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So I wanted to throw this out to you. I was talking to somebody the other day. Yeah, I accidentally. My fries were up. I sent that over there by accident. No, we're not. Stop it. No, it's not. But this could pertain to restaurants. Have you ever been called out?

for giving a bad recommendation to someone, meaning you have suggested a restaurant, a movie. What? Why are you idiots talking to me? Kathy looked right at Nick. I'm not going to say the name of it, but you know the recommendation you gave me. Was it a restaurant? Yes.

A terrible service. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is recent. Yes. It was like two weeks ago. Yeah, sorry. And it was a place you really liked? I love it, yeah. Okay. And I still love it and I think it was an aberration. He stands by, he's like, you have to go back and try again. But it was like...

It was so bad. I was irritated. Okay. And how did you break it to him? How did you do? I just told him, I was like, Hey, listen, I went here and guess what? And, and told him, and he was like, Oh no, you like, you have to go back. That might've been. And I did say like a lot of the staff was, was young. I think maybe it was like they,

had new hires back from college or something like that. Maybe it was a learning day. Oh my God, Kathy Romano's here. I don't know. But even like, you guys know how I feel about cocktails and like, my cocktail wasn't good. Like, I was really disappointed in it. Okay. Do you know I'm a foot model? And part of this is, do you tell the person who gave you the recommendation that it was a poor recommendation? Or do you wait on the off chance they'll never ask because you don't want to hurt their feelings? It's a tough thing to slalom sometimes. I think it

Unless, like you, Kathy, you want to make him feel better. Well, no. I think it depends on who it is. I could say that to Nick. And actually, I went to a restaurant that was terrible. Food was awful. It was not my... It just wasn't me. It wasn't my vibe. And the guy who recommended it was so excited. He was like, how was it? And I told him. I was like, it was not for me. That was not... Right. I'll tell you where it has even more importance when you recommend a vacation location. Oh, yeah.

gotta go here. So people have taken like a week and they're like, oh, okay, yeah. And they come back and it's a frigging nightmare. It was terrible. Yeah, yeah. I made a suggestion to Casey one time. He didn't like it. Oh. It was a restaurant at the shore and your exact words were, we hated it. It was pedestrian at best. Oh.

Yeah, I had actually recommended that place to you. That sounds like a thumbs down. No, no, no. Are you talking about... Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, you don't want to say the names. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's funny because I had heard... I had told you to go there. Right. Because I had heard really, really good things. And then I finally went there and I was like, this is... Now, the other place that you recommended... That's really good. That's really, really good. So you gave him the...

And did you preface it? You told him this was a third-party recommendation. So my cousin had recommended the place. My cousin eats well, right? So there are a few people on this planet where if you tell me to try some food or try a restaurant, I'm like, okay, Preston said go there. George said go there. Jeff said go there. I just said all three of those. Because slight concern for me was like, oh, man, he's never going to listen to another suggestion that I have for a restaurant. So, okay. All right. Then all good. Marissa, you wanted to jump in? Casey, did I ever tell you about my trip to Ireland? No.

Wait, oh, the one where I had a cab driver for you? Yes. That guy. So Casey's friend is Irish from Ireland and recommended that I go to Belfast and take a tour with his brother. And so we did. My cousin and I went there and we're in this tour and we're kind of like – it's like –

and giving us all of the information about things that have happened. And the guy literally turns to us in the middle of it and he goes, I don't know why my cousin keeps sending people here. He's like, I hate it. I don't know why he keeps sending people here. Because he could just like read our faces that we were like on like a fun party vacation and like we're just in the back of this car getting driven around Belfast. Can I ask you a question? Okay.

I don't know why he does this all the time. It stresses me so much and I hate him and I hate that he does it. But my friend Anthony insisted, insisted that Marissa call his brother. I'd say things like that but he knows I don't mean it. We took like a two hour train ride just to get there and he met us at the train station. You shouldn't have come. He was so nice and he was so sweet and by the end of it I was like, is there like

just like a coffee shop that you could just drop us like a cool record store. Maybe we could do some shopping. He's like, dropped us off. He's like, I'll meet you here in 90 minutes. Wow. Kathy and I, I think there's just no filter. So like if I recommend something and Kathy doesn't like it, she's not going to be afraid to tell me that. I'm actually glad that you did. I hope that you go back and give it another shot, but maybe you won't. And I would understand that too. Steve, when it comes to travel, I'm really hesitant because everybody...

travels differently. Everybody has different ones and different likes. And so like the stuff that I like or the stuff that I want to go do might be a little more obscure or whatever. So like also just when it comes to travel, like...

Find out on your own. I can give recommendations, but just because I like it doesn't mean you're going to. But you know how people put a little more gravitas on somebody they feel that is sort of vetted in their minds? Yeah, yeah. Oh, well, they would never. But exactly for the reason you said, you don't know how someone travels. You don't know what they look for. And it's funny how this dynamic can exist from everything from a book recommendation or a movie recommendation to a trip recommendation. And then how do you react when...

Oh, you have to go. Yeah. Oh, my God. You have to eat there. Or the person who does it. You've never been? It is the best. It is literally the best. It changed my life. Yeah, but you know what? So there are specific people that I'll take travel recommendations from. There is one person in my life that I just don't. And she's been so many places, but she does not travel the way I do. But Nick, you've given me travel recommendations. And so...

Go to hell. I would take Steve's travel recommendations as well because I know Steve travels similarly to the way I do. And Nick, I think you do both. You know me too. You would never recommend some camping in the Grand Canyon somewhere. You know what I mean? He recommended the nicest hotel there was in the Grand Canyon. I was like, oh my

I love it there. He recommended I go to a, because I was in Scranton last week and his fiance's from Scranton. He recommended I go to a pizza place and I let you know that I didn't really care for it all that much. That's right. But I told you in advance, I was like, look, this is weird. You know, like it's not for everybody. And, and same precedent. I told Casey, it's like, it's like emos in St. Louis. Like you love it. You grew up on it. But I was, I told Casey, you might not like it. It is kind of odd.

Right. Speaking of that, like Emo's, I was on a plane one time. I was flying to St. Louis, and there was a group on there, and this guy was going, oh, you got to go. It's best pizza ever. And I'm like, you're not selling it the right way. Did you feel the need to? It's a local flavor, and it is not the kind of pizza that you're used to, but you should try it if you're interested in some local stuff. You know what I mean? As opposed to, it's the greatest ever. Yeah.

I have done a similar where I've heard like somebody recommend a movie or a TV show to somebody that I know and they're going to not like it. And I'm like,

Let me buffer this a little bit. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Let me contextualize this. I would love to step in as well and say, I'm going to tell you why somebody might like this. It might not be for you. Right. But have realistic expectations. But you may find out that it's wonderful. Yes. You may love it. I don't know. But when you're told from the get-go that it is, oh my, oh my.

Oh, my God. All right, here you go. Here's a good one. Somebody texted in, I hate when people recommend comedians. I almost never find their comedy funny. Right. Yeah, I get that. I can get that, too. Yeah. I agree. I get people that do suggest that, and I'll watch them like, hmm.

It's not my kind of comedy. You know, like, I love Tom Papa. Yeah. Tom Papa is the exact same age as I am. We have similar dynamics. It's family stuff. He dives right into the way I live. It's not everybody's thing. But it's not everybody's cup of tea, you know? I mean, it might be a little too light for some people. It's almost akin to someone who always, I've got a good joke for you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

What is it like? Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead and tell me the show. Hang on. I'm going to go to Dustin. Hey, Dustin. Good morning. Not a be-all, bitch. Not a be-all. I said that first. That's a new one. Yeah. Bitch. What's up, Dustin? So,

So I got a recommendation from a woman at work for a bachelorette party spot. She said it was amazing. So she's like, you have to send your wife. This is years and years ago before we got married. She said, you have to tell your wife to go to this bachelorette spot in Delco. So I suggested it to the wife.

and she took her and about twenty of her friends down with her and when they got there she called me and said it was god awful it was a place that included all the food all the drinks nightclub dancing stay and everything and the

The food was terrible. The nightclub was creepy. And they had to stay in a dormitory that had a lockdown at midnight. For a bachelorette party? So this was a travel destination.

What's that? Like she traveled to another city for this? Well, yeah, we live in Bucks Co., but we sent her to Delco for this basketball party. It sounded like a good idea. However, I never considered the source that told me where to go. That's an important step. Years and years later, it's a running joke with us and all of our friends about the spot they went. And they made the most of it, but God, it was... I never told the person who...

suggested it, how bad it was. Is that because you did not want to hurt their feelings? No, I guess a little bit of that, but I guess I just, again, you have to consider this

The source of where the... Right, right. He actually reminded me of something, Preston, years ago. Okay, I was just going to say, I mean, don't ever send someone out of Bucks County. That's silly. To somewhere else. Years ago, my dad got a recommendation. This is, you know, we're all taking family trips at this point in time to this place. I think it was, Kathy, I think it was Seaford, Long Island, which is really not considered...

If you're renting a boat or you're getting work done on your Evinrude engine, that's – but I mean otherwise, why go there? But there was this sort of waterside place that was a resort. And so we're going to go check it out, Preston. These neighbors in the neighborhood are raving about this place.

And we show up and literally it is a motor lodge. The water in the pool has not been treated. It's green. And we're walking along, walking around the different areas. And this woman, I'll never forget it. And I was a kid when this happened. Looks up and she goes, they let you have hot plates. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It was horrible. Wow. Wow. Oh.

Yeah, it can happen. If someone just, you know, you've got to consider your own personal preferences and the person you're talking to. But you feel terrible, too, if you recommend. If you're the recommender and it comes back to you, it just sucks. Like, why did he even get involved? Yeah. I'm trying to think of any other occasions that I've had this happen. But I try to be...

You know, when I suggest something... Metered? Yeah. If possible. Not the, it changed my life. The flip side of that is that, like, when they go well, I'm really proud of it. So, like, I recommended Newport, Rhode Island to you, and you enjoyed that with your daughter, and you went to St. John and had a great time with it. And so, like, when they connect, you're like, oh, thank God. He enjoyed it, you know? Oh, no. Yeah, I recommended to a friend a...

I don't want to say exactly who it is. So they provide a service, right? So she was traveling and they provide a service. And this person is and was amazing and was terrible for her. And I did feel bad. I felt really bad. And I was like, I don't know what happened. I'm not sure what he's doing. But yeah, sorry about that. But I felt bad because it took up her time.

you know, talking with him and planning and it not being, you know, ended up not being good. Or what sucks too is if, kind of like Kathy, you know, Nick, you suggested something and they just went on an off night. Yeah, yeah. And... No, no, you got to go back. Yeah, yeah, exactly. No, no. It's not true. Yeah, I got shot. No. Yeah.

And that can happen. And it just so happened that it was bad timing. 215-263-WMMR if you have either received a recommendation or vice versa. Here's a good one for you, Preston. Let's see. Presbo, would you recommend any hotels in Florida? Just stay anywhere Preston has. Yeah, exactly. Just stay where I don't. That's a five cockroach place. Oh, my God. I still have...

borderline nightmares about that. I mean, I would as well. But you know what? Sometimes it's also the person may like the cockroaches who recommends that hotel or whatever and you don't want to make them feel bad if it's something that they like. Like for example, Nick, let's say you didn't know that Kathy's going to want to be a little bit more glamping and you recommend a place that's

You know, that's more akin to what you like. You know, and you end up feeling bad because it's like, I didn't know that's what you were about or whatever. That's why being a travel agent is such a hard job because everybody has different tastes and wants. And so – and a good travel agent will know that Steve might be different than Casey and that might be different than me and can point all three of us individuals in different directions. Am I –

because you use a travel agent, right, Kathy? Yeah. Yeah, and Rudy, right? Yeah. Yeah, as do we, and he's great. And so every time you vet someone and you know, but yeah, you don't see them, you don't see active, you know, travel agencies all over the place the way you used to. No. I'm going to go to Maureen. Hey, Maureen, good morning. I am talking about the need to eat pizza. Of course. Got any good suggestions? No. What's up, Maureen? So,

So my husband has a group of people that he works with, and he brings home recommendations all the time of restaurants and vacation ideas and places to go on, places we're already visiting. And I have not enjoyed a single one of them. Not a single one of them. What type of work does your husband do, Maureen? I don't want to say. He's...

I don't want to say. You don't even want to say the type of work he does? Okay. Let's say he procures women for out-of-towners. You would think he'd know a lot of people that are continentals that get around from time to time. So, not... Okay, okay. Okay.

But, like, I went to a tattoo parlor on a recommendation, and I got an infection. Oh, my God. No, no. Because of an infection in the tattoo. Wow. It's not good. And the restaurants are bad. The food is always something that I don't like. Does he still bring home suggestions?

Yeah, because I can't tell him. I don't know how to tell him I hate everything that he's ever recommended. You know, probably I think the best thing for you is a divorce at this point because, no, no kidding. But you don't want to hurt his feelings. Yeah, I know. I

All right, thank you. Here's a text from Nick. It says, contractors. Every single one that has been recommended to me has been a complete S show. And you're spending so much money with contractors. And they're recommended. Yeah, that's a fail, man. If you recommend a contractor and it does not turn out well, dude. You're using a good contractor right now, aren't you? Yeah, Peanut. Yeah. Mike Javorca. Yeah, he's doing a great job. He started working on our deck. But that's...

That's interesting because almost always it's word of mouth. Yes. That you get a contract. The best business from, they thrive on that stuff. And you, you know, if someone that you know got some work done, you're like, oh, done and done. Absolutely. The contractor gave me an infection. Well, and I did it recently and I recommended this guy, Chris, to our buddy, Nick Murphy. Casey, Chris has done work for your friend, Jeff. Yeah. But it's like, it's a really precarious recommendation because you're like,

God, I hope this works because you're spending a lot of money with that person. They're going to come to your house and hopefully do a good job. But if they don't do a good job, you're... Oh, they installed the door. It's on the ceiling. Right. Yeah. I mean, like your reputation is on the line because you made a recommendation. You're like, oh, crap, it didn't work. But Chris, fortunately, has worked out really well for everybody. Let me go to Kyle. Similar to that text. Hi, Kyle. Good morning. Hey, good morning, everyone. Sorry to bother you at work. No, man. It's all right. So what was your bad recommendation?

So I'm an electrician and I have quite a few long-standing clients. And just recently I recommended someone to do some drywall work after me and it didn't go so well. Hmm.

So, I mean, being that they're longstanding clients, I'm working with them constantly. And you are very involved and you hear it pretty immediately. No, you know, my brother's in law are contractors and especially John who did a whole bunch of work at my house. You live and die. If you have...

so much work that you need to recommend someone else or defer to someone else, that's your tacit approval of that person. And it can come back to haunt you if you say, I can't do it, but here's a guy who can do it for you. And they end up sucking. Then that reflects poorly on you. Correct?

Yeah, I mean, so, you know, they were thankfully they were a very long standing client and I was able to find another buddy of mine to help them out. And I had the fool a favor to have them give them a little. You had a question, Kyle, the guy that you knew, the first guy you suggested, do you say anything to him?

Oh, I did, and I really don't recommend him anymore. And we're no longer friends, and he tried to kill me. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's just you go further down on the list. Yeah. You always have to be careful with that. When you recommend you're in a business and you recommend, you know. Thanks, Kyle. I was...

I was a little nervous when I recommended a beach town to my best friend here at work. Chuck? No, no, no, no. Preston. Preston. You know, because Preston wasn't really a beach guy prior to his purchase. Right. And I made this recommendation on this beach town. I'm so thrilled that you're enjoying yourself. Were you sweating bullets? It's a good one. But we looked all up and down, all around. And eventually, we were like, yeah, Casey's right. This is the spot. You guys even looked like Poconos, and you weren't necessarily even thinking...

Yeah, we looked all the way up to Seaside Heights, man. Yeah. And worked our way down. And it worked. And eventually we were like, yeah. You said no. New York is where I'd rather stay. Damn, there was something else I was going to... I know that I suggested something. Yeah. Steve, I remember way back when, when you guys were thinking about putting in a pool. We had put in a pool. Yes. And I had put you in touch with my pool guy who did great work for us. And then he full on...

Ghosted you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, man, where the hell did that come from? Yeah. And it wasn't like, I mean... By the way, this guy had done...

a lot of really great pools, the guy you recommended. And it was like, you know, you're dealing with someone who's got a profile, Steve Morrison, on the radio, for crying out loud. I make fart sounds. It's his birthday tomorrow. Can you do one right now just to show people what you can do? Yes. That'd be great. I mean, we're talking about a major talent here, folks, a guy who whipped that out. Yeah, I just, you think that just falls out of the tree? No. No. But he, yeah, he fuller and ghosted. And then it was after that we were like, oh,

I guess we're done dealing with him, too. Did you ever talk to him? No. Yeah, because you're just done. But people who do contract work, they're their own boss. And if they just want to ghost, they can do it, I guess. It sucks, too. Yeah. Man, that's... It's just... It just brings you down because...

You're the person that's responsible in a way. I mean, Steve, what's your threshold on stuff like that? Because you're pretty patient and kind and forgiving, I think, but you also have a threshold. Listen, because I am unrelentingly accommodating, but at a certain point, you hit that barrier, and it's like...

Now the fire starts. I'm going to make it rain blood because I've made sure that when I get to that point, I've given you every option. I absolutely understand things. But in a contractor situation, especially dealing with my brother-in-law, John, who is a great contractor and always delivers, and I know how good contractors are and how it's a tough job and juggling all this stuff. I get it. But when it goes south or they ghost or you have like –

supplies that are dropped off at your house where they never come to, you know that we've all had that. It's like, what's happening here? Yeah. And it's funny because for what we do for a living, I, I, I feel like I can't speak my mind as much as I would like to, because then it reflects poorly on the show, on the radio station. It's like, Oh, I was trying to do work at Casey boys. You wouldn't, you wouldn't want to the next point. If it was just a bad experience with somebody or they went through something bad and,

This we can say something and have it have it have a bad effect on a business. And you would never want to just do that. No. And consign someone to having to fight their way out of that. I'm not going to do that. Like, for instance, when my mom had, you know, was paying four thousand dollars a year extra over what she should for for insurance, car insurance.

I did not out the car insurance company that she was using. And people were like, you got to, you know, and I'm like, I'm not going to do that. That's, you know, the word is just be aware that you want to be up on this. Same thing. When I had a terrible experience at Tires Plus, I didn't. You didn't say it. No, I just, I nonchalantly said a tire place with plus service. Yeah. Wouldn't know. Wait, Casey, back to what you said. So.

you won't express how you feel because not in, not in a way that's going to reflect poorly upon. But what do you mean? Like, are you talking about like if there's a contract at your house and you don't like the work he's done? Uh, it just, just, I don't complain all that much. Like, uh, you complain in person or on the air. I thought you were talking about on the air. No, no. On air. I'll complain. Cause it's at least there's a little comedy there. Okay. In person, but in person. No, because I don't want them going, dude,

So what? If you don't have great service, tell them. Because we're also in the service industry, right? We're contractors. People can't wait to bad mouth. I'm not following. Ugh.

There is no way if somebody did bad work on my house that I wasn't going to tell them and ask them to fix it. Yeah. Because I work on the radio? No. I know. She's a successful OnlyFans mom. I think you and I are, we're not. You're different types of people. Well, no, no, no, no. You have something in mind, but you don't want to say what it is, right? No, no, no, no. It's you. I think if it's bad enough, I'm going to make a stink, right? But if it's.

more of on the annoyance level, I'll probably just eat it. And I'm like, whatever. But if it's like... I know exactly what you're saying. Yeah. You go... You will take a lot more than I would take. And I think that you... And that... I don't see that as a character flaw. Yeah. I know it drives you crazy sometimes. You're a very nice person. You're very accommodating. You try to look for the best in everything. I don't...

And I try likewise. But my line is a lot closer than your line. Yeah. Yeah. No, Casey, I'm with you because I have a friend who's the opposite of that. And if the work was not done to specification, I mean the tiniest little details like, nope, I paper this, get in here and fix it. Yeah. That's slightly crooked. I want that changed. My neighbor had worked on it. They had a little kitchenette put in the basement, right? So this thing set up.

One of the drawers opens up into the other drawer. And I said to him, I don't know. I said, ask the contractor. Would you install it this way in your house? Yeah. No, you wouldn't. Fix it. I mean, me personally, I would because I'm an idiot, but.

I want to go to this call real quick. Marissa, you had mentioned Belfast. What was it she had said about that? My friend Anthony, who is a fan of the show, by the way, one of the hardest he's ever laughed at the show, Preston, is when you flipped out on your kid's

The socks. With the socks. Because he's been there a thousand times. So his brother still lives in Ireland and he knew that Marissa was going there. And he's like, tell him to call my brother. I thought his brother was a cab driver in Ireland. No. It's just his brother. It's just his brother.

To me, it's like European vacation when they get with the German family. It's not their family. Before you go to this call, Preston, I do want to thank your friend Casey because he was so excited and his energy got me all excited. Now, please. Goddamn people think I'm some sort of cop driver. Listen, Rochelle does that all the time. Oh, we lost him.

He just hung up. There's a guy named Finn from Belfast and wanted to back that up. Pretty much, he was like, I just want to talk about the Belfast conversation.

She's correct. It's a bad place. Rochelle does it a lot. To visit. She'll find out that someone who knows someone, you know, like, oh, we're going to go to whatever, this city. Hey, I know somebody who lives in that city. Why don't we get you two guys together? Right. It's like, no. I don't do that. I don't do that. Although it turned out to be pretty well because she had a friend who lives in Hungary, in

God damn it. Budapest! Budapest, thank you. And a friend of ours' son was going there and she's like, well, I know somebody there. And we ended up getting

getting their numbers to each other and they met up and went out and had a good time. Oh, they did. But Rochelle does that all the time. We should get so-and-so to blah, blah, blah. These two do that. I love that. I love that in people, but I don't do that. It's like when you do like, oh, you're taking flying lessons? A friend of mine was on a commercial flight. They can teach you. That's a big job. I always feel like it's a bit of an imposition to put the person that lives in that city. Hey, by the way, you're going to be tour guide for a day. Could you be a tour guide for three weeks to my family? Yeah.

When we were in Clearwater, somebody did that to me. It was like, you have to hear, like gave me the phone number of her friend and everything. And I was like. Yes, this is Finn. Who is this? I don't know about this. You live in Belfast? Oh, man. Oh, wait. Here's a good one. Then we got to wrap up here. I'm going to go to Colleen. Hi, Colleen. Good morning. Good morning. Sorry to bother you guys at work. No, it's all right. You have an interesting story. What is it?

So my sister was graduating with her MBA and working full-time, and she was really stressed. So instead of a party, she wanted to go on a vacation, and I had a timeshare. So I said, oh, I'll give you a week of the timeshare. So it was one that you had points, and you could go anywhere in the world. So I put in... She said, can you just book it for me? Because...

I just don't have time. So I looked in and went in the filters and she wanted adults only beach location, all inclusive swim up pool bar. So I put in all these filters, couple places came up. This one place had everything she asked for. So I'm like, okay, here's the, here's the place I'll book it for you. So she got there and she texted to say she had arrived and I'm like, how is it? And she's like, I'll talk to you when I get home. And I'm like, Oh no, it's like a roach hotel. So,

When she came home, I found out I had booked her and her husband to go to a swingers resort. A swingers resort. That would be a funny gag, actually. That would be. That would be hilarious. They weren't swingers. That should actually be a practical joke you pull on someone. Yeah, she had a great time, but they just kind of met another couple who didn't know what they were getting themselves into and stuck with them.

That's brilliant. There's a similar thing. I had a family member who insisted, I know where you should stay. You're going to upstate New York. I know where you should stay. This place looks – they just passed it and it looked good to them. Oh, my God. This was the place I told you about when we went into the room. There were bunk beds. Oh, really? Bunk beds. I get the top. Yeah. I'm like, what? What?

All right. Well, when you give recommendations, think about the person you're giving them to. Sometimes it's an accident. Sometimes it's a bad night. You never know. And be cautious when receiving those suggestions to people. We'll be back. Stay with us. Got an Alexa device? Tell her Alexa, play 93.3 WMMR to stream us live.

As for you Google device users, just yell at it until it cooperates. I don't know. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast.

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Uh, so there was a stream of consciousness, uh, when social media posts, uh, start using abbreviations, yes. Text message abbreviations and things like that. Are you good with that? I'm okay at it. Yeah. And there's some of them I look at and I'm not really sure what I'm looking at, but Google translate, they, um, many people were lied says here in this article on Google translate, uh,

for the latest acronyms and abbreviations. And there was a search that was done to find out which ones people don't understand. All right. The most. Which confuses people the most. So this is the business admin experts at Vera compiled a 114 word list of the most popular text message abbreviations.

Oh, no, these are the most popular ones. I'm sorry. Okay. By scouring sources like Reader's Digest, Preply, Your Dictionary, and more. And then they used an online analytics tool to determine each term's search volume, accounting for various search queries like the meaning of blah, blah, blah, what does this mean, so on. So these are the ones you'd be well advised to know.

I guess so. Right? Yeah. They're used most commonly, and that's why they're getting searched the most. So I'll throw a couple of these out. And see how we do. You guys tell me what they are. I'm sure you'll get most of these. There's only one or two that I don't stumble across very often. So the number one, the most popular, is SMH. Shaking my head. Yeah, so that's pretty easy. See, I was wrong. Sucking my ass. Oh.

No, suck my ass. Suck my ass. Yeah. S-M-H. Oh, I thought you said A. No, no, no, no. Then there's P-O-V. Point of view. Yeah, yeah. Come on. Popular in porn, too. Is it? Is it? I wouldn't know about that. You wouldn't know that. I don't like that stuff. Or so I've read. N-S-F-W. Not safe for work. Not safe for work. Correct. FOMO. Fear of missing out. All right. Here's one.

T-L-D-R. Too long, don't read. Yeah. Too long, didn't read. Didn't read. Well, like if you get a text that's too long. Yeah, or an email. Or an article. Yeah. Which happens a lot. Yeah. Kathy, look at this. Look at the top of this email that I just got from a woman named Meg at 9-12 this morning. T-L-D-R. Oh. Yeah, right here. I mean, it's a nice long email, but she wrote it right at the very beginning. To warn you that her email was too long? Uh-huh.

And that actually doesn't look too long. Oh, so it can be used as a warning? Yeah, yeah. So, by the way, this is going to be long just to give you a heads up? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Then you send back H-A-M-S. All right. How about making it shorter? PAMS. PAMS. Yeah. H-A-M-S. All right. Then you have I-Y-K-Y-K. If you know, you know. You know. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. O-F-C.

Of course? Yes. Okay. Yes, yes. Good for you! Yay! Oh, good for you! But OFC seems a little counterintuitive because it's of course, so it's not just OC? Yeah. Nope. It spells out the word of, but both in caps. Yeah, all right. It's like the way Norm MacDonald has been on identification. I stands for identification. And D stands for identification. IMO. IMO.

In my opinion. Yep. I-I-R-C.

I don't know that one. It's the tattoo artist. Recall correctly? Yes, Casey. Oh. I recall Reckleckleck. You're my hero. You know what that's from? No. It's from Eastbound and Down. Eastbound and Down, yeah. What was it again? If I call Reckleckleck. If I call Reckleckleck. Yeah, it's the scene between Will Ferrell and Craig Robinson. Okay. He screws up and says, I call Reckleckleck. He's trying to say if I recall correctly. Yeah. He says Reckleckleck and then Craig Robinson starts losing it.

Better call her click-click. Down in my plums. Shiny like that. I share plums. Boy, watch. Better call her click-click. All right. H-M-U. Hummus? Oh, my God. I love hummus. Wait. I see this all the time. Hit me up. Yes. Yay. Yay for Nick. L-M-A-O. We know that one. A-F-K.

As F. I don't know that one. A-F-K. Yes. No. Is that as F? Nope. A-F-K. I think the K stands for no and the A stands for no. No. You're both wrong. We're both wrong. Okay.

It stands for away from keyboard. Oh. Don't look these up, Nick. Almost like out of office. No, I wasn't going to answer it. I would have to, you know. He recuses himself. Yeah. Out of office? Yeah, like it's a similar thing. Like if you write AFK, then it means you're out of office or away from your phone. How about it would be O-O-O actually. Out of office. Yeah, but I don't think it's used like that. It's not.

Nick, I don't think people working at a desk are sending that. Like, I think it's... You know what I mean? Like somebody texting their friends. Like, hey, I'm not going to be able to text for a little while. Then BUC is beating up coworker. Used to inform others that you're not at your computer and won't be available for a little while. Also similar to BRB. Be right back. All right. After that one, one of the most popularly used ones, 13th on the list is NGL. NGL.

Oh, not going to lie. Yeah. Oh, here we go. Okay.

A lot of these. Casey, do you get these from your son quite a bit? None that he's said yet, but yeah. I definitely write more long form and he definitely writes in Snapchat form. So Ben is communicating this right now? All the time. So you need to know this. Yeah, so like Steve and I, here's an old man thing, but I have to Google it. I'm like, I don't know what he's talking about here. I'm going to do the old man thing and look it up on the interwebs. Do you guys text with your kids much? All the time. A lot? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we don't text a whole lot.

I text with a lot of kids that are not mine. I've seen them. Perhaps I find them attractive. Oh, no. Some people might find that disturbing. Really? Yeah, you should maybe stop that. All right. Then I have a couple of dinner dates. Nick, I don't use them because I'm not allowed. Jace will say, don't do that. You're too old. Don't write like that. Oh, don't you love that? Sure, yeah. Wow.

Wow. No kidding. He's like, no, don't do that. You sound really ridiculous if you do that. You're like, ah, yeah. I'm like, okay, LOL. All right. So what's better? Using this stuff or not knowing it? You know what I mean? In their eyes. I...

Well, in their eyes... You never win, right? Yeah, no. If it was like an actual friend texted me that, I would just say, WTF does that mean? Yeah. All right. What do you think, though, about in the long term about the extraction of actual language to communicate and the nuance? You know, you love the written word.

And then the paring down of it to this, are we being robbed? Or are the youngsters getting robbed? They will say that. Like they'll speak that way as well. Right. They'll use the abbreviation. The question is how much as over history – because that's –

already been done throughout history. I mean, but is it at an accelerated rate now because of the technology? That's the question. I don't know. Because language always gets... In my life, I've seen words change meaning, you know? Sure. Yeah. Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good. I told you that if you go back and see the movie...

I forgot what movie it is. Baby's Day Out? Not Baby's Day Out. It's a remake. It was a John Wayne movie. True Grit. True Grit. In that entire script, they don't use contractions. It's I will not, I have not, not I haven't, and I won't because they weren't used at the time. Watch Deadwood, the original Gov Deadwood. It's fairly true to the vernacular and the language as it was at that time. And they use the C word apparently all the time.

Kathy, OOTD. OOTD. Wow, I've seen this one. What is it? I don't know. OOTD. I know this one. You do? Uh-huh. What is it? Outfit of the day. Yes. Oh, outfit of the day. How come he knows that and you, the sharpest dresser on the show, don't know? No, you know why? Because my friend, you know, is like an influencer. She always hashtags that. All right, there's one. What's my outfit of the day? Usually shorts and a t-shirt. The next one is IG. IG.

Instagram. Nope. Oh. Nope. Instead of indicating Instagram, it would be a statement that they're making. I... Grammed.

I got it. I good. I good. No. It's I guess. Oh. Well, that's kind of lame, I think. It is. That's pretty short. Yeah. And you need to IG it. TBH. To be honest. Yep. TTYL. Talk to you later. DM. Direct message. YOLO. You only live once. And then FWIW. For what it's worth. God, you guys are good at this. Thank you. What's FOLO?

Fear of living ones. On its own, SMH had a total of 23,450 average monthly searches in the U.S. The second most searched acronym is POV with an average of 155,000. Hasn't porn taught us anything? Right. If you don't know it, just look at the video. It tells you what you can see.

Point of view shot. You can see what that is. Yeah. Hang on. It's funny when the abbreviation really doesn't save you a ton of time. No. Thanks with an X at the end of it. You're eliminating two letters. Yeah. Including an X. That's why, like, sus, referring to things as sus. Yeah. You don't have time for the pecked?

It just becomes a part of the vernacular. Yeah, and like, so I can see like Xmas being used because Christmas is a lengthy, more lengthy word to spell out. Oh, but Christians don't take, don't. Yeah, I know, but I don't care. I can't take Christ out of Christmas. Oh, I got in trouble one time. I had to spray the Merry Xmas on our, you know, with like that frosting. My mom's like, you don't take the Christ out of Christmas. Yeah.

I'm like, oh, I didn't know that that's what I was doing. But so that's an example of where it's a longer word. And for convenience sake, you may want to shorten things down. I could see that. But you're right. If it's already short to begin with. Ah, hell. Ah, hell. A-H. A-H. Ah. Hell. In fact, it would be ah-ah. Yeah. Ah. All right. Anyhow, Bob wants to comment on something real quick. Hey, Bob, you are on the air. Good morning. Good morning.

Hey, good morning. Sorry to bother you guys at work. Nah, it's all right, man. What's up? So I just want to let you guys know, like, I'm a 43-year-old. A lot of these have been around since at least the mid-'90s because I used to see and use a lot of them in, like, chat rooms and stuff. Yeah. I'm sure it's a long day back, much older than that.

There's definitely newer ones. Yeah. No, you're right. That's a good point, though. There's probably a lot of them that used to be used quite frequently in, people forget, chat rooms. Man. Remember that? Thank you, Bobby. Will that be part of the pitch to the listening audience, Preston? I'm going to be in the chat room later on. How about this one, ASL? ASL. American Sign Language? Uh-uh. In a chat room. In a chat room. A slash S slash L. Oh. Ass-sucking lemurs? Wait, hold on. Oh, man.

I'm sure I'm going to know this. It was an inquiry to start a conversation. And you would put ASL in order to figure out what the person's age, sex, and location was. Oh, I don't remember that. That was common in chat rooms. Okay. Age, sex, and location. I didn't do a lot of time in chat rooms, but a few times I did it. I thought it was kind of fun. Man, when I started at Y100 with you guys, the chat room on AOL, the instant message was something we used all the time to communicate with listeners. Yeah. And we brought it over here for a stretch. Yeah.

But eventually he kind of went to the way of the devil. Do you guys remember LGV? Length, growth, and veins? Oh my God. But the thing I've had about chat rooms was as opposed to comment sections, back and forth on comment sections, is that chat room was immediate. It was quick. You were actively in front of a keyboard and you were going back and forth as opposed to

Comment section is where you leave it, and then you check and see a couple hours or later that day or the next day somebody's commented on it. You know what I mean? Well, look at our YouTube feed. That's what a chat room would look like. Yeah, exactly. Same thing. Yes. All right. So chat roulette. Is that still a thing? Oh, my God.

That was fun at first. It was fun when we did it. Yeah, yeah. It was kind of cool. That was really fun. How long until you saw a penis? Yeah, and it wasn't too long. No. It's still there, Keith. It's still there. Son of a bitch. How about that? Okay. You guys want to play? Yeah, let's do it. All right. No. Okay. Call it up. Well, do we have a camera? I don't know. No, we don't have that on there. All right, Cass here. Just put up Preston's rock picture. I'll do it on my computer and Kathy will play it. I know. What do you mean, Cass here? Yeah.

Kathy, just stick your bare foot up to the camera. Are you guys on it? Yeah. Allow. Allow. Allow. H-A-F. Hot S-F. Come on. But there used to be like a couple. So Nick. There we go. You got to sign in. Oh, come on. I'm sure your account's still active. You know it is.

Yeah. Hang on, Maria. While you guys are trying to set that up, I'll kill some time. I have Maria on the line. Hi, Maria. Good morning. Hi. Hello. Hey, what's up, Maria?

So I was calling in because when Casey had mentioned about the Christmas making sense, the X, it's actually an abbreviation that doesn't take the Christ out of Christmas part. It's because the X was chosen because it's Greek for Christos. There you go. So it's actually putting the Greek Christ back into Christmas. Yes. There you go. I guess the X is a chi, right?

X is in the Greek alphabet as Kai. I guess so. I mean... Okay, interesting, Maria. We'll look into that. Appreciate that. All right, what are you guys laughing at? Nothing. All dudes and all, like, muscly dudes, although not one penis yet. Wait. Muscle guys. I can change that. Just kind of sitting there with their shirts off and whatnot, flexing a little bit. This guy's a creeper. I'm getting past him. No, be nice. Okay. Be nice. They're nice people. Are they? Yeah.

We need volume so we can talk to them. Look at this guy. Are they trying to talk to you? Yeah, one of the guys did. Can we put them on the air or not? This guy's from... I don't know. Can we in Pennsylvania? Sorry, sorry, sorry. I thought you have to hit the check mark. One check.

Talk chick to her. Kathy, talk chick to her. Hold on. When you said a girl, Steve reminded me early on in the game chat stuff that you used to have in a video game. Steve was on playing with a bunch of guys. All of a sudden, my niece came on the game. They were like, dude, there's a girl here. There's a girl on. We got somebody. Hey, we're on the radio in Philadelphia. Is it okay if we say hi to you? Where are you from?

I'm from Croatia. Croatia. Croatia. Croatia. Europe. Europe. Croatia. And what is your name? Oh, my name is Ante, like Antonio. Ante. So why are you on Chat Roulette? You know, sometimes here I find someone to talk with, you know, especially I'm interested in lots of stuff like, you know, religion and engineering stuff. And there is lots of stuff here that I don't like. Like, you know, if I'm on the air, I don't want to talk about...

No, I hear you. How many things about the letter X being used in Xmas when they shorten that if he's into religion? Are you a religious person, Ante? Oh, actually, I used to be. Okay. When I say used to be, when I was a kid, they learned, especially here in Croatia, we are 90% Catholic. We teach to be God, religion, Jesus, and stuff like that. But when you are growing older...

I think that those are only the stories. I just want to ask him about the X and Christmas thing, so it's all good. We don't need to dive into the deeper stuff. I like what he's saying, though. I find him very engaging. Yeah. Well, it's very nice to chat with you, Ante. We're going to move on. Tell them about our radio show and how they can listen to us. Yeah, so if you're listening from Croatia, we're on the interwebs. It's WMMR.com is the name of the radio station in Philadelphia. Oh, yeah.

I'm not listening to the radios in the U.S., but it was very nice. All right. Very nice to talk to you, too. Thank you. All right. Appreciate it. What a nice guy. How about that? This is re-ignited. You want to go on Chat Roulette, don't you? Interested in Chat Roulette and maybe stumble across some stranger that might be an interesting person. And might want to look at your balls. Maybe. Yeah, he didn't show us his wiener.

Oh, by the way, you were just talking to me from Croatia. I forgot to show you my penis. Wait, but when you said Croatia again, he tried to correct you. Oh, I don't know. No, he said Croatia. I know, and it said, you could read it. It said there, but I guess it's not, I don't know. I didn't hear him saying Croatia. Yeah, like a couple, even in the beginning too. He was like, no, no, no, Croatia. But he was, I don't know. Maybe he just didn't like how we were saying it. Look at the teeth on that chick. Okay.

All right. Well, anyhow, we have to take a break, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we have good money yet coming up. But those were the most popular social media abbreviations. You guys nailed them all. Got every single one of them. Let's do Chat Roulette Mondays. Chat Roulette Mondays? We're going to tune that into the thing? No, we're not doing the Noticer. That was the Noticer was earlier. What the hell? This was just the chit-chat. Someone's out of their frigging mind. Yeah. All right. We got to take a break. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Want to stop Alexa from secretly recording you?

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By the way, lyrically really, really cool. It's got a great hook to it. We're going to talk to him about all these things. Please welcome Mr. Dickie Barrett. Yeah! Hey, everybody. How you doing, Dickie? I'm doing good. Thank you for having me. Nice to see you. You are a very stylish gentleman, may I say that first and foremost. Very stylish.

First and foremost, that's what I lead with. You do lead with style? Yes, with style, yes. What I lock in talent, I make up with snappy wardrobe. Yeah, you trust in that. We were hip to that a while ago with us. Please, again.

Ignore my inability to actually perform music, but check out the outfit. Nice. So you guys, the show at the TLA is sold out, man. Thanks for coming by here. You don't even need to be here. We appreciate it. I like coming by places like this. And this is a great crew. Kathy.

How do you spell your name? With a K. With a K. Okay. So you Kathleen? Yes. All right. I'll raise my Irish breakfast to Kathleen. Yeah. My mother's maiden name was O'Connor. So that's the Irish side. There's a tear in my eye. I'm thinking very much Irish. Yes. And in fact, you were thrilled that we had the Irish breakfast tea for you. That's right. And you put it in a Dunkin' Donuts cup. It's from Boston. There you go. What a cliche I am. Yeah.

Shot of Jameson. I thought maybe you were having the tea because you have to, you know, you're a singer and you have to treat your voice delicately. I actually think black breakfast tea is not great for your voice. Really? Is what I heard, yeah. You know what? The best thing for the voice is water. It's funny you should say that because I've...

I started drinking black coffee. Right. And, you know, because I was... Long story short, to do an intermittent fast correctly, you can't have sugar up to like... Right. Okay, blah, blah, blah. You're trying to pull my story out of me, aren't you? No, no, no, no, no. You are. No, no, I won't pull that story. I'm sorry. Thank you. But I noticed that drinking the black coffee, like it...

It's not conducive. It Fs up your voice. Yeah, well, my heart pumps piss for you. Listen to my voice. Okay? Boo-hoo to you. I'm screaming into a microphone every night, my friend. I don't know how you hold up. You have a naturally raspy voice. You have a naturally crally voice. All the Barrett's. How the hell does it hold up? Dickie! Time for supper! Coming, Mom!

I asked, you know who Louis Black is? The comedian Louis Black? Yes. Screams his head off. Screams. I'm like, how do you do that night after night? And he's like, I just do it, you know? Yeah. I don't really know. Like, I wake up in the morning and go, oh my gosh, I'm not going to be able to do anything tonight. And then I hit the stage and it just comes out of you. Have you ever had like a run where you had no voice? That's an excellent question. Yes. Yeah. Not a run, but we had done six shows in Boston. Yeah.

10 years ago and we ended it with a show in New Haven so the last night so I'm driving down to New Haven and I could not talk and I did not we're playing a place called Toad's Place in New Haven, Connecticut and I think it's even New Year's Eve so it ends in New Year's Eve

And I had nothing. I got on stage and I just basically walked out and handed the mic to the audience. Wow. And this kind of directed them. And they were quite happy. Wow. When you lose your voice, it's the best show we ever played. Best show. They took over. Sound-wise. We made a live album. I feel bad. I mean, listen, there's some artists out there that are just... They're...

They can't get away from it. They're just subject to getting sick all the time. Brandi Carlile is one of those people where she just... Anytime there's something, she gets it. Yeah. But she has a different style of singing. Not me, my friend. Strong immune system. Hey, Preston, I want you to ask Dickie the question that you had posed on the air. I don't know if you had planned on talking to him about the lyrics behind...

The way, the impression that I get, there's a lyric in there, the way that it's sung. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot. We talked about this ages ago. Okay. I was listening to the impression that I get and the line, I never had to knock on wood.

And I was curious if there was a comma in there. There is. I've never had to. I've never had to. Knock on wood. Knock on wood. There we go. There we go. You have saved us, sir. It's not literal. I'm not literally knocking on wood. I've never had to knock on wood. No, I never had to. Knock on wood. But I know someone who has. But I know someone who has. Yeah. Thank you. As I was singing it one day, I'm like, I was trying to take in the context of the lyrics, which, by the way, it takes me years to...

before I start paying attention to lyrics. I'll sing melodies and I'll love the song and I'm like, oh, they were talking about this. That always confuses me because I've been nothing but a lyrics guy my whole life. No kidding. I just love, like, it started for me, I was writing poetry and a,

high school teacher found out I was writing poetry. It wasn't even my teacher and encouraged that and just like came out of, hey, I heard you write poetry and this is years ago when writing poetry wasn't accepted. And there you go. So let me ask. It was back in the days of like Footloose where you couldn't dance

You couldn't dance. Real quick, if I can jump in, Steve, because I had mentioned, I played a little bit, a clip of Dead Language. Now, in preparation for this interview, I listened to it lyrically. Lyrically. To hear what you were saying in there. It's a really cool song. It is. You're diving into stuff that we've said before.

time and time again. It seems to focus a little bit on checking out of life and being sucked in by your phone and all the stuff that's on there. It's either a very cool song or it's boomers screaming at the sky. I know. It's one of the... These damn kids and their TikTok and their vaping. You know what I'd say to that though, Dickie? Yeah.

It is an ineluctable fact that you will end up in that place. You live your life. And you know what? You're owed that. You have earned the right to scream it, get off my lawn and all that stuff. It's part of the deal. Steve, thank you very much. There you go. Will you follow me around through life?

Affirm me. I think it's true. Support me. Encourage me the way you are this morning. You know what's funny is I had a kid a couple of weeks ago. You had a kid? Congratulations. He was clearly making fun of me to my face. Right. You know what I mean? He's a little 16-year-old punk. Right. And for a second there, I got like a little bit pissed about it. And then I was like...

No, I did the same stuff. You know what I mean? So I try to keep all of that stuff in the context, right? So I'm not like, get off my lawn because I was in all of my neighbor's lawns. Not only was I on their lawns, I was on their roofs. I was under their porches. Yeah. Right on the money. You can ask Matt Cord when I was younger. I was...

I was the kid that was in your face the other day. Ah, there you go. Yes. Yeah. But hopefully you evolve and change. I wanted to ask you about The Defiant and...

You know, they used to say super group or, you know, I don't know what the term would be, but you have some heavy hitters in the band. And it's really cool. It's sort of like a sampler of a lot of great memories for people music-wise. I think it is. It's a walk down the 90s memory lane for starters. And then it's a deep dive into punk rock for sure. The song you were mentioning, Dead Language...

are lyrics that I actually didn't write. Oh, okay. Which is difficult for me because I'm the guy that rewrites everything. People who hear me lyrics go, oh, these are good, but I can improve them. Right. And then Greg Camp, who's the original guitar player for Smash Mouth and the guy that wrote all the big Smash Mouth hits and he's a...

genius songwriter he handed me these dead language lyrics and i was sure that i was gonna oh okay i'll just rewrite and then i read them i go i can't do any better than this wow and um so greg camp from smash mouth is in the band p parada the drummer for the last 15 years in the offspring plays drums and he was also in saves the day and face the face to face wow and he played um

This is my favorite part. And I don't even know if he likes me saying it, but he played with Devo as well. Yes! Devo! We freaking love Devo. Yeah, of course. Who doesn't like Devo? I'm a huge fan too. And then there's Joey LaRocca who played in a band called The Briggs. And there's Johnny Rio who's the bass player and he played for the Street Dogs out of Boston.

Awesome. It's wild. I mean, the sound and listening to some of the stuff, it's really solid. You know, but you talk about punk rock and you talk about, obviously, there's the ska aspect of what you did. Yes. And when the Barstones early on, you guys were kind of, you were up and running during grunge. Right. But I always thought that you guys came in...

As a reaction to? As a reaction to. Yes. I think that that whole era of, you know, there was grunge. Yeah. And that's all grunge had to offer. And the country was very grungy. And everyone was enjoying grunge and wearing their flannel shirts. And then Kurt died. And then sort of, you know, people wanted to feel good again. Yeah. And enter the boss tones and...

you know, Green Day or Goldfinger or, you know, maybe even Smash. Rancid. Rancid for sure. Definitely. No doubt. So was it, was it a, you just, you let the river take you or was it a conscious design where you sat down? No, we were doing what we always did. That's what, we were inspired by Second Wave of Scammy as a guy of England, The Specials, Madness, Bad Manners, those guys. So that's what we were doing and, you know, we weren't trying to do something popular. It just ended up

that way. When that musical movement happened, and I mean that, the kind of quote-unquote alt, for lack of a better term, door opened up, Nirvana kicked it down, Pearl Gems, Stone Temple Pilots, and then bands like yours started surfacing. So there was already this undercurrent of different formats of rock that were going on, which leads me to believe, because I'm not going out to clubs and stuff like that and seeing what things, but I've got to believe that that's always going on, that there's some

There's some movement out there that we don't know about that's happening now. And it needs a flashpoint moment for it to all of a sudden become the thing to listen to. You know what I mean? I agree with that, but I think things are different now. Things are different. The way music is brought to people, it was like...

It's different than it was then. It's now, it's almost become what used to be a meal was set out. It's now bite-sized that you're getting in little TikTok videos and little snippets. Well, even in singles. Like, I mean, music isn't always released in, like, album form these days. You got, like, these, like, one, two song releases and stuff. Yeah, it's a whole different animal. And that's the animal, that's the animal I come from. So that's how I still do it. So once again, you know.

Dickie, I was at a record store for Record Store Day a couple weeks ago, and I was talking with the owner, and he was saying that this teenage girl came in, and she wanted to buy Taylor Swift's new records, which is cool. She wanted to get the vinyl of it, but she was not even going to bother opening the vinyl because she already was able to listen to it electronically on her phone or whatever. So for her, the vinyl was just a collectible, which I get, but she's missing out on the 3D sensation of –

tactile sensation of holding a record, of looking at the album. That was, I mean, that's what I fell in love with. Yeah, same. Holding it. And I felt a little bad for this kid because she didn't know that there's more to music than just listening to it. Yes.

Big headphones laying in your room with an album cover in front of you, reading every single thing, looking at every... Why did they... Who's this? Yeah. Who's that? Yeah. Dickie, I remember clearly... Those days are gone. But it was... The memories are great. I was... President and I were talking about this the other day. I forget. Maybe it was the...

Maybe it was The Who, first time I heard it. The Tommy, I remember. Big headphones, super big headphones. And then what I started to do was to take the speakers, the actual full speakers in the room, and turn them and lay in the middle. Dude, I did that too. Yeah. I did that too. Yeah, you just want to, and then you hold the artwork and you go, what does this mean? Yeah, I know.

It's so good. We sound so old school. I know. I'm so sorry. We just lost all your young listeners. No, you know, it's funny because these guys sound like my dad. What we talk about is the fact that like Preston's kids, it's a whole bunch of kids who get

introduced to something or here's something. And whereas Dickie, when we were having to wait for the next album to come out, you've got an instantaneous catalog ready to go. So if you kind of decide you want to explore a musical, a band or an artist, you're,

Right there. You're good to go. So you will see kids walking around with queen shirts on and or, you know, whatever, Boston shirts. It's there for the taking. So it is kind of encouraging. Yes. I agree with that as well. How old are your kids? My kids are way younger than they should be. All right. Give us ages. But, you know, in Hollywood, it made more sense. What are they into musically?

Musically, it's weird. So my oldest daughter is in sixth grade and my youngest daughter is in second grade. Wow. And I said that like three weeks ago to Jimmy Kimmel. And after I said that, Jimmy looked at me and goes, you don't know your daughter's ages, do you? Yeah.

I know what grades they're in. I know when I drop them off, one of them goes into sixth grade and the other one goes into second grade. Man, numbers. You and your numbers. Seven and twelve. Thank you.

Yes. So what do they listen to? Yeah. They got on a kick. Well, first of all, my oldest daughter listens to the band, which I love. No kidding. I don't know where that came from. She likes Danko. So there you go. Robertson. So it's sixth grade. That's pretty great. Yeah. That's awesome. That brings a tear to my eye. But they both of them got into all things Willy Wonka. Okay. All things Wonka. Like not just...

The current movie, the music from the movie, and they don't watch a ton of movies, but they saw that Wonka movie. And they fell in love with that kid. And then they got that. Then they got all the Gene Wilder stuff.

Did they skip the Depp version? No, they didn't get into that one. Yeah. Thank God. Is there music in that one? Not really, I don't think. Not that I remember. Just the Danny Elfman stuff. Danny Elfman stuff, yeah, yeah. Hey, Dickie, you used to do morning radio, right? Yes, I did. Did you have a segment where... It's difficult to tell by my appearance this morning, but I've got some experience. Did you have tattoos days? Yes. So do we. Do you really? Yes. We've been doing that for...

15 years or something like that. I did it before that. I had all of the tattoo artists and that was one of the things too is when I was asked to do the show

Jimmy called me in his office and I was working on Jimmy Kimmel Live and I was the announcer on that show, for those of you who don't know. And he goes, I hear you're going to do morning radio. And I go, yeah, yeah, someone asked me to come in and do a morning show and I hadn't thought about it at all. And he goes, and as a longtime radio guy, Jimmy goes, what are you going to do?

I go, I don't know. I'm going to play some. Now I'm on the spot. I'm sweating. I'm like, I got to come up with something. And I go, I think on Tuesdays, I'm going to give tattoos, you know, Tattoo's Day. And he goes, you do realize no one can see those tattoos. And I'm like, oh, I came up with a bad idea. Like four weeks into the show, he called me and again, he goes, I've been listening to your show. It's really good. And on Tattoo's Day, this is what it sounded like.

after enough blood and then after enough blood spilled onto carpets they uh the bosses said could you could it was a health can we do this off-site yeah yeah but uh so you heard that noise and so that and people were like what's wrong with my radio they're calling up like what is that noise oh we're giving tattoos here yeah and i had a cat von d we

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the real deal. We had big stars. How hard was it for a rock star to do morning radio? Loved it. Really? It was L.A., so it wasn't like get up, scrape my window, try to start my car. That's true. It was freezing cold, so that, like,

Still? I couldn't do it here. That's not rock star time, though, man. But you've been sober for a while, so that helps things out. I was drinking at the time. You were drinking at the time. So that either helped or didn't help. Some days it helped, other days... Wow. But yeah, it was...

I loved it. I liked coming in. And that's why I always do this. That's why Matt has been my friend for so many years. Matt forever. Actually, you, my wife and Matt and his girlfriend at the time, you all, after a show, you hung out together. And my wife is a massive fan of the Boston Son of You. And she's just like, oh, he couldn't have been nicer. First thing, I mentioned that story to you coming in and you go, was I nice? Yeah. You were great. Yeah. Sometimes people wait for them. They're like, yeah, he's okay. But then people want me to be mean.

People say I have a mean face. You were very mean. I was trying to be nice. If you're just jumping in, Dickie Barrett is joining us playing tonight with the Defiant, his band at the TLA. I was watching some videos of you giving tours at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas. Yes. And I was like,

And as you spoke to Marissa here earlier, she got married. She was the first, her and her husband, the first people to ever get married. It was their idea. That's very cool. At the Punk Rock Museum. And she called them and was like, hey, you ever done this before? And can we do it? They're like, no. And yes. So they had her on board, which is pretty cool. So none of us have been there except Marissa. What are your thoughts about the museum? It's pretty great. Yeah, it's really, really good. And it's all DIY. They put it together like Fat Mike from No Effects.

It was sort of his idea, but in conjunction with like Fletcher from Pennywise and a bunch of other people, Lisa Brownling and just a great group of people curated all this stuff. And when they first started, they were like asking people, you know, could you donate stuff to the museum? And they're like, well, why would I give you my stuff?

cool stuff. Right. And then once the thing was up and running, people were like, why isn't my cool stuff here? Yeah. Because you didn't give it to me. Yeah, yeah. Did you contribute anything? Yes. What'd you put in there? There's like a bomber jacket I wore when I hosted MTV

or some show they have. Yeah. And also, it's like a ska, like patches, and then there's a bunch of Boston stuff in there. Cool. There's a suit in there. Yeah. But I love the place. It's absolutely, it's so, so cool. The Joe Strummer stuff in there is unbelievable. I would imagine. When we first heard the location was Vegas, I'm like, well, Vegas for punk rock? But, but, but,

Marissa says it's phenomenal. You say it's phenomenal. It's a good place because people go there anyway. Right. And you're looking for something. They're gambling. I wanted to ask you about your, you know, the Clueless was on the other day and you guys are in. Keeping me cool. Keeping you cool. I can't wait to show my daughters that. See?

Your father was cool. It's a perfect movie, I think. The cast obviously got on to great things. Any impressions or memories of hanging out with Paul Rudd and a young, very young boy? Paul Rudd still, to this day, is very, very nice to me and wonderful.

mentioned that and he's a huge star that guy yeah gigantic yeah alicia silverstone our kids went to the same school in pasadena together and she's she's very nice but the experience for me myself at the time and this was during like the oj trial they were filming it right across the street the trial was going on and the bostones were filming their scene at that party and clueless and

And I was sure like this was the beginning of the end. We're selling out. Why am I in this movie? Right. And even when they pitched it to me, they're like, it's about Beverly Hills, rich Beverly Hills kids and their troubles and tribulations. I'm like, what the hell am I doing in there? And when they first go to the movies called Clueless, I said, oh, is it about us? So I was, you know, and we had tax problems at the time is an interesting thing.

And Amy Herkling, who made Fast Times at Ridgemont High, so we're like, okay, that was cool. Maybe this will be cool. But the whole premise of it was, I'm sure it was like,

It's going to be horrible, and it ended up being an iconic movie. And it's a great scene. It's at the late Brittany Murphy, right? Yeah. She's in it. She slides down the stairs, and it's a pivotal moment. Yeah. And I do a horrible stage dive. Yeah? I absolutely wilt. You're not the only one that does a stage dive in that scene, though, right? Isn't there more than one? Or am I misremembering? Well, I did the premiere one, which I was doing them all day. I started the day. I showed up.

And I was like, oh, I don't want to be there. Oh, there it is. It's on the screen here. Yeah. And I showed up and I had a bad attitude. I sometimes do. And so I dove on the kids on the Hollywood extras.

just to kind of rattle them okay and then amy heckling loved it and she goes you got to do that again you got to do that so then 50 more of the stage dive and by the end i was just kind of falling limply it's only so much and that's the one they used yeah dickie i think about uh the movie the wonders when they they go and they have them do a bit part in a movie and uh you know they're just kind of shoved off to the side you guys are obviously centered to the the scenes but

What did you think at the time of the movie making process, your first time experiencing that going, were you thinking, wow, this is stupid? Or was it intriguing to you? Or was it laborious? Or how was it?

Well, I was up in my head. I was up in my head about everything I did. When I went to Saturday Night Live, I was up in my head. I was like, oh. You overthink things? I overthought it because we were a punk band from Boston trying to play ska music, and we had these fans that swore by our first albums and everything, and now this song is everywhere. And it felt oversaturated to me, and then you go to a show and it's like, okay, you're going to do this song, and then I'd say things like,

Well, we'd like to try to do one off of our first album. They're like, no, you're not going to do that. We want to do a different song. And then they'd be like, you don't have a different song. Crushed. Yeah. How important was it? So college, colleges were keeping you guys going for a long time. Well, that was it. That was CMJ, college music, radio, all of that. You remember those days, right?

Yeah. And there were bands that existed in the college realm and then sometimes they'd jump out. You guys did. We loved being in that realm. We were very comfortable in there. And once you're on the billboard charts, then it's... If I had it to do over, I would do it differently and enjoy it more than I actually did. What would you do to do that?

I don't know, walk around burning money. Have people do my bidding. Sure. Come here. Chop, chop. I'm a big star. Boston seems like a real brotherhood as far as the city goes. And if you're from there, you're a part of... And Philly's got that vibe too here. Same thing, yeah. Yeah, but I was curious with the Boston...

the veterans of the Boston music scene, are you friends with the other big stars that came out of Boston musically? Like the Dropkicks? Yeah. Even different genres. Like Aerosmith. Steve Tyler couldn't have been nicer to us. Jake Isles and, you know. Oh, my gosh. Peter Wolfe. And these were all idols growing up. These were idols. So if they spit on me, I would have been fine with that. This might be a dumb question, but is Boston from Boston?

I don't think so. Yes. Thomas is, right? Yeah. They are. All right. So do you guys have any sort of relationship with those guys? Not really with Boston. But I knew Rick O'Kazak from the cars. I knew Peter Wolfe for sure. Peter was great to me.

And if we asked him to come to a Boston show or jump up and sing with us, he always would. What about Matt Damon and Affleck? Yeah. I mean, you know, Dunkin' Donuts brothers. I like Matt Damon a lot. Yeah, yeah. And I like Mark Wahlberg. Okay. He's a great guy. All right.

You left Affleck out? Damon's cool. It's funny because... Casey Affleck has always been nice to me. Wow. That's who you're talking about. He's going all the way around. Circling right around. I think you brought up Affleck. Casey is so nice. With Boston sports, there isn't a team that I like at all. I can't stand them. And I know that you're a lifer when it comes to... But...

When it comes to Boston entertainers, I love all... Talk about stand-up comedians and the actors that you went through. The comedy scene out of Boston Legendary. Boston is the kind of town... It's an arrogant kind of town that you have to know we're from Boston. That's why I named the band the Bostones. And you know when you say Jay Giles, you go, oh, they're from Boston. They're from Boston. There's not a lot of...

Can't really do that. Chicago, what do you got? Smashing pumpkins. But no one really kind of...

Dropkick Murphy is another perfect example. There's no mistaking where they're from. There used to be much more of a kinship between Philadelphia and Boston in the sports world, and then Boston had their last 20 years where they won four World Series. Now everybody hates us. Yeah, but it's funny because growing up, I'd go to a lot of Red Sox games, and my dad would take us to Fenway, and I loved the Sox. They were the fun underdog to root for. You guys have had way too much success over the last

20 years. And we always kind of share the mutual hate for New York. That's exactly right. The enemy of my enemy. Right. Yes. Yeah. We walk together in that. It is fun. And that's why I celebrated last night's Sixers. Thank you. Yes, us too. I did. You know what? More than the New York Knicks themselves, it's the Knicks fans that really pop the crap out of me.

Matt texted me during the game last night, and I was like, your team looks great, buddy. And he texted me back. He goes, there's too many Knicks fans here. I feel like I'm going to punch somebody. Don't do that, dude. It's because it's way more affordable. It's more affordable for anybody from New York to come down here to Philadelphia, whether it be a train or parking or gas or whatever, than it is to just. Casey, you're not going to like what I'm going to say here. This is what Matt told me.

He said that last night, too many Sixers fans wanted to watch the NFL draft. So they gave up their seats. Yeah. And you're one of them. Yeah. Well, I didn't have a seat. Okay. I wasn't going to the game last night regardless. But yeah, I mean, the NFL draft. But that for me, that's it. My brother and I get together every year and we have a cigar and we watch the draft. It's a family thing. Yeah, it's a family thing. And we've been doing that for a couple of years. It's like you and Ben Affleck. It's like me and Casey Affleck.

So I wasn't going to go anyway. And then after the first two games, you know, the NBA gives me a lot of anxiety. Right. Watching an NBA game gives me a lot of anxiety. So I didn't want to be as dialed in to last night's game anyway. But...

I wasn't responsible. What do you do? Kind of check the scores on your phone kind of thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I was a season ticket holder for the Sixers for a bunch of years. And after last year, after getting ousted out of the playoffs by the Celtics, I was like, I can't do this anymore.

Right. I just, I cannot emotionally. Sorry about that. No, you're not. Not even a little bit. But I, you know, just trying to like get away from me emotionally investing in these sports teams like I have over the last. Yeah. Forty some odd years. What is wrong with us? I don't know. I don't know. We were discussing the nature. So Preston and I are more passive. You know, we, the

I tend to be more of a hockey fan. I'm a playoffs guy. You can call me a terrible fan, but I don't get excited until it starts to mean something. I'll freely admit that. It makes more sense to me as you get older. It's heart-wrenching. You go, I've invested the whole season in this, and then...

It almost feels like a mental illness. It does! I can't deal with that. There are two sides to your brain though. Because the joy that you get from the win... But that makes no sense either. Of course not. You're making a logical argument where there is no logic. So I totally understand why. When the Red Sox won that first World Series, I walked around for three days on cloud nine, buzzing in a high that I'd never felt before. And then on the fourth day, I'm like...

I'm an idiot. But how great is it being an East Coast sports fan living on the West Coast? Your football games are like 9, 10 o'clock in the morning. Oh, I love that. I love the football earlier on the West Coast. Yeah. It really is cool. You don't have to stay up late to watch anything. No. Especially doing a morning show. Honestly, I might become a bigger fan if that were the case. That's right. Yeah.

That's the biggest fun because we do this shift and there's no way I'm finishing a hockey game during the week. You know what's funny? The Phillies are on the West Coast starting tonight and they're in San Diego and then they've got three games in LA or Anaheim against the Angels. I can actually check out of those games because I know that I'm not going to even start watching it at 9, 40 or 10 o'clock. Oh my God, it's a bit of a respite from Phil's games for a few days, but around here I've got to stay up and watch all of them. It's asinine. And you're so right, T. It's just, it's dumb. We know that it's dumb, but it's, we...

subject ourselves to the pain. Especially in towns like this and in Boston. In Boston, yeah. Something, our identities are somehow attached to it. It's in the DNA. If somebody walks by me in a Red Sox cap, I get all excited. Like it's a friend. Some stranger. Yeah. They're your friend. Eyeball pointing at his hat. Thumbs up. Pointing at my identical hat. Yeah.

Me and you, buddy. Yeah. I'm going to segue out of the sports for a second and dial it back to the music. Thank you. If you're just tuning in, Dickie Barrett here, the Defiant, playing tonight at the TLA. Hopefully you got tickets because they're sold out. But I just looked in our Xfinity. Acme Lounge. Our Acme Lounge, yeah. And I saw, we're having in here a little bit, in a few minutes, Dickie, this band called Froggy. Yes. And it's three gals. They're young. They just graduated from high school recently. And they're going to be playing.

A couple of years ago, they had this song that started to take off, and they are about as punk as you can get. Straight up. From here? They're from here, and I'm going to play just a little clip of the song, because it's got to feel good to you that there are still young people that are carrying the torch and keeping punk alive. Absolutely. So I'll play a little bit of this for you. They're going to come in in a little bit, because they have some new music, and we love them. So here's a little bit of that. It's called 7-Eleven Nachos.

Obviously, this is the chorus. But... It's just straight up, you know, roots. All right, watch the tempo. Watch the tempo. Oh, they're doing it on purpose. Okay, all right. Yeah, because it's coming to the end. But...

But we were blown away that the kids this young were cranking out music like this. Inspired by punk rock. Totally. And pure to it. Yeah. And that song was actually... To be in the Punk Rock Museum. Yes. Yes. One day. Yeah. Casey, tell them. This song was featured in Kevin Smith's Clerks 3 movie. Oh, cool. Yeah. They're closing up the convenience store. And do you see... We were in Kevin Smith's... What was the... What was the Ben Affleck movie? Dogma? Well, there's a couple. Mallrats? No.

Chasing Amy. Chasing Amy. I think that both Ben Affleck and Kevin Smith loved the song and put it in the movie before, and this is after Clueless. Okay. So they put the impression in that. So I share something with friends. What does that mean to have a song like that in your dear friend Ben Affleck's movie? Yeah.

I was overjoyed. Absolutely overjoyed. I was going to ask you, do you see at these Defiant shows, do you see some younger people that you're like, hey, I'm surprised at that. Me first and the Gimme Gimmes bring them in. It's difficult not to like me first and the Gimme Gimmes. They're really, really good. Actually, in that band, speaking of punk rock and Punk Rock Museum and...

Froggy and All Things Punk. CJ Ramone is in that band on this tour. John from Rocket from the Crypt is in the band. Oh, wow. Who's the lead singer from... Spike Slauson. He's got a great voice. He's unbelievable. Yeah. It's difficult listening to him after I do my thing. They did The Boyz II Men. It might have been End of the Road. Yeah. I'm like, who? This guy's got a...

stellar. He belts it out every night too. And he's extremely funny. He's a really, really good entertainer and the show is great. So worth seeing. Well, hopefully you got tickets because like I said, it's sold out. We got to wrap it up, Dickie, but it's great to spend some time with you. Thanks for coming by here, man. We appreciate it. Do you think I could meet Froggy? Yes! I think we can arrange that. All right. Excellent. Thank you guys. You guys are awesome. Thank you, guys.

Dickie Barrett right here. Mighty Mighty Ball of Stones and Defiance. We are going to take a quick break. We'll return and yeah, Froggy's going to be joining us. So stay with us.

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Brian Sokolowski, Sokolowski, Sokolowski, something like that. S-O-K-O-L-O-W-S-K-I. That must have been tough in school. He says, hey, Presbo, and I know you already wear many hats on the show, cram so many segments in as it is, but I was hoping that you could find space for perhaps one more.

And Brian says he wants this segment to be called, Where's That F***ing Sound Coming From? All right. And so he says it would be a segment... Where's that f***ing sound coming from? Where you and even the other members of the crew could explain the origins of certain sound clips that are played throughout the show. For example, this morning, he wrote this yesterday. I texted him asking where the sound clip...

Monkey is from... Monkey! Unfortunately, I did not get the answer, so I am still left wondering. And there are many clips and sound bites like these that are used that I would love to know where they're from. I know you all have done some form of this segment before, but I feel like it's been a while, and I would just like to see it return. Also, if you could send me a belated birthday message

Shout out. My birthday was on September 12th. I would greatly appreciate it. Gadzooks of Rage on listener Brian. So there you go, Brian, and happy birthday. So where is monkey from? All right. So I can I can tell you specifically where I got it from. I don't know how Marissa found it, but that is Michael Buffer. And it was such a random throwaway moment from the David Letterman show.

And they just had him on the side announcing monkey. I don't remember why, if they showed a monkey clip. But, I mean, honestly, it was a one-time thing that I actually witnessed live. And then I and Marissa find it just in case we ever had a story about a monkey. Yeah.

Probably from like the 90s at some point. All right. Yeah. There you go. I got a text yesterday. No, a direct message on Instagram. And Steve, this is from a person named Karen. She says, this one bugs me. Where is this clip from? Do you know? He's agreed to hold her dentures while she gives him the midnight special. And I didn't have an answer for her. I think I know. I thought it sounded a little like Oprah. I don't know.

I think it was Jerry Springer. It's Jerry Springer. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Of course, you'd need the high quality. It's from Bravo. He's agreed to hold her dentures while she gives you the midnight special. Yeah, so it was a Jerry Springer. Jerry Springer. Okay, there we go. She looked like what you think she'd look like. Yeah, somebody who's jaw detaches. Not Oprah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, the Oprah way too classy. Yeah.

I feel nothing like her. So if you are curious, reach out to us and let us know. Somebody wants to know what the sound clip of Chicago is. They just texted in. So Casey, if you could hit the Chicago. Chicago. That's Ace Ventura 2. Yeah. Okay.

I don't know that movie all that well. Actually... Chicago! Believe it or not, I prefer that to Ace Ventura. No kidding. Yeah. The second one? Yeah. Huh. There are a couple of scenes in that that I think are... I mean...

The part where he's crawling out of the rubber rhino's ass is pretty damn funny. And the fight he gets into with Tommy Davidson. Wait a minute. He's crawling out of a... He's trying to observe poachers and he's inside this thing and it's becoming too hot. It's a fake...

rhino okay and he's dying and then he starts to crawl it looks like the rhino is crapping him and there are people on safari who are aghast so it's a decoy right and he's hiding inside it and he comes out of it i love it oh wait a minute nick just pulled up my god all right that's pretty that's pretty funny all right uh i have uh scott who has a question about something hey scott good morning bud

Hey, what's up, Scott? Morning, Ed. Morning, Ed, buddy. Good morning to see you. Yeah, I'd like to know about that Matt Damon clip. Oh, that's from Team America World Police. Team America World Police. And there's a character. So if you've never seen that movie, Scott, it's all puppets. The entire movie is the actors are puppets.

And there is they have a part where there's celebrities and one of them is Matt Damon. But all Matt Damon can say is Matt Damon is Matt Damon. That is it through the whole thing. So you need you need to see that movie, by the way, if you've never seen it. Watch the director's cut. Yeah, because there is a graphic sex scene that they took out of the theatrical version that is.

Full of everything. Everything. Everything. It is so over the top. I can't believe that movie was ever made. They are peeing on each other and everything. It is. There's also, and you know what? If you do have questions, if you want to know, text in or call us. But, well, you know what? First, I'm going to answer this question. It says, are the words to the Friday Froggy song?

So here's one line that people never get. And I do get emails from this time to time and I have to answer them. So in the beginning, it says, I want to be the connoisseur. And it's the next line that people don't know. Oh, really? Yeah. I want to be the connoisseur. And the next line is bizarre files have all the lore. Bizarre files got all the lore.

So that's it. The lore is in the tails. Okay. I want to be the kind of star. Be the star that all the stars. I want to go. I just want to listen to the radio. Just dance.

And then the rest is that over and over. Our featured performers on the side stage. Yes, Froggy's playing again at the MMRBQ on Saturday. He'll be playing on the President Steve Show side stage. They have some new music they released just a while ago, and we're going to get to see them perform live, and I'm thrilled. They're so awesome. When they first performed, we had a mosh pit erupt in front of the stage. Terrific. Casey had another, if you don't want to know what some of these...

phrases are and where they're from on the show, but you want to contribute on today's program. Steve, you had wondered if we could run these two in tandem. Casey brought up a notion that sometimes you will regurgitate a movie clip or a TV show phrase and

And have never actually seen that before. Yet you use it. It's a perfunctory thing. You've heard other people say it. You repeat it and have no... And it actually happened with us. It happened with us. It actually happened during... We have a conference call every night. And somebody said, we were waiting for Kathy and Marissa to join the call. And you say, we're waiting for the women. And then I just go, the women...

And I'm like, I don't even know. I think that might be Star Trek. It is Star Trek. It's you, right? Right. But I say it and you were saying you didn't even know. The women! I say it all the time now because of you and I've never seen. Is it a movie or the TV show? It comes from the pilot. First the pilot was called The Cage for Star Trek. And in that version, Spock the Vulcan was a little bit more emotional.

And they go to a planet and the aliens are able to control the minds of the people aboard the Enterprise. And they beam down only the women in a landing party. And so Spock uncharacteristically goes, the women. And so I would just say that. And now I quote it without ever having seen it all the time. We'll be on our conference call and Marissa and Kathy haven't gotten on yet. We're waiting on the women. The women. The women.

Alright, here's one. Joe Namath, this is a text, says, Joe Namath says, I want to kiss you. It's one of my favorites. I want to kiss you. But the female, what female says you want to kiss me? You want to kiss me? Anna Nicole Smith. Anna Nicole Smith. And it is a video from, it was on her reality show, I guess, and she was talking to her son. Oh my God. And she was wasted. She was wasted throughout that entire show. What are you doing? That's her talking to her son. You love me?

More than all the raindrops in the water and all the fishies in the sea. I just saw a meme of her yesterday. Who was the man in the wheelchair that she married? Hunt? Was that his name? No, it was with an H, but it's not Hunt. I know who you're talking about. E. Howard Hunt? It was them on their wedding day. Him in the wheelchair, her in a white dress standing next to him.

Holding his hand and it just said, this is how much I don't want to go to work tomorrow. Yeah. J. Howard Marshall. J. Howard Marshall. That's who that was. So yeah, the Anna Nicole Smith thing. You want to kiss me? You want to kiss me? Do you remember what happened with that? She married into the, he would frequent or had her strip at the house. He became enamored of her. She became the guest model. He goes all the way back in her history. I think he even paid for one of her initial boob jobs.

And then he was on the way out. He marries her and the son, Marshall's son is like,

You put her in the goddamn will. Didn't she get everything? They were able, needless to say, they were able to turn their vast wealth on a legal mechanism that was able to, you know, pare that down. She got something, but she didn't get everything that she was originally said to get. Here's some text coming in. I will go to these calls. Seahorses forever. That's great. Where did that come from?

So it was a viral video that ran for a while, and it was supposedly a guy that was on an acid trip who was sitting in a closet and just rambling on. But I think it turned out he was watching TV, and the sound was off, and he was commenting on what he saw. And there's a really long clip. I think you're going to look that up, Casey. I'm trying to find it. We lost a lot of... I thought it would have been on the Voxpro. It wasn't there.

It wasn't there. Okay. During the London Blitz, a lot of stuff was lost. You can find it on YouTube. The video accompanying it is like a gecko that's talking and saying these things. And he's thinking, I love seahorses. I love little bags. I love little bags. I love them. I love them forever. And he just is going on and on. What are you, the seahorse captain? What is this? It's the best. No way. No way. Yeah, right. Yeah, right.

Uh, it's really funny and it makes no sense at all, but that's, what's wonderful about it. Uh, another text is wondering at the beginning of the bizarre file and, uh, you know what here, uh, Sammy wants to ask that same thing. Hi, Sammy. Good morning.

You want to kiss me? That's pretty solid, Sammy. Oh, this guy's Sammy Vile. Sammy Vile. Hey, what's up, guys? Hey, buddy. All right, you had a question? Yeah, so at the beginning of the bizarre file, the chick that says bizarre, what's that from? A very good question. I have no idea. I don't know. So I think Zach, our imaging director, created... That was Lush, probably. It's that old. Has that one been that old? It could be. So a lot of times there are collections of clips that are just, you know, you can...

kind of index them and call them up. But I, I both Zach and, and Lusher are very, they're very hands-on. So that we might have to do a little bit of digging on that, but I have that very same question. And I, I was just too embarrassed to ask, but thank you. We'll dig around Sammy. See if we can find out, bud. Alrighty. I'd see about. See ya. All right. Um, somebody was wondering what is the Naya Kong Kong from?

That's Cy Adalong Kong Kong if you're playing along. That's from the movie Nell. It's Jodie Foster. Cy Adalong Kong Kong. Yes! So the story of Nell is that Nell, this was really an Oscar attempt for Jodie Foster, who's clearly worth it. She just won an Emmy for her performance in Silence of the Lambs. But this was a passion project of hers. It's about a woman who was in the woods, was raised...

By very rural house raised by her grandmother, I believe it was, who had had a stroke and taught her how to speak. And so she's kind of a feral. I mean, she's not eating her own poop and everything, but she's, you know, she's living in the...

She's separated from society completely. Liam Neeson, and I believe it was Natasha Richardson, they encounter her and they bring her into the world and it's an amazing story, but all her dialogue is that. Gibberish. Yeah, Neera!

I need to see the script. Yeah, how did they convey that? It's one of my favorites. We interpret that as I'm very tired. Where are you going to wait? Where are you going to wait?

What was that chant we created with now being gone away? It was something we did. Fat boy slim paired with now. All right, let me go to Eddie. Hi, Eddie. Good morning. Hey, guys. What's up? Hey, bud. Just try to figure out some of these things. What can we help you with?

Uh, so we're, um, looking, we're trying to figure out where the, uh, the guy comes in and he's like, Hey, where'd everybody go? It's like a weird little, Oh, is it? Hey, what happened? That one? No, it's Ronnie Dangerfield thing. I don't have words. Everybody go. Where'd everybody go? Play some Dangerfield clips. Maybe I think he might. I don't know that one. I got one Dangerfield clip and it says four. Yeah. That's all I got. Is this what you're talking? Wait one second. Are you talking about, Hey, what happened?

No, that's not it. It might be something that Pierre plays, actually. Maybe so. All right, Eddie. Sorry, buddy. Can I tell you guys a story about something else you guys say? Sure. Yeah.

The thing Casey does where he goes like, hey, grandma. Oh, yeah. My little brother is trying to figure out what that was. So he just Googled. Hi, grandma. Yeah. So he was speaking to Siri, which is going to activate now probably. And he would speak gibberish. His kids would do this into the phone and Siri would repeat it back. And he was trying to get it to do that.

Hi, grandmom. That was it. Thanks, Eddie. And there's two versions, though. Yes. Play the other version. Well, just the hi, grandmom is the... No, you did two passes. It was like you were at Aretha Franklin. The remix. Hang on a second. People are calling in and they know where that bazaar is from. I'm going to go to Patty. There's two different callers that know this. Hi, Patty. Good morning. Hey.

Good morning to it. Good morning to see you, Ed. What's up, Patty? Yes. I was just calling to say that that woman is from the Frank Zappa album. I think it was bizarre. Okay. So somebody else, Joe, is texting and says from a song called Our Bizarre Relationship.

Oh, I don't know. I never knew that. That could be it. I mean, every time my husband hears that, he goes, that's from Franky Mapa. So I think, all right, go. All right. Thanks, Patty. I'm going to confer that with Joe over here. Hey, Joe.

Good morning, Ipresbo. Good morning to see you, Joe. All right, so is the song called Our Bizarre Relationship? Yeah, I accidentally found it. I have a good friend of mine who's a big fan of Frank Zappa, and so I was checking out some of his music a few months ago, and it's from the album Uncle Meat. There's a track called Our Bizarre Relationship. It's right at the beginning of that song, if you could find it.

All right, we'll look for it. We might have it in the system here. Do we have a lot of Zappa? We don't have it in the system. Thanks, Joe. Appreciate that. By the way, here is verse two of Hi, Grandma. You ready? Hi, Grandma. A little shorter. And then we have the guy tripping in the closet. What is this, Seahorse Captain? What is this, Seahorse Seashell Party? Who didn't invite me? Why didn't I get invited, Seahorse Seahell? What is this?

Get real. I'm in love with seahorses. I'm in love with them. They're so beautiful and cute. I'm in love with the seahorses.

You know what I love real quick is we play this sound effect from time to time and when you're watching a movie or a TV show, you will hear this.

Yes. Oh, it's stock. It's a standard. Yeah. It's a stock one. It is. And the dolphin is the same. Dolphin is a standard. It's the exact same one. Yep. You hear that in SpongeBob a lot. Yeah. Actually, that exact same one. So Mike has an unrelated, somewhat related question. Hi, Mike. Good morning. I want to fight you. I want to fight you. That's Frank Rizzo, by the way. What's up, Mike?

So I actually wanted to know how Steve and Casey called these up so quickly. Like yesterday you said the word monkey and Steve had that clip playing in like a second. That was Casey. So both Casey and Steve and technically me have access to thousands of sound effects in front of us in different ways. There are a few different units that we use here. There's an instant replay and then we have a touch screen on our wide orbit system. So these are just names that don't really mean anything to you.

But you can easily find them by quickly doing a search really, really fast. If we hear something, there's keywords that you can punch in real fast and you can pull up a sound effect. Do you play sound effects? Sometimes. But I'm more focused on the phone screener and the volumes on the board here. But if that answers your question, Mike, that's how we do it.

Do you know what happens too is that I think muscle memory, like for example, I have the guides, the templates laid out in front of me, but at any given time, I know a good portion of

So you punch in the page and then you punch in the number. Yeah. And I know immediately our Chris... I'd like to apologize to Jennifer Garner. The way I put it to anybody is like, listen, when you do something for a living, you know, like...

There are equivalents, right? So no matter what you do, I could... How do you do that so fast? Well, I do it every single day for X amount of hours a day. Say you work at H&R Block. How do you call up fart effects at H&R Block? It's the same thing. It's as simple as this. You just go to KC2 and then you hit the button and then... Yeah. Let me go over to Tom. We're...

answering your questions about the sound effects and things that we play here. Hi, Tom, you're on the air. Good morning. Yeah, good morning, guys. How are you? Good. What's up, man?

Yeah. So for starters, I want to say thank you for all the years of laughs. I've listened to you guys back since the Y100 days. So I just wanted to say that because it's the first time I've gotten on air with you. Oh, that's awesome. It was a song lyric that I believe Steve used to use that I had no clue where it ever came from. Maybe I missed the beginning of that talk or something. So I'm recently at the Beetlejuice 2 movie with my family. I took my nephew for his birthday. And there's an end scene where they go into this song and

And I bust out laughing. Everybody's looking at me like, what the hell is so funny? And it's the line, and I'll never find that recipe again. Oh, MacArthur Bark. I guess there's a scene in the movie where he lip syncs to this. Yeah. I never even knew what that was from. We've played this song on the air. I don't have the clip, but it's Richard Harris. MacArthur Bark. It was a hit years ago. I think it was one of the first...

that was longer than like five minutes. And it's about leaving the cake out in the rain. It had to do with people in a, old people in a park apparently, the women would bake cakes for the older gentlemen to try to break the ice. And it was very, very dramatic. Yep.

It's a strange song, and it was perfect for that movie. That's great. I love that they're paying attention to it. Glad you thought of us, Tom. We appreciate it. All right, from the text boards, Marissa brought in a whole bunch of these. All right, so where did Gadzooks come from? All right, that is a classic one. We were talking about a story where Marilyn Monroe had apparently gifted JFK a watch, and he told...

the staff to hide it, get rid of it, because he didn't want, obviously, Jackie to find out that he had some kind of relationship with Marilyn Monroe going on. And Steve went into a JFK impression, and he was pretending like, get it away, get out of here, pound it up your ass, I don't care what you do with it. And then you paused, and you just go, Gadzooks! And we all cracked up. We just thought it was funny. And then some kid took a picture of JFK,

and cut it out and print it up and cut it out and then put a big cartoon bubble that said Gadzooks above it and hung it up and took a picture of it and sent it to us. And we thought that was a riot. Yeah. And we posted that. And then people started calling up and saying it. All the time. And also Mayor Quimby, he'll say it because he's Kennedy. That's the voice that he's doing. All right. Here's a question. Gary Lauer, where and how?

Yeah, we sort of inherited him. Yeah. We just, we inherited Gary had been calling the request lines all the time for ages before we even got here. He's what you would call a P1. He's constantly listening. We inherited him. All right. Yeah, he's... I had three testicles. Yeah, somebody says, why did Gary Lauer say he has three testicles? Well, apparently he has some kind of a lump in there. Yeah. And he was joking about having three testicles. Yeah. And I think that's what that's from. Yeah.

Somebody wants to know where the Orlando song is from. Orlando. Orlando. I love you. Orlando. That is from Book of Mormon. And by the way, Book of Mormon is coming to the Academy of Music October 1st through the 6th. Nice. You can get your tickets at Ensemble Arts Philly or something, whatever. Just do a Google search for Book of Mormon. But that we played...

Orlando

Orlando. All right, so somebody here, I'll put some of these together. Somebody wants to know where Back Home to Oregon came from and Al Pacino sniffing. And they are... Back Home to Oregon, Jimmy! All those are from Scent of a Woman. And the Back Home to Oregon and the Jimmy are from when he's giving the big speech at the end in front of the...

tribunal. And the sniffing is he shows up at his brother's house unannounced. They're having Thanksgiving and he asks where his brother's wife is. You know, Janie, where are you? Or something like that. And she's right next to him. And she says, I'm right here. And he goes, oh, come here. Let me get a sniff of you. And he sniffs her and he just starts going, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.

It's chilling. You know what's interesting? And I will share with you. And I told you, Steve, I didn't realize about that scene in that movie where he's with the family and he's just being the biggest horse's ass that you can possibly imagine. He's being rude and arrogant to his family and ends up choking Bradley Whitford on the wall. And it didn't hit me until years later that he was doing that on purpose to

So that they may not be so upset when he was planning on taking his own life. Yeah. Afterwards, he was being so reprehensible that they would not have as much heartbreak when he was going to polish it off. I've never seen the movie. You've never seen it? It's a good movie. Pretty deep. Great movie. All right. So those are those answers. All right. How about Ah, Bees? Bees! Bees! I think it's...

No, I think it's la-di-da-di-da-di-da. La-di-da-di-da-di-da. I'm B! That's it. That was me talking about the My Girl. When, you know, spoiler alert, Macaulay Culkin's character gets stung by a thousand bees and dies at the end of the movie. He can't see without his glasses. And like, and my, you know, it was like, it just comes out of nowhere, right? Listen, obviously it's a tragedy, but I was like,

Here's a great movie about these two little kids that are just having a great time and then the kids just running around and then bees and then that's the end of the movie. Yeah, it seemed like to come out of nowhere. Uh-huh.

And by the way, you played the can't see without his glasses. Somebody wanted to know what that is from. He can't see without his glasses. Same movie. Put his glasses on. Put on his glasses. He's in the casket and they didn't put the glasses on him and she says he doesn't look the same and she's all upset and that's the first time she really breaks down. He can't see, he can't see, he can't see without his glasses. He can't, he can't, he can't.

Forget the moose for a moment. Yes. There are questions about that. Why don't you forget the moose?

For a moment. That is from the movie Arthur. He goes to meet the woman who he does not want to marry. He goes to meet her and her father is there. And they're in this trophy room and there's a big moose hanging on the wall. Arthur is hammered. Yeah. And he keeps jokingly referencing to the moose.

When the guy is trying to have a serious conversation. Asking if the other half of the moose is on the other side of the wall. You must have hated this moose. The script for that is incredibly funny. Why don't you forget the moose?

For a moment. All right, somebody wants to know where He's a Cat came from. Oh, that goes way back. He's a cat. That's Perry Grip. Yes. Who does the Wawa jingles. Hoagie Fest. He does the Hoagie Fest jingles, and he was in a band called, was he in Not a Surf? Or was it Nerf Herder? I think it was Nerf Herder. Yeah. Yes, it was Nerf Herder who did the song Van Halen. Great song, by the way. And it's from a video called He's a Cat. Flush in the toilet, he's a cat.

He did one for us. He did. President Steve riding on a Segway. That was chimpanzee riding on a Segway. He really changed it up for us. Yeah, he did. Super nice guy. Which one? President Steve riding on a Segway. See if it's under Perry grip, maybe.

I have cat flushing toilet. Okay.

The dude is super talented. He is. Wawa knows. They got a goldmine with him. It's infectious. I love that.

It should be your doorbell. All right. God, so many questions here, guys. Somebody wants to know where She Got Beautiful Boobies came from. Oh, that's Post Malone. She Got Beautiful Boobies. And that was, I don't listen to a whole lot of Post Malone, but I was listening to that song one time and I heard it and I was like, okay, okay.

We probably just need to have this because it's only a second long. That's about Margaret Thatcher, isn't it? It is. It sucks because, like, man, he talks about her policies for most of it. And then one line, that's the one. But he had to be honest. She had a stellar rack. It's like when Talents Herod said that Oprah had tiggled bitties. Tiggled bitties. He didn't need to throw that in there. Yeah, no, but he just wanted to. I'm going to go to James. He's been on hold for a long time. Hi, James. Good morning. Happy Tuesday.

How can she slap? Oh, how can she slap? Oh! I couldn't hear what you were saying. Okay. You want to know about that? Yeah, definitely. I think you said it much before, but I forgot. Okay, so you're not...

Yeah. It was from an Indian reality show in India. And this, uh, there was a woman who's the host and she's like, she's very abrasive on purpose and she's yelling. And it was like a dating show or something like that. And she goes up to the guy and she's like screaming at his face. And he says something back to her and she hauls off and hits him in the face and

And dude fires right back at her. I mean, pops her one. And then all the guards come and grab him. And he's upset. And he says, okay.

A lot of people don't even know what that is. They don't even know what he's saying there because it's difficult to understand, but he's saying, how can she slap? Essentially, he's saying, look, how can she hit me and I can't hit her back? And so it's, how can she slap? It cracks me up. All right, so there you go, James. You know what? Search for the video on YouTube. Just type in, how can she slap, you know, a reality show, and you'll see it because she's

She hauls off and he does not hold back. Let me go to, here's a classic. We'll go to Shane. Hi, Shane. Good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. Hey, bud. I always wondered about Nick's wee, look what I get to do. Look what I get to do. That's annoying.

All right. So it was a snow day. It had snowed heavily the night before. And we come into work. We try to get into work no matter what. Yeah. Nick showed up to the parking lot and they had not plowed the lot. So it was wide open. And we were talking about how great it is to go out and do donuts in your car. And Nick was so elated that when he came up and saw it, he said to himself,

Hey, that's what I get to do. The lot was completely empty, so I got to do that. Very nice. That's fun. Thank you, Shane. It was great because you said it. We all kind of looked at each other like... We have that. Yeah. That was like in the old studio. It was. Sometimes, and it has happened where you're like...

You hope that there's no background noise. There's nobody stepping on it. And that one was completely clean. Well, when I was doing the hi, grandma thing, I didn't realize what an ass I was making to myself. We were making completely quiet. You guys were all like super quiet. We were like, okay, wait, what? Do it again. Yeah. What? I was like, oh, no, what did I just do? And you were like, oh, you just gave us gold, guys. I think one of the best ever captured.

Was the, uh, hey, everybody's going to have you on the ba-ba-to-da-ba-to-ba-ba-ba-do-ga-ga-ba-ba-da. Yeah. From Pierre, because he was pretending. Hey, everybody's going to have you on the ba-ba-to-da-ba-to-ba-ba-ba-do-ga-ga-ba-ba-da. That was him. We used to call them, and still call them pukers. Pukers. Yeah. D.

DJs who were that kind of delivery. People talk like this all the time. Good morning, everybody. Good to have you here in downtown of the great city. And so Pierre stepped up and he did that. He was talking about how he can't understand how Josh... Hey, everybody. It's good to have you on the map. And we end most shows with that clip and I still...

all these years later will laugh out loud at it. It's hilarious. Because I remember seeing him. He was to my left and I remember him seeing him. He was moving his arms around like he's some kind of anatomic clown, animatronic clown going, hey, everybody's good to have it on the baba. And it just, it will always stick with me till my dying day. The other one is him doing his impression, Pierre doing his impression of a solo from a fish song. Yeah, like a noodle. Bing, derng. Doo, doo, bee, do. Doo, da, da, doo, di, ba.

It's one of the best ones, too. All right. So we had got an email from this guy, Brian, who wanted to know the origins of some of our sound clips. Do we need to stop? It's nine o'clock. Yeah. Is our guest here? I don't know. He is here. Okay. All right. Well, there's loads more, man. We're not going to have time to get to them all. We whittled some away. Some people do know the answers.

do these and if you go on our YouTube live feed, I'm sure that the conversation is quite full going back and forth between our YouTubers. And hang on, Marissa is chiming in. Yeah, you know what? I'm going to

I'm going to hop on Facebook later, and if you have one that wasn't answered during this, drop it in there, and we'll try to jump in and answer a lot of those. Yeah. And a lot of people have been asking about ringtones. Guys, I don't know if you know this, the ringtone provider that we had for years has kind of dissipated. Oh. So that page doesn't exist anymore. But there are ways to get MP3s and make those your ringtones. It is 2024. I'll try to put together some instructions on how you can do that if there's something you want. Is it possible to find another provider that could do that? You know, a person...

They were doing it for free for us for a really long time, and they were very kind and gave that. So we'll do some digging. We'll put it on our list of things to do and see if we can recreate that again. But like I said, you can always just get MP3s of these clips and make those yourself too. Pornhub might provide a ringtone generator. You know what? I haven't done it in a long, long time. A, I haven't posted anything on social media, on Instagram at all in months.

But maybe like an Instagram live or something like that. If people wanted to jump in and ask. I'll see if I can do that at some point this week. Yo, ever heard of Jerk Mate? We could all easily do that. I just did one last night. Nice. Yeah. And people were asking these kind of questions. Yeah. So we'll have to do that. All right. But anyhow, thank you for remaining on hold. Hang on. Haley's been on hold for 15 minutes. Kelly has been on hold for 15 minutes. Kelly wanted to know why Homer Rock and Roll went away. Okay.

We just kind of got a little tired of it. I've actually played it a couple times over the last week. Every now and then. And then Haley wanted to know where Yoo-Hoo came from. Yeah! I just thought it was an antiquated thing to call somebody's attention, and then it took off. Steve just made it up. Yeah. There you go. All right, well, thank you, gang. We appreciate it. We love that you're curious about these things and happy that we could clear a few of those up for you. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Mayor John Whitmere and the District Attorney Sean Terr announced that they are joining forces to tackle the issue of decades-old evidence that has led to a rat infestation. Rats! In the evidence room. I'm so tweaking, man. And to explain the volume HPD has to deal with in its evidence rooms, Whitmere detailed a growing problem of rats invading old evidence. He said...

He said, we've got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying. So they're consuming all of this stuff. Yep. The department keeps over 1.2 million pieces of evidence in storage.

Some of which are no longer needed due to those offenses having already been passing through the legal system. Whoa, double rainbow. But apparently the storage of case notes, drugs, and other pieces of evidence is putting a strain on the resources and even destroying evidence incurs

A price tag. So they described the rodent infestation as affecting only older cases from marijuana confiscated in the 80s and 90s. Wow. So I assume marijuana, does it increase in potency or does it decrease? I would think it decreases. That's what I would think. I was actually wondering that, Steve. Nick.

Can you look that up? Will marijuana decrease its potency over time? I think we're thinking in wine terms, and I'm wondering. Yeah, I don't know if it does or not. But its proximity to more recent evidence could be a problem in this particular case. So rat infestations are not uncommon in evidence rooms, and they pose a problem across thousands of police property rooms in the United States.

Rodents, bugs, fungus, all kinds of things love drugs. And it's a challenge storing large quantities of drugs. So they're saying specifically marijuana. I assume cocaine as well or anything as a drug? They store that stuff in there, but I don't know what the rats are getting into. What do the rats prefer? They said mainly the weed. I'm totally coke. Currently, the Houston Police Department isn't allowing to dispose of narcotic evidence collected before 2005, regardless of the case.

Regardless if the case has been dismissed, but Ter says that his office has changed the rule so that they can start destroying evidence that has been obtained prior to 2015. So they're working on it. You always see the footage of them taking out loads of confiscated marijuana and burning it in a field or even other drugs and getting rid of it that way.

Why is this hanging around so long? All right, here we go. Nick found this one. Stored properly, dried cannabis keeps for six months to a year. Over time, it begins to lose its aroma and potency. All right, there you go. So this would be basically useless. It loses roughly 16% of its THC after one year, and it just keeps dropping from there. Wow. Okay, did not know that. Good to know.

A woman in Australia has annulled her marriage after realizing that a fake wedding ceremony she took part in for social media stunt was actually real. Oh, wow. What?

The unknowing bride said her partner was a social media influencer who convinced her to take part in the ceremony as a prank for his Instagram account. She only discovered the marriage was genuine when she tried to use it to gain permanent residency in Australia. A Melbourne judge granted the annulment after accepting the woman was tricked into getting married. So here's how it happened. Started September 2023.

When the woman met her partner on an online dating platform, they began seeing each other regularly in Melbourne, where they lived at the time. In December of that year, the man proposed to the woman and she accepted. Two days later, the woman attended an event with the man in Sydney. She was told that it would be a white party where attendees would wear white colored clothing and was told to pack a white dress.

But when they arrived, she was shocked and furious to find no other guest present except for her partner, a photographer, the photographer's friend, and a celebrant.

I asked him what's happening and he pulled me aside and he told me that he is organizing a prank wedding for a social media, to be precise, Instagram, because he wants to boost the content and wants to start monetizing his Instagram page. She said that she had accepted this explanation as he was a social media person who had more than 17000 followers on Instagram. She also believed that a civil marriage would be valid only if it were held in a court.

So the woman called a friend and voiced her worries, but the friend laughed it off and said it would be fine because if it were real, they would have had to file a notice of intended marriage first, which they did not.

So reassured the woman went through the ceremony where she and her partner exchanged wedding vows, kissed in front of a camera. She said she was happy the time to play along to make it look real. Well, two months later, her partner asked her to add him as a dependent in her application for permanent residency in Australia. Both of them are foreigners. When she told him that she could not, as they were technically not married, he then revealed that their Sydney wedding ceremony had been genuine. So what was the purpose of it? Simply to gain attention?

So the woman later found their marriage certificate and discovered a notice of intended marriage, which had been filed the month before their Sydney trip before they even got engaged, which she said she did not sign. According to court documents, the signature on the notice bears little resemblance to the woman's.

In his deposition, the man claimed that they had both agreed to these circumstances and that following the proposal, the woman had agreed to marry him in an intimate ceremony in Sydney. The judge ruled that the woman was mistaken about the nature of the ceremony performed and did not provide real consent to her participation. So their marriage was a no. But this dude tricked her into it. Well, I assume they're looking at some heavy jail time. That's complete fraud. Well, to the guy. Yeah, I guess so. So I don't know. Maybe there'll be a follow up on that one. So.

All right. A Florida sheriff's deputy has resigned from his job after he crashed into a civilian's car. The Lake County Sheriff's Office found that former deputy Tristan McComer was looking at something not safe for work before the crash happened. His body worn camera captured the steering wheel airbag deploying after his department issued cruiser crashed into the back of another car.

And the video shows McComber tossing a cell phone onto the seat, then picking it up before he goes to check on the other driver. The deputy told the sergeant that the brakes had locked up.

before he rear-ended the other car that stopped for a school bus. The investigation eventually found McComber was not truthful about what he was looking at on his phone right before the impact. He initially stated he was scrolling through text messages in a group chat with other deputies prior to the crash, but the investigation found he was viewing something a little more visually inappropriate. The report concluded McComber admitted to lying before later revealing he was looking at porn. I don't have any lubricant.

On his phone just before the vehicle crash, deputies found that he violated three sheriff's office policies. And obviously, he faced some issues with that. And that is what I have in the bizarre file for you. And I just looked at another story.

I have to save it for tomorrow. Okay. It's really good. Wow, it's an active weekend. There's more good stuff coming for sure. All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back. Stay put. We'll be right back.

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So, Kath,

Tell us your story. Oh, my God. I was so irritated the other day. Imagine that. You were not on the conference call on this particular night. Nope. She was a scarred woman when she joined the conference. I can't stand when people waste your time.

like it just me too it makes my blood boil like why do you think a waste of time yeah that's kathy why do you think i have that much time to sit here and wait for you it just listen and and and there are things that i'm late to and you know i sort of have a new appreciation of it um you know in the last decade or so i i was late for everything because uh that's how i grew up my mom is still late for everything it

drives me insane now. So anyway, so I went to, I had a nail in my tire and I had to get a nail taken out. Now I've had this before. I often joke that I have like some sort of magnetic, because I constantly have nails in my tires. I don't know where the hell I'm going. I had a car that, and it was, there was clearly nothing that was, it was just by happenstance, but I got more nails in the tires of that car than any car I've ever had. I actually had a tire once where they were like, you had so many nails and patch jobs. We can't patch

it anymore you have to get a new tire so i've done this a hundred times i know how long it takes to do this it can take 10 minutes if they're not busy right so i went to a gas station that i normally go to and they're usually very helpful they were like we're so booked we're sorry we can't take you and i was like okay i appreciate that don't make me freaking sit here and wait you just told me so i called another tire place who often gives plus service right yeah uh and

They said, you have to make an appointment. So I was like, all right, that's annoying. I'll drive around another day with it. I'll make the appointment. I make the appointment for 12 o'clock the next day. I go 12 o'clock the next day. I give them my car. It's parked in the parking lot. They say, where's your car? It's right out there. Give them the keys. Are you going to wait or are you leaving? I said, I'm going to wait. So I sat down in their waiting room and I waited. And I watched as my car sat there and sat there and didn't move. And no one went out to my car.

I'm just sitting, and there's other people in there, and I hear the other people going up and asking about their car, complaining a little bit. There was three other women in there, and two of the three were complaining. So there appeared to be a backup. Yeah, I guess so. Okay. There were a lot of people in that garage, and the reason I know is because I eventually walked into the garage. There were a lot of people in the garage, and there were a lot of slow-moving people.

uh i don't know what the hell they were doing but anyway so my car sat there for a while and i just watched it and finally about an hour in an hour an hour for something that routinely takes about 10 or 15 minutes dude not even they hadn't even taken your car in yet no see that's the thing yeah like uh you had an appointment time and i could see what are they called the progression the bays the bays yeah

There were bays that were empty. Were there guys not working on things? Well, so I couldn't really see the workers. I could just see them. So they would come in and out of the little waiting room, right? So there were tons of them coming in and out. Now, when they would finish a job, they would bring in a slip of paper. So there were tons of people coming in and out, not bringing slips of paper. I don't know what the hell they were doing. I don't know. I don't know. But on their website, because I'm looking at it right now, it says, when you make an appointment, we'll service your car in an hour.

If not, you get a discount, blah, blah, whatever. So it's an hour at this point you complain. No, I didn't complain. I never said anything. I was like, okay, all right. They finally took, because I was about to, and they finally take my car back. I'm like, great. So I sit there. I'm waiting and waiting. Now I have another appointment that I have to go to. So it's now 90 minutes, an hour and a half to take a nail out of a tire. And I had an appointment. Okay.

So I go, I finally now I'm like, you know what? I don't care. There's other people in there. There's another woman's complaining. I'm like, I'm going to go up. I have to say something. I said, if you guys didn't start my car, I said, I need to go. I said, what is happening? And two guys were like, oh, okay, let us go check. They both leave.

No one comes back. Shut up. No one comes back. I was like, and then I see them leave and go out to the parking lot. Are they like sneaking out to their car? No, to like another car and start like talking to the owner of that car. And I was like,

what is going on here? So finally one walks back in and he goes over to his computer and says nothing to me. So I was like, all right, this is ridiculous. So I get my stuff like I'm leaving. I'm holding my bag and I walk over and I just stand in front of him and I stare at him.

And he doesn't look at me for a little while. And then eventually he looks up and I go, is my car ready? He goes, oh, they're putting the tire on right now. I said, okay, great. This is 90 minutes in. I'm like, okay, great. I said, can I pay now? He goes, oh, well, they didn't do any work. You said if they didn't start not to do it. Oh my God. Come on. 90 minutes. And they could not pull a nail out of my tire. By the way, it was a small nail. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

They could not. I don't care how big it is. Like, dude, five minutes. So I say to the guy, what were they doing? And he goes, well, they had other cars back there. I said, I know, but I had an appointment. Yeah. This is what he did. He went, huh. Oh, dude. And he turned his head and started typing on his computer. I was like, I was ready to like, first. Like, I was so angry. Yeah.

So I go outside to cool off and I'm waiting for my car and I'm waiting for my car and I'm waiting for my car and I was like, forget it. At this point, they're doing it on purpose. I walked into the garage. Yeah. No, I don't even think they were. They were back there like moseying along. Like, I don't even know what the hell they were doing. I walk back and the guy is like standing...

putting the wheel lock back into my car. And I go, I have to go. He goes, okay, okay. He goes, I'm going to put an air in your tire right now. So I guess they had to fill it because the air in the tire was low because there was a nail in it. So he put air in it for me and I literally had to get in my own car and he's like, I'll pull it out for you. I go, you need to pull it out.

now. I said, I need to go. Pull the car out. So eventually they did and I left. Never came out after 90 minutes. So you literally spent over an hour and a half to simply get some air in your tire. Yeah, you're better off just going to a regular gas station with the service. No, no, with service bays. Like you went to a... No, I first went to a gas station, that's what I said. And they were like, look, we're so busy, we can't take you. And I do want to say...

So I actually, I had another appointment. I went there and I was talking to the girl and she was like, dude, there's a local shop down the street. She goes, I go there all the time. You have to go there. So I had to say, you guys all know what it is because you can see it. But I went to Ardmore Tire in Conchahawken. Yeah.

Dude, I was in and out in 15 minutes yesterday. Right. 15 minutes. So thank you, Ardmore Tire in Conshohocken for being efficient. You're recognizing them being efficient. And that you can take a nail out of a tire in 15 minutes. The infuriating part to me is that you had an appointment time. Yeah. And that an hour... Listen, I understand if appointments aren't to the second that you have it set up, but...

But there's, you know, there's a there's a small grace period. There's a small window. Otherwise, what are the appointments for? Exactly. And here's the thing. And so many businesses don't get this.

People will be understanding. If you let them know. If you let them know. Yeah, I agree. If you go out and say, I'm so sorry for the way we were caught off guard. Can I get you some coffee? Can I do something? Because I don't think everyone knows in their own lives you get backed up. You have things you hadn't planned. Okay.

But you if you leave them information less and and that is when you get beyond frustrated when the guy just shrugs his shoulders after you said I had an appointment at noon. It's like yours. So that means nothing. You're you're.

packed with your customer means nothing. It means nothing. And Steve, you're absolutely right because I ended up getting a survey. Please rate us and how we did. Meanwhile, I don't even know why I got it because they did no service on my car. And that was one of the questions. Were they updating you on the progress of your car? Not one person said one word to me until an hour, no, I'm sorry, an hour and a half in until I finally got up. And even

after an hour, I was like, okay, they're busy. Like, great. They took my car back. It's in there now. They're going to get it done. No, an hour and a half never took the free nail out of the tire. It's such a simple thing. And yet I see so many businesses fall down. And that's why when they do it, I'm always absolutely understand. No problem. Obviously it may be an inconvenience, but I'm going to play along realizing that the person bringing you the information is probably not the reason why this is going off the rails. Right. But just,

make you part of the process, have the respect of your time to let you know what's going on. Well, and you guys talked about the customer service. Nick mentioned the McDonald's and how the people were, that's the thing. It was, the customer service was awful, was absolutely awful. You should have skipped the tires and went and got a shake at the end. I would have bought it for you. I know, I should have.

It's insane. So this is not as bad as your issue, Kathy, but this was, I was leaving work. I had to go get some blood work done. Blood work and a urine sample. Yes. And so it was on a Friday. At a tire place. And not at a tire place. And so I made an appointment for like 1220, something like that. And every time I've gone for a blood draw or anything like that at one of these places,

They're very good on the appointment time. It's like, you know, you get in, you get out the test. It only takes a moment to draw your blood and then you're on your way. So I had taken from some ice cream that we had here in the freezer. I'm like, yeah, no problem. I'm in and out. I'll be, you know, boom. And I had also purposely not. I had also purposely not urinated.

Oh, so you have to deliver the goods. I didn't want to get there. And all of a sudden, I can't give him enough urine. And then I have to schedule another appointment. So I didn't pee right before I left for work. Well, it's 30 minutes to get to where I'm going. It's okay, baby. It happens too long. I'm already holding my bladder. I show up, you know, like five minutes or five minutes before my appointment time. You got it timed out. I check in. They've got an automatic check-in. You don't need to check with anybody at the desk. There's a little code that you put in. Put in. Boom. Go sit in the waiting room.

And I'm sitting in the waiting room and for 20 minutes, 25 minutes actually, because I was there five minutes early, I'm hearing two people in the back. I can hear them blah, blah, blah, dee, dee, dee, da, da, da, dee, dee, da, da, da, just talking, you know? Right. This and that. And eventually a guy, a guy comes in from, he comes in through the waiting area and he goes behind the desk and

And he's just, he works deeper into the office. So I'm glad I grabbed him because nobody was at the desk. Right, right. And I go, hey, I go, I have been sitting here, you know, for 25 minutes and I have to give a urine sample and I have to pee. Yeah, yeah. I go, can you, you know, I'm about to explode here. Can you let them know? I'm going to shoot. That I need to get this done. And I hear a woman from the other side of the wall go, I can only take one patient at a time.

And I go, it was kind of snooty. Yeah. And they didn't have any patients back there. There was nobody else. I'm the one. It was me and one other person in the waiting room. Nobody went in and out that entire time I was there. Nobody came out. When I went back in there, there was no one else in there. And I just go, so I just said, well, how about you keep your appointments on time? Oh.

And then, lo and behold, they let me in right then. So here are the mistakes. All I needed was somebody to come out and say, we'll be with you in a few minutes. We're running a little bit behind. That'll help me. We probably went to a similar place because I just had the same thing done. My wife and I went in, checked in through the digital thing. But within 10 minutes, somebody came out and said,

You know, we're taking care of everybody. How's everyone doing? I love that. And that was that. No problem. No problem. They didn't do that. They didn't. They heard you talking and didn't go around and say, I'm sorry, sir. This is what the story is. You yelled through a wall like it's a tenement building. So at what point do you guys in your mind, do you cross over from being like just being nice and trying to, you know, cajole them that way to being the squeaky wheel and realize, you know, there's no like Preston, you were kind of.

You had no options left at that point, right? Like, Kathy could go to another tire place. But for you, you're in the doctor's office. You know that you're stuck there. So is there a switch? Well, I didn't want to be too snarky because we're talking about needles here. Yeah. So I was kind of, yeah, exactly. I'll use a needle to get the piss out. She did a great job. I didn't feel it at all. So I was expecting, oh, this is going to be a fun one. But actually, they were very, very nice. But I was just like, I just needed a little, you know, hey, we know you're here. We know you're here. That's all you need.

Listen, doctor's offices, they drive me nuts. I love them and we need them, but they drive me nuts. And Dr. Mike knows and when I go, he's like, I'm going to get you in. Romano, I'm coming. I promise. He is the best at that. Because he knows. He will come in and say, I love you. Stay right there. I got five things going on. I've not forgotten about you. He'll come in and let you know. And he is, obviously, he's the best of the best, but that little acknowledgement is

to other businesses. That little, I know you're here. I understand you're waiting. Just work with me. We're going to get this done. That means everything. Yeah, it goes a long, long way. Hang on a second. We got a lot of calls coming out. I'm going to go to Cameron, who is an owner of a business. Hi, Cameron. Good morning. Hi, guys. Oh, my God. I can't believe I'm here.

Welcome, Cameron. All right, what's up? What do you want to share with us? So this is crazy because when Kathy started talking, before she even said a word, I was like, oh my God, I need to vent about something that just happened this morning. And I pray to God Kathy's story relates to mine. And it does, but I'm on the other side of it. So I'm the business owner. I'm the service provider. And I've been doing it for 20 years.

And in the past, like couple of years, I'm sure you guys are aware, like appointment etiquette has gone like way down the tube. Yes. So to mitigate that, what I do is when my client books an appointment, I send them a full thing that says, please read this. Here are my appointment policies. If you miss your appointment, you are charged a fee. Um, so,

So just make sure that you, you know, show up and all that. Then before the appointment, two days before, they get the same message. Hey, please show up to this appointment. If you don't, you're going to be charged a fee. Right. And so I had a client. She came in for the first time a couple weeks ago. I'm a seamstress, so I sew wedding dresses.

and she came in a couple weeks ago, had her dress fitted. I took the time, many hours, to sew her dress, get it ready for her. She was supposed to come in last night and didn't show up.

So sent her a message and said, hey, you know, I know things happen, but you missed your appointment. And because I had to sew your dress and you took that appointment slot from someone else, I do charge this fee. She this morning sent me a message that said, I know you have stuff to do, but it would have been courteous if you had sent me a reminder. I mean, if it's going to be 26.

if it's going to be $25, meanwhile, you know, it's $25 for, uh, you know, like $600 worth of work, um, that I took the time to do instead of doing someone else's dress. But she said it would have been courteous if you had sent me a reminder. Let me ask you, do you have the, do you have the text exchange?

I have just what she said. It was probably an email reminder, right? Exactly. I sent an email and a text two days before with all the same information. And I just thought that her comment of it would have been courteous if you had sent me a reminder. I just thought, like, that's just

No, the sword cuts both ways. If a business, you can't be cavalier with a business because, you know, it speaks to your ability to make money. You could have put someone else in that appointment. Exactly. And so it goes both ways. It's a simple courtesy. But, yeah, no, it's good to remind, you know, people on the other side that that can be an issue as well for the business owner and service provider. Absolutely.

Yes, and making people wait and do it all, that is horrendous. I pride myself on being very, very organized, and I try to be very understanding, but I thought, well, isn't it also courteous for you to show up? Oh, yes. You made an obligation. That's the thing. There's a relationship going on. You know what I mean? It's not just a one-way street here. Obviously, Cameron has things that she needs to worry about, and you're relying on these people and...

you know, their money. Yes. To pay your bills and to live. Yeah. But I get it. Her appointments, I actually had this conversation with my son yesterday because he had an orthodontist appointment and he didn't feel like going. He's like, can't we just reschedule it? And I was like, no, it's in 15 minutes.

It's like we took that time. Like, no, we have to go. Yeah. And unfortunately, there is only one of me. So that's the thing. You know, because she said she's a teacher, so she needs after 4 o'clock. But everybody needs after 4 o'clock. So she's complaining that now she's having trouble getting back into my schedule on such short notice. And I'm like, but if your schedule's that difficult, then you should have been on top of this. Right. And I was...

I don't even know what to respond to her with because, you know, I'm going to have to bite my tongue to say, if you are old enough to be getting married and starting your life, I think you're old enough to keep your own calendar and not rely on me to take care of that for you. I think it's an O-win. If you have proof of what you sent, I would just say that and say, you know, I did. You know, nope, because you're going to be left in the customer's always right situation. Hmm.

Right, exactly. And you want the business. And what people do know is that the detriment of having someone who will badmouth you even though you didn't do anything wrong can exact a cost as well. Right, yeah. So we're running the risk of like, oh, I piss her off, then I get a bad review. You know, the whole thing. Yeah. But I'm so glad. Thank you guys so much because I needed to vent about this. There you go.

Wait, real quick, before you go, Cameron, what about giving a one time like, you know, we'll deduct the fee or not, you know, charge you the fee one time. But if this happens again, the fee is going on.

So that's a good idea, too. And I do deduct it if it's something like you got sick or you had car trouble, you know, or something like that. But I think, honestly, this girl was just like, because my husband told me this morning, he was like, you have to ask her one question. When did you think your appointment was? Right. Oh, that's a good idea. Or what you do is follow through. And when she's getting married, show up. And when they say, does anyone object to this marriage? You stand up and go, she is a prostitute. Yes.

And then you can end it all. Well, anyway, thank you guys so much. Thank you, Cameron. Bye-bye. Absolutely. Thanks for listening. Yeah, by the way, I learned a little too late that not showing up for appointments is not okay. I was probably in my 20s or something like that. It was a doctor's appointment. I was like, ah, I didn't go today. And my mom was like, what do you mean you didn't go? Yeah. There are other people that they will call who would like to get bumped up, who are maybe really sick, that need to get into the doctor. Don't ever.

pull a no show. You always let them know you're not going to make it. And then occasionally, sometimes it does happen where you completely forget and you're like, you're livid. But yeah, again, it goes both ways. Somebody texted and said, cancellation fees are hilarious. There's no chance I'm ever paying a cancellation fee. Well, I agree. Any of those, like even restaurants sometimes now take your credit card and if you don't show it's $25 a person or whatever it is, but I make sure that I'm not

charge so what pisses you off more kathy cancellation fees or shipping fees uh probably shipping because uh i'm still gonna order the product whereas like the cancellation's up to me like i'm responsible for canceling in a decent amount of time kathy both your voice and my wife's voice were in my head because uh you know uh dr mike i've got the bug now for the rc uh the the planes and stuff like that so there's one i'm gonna order it was a

Third. The shipping fee was a third of the price of the plane. And I'm like, no, no. Hang on here. Trevor may have gone to the same place that you went to for the tire thing. Hi, Trevor. Good morning.

Rob Redd! Rob Redd! What's up, Trevor? Yeah, so I got triggered by Kathy's story this morning. We live in the same area. We've seen our kids at the playground together. And so it might be the same. So there's a shop right on the corner of my neighborhood. It is the most convenient thing possible. I had an old Jeep Wrangler. Had a lot of miles on it. It started overheating. Now, part of this is bad on me for not being smart enough to recognize this earlier.

but I wouldn't drive the car on a big highway because it's a Wrangler. It's not going to gas the tires. So I wouldn't realize that the overheating problem was recurring for months on end because I never drove it that fast or on a highway. So I had this shop fix it.

Cost me, I don't know, 600 bucks, whatever. Months go by, it's overheating again, and I take it to the same shop. They couldn't introduce something different, blah, blah, blah. So, okay, I pay another couple hundred dollars. A third time it happens again, months and months later. It's a Friday, I am in the city. Now, I live out by Cathy in Conchie Plymouth. I'm in the city at a happy hour. I get a call.

Say, "Hey, your Jeep is ready. Come get it." So I Uber and then take Regional Rail back home. I get to the shop before they shut down. The Jeep is on the lift in a shut garage. And they say, "All the mechanics are gone for the weekend. You can't get it." Oh, no. What? And I say, "What?" I say, "What?" I say, "What?" And they're like, "Bitch!"

What's that? No, no, no. I said, bitch. Continue on. Monday, I go in. They charge me another $700 for the same thing. I raise a big stink. I raise a big stink. I scream at them in front of a bunch of people. And the guy's just like, well, it sounded exactly like the response that Kathy got when he looked at his computer. And I'm like, listen.

This is not... Well, so anyway. Well, that was 12 years ago. I have not gone into that. We used to get both cars gassed there. Right. I mean, whatever they charge me, they've lost in triplicate over the 12 years. And that's... For the business... For the service provider to remember that, by doing... You will avoid at all costs...

going to that place, you will make sure that you spread the message that that place gave you inferior service. And in the long run, simply, I don't know why they would have you come back when the vehicle was still up on the lift.

It doesn't make any sense. So, so that, that was, that was inaccurate. So did you end up paying that extra fee for the same work? I did. I had to get my car back. I hadn't had it for like a week. And I, you know, I was in the morning. I just, I feel like a friend for that part of it. Yeah. But,

But here's the thing. I kept getting customer service responses from them because their owner is like really hardcore into marketing. And how are you doing? I finally responded, stop effing texting me. And it said, well, you don't need to do that. And then they called me. I said, do you know who I am and what you've done to me? First of all, if you go read the reviews on Yelp, it's so clear that she made her own

Positive reviews. That's over the top. I'm talking like 60.

50, oh, this place is the greatest. And then eventually the fans are like, it's clear this is fake. And Kathy, this might be a hint if it's the same one. This is the same gas station shop that has their gas prices lit up at night, but the part that says cash not lit. Oh, yeah. And you know what? I knew it's not the same place because yours was a gas station. Mine was just a tire space that gives plus service. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. So they've lost. I calculate probably over $15,000. There you go. Yep. Thank you, Trevor. Appreciate it, man. Wow.

Well, yeah, it can be infuriating. A few people were texting in that the customer is always right. The full phrase is the customer is always right in matters of taste. Yes. That's the actual. Right, right. People think it means the customer is right in everything. They say no, in matters of taste. Right, right. We have time for another call, Kase? One more. One more. All right.

Which one do we like here? There's a number of people. Jeremy's been on the hold the longest. Maybe I'll go to him. We need to provide good service to Jeremy. Yes, Jeremy. Sorry. And by the way, sometimes I will apologize. You've been on hold for a long time. I apologize. I would like to apologize to Jennifer Garner and her husband, Ben Affleck, for keeping them hold on too long. I'd like to apologize. All right. So, Jeremy, you're on the air. I almost called him Jennifer. Hi, Jeremy, you're on the air. Good morning.

Hey, what's up, guys? First time caller. Thanks. Welcome, bud. What's up? So I got a story similar to Kathy's, except my work actually got done, and it was with a motorcycle dealer. So I live in South Jersey, a fairly big motorcycle dealer near me. I will never go back to them again for service. So at the time, I bought my bike three and a half years ago.

I brought it in for the first oil change. It was a 600-month oil change. They go over the whole bike, everything. I dropped it off. I waited. I was actually there. I had an appointment for 1130. I was not done there until like 3 o'clock. And the only reason for that is because they didn't tell me the work was done after it was done at 1230. Oh, my God. No. I sat there for pretty much two, two and a half hours.

Okay. Ready for my bike, and they didn't tell me it was done. So here's a quick question. At one point, I'm asking the room here, when you're waiting for something, at what point do you go and say, hey, anything going on here? Half hour. Half hour? Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, 25 minutes to 30 minutes.

That's finally when I did walk into the back and I was like, hey, what's going on with this? Think of the people who walk around. They do oil change, coolant. They pretty much go over the whole bike and make sure everything is still good to go from the start. Somebody should have gone out to the room where you were waiting. It should be standard procedure to go out and check the status that people are waiting for work to be completed. So you waited that three and a half hours before you went in and checked on it?

I did, yes. Wow. And I got to blame myself for that. Yeah, well, yes. But now you know better. Listen, you don't want to be harping on everything they're doing. You want to be respectful of their time, but also they need to be respectful of your time. And if no one is apprising you of what's going on, you need to take action. Did they apologize?

No, they did not. I apologize. I got the paperwork because they did charge. I forget the rate per hour, but the hourly rate, it was only for like an hour, hour and a half. Wow. That sucks. I remember looking at the paper and I was like,

There's no way that I waited this long and my bike was ready. Oh, yes, there is. Yeah, yeah. Oh, actually, that was what happened. I just kept thinking like that's time out of my day that I can't get back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? I'm like, listen, everybody's busy and I'm sure that maybe those guys were, but like

So am I. Yeah, of course. Absolutely. And you're the one paying your money. There are things that productively you could have been doing. I could have knocked a couple other things off my list during this time. That's exactly the way I am. I'm coming for you. Yeah. And you paid for it. You're paying them, right? And you're the one paying. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like all those other, I don't care how busy they are. They're all getting paid. All right. Well, anyhow. We fixed that. Yeah, we fixed it. Yeah, we fixed it. Everything's good. It'll never happen again. You'll never have bad sympathy. Sorry. All right.

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Fast, fresh, and right to your door. Acme, fresh foods, local flavors. I saw this article. It was about a condensed version of a Reddit post that asked people about the most awkward thing they've ever accidentally said or done in a serious situation. Okay. Now, that can come in many forms, and I'll read some of the examples here, but when I am...

It's almost like we've said when you're standing in line at security at the airport and you're thinking, don't say bomb, don't say drugs, don't say gun. I don't have a bomb. Intrusive thoughts. Sorry, I don't have a bomb. I don't have a bomb or guns. You know when the other time that that always gets under my skin is at a viewing at a funeral and you're going to meet the family.

And I invariably say, hey, how you doing? You know, or something like that. I know. Do you know it's a standard? You know, it's a neutral thing. What? If you lean in and go between you and me, are you glad this happened? Oh, my God. Now, I can tell you because I've been on the both sides of those lines now. And so when my father passed away.

It was easier being that person than it was being the... You know what I mean? I remember when you showed up... Being the bereaved. Being the bereaved. As opposed to the person going, how's it going? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's hard. Hey, what's up? By the way, and everyone, even when... Try to remember. It's hard to remember when you were the...

and you're there that, you know, know how you felt in this situation a lot of times. It's awkward, and you don't know what to say. I can't remember the time Casey showed up to, we were at Steve McClain and Harriet Bass. Oh, my God.

Now, I didn't say this to Steve McClain. There was a group of other people. Steve McClain's husband had a pass away, Harry. Great guy. The best. We went to the Celebration of Life event, and Casey shows up, and he was late, and he comes running in all flustered, and he goes, man, I just pulled over and I crapped on the side of the road. No, no, no. I almost crapped my pants. I almost crapped my pants. I literally had to run into the funeral home, and Steve, without missing a beat, goes,

Well, we all grieve in our own ways. And we... I howled in laughter. We're at this solemn event. And I am stifling my laughter. You guys know me. You guys know me a long time. Sometimes I try to. I don't know why. It might be a nervous thing, but like

I try to lighten the mood You know what I mean And I just will say You jump on things quickly And it's a wonderful quality to have You want to make people feel comfortable But yes the foot will go into the mouth Listen I do it I'm a little bit more studied But yeah I get it You're just trying to make people comfortable Dude I was at Chuck and Leanne's house And this kid was wearing really short shorts And I go yo Does your mom know that you're wearing her shorts right now

What? And his mom had passed away. And I'm like, God, I, oh my God, just stop trying. You should, I hope you're at home. Just stop. You also have to know the angle at which to come into trouble. Oh, dear God. Did your mother give you those shorts after you were having sex with her? Yeah. I didn't, I don't know why I said that.

So my aunt passed away and at the funeral, my best friend came and she went through the line of all my cousins and my one cousin was getting married. And so her mom passed just a few months before. So her mom was not at her wedding. And my best friend goes, oh my God, have a great time at your wedding. She had no idea what to say. She's like, oh my God, I just told your cousin have a great time at her wedding.

I'll roll out a couple of these examples. Are there a few funeral based? There are a couple that are funeral based. I'll do one. The first one is kind of funeral based. She says, my grandmother died. My mom was finishing up her cremation arrangements with the local funeral home when my dad died in a car accident two weeks later. Oh, God.

My mom calls up the funeral home and her grief-stricken sixth sense of humor forces her to ask if they have any two-for-one deals on cremation services. I mean, that's not a bad question. Right. Yeah, exactly. Those things are expensive. Here's another good one. This says... And this is one I think...

some of us may have done before. He said, I once accidentally replied, love you at the end of a work call with my boss. I have done that before. That's happened before. Or you're just so used to saying it to, you know, your wife or, you know, your spouse or kids. And it's like, I love you. Oh my God. Oh, oh my God.

If you catch yourself in that case and you've said it, pause and say, well, are you going to say it back? I told you a story about my buddy who was at the pizza place that he always goes to when he was talking to the guy. And he's like, I'll catch you later. And the guy's like, yeah, I love you too, man. And he exits the door. He's like, I didn't say I love you. Did I say I love you? I didn't say I love you. This guy thinks I said I love you. That's it.

Another example. By the way, if you want to share any of these moments like this, feel free to give us a call. 215-263-WMMR. One says, I walked into my office and a lady from HR was sitting in my chair and I said, well, looks like I'm going to have to sit on your lap then. Jesus. No. And then she said, this is the HR person said, come on over, giddy up. And my face turned bright red. She left. I sat down. We never spoke of it again after that.

It definitely happens. All right, I'm going to go to Kelly. Hi there, Kelly. Hey, how are you? Good, what's up?

Oh, not that much. I have a horrific, funny but horrific story about what you're talking about. Like five years ago, my son was about 25 and he got cancer. He's alive. Everything's good, thank God. But one of his doctor visits, the nurse came in the room. She was like, obviously nine months pregnant. And I'm like, oh, I hope you're pregnant. That's not a tumor. And I just start like spurting out. I'm like, oh, my God, I'm in an oncology office. I hope your baby doesn't have a tumor.

Everybody stopped and looked at me. My son was like 25, looked at me like, if he could have shot me in the head, I was like... And forever now, I'm never allowed to ever do a Zoom. I'm cut off from all that. I go, who's this?

I was so nervous. Like that comes out. Do you get flustered in conversations like that? It's very cool and calm. But in fact, I am a nurse, but that was my son. So, you know, obviously it was sudden. It threw me off. And I'm like, of all the things that come blurting out, that comes blurting out. Wow. Kelly, what? You never let me attend a Zoom or, you know, go to a visit again. What type of nurse are you?

I do a little bit of everything. I work for an agency, so I do everything from education to school nursing. I would imagine you can accidentally say something to a patient out of habit that is inappropriate or not inappropriate, but just not, you know,

Well, after you work with, like, mentally ill people, you learn to say very little. Like, oh, that's nice. Would you like a juice? You know what I mean? Right. I just like redirect. It's like working with a three-year-old. I got you. So when somebody starts taking that direction, you just start going, well, did you see a movie? You distract, or you just have to shut them down. Oh, I think that probably makes more sense. Keep it lean and mean if you're talking to somebody, because otherwise you're going to get wrapped up in something you don't want to be a part of. Like, oh, she's being friendly. Yeah, yeah. You're my wife now. Thank you, Kelly.

You're my wife now. Casey, what was the context where you came into the room and said hi gays to everybody? I was trying to say, hey guys. Hi gays. Hi.

And this is just the Subaru live broadcast. That's a condition called spoonerism that we were talking about earlier this morning. The listener Dave sent this in and Casey had said Frogan Yozert the other day. And that is apparently a condition or a, yeah, I guess a condition of sorts where you say, there's two words that are next to each other. You mix up some of the letters and you come up with that. So it's called spoonerism. And that could be. Hi, Gaze. Hi, Gaze.

Who's up for some yozer? Hey, guys. I mean, hi, Gaze. I mean, Ernie and Bert. Oh, my God. Jeff online, too. My aunt did this, and we had to, like, call her and say, stop doing this. Okay, let me go to him then. Hi, Jeff, you are on the air. Good morning, buddy. Hello? Yeah, you're on the air, bud. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe it. I've called a million times. You guys never answer. Well, now is your time. We're here today, Jeff. What's up?

So my buddy's dad passed away and I sent him a text. I'm so sorry to hear about your dad, blah, blah, LOL.

Oh, my God. LOL. LOL. Laugh out loud. I thought it meant lots of love. Oh, my God. Hey, your dad died. LOL. What a scream. So I got home and I asked my wife, what's he questioning? No, he's questioning because you said laugh out loud. Oh, my God.

Jeff, what? Yeah, LOL. Listen, at that moment, did like the blood drain from your head and you've just like, what did I do? 100%. 100%. Did you reach out to him?

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Then I called him, and I'm like, you know what? I hate Jack. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. You can get in a lot of trouble, especially with those. There's a whole Modern Family bit about Phil Dunphy. He thinks WTF is why the face.

But my aunt did the same thing and she was sending it in like group text. She was putting it on social media and we were like, it doesn't mean, and that's what she thought. It meant lots of love. And we're like, it doesn't mean lots of love. But did she continue to do it after you guys told her that? No. Once we told her, she stopped. But it was like a group text and then somebody had posted like the funeral arrangement and she had commented on it. LOL. Oh my God. Wow. Grandma, I'm going to have to hit you. Yeah.

Here's another example. This one says, my grandfather's blind dog passed unexpectedly and upon hearing the news, first thing out of my mouth was, well, at least she didn't see it coming. Oh, my God. Oh, dear.

And I wish I'd had a filter more ever than in that moment. Another one says, watched my little cousin choke on candy, watched his father and my other family save him, and upon realizing he choked on a lifesaver, I said how that candy did not live up to its name. It was a dumb joke and everyone stared daggers at me for several minutes afterwards. I will go to

Let's go to Alex. Hey, Alex, good morning. Good morning. Hey, what's up, Alex? Nothing. I was just driving to work. What happened? What did you want to share? So my mother at my great-grandfather's funeral, she thought that my stepfather, you know, she's all set. She thought my stepfather was coming up behind her. So she turned around to give him a, you know, very warm relationship embrace.

And she didn't realize that it was actually the pastor. So she gave a nice sexual hug to the pastor at my great-grandfather's funeral. Oh, wow. A nice sexual hug. Now, did she react when she found out that it was the pastor? I mean, she changed her grip.

Oh, my God. Listen, why don't we go into the confession? It's quiet. No one's around. Let's come up with some stuff to confess. Oh, I love it. Thank you, Alex. Appreciate it. A lot of these things do happen at funerals. It's crazy.

We will go to, speaking of that, I have Heather who's on the line. Hi, Heather. Good morning. Hi, good morning. Yes, another funeral story. So my grandfather had passed away. Great people followed him here. It's very sad.

And my, you know, as the people were going through the line, all the big flower arrangements and my sister and I were sitting down and I looked over at her and her eyes were huge and she started pinching my leg like real hard. And one of the arrangements must have been for a graduation. So we look over and there's balloons that say, way to go. And you did it. Great job. Oh, my God. He had this.

linked down to get it, but at the moment it was like, oh my God, this is crazy. I would have asked about it now, but at the time it was like... That's hilarious. So it's a funeral, but one arrangement says, way to go. Yeah, way to go, and yeah, congrats, you made it. All the stuff wrong about it.

I wonder how often that happens. Thank you. Yeah, I feel bad because I'm sure the driver definitely got, I don't know, he probably got in trouble. We didn't call, but I'm sure somebody in the family did after a while. Listen, it made people smile, I'm sure, so maybe it was a good thing. Yeah, it was nuts. Wow. All right. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Here's another one. It says, my coworker and I worked by Windows.

and could see it snowing and had been talking about the cold weather. My boss received a phone call

that his aunt passed away, and I gave my condolences, and then I said, hey, she's in a better place now, somewhere warm. I meant a nice beach, but basically I said his aunt was in hell. Oh, my God, in hell. Oh, it's nice and warm. Hey, I actually just got a text from my friend who said that her grandparents passed away one day apart, and it was a double funeral. Kathy, there is a discount. Two for one. Yeah. Wow.

Well, listen, sadly, that happens, I'm sure. And you're right, they're expensive. Can you cut us a deal? If you're cremating, it's just one flame. Nick, I can't read that one. I know you can't, but I thought maybe you could paraphrase it. There's a teacher, and they said, I told my eight... He meant to say... Steve, you're going to love this. I told my eighth grade students not to chew ice.

gum in class. Oh no. But instead of a G, they used a C. Oh my God. Stop. What's that? Do you have enough for the whole class? And eighth grade too. Like prime age. I do, but it's going to take me a couple hours. Hang on a second. Maybe if I eat some chicken. Wow. Oh my God.

Wow, that's a bad one. Can't come back from that. That is a bad one. So that wouldn't be a spoonerism, right? No, just a flub. Flub. Yeah. Let me go to, let's see, Jordan. Hi. Jordan, we are talking about saying the wrong thing in a serious situation. How you doing, man?

I am doing fantastic. First of all, you guys rock. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate that. So I was in an in-home sales position selling HVAC for a company I won't mention at the time. And it was 100% commission, so you've got to make a living, right? So I'm in these people's houses for maybe five or ten minutes. I go downstairs, I check out their HVAC system. They have a huge 10x12 crate.

uh... in the basement and i'm like i've got big dogs grew up with them you know i mean like there's my and developer report and sale go upstairs sit down tell me i mean about the system and uh... unlike so i gotta say i'd love to meet this goliath that you guys have to be outside like i'm really comfortable dogs and this lady's face just broke open and started crying and i was like at their kitchen table

Like 15 minutes in, like I just like brought up a dead dog. Oh, dude. Super sweet. And I felt more, I was like, well, I really appreciate you guys having me out today. You know, I wish you luck with whoever you choose other than us. You know, I'm really grateful.

You know what you could have said? You said a good HVAC system will help your pets live longer. You need some IAQ. You need some indoor air quality stuff. The hospital was super cool about it, but now I teach guys how to sell. And I'm like, rule number three, guys. Verify all animals that you're going to mention are alive. No, that's right. If you see pictures or anything like that. Listen, you walk in, you see something like that. You don't...

I would ask the same thing, but you're right. Best to leave that possibly sensitive subject alone. Yeah, it was a learning experience. That's funny. But I was like, hey, you guys talking about opportunities to put your foot in your mouth. And I was like, oh, I stepped in one. Hey, did you make the sale or no? Not at that point, but I got them on the next one. All right. Nice. All right. Thanks, buddy. Appreciate it. He has some dog coffins. Here's another one. Okay. And I have to paraphrase this one, too.

During a jujitsu class, our coach was talking about pressure of sitting on your chest. And he didn't say sitting. That's going to be 50 bucks actually. Is that a Cleveland Steamer? Yeah. Not a Pittsburgh Platter. Let's see. I will go to Vic next. Hi, Vic. Morning, bud.

Hey, first time, long time. How you guys doing? Love it, man. We're good. How you? I'm great. Making my way to work. Nice. All right. What did you say? What'd you do? So I had a good friend of mine named Jeff. He passed away about three years ago. He was a professional chef and he was always cooking. And when he passed, his family decided to get him cremated.

So during, you know, the family get together, if it's passing, I stop and go, damn, even when Jeff is passed away, he's always cooking. Oh, dude. Whoa. What'd you do? And the only one who laughed was his wife. Okay. So, I mean, I guess I got brownie points for that one. No pun intended. Dude.

Vic, that's good. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. All right. Here's Bill with an addition. Hi, Bill. Morning, man. Good morning. How are you? Great, man. What's up? I went to a funeral for my cousin, and I'm sitting in the last row with two sisters and my wife, and the lady in front of us takes her jacket off.

And there she has a two-foot piece of toilet paper hanging out her pants. And I can't stop laughing. Oh, no. I'm starting now to cry laughing. My wife kicks me out. I go to the back of the vestibule. My cousin, who is grieving his sister, comes out to me. He puts his arm around me. He goes, I know it's hard. I can't believe this happened. Oh, my God. He just thinks you're emotional. I'm laughing.

Yeah. Dude, I know it's hard. I couldn't even say anything. I was just like, I know this is terrible, and I just... You pawned it off. Nice. All right, thanks, Bill. That's a whole other thing, is if you get caught in a laughing fit in an inappropriate situation. Oh, man. Well, the classic...

The Mary Tyler Moore with Chuckles the Clown, which is one of the great... And that resonated with so many people, and she's chastising her co-workers for joking about him being shelled by an elephant. One of my favorites is actually, it's a news moment, and it's classic footage, and you guys have seen it, but they're doing a feature on a woman who was struck by lightning...

Went into a coma. She finally comes out of the coma. The anchor is setting the story up. He's telling the story of this. And then they go to the tape. And they show the woman. And the first thing that happens, the tape skips and she just goes...

He'd been struck by lightning. And the guy's like, well, that clearly was the wrong tape. And then he just cannot get it back together. Oh, my God. I've gotten into some massive laughing fits in the middle of mass. And there was one in particular. Yeah, Kathy, you know Kevin. That's how you get through mass. Yeah, Kevin Costello, you know him. You guys went to college together. So we're sitting there, and they're doing the blessing of the Eucharist. And the priest goes, take this, all of you, and eat it.

And Kevin, I guess he just wasn't paying attention. He thought he was supposed to say it. So he just goes, and I say to you, and Kevin goes, take this. And that's all I needed. I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes. So he jumped in on the priest part. He jumped in on the priest part. And that was, and I guess maybe like, maybe that's an intrusive thought as well. And like, I shouldn't be doing this. And then therefore I couldn't stop laughing. Yes. You know, intrusive thought. Well, it does. Yeah.

That's it. That's what sets the lights to match because it's the absolute wrong thing to do. And like you say, rating line at the airport. You know you don't have a bomb, but that's all you can think about. Yep. Marcy has been on hold for a while. Let me go to her. Hi, Marcy. Good morning. Hey, good morning. You guys rock. Thank you, Marcy. All right. Something that was not meant to be said in a serious situation. What is it?

Yes. Oh, no. Oh, no, no.

What's in the box? Oh, my God.

And I wanted to crawl under the table, and he just stood there with his mouth open. It was horrifying. Yep. I thought everybody laughed afterwards. Wow. It's definitely a running joke now. Oh, and so it should be for the rest of your time together. Cuts the tension a little bit. A good seven joke. Wow, man. Let's see. There's another one. Let's see here. Yeah, let me go to this. I have Lou on the line. Hey, Lou, morning. Good morning.

Oh my God. It's been a while. It is our Lou. How you doing Lou? Good. How you guys doing? Good buddy. Of course you have a story to share. You always have a story. Uh, yes, I have a story to share. There was this, uh, one, uh, mob guy who got, who got shot. So my mother and I had gone to the funeral. Your stories start different than most. I love Lou's story. So this one mob guy got shot. Go ahead. Uh,

So my mother and I go to the funeral because, you know, she was good for he was friends with my father and all this stuff. So we go to the funeral and when the receiving line and one of the capos of that same faction was standing there with another guy who was a who was an enforcer. But he

My mother knows him to have a son who's autistic. So we're walking through the line and my mother sees him and my mother says hi to the guy and she goes to the son who she thinks is the son. She goes and she tickles his stomach. She goes, and how are you doing? And they all looked at her and goes like, why are you tickling my stomach? And no, that's not him. That's not his son.

And my mother felt like shrinking, but everybody felt like shrinking. And they shot her. She thinks she's doing a nice little gesture to a child with autism. But it's the wrong person. She just tickles some dude's stomach. Yeah. Yeah.

My mother was always like that. Yep, yep, yep. I love it. Imagine you have one of these things in a mob's life. You screw up. You say the wrong thing. You're going to end up at the bottom of a river. Absolutely. All right, Lou. Good to hear from you, man. Hey, you too, guys. All right. Who's Lou?

That is. All right, see you, bud. We had dinner at Harvest, and when I walked in, you guys were talking to who I thought was Preston's friend, Will. And I walked up behind this guy, and I slapped him in the ass. Oh, God. And he turns around, and it was the general manager of the restaurant. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.

He was the new general manager. Had only been there for like a couple days. And why would Will have been at our show dinner? I don't know. But like from the side and he was talking to Preston. Do you know what I mean? So later I went up to him and I said, I heard Casey sexually assaulted you. I've hugged somebody from behind thinking that it was somebody else. Well, Preston. Fully embraced them and like wrapped their arms. It's all good.

great to see you again. No, it's not that person at all. I did it to a guy in 7-Eleven, man. I thought it was my buddy Roscoe. Wasn't Roscoe. I came up from behind him and picked him up. And this guy's like, oh my god. Oh my god. I am so sorry.

It happens. Well, listen, we appreciate you sharing. We have a ton of other calls that we could go to, but we got TV time. We got to go on Fox Good Day. We need to take a break right now. We're going to do that very thing. We'll return with some bizarre file stories, but thank you for your participation. We will be right back. What's going on in the world of rock? You'll find it at WMMR.com, your one-stop outlet for all the rock news you need to know. WMMR.com.

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We're shocked to find a live cockroach in the small intestine of a 23-year-old man who came in complaining of severe stomach pain and indigestion. What more speaks to the resiliency of cockroaches? Yeah, how's this possible? How's it alive? The patient had been experiencing symptoms for about three days after eating street food and believed that...

was the cause of the discomfort. Not much for the cockroaches. After performing an upper GI endoscopy, the medical team discovered the unexpected culprit, a live cockroach in the man's intestine.

The doctors quickly removed the insect using an endoscope with a suction feature to safely extract the bug. Hi. The doctor noted that if the insect hadn't been removed quickly, it could have caused severe complications, including infections. Yes. As for how the cockroach ended up inside the man, doctors speculated... I went up his ass. No. Huh. The bug told him?

In an exclusive interview with the cockroach. Yes, yeah. I know, it's kind of crazy. I've never seen so many cameras in my life. But it's simple. I crawled up his gaping butthole. Ah. All right, then. Gaping. Yeah. As for how the cockroach ended up inside the man, doctors speculate it may have crawled down his throat while he was sleeping or he accidentally swallowed it. I hate to say it, there's another one in there. Well, eating at the night market. So that's messed up.

The stuff of nightmares. Yeah. All right. Wayne Martell's moose hunt was his first ever. I'm sorry, was a first for him. Not just because he had never hunted moose before. And not just because he got to hunt with his daughter as the sub-permittee. No, this was different because of the particular moose that Martell harvested. Why don't you forget the moose? Thank you.

For a moment. Martell's moose, which weighed in at 770 pounds, had one antler that was spike-like, while the other was a three to four inch nub with bumps around it. Antlers! Its spike antler was still dressed in velvet, but so were a couple of its teeth. And both male, and here's the interesting thing, it had both male and female sex organs.

That's the weirdest moose I've ever heard of. Yeah. Martel shot the moose during the state's second week of bull moose hunting. His daughter, Roxanne Johnson, was the sub-permittee. He said it was kind of a shock to see exactly what it was when we walked up to it and realized it had equipment for both male and female. It...

That wouldn't be routine. I mean, sometimes animals... Okay. Yeah, so... I'm not well-versed on my moose junk. Martel said that they used a rope and a truck to pull the moose out of the skidder road and load it into the trailer. The experienced hunter said that he has never seen anything like this moose.

He has hunted for deer and upland birds for several years. He also is a lifetime member of the Maine Trappers Association. If it's in the woods, I'm going to kill it. Yeah, right. A biologist was amazed at what he saw when the moose came in to be registered. He took measurements of various samples from moose and examined the animal thoroughly. Lee Cantor, the state's chief moose biologist...

That's his job. Yeah, it's the small office at the end of the hall. It said, it sounds like the moose was intersex, which is a scientific label that means it had both male and female reproductive parts. The moose likely was not young. A tooth was pulled so scientists can determine its age. There's something when you see a...

a creature of that size and seeing it killed. It's just like, you know, like those, the big game hunters. I know. I don't like it either. It's just, it's so horrible. So my brother is, you know, he moved to New Hampshire and he gets to see moose like that, you know, like I have deer in my backyard. He's got moose in his backyard. They're just amazing. Kill it! Kill it! He told me about this other thing that they have up there. It's some sort of cat. It's, it's some,

Who's cat? No, no. It's something cat. He said it's kind of like a cross between like a wolverine and kind of looks like an otter. And he says that they're really, really nasty. Like very, very aggressive. It's like a crocogator. There's a head in the front and a head in the back. See if you can find out what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forget what it was called.

Oh.

Oh, wow. Prompting them to file a lawsuit accusing the funeral home of negligence and mishandling human remains. Was it just a placeholder body? The family alleges that when they expressed their concerns, the funeral home staff insisted the body was Jenkins despite obvious differences. They pointed out that specific physical markings such as a cauliflower ear and foot infection were missing from the body in the casket.

The family requested to see the body again the next day, eventually confirming that the person in the casket was indeed Jenkins, but only after a number of upsetting interactions. In a statement from their attorney, Michael Shaw, the family described the situation as disturbing and reprehensible. They are now pursuing compensation for the mistakes. Let's see what else we have here.

How about this one? We'll stick with the grave thing. Two men are facing charges after allegedly digging into a grave site at an Evansville, Indiana cemetery. Officers responded to a report of five individuals digging into a grave, but the group left after a witness threatened to call the authorities. Later, police stopped Melvin Guerra, who admitted to digging at the site because his boss, Luis Corden, believed that he was cursed and instructed Guerra to recover voodoo-related items buried there.

Imagine that's like your first week on the job. Right. You have to do it. Listen, there's a voodoo curse on me. I need you to go to the cemetery and exhume bodies. Hear me out. Police suspect. I thought I was running the cappuccino machine. That Corden fell victim to a scam and both men acknowledged that digging in the cemetery was wrong. It's wrong. Greer and Corden have been charged. I've been a bad boy. With disturbing human remains or grave markers and have been banned from the property and

That is what I have in the bizarre file for you. Casey, is it a fisher cat? Yes. A fisher cat. Yeah, I've heard of those before. Oh, yeah. It does kind of look a little bit like a wolverine. I think it's in the weasel family. Okay. We have to take a break right now. We'll be right back. Stay with us. Looking for fun things to do this weekend?

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What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, after 15 seasons, CBS's The Talk will air its last episode in mid-December. And although the afternoon topic-driven talk show never won a daytime Emmy, it was also never nominated for a daytime Emmy. Oh, my God.

Kim Kardashian opening up about co-parenting her children with ex-husband Kanye West, saying he does not pull his weight. Kim says she is often the only one calling the nanny to find out how their kids are doing. And finally, Denzel Washington not happy that a scene in which he kisses another man was cut from Gladiator 2. Denzel says cutting the scene removed all context for the following docking scene. Yes.

Let's dive into the world of Presbo. It's time for Totally Presbo. Totally Presbo.

All right. I have a few stories that kind of piqued my interest. There's a new relaxation trend taking over TikTok. Ooh, I love relaxation. Isn't it great, though? And it's called the Hercule D'Ercole. The Hercule D'Ercole. I hate the name, but I'm still with you. Tell me. All right. Can you spell Hercule for me real quick? Because I just want to see if I can in my mind. Guess what it is. H-U-R-K-L-E.

Okay, so I guess you do herkies until you're really tired. Really comfortable. Nope, it has nothing to do with that. It's an old Scottish term, so who the hell knows? Herkle derkle. Herkle derkle. It's something, you know, it's called a herkle derkle. And so it means, and like I said, this is stupid. Okay.

to lie in bed when one should be up and about. Yes. Somebody sent this to me. And yes, it's a Scottish tradition that's been around for like 200 years and everybody's like, what a great tradition to maintain now. And yeah, it's just like being comfortable and being relaxed. It's just laying in bed. That's exactly right. That is not a trend. We've been doing this since we were born. Exactly. Exactly.

But I will say that sometimes like I will like be relaxing in my on my couch and it's not the same. And I will take said relaxation. I'm like, this needs to be done in bed with a proper blanket and pillows. I know. I know that. No, no, no. This is different. After you've spent the night sleeping. Oh, and you wake up.

And you just stay in bed. You just lay in bed. I've only done that once in the past...

25 years. Really? Were you sick? No, no. I told you guys, and I haven't talked about this yet on the air. It was a couple of weeks ago. I had what I contend to be the greatest night's sleep possibly in my entire life. You were telling us about this. You had assistance? I was by myself. I went to our shore house to go check on some stuff down there. I spent the night. I slept for 10 hours in

uninterrupted. I didn't get up to go to the bathroom. I woke up. I didn't feel crazy drowsy or anything. And I just laid in bed for a little while and I eased into my day and it was, I felt so good. I couldn't tell you the last time that's happened to me. At the point you woke up, how much longer did you remain in bed?

Uh... What? 20 minutes. Oh, well, that's nothing. Yeah. You were languishing in bed. I didn't laze around, but no, normally... That's not how you do it. Normally, when I wake up, I get up and I get going. I mean, for work, I get up immediately. I'm like you, Steve. I jump right out of bed. Yeah, absolutely. But, uh...

But even on the weekend, I don't linger laying in bed. I get up and go get some coffee and let's get the day started. Same, same. If I do, I'm a dead man. I got to get up and go. Yeah, because that whole notion of, and I envy people that can do that. So the notion here is once you've completed a full night's sleep, you then sort of just stay in bed. You just stay in bed. Yeah, I can do that. No problem.

Yeah, and it's relaxing and a nice way for me. You've been Hercling and Dirkling for quite a while. Yeah, I kind of started the Hercle Durgle. Do you prefer Hercle Dirkling with the TV on or the TV off? I don't have a TV in my bedroom. I can't.

Because I don't need more screens in the bedroom. You're looking at your phone a lot and stuff? No, I want separation from television. At least one screen. So yes, no TV. I am separated by television. It's about a half a foot from the bottom of my feet. I get that, Nick. But I was just wondering if it was because you would turn it. If it was in there, you'd turn it on and watch it. That's right. Yeah, okay.

I don't watch TV in my bedroom. I have a TV. In fact, last night I decided I'm going to watch a little bit of TV and I went to turn it on and the batteries in my remote were dead. That's how long it's been since I've actually watched TV in my room. But you actually have a TV. I do, yes. I got the Dolby Atmos set up in the bedroom. I'm a lunatic and I admit it. I actually love watching TV in bed. Come on over. So growing up, we were not allowed to have TVs in our bedroom. Right.

And so when I was able to get a TV in my bedroom, it was like, I was like, oh my God, I can watch TV. I can harkle darkle. But I prefer to watch TV in my bed than downstairs on the couch.

Um, this is going back to Hercule D'Arcule. Uh, so some people, uh, including actress, uh, Kira Kozarin, most known for her role in the Nickelodeon series, the Thundermans, uh, is a Hercule D'Arcule-er. She said, just thought you guys should know that the Scottish have a word for laying in bed here after it's time to get up and it's called the Hercule D'Arcule. And she wrote, I do be Hercule-ing and I do be D'Arcule-ing.

I don't like that. Once I've Hercled my last Hercle in a given morning, I will get up. But I'm a big fan of a Hercle-Dercle. So is there a minimum time? For example, if you're merely in bed for 10 minutes, have you completely Hercled and Dercled? I don't know. Probably subjective. Yeah, probably subjective.

And the end result is you feel more at peace, you're more relaxed, or what does it provide the... Doesn't say. Doesn't say. But apparently there is a similar trend that happened earlier this year that's called bed rotting. Bed rotting sounds more committed. It says the practice of spending many hours in bed during the day, often with snacks or an electronic device as a voluntary retreat from activity or stress. Bed rotting.

But that's not just... That's at any time. This is... Hercule, Dercule is right after you wake up. Right after you wake up. And you just stay there. Yeah, that's not for me. And I'm a Scottish-Irish. And you are as well. Yeah, I am too, but I'm not going to Hercule my Dercule. So I thought you guys might find that interesting. All right, let's do another one. Holy Presbo! The Brazilian butt lift. So the quest for the perfectly plump bottom and shapely thighs...

While they are on this quest, women may overlook its effects on personal cleanliness. A recent TikTok video inspired a site-wide dialogue among men about the quote BBL smell. You familiar with this? No, I'm not familiar with it. You can imagine what the story is, right?

It meets them during the intimate moments. This guy's post said where the smell was like, quote, an assault on my nose. It's garnered more than 3.5 million views. And both men and women confirmed the odor and explained the reasons behind it. There was a general consensus on where to place the blame. Women, including those who have undergone BBLs, Brazilian butt lifts,

said that a larger backside is simply harder to keep clean after using the restroom. They can't wipe their asses. Come on. Kath. So if you've seen...

You can't take a shower. The really big one. The really big butt lifts, you know? Yeah. The obnoxious. It has gotten bad lately. Has it? Like I am seeing it everywhere. And at first- Like gigantic asses. Gigantic. And at first I didn't believe that they were actually going and getting surgery done. But I've noticed now because I can pick out breast implants like very easily. And now I feel like I'm able to do this because it's so perfectly round. It's

perfectly shaped and gargantuan and oftentimes not all the time but oftentimes their waists are tiny you know and then they have it's not natural you know for the way that it looks same like breast implants sometimes they don't look natural who has had both done

And so she sticks out about five feet in front and five feet in back. It looks ridiculous. I just saw one the other day, right? And she was this little thing and she was so cute. Now, I don't know what her butt looked like before, but when she turned to the side, I was like, oh my gosh. Like a shelf? A shelf, but it was like perfectly round, perfectly plump. I mean...

And how do you wipe? Some are so huge. How do you wipe them? I got to believe it's a little bit of that dysmorphia theme. Same thing with the butt, the boobs, and the lips. You can easily fall into you don't see it. Absolutely. Well, and I think this too, though, they're taking your own fat. So I bet you that's why people like it is because they're removing fat from one place and just putting it back there. You know, some people have died because it's not always fat. Sometimes it's been things like cement.

And silicone. And silicone and other fillers. So this guy had his first person account going on a date with a woman with a Brazilian butt lift who later in the evening, he said, when undressed, admitted a smell that suggested she had not wiped properly or washed in that area well enough. Oh my God. Is the huge ass worth that to have a rotting stank ass? There are people with big asses that can wipe themselves. Why can't you wipe?

Terrible. I don't understand it. You had an enormous... I do have an enormous ass. But like this level. I can wipe just fine. How do you do it at home then? Can you demonstrate how you wipe? If you cannot get yourself clean, I don't care if you have a big ass or a small ass. If you're a man or a woman, get in the freaking shower. Yeah. No, you're right. You're absolutely right. Get a bidet. Well, that's what they recommend actually. So the Pretty Realist said...

When God created us, he gave us arms. All of our arms are made specifically for our body. You probably have a hard time wiping your ass properly because your body is a little bit wider than your arms are allowing you to reach in that area. Dr. Roger Tsai, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, confirmed the theory in a video disclosing two secrets that Instagram models don't want you to know about their BBL. He said, wiping down there is going to be a lot more difficult because there's more to reach around. So if you're around somebody with a BBL and they smell...

Probably because of that. Is that something you can bring up to them, you think? Plastic surgeons typically give their patients fair warning about difficulties in the bathroom. Sitting is not allowed for about two months after undergoing a BBM. Wow. You can't sit? Though sitting on a toilet for a relatively quick bathroom break is okay. So I guess for a certain amount of time, you can't sit for very long. So...

You're probably laying on your side, or they probably don't mean sitting directly up normally. It's almost like, you know, or maybe you're using like a donut. Many physicians, by the way, recommend bidets to wash the area thoroughly. Otherwise, it may take some painful yoga maneuvers. What?

Come on. Wipe your ass. Dude, there's nothing on earth that is worth having your ass rot. No, it's not. Yeah, that's gnarly. No. Hang on. Julie's got a comment. Let me go to her. Hi, Julie. You are on the air. Good morning. Good morning, Gadzooks. Gadzooks. Okay. What do you want to contribute here?

So let's add to the big butt, not just the Brazilian butt lift, but the big butt, the big butt girls, you know, the big bottom girls in the world, and then add the four-inch nails. Oh, my God. The fingernails. Oh, and now let's just think about put those two together long before the butt lifts. We just had big bottom girls, and I had a friend, and she was like, I can't.

I can't do it unless I'm at home. I can't get clean. Yeah, no. Like, I mean, it blows my mind. Would she get poop in her fingernails? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Julie, what if she has, what about all the rage, which is the claw look? Yeah, the sharpened nails. Exactly. I mean, well, maybe they can dig it out and they get a little cleaner. Oh.

You're ripping your ass off. That's just nasty. Oh, my God. I don't know how to watch this now. Yeah. Maybe the thing to do, Julie, is start a controlled fire. Oh, my God.

That's gnarly. All right. Thank you, Julie. Appreciate it. We'll see you. It was like when you broke your wrist. Yeah. Right? You had to learn some skills. It was tough. It was very difficult. So with a butt lift, are there injections? Sometimes there are. Implant style? Yes. Okay. All right. Yeah. I didn't know what actually went into the buttocks. There's a couple of different things. Nick, there was a woman locally who got arrested because one of the people she had treated for one of these bruises.

butt lifts, she used something basically like sacrete. I remember that. Well, remember, she was doing it out of like a hotel room. Out of a hotel room. She was doing it illegally. Yeah. Maybe the lift is different than the injections or the implants. You know, maybe the lift is, maybe we're using the wrong terminology here. It's possible. You said the Brazilian butt lift, right? Yes. So that's, the definition is surgery where a doctor transfers fat from your belly, hips, lower back, or thighs to your buttock.

Okay. All right. So that's that. Are they able to use that same technology for breast enlargement? Or is it straight up like it's silicone? They should be, right? Never heard of that. Maybe that part of the body rejects it. You know what they do impressively? We've seen you seeing these crazy... For some reason, there's a lot of Russian...

quote-unquote bodybuilders who get this synth oil injected into their... You've seen these guys who are not built anywhere else on their body, but have Popeye-sized biceps. It's a thing. And it's dangerous. You want to talk about dysmorphia? That's another dysmorphia. But they never used silicone for breast implants, right? It's always saline at this point? At this point, yes. I got banned a long time ago, I believe. I think you're right about that. You've seen these guys up online, right?

It's insane. And it's horrendous for you. So if someone sitting next to you has a large hiney, they might smell like poop. Just to give you a heads up. It's a nice thing if you're sitting on the bus. It's happened today. You're sitting next to someone. Do you have trouble wiping your ass? Alright, we're moving on. Totally Presbo. Alright, so

There are soaring numbers of grieving pet owners that are freeze-drying their pets when they die so they don't have to say goodbye. And unlike traditional taxidermy where an animal's hide may be removed and their shape distorted, freeze-drying is more natural and can better preserve their appearance. And you were looking at the pictures. I was looking at the pictures. It does look good. Yeah.

and you're a pet owner, we all have pets, or have had pets, I don't think I could do this. I don't think I would do this either. No, I don't think I could do this. Chuck Rupert owns a company called Second Life Freeze Dry.

Said he typically preserves up to 90 animals a year, including dogs, cats, hamsters, hedgehogs, guinea pigs, ferrets, squirrels, minks, and even rattlesnakes. Yeah, I'm doing it to my dad, but I don't think I can do it to him. Oh, dear God. This service does not come cheap, and depending on the animal's size, the cost can range from $1,200 to $4,000 and up. No, what? Yeah. Yeah, it's pricey, but...

that's not, it's the shell. So what we do is we will cremate the pets. We put them in a decorative box or maybe get a paw print and something nice. And that's what you do. But could you imagine going into a room, especially with us, we'd have like a room full of

seven or eight dead freeze-dried pets. Second Life Freeze-Dry is located in Morrill, Pennsylvania, by the way, but requests come in from all over the U.S. and abroad, including a cat mailed from Singapore and a dog from Hong Kong. Eww.

Explain how he handles foreign orders. Rupert said, it can be done, but it's costly. I have to send them a broker who can clear customs. The process of freeze drying is a laborious one. It's really interesting, by the way. Typically, smaller animals take up to four to five months to

to preserve, and larger animals can take up to a year to preserve. I mean, at that point, you've forgotten about your pet. Right, you moved on to the next one. And now you're going to freak out your new pet by bringing home an emotionless dead pet. Jesus! What is that? This freaks me out more than the Be Me Else film. Is this what you have in mind for me?

Is this how it's going to go? The process involves removing the animal's organs, filling the body cavity with natural wood filler. What's with your cat? The animal is sewn back up. And what do you do with it? Do you just splay it around the house? Then he places the animal in a pose that the pet owner requested, often sleeping with their eyes closed, sitting with their eyes open, or wearing a happy expression. Not me. Imagine them putting a big smile on your dog's face. I would have my cat standing holding a top hat and cane.

You know, there are very well-preserved bodies, dead bodies, like Lennon's one of them. Yes, yeah. That's right. Ava Peron. No, not John Lennon. Vladimir Ilyich. Ava Peron. Who else? Vladimir Ilyich. Vladimir. There's a priest. The priest right here. Yeah. Yeah, you can actually go see them. Some of these are on display. It's pretty weird, you know, but... It is. So, I'm...

We've gone on our last – on our vacation, we went to a place in Austria where they had these kind of bodies. And it is – it's weird. Do they do it in North Korea to their leaders too? I want to say that maybe the last one is preserved. I'm not 100 percent sure. Possibly. I'm sure that they would have that level of –

of worship and or at least ego. By the way, locally, St. John Newman, like Newman University. Yeah. Who that's named after. And I remember going and seeing I feel he was in like third grade, something like that. You saw his body. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I mean, it was it was a field trip.

Wow. And I remember like, he just looks like, like wax. So in one of the churches we went to, I believe it was in Austria, they had, um, they had, uh, bodies that they'd removed from that were treated like this from the Vatican that were both in there laying horizontally while you're sitting in the pews. And, uh,

You know, it's freaky. Yeah. It's very freaky. Hang on. I have Amy who has a freeze-dried pet. Hi, Amy. Good morning. Good morning. Hi, Amy.

I had, it wasn't really a pet. So when I was in college, the summer I was working, there was a woman whose son was a taxidermist and he knew she hated cats, but people knew he was a taxidermist. So when they would have sometimes animals that would die, they would ask him if he wanted them. So there was a kitten that had died and he took the kitten and

and made it, like, look really fierce, as fierce as a kitten can look, on a log, like on a branch, and then tied a little bow around his neck and gave it to her, and she's like, I don't know what to do with this. And I said...

I will take it to school because my room at school has a mantle. And so I hanged it on my mantle. And, of course, it freaked lots of people out. Yeah. Yeah. So but these are meant to look like your pet is in repose and it's the way your pet would be around the house. And apparently, even as good as some taxidermists are, the freeze-drying process makes them look uncannily alive. Yeah.

It was weird. I mean, because it was freeze-dried. They said they could only do it with smaller pets. Right. Okay. So they used that process then.

But I don't think that I would want any. I've had lots and lots of pets, and I do not think that I would want them around. I just think that would be creepy. But the kitten was kind of funny, except that when I had it stored in the attic, my dad threw it away. Oh, my God. Sure. Yeah. To your dad's scene. If you have a picture of it, by the way, send it along. I love that. I'm an animal lover. Thank you, Amy. Can't wait to see that. Listen, my dad, for the longest time, he caught a sailfish. Yeah. And had it.

And that hung on our wall much to my mother's chagrin. Hung on the wall forever. Was it beautiful or not? I thought it was really cool. I mean, it was huge and it was really pretty. And they're big and blue and silver. It's one of the most mounted fish because they are that pretty. And they have that huge dorsal fin. But I remember we had a...

It had gone through the ringer because we had moved a few times, so it got chips and breaks here and everything. I remember coming home one day and just seeing that tail sticking up out of a trash can in front of our house. I'm like, damn, finally broke. Mom got rid of that thing, man. Oh, and if a cell phone existed back then, you would have snapped a photo of that. Oh, totally. Hilarious. I want to catch...

a minnow and just mount it. I'm sure people have done that. Oh, yeah. I don't know. It's hard to mount. Why are you looking at me like that? I was just thinking, should we do that? Or like a goldfish? Yes. It's tough to do it that small. They actually have to remove all the internal organs. Oh, is that right? I looked into taxidermy and how that works for a while. It's a very... Well, remember we had that

And she was top notch. Came on the show a few times. She was awesome. She was a taxidermist. She had an Instagram account. I followed it for a while, but I've not seen her in ages. She's really good. So you dabbled with it. Isn't the film material quite often sawdust?

Uh, yeah, there's filler like that. I just looked into the process of it and it was way too involved. All the chemicals and stuff that you have to use to treat that stuff. I'm like, I'm not doing that. Um, all right. So I don't even know if this is a linear to what we're talking about. Um, but I just had my dog groomed and I was at the groomer and there was so much pet hair there. Yeah. What do they do with it? They just throw that away. Could they? Cotton candy. Yeah.

Literally, with our dog, Kizzy, we could build another cat. But they really could use that. They could recycle that for stuff, right? I don't know. If only it ported over to human wigs. Wait, I just remembered this story. My cousins, they...

their animals, like loved their animals. Like sexually? No, but just like so much so that when they pass... Like that professor. And I'm pretty sure that they've done it with more than one dog. When the dog passed, they have the hair shaved off and they put it into a blanket. They make it into a blanket.

I was at their house and they had the blanket out and they were like, oh, that's... Why not make their paws into back scratchers? Hang on, I have a question. One cat had enough hair to make an entire blanket? Two dogs. Two separate blankets. When their dog passed years ago, they made the blanket. It was just the hair, not their hide. Not their... No, they ate that. Like the skin. Yeah.

Preston, I don't know. All I know is it was a blanket and I was freaked out and I didn't want to go near it. There are services, there are businesses that will do that. I've seen them. The hide? That will take the hide and turn them into like a pillowcase or whatever. I could see that. Listen, I get it. So we have a little bit of Chelsea's fur in a little baggie just to remember kind of what it looked like. Yeah. And with her ashes and that whole thing. But when you're...

It's like, hey, that billiard ball is my old dog's eyeball. Seriously? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like folded nice and like laid on a bench in their living room. Who's that? Well, that's Fluffy. Oh, there's Fluffy. What if you shaved all their hair off? Because like Reggie, for instance, he's so fluffy. You shave it all off. You clean it, right? And then like maybe make it a pillow stuffing.

I'm not going to eat my dog's fur. Would you, though? Would you? I don't know. Maybe. Would it be a little disconcerting? Hang on. I don't know. Kim is a dog groomer. Okay. And Casey, she can tell you what they do with the dog hair. Hi, Kim. Good morning. Hi. Good morning. You guys rock. Thank you. Kim, what's the name of your business? I work at Riverside Grooming in Spring City. Okay. And you guys see a lot of clients? Yes.

We do, yeah. And we've actually had clients request their dog's hair at the end of the groom, and they take it home and let it go in their yard for birds to make nests out of. Oh, really? I've heard about that. I've seen that. Yeah, my wife will brush the dog outside because apparently that's... And when you take it out of the hairbrush outside, you know, the pet brush, squirrels, birds, whatever, they'll come and take it and make nests out of it. Oh!

I did see one squirrel turning into a cupcake. We do that quite a bit, actually. But, Kim, what do you guys do with the stuff you sweep up off the floor? Yeah, so most of the time we throw it away. But I also, our shop is right next to a river park with a big trail on the river. Like once a month or so, I'll take a big bag down and just open it up and kind of let it go for the birds and everything. All right.

That's pretty cool. Because you make a hair pie. Yeah, but I have heard of people selling the dog hair, but I don't know in what capacity or if that's even legal. I wonder that. So environmentally, I would wonder, and Nick, you're right, and Casey, the birds and other animals that we use the hair, I wonder...

if there's any issue. I mean, it's something I've always heard that is absolutely fine to do. Like, could you get in trouble dumping pet hair outside, like, in large amounts? Right. Would that be considered littering? Right, right. I don't know. And I also don't understand why my dog loves so much sticking his head out the window in the car, right? Loves that wind in his face. Loves it. I love it. But can't stand the hair dryers at the pet groomer. Isn't that funny? Yeah. That they would react that way. Well, maybe the noise freaks me out.

It's part of it. Yeah. Yeah. Not sure. All right. Well, anyway, I think that that's all we're going to have time for. Holy Presbyterian. All right. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. The Preston and Steve Show. Like the podcast? You'll also love it live. When you can call in. Weekdays from 6 a.m. to about 10.30 a.m. on the radio at 933-WMMR. Or stream the show live via MMR's mobile app.