I think it was a little unprofessional that you laughed at the end of that meeting. I mean, I don't know that you realize what you said. Yeah.

Head nacho. Head nacho. Head nacho. I'm going to have my head nacho reach out to your head nacho and we're going to get this deal going. Did you clarify it to him and did he understand?

I did. And then I saw the look of realization on his face. He said, oh, I love you out on it. Yeah, he did. And I laughed and made it inappropriate. And then there was another time in our office. He had to leave early and he was letting the team know. All right, guys, I got to head out. You guys hold down the fork and I'll see you tomorrow.

Hold down the fork. Nobody say anything. Nobody say anything. Don't tell them. Yeah. Did we ever find out if his entire life he's been saying hold down the fork or that was just a slip of the tongue?

No, I think he's still going to say hold down the fork. Oh, that's bad. I love it. I love it. All right. Thank you, Kelly. Appreciate it. Have a good one, guys. It's the worst if you realize that you've been saying something wrong for a long, long time. So I'll give you an example, and it's a little embarrassing for intern Joe, but he went to the store to...

He had something for us and he came back and he said that they have great paraphaeids. And we're like, paraphaeids? Paraphaeids. And we're like, Joe, do you mean, do you mean parfait? And he's like, no, it's a paraphaeid. Yeah, okay. Where are you getting that eye? Is that like a, you know, a multi-layered treat of some sort? Yeah, yeah. Dude, that's pronounced parfait. Paraphaeids.

Wait, was he also the one or was it a different intern that went for Java and couldn't find it? I think that was somebody else. We sent somebody to go to Wawa to get us some Java and they came back and they were like, dude, they didn't have anything. They didn't have any Java there at all. They don't have coffee? Yeah. He's like...

It was hilarious, man. I didn't know that I... You know, I always said all of a sudden, and I didn't know until the show, until somebody pointed out, probably Nick, that it's all of a sudden. And I was like... And I didn't realize that a lot of people say all of a sudden, Casey, because I've always said all of a sudden, but now I see it all the time. And I mean like...

Well educated. Are saying it that way. People just as a shorthand say all of a sudden. But it's all of a sudden. I still say it. If a large collective of people start to say something a certain way, it becomes the accepted way to say it. That's how pronunciations evolve throughout time.

Yeah. We had our guest on Friday, the wrestler. Oh, my God. Will Ospreay. Yeah. You know, the shorthand in Britain of the TH is using an F. Yeah, yeah. Instead of nothing, it's nothing. Right, yeah. With an F. Or like you were saying, bruv, they use a V instead of a TH. Which is cool. Yeah, it's kind of interesting to see those...

shortcuts that are used. But sometimes you just mess up. And that's what happens pretty regularly. This guy kept track of all of these. The distinction of the top

A person who held the top spot for the board word offenses was a guy named Mike Murphy who had 184 infractions on his list of messy. Well, this goes to that French benefits. That whole thing. We talked about that many times. That commercial where they, was it FedEx or what was it? I don't remember what it was for, but they were correct and they were like, look, we don't make French benefits. We get fringe benefits. Yeah.

And he listed a series of things that he would get wrong. So is he passing the torch to somebody else? That's a good question. I would hope somebody takes over at this company and it goes on for years. If it's fun, keep it going. It's a morale thing. Yeah. A morale booster. Yep.

And we have a whole, we don't have a formal list of them here, but we keep an informal list. Do we still do that? You've done a good thing. Talk about morale boosters. No. Well, are they still? They're on the board. Okay, so we just don't have meetings anymore. See, there's no one here. So we would, they had Bill Weston started it and it's in our kitchen and it's a, you've done good. It says these little piece of paper and it says from and to.

and it would be like, hey, Kathy Romano, you've done good with that Kathy's Cuts event. Thanks for everything. Love and kisses, Preston. And so we would have a meeting. We'd have these meetings like twice a year, three times a year maybe, and we would hand them out, and everyone would read them in the,

in the meeting. I always thought it was pretty nice. Not a long time, but the rock? A bit. The rock of MMR. That got filled. Bill actually, I think, ended that while he was still here because all the plaques were filled up.

Yeah, and almost everybody got one at one time or another or something along those lines. But yeah, we used to do these little kind of team building things. But I think these flubs would be a good, fun way. Sure. As long as people don't get offended by it. If somebody doesn't get upset, they keep going to hell. Yeah, you just go to hell, mister. Suck it. All right, well, anyhow, Kat, thanks for sending that article to me. Yeah, I thought it was fun. All right, we are going to take a quick break. We'll come back. We have a lot to get to, including...

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And I meant to get into this last week, but better late than never. A financial CEO is facing federal charges for allegedly...

choking out a fellow cruise passenger who called his wife an effing bitch for asking him to stop dancing barefoot. This is according to the FBI. The FBI is involved in this. I'm going to kill you. Kenneth DiGiorgio, the 53-year-old CEO of Southern California mortgage lending company First American Financial, attacked the other man in one of the Virgin Voyages ship's cocktail lounges Monday. Hot, hot, hot.

While telling him, I'll effing kill you, according to a federal complaint. Yeah, that's a problem. The other passenger, only identified by the initials M.A., later told federal investigators he felt as if his throat was going to be ripped out. The fracas erupted early Monday in international waters off of Martinique after the CEO's wife, Nicole DiGiorgio...

Asked M.A. to stop dancing barefoot in the Resilient Ladies on the Rocks bar, telling him, look, we're all grownups here. Sure. Can you put your shoes on? And M.A. allegedly shot back with, shut up, you effing bitch.

And he also flipped through the bird. Well, DiGiorgio was then seen on surveillance footage crossing the dance floor and attacking the cursing cruise ship passenger. Grabbing him by the throat and forcing him to the floor. Seems like fun. Security was called and the ship's captain ordered DiGiorgio confined to his room until the next port of call.

The ship's security contacted the FBI to report the assault when the vessel pulled into San Juan, Puerto Rico the following day. Nicole DiGiorgio blamed herself for asking M.A. to put his shoes on while telling agents the other man, quote, never touched her. DiGiorgio refused to speak to the feds without his attorney, according to the complaint. He was charged with assault with maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

His legal team said that the CEO only responded to the actions of an individual who harassed his wife, making her feel threatened and intimidated. We're in international waters. I can choke you. Although charged with simple misdemeanor, Mr. DiGiorgio looks forward to being absolved of any wrongdoing, they said. Sounds like a great time.

A real estate transaction fell apart just one hour before closing after a shocking discovery involving an alleged squatter at the property. The potential buyers, who had been under contract since March 1st, chose to walk away from the deal after encountering a legal complication involving the seller's adult daughter.

According to the prospective buyers, everything appeared to be in order until the final walkthrough, which took place just before the scheduled closing. I mean, like they are ready to sign on the dotted line. Ready to go. During this walkthrough, they discovered the seller's daughter had moved back into the property over the previous weekend.

Her belongings and even her dog have been brought back into the home despite the seller's intention to finalize the sale. Well, that's going to be a problem. The potential buyers allege that local law enforcement called to the property multiple times, confirmed the daughter's claim of tenant rights.

The would-be buyers explained that there was no leasing agreement in place and her name was not on the deed. However, police officers apparently stated that they had visited the property four to five times in the past month and could do nothing as it was now considered a civil matter. Yeah, I mean, going to the courts. The buyers decided to cancel the transaction one hour before closing, citing concerns over the inability to evict the woman without a formal eviction process. Under New York State law, squatters...

Uh, that have lived on a property for more than 30 days are legally protected and must be evicted through the formal court process. In some cases, it may take months, even years to remove squatters from a property, especially when they claim tenant rights. In a similar case, a homeowner showed their struggle, uh, shared their struggle with squatters refusing to leave their property. Uh, they said squatters allegedly told the homeowner to quote, take them to court when asked to leave.

Experts suggest the property owners should avoid taking matters into their own hands and instead pursue eviction through the courts. So, and she was actually a resident of the house prior to that. Yeah. Which makes it even that much more complicated. So here's a terrible story. Apex police said a man drove into and killed a woman who was the grandmother of a child at the center of a custody exchange on Friday night.

officers responded to a home around 10 p.m. to find that a child custody exchange had escalated into an altercation between the father and the grandparents. And during the dispute, the maternal grandmother of the child was hit and killed by a vehicle being driven by the father of Bradford Brown. So it was this exchange. There was an argument and dude went crazy and got in the car and boom, after a short chase on foot,

Brown was arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter. Police said that more charges are possible. Another person in the vehicle is being sought. And police did not identify the grandmother in the release. All right. And this story, the story goes that 60 years ago, and I know you've never heard of this before, but I'll explain. Tunnock's Tea Cakes.

were banned from RAF flights after a cockpit marshmallow explosion. So these are chocolate-covered treats from Britain. And they were allegedly all the rage, eaten by nuclear bomber crewmen on training sorties at the height of the Cold War. But in the summer of 1965, a captain and student pilot forgot they had placed unwrapped tea cakes above their instrument panels...

And when the captain pulled an emergency depressuring switch, the iconic Scottish treat erupted, leaving a sticky mess all over the airmen, the instruments, and the cockpit canopy. And now the RAF Center of Aerospace Medicine has given them the all-clear-to-fly again after tests in an altitude chamber found.

that the tea cakes do not explode. Can't fly without my tea cakes. The experiments were covered by the British Forces Broadcasting Service. First, the tea cakes were put into an altitude chamber, normally used in the training of new fast jet pilots.

and were lifted to 8,000 feet, climbing at 4,000 feet per minute. Then, they were rapidly decompressed to 25,000 feet in three seconds to see if it would blow up. What are they dropping nuclear bombs for when they have this stuff? As air pressure in the chamber decreased, the air inside the tea cakes expanded until the chocolate cracked and the mellow filling puffed out. We're looking at a time-lapse footage of these things popping up, and it's pretty cool. It was also discovered that when they were frozen, uh,

when they were frozen before being placed at the chamber, their hardened shells were more resilient to crackling at altitude.

Pilots have been offered some advice by Dr. Oliver Bird, an instructor at the RAF Center of Aerospace Medicine. I think I can be of some help. He said the best advice is that the snacks are kept frozen and in their foil wrappings until pilots are ready to consume them. May I suggest you bring along tubs of spotted dick instead? Now, Fergus Loudon, sales director at Tunnock's,

which is based in Uddingston near Glasgow, Scotland, said, if we really are talking about the people who fly our supersonic jet bombers, then I'm inclined to think that Tudducks tea cakes wouldn't be their highest thing on the list of worries. But I'm glad to hear that they can now enjoy them like everybody else with Uddingston.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. A real quick couple of shout-outs, if you guys don't mind, I got this. It says, hey, I want to request a big ol' birthday shout-out to my wife, Taina Forseth.

And I make her listen to the show anytime we're on the road. He makes her listen. And when you guys play fart sounds, she can't help but laugh. She's very immature, he says. Her birthday is on April 2nd, but any day that week would be great since I watch the show daily on YouTube. I'm bound to catch it.

Thank you guys for all you do every day. That is from Nelson for Seth. And here is a shout out to your wife there, buddy. And thanks for watching via YouTube. And then I got this curious chart out.

From Larry Grake, writes me a lengthy email. He starts off by saying, congrats on 20 years at MMR for the President's Chief Show. I've listened to you and Steve on the WDRE days for years since you were there. And then he lists all this stuff of why he listens and what he's into and everything. And then at the end he says, so I will be listening that day for my chart out.

The problem is in the email, he doesn't mention what day. Oh, no. No, I'm sorry. He says I'll be turning 51 on the 22nd. Oh, well. I'm way in advance of this. That's okay. So, Larry, this is way in advance. He says, signed a disabled firefighter paramedic that also worked on the medic unit that serves your areas due to bad heart issues. I am disabled, but I still get blood when I can. So, Larry, here's an advance happy birthday to you, brother. Oh.

And thanks for checking in. And I got some butt plugs, but I'll do. Oh, wait, let me do this other shout out real quick. Big congratulations. This is from Casey Gar. She says, big congratulations to the Philadelphia Junior Flyers girls, 19A double elite team.

2025 Chipotle USA Hockey National Champions. What a title. This junior Flyers team playing out of Westchester is the first team in the history of the organization to take home the gold medal at Nationals.

The game-winning goal was scored about 30 seconds into overtime by defenseman Kylie Chandler to win the championship. And these girls worked so hard all season for this outcome. And on behalf of all their parents, we are so proud of you girls. So here's a big shout-out to those guys. Congratulations! That's huge news.

Excellent. Love it. Last week, Nick got to the honor to speak in front of a crowd of high school students. It was a career day, Nick? Yeah, Conestoga High School. And I'm going to start this story by saying, speaking of shout outs, and we're going to give a shout out to Carrie D'Angelo. Casey, she is...

Your spirit animal. Oh, yeah. She came down. She met you at Katie Ledecky signing last year. Yeah. Carrie's the nicest person on the planet. And she says, will you please send this out to the sexy teacher that you went to high school with back in the day?

I need to be Casey's best friend. So, Casey, I'm just going to put that out there. All right. You and Carrie are going to be best friends. Oh, well, I already have a couple of best friends. I'll put her in the line. She's on the list. Yeah. So, yeah, I spoke at Conestoga. That's where I went to high school. I graduated in 93. And it was really cool. Thanks so much to you guys. Remember Don Braun used to work? Yes. Yeah. And so his wife's name is Jeannie Braun and Don and Jeannie. Don actually spoke at Career Day as well.

and then Jeannie invited me on, and a person named Shannon Cho invited me to be a speaker, and it was really cool. I've done it a couple times before. It was neat to be back in the high school, and walk through the halls of the high school is always a bizarre thing, even though I grew up here, and I see it fairly frequently. Anytime you go back, and you're in there, and you go into the cafeteria or whatever, it's just kind of like a...

Strange, bizarre walk into the past. What an honor it must be to influence young minds and hold them in the palm of your hand. Yeah. Hanging on your every syllable. Learning from the wise words.

how they too can go into the professional realm and succeed. It's such a crapshoot, Steve, because the lady that spoke before me was educated. She was an author. She was brilliant. And she's written all these kids' books over the years. And then one of the other people that spoke that day was like an orthopedic surgeon who has like triple PhDs and educated out the ass. And I'm like, well, I went to college for seven and a half years. This is what I do now.

But it was fun because I started an interest in radio at Conestoga. They had a tiny little radio station that broadcast to the other side of the school. And the first time I ever did a radio show anywhere, it was at Conestoga. So I just kind of talked to them about my path and how a part-time job led to a job in the promotions department, which led to working for Pierre, which led to working for you guys, which was 20 years ago. So like...

That path of it was kind of interesting. Were they good? And good to share. Half of them were interested in what I had to say. The other half were glad that it was not class. That's what I was going to ask. Were you speaking at an assembly, like in the auditorium? Okay, because I've done two different types of things. One was like an assembly, and you're like, whatever. And then another one I did, both at Cardinal O'Hara, is I spoke four different times to four different classes. So I had a class of freshmen, sophomore, juniors, and seniors.

And I thought the sophomores were the worst. They just, you know, they didn't care. They're there for school. Yeah. Yeah. We're like, we want to learn. Yeah. There were some there were some students who had interested pointed questions about like, you know, how to get into radio or communications or whatever, you know, podcasting, all that kind of thing. And then there were kids that were just there because it was a free period and they didn't actually have to go to class. So, you know, speaking to both sides of it was.

was fun and you just kind of i mean you guys have been there you navigate through it the best you possibly can yeah we spoke at the uh the uh correctional facility oh my god shaping young minds and not only were we sure that not one single individual including the people that had us there gave a rat's ass about what we're talking about we weren't so sure we're going to leave there with our lives i thought i was going to get stabbed yeah at some point it was scary two weeks ago i spoke to a class at mercer county community college and it was um

communications majors and people who were very interested in getting into broadcasting. And it was via Zoom. I just did it here in the studio to those students. But Steve, they were really into it. It was cool because it was kids who were like, I mean, I say kids, 18 to 22 year old young adults who want to get into what we do for a living. So they had great questions. So thanks to Professor Cantor who invited me to be a part of that one. We spoke to a class and in that class was a young Sarah Parker.

Wow. It was at Drexel. It was at Drexel. That's awesome. That was cool. We shaped a young mind that day. We did. We did. Every now and then, I've done a few of those. And every now and then, you get somebody that will challenge you. And I remember years and years ago, there was just some guys that were just...

and I was working at Y100 at the time, and I think they might have been like YSP fans or something like that, and they were just not into me being there, and I remember them just like coming after me. Yeah, yeah. And I was just like, I,

I was asked to come here. Come in some slack, man. I'll tell you about what I do. That's when you go over to the door, you lock it, and you go, now yous can't leave. Now yous can't leave. You little jerk swan. Now yous can't leave. Steve, and then you get the pool stick and you break it in half, right? We're having our day.

Today we're going to learn a lesson. No, but it's cool. You got to go do it. Yeah. And when you do speak to students who are actually interested in what you have to do or say for a living, and there are some great collegiate programs like Rowan, like Drexel, you know, and Temple that offer up these types of programs. So if you're interested in getting into, you know, this type of career, it's a fascinating path. Yeah. Well, we're heading, we're getting towards the end of the screen.

school year. This is crazy. How did that happen? Ben's a senior and he's got less than a month left and then they do senior project to end their senior year. A lot of high schools do these senior internship things, so it's

This month, then prom, then senior internship, then graduation. I think you were out, Nick. You were sick when Casey had pointed out, you, me, and him, we all have seniors in high school. My youngest is a senior. It's crazy. You're only as a senior. Casey's next to the youngest is a senior. It's crazy, dude. My rescue dog is a senior. Wow. Yeah.

It is. It actually is. Case, I know for a fact that when I returned my tuxedo to Aikabuchi, there was a young man coming in to pick up a tuxedo for an event that was the prom. Yeah, that young man's father actually did that for him instead. That young man also gave the wrong dates.

for his own prom. So thank God that young man's father came in and fixed everything for him. Is there some miscommunication between that young man and that young man's father? You're not getting all the information? I mean, that guy's dad might have

Not get all the information he needs? That young man wanted to go and do this all on his own. And so that young man's father allowed him to do that. And that young man's father then came to realize that that young man had everything wrong. He had the wrong date for his prom? For his own prom, yeah. But, I mean, in his defense, he was supposed to go to a different prom. And then that ended up not happening. And so he ended up going to the Villa Maria prom on Friday night. And then, you know, there were like after parties and stuff like that. And so he was going to go to one after party.

And then realized that it was just like kind of too out of hand. And he's like tapped out and just ended up going home, which I think was, you know. So we're on the height of it now, right? Yeah. So my buddy, his son went to the O'Hara Junior Prom, I think was on Friday night. And then they all went to like Poconos afterwards. Like, yeah. So my buddy...

all these people to the Poconos at like 10 o'clock on Friday night and then drove home. Enjoy your sex. Wow. Well, that's the ongoing conversation and it's Poconos for you and me, Casey. I think it was a lot of Jersey Shore parties and then parties around here. I know for a bunch of people in my high school was Jersey Shore, but for whatever reason, renting a house in the Poconos has become a thing and it's an issue because look, there

There are a lot of arguments to be made for providing a safe place. If kids are going to drink, give them a place to do that, right? Instead of having them be out and about. And I understand that argument. If that argument takes the kids up to the Poconos away from any semblance of where the parents actually are, it starts to get to be a pretty muddled gray area. It becomes Poconoles. Yeah, Poconoles and lots of drinking. And look, you don't know the cops. You don't know the scene up there. It's a strange...

world to navigate and I'm not quite sure what the right answer is. Well, and a parent's got to sign for that because they can't rent the houses on their own. At least, I mean, when I was a kid, we did go to the Jersey Shore, Nick, and one of the parents signed for the house for us. Did that parent have, by the way, since I never had any of this, you know, I was never part of the prom experience that much, did

Did the parent who was renting... Go with you? No. Or give the talk like, you have this up, I'll slit your throats. I think with their child, but there was 20 of us. We all piled in. You don't care. We didn't care what that parent thought. Oh, we might get him in trouble. No, you hope that each parent is doing that for...

for their child and that at some point, you know, maybe it like, it lands on, you know, one, two or three of the kids or whatever. But, uh... What I'm kind of struggling with, Casey, is that it's not just one group of kids going to a house in the Poconos. It's a lot of kids that are all going to do similar types of things. And so...

The more high school kids you have in the same general small area, there's going to be that group that's a bunch of F-ups that are going to make a ton of mistakes. And so, like, I trust my kid. I trust his friends. But only to a point. They're 18-year-old kids, you know? Totally. Excuse my – so I've been hearing things lately about the lack or that there is an erosion –

of the days of the animal house sort of stuff. I think that that's true. Okay, so there's been an erosion in that. Doesn't mean those flames can't be fanned when you allow them to go...

to something like this they're still 18 steve right yeah right so like even if it's not keg parties and and uh you know the delta house every weekend it's still a bunch of high school kids that want to get together and have sex and maybe get high or get drunk or whatever and so like and it's also that delicate balance of like all right i want them to go out and have fun and be high school kids i also don't want to get the call at two in the morning that something's gone terribly wrong or that he's been arrested or both

It's a weird thing about acknowledging and condoning. You don't want to condone. Like you were saying earlier, we were all in high school at some point. You know what I mean? Some of us drank in high school. Some of us did not. So we do know that person's individual decision comes into play as well. Like my daughter, I know for a fact, didn't drink during high school. And even she's in college right now. And I don't think that that's her path right now.

You know? It's weird. You don't want to condone it. And that's the thing. You don't want to condone it. Yeah. And I sure as hell don't want to put myself in a situation where I get in trouble for turning a blind eye, which might also look like I'm condoning. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. You don't want what they're doing to affect their OnlyFans accounts. Right. Right.

I was talking, Casey, at Career Day last week at Conestoga with some of the teachers about what are the kids up to these days? And Steve, to answer your question, they hear fewer stories of...

what what we went through in high school where there were full-blown house parties but there's still plenty of drinking you know what a serious issue is uh vaping you know because they don't know what they're vaping they can be vaping pretty much anything they put in the cartridge or whatever uh there's still plenty of kids that are doing weed and so like it's uh doing weed they are doing the grass casey and they're doing it hard

Marijuana pot. They're doing the marijuana pot. Are you doing reefer? Yeah. Like a bunch of ne'er-do-wells. Maybe even hooligans. All this tomfoolery. I know. A bunch of chuckleheads. Valley who?

So anyway, all this stuff is floating out there. And it's just like, you know, again, I trust my kid and I trust his friends, but I don't know how far they're going to take it. And if they're two hours away, how much further will they think about taking it because they're two hours away? Would you consider borrowing Casey's ghillie suit? Oh, my God. You could watch them all weekend.

You can protect them is what you're doing. Right, yeah. I got him. I got him inside. Is that your dad in a tree? No. No. Quiet eating. I'm a flying squirrel. They have them up here.

I don't know how, Kathy, they're getting the house because it has to be right. Well, there's it's a it's an Airbnb rental. Right. And so and so it's somebody who's over 25 signed off on it. We have we're not we don't have a prom thing coming up, but we do have senior week.

coming up, and we were asked to provide the residence for senior week, and we said, well, if one of us can be there, and then we got the, oh, no, no, no. Well, then we gave the, oh, no, no, no, no. No way. You're not wrecking our house. That is a liability. So someone, I don't know who, has offered to rent out a place and put it in their name. Down the shore. Down the shore. Wow.

And Kate May. Wow. And somebody's taking that responsibility on. And we're not going to tell our kid, no, you can't go to this. Yeah. So they're going to go. I don't think anything's going to happen. But from a liability's sake, we stepped up and said, no, we're not going to be a part of this, man. We have helicopter coverage of it.

And even if it's not some raucous, over-the-top, booze-filled, you know, bodies flying out the window thing, somebody could literally just fall down the stairs, injure themselves, and if we're not there, next thing you know, we're in some kind of legal trouble. So that's, you know, that's my concern. Somebody could go sliding on the banister and break both wrists, for example. Oh, my God. Yeah.

That was me, by the way. Referring to for those who don't know. Here's my point in sharing that, Preston. It's like you were an idiot and I was an idiot. We were all idiots at a certain age and we made dumbass mistakes and somehow, someway got through it. But there are also the horror stories that stick in your brain where you're like, I don't want my son to be that idiot. I don't want him to hurt himself or God forbid hurt somebody else. That's where you get

For me anyway, that's where the struggle is. God, when I broke my wrist, my parents were in Japan. They were out of town. Is that when you changed the message on the... I did, yeah. Oh, that was all part of the same big...

trip. Did you go to the hospital? I did. And what did your parents say when they found that? I don't remember. If you would like to share in this conversation, feel free to reach out to us. You can text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333 and we will send you today's daily link to get on board if anybody wants to share a part of their experience because it is prom season right now. I remember I went to

I had already graduated, but my girlfriend was a senior in high school. She was a year younger than me. And we went to her prom. And after that, because she went to a different school than I did. And somebody's aunt let us have their house.

after that party. So we ended up using that. And once again, I don't know who she was. I just was like, yeah, we got a place to go. All right, great. And we did. We stayed there that night and some of us got naked. And I remember we actually had to break in. We had to go through the kitchen window because they didn't have a key. Was the house destroyed? No, we didn't. I don't think we... I mean, just maybe the screen got broken or something like that. When you climbed through the window? Climbed through the window. Oh, my God.

But no, I don't remember there being any damage or anything like that. Did you guys ever go to any house parties where there was real extensive damage? Oh, yeah. Yeah, same. Yes. Give us the worst. Oh, my God. So I wasn't there to see this part happen, but this was just a regular party, okay? And I didn't even know who this person's house was. It was back in the day where you would just gravitate. You would hear word of a party and you would go and just go in and see if you knew people because you could see where the cars were.

But this house, Steve, they had a, it was a replica of like a three-masted ship. Oh, wow. And it was huge. It was, it had to have been four or five feet tall, something like that. It was in this big glass case that I kid you not, we're looking, just to give you guys some perspective, it was about, not this entire console, but maybe like from here to the end of that console. It was that big. Big thing. That's spectacular. And it was in there. And I heard,

I heard that the party got so out of hand that at some point somebody broke that thing open and took that ship out of there. And was like, you know, walking around with it. And

And that was the rumor. I would like to find out if that was true or not. But that one I heard was, yeah, way out of hand. Yeah, a friend of mine hosted one of those parties and it wasn't supposed to be that. It was her parents were away. Actually, her mom was away and she invited friends over to have a party and it turned into everybody found out about it. Everyone showed up and her house got...

Absolutely destroyed. It was terrible. It's a risky business. But she didn't want that either. It really was one of those ones where another knock at the door. Another knock at the door. Dude, Steve, I remember two times at two different parties I was at. One was at the Lampros twins' house. Another one was at Ricky Rodriguez's family's land that they had. They were landscapers. Anyway... You just needed a place. Those two times...

Police helicopters. Police helicopters. I mean, the light shining down, the whole thing. It was... Police helicopters. Yeah. And that was the one at Ricky Rodriguez's was the first gig I ever played. We were the band. Oh, my God. You're in that helicopter. You're in that helicopter. We were the band at that. And we were like, immediately, we were like, jeez. Get all our stuff out of here. I started packing all my drums up immediately to get the hell out of there. But...

And the St. Louis County police had a helicopter called the Brown Hornet. Oh, wow. Yeah.

The Brown Hornet. God. Honest to God, though. You don't have anything better to do with your time and money than to chase high school kids in a helicopter. Things could degenerate. It has happened. All right. We have via Zoom Sam. No, not via Zoom. It's that Sam. Oh, our Sam. He's got to come in here. Okay. So when he gets in here, he's got a post-prom story.

that we definitely have to, because I can't read exactly what it says. I think that's supposed to say friend. When he's coming in, Casey and Preston, have you guys ever been down the shore at your beach houses while seniors have been down there? Have you been down for senior week?

My wife was down there last year. I don't think so. What was it like for your wife? Was it obnoxious? No. I mean, people don't really see me weekend Wobbler Crushed. It's more of like a Wobbler thing than anything else. It's more family oriented. But yeah, but my daughter, we actually allowed her to use our house because we knew that we could trust her. She was going to be like by the study. Nick, I saw a bust on the beach. Like they were all drinking on the beach. They were out of hand. Cool. The cops came on and took them all away. Yeah.

So now we have Sam. All right. What's up, Sam? Hi. How's it going, everybody? Good, buddy. How you doing? All right. So you have a post-prom? Yes. So prom weekend. We got a motel down the shore. I'm not a big partier, you know, but one of my friends was. And we had like three or four different rooms. We were all in different rooms. And, you know, legally, we weren't drinking, you know, for legal reasons. But my friend got very sick.

Who knows why? Probably ate something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we didn't know until the next morning. So we all wake up and we go outside to the front, out front of the motel. And there's something leaking through the wall in front of his room. And it was vomit. Oh! Yeah. Leaking through the wall. Yeah. He took it into...

I don't understand. So he was in the corner. So the bed was like near the corner, the wall facing the parking lot. Yeah. So he just kind of leaned over and just... And it leaked out. Yeah. I hosed it down because I'm a hero. You know, sometimes you can step up, you know? Yeah. Wow. Nobody ever found out. I mean, the motel didn't find out. We all know though. So we hold that over his head now. That's great. Did he get a nickname from that or anything? No, no. We're just like, hey, remember that time you puked and it leaked through the wall and we had to hose it down? Yeah.

That's some resilient vomit. That's a lot of puke. Wow. All right. Thank you, Sam. Yeah. You know, I don't hear... Every now and then you'll hear about like a social media post about there's going to be a party in this place and it gets...

out of control hundreds of kids and you know destruction and stuff like that but it doesn't happen as often as i remember hearing about it back in my day i've actually heard of people calling the cops on themselves i did that oh to get out of the party yeah yeah absolutely yeah yeah i did that there were people that showed up my parents are out of town i don't know where they were this time

why did my parents leave town? That was going on. But I remember a group of people that showed up. I did not know them. They were starting to make me feel uncomfortable. They were like, you know, like getting into our personal stuff in the house. I'm like, okay, that's it. I'm done. And we're trying to, all right, everybody got to leave. Let's go. We got to get, you got to get out of here. Everybody leave. No.

Nobody budges. Not one person leaves. But the second you say, cops are here, boom, they're gone. Yeah, my buddy literally watched everybody get arrested at a party at his house. Was he up in a tree? He was in a tree. He ran out the back door and climbed up the tree and just watched it all unfold. I mean, he still got in trouble. He just didn't get arrested that night.

Ours was the parents coming home. We had the same house we would go to. And I don't even, like, we still laugh about it today because we knew they were coming home. They worked at a restaurant. They owned a restaurant. And when the restaurant would close, they would come home. You'd think like by, you know, senior year, we would know what time they were going to be home. We ran every weekend. Every weekend. It was like,

Alvino's are home and we were out the door and we had to just run every single weekend. How did they let it happen over and over again? I think partially. I don't know, but I think...

partially not that they didn't care but if it was like under control it was okay that a few people were there but like it would often get out of control and like i said all of us running every single weekend in their backyard maybe they felt comforted knowing that at least that was the location and so if it descended at least it'd be somewhat under control by the way a couple of texts coming in that nick highlighted are indicating that some pocono houses will rent to 18 year olds

Really? Which is not many, but some will. We told our kids, you get busted drinking your scholarship that you just got to go into college will likely go away. Make a good choice. And then there were a couple other texts that came in and said that, yeah, they will rent to 18-year-olds. 18? Wow. So the short answer is you must be 18 or older to rent out a property on Airbnb. What? I thought they modified that. Hmm.

Airbnb, I guess, is just a different animal. You know, because like motels, you can't rent cars. Like all that's, you know, motels, hotels, cars. So there's exceptions based on local laws and specific Airbnb policies. And then obviously it's up to the owner if they want to rent to somebody that has. If I owned a Pocono house, no way in hell would I ever rent it. You know, like even if it was through an Airbnb or a Vrbo or whatever, there's no way I would ever do that. But you know what? I mean, I feel like sometimes...

that's what the houses are for. Large groups, not, maybe not kids, you know, senior week or anything like that, but they're, they're meant for a large group who's coming in to party. I stayed at one once. It was a terrible experience. Actually, it was the only time I ever stayed at an Airbnb. I'm sure there are wonderful ones, but,

The pictures online looked great. It had great reviews, probably because all of the kids going in were giving it great reviews when they left. But I mean, it was definitely a party house. Okay. It was... When you got there, it was like... Yeah, it was gross. It was... Yeah. Like it just was... You know, doors were broken and whatever. And I assume that they would be...

People that rent out those are prepared to not have it as cleaned up as it should be. Totally. And just they can maybe charge because you can get an extra charge for not following the guidelines. Right, yeah. So maybe they just bank on that. Maybe that's part of the deal. They charge more, way more than you'd normally charge. I don't know. So that you can gain access at the age of 18. Oh, my God. If I was 18 and back when I was 18, if we had the ability to rent our own place online,

On our own. Oh, my God. Remember how hard you had to fight in front of the town council president to get them to allow that dance at the...

At the warehouse? Yes. I mean, you really... I had to read Bible scriptures to them for crying out loud and show them. And you made the point that if we don't trust our kids, how will they ever become trustworthy? That's right. Exactly. Wow. So, all right. Well, that's all happening right now. Yeah. The prom season is in full swing. By the way, Ben's prom is at the National Constitution Center at the end of the month. I was like, man, that's a really nice place for a prom. We had ours at a Holiday Inn somewhere. Yeah.

You know, it was fine. Both had an impact on the country. Constitution Center. I was like, you guys are classing up to join. Ours was at the Adams Mark, which doesn't exist anymore. Okay. Yeah, they actually had breathalyzers at ours. You know, when you were walking through there, you know, if they thought you were a little... We got threatened with that, but they didn't actually have

them there. Us too. And they were laying down the law ahead of time. Marissa, you got something? Yeah, we had a smaller school so we had to do a reception line and say hello to the principal, say hello to all the teachers as we were walking out. Were they sniffing your breath as you were coming across? Yeah, I mean they were like, hi Marissa, how are you doing today? Do you guys know, I had a party. There weren't

It wasn't as cool as yours, Preston, but I got a letter sent to the whole school. Because of your party? Because of my party. Really? That's pretty epic. You mean that helicopter?

I think it just kind of said like, we're aware of the party that happened over the weekend. There was an incident that was held from a seniors. Like it was the coolest I've ever felt in my life because I remember these sophomores or juniors showing up and they weren't invited and they were like standing on the stairs in my basement. And they were like, can we come in? Hey, did you save that letter?

I think my parents have it. Because Pierre, we all know that Pierre has one. That's what I was going to tell. Pierre has a letter in his bathroom from the principal of the school. Oh, that's hilarious. That a recent party was held by Mr. Robert. And it's hilarious. Hang on to stuff like that. You guys know my family. We just hold on to everything. So I know it exists. We might have taken some liberties. We did. We did. All right.

All right, well, good luck with everything. Yeah. As we head into prom season, all those who are the warriors with the children of that age. Yeah, but listen, it's an important time for some people, and hopefully they'll have a good time. Make good choices. Make good choices.

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All right, thanks, Kath. Yes, we've been talking about this for a couple weeks now, the fact that we're having our next guest on. Excited to talk to him. And has some shows coming up this summer in our area. July 11th is going to be a part of the I Want My 80s tour. It's going to be at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, along with another friend of ours, Mr. John Waite. Love him. And Wang Chung and John Cafferty. And then playing in Bethlehem at the Wind Creek Event Center on July 13th. We just played the new single called Lose Myself.

And we are very stoked to have joining us, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Rick Springfield. Hey, Rick. How you doing, man?

I'm good. I'm good. It's nice to hear a play on song that isn't Jesse's girl. I had my finger on the button. I didn't hit it. I didn't hit it. But listen, and I want to touch on this new song right off the bat because it's a part of the upcoming Greatest Hits Volume 2 package from what I understand. Is this the only new piece of music that's going to be on that or do you have a few other songs that are going to be a part of that as well?

Yeah, there's some other unreleased things on it. It's like the best of the last 20 years. There's a song I did with the Foo Fighters called The Man That Never Was. It was put out on the Sound City soundtrack, but it's never really been heard very much. There's a song with Sammy Hagar I did called Party at the Beach Bar.

A new version of Jessie's Girl, believe it or not, because everybody says it's Jessie's Girl on this album. So we had to put it on. But yeah, there's some very cool cuts on it. I'm very excited about the record. With the song, Lose Yourself. Now, here's the deal. I lose myself. I will listen to the song for years.

And then one day, a decade later, I'll go, oh, that's what that's about. You know, I mean, like, what does the song Lose Myself? What did you write this about? Well, it's about getting involved with somebody where you throw everything away and you know it's the worst thing you could possibly do, but you can't help yourself. It's the obsession song.

And if you've had it in your life, then...

I'm sorry. Well, it's part of your growth. It's the best. Well, it's the best of both worlds and can be. I mean, if you can lose yourself to someone who becomes that person, that's great. If you lose yourself to someone who's destructive. But I love the tone of it. It's funny because the way it was presented, Rick, we had our program director. We're an active rock station and we play, you know, some of the oldest stuff and new stuff.

and been that way since the station's inception, basically. But our program director, Chuck Tomiko, came to a number of the guys on the show and said...

I want you to hear this song. I want you to hear this song. And it became the big buzz thing. Who's who's who's who is this? And then when they told her it was you, everyone was like, oh, like, awesome. Like he's still he's he's cranking out stuff that's still vital and still works on this format. Is that sort of a feather in your cap that, you know, rock station like MMR and I think some others, I hope some others are playing the song as well, because it still works, still speaks to the format.

Yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, as I get older, I think I get better at my craft. I'm hoping I do. If I don't, then I probably should be stopping. But I love writing, I love recording, and I have more to say than, you know, obviously...

Like I said, as I get older, you've got more to talk about. Right. So, you know, I'm a guitar player, and I always have been, and most of my stuff is guitar bass, and it fits your type of radio style.

Initially, back in the 80s, you know, they were playing me and then they found out I was on a soap opera and they dropped it. It took me a while to kind of get some credibility that, you know, I'm a musician rather than just an actor that, you know, got lucky with a song. Yeah, I remember that. I remember that clearly when that happened with you because you were really battling against that stereotype because there were...

who took the shot at singing or performing and they really had to try to break into that world. You were the other way around. You started off as a musician and then found your way into acting. So that had been a disappointing thing to go up against. Yeah, it was. It was a drag because I started playing when I was 13 and I came over to America from Australia and

um when i was 22 to pursue music and i just kind of fell into the acting thing um but but i mean you know i i i love acting now i mean i've done some some uh real interesting things you know i did the meryl street movie and i've done uh true detective and and american horror stories and californication and some things that i can really uh expand on but um

The initial thing, you know, coming out of a soap, I get it. I mean, I totally get it. It was a dumb move to think that I could, you know, go, yeah, I'm a musician, but I'm on this dopey soap opera, too. You know, it was a challenge. It's been a challenge. But, you know, I love to write. Like I said, I love to play. And when people come to the show, like the summer show, they're always blown away. So...

I'd rather have that than be disappointed. No, you got to do what you have to do. And you kind of let life handle, you know, move things along for you. But you in Australia, and I didn't, you know, really realize this, but you were you did a documentary or you worked on a documentary or a part of one about Bon Scott, who apparently was a contemporary of yours. And you guys had a

competing bands and you were in that realm and then you brought up the name I was reading an interview with you Rick and this is a guy I'd never heard of Hank Marvin is that correct is that the guy's name that's the guy and he's like revered by so many musicians explain who he is and explain his legend well I moved to England when I was a kid I was about 10 years old and moved to England

And there was this band called The Shadows, and Hank Marvin was the first English guitar hero. Before it had all been American. And you ask Jimmy Page, you ask Eric Clapton, you ask Brian May, you ask any of those guys who inspired them to play guitar, who really kind of said, oh, I can do this. It was Hank Marvin. I mean, Eric Clapton stopped a concert one time when Hank Marvin walked in and said, I want you guys to acknowledge this man. He was the first guy with a Fender guitar.

Because we couldn't get Fenders or Gibsons outside of America. They were too expensive back then. This was like the 50s and the 60s. And Hank was a guy that we all looked up to and said, well, if he can do it, he's English. If he can do it, then we can. It's not just an American thing. And he's still revered. I mean, I bet he's not known in America hardly, which is a shame, but he's a brilliant, brilliant player.

Rick, you had mentioned Dave Grohl's name earlier. Dave has become the ultimate...

rock and roll ambassador in my mind. And one of the things that I thought was so cool is when that Sound City documentary came out and he is setting up your appearance on it. And I'll paraphrase. He says, you know, I called everybody in my phone book and I told him, you know who's coming by today? Rick effing Springfield. And did your...

Your level of cred shoot way up when a guy like that gives you that shining of an endorsement to a younger audience that maybe only know you from Jesse's Girl.

Yeah, I'm sure it has some some bleed over, you know, I was just excited to be involved in the project. And, you know, and certainly getting involved with other people. I mean, even doing something like Californication, I started getting high fives from all these college kids on the road. You know, yeah, it's just it's just a different experience.

a different um group of people that that you're introduced to through this i mean through sammy hagar i have a rum company with sammy and we've done some shows together and i've known him since the 80s you know and and uh that you know you cross over on a lot of different uh um a lot of different audiences because of the the link and i think that's that's a great thing and i you know i've

Very happy to be involved in it always. I have to ask, and I'm dying to ask right now. Behind you, you have an awesome model of the Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It's spectacular. I know you collect things. Are you a genre collector like that? Because it appears to be. I don't know what's on your wall, but it looks like ray guns of some sort. Ray guns, yeah, ray guns. Yeah.

I'm a big steampunk fan. I think my studio probably has...

This is my studio. It probably has more steampunk stuff in it, hopefully, than the rest of my house. But yeah, I love the... I am a collector. I have a lot of interesting collections. And that was actually the artist's proof of the Nautilus. It's amazing. It's spectacular. Rumor has it, confirm or deny, that you have some pieces of the Titanic in your collection. I do. Wow. Wow. How did you come by that?

Just keep my eyes open. You know, like I said, I'm a collector and I know being a collector, I know a lot of people in the different genres and and I get contacted or I contact them. I have some amazing collections. Some of them I can't really talk about it, but it's some pretty, pretty wild stuff. OK, we won't pressure you on that. Musicians out. Yeah.

Rick, we've referenced Jessie's Girl a couple times during this conversation. You have lived with that song more than any of us have. It's your baby. You wrote it. You've performed it a gazillion times. And I'm sure like any musician or artist, at some point you might fade in and out of love with a song like that because it's so successful. You're expected to play it every time. People hear it when you're introed onto an interview. It's played.

but it's got to be the gift that keeps on giving. This little thing that you created out of thin air is still just as strong as it ever was and expected, and, I mean, it's just got to be a little piece of magic in your life. Yeah, it is. It's really...

Like Dave, actually Dave Grohl said that before, his life is before never mind and after never mind. And it's that thing that changes you.

And it is a gift because it really comes out of nowhere. I mean, I've been struggling for 10 years and written, I thought, some good songs and had a couple of good albums out. And suddenly this one song, it was the DJs of America that picked it too, by the way. It wasn't the record company. That was back when, you know, like you guys, when you're playing stuff because you like the song, it doesn't happen a lot on radio, hardly ever.

anymore but back in the 80s uh they started playing it because i liked the song and they got phones and they said the record company used to release as a single and the record company went okay were you uh were you initially like um oh that one that's the one that that they really like

I thought there was, well, when the Working Class Dog came out, radio stations started playing a couple of the songs. They started playing a song called Everybody's Girl, Light of Love, and there were some very pop, you know, similar songs to Jessie's Girl on there, and I thought there were better songs than Jessie's Girl. But, you know, history is what it is, and I'm very happy that they picked Jessie's Girl because it seems to have

Girl on legs beyond what I did, you know. Well, listen, it's a blessing, obviously, and your catalog is that much fuller. But now that we have you, you might as well ask, because I always hear stories bandied back and forth. Was the original title Randy's Girl, and was it in fact Gary whose girl it was? Well, the original guy was Gary. His real name was Gary, but it...

to all the Gary's out there, it didn't really work in the song, sorry. So I tried Randy for some freaking reason. I thought Randy would really work. And I actually have the original lyrics that I wrote as I wrote them out. And I have Randy's girl and I've had all crossed out like that and Jesse's girl written underneath it. So I finally came up with the right name. I wanted to ask you, you were talking about how acting, and you're successful in acting, obviously. You listed off some of the things you've done and we've loved you and all that stuff. And you were just in general hospital and

A huge, a phenomenon. You've been candid about your depression in the past, and you talk about...

really struggling to get your the music and so on and so forth and then you're you're the coin is completely flipped and now you're just getting tons of adulation and recognition and that presents a whole new issue of how that's processed do you remember that point when was there one epiphany where it occurred to you that oh my god i am anonymity is out of the uh has left the barn at this point yeah um

It's very weird. I've been trying for a long time, and when it finally hit, it was like, oh, geez, it took you long enough. It wasn't like, really, it wasn't like, oh, my God, this is so great. I'm a big visualizer, and I envisioned it so many times that I knew what it was going to be like almost. And it was. It is like that.

Um, the, the hard, the hardest thing for me was actually was learning to trust people because, uh, you get a lot of people coming in trying to snake, you know, and, and win you over and get a piece of it. And that's, that was the hardest thing for me. I, um,

I still have a trust issues because of that. It's gotta be because you have a lot of people who are, you know, the classic hangers on and so on and so forth. Let me ask you something that's totally detached from this, but you have a unique style of playing the guitar. And I remember in a hard to hold, uh, you know, you, you have this, this real sort of Townsend sort of, um, strong that you do. It was that something that you made the conscious effort to, to do, or did it just come naturally to you as a guitar player?

No, I just moved naturally on stage. You know, Pete is obviously...

was one of my big role models as a guitar player. I was actually, I saw them in Australia in 1966. We've got a lot of, I saw the Beatles in 64 too, but I saw the Who in 66 and Pete Townshend, I was going into my favorite guitar store the next day and Pete Townshend was walking out and I still see, I was little, I was like 15 and he was taller than me back then. So, you know, it's those kind of moments that you remember, but I've always been a big Pete fan.

I took the win a little further with the roses. I smacked roses. Rick, you mentioned the Beatles. There was that great documentary from Ron Howard, Eight Days a Week. I don't know if you had a chance to see that or not, but it covered their touring years. And it showed them when they went to Australia and what a big, big deal that was. I mean, at that time, they were just...

venturing into lands they had never been before. So you went to that first, you know, touchstone event for them. What was that like? Could you even hear anything? Was it that loud like we've seen the old videos? No, I could recognize every song. It was amazing. And it was the one when Ringo was sick and I was saying, oh, this is the show I want to see and I hope Ringo comes back. And he came back on that show and it's the most documented show

performance of all their 60s stuff they filmed. It was the biggest crowd they'd ever had outside the hotels in Melbourne. Wow. There's a whole new version of that show that I saw

um and i keep looking at myself in the audience but i don't see myself it was i was 14 and all the aussie bands that opened for them were all it was still the 50s to them you know they had the bouffant hair and the leather suits and all this suddenly the beatles walked on stage and they looked like they'd come from another planet they had these guitars i've never seen they had these cuban hill boots they had the hair and the suits and then they started to sing and it and it

It was... I was 14. My mouth opened up, and I screamed like a girl through the whole 20-minute show. It was just insane. Did you eventually get to meet them as you made your own way in your music career? Yeah, yeah, I did. And I met Paul a couple of times, and I met Ringo. And I was actually standing... I used to live on La Brea Avenue, which was down from...

the studio that John Lennon did the whole Lost Weekend thing. Yes, yeah. A&M Studios. And I was going to dinner one night, taking myself to dinner one night, and I'm standing on the Bray and Hawthorne Ways to Live, and this Rolls Royce drives by, and...

And it was Lennon sitting in the passenger seat with his cloth cap and his glasses on. And he was going, obviously going down to A&M because that was the direction the car was headed. So the funny thing is, and I've heard this, and McCartney recently addressed it. He said at that point in time when they were performing those concerts, they would last about 20 minutes. Like they were super short.

No, it was 20 minutes and I was, we were all totally excited. There was five acts on before them. I still have my program from it and it's an amazing thing. You know, those kind of moments, like I met Elvis on a plane once too and I wasn't a fan back then, but I am now. But you think back on those moments and you go, wow, that was like, kind of like meeting Jesus. Yeah. Yeah.

It's pretty amazing. It's got to be tough to take it in at the moment and realize the weight of that. Speaking of short sets, you had a chance to play Live Aid. Rick, were you in Philadelphia or in London?

We were in Philadelphia. Okay. And our friends, the Hooters, played that day as well. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we always ask them. They still live here locally, so we have those guys by all the time. So we always ask them. Lovely guys. We toured with them. They're lovely. We always ask them about their set at Live Aid, and they were like, it was over in a flash. What do you remember about that day?

Yeah, it was pretty, I was kind of nervous. Everybody, you know, there was everyone around. My agent at the time was dealing with Eric Clapton and he came over and said, Eric would like to meet you. And I said, I can't, dude, I'm about to go on. I've blown off some pretty good, pretty big people. Yeah.

Yeah, and I didn't even... I mean, the show is what Jessie Girl was. I didn't even play Jessie's Girl. I think we did the new single. I did Human Touch and Affair of the Heart and a couple of other things. And it was very...

I mean, I was on the front cover of the paper the next morning because I got right into the audience and had a great shot of me with the audience. It was an amazing experience, but it did go by fast. And I was in and out like everybody was because everybody was on tour, you know, and you came in unless you were part of the whole organizing thing, you know, or you were staying to do a bunch of things with other people. But I remember Run DMC were on first.

And I'm standing backstage and going, what the hell is this? Guys with a frigging turntable. I said, this will never work. There you go. That prognostication. I wanted to ask you because... I was wrong. You were wrong. I thought this was hilarious. Apparently throughout your life, and this explained something to me once I finally learned this...

You've loved the notion of animals and pets and dogs specifically in human clothes. Hence the cover of working class dog, right? Yeah, yeah. That's a weird thing. It just cracks you up? Well, it's weird. Little things come and bleed into your life entirely.

in weird ways. I had a manager that brought me over to America and I'd watch his dog and I'd dress him, he had an Irish setter and I'd dress him up in my clothes and take photos of him and laugh my ass off through the whole night. And then when it came to have this album, I had a dog that I love very much and I, you know, I said, I want my dog in the cover. Well, if I remember correctly, when you did

that, and I've forgotten what breed of dog that was, it became very... Yeah, it became very, very popular right after you had him on the cover, right? Yeah, and they found Spuds McKenzie after a class dog, which people say, oh, you got the idea from Spuds McKenzie. I said, no, Ron, my dog was first, dude. And I used to call... I think someone knew me because I used to call my dog Spud. It was one of his nicknames. I think someone somewhere...

At an ad agency, you must have heard that on TV or radio or something. I think you're owed money. I was reading stories about you recounting your childhood. You didn't have a TV. You guys, you had sort of a musical family or at least had like post-dinner musical sessions. Describe what that was like.

Well, I lived in Australia, and we lived out in the country. My dad was in the army, but the bases were out. There weren't, like, army bases here. They just, like, take towns over, you know, and put people in the houses. And, uh...

And we didn't have TV, and so after dinner, we had a player piano, you know, one of the pump ones. And I still have that, actually, in my house now, this same piano. And we'd gather around it and put the player rolls on and sing, you know, Rodger and Hammerstein and Sorry with a Fringe on Top and all this stuff. And that's what we'd do for entertainment instead of watching TV. It was great, because my dad could really sing, and I started to get into music because of that.

I wanted to ask a question about songwriting, Rick. I want to go back to Lose Myself. If you're just tuning in, we're talking to Rick Springfield, and we've been playing his latest single. It's called Lose Myself, and you'll find that on Greatest Hits Volume 2 package. The hook to that song is the...

You just get stuck in your head. You can't stop singing that. And I'm curious about woo-woos and things like that in songs because they're non-verbal to an extent in that they're not words. And you'll hear it all throughout music. I'll give you an example. The classic, The Boxer from Simon and Garfunkel. It's one of the greatest songs ever written. And I'm wondering if

Are these little placeholders that you put in place for the time being until words hit you? And then maybe you go, well, it kind of sounds good the way it is. And you stick with the woo-woo-woos?

Well, lose myself is kind of part of lose, the word lose. But it does extend and it does become a bit of a... It's still a new song and I'm signed in here. Okay. Okay, now I get it. Thank God we have Ron today. Yeah. But you can use things like that in songwriting as tools, right? Yeah.

Yeah, I've done that. There's a song off... A couple of songs, actually, off the last album, Automatic, that have hey-yahs in them. There was a song we do live from the Snake King called Voodoo House. It has a big hey-yah, hey-yah chorus that everybody joins in. And it's...

It's a kind of group therapy in a live situation. I mean, singing together lifts something in your heart. You know, it's been proven that it does something to your brain, and it's amazing. It's a way to connect. That's what hymns are all about in church, is singing in unison, singing together. And so that's a great way to kind of get people to sing along. And I don't know.

you know when it pops into your head i don't know where songs come from to begin with so it's just one of those things that uh that happens if you're open to it i have to ask this question in which room of the house you're currently in is there a picture of you uh painted of you 150 years old and uh harry because you are defying we're looking at you now i'm like jesus christ this guy has not this is absolutely the portrait of dorian gray here real

Yeah, it's here somewhere. We're not allowed to look at it. Not allowed to look at it. All right, give us, if you were to guess at one lifestyle habit that could result in the kind of age-defying face you have right now, what can we do? Be born of your parents? Is that the only way? No, it's part genetic. I mean, you know, I mean, I've always watched what I eat. I've always been very careful what I eat. I've always worked out.

And I listen to the doctors. It's hilarious. As I get older, my doctor list in my phone gets longer and longer and longer. But now it's not preventative. Now it's not, oh, we need to fix this. Now it's preventative, getting in there first. They wanted to have me on steroids.

one of the New York morning shows because I've been doing the pre-nuvo scans. And there's a lot of talk about that, you know, the whole body scans where you find out

really what's going on inside, you know, to be unpleasantly surprised. But it's, uh, but over a course of years, you can, you can track what's happening to your body and all that kind of stuff. I've always been very into that. My dad died early, uh, from not paying attention to that stuff. And it was a lesson I learned from my, from my great dad, um, to, you know, to, to stay healthy, try and stay healthy. Do you have any grandkids?

Well, as a matter of fact, we have one coming up, yes. Oh, this is brand new news. Yes, it is. Actually, no one really knows. Breaking news! Breaking news right here on the President's Day Show. Breaking news, breaking news. Well, impending congratulations. Wow, when is that going to happen? July, and it's going to be a daughter and a granddaughter. Oh, wow.

I'm thinking, you know, maybe Sir or Your Eminence rather than Grandad. That's the name? Do me a favor, though, Rick. I mean, sure, she's going to be a wonderful little bundle of joy, but keep her away from that Nautilus submarine because it's too perfect. Dude, none of the little kids ever touch my toys.

Rick, is it okay if I ask you one more question about Jessie's Girl? Yeah. Okay. How many people, that song came out in 1980. How many people learned the word moot because of your song? Because the line, the point is probably moot. That's how I learned what that word meant. And have you heard that many, many times over the years?

I have, actually. People said, yeah, the song sent us to the dictionary as kids. And it's very weird because it's still not understood. I've seen a couple of karaoke versions and they spell it M-U-T-E. Oh, yeah, because they want to rhyme it with cute. And artistic license allows you to rhyme it with cute. But maybe the karaoke machine shouldn't do it that way. The karaoke machine gets it wrong.

M-O-O-T, meaning, you know, it's beside the point. It's irrelevant. I wanted to ask you, being with John Waite, the show, we're friends with John Waite. He's a terrific guy and is always just amazing. And then the other acts on the bill. We're in a point now, obviously, and we've seen it happen. We've been on the air for 27 some odd years. And you start to see people, as their careers move along, they hit that sweet spot where...

Like, for example, aspects of your capabilities become revelations to people who have always been fans but now have the access to this information. Is this, do you feel, I mean, I don't want to say you have a long and wonderful career, but is this like on a particular high note for you right now where you are?

Well, I don't know. I mean, I consider High Notes to be kind of new projects and stuff, you know, like getting the movie with Meryl Streep. That was a high point. Yeah. With Jonathan Demme directing, who directed... Silent Hill. It wasn't a real successful movie, but it was a great experience. Certainly having a new record out is a high point. And a tour like this...

uh, it's getting a lot of attention, which is great. Um, uh, it's me, John weight, who I love and been friends with John for quite a while. Wang Chung, who I was a fan of in the eighties, loved their, their, their first album, which actually wasn't even a hit over here as my favorite album. It's amazing. Um, uh,

And Paul Young, who I brought his bass player over from England because I loved the sound of his first record, Tino Palladino, and played on one of my albums. Wang Chung did, and a lot of people don't realize, I think it's one of the greatest soundtrack albums of all time, To Live and Die in L.A. Just the regular musical stuff throughout that is terrific. Is a part of the thrill of being on a show, on this tour like this, is just reconnecting with...

with other bands you've been friends with and having that sort of familial capability? Um, it's not, it's not really reconnecting. It's almost like connecting to begin with. Cause when you're young, you know, in the eighties, it was all like, uh, yeah, man, you know, you're seeing backstage, you know, yeah, you're okay. You know, I don't really want to, I don't want to get to know you. Cause you know, I'm cooler than you are. Or maybe I'm afraid I'm not as cool as you are or whatever. And I love to meet everybody. You know, I never did it. It's cause I was, uh,

I was worried about myself. I was worried about my position. I was worried about who they were. You know, you get a lot of stupid things that fall by the wayside once you get past that. And, you know, John, we got very, very, very, very drunk one night, and I ended up breaking a rib. Oh,

I fell over and it was awful. But we had a lot of fun together and we've been friends ever since. And Paul Young is a lovely guy. We've played with him before. He's a...

John Cafferty I just met and Wang Chung I have not met yet so hopefully I will have a good report on that they are good guys too. Interesting thing you mentioned about the competition in the earlier days and I read Sammy Hagar's biography and also read Alex Van Halen's you've mentioned Sammy a couple of times and obviously you guys have had a long time connection but he wrote many times back in the earlier days about how

there were like feuds with bands in those formative days. I mean, you see it in the hip-hop community now a little bit, but it seems that it's not the same as it used to be. No, it's a young thing, honestly. I guess. To be honest, it's a young thing. I mean, I remember reading a thing from... I was in Palm Springs, and it was like in the 80s. I'm reading this article that Sammy did about how...

what crap REO Speedwagon are. And now, him and Kevin are close friends. You know, it's kind of very... You do that stuff. I mean...

So, but, you know, the hip hop thing, that's kind of become a cliche to have, you know, you got to have a nemesis. Yeah. But again, it's a young thing, you know, I think. You see Ice-T and those guys, they're, you know, they're not slamming anybody anymore. Yeah, right. I guess you're right. They're doing commercials for the lending tree. Yeah, an actual Ice-T. Yeah.

I see. This is true. The merrillness of age. Well, listen, man, we're delighted with this new song. MMR is really happy to be playing this. We love it. Every time it comes on, we're all kind of looking at each other, singing along. We're singing along. It's such a great hook, man. And we're happy that you're going to be coming in the area. I just want to reiterate that Rick will be in town, like we said, with the I Want My 80s Tour Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City on July 11th.

And then the Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem on July 13th as well. So, but it's just great to talk to you. And we're happy that you're still cranking out great songs, man. So good on you, bud. We appreciate all the music and all the positive vibes.

Thanks a lot. I appreciate it, guys. All right. Take care of yourself, gang. It's Rick Springfield on the show. And we'll play this. He thought he was going to get away scot-free without hearing this. Well, now that he's sort of given the sign-off on it. So, you know what? Listen, a great song is a great song. A great song is a great song. Absolutely. Oh, wait. He's still listening. Sorry, Rick. We had to play a little bit of Jesse's Girl. That's okay. I'm fine with it. All right. We'll see you, man.

But I mean, like, my 18-year-old sings along with this song. Of course. You know? I mean, it's, you just. It's a great song. Yeah. Yep. Come on. Come on. Randy's girl.

Randy's girl. Jesse's girl. Gary's girl. Oh, Gary. All right, well, listen. I think we ought to take a break. We'll be back in a second. We've got some bizarre final stories, so stick around. We'll return with that in just a moment. We'll be right back.

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Brought to you by Pro Team Collision. If you find yourself in an accident, you can trust the pros at Pro Team Collision, your trusted auto body repair shop. Located in King of Prussia, you can go to proteamcollision.com. Well, a Florida man's thirst for lemonade turned into a criminal charge after he allegedly assaulted a woman when denied a free refill at a children's lemonade stand. Oh, my God.

According to Clearwater Police, 45-year-old Steven Cusimano was walking through a neighborhood Tuesday when he spotted a lemonade stand operated by several children and one adult victim.

Cusimano purchased a glass of lemonade but became irate when he was refused a free refill. You gotta be kidding me! Instead of walking away, police say Cusimano aggressively grabbed the female victim by the wrist, adopted a fighting stance, and threatened to, quote, beat her up. I need to know the recipe for this lemonade. After the altercation, he fled the scene on foot but was quickly tracked down by law enforcement. During questioning, Cusimano reportedly admitted to the incident

but claimed his actions were justified because the victim was, quote, talking S to him. The adult or the kid? No.

No, the adult. Okay. His arrest report indicates a lengthy criminal past, including multiple battery convictions, as well as charges for trespassing, drug possession, disorderly conduct, and assault with a deadly weapon. I think these days it would probably help to have a bouncer at your lemonade stand. Due to his prior offenses, the battery charge against him was elevated to a felony, and he was booked into the county jail on a $5,000 bond and is pleaded not guilty.

An investigation is underway after video showed a SEPTA bus driver pushing a vehicle sideways down the road in Philadelphia. It happened on Friday around 4 o'clock near Roosevelt Boulevard and Sanger Street. The Route 82 bus driver reportedly said the gas pedal was accidentally pressed, but a cause has not been officially determined yet, according to the transit agency. That's what I get to do.

Video that's now under investigation by SEPTA shows nearby drivers watching on as tires can be heard screeching down the boulevard. Five passengers on the bus and two passengers in the vehicle sustained non-life-threatening injuries, according to officials.

Another Pennsylvania story. This one in Dauphin County. The commissioner, George Hartwick, is no longer in charge of oversight for any county department. The chief clerk said the removal of authority was ordered by board chairman Justin Douglas. Now, it comes a day after Hartwick...

crashed his county assigned vehicle in the parking garage of the county administration building the crash happened wednesday morning around uh the time the board of commissioners meeting so hartwick showed up late to that meeting he appeared to have trouble speaking when asked to comment on a public appearance that organizers said he missed commissioner tom connelly said he had encountered hartwick in the admission administration building connelly said that hartwick was having trouble putting on a

belt and he seemed off. How do these goddamn things work? Conley said he looked like he was getting dressed, which initially could have been he was running late for a meeting. But then as other people got on the elevator, it became apparent that he was impaired. He was struggling with minimal conversation and just his actions and movements.

County officials said they attempted to do drug and alcohol testing. What number is four? Which is standard policy after a crash involving a county-owned vehicle. It's unclear whether those tests were completed. The Attorney General's Office is investigating the crash. All right, we got time for another one.

D.C. police say multiple people were stabbed and a suspect is in custody after an incident in northeastern D.C. on Thursday afternoon. Police chief Pamela Smith said that a man was walking with a woman when the man began stabbing himself and then his female acquaintance. He then stabbed himself.

others that were standing in the block and two Good Samaritans who tried to intervene. It's stabbing time. Smith said, even though we're grateful for the intervention, we would ask that individuals who see incidents such as this not to intervene because these two individuals, although Good Samaritans, Samaritans were also stabbed as part of the assault.

I want to offer my thoughts to the victims, their families, and those who witnessed the events. The incident highlights the need for assistance of substance abuse issues in our communities. Smith said the man was in an altered mental state from an unknown substance when he grabbed himself, stabbed himself, and four women and two men. Three of the two women...

that were stabbed were a grandmother and her two granddaughters. They were getting in a car, minding their own business. The man was found a short time later suffering from stab wounds. A knife was found a few feet away from him, taken into custody, and he was in surgery for his injuries. Did he have to identify himself in a police lineup? The four women and two men injured in the stabbing were transported to local hospitals in stable condition. The dude just snapped.

Very bizarre. And that is what I have in the bizarre file for you. And we can now do this because it is 10 a.m. 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia. I stopped thinking of hands. It's time for a Preston and Steve 20 money keyword. Yes, and that keyword is game. G-A-M-E.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Rush will do you good. 93.3 WNMOR. It's every day of the month. We'll talk to you this morning. Preston and Steve radio program of which we have a dreary day ahead of us. Today's high, 45. Off and on rain. Clouds all day, no matter what.

And then tomorrow the sun returns, but with it, oh, those lovely windy days. And the high 46 is going to feel kind of crappy tomorrow, even though we'll at least see some sun, which is kind of nice too. Wednesday, sunny high 51. So it's kind of blah. Whatever. Keep in mind.

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Do that. It is brought to you by United Tire and Service. And if you miss this opportunity now, we will do it again three more times today. Next up with Pierre at, let me see, what time is he doing it? Three. And then, I'm sorry, noon, three and five. So those are your next opportunities. All right, we're going to give something else away. So here's what you need to do if you're interested in answering this question. Right now, text the word ZOOM.

to 610-660-9333. We have a new Zoom link every day, so you have to text every day to get that link in order to have it ready to go. But if you text it now before I even ask the question, then you can just click on the link if you do know the question, and we'll see if you can answer it. So here is today's question, and it is... Oh, and by the way, we are going to give away a four-packet ticket to...

as MMR rocks. Monster Energy AMA Supercross, Saturday, April 12th, and that is at the link. And the question that I ask is this, what movie...

Was Marty Singer watching as he prepared for the case of the Baldani vs. Lively? Of Baldani vs. Lively. What movie? Yeah, Case, you're the one who brought it up. Yeah, sorry. We spent a lengthy amount of time comparing the case of Baldani vs. Lively to a particular movie. What movie was that? Let's see if you know the answer. While you are reaching out to us, we'll do this. The Trash Businesses of Gold.

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So what's going on today, Steve? Well, Tanya Ramond of the series Goliath called police on what she said was an obsessed fan who's reportedly knocking on her door. Ramond says the obsessed fan went all out, dressing in a Domino's pizza uniform and holding two pizzas she had just ordered from Domino's. Yes!

An impromptu ER reunion of sorts when actress Noah Wiley, Julianna Margulies, and Anthony Edwards gathered to celebrate George Clooney's Broadway debut. Many noted that even though 26 years have passed since ER, everyone looked as if they should immediately be taken to one. Yeah.

And finally, Jennifer Lopez seen filming a scene for her new rom-com Office Romance in Highlands, New Jersey. Lopez told some locals who had gathered to catch a glimpse of her that she will always be Jenny from the block and then had her security team mace them. And that's your Hollywood show.

All right. Nobody. Okay, so here's what we'll do. We'll ask the question one more time, and we will see if you happen to know the answer to this. What movie was Marty Singer watching as he prepared for the case of Baldani versus Lively? Real quick, I want to give a plug to...

Steve, you had mentioned a visit to the ER in the trash. Right. I went to the ER this week. Oh, did you? I did, yes. I went to get my head checked out. Oh, my God, you did? Yeah, it was still hurting. I had a headache over the weekend from when I get hit with the guitar. So I told Dr. Mike, it still feels sensitive on my head.

And then I get a headache and I just reach out because our buddy Steve McClain reached out to me and he's like, dude, don't overlook this. You could have a brain bleed. And so that got stuck in my mind. Steve cares. So I knew it came from a good place. And so I reached out to Mike and he's like, look, just to be safe, go get a CAT scan, go to the ER. I'm like, OK, I'll do it. So I want to thank and years and years ago, I went to a particular hospital and had a bad experience there.

because somebody was very rude there. But that was a long time ago. I went back to the same hospital, Grandview Hospital, and I had a lovely experience. And I want to thank Victoria, who is my nurse, because she was really, really cool and a big fan. And so Grandview Hospital and the ER staff and the doctor there actually knew Dr. Mike. He worked with Dr. Mike and

And I've forgotten the doctor's name. I forgot. Is his hospital near you? Super nice guy. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah. He's a super nice guy. He worked at Penn at one point. Yeah. Do we have time for me to do one in the same vein? Sure, man. And then we'll get an answer. Yeah. So I went to the Phil's game on Saturday and we had a great time. We had really nice seats. And my dad has trouble getting up and down stairs lately. And so we had to go down the stairs. And towards the end of the game, we had to go back up the stairs.

because he needed to go to the men's room. And we got to the top of the steps, and he was super winded, and he went to lean on a food cart, and that food cart had wheels. Oh, no. I didn't realize it. I turned around because Alec Bohm hit into a double play, and then Bryce Harper got out. You got to watch that. Yeah, seriously. And Steve, as I turned back around, I see my dad sprawling backwards. Oh, no. And he hit his head, and that was the only reason I brought it up. As he was going down, he hit the cart, but the cart was going away,

But I want to give a shout out and sincere gratitude and thanks to Philly's security staff because within two seconds of my dad hitting the floor, they had surrounded him. They helped him get up. They immediately addressed and wanted to see if he needed medical care. So I was so amazed and so impressed at how caring they were and how quick they were on the scene. My dad's okay. He banged up his elbow a little bit. His head's all right. But yeah, I mean, to your point earlier and the thing that Stephen Clayton shared with you,

If it's a head injury, take it seriously. You got to make sure that you're all right. So anyway, thank you for letting me say that. No problem. Because those people were so, so nice and I really appreciate it. And thank you to those that are people that go and help each other and realize that we're humans. And when an injury happens, we're scared and confused. Yeah. And being nice is really, really important. We don't know what's going on. We just hit ourselves in the head with a guitar. We're dazed. I mean, come on. Yeah.

No, but having friendly staff makes all the difference in the world. So thank you to those guys. Oh, hey, we have somebody online who can answer our question, hopefully. We're going to find out what movie Marty Singer was watching as he prepared for the case of Baldani vs. Lively. We're going to go to Bill. Hey, Bill. What's up, people? Yo, buddy. How you doing? We're looking for an answer. We're doing well, man. All right, so what movie was Marty Singer watching as he prepared the case of Baldani vs. Lively?

It was the Incredible Hulk. Yeah! You nailed it, Bill. Hang on, buddy. We're going to set you up. You got yourself four-pack of tickets as MMR rocks. Monster Energy AMA Supercross Saturday, April 12th at Lincoln Financial Field. Witness the world's elite dirt bike riders battle for the coveted title of Supercross champion. Tickets on sale now. You can visit supercrosslive.com for all of the details.

Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Now, I don't want to get you too excited, but we're going to have a concert announcement at the end of this music news segment. But we'll start with Elton John. He sat down recently for an interview with Apple Music and opened up about why he decided to work with Brandi Carlile.

on their new collab album, Who Believes in Angels? And it's pretty funny. He shared that he really, really did not want to do another solo album. He said, I knew that I didn't want to make the same album again. I wanted the album to move forward because I'm always trying to look forward. And then he added, if I had just made another Elton John record, I would have killed myself. Oh, my God. He also said that...

He heaped a ton of praise on Carly. He said, I needed her. I needed her talent, her energy, her humor, and her brilliant lyrics. And when we got going, it was like whoosh, like an express train he shared. So we actually have a little bit of her performing. Well, this is them performing. They did a special on CBS, and it's basically Elton John and Brandi Carlile together doing Elton John songs and some of her songs as well. This is Tiny Dancer. Here we go.

That's not much. No, that's not much. I know. All right, here's one of Benny and the Jets. Oh, yeah.

Elton is such a great piano player, man. You can hear him banging away on that thing. He beats the crap out of that piano. I told you, his concert is at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. Almost four hours of just unbelievable him and just a percussionist. But like she and you pointed out many times before, a present artist will hit a certain point in their career where the higher notes are harder to achieve. And they may have someone...

Who's going to jump in and grab those notes for them? And that's what they were doing. Yeah, even Paul does that now. He's got his band members. If there's something... What are you saying? You're saying I can't do it?

I'm sorry. No, they just fill the sound out. Why don't you hit yourself with the guitar again, you jackass? When I went and saw, it was, you know, old cello. So it was Paul. It was the Stones. It was the Who. Yeah. But, like, they all fill the sound out. Like, backup singers. And I'm down with that. I'm here all day for it. The natural. It's very rare that you find people like, Jeff Lynn can still kind of get there. Mm-hmm.

Who are some of the people that can still sort of get there? Sting. Sting, Ken. Yeah. I watched Dalton John and Brandi Carlile on SNL over the weekend. And Steve, at the end of the first performance, which was Little Richard's Bible, there was a really long and impressive piano solo. And I kept thinking...

is that Elton doing that? Because I was like, he's still freaking nailing it. There was a keyboard player in the back, but Elton was doing the solo and it was really, really cool. Yeah, it's amazing. And I like her a lot. Yeah, she's great. Yeah, she is cool. All right, so two other quick things. Seven Time Grammy Award winner, singer-songwriter, Landis Morissette.

We'll be heading to London's O2 Arena on the 27th of July as part of her world tour. Isn't that ironic? Is it? Don't you think? Alanis is set for a run of shows across the UK and Ireland this summer, including Blackwear in Cardiff, where she is set to become the first artist to play. Very honored to have you here today, Alanis Morissette. Live Nation's brand new venue, Alanis' London headline show at the O2 Arena.

Will be the final date of the European leg of the 2025 world tour. I think I would like to see Alanis Morissette. And she'll have Liz Phair as the opening guest, too. That should be pretty cool. Couple one-two punch of some very powerful ladies. So, yeah, I'd like to see Alanis. I've never seen her live. And I like some of her other stuff that doesn't get much attention. I think there's some good stuff in there. Stuff and such. And then...

And we have a concert announcement. This show will be taking place Saturday, September 20th. It will be at Hershey Park Stadium. Tickets for this show, excuse me, will go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. And hold on, folks, because coming to Hershey Park, September 20th. Slap!

That's right. Claire. You gotta take a breath. I feel like you need a nap now. I've been training for this all my life. I would have gotten lightheaded.

I didn't even know where that came from, but I just started doing it. I love it. I love it. So we used to fade your mic off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it would be like...

All right, so tickets go on sale Friday for the show, September 20th, 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. And Pierre Robert, the biggest Slayer fan in our cluster. Oh, my God, he loves him. Is going to have tickets all week for you to win. You know how you and I are always talking about Acme? All the time. He's always talking about Slayer. He and Kathy. Yeah.

Oh, he's talking about... Yeah. We both have the conversation. If it's not Slipknot. I try not to get in your way. If it's not Slipknot, you're right. That's true. All right. And that's the Entertainment Report for today. We will take another break. We'll come back in a second. No, it's not the Entertainment Report. It's Music News. Anyway. It was entertaining. It was? Yeah. I'm happy to hear that. We'll take a break and we'll come back. We'll wrap up the show. Letter of the Day for the Word of the Week Prize 2. Stay there.

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

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

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

I was listening to some Bob Marley over the weekend to try to bring a little bit of... That...

you know, sunshine into my world? Will it to happen? And it did feel good. It can help. Music can heal. And sometimes even when we're... I mean, even if you're having a great day, you look outside and it's just like... So a little bit of music can help bring that around. Did you use any pot marijuana? On MMR? No, I didn't do marijuana. Okay, you didn't do any... You didn't do any marijuana pot? I didn't do any pot. Okay.

God, that was funny this morning. Nick was talking, we were talking about kids and parties. He's like, I don't know if they're going to do pot or... Do weed. Do weed. I am proud of myself for catching it as soon as I said it. You did immediately. Immediately you grabbed it. So that was fun.

I would like to thank our one guest that we had on this morning, and it was a fantastic interview. Rick Springfield. Spent a good half hour talking to Rick. He's got a new song called Lose Myself, and we've been playing it. It's a fun, feel-good song. He was really, really nice. A lot to talk about. And he's saying...

Yeah, yeah. I thought it was woo. I told him, I'm like, it's a newer song. I haven't lived with it. I don't know what it's about yet. And I will listen to songs, songs that are new.

Sometimes you'll right away and get it. Other times I'll listen for years or decades and have no idea what it's about. I'm going to ask you a question about his dog and the album cover because for some reason in my mind, my recollection, the album cover had the dog, but there was also an old-timey record player. Am I mixing two different album covers together? I think you are. I think you're thinking of High Infidelity from Oreo Speedwagon.

which had a similar lighting as this album. Can you pull up High Infidelity and see if we just looked at the picture of the Rick Springfield album cover, which is a pretty iconic album cover. It is, yeah. And as Steve found out, he just used to like to dress his dog in human's clothing. And he took his dog and he put a shirt and tie on him. Um,

Is this it? See the guy putting the record on there, Case? Yeah, no, no, no. I'm thinking like it's an old-timey record player with that like giant cornucopia horn thing that they have on top. Yeah, like a gramophone or whatever. Now that I don't know. All right, never mind. It's a gum-gum phone. A gum-gum phone?

All right. Pierre's here. Hey. Good day. You got that going for us. It's not much. Nice to see you. I wouldn't count on that for much, but here I am. Nice. Did you have a good weekend? Yeah, yeah. It is miserable outside. I mean, it's just plain miserable. It's not cold enough to be icy or snowy or uncomfortable, but there's something just nasty about it. We need you to get on the air and do a collective CPR move on us.

on the city. Just pump some blood into that heart and get us going today with some music and conversation. How about some Slayer? Yeah! Slayer!

I have to. I commit as an artist. No, their brand new tribute album to Cat Stevens is incredible. Oh, it's amazing. And the way they cover Peace Train is, I mean, it's so moving with the violins and the acoustic guitars. Rabbi, the late great rabbi,

Our music director, as you may recall or you may not, came to me one day and said, I have a bet for you. I said, tell me what is that? He goes, if you'll come to a metal show with me, I will come to a dead show with you.

And I said, you're on. And the first up just happened to be, I said, pick the metal show. And he picked Slayer at the Tower Theater. He wanted to ease you into it. Yeah, right. I mean, I've been to metal shows so far. But that is like a whole other stratosphere. And so I got myself all meddled out. I took my tape recorder. I went there. Jackie and I were there and Sarah and Rabbi. And I went down into the effing mosh pit.

which I've moshed at many shows before, but nothing like a Slayer mosh pit. Oh, my God. And within two or three laps in the circle, I was tossed over face down and about to be trampled when this giant man pulled me up, and he truly looked like Hagrid from the Harry Potter films, lifted me up and goes...

Pierre? I go, yes. He goes, you're with me now. You're a wizard, Pierre. We did four or five more circles. Then they sent me up crowd surfing. And Sarah from the way back of the theater goes, is that

Pierre? Yes. Yes, it was. Wow. And Kathy was in the pit with me. Yeah, I was there for the whole thing. You should have seen it. She loved it. Did you enjoy it? Did you have a good time? No, it was great fun. Yeah, yeah. And then Sarah and Rabbi came with me, you know, six or seven months later to a Dead & Company show down at the Big Joint. And we got Rabbi into my tie-dyed lab coat and some listener made him a tie-dyed yarmulke.

And I was teaching, there's some video out there somewhere of me teaching him how to twirl in the green room. Oh, that's great. Which is great fun. And music is universal. Yeah. So I got the Slayer tickets. There you do. Yeah. Hey, I want to double back, Casey. Is this what you were thinking about? The old RCA Records logo? That might be it. It was Nipper the Dog.

Looking into the gramophone, which, by the way, you can see in Camden. That's where the old RCA records used to be. And they have a little stained glass rendition of Nipper the Dog. And then also his first album that Jessie's Girl appeared on was an RCA album. Label. Okay. Interesting. Glad we could clear that up. All right. Letter of the Day, my man. All right. Here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

Now, the Daily Letter. All right, the President Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter. V as in virtual. All right, and we, by the way, are giving away a pair of two-day tickets. And mind you, I just found this out. These are GA floor tickets. Essentially, these are pit tickets. Excellent. As MMR rocks Metallica May 23rd and 23rd at The Link. And Limp Bizkit and Ice Nine Kills are opening night number one. And Pantera and Suicidal Tendencies.

We're opening the second show. Single day tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster. And it is a no repeat weekend with two different sets performing in the round with different openers each night. We give that away on Friday. So pay close attention to Pierre's letters this week. What's happening on your show today? Well, in addition to Slayer tickets, we will have Shinedown and a workforce like you two and Billy Idol.

Oh, excellent. Thank you. I want to thank our sponsors. President Steve's Show is brought to you today by Dunkin'. The President Steve's Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors. And by Rent-A-Center. Don't miss the biggest discount going on now through April 12th. Tomorrow on our program, we have Coach Fran Dunphy joining us. Awesome. He is retiring from coaching altogether. Yes.

So we've had him on a number of times, especially Camp Out for Hunger. Super nice guy. We'll talk to him tomorrow. It's Tuesday, so we'll give away some free tattoos, and we'll see what else we can get into. So that's it. We're done. Ray John, you have yourself a great day, and we'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Hey, everybody. It's good to have you on the map.