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The official supermarket of the Preston and Steve Show. Our next guest comes bearing gifts this morning. She will be appearing at the City Winery next Thursday. There's a show at 7.30. Tickets available at citywinery.com. We'd like to welcome Arden Marine. Hi, guys. How are you? Wonderful. How are you, Arden? I'm so good. I'm happy to be here. And yes, I do come bearing gifts. Yeah, you brought...

Stacks of Tasty Cake boxes. Okay, well, I'm friends with Kate Flannery, who's playing Meredith on The Office, and she knew I was playing Philly, and she was like, first of all, you need your Philadelphia, you need your Phillies hat, so I've got my Phillies hat. Go Phillies. And then she was like, and you have to eat some Tasty Cakes. Now... You had not had before? I grew up in

Rhode Island. My dad's actually, he grew up in Philadelphia when he was a kid, but he moved out of here. And so I never have had tasty cakes, never in my whole life. It's kind of a necessity. I love sweets. I am a, I am a monster. So I mean, I would have to, I'll probably have to like eat these out of my trash. I'll throw them away and I'll eat them all anyway. Um,

And so I mentioned this to Meredith and I was like, I've never had a Tasty Cake. And she came with her 14-year-old son last night, picked out. I have eight boxes. One of each. They're stacked apparently to Casey's preference. Yeah. And he told me off air that you have to freeze it and eat the cake first, then the icing thing, then you do the second one, then you put all the peanut butter.

His favorite one is, he said, don't call it tasty cake. Call it candy cake. Right. Yeah. Because you're like, you're not cool if you call it tasty cake. So is it peanut butter candy cake is number one. Is that correct, Casey? That's my number one. Yeah. Always has been, always will be. And then number two is cream filled buttercream cupcake. That's a good one. Would you guys agree with his assessment so far? He's pretty good. I don't know. Yeah. Okay. And then number three is a classic crimpet. Classic crimpet. Love it. Okay. No, that's not a classic crimpet. No, this one has cream.

I've heard. I've learned that also. I'm like, you're not classic if you've got cream. So, believe me. See, I'm not a loser. I grew up in Philly, obviously. I'm not a loser. I'm not going to eat it with cream. That's crazy. So, yeah. I'm going to try one. Well, you know, it's funny because I used to, I was a fan of yours on MADtv and was aware of your work and I've seen you around all different things and on podcasts and Andy Cohen and all that sort of stuff.

But I didn't realize you said Rhode Island. Yeah. And the town is Little Compton. Yeah. And I thought that was a joke. No, I'm straight out of Little Compton. Straight out of Little Compton. Yeah. And it's a curry or knives, rustic seaside, gorgeous little town. It's dead gorgeous, Steve. It's a gorgeous little town. It does not have any stoplights. It has a general store. Yeah. It has, there's like, there's, it's literally, there's not even a maid.

And so it's a tiny town called Little Compton, Rhode Island. Wow. It's bananas. My parents, they married on a dare and they moved to this town. And my grandparents met in Philadelphia and they married 24 hours later in Delaware because you didn't need a blood test to get married in Delaware. They got married the day after they met. Yeah. So I'm the result of two very hasty decisions. Wow. So let's see.

Let's see if I... I don't know. Anything's possible this week. If you guys come to City Winery, who knows? Maybe we'll get engaged. I want to see that family reunion. You trying to taste a cake? Arden's going to try to taste a cake. Which one? I'm starting with number one. I'm not going to go against my new friend, Casey. Thank you. I'm sorry it's not frozen. Okay, here we go. So you're going with a candy cake instead of a tasty cake. A peanut butter one. Yeah. It's so good. Yeah? Arden, so my cousins grew up in Los Angeles, right? And they never had access to tasty cakes. So when we would come visit them in L.A. or they would come and visit us in Philadelphia...

it was required to bring boxes of Tasty Cakes and they would stack up on them. And to Casey's credit, the best way to at least preserve them was put them in the freezer. Okay, here's my review. First of all, they're adorable. They're so cute. They're tiny. This is not a giant Chocodile.

This is not an unseemly devil dog. We're talking about a gorgeous, delicate little candy cake. Right. It's like the fun of a Reese's peanut butter cup, but with a donut involved. It's whimsical. It's whimsical. Now, with all these references you're making, you're clearly a connoisseur of sweet things. You said you're a sweet fanatic. You weigh like 90 pounds, possibly. You're a tiny little thing. She called herself a monster.

I am a monster. How the hell do you eat all this? I'm not, I, you know, I really shouldn't have sugar because I am like a fiend, but, but you know, who cares? To be honest, I think your energy burns it all off. I can tell from your personality. You're the tiniest monster I've ever seen. I would see you on TV and I'm like, when you walked in, I'm like, dear God. I'm like, I didn't realize you were so, so petite. Well, let's see what happens with these tasty cakes. I'm trying the cream filled crumpet. Yeah. All right.

Oh, boy. Wow. Yeah. I took a big bite for radio. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to the commuters. That's so good. It's so sweet. I'm like, my heart is going to explode out of my chest. I like the peanut butter.

Do you think you and Kate will get together for Tasty Cake parties now? You know what? I'm going to have to bring some back to her. I heard that you guys have a flannery button because she swears. Is that true? I'll show it to you. It's right over here on my console. Yeah. Because she's the one who curses the most on the show. That is so funny. I don't think of her as like a swear machine, but I'm here for that. She is. Yep.

Can you do me a favor? And this is probably sacrilege in this city, but you just did the cream-filled crimpet. Yeah. So can you go to the bottom? Sure. My least favorite of... And it's not to say that I don't like it. It's just my least favorite. But that is... You need to do that juxtaposed. What is that? Here we go. This is a... It's the butterscotch crimpet. It's a butterscotch. I love the... I know. You love it. I love the butterscotch. Do you want any of these on?

these? I'm not trying to... Do you guys want me to pass them down? You have a very... You have a star guest arriving soon. Yeah, we have biscuits coming. The biscuit lady's coming. Oh, oh, oh, wait, wait. What you have to do, put the icing side down on the thing and then rub it on the ground because otherwise the icing will stick to the cellophane. Rub it on the counter. No, rub it on the counter. Wow. You know what? Fiend sees fiend. I see there's a fiend over there that we both... If we

If we'd grown up in the household together, you would have had to bury me in a piano box. This is so good. A piano box? Yeah, like Walter Hudson, who is the largest man ever alive, was buried in a piano box. Okay, but this is so good. Here we go. Okay. Now, the monster in me thought I would have wanted the cream film. Right.

I'm so sorry, Casey. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. It's sacrilege. I think the butterscotch without the cream is better. Yes. I'm sorry. Do you have one available? Let me, I'll take a little bite because I want to refresh my memory. She only has six boxes left. I don't know if you worked your way through them all yet. I'm training. I'm in training for a triathlon. This is my fuel. I'm a pro, I'm the pro goat. Yeah, this is really, this is a whole situation. Yeah.

Yeah, I could not be more excited about trying this. Well, I have to say, having been in comedy for a long time, a lot of the funniest people I have ever... I would say two of the funniest people I've ever met in my life are from Philly. Just coming off Adam McKay. Adam is a friend of the show. Adam McKay, when I was 19 years old, I did ImprovOlympic in Chicago. He was a member of the house team. And this is before he got to Second City. Yeah.

At the time, he was already the funniest person I'd ever met. Like he... He's so good. And remains. And I feel like I've gotten to work with some of the funniest people on earth. And Adam McKay was... He was already fully cooked at like 25. He was a genius. And so I would say Adam McKay... I would say the funniest man and woman I've ever met are from Philly. So the woman being...

Pam Brady who she wrote on South Park. She wrote the South Park movie with them. She wrote Team America. There are certain names because it's a morning show that I can't say the names of songs that she wrote in those movies. Shut your beeping face Uncle Beeper. Yeah she helped write those and she's

so funny. Didn't we talk to her years ago? We talked to somebody who just referenced her and referenced the song titles. Team America is one of our absolute, absolute favorites. I just re-watched little clips of, like, just the, I forgot about Matt Damon in it. Like, it is so funny. Matt Damon! Matt Damon!

It's brilliant. And if you watch the unedited version, and it's hard to believe that it was edited at all, but the puppet sex scene is hilarious. I've got to watch... No, truly, just the sheer fact, like, those two minds, to me, like, I feel like...

And I'm excited to come play with everybody here. Like, they're so unique. There's a scrappiness to them. They've been true to who they are the whole time. And they're loyal. So Adam McKay is always donating to the camp out in Tonga, our big charity event. We have been massaging this over the years to get him to come to town to do a stepbrother screening with a Q&A afterwards because that's another one of our... That movie is now iconic level. I know.

to re-watch that. I have not seen that. Does it hold up? The first time I saw it, I thought, okay. And then, on subsequent viewings, as with a lot of Adam's stuff, it's like, oh my God, this is effing hilarious. I just re-watched Anchorman. It is so...

Funny. Yeah. That was one of those the first time I saw it, I'm like, I didn't even crack a smile. Yeah. And watched it a few more times, I'm like, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen. I mean, it's like, and when you see, like, even just like Paul Rudd in it or Steve Carell, who doesn't say much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like such a dummy. The weatherman, he's like such a ding dong. And it's just, yeah, it's just, it's fun to watch how Adam has gone from,

Like, he still has the swagger and the glint in the stuff that is, like, sort of fancier and Oscar-nominated. He's a heavy hitter now. But it's still with that same, like, fearless joy. And I feel like Pam has that, too. And I think that's a lot of testament to they both are from the same...

same area. Let's talk about you because you have a whole, again, I remember you from Mad TV. You have tons of impressions and great comedy. Your class was Ike Barinholtz, Jordan Peele, Michael Kikenkey, Bobby Lee. By the way, did Bobby Lee get naked all the time on the set? Bobby Lee was naked all the time and it was hard to even be mad about it. He was free like a baby because he's shaped like a baby. I remember

My mom came and there was a young lady on the show who was very religious. And she was like, Bob, you know. It was like he would always strip off his... And of course now it would be very bad. But it was hard to be angry at Bobby Lee. So yeah, I was in the last four years of that. And then I did 100 episodes of Chelsea Lately. Right. With all sorts of people who probably come through here.

Insatiable. Insatiable. And I have to ask you about this because you have the Will You Accept This Rose podcast. Yes. And so we have not dipped into that. We will weave in and out occasionally if something breaks through to the general. Sure. But my wife and I did sit down and watch The Golden Bachelor. It's so good. They got it right. Really? It did. And you know why? It is.

It is bittersweet. Oh my God. It is like, I'm watching it. I'm like, I'm watching the, when the, when those, like, correct me if I'm wrong on this. The regular bachelor seems so superficial and all of it is that way. And I guess that's what people love about it. Sure. But,

This almost seems like you're at the end of the run looking for love. Yeah. And so when he hands his rose out, it's almost like these poor... Oh, that broke my heart. Am I right on that? Yeah, no, it was brutal. I have to say, like, watching it, and again, I have a comedy podcast about The Bachelor franchise, and we lovingly treated it sort of like a sporting event, like, who's going to be

Like basically who's going to the Super Bowl, who's going to be the final three. Right. But we make jokes about it. Watching the first 60 seconds of this where you see this gentleman, he's a 71-year-old man. They're in silence, put his hearing aid in, and then they start playing Cat Stevens. They paid for Cat Stevens.

I was sobbing. I felt like they gave it dignity. The women were so vibrant. And I agree with you. It felt hard to watch these beautiful, vibrant, fun women who should not be invisible in society. Yeah. Who are so just peppy and enjoying one another and beautiful. And it was so hard to watch.

And to think that they haven't felt seen and then they're getting cast off, that was hard. That was hard. It was wild. Again, the dude's there with the hearing aid. I know. By the way, he looks better than most people 30 years younger. Oh, he's gorgeous. Yeah. But the women are like, you could see that they were- I know. Where every idiot on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette says, I'm really here for love. Ah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

I had it as a case to be made they might be on the show for love I was concerned with the woman that he gave the first impression rose to because his now I'm so deep in the franchise historically if somebody busts out the acoustic guitar night one it's like oh they want a record deal so like when he said you look lovely and she's like wait let me put this like acoustic guitar

guitar the size of a key of you know forte on my lap and I'm gonna sing a song to you it was it was like oh no and he she got she's like his number one pick I'm like oh my gosh he might have picked the one that's there to be on TV yeah yeah any other woman yeah you just feel bad but so I just wanted to get your sense because I know you're kind of an expert on this I'm like am I weird to think this one actually has some legitimacy I actually thought it was very heartwarming I felt he did it right he seems like a nice guy and I I think it's a

I think it's lovely and I hope they let one of the women be the bachelorette and have men compete for them. Right, right, right. I think a lot of the women, I haven't watched the show yet, but probably somebody's going, Grandma, you should do this. Yes. No, you know it. And a lot of them, like in his case, he's a widower. So, you know, and a lot of them have this similar story. So that's like,

And I think all the critics are sort of saying the same thing too. I stopped. I stopped. I stopped recounting it. No rain shall fall on Gary on my watch. I loved him. I wish all the women well. I love it. Oh my God. Nick just pointed this out to me. I did not realize you were new Monica on Shameless. I'm new Monica on Shameless. That show is so messed up. Dude.

I auditioned for, I was like, I'm never going to book that. It was like for somebody like 20 years older than me, like a hot mess. I was like, well, I have nothing to lose. So I lined my, I went in,

you know, auditioned on Warner Brother a lot. Like, I put just like Vaseline in my hair. I lined my eyes with red lipstick, lip liner. And I looked so strong. I put Blistex, like mascara on and then Blistex. So it looked like I'd been up for like five days. Like I've been at the Tasty Cake Factory eating my way out on like a long week and I'm covered in peanut butter. And so I stumbled in

And again, I had nothing to lose. I went for it. And then I got it. And then it started the next day. And I was like, yeah. And it was like, yeah, there I am. I loved that show. Like, it just was. I didn't think it could get any worse. And as the season went on, it just got worse. Frank. Frank. He was. I have to. Like, William H. Macy was so sweet.

But you're not allowed to bring your cell phone onto set, which is the only set I've ever been on, which I loved because it forces you to be present. And he would bring his ukulele and just like sit and play his ukulele between takes. He seems like the antithesis of that character. Yeah, he was a real gentleman. But it was fun because I came from an improv background and...

I would never go on to a show like that and go riffing, but he was like he wanted to play. And so if somebody keeps talking, I can hit the ball back. We had a good time together, I think, for that reason. That show is so well written that it seems like it's not written at all. The way that the acting is done, it just seems like they are the biggest degenerates on the planet. But it's just so clever in that...

It seems genuine. It seems real. Well, what was also interesting, that was the only set I've ever been on where you weren't allowed to bring your script onto set. And they didn't even hand you, like, you could not have any pages. No cell phone, no script. No cell phone, no script. You had to come...

which was a little nerve-wracking because I've always memorized, but like, yeah, he wanted to have the respect of the script. Like, you better come ready to go. Wait, whose rules were those? John Wells, who, and, and,

And I think, you know, because they call them sides. So it's basically when you go shoot for the day, a script, they make them small. And he said when you make them small, then people treat them like they don't have value. And so like the idea being you should come on.

honoring the script. You should come off book. You should be ready to work. And I thought that set a really cool tone. Well, you're a writer yourself. Yeah. You've sold a few shows, right? So that has to resonate with you. You put the work in and it should mean something. You want to be respectful. You know, I've been...

I came through sitcoms and I've done a bunch of plays and stuff. You did Steve Martin's play, didn't you? I did. I did the pre-Broadway run. I played the part that Amy Schumer won the Tony for. I originated it at the Long Wharf. And it was fun working with Steve Martin because...

Growing up, he was it for my brother and I. We had the best fishes poster with a fish head. So I was a super fan of his. Yeah, it had to be wild. It was actually nerve-wracking. I was just saying to my friend about sometimes getting to do this for a living and

I get a little social anxiety with people. I get nervous. It's like the thrill of booking it and then the terror of actually meeting your idols. Maybe you guys are so used to meeting everybody. Listen, we had a Seinfeld interview yesterday and Seinfeld doesn't do a lot of interviews. I wouldn't say that we were nervous but you want to put your best foot forward and it's the same thing. We only meet them for a few minutes at a time. If you're going to be working with someone, it's a whole different story. He invited

us all out for dinner and I remember being like what do you eat in front of Steve Martin? Like how do you eat... Tasty cakes! Exactly. I came armed and I had a bucket of tasty cakes. I brought my... Yeah, I brought everything and then back to your point like with the...

I made sure that, you know, it was a four-person play. Yeah. And this, it was like the lead part and my character was never offstage. And I was filming Shameless at the time and I remember hiring my friend just to like, I wanted to go word perfect off book to respect, like, because I know that just reading his book, Steve Martin's book about like how he's very meticulous in his writing. And so I wanted to make sure that I was,

ready to play and get adjusted by like one of my heroes and not like fumbling and kind of riffing on the idea of what his line was. Oh, yeah. And like, and I think that that like made,

it takes away my nerves if I can sort of like know that I've done the by rote, I know the words and I can go play with you. It's crazy because sometimes you'll hear of like actors who are like so committed that they know their lines. Yeah. They know everyone else's lines. They're mouthing your words. Right, right, right. And it's too much. So the experience, now he does only murders in the building, which is awesome now with Martin Short. Are you on a, I could pick up the phone and talk, call him level or? No, I,

No, I wish I could say that. I think I was deferential and kind and respectful. He was there through all the rehearsals. Like if I saw him at a party, I would go talk to him. But he's very private. You know, he was very private, which again, I'm thankful that I sort of

I sort of, you know, knew that you sort of, and I'm, I'm sure as you guys know, sort of let somebody set the tone. Right, right. Your, your career in general though, in your book, referencing back to your book, and I was reading some of the passages from it, uh, and, and you're, it's a very candid book, little miss, little Compton. Yeah. Uh,

And you talk about you had sort of a problematic relationship with your dad. Yeah. And the warts and all. Your mom, you obviously had a good relationship, but there were things that go into making you you. Yeah. But you also, apparently, you'd kick Courtney Cox in the face at one point. Yeah. Yeah, I did. Explain what happened. Thank you for asking. I did.

This was another one. Sometimes when you book things, you have a little bit more of a delay, but I auditioned for Friends. It was the last year they did Friends. I was on the episode that Sean Penn was on. So I played the maid that they thought stole Monica's jeans for the Friends lovers out there. But it was like season nine. And they had...

they had it down. You know what I mean? And so, and I had a lot of props. So I was, and they, so they wouldn't rehearse a ton and you're doing it in front of a live. So I had like buckets and feathers and I'm, so the idea being she was going to prove that I'd still in her jeans because there was an ink spot on the crotch and I had to like climb up onto the counter and I'm dusting and I like, she has to put her head between my legs to look and see. But like we did,

not rehearse much and I'm in, you know, it's like 2002. I'm in like the Chunkies 90s Steve Madden boot like climbing around like, you know, we'd run it once and I'm like with America's sweetheart with her head between my legs and like I've got like a feather duster bucket and I like kicked her square and like in the, in the,

In the head. Like, yeah, I kicked her. Everyone always says when you join a show that's that far along, you can't help but already feel like an outsider. Oh, oh. Matthew Perry, thank God, would chat with me between tickets. You're like, who do I eat lunch? Like, where do I sit? You know what I mean? Again, it's the fun of like, just be cool. Like,

Half of this job is like, just present like you're self-contained. So there was a moment of like, is she going to get me fired? Like, and I just started, thankfully I had like complimented her earlier in the day. I'm like, oh, you're so great. You're so great at physical comedy, Courtney Cox. You know, Monica is like, she's the one, you know? And like, there was a, we made eye contact and like, I could tell, see her just like, I kicked her in the face. Yeah. And,

She kind of like took a moment and I could see like I got the governor's pardon. She thought about it for a second and thought better. You know what? Kill with kindness when you go in. Just be an easy. It's like being a guest at somebody else's Thanksgiving. Just go in and be low key. Be cool. If you've got food requests, bring

your own things. You know what I mean? Just like, just try to go be not a problem. That's like, if you're going to meet your idols, just sort of be not a problem. You've been on so many shows. Yeah. Obviously your own, you've done Grey's Anatomy, Orange is the New Black, and we're on the Gilmore Girls reboot. I was on Gilmore Girls.

I was on the original Gilmore Girls. I slept with Logan. I was one of the bridesmaids. What season is this? Because this is currently being played in my household on a couple of different TVs. I have no idea what season. I think towards the end, it was like a bridesmaid weekend. I was one of Rory's friends, and it's like, uh-oh, she sucks. She sucks.

I'm not that friendly villain, guys. No, but that's... So you have to have... The Gilmore Girls has a ton of, like, pop culture convention sort of... I mean, there's a whole Gilmore Girls cult. Oh, there's a whole... And that... I just did Mrs. Maisel this year, and, like, it's the same...

It's the same creators. It's the same sort of diehard. You have to be word perfect. You can't even on either of the shows, if it says can't, you can't say cannot. It's like there's a whole... I feel like I just operate out of memorizing and terror. Memory and terror. That's going to be my next book. It's just...

A girl's life. Memorizing her tasty cakes. By the way, if you're just tuning in, it's Arden Marine who's here and she's going to be at City Winery next Thursday for a show. Why are you in town so early if your show's not until next week? I came to promote it. I came down from New York. I took the train down. We love you, though, for doing that. It's a cool thing. I was delighted to be invited. It was my pleasure. An easy ride. It was an hour. There you go. That's not bad. You just came down here for cheesecakes, tasty cakes, and biscuits. Honestly.

What else was I going to do? There's your third book. I'm obsessed with your t-shirt. Oh, you like this? Yeah. She's talking about my back off war child seriously. Oh, yeah. Back off war child seriously. Is that from Point Break? Yeah. Wow.

Yeah, so a Patrick Swayze classic. I just watched Rewatch Ghost. That holds up. Does it? I haven't watched that in ages. If you don't, if you don't, listen, I don't care. You can try to hold out as much as you want, but if you don't cry at that, yeah. You're a monster. You're a monster. Although, speaking of the monsters, those shadow monsters, I always liked that part of the movie. Are there screaming shadow monsters? Yes. So when they pull, so in other words, why?

If you're going to go essentially to hell or whatever, remember the bad guy who is trying to cover up the death and all that. He's a comedian who played the guy who, yeah, both guys do. The one guy who tries to, who kills him. Right. Yeah, they drag him off. Yeah. The shadows. And they make this noise. So anyway. By the way, whoopie.

was so good in that, can I just say? Yeah, she won the Oscar for it. She won the Oscar. And Patrick Swayze, incredible. And Demi Moore was

It was great. Where do you stand, given between Point Break and Roadhouse? I got to go Point Break. It's a better movie. I mean, look, you know, I think I just had a crush on him. Give me a Keanu. Are you crazy? Am I going to fight something with a Keanu in it? I don't think so. Okay, John Wick. I don't think so. It's not happening. Not on my watch.

Yeah, so we, somebody, a listener sent me this shirt. Oh, wow. Did they make that for you? I guess they did, yeah. Do you love plate break? Well, we started playing around the clip of him saying back off, War Child, seriously, because Casey always thought the way he said seriously, just like this, seriously, I'm going to kick your ass. It doesn't sound very tough. Oh, my God, that's so funny. It's got Anthony Kiedis in it, too. What? Yeah, that's the guy right there. That would be,

a waste of time. Yeah, that's Anthony Kiedis in that same scene. Come on. That's fun when you watch back and you're like, look at that. Look at that. I don't want to brag, but I accidentally just started re-watching America's Next Top Model 2016. Oh my God. I didn't know. I was like, I haven't seen this. I'm going to put on the latest season. Turns out, I didn't realize it was 2016. Yeah.

But then when they were like, here's our theme in French Montana. They're like, okay, that doesn't seem current. What platform? Netflix or Hulu. Yeah. Accidentally. Yeah. 2016. But then it's star-studded when you're watching back. Rita Ora's the host. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We've got Zendaya's happy.

in it? I'm like, and again, it's the Anthony, Zendaya is the America's Next Top Model, Anthony Kade is the Point Break. This is a full circle moment, guys. It's a full circle moment. That's what made me think of it. So you're performing at the City Winery and you're

your act, I'm not familiar with your presentation. What do you do on stage? I'm doing stand-up. No, no, that's fine. I'm doing a stand-up show. My friend says that I'm like Kitty who got into the champagne bottle and Kitty wants to play. So if you want to play with a kitty,

It's a really fun act. I think come. If you guys like pop culture, it's a fun night. It's nice and early, so you can go. I don't know. I'm not judging you. Whatever your life is. I don't know what your late night life is, but you can start the night with me Thursday, October 12th, City Winderie, Philly.

Philly. And 7.30 is when the show is. So you're right. It's an early show. And you're very funny. Oh, thanks, Steve. You are too. And if you want to check out Arden's website, it's Arden Marine, which is spelled M-Y-R-I-N. Drunk Vikings. Drunk Vikings. And we'll post stuff on our socials about that. But citywinery.com to get the ticket. So I'm sure you'll have a great crowd and it should be pretty awesome. Thank you so much for having me. My pleasure. Thanks for...

educating me about tasty cakes and candy cakes. And now that we know you're this close, you can come down more often. Heck yeah, I would love that. Excellent. All right, great to see you, Arden. Likewise, thank you. Arden Marine, guys. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in just a moment. We've got more guests and things to do. Stay with us. Looking for fun things to do this weekend?

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That alone. Or, and add to it, without your wallet too, because it ended up at the bottom of the sea. As a special guest commentator...

Ladies and gentlemen, Captain Chuck D'Amico. How's everybody's weekend? So Chuck, by the way, a new boat owner this year. Runs a crab fishing operation. Yes. Out of the Cape May. No. Yeah. It's an old boat, actually. It's a pontoon boat, right? It's a pontoon boat. Yeah.

And we keep it on the bay in North Wildwood. It's really old, but it has these really great seat covers that each seat has its own individual cover. It's nice. And we went yesterday to put the covers on.

And they fit good, and it was going really well. But you have to kind of lean over a lot. You have to stretch and reach. To reach a little snapping point. Snap, snap, snap. You know what I mean? It's like going really well. And I'm leaning over to get this one snap over the back, over the edge of the water. And I just hear splash, splash. Oh, man.

And I look down and there goes my phone and my watch. So were they in, did you have them like, where were they that they slid out? They were in my hoodie pocket. Oh, that's the worst part. So we didn't go there to put the covers on. Right. We went there to do something else. I'm like, oh, well, we're here. It's probably covered up. And I didn't even think to empty my pockets. Right. But yes, so it was high tide. And.

And I didn't know how deep the water was or how cold the water was. And we were going home from there. And I wasn't dressed to be in the water or whatever. But I hear the splash and I immediately, immediately, my phone is just going, later. You can just see it sinking like jack and Titanic. I could see the whole phone and the screen of it was facing me. And I could see the whole phone underwater sinking.

And just gone. Just gone like that. No immediate... I'm diving in. I'm going in. That didn't... No, I'm like, okay, phone's gone. And immediately, it's almost like in less than a millisecond, you're like, oh, this is my day now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've all lost the phone. This phone's not going to survive that. Okay, this is my day now. I'm going to be dealing with this. The first thing that comes to your mind is, you're called 17, as you're calling the credit card companies. Yeah, sure. Well, the wallet was floating.

Oh. And I'm like, oh, the wallet floats. Oh, great. Right? So it's floating and I can see it. Yeah. Can't reach it. Don't know if it's cold or deep, but it's floating and I feel like I have a minute here. Looking around for a net. I don't have a net on the boat. There's a boat behind my boat that has a net, but it's up way high. Right. Like on one of the big racks on the top of the boat.

So I climb off my boat. I climb onto that boat. I climb up top. I come running back. Wow, it's gone. Gone? It sunk. It got soaked and sunk. Yeah, probably got waterlogged and sunk. You would have jumped in after the waterlogged. I would have jumped in, man. So I jumped in after that. Oh, you did? Okay. Yeah, I jumped in after that, and I could immediately feel the tide pulling. Oh, wow. No kidding. Oh, you could immediately feel it against your body. The water was about up to my chin, so five feet high or something like that. Yeah.

Pretty cold, but at this point, whatever. So your perception... And you could feel it. Okay. Yeah, so you could just know that that thing's out in the middle of the bag. It's gone. Yeah, it's been carried away. As it sank down...

It was going out. Yeah. Yeah. Somewhere and it was going to get sucked away. Right. Right. I did fish around for the phone just to try to find it. See, you know, if there's anything, but no dice. What's all right. So as far as the contents of your wallet is concerned, I assume how many condoms I assume you didn't have like a thousand dollars in there, but like what is it? Is it the driver's license? That's the worst to go or. So I had a lot of time to think on the way home in my freezing cold pants. Yeah. Shorts. Wait, so you didn't even change? No.

No, I mean, I'd have to go back to my house. His clothes weren't even near my house. My other pants were in my wallet, yeah. Well, I just thought if you had like a bag in your car, you could quick like swap out your wet pants. What is he, Superman? Yeah, yeah. Put your white pants on. Always keep dry pants. So I'm kind of doing an inventory of my wallet on the way home. And every few miles you think, oh, that's in there too. Oh, that's in there too, right? So driver's license.

Insurance card. Two debit cards. Probably four or five credit cards. The key cards for the building here. The key cards to get in and out. Wait, you know you have to pay for them, right? To get a replacement. Yeah. I think that's it. I didn't have any cash. Oh, my boat license. Ha ha ha!

Driver's license and boat license, yeah. So that's the thing that you run through. It's the collective of everything that is. You could call and cancel a credit card, but it's just like there's four or five. If you had a phone. If you had a phone or if you had the number on the back of the card, yeah. But there's four or five. Then the license, like that's. Right. So here's what's wild. So I'm driving home and I'm like, all right, I'll just jump online. I'll take care of these things one at a time. And so I log on to the New Jersey DMV.

requesting a duplicate license was extremely easy. Okay. But you have to have your driver's license number to do it. Right. Now, I had sent a photo of my driver's license to my son for some reason. So he had that picture. Oh, thank God.

So that was pretty easy to do and very, you know, very quick. And so I have a, like a paper license to hold me over. The credit cards, when you want to log into the credit card, like most of the websites, they want to text your phone a confirmation number. And they consider that just a basic security. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I just want to make sure this is you. Is this still your number? I'm like, kind of, you know? Yeah. But yeah, so immediately became pretty evident. Like I have to get the phone first. Okay.

before I can do the rest of the credit cards. Wait, when did this happen? This happened yesterday? It happened yesterday at about 1 o'clock. What time did you get the phone?

I had a phone by about 6 o'clock. Okay. All right. That's not bad. Well, the beauty of it is my wife had to pay for it because I couldn't pay for anything. Like, I'm taking my buddy Brian to Pearl Jam tonight. He's buying. Oh, yeah. I can't pay for anything. I can barely get anywhere. Yeah. Yeah, it's wild. So that's funny. You think about it. To your original setup, Preston, about at what level do you...

Just start flailing. I don't know what to do. Yeah. Because you're right. You use your verification a lot of times. It'll be that text to the phone to prove that it's you. Yeah. But you do raise a good issue in all of this, circuitously raise this issue. It would be wise to somewhere have a photocopy of your license and your credit cards. Everything. Mm-hmm.

On a page, hide it somewhere, but at least you would have it at home. And I think it could save you a world of hurt for the very reason you're talking about. You lose both at the same time or, you know, for whatever reason. But so where do you stand? Credit cards all canceled, all, you know, good now? I'm about halfway done. OK, but I have the phone and that's done. But yeah, two two major lessons. Right.

Keep a list of everything that's in your wallet or your purse or whatever. Maybe even photos printed out like in a safe and always keep a net on the boat. Don't put stuff in your pockets, man. You benefit from it. It's not like you went to Pearl Jam and lost your wallet and your phone so that somebody could have picked that up. You know that it is now in the mouth of a grouper. For sure.

Are there any silver linings to losing all that stuff? Like, is there anything where you can start over and clean slate? Really? Good question. You're a man that doesn't exist. You can start life all over again with a new family. Yeah, well, when I walked into Verizon, I was like, my whole life is at the bottom of the bay, man. Can you help me? What do you do for a living, sir? I'm a drummer.

Yeah. I was surprisingly just okay with it. I wasn't like freaking out, angry. Well, what are you going to do? That's it. That's it. I mean, right. Yeah. It was almost like poetic in a way. It's like, there goes all my stuff. Okay. I'll deal with it now. I just felt very Pierre about the whole thing, you know? Wow. At any time, did you have the urge to sink your pontoon boat? Yeah. It's you. You made this happen. No, I know. I mean, we're kind of- With your cool seats. We're kind of putting the wraps on like-

A really, really great summer. We had a great summer down there. He did great on the boat. Splash. Do you know what didn't happen, though? And you always, this is the way I do it, the rolling contextualizing is that it wasn't someone who fell overboard that you were looking for. It wasn't, you know, all of the multitude of things that can happen in any nautical situation. It's kind of par for the course. And also, Chuck, it wasn't like you went out to a sporting event or something like that and, oh, my God, where's my wallet? No.

Somebody's got it. They're going through my, they're going through, they're using my personal information. This, this is at the bottom of the ocean. Right, right. You don't have to worry about identity theft from that or anything like that. That happens. You say that happens just as he described, but you're at a stadium in Brazil and suddenly all these chicken finger charges are coming up on your credit card. Crazy.

Unless the scuba diver finds it and he's buying new gear right now. That's the other thing, too. I was like, does anybody have any goggles? Maybe I could go under and maybe see it. Hey, who was with you when this happened? Just my wife, Leanne. What did Leanne, how did she react?

She was cool She wasn't freaking out And she was very pleased that I was not freaking out That I was not angry or yelling or upset I would have been freaking out I would have been so pissed at myself I would have been so angry That I would have thrown a fit I regretted not jumping in after the wallet I regretted not doing that I should have just jumped in But my first instinct was Check the rest of my pockets What else do I have I didn't lose my car keys Because we had separate cars

My car would have been stuck down there. I have to drive all the way home and then drive all the way back down the shore with a spare key or something, but...

Yeah, that was kind of the regret was I didn't move faster to get to the wallet. Yeah. It makes it so much easier to deal with when you know it's final. You know what I mean? Yeah, sure. Like there's nothing you can do about it. The phone and I were over in an instant. Yeah. Like that thing was gone and sinking fast and saying goodbye. And I'm like, no. Mr. D'Amico, I'm captain of Russian Thrower. I found your wallet.

But that's also easy to replace. Everything's in the cloud, right? Like you have your phone and you have the majority of the stuff on it? So, yeah. So we went, it was easy enough to replace for about a thousand bucks. Right. Isn't that great? That phones only cost a thousand dollars? So easy. It's so easy.

Oh, my God. But it's on her card. But, yeah, when you go to update it, you know, I have the automatic backup. Yeah. And the most recent backup was from yesterday morning. Oh, perfect. So, yeah, I was missing like one text. Honestly, for years, I fought the notion, you know, and I'm a big tech dude. I don't know how my files up in the cloud. I'm like, oh, Christ.

And then I just roll... That's the best thing you could ever do exactly for that reason. The only thing I was thinking about as far as like, what am I going to lose from the phone? The thing I was most concerned about was pictures. Yeah. Yeah, that was it. You know, because I'll get... But they're on the cloud as well, right? Yeah, it was all there. Yeah. It's interesting because just last week, Peanut, Mike, Mr. Peanut, he was kayaking on the Perky Omen Creek. And...

And they were dragging most of the way, and they got off to this area, and they went into like a chute. All of a sudden, it just took off. Yeah. And it caused them to roll. Boom. Bloop. Right in there. Right. And that's a swift current. And he said he went back. He searched all over the place, feeling around there. He's like, it's just gone.

Do you know in the original book deliverance, it wasn't the being sexually abused by the hillbillies. The real thing was the guy lost his wallet. That was what it was really about. I understand. And you know, I have those waterproof things that you wear around your neck that seal up. You put your phone in. I have five of them. Chuck, we were at an event. Was it Parks Casino where I dropped my phone in the toilet? Chuck, I contemplate. I was like,

I'll just flush it. It's like, I don't want to be here. I'm going to leave the country we're talking about. I'm going to leave the country and start a new life.

Yeah, you're awfully calm. I still think, I mean, I get it. Like, that's it. It's over. You can't let it bother you. But I'd be pissed. Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of work to do still to get all my cards straightened out and get a new boat license. And you know what? You'll find new things. You know, you'll get some sort of notice that like, hey, you didn't change your credit card or whatever. Right. And so I do have some recurring charges to some of the cards. They're all going to have to move to new cards. So I'm kind of waiting for all the stress to come with all that.

but I'll just deal with it as it comes. Wow. Hang on a second. I want to go to, this is not water related, but I will go to Joe real quick here. Hey, Joe, good morning.

Kill as old as time. Beauty and the Beast. Beautiful. Phenomenal joke. We're tearing up over here, man. What's up? What's up, fellas and ladies? Yes, so Friday night, you know, watching the beginning of the Eagles game, ran over to West Philly to go see Casey Elfman, got back to the end of the game after they ended, realized that I lost my wallet, and

Bought him at 2 a.m. because I went back there to look for it. Next thing you know, next morning, 10 a.m., they had it at the box office. Really? Very, very lucky. Good for you. Very lucky. Is everything in it still?

Yeah, yeah. Even the six bucks is still in it. Even the six bucks. Good deal. Some thief is going, six bucks. I'm on easy street now. Wow. I can give up my drug habit. The crazy part is that it had a slot for an AirTag, and I haven't gotten one yet because I just got the wallet. Best believe that I ordered a four-pack this weekend of AirTags.

I tell you what, the air tags are a godsend. We've mentioned them many times on the air. My house is so frigging air tagged up, it's ridiculous. All right, let me ask you a question because I have a friend and this friend is not me. I promise you I did not do this, but I have a friend who found somebody's wallet in New Orleans. I think there was like 60 bucks in the wallet. So he took the 60 bucks, located the person who lost the wallet and then gave them back their wallet. He was like kind of like a finder's fee.

Do you think that's a dick move? I do. Yeah. Yeah, I think you let the guy. 100% dick move? I think you let the person you give it back to decide what you get. I think that's how it works. It depends on how old you are. Yeah. I think he was in his early 30s at the time. It's too old. That's a dick move. Okay. Yeah. What's the cutoff? Early 20s. Early 20s. You're in New Orleans. Okay.

60 bucks will get you one video game. Maybe take half of it, something like that, buy a few drinks. We're doing a good deed. You run the risk of the guy going, not giving you a finder's fee, and then you go through the...

The trouble of locating a complete stranger in a city? I know. I know what you're saying. If you've stolen the money, you shouldn't expect to find it. Hey! Right. Plus, they'll never know who took the money. Right. Dude, I just found this. That's the way it was. Yep. You know what I mean? Somebody else had their way with it. It was funny because when I was in New York City for the Phish concert in...

December, right out in front of the hotel, it looked like somebody had found somebody else's wallet and there were credit cards all over the street. Wow. And I collected all of them and I threw them away. Yeah, no, I just... Not before. Hold on, I want to go to this call. This is Kim. Hi, Kim, you're on the air. Good morning. Hey, guys. Hey. We love you, Kim. We love you. What's up?

Oh, my God. Okay. So I just retold this the other day, and I just heard you guys, and I had to call in. I was at Bucks County River Country going down the tubing with three couples, me and Greg, and then two other couples. And for some reason, everyone decided to put all of their stuff in a bag that I was holding. Oh, my God. So we're feeling loose. We're having a good time. You bring a couple drinks and stuff onto this.

and I was taking a selfie with my phone, and I dropped the bag with everyone's key fobs, cell phones, and wallets into the water. Oh, my God. And...

It was just gone. Gone. Kim. And I had my phone, of course, because I was taking a picture of myself. No. Oh, no. And then we finally, and this was like, we still had an hour left to go down the river. So everybody was, it just ruined the day. Just pissed the whole time. Oh, my God.

And then we got to the end, and I had to call my dad, and we're like a bunch of 30-year-old people sitting there in our bathing suits. We can't get in our cars. We're soaking wet. And we had to wait for him to come pick us up, and we all had to pile into a car and get driven back to South Philly. So obviously, the water's too deep, right? And did you... You knew at the moment... One of the guys...

One of the guys tried to jump out, but the current was too strong. It was about six feet deep in that spot, and there was just no way. No, people do die. It's deceptive. You said, Chuck, you ran up to your chin, but you could feel the current. Yeah, all right. Man, that sucks. That sucks so bad. Are they still friends with you, Kim? Yeah, one of the couples is. That's not bad. One of the three couples. They still have to remind you of it from time to time, though, right?

Yes. Yeah. It's definitely, it gets brought up. Oh my God. And by the way, good rule of advice is to our good rule of thumb. Don't be the one who accepts holding everyone else's. Yes. Just don't take that. No, I'm not going to take that risk. All right, Kim, we love you. We'll talk to you soon. All right. All right. Bye-bye. By the way, Kim's the one who sang the Harry Balsak song.

Her husband, Greg. Casey can pull that up real quick if you, yeah. This is Kim and her husband. And another one of the singers. Harry Balzac, Harry, Harry Balzac. Harry Balzac, Harry, Harry Balzac. Harry Balzac, Harry, Harry Balzac. Hey, you. Hey.

Okay. Beautiful. It's so pretty. Their voices are so nice. Is that Peppy and Chuck? No.

If you didn't speak English, you'd be like, oh, that's a pretty song. It's like that Brazilian song. It's probably what they're singing. Which, by the way, Marissa printed up the lyrics and it's just a love song. It's like there's nothing. Not a chicken finger in it. It doesn't have anything to do with sports or, you know, just it's a love song. Yeah. Let me hang on. Let's let's go to this call. I have Jessica. Hi, Jessica. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Wonderful, Jessica. What's up?

Well, I was calling because years ago when I moved into my first apartment with my roommate, there was an outdoor storage unit we didn't know about in our first floor condo. So apparently somebody had been using that as like probably somebody without a home had been using it and left behind materials. And one of the things that they left behind was a wallet. Hmm.

And so it had been like we researched and like found the owner of this wallet and returned it to her. But it had been stolen from like missing for over a year at that point. So she was really excited that she got back her wallet, I think, just to have that closure. And we didn't take anything from it, but she did give us a finder's fee. How much was the finder's fee? I think it was like 50 bucks or something. Not bad. Yeah. Not bad. Just for being a good citizen. Jessica, was there anything valuable in it?

At that point, I don't think so. But I do think, like, there was obviously something, and this was 20 years ago, but there was obviously something with names on it that we were able to use the early age internet. Okay. It was a Faberge egg and everything.

No, that's cool. Good for you. Nice job. That is cool. Yeah, you don't know. I mean, so anytime you find something like this, think about the panic you've gone through if you've lost your wallet or whatever and try to put yourself in that person's shoes. Take the money out of the wallet for sure, but return the rest of it to them. Take the money. Take the freaking money. Take the money. Take the freaking money. Take the freaking money. Take the freaking money.

That's Whitey Bulger, and he's somebody you can admire. I'm going to go to Liz. Hi, Liz. You're on the air. Good morning. Good morning. Hey, what's up, Liz? So I lost so many cell phones in a period of time that the insurance company dropped me. You lost so many cell phones in a period of time that your insurance company dropped you? They did. How many phones?

I couldn't even tell you. So is this your homeowner's insurance? No, you know, the cell phone insurance. The cell phone insurance. Oh, my God. Did any of them succumb to a watery grave like Chuck's?

I don't think so. The worst one was I was at University City train station, and I dropped the phone on the platform, and it bounced. And everyone who was standing on the platform kind of did a collective, and then it bounced right over onto the tracks. Oh. Just as a train went by. Oh, my God! Dude, it's like cell phone death by train. Oh.

Oh.

I didn't realize that they were trying to sell me back my phone. Right. That sucks. I just kept asking them, you know, oh, do you work in the University City? Where can I meet you? That's so kind of you. I wasn't getting it, and they finally just hung up on me. Yeah, a lot of times they've also tampered with those phones that they try to sell back. It was part of the scam is that they would rig them so that... Right, I had no idea. Well, I was so oblivious that they got tired of me and hung up.

Liz, thank you. We appreciate it. If you're just tuning in, Chuck was, he has a pontoon boat and was strapping these covers on the seats, leaned over, fell out of his pocket, phone, wallet, bottom of the bay in North Wildwood. You know, what's funny is I've been on your boat two, maybe three times so far. I've never been on your boat. Every time though. The three of you live in the same house. Thank you, Kathy. Chuck is your best friend though, right? A

Listen, he has things at his house that we don't get invited to all the time. What are the things that Preston doesn't like? I'm not going to get butthurt about it. We're down there. I think Casey was going to make a point. I was going to make a point. Casey's point. That I leave my car keys on the front tire of my car because I don't want it anywhere near the water. I just leave them there because I just want to be able to... Now, I've got to bring my phone because I've got to take pictures for memories and stuff, but like...

I'm not going to bring a wallet with me because... You leave your keys on the front tire of your car? Yeah. Now we know how to steal your car. If you can find out where it is. It's back in this area that nobody... The only people that ever park back in this... It's really, really off the beaten path and it's just where people live. It's hard to find? You should probably give out the address. I'll give out the address. I don't really care. Nobody's going to come and steal my car. They don't even know when I'm going to be on the boat. But anyway, I leave the car keys on...

so I don't drop them into the bay accidentally. I heard this guy on the radio say he keeps his keys in the front tire. It is!

I completely forgot about this story. Do we have time real quick for another lost cell phone story? Okay. It was at an Eagles game. A friend of mine goes into the porta pot to go to the bathroom. Now, he carries two phones, one for work and a personal phone. And stupidly, and I've seen him do it a number of times, if he's doing something with both of his hands, he puts the phones under his chin. Oh, man. Okay. So he did that in the porta pot at the Eagles game. Oh, no.

The phone goes into the... Just drops. Kerplunk. It literally has all the poop in the world. Casey, you are right. And the worst kind of poop. And so, gone. Completely gone. You gotta be kidding me. Of course it was the work phone. You know? It was corn on the cob day. Corn on the cob. Oh my god. Yeah.

Looked like a Jackson Pollock. So, listen, he gets called to the IT office at work. And they're like, hey, somebody called. They found your phone. Oh, wow.

I don't know what was stored in the phone that they were able to get a hold of it. Oh, I know what it was. Someone from work was calling the phone. While it was in the... Someone answered it. Somebody answered it, right? So all these things happen, put it together, and the person gets the phone sent back to them.

And he called and he was like, how? Because they gave a number and said, hey, if he wants to retrieve it, here's the number. He called the number and he was like, how did you get this phone? And the guy said, I don't know. With my mouth? No, it was at the link and he said, somebody turned it into us. So the only thing...

The only thing he said that he could think of is that he said there's no way someone found it or pulled it out of the porta pot. Is there some sort of like a filtering process or something when they come and empty the porta pots? They pump them out. They take big hoses and pump them out. And so when he opened the Ziploc bag, he said it smelled like...

crap and like that, whatever that blue crap is. So he's like, it definitely was in there. Has no clue how it got out and knocked him. Every time I'm taking a dump on one of those port-a-pots and the phone that's in there and there's somebody's left the phone. I don't, I never pick it up. Well, if you do, at least answer via speaker. Yeah. Hands free. There's this new, I don't want to call it a trend on social media, but when you're talking about

whether or not to get rid of something that's at your house. You're like, do I need this? The question you have to ask yourself is, if I drop this in a pile of poop, would I just throw it away or would I clean the poop off? And if you say, I just throw it away, then just get rid of it. That would mean that literally everything I own, I would throw away. I'm sorry. As long as there are brand new clean ones, I'll get those.

Do I really need this car? I'm going to go to... I don't want it. It was in poop. All right, well, sorry for your loss, Chuck. Thank you. Appreciate it. But you're on the way to getting everything back, so... Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is Chuck's theme song. This is Chuck's theme song. All right, Chuck D'Amico, program director of WMMR, sharing his story this morning. We are going to take a break. Stay put. We'll be right back.

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me the official supermarket of the preston and steve show cast you know we haven't done a long time what the stream of consciousness my mind is a raging torrent yes flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternative the stream of consciousness nerd variety of stories that have come across a variety of stories he's come across

that don't really have any connections at all. But I did touch on this yesterday because we mentioned that the Disney D23 convention happened. So at that, they did announce a bunch of improvements to the parks that they're going to make as well. I mainly talked about the movies and TV shows yesterday. You've been, both of you have been to

Disney World in the past decade, right? Oh, yeah. A couple times. Oh, yes. Like my brother's family, they're big Disney people. They go all the time. So I've gone on a couple of occasions with him and I've done the park the way they do. And he's an old pro. You know what I mean? If you're going to go to Disney, talk to somebody who's

you know, who is a vacation club member and they'll give you all the tips. So I've heard from people who are, are, are club members who have, some have said that they've been less than satisfied over the recent years with, with not having a lot of,

you know, additional things or just some complaints in general. It seems like Disney has taken an active effort to try to brush things up a bit. Right. Yeah. Listen, I've only been, you know, a handful of times, so I'm not like a regular, like a club goer. Right, right, right. All the time. They kind of, some of it could get old hat, but even if you have to wait in line for rides, even if you don't go on the rides, it's

It's still pretty magical. It is magical. It is funny, though, when you see a family fighting and kids just screaming and crying. You're thinking in your head, this is the happiest place on earth. In America! On earth! There's footage of full-out brawl. We're making memories here! Do you not know that? We are making memories! We're having fun! We're having fun! We are having fun!

Having fun! Preston and I were walking through Epcot on our journey to get the greatest ice cream sandwich in the history of man. And there were these people, Steve, they were doing around the world drinking-wise. They were hammered. They were wearing, like, sports jerseys and cursing. I know. I'm like, dude, do you guys know where you are right now? And they had kids with them, too. Mm-hmm.

That was the thing that was going, oh, come on, man. My brother just said to me yesterday, he goes, I've realized that when we go on family vacations, we don't actually enjoy ourselves. He was like, we have fun, it's like we're alone. He's like, so I'm not sure how I feel about these family vacations anymore. Listen, sometimes when you try to cram too much into it, it becomes...

work. It doesn't become fun. I know this is a different dynamic, but again, you have a lot of cooks in the kitchen. If you don't have someone who is your general patent who's leading the way, then it's going to be a nightmare. I have a friend a few years ago who said, this was a mom, she said, when we go away with the kids, it's a trip. When we go away without the kids, it's

It's a vacation. I thought that was an astute observation. Well, being in the same house, because when we vacation, we're in the same house. Like, you see how other people live, and they don't live like you. You have to deal with that. Family's a bunch of animals. We really should do our show from Disney, though, right? Yes. Sure. Or Universal loved us. They did. And Universal's building a whole other house.

Oh, my. It looks amazing. A third park like Nintendo Land. Clearly, we need to go back for that. Clearly, we got to go back for that. We need to go back anywhere where people will have us. Yes. All right. So there are theme park and cruise projects that are going to be opening in the next few years. Companies promised to invest $60 billion into parks and cruises.

Over the next decade. And they shared some of the details on what that will include. So the Magic Kingdom will be getting... This is all in Florida here. And then I'll mention this stuff in California. The Magic Kingdom will be getting its biggest expansion ever behind the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride. Two new lands will be added to that. One will be Villains Theater.

themed. I like that. Ooh, like the Descendants. With two major rides and the other will be themed around Pixar's Cars movie and will break ground in 2025 and include one thrill ride and one family friendly ride.

At Hollywood Studios, there will be a new Monstropolis land based on Monsters, Inc. And that could be a lot of fun. And it will have the first suspended coaster in any of the Disney parks. Yes. Are they going ahead with that Dolores Claiborne coaster? Yeah, they are. You know what they really should do? There's a part where you push your husband in the well. That would be popular. Do we have an Imagineer who listens to the show? We do. And he does roller coasters and stuff?

I thought you were talking about the Disney artist. Robert Farrell is the name of the Disney artist. And then do we have another person who designs roller coasters? But I think that was... Was that Disney? I don't think so. Because here's what I'm thinking. They need to have an upright where everybody gets in the house and then the house lifts off or something like that. And you can see the balloons from all the other parks and everything. There's an Airbnb. No kidding. Actually, it is a suspended house.

obviously it's not actually being held aloft by the balloons, but it raises up a crane. But what you do, Casey, is looking out the windows, you see the different characters from the movie. Yeah, that actually has a future to it, I think. I know a guy that really loves roller coasters. You want me to put in touch with him? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You could do that. So Animal Kingdom will be getting a new Tropical Americas opening release.

area opening in 2027. And this is cool. It will include the first ride based on the movie Encanto.

That could be very cool. The house could be, they could do something really awesome with that. I just want to ride that avatar ride. I do too. It smells so good. You say it's like 45 seconds, right? It doesn't. Well, if you can have a fast pass and get on that ride, Steve, I mean, you were essentially flying on the back of a Banshee. It's, it's unreal. The sensations of that ride. Do they now do fast passes for it? Cause they didn't used to. Uh,

Well, no. When they first opened it, they had fast passes for it. And then they stopped. Oh, I didn't. You had to wait in the line. They didn't offer the... I didn't know that. And the line was like... You've done it? No. So I just said I wanted to do it. My cousins waited in line for three and a half hours. Oh, no. I mean, that's the full day at a...

park. Yeah, totally. Yeah, you're right. And he's like, we just... That's enough that you could watch the entire Avatar movie and the outtakes while you're waiting in line for that. That ride, which is in Animal Kingdom, is a lot like the ride Soarin', which is in Epcot. You just fly, and Soarin', you're just touring the earth. You're touring the Soarin'. You're touring the earth, and the Taj Mahal smells amazing, and...

We're looking at video here of what you can see in Avatar. And so, Steve, it's just like a 40X theater where you're flying and then... Are you actually sitting on a banshee? A mock banshee? A mock banshee that also breathes. So you can feel like you're sitting on a motorcycle and in your legs you can feel the banshee breathing. I know people love it and I get the love for it. It's so freaking expensive and the amount of money that you're spending...

to have to sit around and wait that much, that would, I don't know, it would just, I'd feel like I'm standing in line spending money doing nothing. So Nick, to that point, again, I know we said, if you're going to do something like this, please,

Plan, give yourself a number of years to save up if you can and try to do every fast pass consideration or tour. Because while it seems to be, Kathy, it seems to be, oh, I don't know, that's extravagant. To the point, like your family member, Kathy, three and a half hours, you're missing entire parts of the park. Oh, yeah. But, okay, so they also have, Nick, where you buy like park,

park hopper passes. So you can go to all of the parks. So, um, I think that was something like what my cousins did. They had that, they were there for, you know, five days. So yes, that was a full day. Is it still a waste? But like they had that ticket. So later on they went, you know, to another park and did rides and whatever. So,

A couple other rides that they're working on. The park's former dinosaur ride will be replaced with an Indiana Jones ride, but it won't be the same as the one at Disneyland or Tokyo DisneySea. And then Epcot is going to get a new Spaceship Earth lounge and a revamped test track in 2025. Casey and I rode that test track. We waited at Epcot. That was a waste of time. So what is it?

It's a fast car ride that doesn't really go all that fast. I just thought it was weak.

But, I mean, because I was expecting, okay, this is going to be a real thrill ride. It was kind of whatever. It was cool kind of as you're waiting in line. Do they play the Tracy Chapman song? They do not. But as you're waiting in line, you design your car. And then you just get in the same car that everybody else gets in. Yeah, exactly. All right. So at Disneyland in California, which I've never been to. I have. And what did you think versus the Florida? So let me see. Florida's massive. Yeah.

It's very good. No, I've never been to Florida. Oh, okay. So that's my only point of reference. Preston, I went, Walt Disney was still alive. We had just gotten out of the Civil War. And it was just incredibly magical. And then years later visited. Always thought it was very cool. I would love to go to Florida again.

Disney World, I've never had the opportunity. Steve, I remember going to Disneyland after going to Disney World. And I was a little bit older when I went to Disneyland. Were you underwhelmed? Yes, because it felt cramped. Yeah, no, it is. And Disney World feels so expansive. And I mean, I was a kid when I went to Disney World, so my frame of reference probably isn't fair. But, you know, Disneyland is really like hemmed in by...

The rest of Anaheim? Well, that's what happened is Walt Disney picked Anaheim because it had a whole bunch of area to grow. And what happened was because Disneyland was now there, everything grew in around it. So it sort of makes it feel compact. So we bought up half of Orlando and they could just expand as much as possible. In honor of the 70th anniversary in California in 2025, they are creating the first ever audio animatronic version of Walt Disney.

Featuring what they call a level of complexity of technology that has yet to be seen in a Disney park. Do you want to see some of the princesses from Frozen? Check out the

out the turn cutter on this bitch. So this apparently is going to be next level as far as animatronic stuff goes. So they had sort of a quasi version of this when they had the 100th anniversary at the Franklin. They had a Walt Disney speak to you. Okay. Yeah, and it was very cool.

The former Splash Mountain will reopen as the new Tiana's Bayou Adventure on November 15th. The Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure Park will more than double in size. Rides including the Thriller Avengers, Infinity Defense, and Stark Flight Lab. Cool. Where you can ride a test flight like Iron Man. What about the House of Sand and Fog attraction? Oh, my gosh. Oh, dear God.

He's also getting a new Avatar land and a new ride with a Coco theme. Coco! I love that. Coco is very cool because a lot of it, you know, you're in the world of the dead. I know. That would be awesome. It was universal. It had that whole sort of monster, Frankenstein, right? Isn't that the new world that they're introducing? Yeah.

No, you said Nintendo World, right? Right. But I believe Universal also has this akin to the Wizarding World that is all based on those Universal horror movies we were talking about. That'd be awesome. We'll see. By the way, Marissa found out who the roller coaster designer was. So this is John...

Burn is his name. Oh, yeah. He's an engineer for a roller coaster company, Revenge of the Mummy at Universal. Orlando was designed and built by the company he works for, and he designed a coaster called Icebreaker at SeaWorld in Orlando. So we were talking to Kristen at Dorney Park. That's awesome. And by the way, Claire and I went during our time off and took her in the park. It was phenomenal. But she was describing, and the representative, I forget the gentleman's name, talking about the process of how long it takes for

from concept to completion to get a roller coaster done. All right, let's stream elsewhere, people, please. Okay. The stream of consciousness. Thank you. So when you guys were watching the Olympics, and I know we're past that and we were gone during the brunt of all of it, but did you watch any of...

the artistic swimmers or the synchronized swimming. Yes, I saw it after the fact, but mind blown. Me personally, very impressed by it. And I've seen that stuff for years, but the underwater view of what they are able to pull off and to come that far up out of the water simply by kicking their legs, nothing short of impressive.

But what was interesting I saw in this little article was how they get their glassy, slick back hair to stay put while wet during those routines. So, you know, their hair doesn't move. Right, right. And so they've got it up in tight buns and stuff like that. So USA Artistic Swimmer...

Kina Hunter recently gave the insider secret, and it's all thanks to a common pantry item. Okay. Oh. What? Is it Crisco? No. It's Knox gelatin. Oh, yeah. Oh, because it hardens. Yep. They use packets of unflavored gelatin, the same stuff that's used in desserts.

and they mix it with hot water and it gets like a honey-like consistency that they'll put in their hair. Nox gelatin was what I used to use and what early Hollywood makeup artists would use for burn effects and to create creatures for that very reason. It becomes that sort of hardened...

But it can be a bit transparent, too. So you can see through it. But it also gives it kind of like a glaze. Yes. Yeah. So I told you guys this before we went on vacation, but a friend of mine was a synchronized swimmer growing up. And so, you know, she would always tell us all these tricks, but they all wore makeup, too.

Yeah. In the water. I guess there's waterproof makeup. There's got to be some sort of waterproof makeup. Yeah. When the hell did this evolution in this kind of synchronized swimming take place? Because I always think about the SNL parody with Martin Harry Shearer. Yeah. No, but I mean like all the little routines they do out of the water before they get into it and everything is pretty awesome, man. I thought it was badass. I forget what they were doing, but they were inverted and they were...

I'm having a brain fart, but they were recreating sort of like a scene from a movie and it was amazing. I didn't know they could lift the girls up out of the water to where they could do twists and flips and things like that as well. Well, and even if you look at what they're doing, like how they're, I mean, sometimes they're out of the water, like from their waist. Yeah, their waist. Like that. On their own. Yes. And they're not touching. That takes a tremendous amount of leg strength to do that. They're in deep water. Well, and even if they're upside down using their hands and-

You would have to. What kind of movement? And they were showing it, but think of the kind of thrust you would have to create by flailing your arms underwater to lift your body out at waist level. I believe it's a, if I remember... Is it their vaginas? No, I believe it's like a figure eight motion. Speaking of which, did you see the photo of somebody in synchronized swimming? It was last week or two weeks ago where just the bottom half of their body was sticking out of the water. Their legs were spread and...

So right where the crotch part of the bathing suit is, like the edges were tan. So it just looks like lips. I mean, yeah, it's just South Korean team displaying impressive labia.

There was, Casey, there was a whole breakdown on the gymnast. A little bit of catamaran action out there. Of the gymnast, not on the official Olympics. I think it was a comedian who did it, but a whole breakdown on the gymnast's bikini line and why there's no razor burn and it's so smooth and how impressive that is.

alone. By the way, I didn't know that the women's water polo, their bathing suits went straight up the crack of their asses, man. Way up in their butts. It looked like every single person was wearing a suit like that. Again, the angle underwater is just very informative of the...

I don't know how the hell they're doing it. Yeah, we're watching this right now on the monitor. But nonetheless, so they use Knox gelatin and apparently getting it out after the performance is tougher than putting it in. They said it takes a lot of hot water and a very strong cone. So, Kathy, they got to like fight that stuff out of there. Do you know what is amazing? For some reason, it didn't occur to me that they'd be doing this, but they were using those little nose. Yeah. Yeah, because you would have to. You have to. Yeah, a lot. Yeah.

By the way, my favorite moment, and we don't have to break down all the Olympics, but the whole Snoop Dogg thing.

When he talks about the horse crip walking, just I watched that over and over and over. It just cracked me up. I just loved him being a part of it. I thought it was so good. Yep. It was excellent. All right. Anyone else? Anybody else want to stream? Stream of Consciousness trying to move on. It's near Pittsburgh? Yeah. Okay.

So, how would you like to, would everyone like to live a happier life? Of course. Yes. Okay. Well, Dr. Robert Waldinger may have cracked the code on what makes for a happy and healthy life, and he's got research to back it up. He's the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development.

possibly the longest-running study on human happiness, which started way back in 1938. So does he guarantee 100% that this will work? No, but these are things you should follow if you want a good shot at it. He's also a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a Zen priest and co-author of The Good Life Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness. All right, so he seems to have the chops. Yeah, you guys hear about the U of happiness, I guess it's called?

Your life is a U. We don't need this doctor. We have Casey. And then it all goes kind of downhill and then you have the bottom of the U and then the FU and then you come back up. So apparently right now I'm at the

very bottom of the U. I was going to say, I feel like I'm at the bottom. I'm at the very end. So age-wise, like I'm in the classic midlife crisis. Are you feeling that? Oh, I'm going through it big time right now. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially because I don't think there's a lot of longevity in the male side of my...

I think you're going to fuck that. I think you're in exemplary shape. Can I suggest something? Put on a pair of shorts and walk by a construction site. That'll make you feel good. We should test that. We should.

So where am I? Well, you're out of the U. I'm out of the U? I remember your U. I remember your bottom U, yeah. Because you talked about it. Yeah. We just didn't know it was the bottom of the U. That's true. I technically, by age, have been dead for 20 years. You're that little line at the top of the U. It goes off the page. You have to buy the pro package.

So the professor says that a lot of components factor into a happier life, but one thing is the key, and that is quality relationships. He explains that the study has found that staying actively connected to

to at least a couple of people gives us a sense of connection that we need, helps with stress relief, and keeps us from feeling lonely. I couldn't agree more. Again, as you start to see, and people that I've known throughout my life who have retired or moved on to that next step where they sort of shut themselves off, I contend that my mother-in-law, who is a dear, sweet woman...

When she remarried and went with this other gentleman, they went to kind of like isolated lakes in Connecticut. Yeah. And I think that was the beginning of the end. Oh, really? She was not engaged. She was a very social person before. And I think once you start to eliminate that, it makes it a trickier proposition. Yeah.

Waldinger says the people who were connected to other people lived longer and stayed physically healthier than the people who were more isolated. That was the surprise in our study. Not that people were happier, but they lived longer. Here's what the expert recommends to live your happiest life. Here are a handful of things.

Number one, don't neglect the basics. Prioritize your physical health by exercising regularly, eating well, not abusing drugs or alcohol, and getting a reasonable amount of sleep. Right. So that's obvious. That's the one thing we fall down on because it's hard. Yep.

Level up on your social life. It says invest in your personal relationships and improve your social fitness by getting involved in social activities and meeting new people as well. And drink margaritas. And drink lots of margaritas. On a ship going down the Delaware River. Strengthen existing relationships. It says stay in touch and connected with people who are important to you. Yes. Because you can lose touch. And it...

And sometimes both people are at fault and it's at no one's real, you know, they're not doing it on purpose. It's just life. But if you are aware of it and reconnect, it can help. Especially if they owe you money. You ever lose touch with someone though and you're like, yeah, I'm good. Yes. Oh, most definitely. You're okay with that. I had the opportunity to reintroduce someone into my life who was a good friend from a while ago, but...

And I think this person felt the same way. It's like, I'm good. Yeah. I'm good. Steve, I was similar and I have, we have a mutual friend who's like, you, you guys should reach out. You should reach out. And I'm like, and I thought about it. And then I was like, I like it has, my life has not been affected at all. It's not a commentary. It's just simply you, you,

What are you going to do? Yeah. You know, what you're going to do? I have an interesting story to share about reconnecting real quick. I'll add a little sidebar. So my buddy went to his high school reunion a few years ago and reconnected with this guy. They were friends in high school. The guy, I think, was a grade older than him. For whatever reason, he was at his reunion. And then fast forward to not that long ago, he was going to be swinging back through town. Yeah. And the guy lived there. And he's like, hey, I'll reach out to so-and-so. I'm in town. Yeah. Grab a drink, something like that. Meet up.

So he reaches out to him and says, hey, I'm going to be in town in the state. Thought I'd come by and say hi. And he goes, yeah, man, let's do that. And then the next thing, the next text he receives from him are naked pictures of his current girlfriend. Okay. All right. There you go. So the guy is like 62 years old and he's like, this is my 50 year old girlfriend, man. Oh, yeah. You poked a bear. Yeah.

And then he tries to, Will's like, okay, well, maybe we can, he doesn't, it was just unsolicited. It just came out of nowhere. And then he writes back, quote, he's like, well, maybe we can meet up around this time. He goes, nah, the girlfriend would probably want to F and eat, so I can't make it past.

What the hell? And Will, my buddy, Will said, he's like, I'm good, man. Sorry. No need. But he showed me the pictures. I mean, they were graphic. Yeah? Yes. Why'd you send them to me? I know. Catch up at another time. That's funny. Okay, back to what makes us happy. Oh, yeah. Strengthen existing relationships. Stay in touch. I already said that. Connect with people who are important to you. Express yourself.

yeah like madonna how much does voguing play into this i went nwa with that one oh okay uh waldinger encourages people to consider the values most important to them and to express him he says that people who are involved with activities that let them express what's meaningful to them are the happiest yo man it's a lot of brothers out

there flaking the purpose. This is Express Yourself from NWA, by the way. Is that what it is? How many of those lines can we play on the radio? I don't know. What you want me to do? Okay. Yeah. Thank you. And then the last thing, accept and embrace change. We change all the time. The important thing is supporting that change instead of resisting that change.

So these are some things that they're... Some of them might seem simple. I think it's good advice. Yeah. Things like this...

good to have handy for you to remind yourself of these things. Because, I mean, you can go down a list and go, hey, these are great ideas. And then you forget to implement them into your life. And so if it's something you can take a peek at from time to time, maybe it can help step by step to improve whatever your situation is. It couldn't hurt. Or maybe it could, I don't know. Maybe it could just drive you into madness for all we know. But I thought those were kind of interesting and worth sharing in the stream of consciousness. Thank you.

The stream of consciousness. There's maybe one more. Okay. There's maybe one more. Is that okay, Casey? Yes. Okay. I saw this one specifically for Kathy. Oh. A man known as his, I guess he's on Instagram, but he has an account called How Dirty It Is. Okay. Oh, yes.

Has been, yeah. And it's like regular photos, but it looks like something else? No, no, no. It's not that kind of dirty. You're talking about house cleaning dirty. Yes, it's the kind of dirty that speaks to you. Not the kind of spills you're thinking of. Yeah. Put your mind out of the gutter. Oh, there's a lot of deep pics? I'm in. So he's been causing a stir by revealing some of the grossest corners of our living spaces. He swabs common household surfaces...

and then cultivates any bacteria present in a Petri dish to show you just how dirty things really are. Okay, okay, okay. I love it. One of his followers asked him to test the slots on a knife block.

Do you have a knife block at home? So, yeah, I have one like in the drawer. So he swabbed deep into a slot of a wooden knife block and spread it across a Petri dish. And he said, after you clean the knife, you put it in its nice little holder. But how dirty is that hole? Did I phrase that strangely? And a few days later, the bacterial colonies that grew were described as nothing short of gross. Oh.

TikTok users were left feeling sick as they reacted in the comments. One user admitted, I almost regret asking. Another question, but for real, how are you supposed to clean it and why have I never even thought to ask? So you have to actually wash your knives before you use them when you take them out of the block? Well, yeah, before you use them because the block, as you put it back in there, supposedly retains... Is it the water?

Yeah, so wooden knife block can trap moisture and food particles leading to bacteria like E. coli, salmonella, and Staphylococcus. So I won't put them away if they're wet. Like I have to make sure that they're completely dry. Am I helping? You're doing the right thing. Okay. Yeah, so experts recommend regular cleaning and drying to minimize bacterial growth. This is not going to help people with OCD already. I know. And Kathy, I don't know about you, but like...

When my OCD kicks in when I'm doing laundry, I have to make sure that the laundry basket is clean because I'm going to take the clothes out of the dryer. It's insanity. I appreciate that, Nick. Well, yeah. No, it's really moronic and insane and a giant waste of time on my part, but I can't help it. And so the same thing. And I'm going to go home and look at this damn knife block. I'm like, I need to put a hair dryer in that. I got one for you, Kathy. So the other night, I'm getting into bed and I have the blanket on top of the bed and I'm kind of, you know, I start to just

kind of fan it out and fluff it and do the deal and at the last second I realize what appears to my eye to be sort of a mummified cat turd is on the bed and as I do it I flick it off into the darkness of the room and I hear and I can't find it I can't find it I

I can't find it. You got to move. You're going to have to burn the house down. Fortunately, it was in a mummified state, but still, it calls to me. Yeah, it's freeze-dried cat turd. You're good. It's clean. All right, that's all I'm going to stream about today. Just that last thing, a stream of consciousness for you this morning, friends. We will take a break. When we get back, I have some bizarre file stories I think you will appreciate as well as a bit of an announcement to make. So we will have that all when we return. Stay with us, please.

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IHateStevenSinger.com, but hurry. These will not be restocked and supplies limited. That's IHateStevenSinger.com. So our next guest, we're so excited to talk to. One of the all-time greats and one of our favorites, of course. Yeah. He's going to be at the Miller Theater tomorrow night, 8 o'clock. What a great spot to go see him. KimmelCulturalCampus.org to get your tickets to see Mr. David Spade. Yeah!

David, good morning. Yeah, that's pretty good smattering. Thank you. Let me throw a little smatter at you. Listen, I'm going to throw this other schmear, if you will. We realized as we were getting ready to have you on, for the past, our show has been on the air here in Philadelphia for 25 years. And for every single one of those years, every morning, we play a little show intro at the very start.

And it is your voice that opens up the clip every single day. It's the housekeeping bit from Tommy Boy. That's played every day? Every day for 25 years. Yep. Oh, boy. It's so funny because we did that.

you always wonder what take they use, what, you know what I mean? You just do it for a day and then you leave. And then the one they pick is there forever. And then it gets stuck on some radio show. So we can annoy you with it. No, no, I love it. Believe me, that was one of the moments I'll remember forever. And that was, we were talking off air. Was that a bit that you guys used to do with each other in real life or did you write it for the movie?

That was a movie about brake pads. But it was fun. It was funny. No, there were scenes that were just about brake pads that we were like, can we use it up a little with anything? Because when you wake up in the morning, like any movie, you go, what do we got today or the night before? And you say, is

Is there anything we can add? And I think I was just going over there to get some information about, hey, we need to get going. And then when I would go to his room in the morning to get him at Four Seasons in Toronto, I'd knock and go, housekeeping? And he'd go, hang on. And I would go, housekeeping? I'd just keep doing it.

Yeah. And he would get so mad. And I go, and when he opened it, I go, it's me every single day. Every day. Oh, that's great. We never put it together. Shut up.

I have to tell you, David, so I've been a fan and a lot of people, and it's something I'm sure people get now familiar as you're touring around. I knew you first from stand-up. I loved your stand-up. I will go back to the days when you do Tom Petty on stage. Yeah, I did that too long. But I loved it, and I remember I was starting to flirt with the notion of stand-up,

And you're you had like from the get go the most effortless delivery with the sharpest material. And I mean, it was it's clearly something that you took to immediately. But is that was that is that always the core, the center thing to stand up for you because you've you've kept doing it throughout your career? But is that the most important thing would you say in everything overall?

Yeah, you know, I like that description. Honestly, I think that's nice because it is very hard to do any stand-up and for everybody that does it. And it's hard to have any sort of style. And that style was like a research paper of all my favorites. And then it was just kind of what I try to be funny anyway, the way I would be. But it doesn't always pay off. And I remember early on, it wasn't paying off. And Dennis Miller...

who was a great writer that I love. He saw me changing and I was doing harder punchlines and stuff and leaning on it. And he said, you can't do that. Do like you used to do. I don't know what you're doing now, but this isn't. And I go, I know, but these clubs, if you don't kill that hard,

they don't want to bring you back and I got to make money. And he's like, no, no, just do it the way you're doing it or just quit because you can't change it. You got to think of the jokes the way you want to do them and make them come to you or it won't work. And you'll be faking it. I'm like, God, it's heavy. So it's, but it's so true. And so I just tried to do it the way I like to do it and just hope it would work.

And sometimes I do these shows, like the one I'm doing there, and some people go, it doesn't look like you're even trying. What do you want? Do you want a show with laughs? No! Like JonBenet out there for an hour? I don't have to sweat it out. Even like Nate Bergazzi who I like. And I said, Nate, you're doing less than me. You're doing nothing. You're just barely talking. And then you're playing these big theaters,

And I love that they're buying it because they listen. And then the crowd has to go, okay, there's a joke there. I have to find it because you're not ramming it down their gullet. You're just kind of saying it, you know? No. I like that stuff. Your stuff is so surgical. I remember this a bit. Is it maybe right from nine, ten years ago? When you're talking about this guy who managed to get into the bear enclosure at a zoo and what he – Oh, yeah.

What he thought the bears, this lunatic, what he thought the bears were motioning to him. Very subtle, close-up gestures. Howling. And it takes a lot of balls to be that sort of drawn in to do the material. But the crowd was just dying. So, no, it's great. And so that's what obviously people can anticipate when they see you live in prison. We also love the podcast, by the way, the Fly on the Wall. It's just been –

sensational thank you and we're sad to hear about dana carvey's uh son and all of that uh um and you know it's for the schedule the podcast and and what you're doing is as are you taking a a break or what's what's the status of that well you know we do them a little ahead so we sort of uh

Dana's life just got flipped upside down first of all his uh, his kid Dex was such a cool kid and and Dana is such a great dad, you know when you see these things happen across America really not just Dana and you go this is how rough it is. It just turns Someone's life inside out and and Dana I you know, we had a few done

And you know, we had, uh, we have one right now and then we have, we actually just did Dan Aykroyd right the night before I think. And Dan, and Dan Aykroyd is one of our all time favorites. We had such a blast getting at my house. And then, um, he's coming on like in a week or the next one. And then we're going to do two best ofs. And then I, I, hopefully we start again first of January.

We'll see. It's hard because there's no way even to describe. I don't know how he's going to... No. How do you come back from something like that? It's got to be a Herculean chore. When is it soon where people don't go, oh, are you doing jokes? There's so many situations where everyone decides... Meanwhile, all you're doing is covering because there's no way you're like...

joyous. You're just going, hey, this is what I do and I got to try to have some sort of life again. Yeah. Well, speaking of things that you do, I wanted to sing your praises on a show that not a ton of people saw, but it was called Love and it was on Netflix and Judd Apatow was one of the creators and you were awesome on it. I really enjoyed your appearances. I know you weren't there for every series, but have you known Judd for a long time?

I've known Judd since before SNL. I thought so. In the old, in the valley in LA. I met Sandler that way. I met Judd, Rob Schneider, Drake Sater. There's a bunch of comics that were just, I thought were good. It was kind of funny. At least I had a good eye because I'm like, these guys are pretty funny. And you know when they're, when you watch them and you get a little itchy, you go, oh, shit.

this guy's got some game, you know? And you can always tell if someone's got some chop because you go, oh, I'm jealous immediately. Because most of them, you just go, okay, okay. But now and then you see someone and you go, oh boy, I better get writing. And so I thought all those guys were good and Judd spun it into helping Jim Carrey write and he's doing different things and then he started directing and it just blew

Well, he's very, he's all over the place and he knows how to do a lot of things. And, uh, so love came about, he goes, Hey, would you want to just come over? And, uh, his kid was on it. Yes. He, her state stage dad for a couple of episodes. And this kid was so funny because she's super cute. And she played the biggest B I T C H. And she would scream at me and, and, uh, but everyone had to handle her kid gloves. Cause she was the one making all the money. And, uh,

That was a funny little angle, but I like doing that. Iris is his daughter. She's great. She's still doing it. You know, it's funny because, again, I've known you and appreciated you for so long as a stand-up comedian, yet you were in some of my favorite movies. And even, you know, Dickie Roberts was on the other day. I love Dickie. There is a scene. I do like Dickie Roberts. I get it.

There's a scene in that movie that cracks me the hell up where you think you're going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting because you want to get your child star and you walk in and it's actually a parent, like a Lamaze class. Obviously, people can be dismissive, but you can see that there are some gems in that movie, correct? Correct.

Yeah, I mean that's Chris Rock's favorite spade movie. So I remember that came out Chris I goes you nailed this one nailed it And it's like right after Tommy boy and black sheep. I go you like this one. He goes Yeah, he likes the idea child star Disaster trying to fit back in a life because it could be today. It's yeah, you see these people and they get all this attention and it's all kind of goes away and

Even people on reality shows, they get a dose of it and then it goes away and they don't know really not a process. There's no forethought. What am I doing after this? What is the long term? How do I amortize my money? There's nothing. It's just like I'm a millionaire and I will be forever. And then they're not. And then people give less attention, slowly evaporates. And it's

And it's just such a weird thing to happen. Yeah, and there's actually have been shows and reality shows based on siblings of celebrities. So it's exactly that. You have your own game show right now. You have Snake Oil, which I just happened to catch by happenstance. I like the concept of this. Explain. Thanks. I appreciate that it was an accident.

You know, it's so funny. I had to be honest. I'm going through. I'm David Spade. I'm on board with this. So but, you know, there's so much of the stuff on. And I'm like, it was it was actually really good. Is this a Will Arnett produced series?

Yeah. Yeah. That's how that came about. And, you know, it's not me doing a Netflix special for an hour, but it's kind of an interesting cookie game. And it was, you know, it's sort of like Shark Tank with two products and one of them is fake. And you have to you have to sort of invest in the one you think is real. It's actually way harder than I thought, because they're

They're either both too good and you can't tell, or they're both so stupid that you can't believe any of them are real. And you see one and you go, well, that's for sure not real. And then you see the second one, you go, well, that's even stupider. It's literally like SkyMall, the show. All these things you go, wait, that's a real thing? And then you go, how do I... And so when I watch it, I saw it the other night, accidentally, and I

I thought and I go, I don't even remember which one this is. So they show me them again and I was already on the show and I don't know which one's real. That's how stupid I am. Do they let you know ahead or would that be a violation of, you know? There are a lot of legalities, but I just said, I don't want to know. I said that up front. I said, I just want to guess and be part of the fun and not tilt them anyway. So I don't guess that much because I think...

I think they do get itchy about all that. They don't want you to, someone to come back later and said, Oh, he, but sometimes when they, they vote on one and then right, right when they lock it in, I go,

I don't know about that one. They go, wait, why? And I go, I just feel like, you know, so that kind of, it just adds to the, you know, stupidity of it. Yeah, I'm a tough sell on this and I was like, I'm watching it accidentally. And no, it was compelling because, you know, we create games, Preston creates a lot of the games for the show and,

just the mechanics of making something work. And you always forget the one damn thing. That's like, well, what if this happens? Right. Oh Christ. Yeah. So, yeah. Well, I appreciate it because it is a fun show. It's on Wednesdays for a few more weeks. And, but like what you're saying, there's another game show coming on where it's the relatives of,

I think. And they say, no, it's just a relative of a star. And they, and you've got to guess the relative. I'm like, yeah. Holy hell. Yeah. Okay. That's not bad. Okay. That's screeches. Nephew. It's gotta be his nephew. Wow. Hey, um, I'm sure that you haven't been asked about this movie in a long time, but it's the first one that I believe you were ever in. And I remember seeing you, uh, in police Academy. I was at four, uh,

Citizens on Patrol. Yeah. Okay. A good one, yeah. And I had always thought that Tony Hawk was your stunt double in the skateboarding scene in the beginning of the movie. You're kind of a juvenile delinquent in your skateboarding. And I just saw in an interview earlier this year that he was actually fired. He was supposed to be your stunt double, but then he grew too much. Is that true?

It's a little, it's partially true that the, uh, from what I remember, which is literally brain dead, but the, uh, I got on, I was a skateboarder from Arizona and I, that's the only reason I got the audition. I couldn't even act. I just, when I went into audition, they didn't have the script there. They said, Oh my God, we don't have the distributor. Is there, but you're already here. Is there any way you can just act like you're a skateboarder and you're here and you can skate. Right. And I said, yeah. And that was the first win.

And then they said, okay. And you're just like kind of a juvenile delinquent and we're going to be cops talking to you. And they started improvising. And that was way easier for me. And then, uh, because if I had a script, I would have bombed, you know, I wouldn't know how to even read it. So I get it. And I get to be, they go, the bones brigade is going to be your henchmen. I'm like, Oh my gosh. And the magazines that I read in Arizona, like it was unbelievable. So I knew who all these guys were and Tony was there, but there's a guy, Chris Miller there too. And Tony, uh,

uh, skated, I think the way I did, which is goofy foot. And then Chris Miller was a little, little shorter, a little closer to me. And he skated regular foot. So it was going back and forth of who could, he was too tall, uh,

But he skated the way I did, you know, your feet different ways. Right. So it was just we sort of mixed it up. But Tony did obviously anything hard. And I was like Meghan Markle. But I could skate. But sometimes I'd wipe out and they'd be like, God. Sorry. When was the last time you were on a skateboard?

You know, I still, Tony now and then will send me a new board if I need one because I go, hey, I'm going somewhere and then I get a new one. It's actually hard to work in a little bit. The new boards are a little tougher for me. I could still skate maybe pools and ramps a little bit, but I'm so fragile like a dandelion now. When you fall, you just stay down and just sort of robocop your body of like what's broken before you get up. You're like, you're so pretty.

Self-analysis. Oh, my God. I just laid there. Like, the last time I fell in a bar, I fell. There was a step I didn't know about. So I wasn't even drunk. I just fell, and I hit a table, and then the table fell on me. It was...

It was so beyond embarrassing. And it was about 15 seconds of falling. I was like, good to see you. This is a Carol Burnett show. And I kept falling. And then all of them fell on top of me. And then I was laying on the ground. And I just go, like, what? What's broken? The first thing someone said is, oh, my God, get an ambulance. And I go, for me? Is that how bad it was? And then they go, you have a concussion at least. And I go, what?

I don't know. So I wait, I waited about three minutes on the ground and then I started to move going, well, I feel okay right now. Let me see if I move anything. And then I'm like, shoulder out, you know, everything was like, then I could figure out what was wrong with me. And, uh, I was pretty banged up, but I still watched the end of the game. All right. Yeah. I managed to lose on draft Kings. I go, there you go. Uh,

David, I wanted to ask you this, since we're talking about some of your earlier years, because knowing you from your characters you've played and the bits you've done and all that stuff, obviously you are just a genius at sarcasm and delivering it subtly on occasion, which is wonderful. Surgically. I've always assumed that that is just a natural attribute that you had, and maybe as a teenager would use that, and if that ever got you into trouble being sarcastic

you know, somebody who is a little bit of a smart ass in a sneaky way and it went the wrong way. Um, yeah, well, obviously just, you know, until you make money at it, it's just annoying. Right. Especially my mom, you know, my dad had split. So my mom had to deal with three boys and we were just such a handful and we were broke, the whole family. So, you know, it just, I'm

I'm sure it was cute for a while, but I wasn't really like that totally. I was more into books and stuff and I started being just throw away jokes and stuff, maybe to get attention or something, but I sort of tried to sharpen that. I remember I just put up a TikTok, embarrassing,

And they're going to find out how old I am and ban me from TikTok. But it was from an old roast. You know, I started to put these old roast jokes on. Right. And I thought it was a good one. I actually swear, I don't even know if I wrote it. It was about Jewel. So poor Jewel has to sit there and take it. And

And I go, oh, Jewel. And the last joke was, she's got to leave right after the show, but her tooth is going to hang out. Oh, dude. Her tooth is going to hang out. That's a good joke. Jewel's snaggled tooth. Isn't that good? That's good. People are like, I don't get that tooth one. I'm like, what do you not get? What do you not get about it?

Oh, that's good, David. Isn't that funny? Those old roasts. I don't know. I got to ask Jeff Ross why they haven't done them in a while because I don't even like to do them because you get caught in a crossfire, but it's pretty funny. They're so brutal. It seemed like maybe a little overkill was happening for a bit because they started roasting tons of people for a while.

And you could tell. Oh, yeah. We've had Ross, Jeff Ross, and the late Greg Giraldo, who was brilliant at it. Oh, wow, yeah. And so what would happen is, and they both said the same thing, the roast should come from a place of, you know, this is a friend. And they were just pairing people up with people they didn't know, and it just became a lot more vicious, you know. 100%. I agree.

Yeah, so – and I think that's what sort of deflated it. But yeah, when you're watching a good one, there's nothing better. To your point – to the point of being sarcastic, you recounted a story. I forget where I was – maybe I was reading it or you telling it in person. You're working at a restaurant.

and I think it was a seafood restaurant. Do you know the story that I'm talking about? Are you talking about, I think I was on Smart Lesson. I talked about when I was a busboy. That might be it, yeah. And about serving shark?

Yeah, yeah. I'll just tell a different one. You'll be like, yeah, that one. Yeah, that was it. No, I was a busboy in Arizona and I was the worst possible employee and always hungover. And so I would go talk to all the tables.

and they and they always said and my manager's like hey dude don't talk to the tables i go well i want to be a waiter he's like you don't got the stuff that's what he kept telling me and i'm like i do all the hard work i have to lean over and get all the stuff and the waiter just takes the order and shovels it on me to do everything so i don't know why i didn't have the stuff but i said i'm going to prove it because i see the waiters have personality so i kept going how's it going on that table 48 you know just like blah blah no and no one cares and then you

After he just tells me this, I walk by a table on Father's Day and it's packed. And we have a shark, you know, is one of the things that's special. In Arizona, it could not be good. So any fish couldn't be good. Now a shark? And then this table goes, hey, they think I'm a waiter. Hey, how's the shark? I go, I have a motto. I don't eat them. They don't eat me. Hey! What?

And he goes, what did I just tell you? I'm like, dude, I'm killing over here. I go, I'm getting applause breaks. He's like, dude, you're out. So he fired me that day. Oh, man. You know, people come for the entertainment, a free show from the busboy. I go, you're not understanding the severity of these jokes. It's good stuff. Yeah, I got fired every job. That's why my mom was like,

Yeesh. And then I finally did stand-up, and when it paid $80 a week, that's when I quit school. And she's like, I feel the hair premature. I'm on easy street. I recently saw a podcast with Jim Downey, the writer from SNL, and Conan, and they were telling stories about Norm MacDonald. And I'm sure you have a million stories about Norm and your time with him, but is there one that you could share with us just because you knew him for so long?

Norm being crazy, I think even at his memorial, I said, everyone's talking about what a genius he is. Let's talk about the crazy part for a minute. Because it was too sad, you know, any memorial. Yeah, sure. But I think...

I just, I can't even pick one. I have to say, I remember he blindsided me on the Dennis Miller show. We went on together and he told a whole story just to end with spades gay. And it was the whole, it was an eight minute story. And me and Dennis both go, he looks at me and they go to a wide shot because I was on first and Norm and I'm on the couch. I go, wait, you went that whole way to kick me in the balls at the end? He's like, yeah.

Me and Dennis are both dumbfounded. Like, wait, that's the end? He goes, because you wind up being gay like this guy here. And he points his thumb at me and I go...

that's it. But that's what he would do is he'd tell these long. And sometimes when we were on the road with, uh, Sandler Schneider and Norm and Schwartz and all these guys, it was really fun. Timmy Meadows. And then, and then Norm, you know, would now and then do these long stories. And sometimes he gets walkouts, you know, but it's all, it's always worth it. So we're on a group chat the next day because Schneider, after Norm goes on and he had a tough set and, uh,

And, you know, it's for 8,000 people. And then Schneider goes, oh, Seattle, that's Norm MacDonald. You never know what Norm you're going to get. And tonight you got that one. Hey, Snyder. Yeah.

F you. And then we're all in the group chat chiming in because it was so great. And Steiner's like, come on, man, you got to bring it up. And Steiner fights back immediately. I was like, oh my God. Wow. But hilarious. And Norm was always funny on those tours and on...

Whatever. One of the most nervous times. We'll get people in there all the time, David. Yeah, we'll get big stars. And so Norm came in, and I've always just loved Norm MacDonald, and I'm a huge fan of yours as well. But the truth of the matter is he came in, and I was like, I'm freaking nervous. But it was just so great to see him in the moment. And you're right. Yeah.

There are times I remember if you talk about Rose, he came out and read from an old paperback book of how to deliver jokes. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And that's what he did. You say, they say this guy's over the hill. He's really over the hill. And I'm like, what? Like he's reading jokes in the seventies. And he does a whole roast set like that. I remember that. That was something crazy, but, but at least he was trying stuff and being different. And then, uh, he was always funny. Even on texting, he was saying crazy things. And I think toward the end, we just kept saying, uh,

He goes, David, we haven't had dinner. And then I go, yeah. I go, I don't care about COVID. You want to come over? Come over. And he goes, yeah. And then I go,

all right, well, come over Friday. I can't, there's COVID. I know, but we don't care, remember? It's my house. I'll sit 20 feet away and he goes, oh, okay, okay. Okay, how about Tuesday? And then I go, Tuesday, I go, what time are we going to come over? He goes, David, it's COVID. Do you do this the whole time? Cool.

Of course. I love it. It's a killer disease. Anyway, just turned in and never had dinner. And that was our big dinner before the end. So I always was like, God, I wish I could have said that one. But you never know when the last one is. No, you've done – you did a great – so you did obviously a great tribute to Norm and Phil Hartman and Farley. Obviously these things – it's funny because I was thinking about –

I forget who I was talking to about John Candy, and they were unaware of John Candy. And I'm like, you know, you can't forget John Candy. You can't forget these people who are just pivotal in helping to create a, you know, like a second or whatever time frame you'd want to classify the current comedy situation. And so in a way, you know, you guys keeping Chris Farley alive

you know, reminding people. Yeah, keep it up there. Yeah, there's people that don't know Chris for sure. I mean, there's people that, and that's okay, just time goes on and then you start to meet people that don't know and then they don't know John Candy and that's normal, but, you know, when Steve Martin and Martin Short were on a podcast together, of course we asked about John Candy because

that was pivotal for us. Yeah. Like planes and trains and everything he did. He was in blues. We just had accurate. I think what I was asking about just John Candy and blues brothers going orange whip. Yeah. Yeah. And, and the lines you never know will be memorable. Just like any movie. You don't know. You think this is the funniest line in the movie. And then later people repeat all these other ones and you go, Oh, it's just, some things resonate and there's some people that resonate. So yeah,

I said, you know, to be in the Blues Brothers and have, I said, how do you get Carrie Fisher? You know, she's in Star Wars. And now you go, you want to be a bit part in Blues Brothers? She's like, yep.

And they want to be around funny people, and they want to be in a fun movie. And then you get someone like John Candy comes in for a couple days, and how fun would that be? God, yeah. Amazing. Well, I got to say, listen, doing radio for the last 26 years, one of the cool things is being able to talk to people like yourself. You had no idea who I am, so I just want to take this moment to let you know how –

pivotal you were in my life in college, right? And so Tommy Boy is probably one of the top five movies that me and all of my friends watched over and over and over again on VHS. But we had Tommy Boy. PCU was another one. Coneheads was another one. By the way, real quick, David. I was with Casey. We were doing a shoot at the Wildwood Pier on the Jersey Shore, and we're doing a commercial. We're shooting a commercial here.

And all of a sudden, this guy comes in from out of the screen. I don't know who he is. And all of a sudden, he and Casey go into the Tommy Boy father-son samurai thing. And I'm like, cut. I'm like, what? What?

I don't know what's happening. We have video of it somewhere. We do. We do. And so I want to say, on behalf of myself and George, who was that guy, and Super Dave, and Sean, and Ed Lover, and everybody else that just crammed into a dorm room on a Saturday afternoon, you know, waiting to party on Saturday night, we watched Tommy Boy. And I want to thank you for that. Like, I know that when you were shooting it and when you were doing it, you know, you don't know what you're getting. But it was...

It was awesome, and it is still awesome, and it is a top ten movie for me, and I just want to thank you for that, and this is such a treat being able to talk to you.

You cut out for the last three minutes, but... Dude, I love it. That's the best response possible. It was not worth it. You also performed at my college, too. You did a stand-up set. I probably did. We used to do all that stuff. It was great. We'd buzz in there and...

week out and act, but we sometimes do it together. Yeah, but I appreciate you saying that. And, you know, listen, if anything is, it's even close to that when I was in college and high school talking about movies with my friends, that was just, that's all that anything meant. It was like, that's all we talked about. So if I could be in some of those that are like that, that's really, that's,

the best part. So, lucky. If we're talking Tommy Boy, I have to bring up something that I've always wondered how the hell it was done. Your baldness in... Oh, my God. How the hell was that work? Because you're wearing...

You're obviously not bald, and obviously there was a bald cap employed and a wig, and I don't know how that, what level of special effects that required. It was a great sort of joke to throw away in the script, but you just don't know if we can pull it off like Rob Lowe's shirt sucking up. I wasn't there that day, and I go, that looks so great. I have no idea how they made that so good. And so when we did the bald thing,

I said, it shouldn't be, again, it should be more subtle. Like it flips back, but there's a huge ball. And we did it and it wasn't as funny. And they go fly back. We're going to do a full bald cap. Oh my God.

And so I don't know if it was, it was probably three takes to the fan. It was so hard to do. We didn't have a lot of time to have it flip so perfectly back and look so nuts. And then the whole rest of the movie, no one really says anything. There's one thing at the end where someone points or something at the end.

But that was a great gift. That was a great gift. The brilliancy of that scene was throughout the entire movie, and this is at the end of the movie, there was no mention of him having a hang-up about his hair. Nothing. And it's just you're blindsided by it.

Oh, it's just the best. Yeah, it was great. I mean, that was just not really me, but they nailed that one perfectly. Well, it's just we're so happy to have you on to reminisce about stuff like that. And obviously you're doing the show at the Miller Theater. It's tomorrow night, 8 o'clock. Tickets available at KimmelCulturalCampus.org. You have a huge fan base here, well, around the country, but in Philadelphia. I haven't been there for a while, so I rarely ever come there, so I'm going to have a blast. I'm on my way to Baltimore right now. I've got to run, but...

I like how you're wrapping up, but I'm saying I got to go. I got to get out of here. Yeah, thank you, though, guys. I appreciate chatting with you. Dude, it's the best. We'll see you tomorrow night. Enjoy your time in Philly. Thank you, David. Okay, thanks, guys. Take care. David Spade, guys.

Wow. Wow. He's always been one of my gets. Again, I kid you not, since his earliest days of stand-up, I've been a huge David Spade fan. You're nervous talking to him because, again, Preston, you had mentioned it during the interview, a lot of the characters that he plays are sarcastic, and I'm like,

Is that what David Spade really likes? He's going to like us. It's just going to be a good interview. So read his first book, which is an autobiography about him and his love for his mother and all the stuff about him being, his father abandoning him and all that stuff. But...

He's a really sweet guy. He really is. I have a vivid memory, Casey, and I'm glad you brought it up because you and I are the same age. We went to college at the same time of watching Tommy Boy for the first time. And it was a VHS copy and it was a very similar instance where we're sitting in a dorm room and my friends put it on and they had seen it already and I hadn't seen it yet.

And I could hear them start to giggle before the joke happened, right? They were anticipating what was – and they're like, it gets better. It gets better. Wait until they get on the road. And like their pairing – and it was an unlikely movie. It got panned by critics. It bombed in the box office and then it came out on VHS and it just became one of those things that, Preston, as you alluded to earlier, every day on our show. So like it's –

I don't know. I love the fact that that movie is where it is in the pantheon. I've got a group of friends that it's just our whole group is just consists of ball busting everybody and say on a group text. But when he was talking about that group text and who was on it, could you imagine being on that? State of the art. I mean, you have to be. I mean, I totally, again, I adore Norm Macdonald. I adore him.

David Spade and that it's like when we had Johnny Knoxville on or anybody from that collective where you can't sleep with your you have to have one eye open you always have to be ready for the takedown you always have to be ready for it but you're talking some of the sharpest minds in the world I mean like I would just be

crying all day long, crying laughing. For perspective, Casey pulled up Rotten Tomatoes on the Rotten Tomatoes score. The tomato meter, 39%. Yeah, for Tommy Boy. But the audience meter, 90%. I remember reading the review. It got one star in the Inquirer and I was like, I don't know, maybe it's not worth it. And then watching it in college and now it's

one of my favorite movies of all time. Well, the thing that was fun about that interview is because, as Casey said, when you start to head down the path with somebody you've never spoken to before and then you kind of, you throw an old movie out there to see if they don't mind talking about it. Because some people don't want to go and pick apart their career and talk about

the movies that they've done. And you as a fan, that's all you want to do is talk about, Oh, what about this movie and that movie? And he was, he was game for it all. So that, that earlier, you know, uh, part of the interview where I was bringing up his, his standup. I mean, I, again, he used to do a Tom Petty bit where he could make a la Jim Carrey, make his face look like Tom Petty. And, and it was one of those earliest bits. And I remember watching him and thinking, and I was just sort of flirting with the notion. I go, how is it? Cause he was young.

at the time. And looked young. He looked really young. He looked like he was 13 years old. Like, how is this guy so polished? Yeah. And he never lost it. His Michael J. Fox was pretty awesome as well. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. And like, now I'm looking at his IMDb like, you know, I could have kind of gone on about Coneheads, his character, and that. Oh,

The wrong Missy? Joe Dirt. We didn't even talk. I mean, there's so many different... Emperor's New Groove. Great movies. I didn't see Emperor's New Groove. Oh, it's a really good... Patrick Warburton's in it, and it's a really great animated movie, and he's the star. David Spade is the star, and he plays, essentially, David Spade in that movie. But it's a really good, underrated Disney animated movie. Wow. And the lines from Tommy Boy that we toss around casually, like...

It'll cost you. Right. Yes. They really, we were talking the other day about these movie quotes that just live in your brain and surface for whatever reason. Like, he is responsible for a lot of those. How many times have we, he changed that in the 90s. Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely. And then he's telling these stories about Rob Lowe and Ackroyd and doing the roast for Rob Lowe and Ackroyd being on his podcast. And I had forgotten Ackroyd and Lowe were both in Tommy Boy. Oh, my God.

We should have told him about the time where Pierre got pranked into thinking he was doing a shout-out for Richard. Hopefully he had a pleasant enough experience that we can get him back on because there's that whole thing along. We could blame the audio. But I love the story that he told. It was in the book or one of the podcasts or whatever. But anyway, that Farley was jealous of

of his friendship with Rob Lowe on the set of... No kidding. Not in a bad way, but like, sorry, would you hang out and have dinner with Rob Lowe last night? Right, right. I mean, like, in the most fraternal sort of loving way, you know? Speaking of nobody's around. Yeah. Speaking of nobody's looking. Oh, right, yeah. Oh, my God. What college did Tommy Boy go to for seven years? Oh, wow. Marquette. Really? Yeah, he's wearing a Marquette jacket in the beginning of the movie.

And now I'm thinking about the hair thing. Tell anyone I will kill you. That's funny.

That's funny that they had to shoot that twice. They brought him back to reshoot it because it didn't work the first time around. They were doing SNL. They would take off and they would do a couple days shooting, fly back. At that time, Lorne Michaels was not, hey, okay, there wasn't 200 people on the cast. So they were held to this. They had to be back to do the show, SNL, and then go back and do the movie, and they were just flying back and forth constantly. Wow.

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Though initially marketed as a way to inspire young scientists, production of the kit stopped in 1951 due to material shortages and... It's my favorite toy, Daddy. That's what's elegant for me. I love it. And new government regulations, despite its... No, I've always wanted one of these.

They're singing a little Christmas song in the morning when they get it. No, it's just so beautiful. I love it. Thank you, Santa.

You okay, kid? Despite its infamous reputation being named one of the 10 most dangerous toys of all time. I vomited black. By Radar Magazine in 2006, experts say the risks may have been exaggerated. Radiation exposure was minimal, comparable to a day's UV exposure from the sun. I've been playing with it for weeks and there's nothing wrong with it.

As long as the samples... Oh, I'm five years old. As long as the samples stayed sealed. Yeah. According to 2020 analysis, RR Auction in Boston hosted the sale and described the kit as a prize collectible for history and pop culture enthusiasts, offering a glimpse into the time when the atomic science had fascinated and divided the public. The toy was estimated to fetch around $4,000. However, it sold for a much higher $16,500. It's amazing. Yeah.

A snowfall in Maine is far from unusual, but the town of Rumford witnessed a strange twist on Tuesday. Brown snow. This stuff looked, it almost looked like a light chocolate mousse. The rare phenomenon was caused by a malfunction at a local paper mill, which released a byproduct known as... Everything's fine, nothing to worry about. No, it is poop.

No, it is a byproduct known as spent black liquor. Oh, boy. And it's sent it into the air. And black liquor, a byproduct of the papermaking process, resulted in the bizarre discoloration that left residents puzzled. Is that why sometimes paper mills have a smell of... Oh, my God. Like...

It is. We used to drive when I was a kid and we would drive to see my grandparents. The towns that we would drive through occasionally had paper mills. And it was a pungent stench that would come from them.

Y100 was next to an old paper mill. The building that we used to go over to eat was an old paper mill. Was it? Yes, it was. I didn't know that. And apparently on certain improper weather conditions, you could smell the remnants of the paper-treating chemicals. While the Maine Department of Environmental Protection later tested the snow and found it to have pH levels of 8 or lower... That's completely unacceptable. Tell them to already move on.

I just think of that guy at the end of RoboCop. Yeah. They said that the safety concerns are minimal at this time. Absolutely acceptable. Nothing to worry about. Have a good day, folks.

The town posted, but out of an abundance of caution, please avoid ingesting or direct skin contact with the brown snow. Initially tested, shown some samples with a pH of 10, categorizing the substance as a potential skin irritant. Potential. Yeah. Photos of the brown skin, brown tinted snow blanketing an open sports field quickly made their way online.

Uh, the paper mill, uh, responsible has agreed to cover the costs of third party testing to ensure the public safety, uh, is assured. So yeah, they're going to pay for some of that. Mm.

Let's see. Oh, yeah. A booze ban on Manhattan Transit and New Jersey Transit starting this weekend means no spiked eggnog for SantaCon revelers. The alcohol ban, which was first implemented in 2012, is an effort to maintain order on transit during the dreaded annual event when revelers dressed as Santa's, elves, reindeer, and other Christmas characters...

Going to bar crawl that turns Manhattan neighborhoods into a drunken Disneyland. One of my favorite videos of all time is that knock-down, drag-out brawl of people dressed as Santa Claus. Was that 2012 that that occurred? I don't know. I wonder if that was the year they set it off. It probably was the flashpoint for them. You've never seen anything. It is a full-on Santa melee. Yeah. MTA officials said they'll deploy additional officers to major transit hubs.

to enforce the ban. New Jersey transit officials said beverages of any kind are banned from buses, light rail, and trains on Saturday, December 14th, which coincides with the New York SantaCon. The ban will also be in effect on Saturday, the 21st, for a Hoboken version of the event. New Jersey transit said the policy will be strictly enforced. By the way, perhaps I'm wildly out of the loop, but does the...

Is there anything even remotely like the running of the Sanchez here in Philadelphia anymore? You know what? I was wondering the same thing because for several straight years, that was so much fun. And we hosted a number of years. We had a great time at that event and then it just kind of disappeared as far as I know, Steve. I really had some fun, fond memories of hanging out with that event. Yeah, I have not heard... And they would always...

It must not be because it's not on any radar. Yep. Hold on. Okay. Running of the Santa. Okay. Is December 21st, 2024. Oh. Five o'clock in the evening. I think that's, isn't that how it started? We sent Nick out in the morning and it was in the evening. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The one Santa. Is it in Center City somewhere? I don't know.

Let's see. Starting at the Sheridan Philadelphia downtown, continuing on to some of Philly's greatest bars in the city. Why do we not? I don't know. It used to be much bigger. And it used to be, the times I remember, was that the electric or the former electric? Oh, okay. So this event is private. You must be pre-registered to attend. So it's probably not the iteration that we were used to where it was the public running down the street in Santa costumes. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if you had to pay to get into that one that we... All right, well, this is... Who the hell knows? One last story, and then we will wrap it up. An Ontario, Canada college student constructed what is believed to be the world's smallest arcade machine, measuring just two and a half inches tall. Victoria Coranin, an electromechanical engineering student at Fanshawe College...

Unveiled her creation Tuesday. A machine measuring 2.5 inches tall, 1 inch wide, and 1.3 inches long. The working arcade machine runs the classic game Pong. That's wild. And her machine was officially measured in the hopes of capturing the Guinness World Record for the smallest arcade machine. That's completely safe. She said it.

She said...

I love stuff like that. Evidence from Tuesday's official measuring must now be reviewed by the record-keeping organization to see if Cornyn has a second title to her name. So, we'll see. And that's the last story that I have for you in the Bizarre File this morning. We'll be right back. Stay with us. Yeah, we want to go for a ride in the car. Our tail is so wagging right now.

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And we're not messing around here. We're going to get right into the music. We played the brand new song called Pieces released today. And we are happy to welcome this morning, Daughtry. Good morning. How are you? Thanks for having us. It's our pleasure, man. Thank you for taking the time to come by here. Absolutely. I know we want to dive right into the music. We're doing business first and then chit chat afterwards, right? Yeah. I don't want to lose my voice before we...

Listen, you are, in warm-ups, you have the strongest morning voice of anybody who's ever been by here before. Well, let's see here. All right. This is the brand new song, and you're hearing it in its first ever acoustic version on the radio here in Philadelphia. Which is also the first time we've done it, so you're...

You're in for a real treat. It's an exclusive. Have you decided if you're going to skip the bridge or not? Or I heard you talking about that. Oh, no. I'm saying I might not play it. Okay. All right. So this is brand new from Daughtry. It's Pieces on 93.3 WMMR. One, two, three, four, five, six. You never know what lies beneath the surface. What you'll find and if it's worth it.

Even with the cracks in the mirror

My reflection's getting clearer And I'm trying to cope at the end of my rope Well, I'm doing the best that I can To live with the broken pieces of me That was shattered Can't stop the bleeding I'm never over it It's hard to move on But I'm learning to live

The pieces of me. Pieces of me. Never know what's coming for you. Into the storm without a warning. Like the cold of the morning. Oh, how it cuts straight to the bone. No.

It's the silence in the battle, when I'm afraid of my own shadow. When I'm trying to cope at the end of my rope. When I'm doing the best that I can to live with the broken pieces of me that was shattered. Can't stop the bleed.

Never get over it, it's hard to move on, but I'm learning to live with the pieces of me. Pieces of me. Well, I can't change the past and I need to let go.

Learning to live with this holding my soul Losing grip and I'm just trying to cope I'm doing the best that I can Well, I'm learning Well, I'm learning Oh, well, I'm learning Well, I'm learning Well, I'm learning to live with the break

Thank you.

Wow.

Daughtry on 93.3 WMMR. This just in. Dude, your voice is unfreaking real. Thank you so much. You have to hear that all the time. And it's just the second you open your mouth, I'm just like, wow, that projection. Can I get a job here?

Even when you walked in here and said, hey, guys, how you doing? I was like, did you hear his voice? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was wondering when that voice kicked in. Was I straight out of the womb or did you just have to smoke a plantation full of cigarettes? A plantation full of cigarettes, for sure. When did you... When were you start to feel comfortable singing in front of people? Probably...

Okay. 16, 17, something like that. I thought I had something before that, but I also thought that was just normal for anyone to be able to emulate people on the radio. Right. I wasn't really comfortable doing it in front of anybody until I did high school musical theater. Wow. Yeah.

But I was behind makeup, so nobody knew who I was. It's also a different kind of singing, too. You know, like, at what point do you think you found your voice? Your voice? Yesterday. Yeah. This morning on the bus. Wow. It's amazing to watch how... I'm still trying to find it. It appears effortless, watching you. And I'm not saying that you're not working hard, because we know you are, but...

the voice that's coming out is just... It's his voice. It's his voice. Thank you so much. It's amazing to watch elite musicians do that. You don't know all the hard work that's going on in there. There's so many gears turning. I'm sure, man. Absolutely. We can see the cable of it. Some days I have no idea what I'm doing. Yeah, your neck. I always look at the neck and I see just about which artery is going to erupt first and you're really working it. There's a few on the verge, right? Yeah.

Well, you got enough to do in other wings? I know you guys wanted to knock two out, and then we'll talk for a little bit. What are we going to do? We're going to do Heavy is the Crown. Awesome. Awesome. All right, Daughtry on MMR, playing tonight in Atlantic City at the Hard Rock. Here we go. How's this one go? What's the count in? Okay. I got it. I got it.

Never needed any reason to find any reason. Like a cancer running through my veins, oh, it's never gonna get any better.

I'll be still standing

I got so down I'll never Heavy is the crowd Heavy is the crowd Heavy is the crowd Oh, heavy is the crowd With the weight of the world Crushing Pushing you closer to the edge If I can get a little bit stronger To fight all the demons

See him march like lamb to the slaughter. Toy soldiers line up on the altar. I'll rise out of high water. The wind I'm under. Heavy as a cry. Never fall to never leave you. I'll be still standing with a child. I'll bring my castle down.

I never bowed down Heavy as a crown Everything was paid away Nothing in this world is meant to stay Heavy as a crown Heavy as a crown Heavy as a crown Heavy as a crown Heavy as a crown Heavy as a crown Heavy as a crown Heavy as a crown

Yeah. Yeah.

Dog Treat 93.3 WMMR. Everything that rocks playing tonight at the Estes Arena at the Hard Rock and Breaking Benjamin performing tonight as well. Tickets available. Might be some VIP meet and greet merch packages. Still there if you want to get them.

Um, you know, you have the new song. It's out today. Um, how exciting is that for you? You throw this baby, your baby out into the world and see what happens. A little bit of nervousness or just feel confident. I mean, each time. You know what? This time it wasn't much nervousness. We got to play it live for the first time last night before anybody heard it. So it was kind of like got the nerves out from under the belt. Um, but, uh,

Yeah, I mean, I guess there's always a little trepidation in hoping that it's as well-received as you feel about it yourself. But I do think it's a song that I feel like a lot of people are going to relate to. It's, you know, when musicians have their creation, by the time it gets to the consumer, you've spent a lot of time with it. Way too much. Yeah, you know, that can happen, right? Can you get burned out of your own song before it's...

And maybe it breathes in new life when people go, oh, this is a great song. Usually by the time we're done, like...

with all the stuff leading up to the release, like the video shoot and everything, it's like, I'm done listening to it. Yeah. And then we're on to playing it live. So we're, we're hearing it anyway, but whether we want to or not, that seems to be a liability, you know, it's something that it'd be hard to, I mean, the legendary stories of how many times Springsteen would do it, would do a take over and over and over and over again. And, um, you know, so, uh,

I guess you have to develop that trust in yourself to know when it's time to let it go. Oh, my God. I didn't let it go until today because I'm so neurotic that I'm constantly going, the mix isn't right. Oh, we need to fix this. Well, it's too late. So if I had my way, we'd still be working on it. Right, right. And it does come to a point where you have to just kind of –

Toss your hands in the air and hope for the best. Chris, when you are working on songs, you're doing it in optimum conditions. Amazing studio, incredible speakers that it's going through. Do you do what some artists do, which is the car test? That's the only test. That is the only test? Okay. That and AirPods. When I get a mix back, I never listen on good speakers. I listen on my AirPods first, then straight to the car. If it sounds like ass then, then it sounds like ass. You're right. In fact, that's one of the...

Starting in radio, they would always tell you when you're putting in a commercial or piece of production, listen to it on not horrible speakers, but the way most people will be hearing it, and then you'll get it right. So, yeah, you see these people that would use these big Genelec monitors. It's like, who's got that in their car? Yeah, nobody has a sub. Right, right, right, right. Yeah.

By the way, kudos to your, what's the word I'm looking for? Caravan. The caravan. We saw your buses come in this morning. We've never rolled up to a radio station in a bus and it felt so baller. I saw it. We were impressed. I texted your handler sheep and I was like, can we take a tour of it? Not for us, but for our Instagram audience. Let's go on. Let's go. It looks awesome. That's the way to travel, man.

Yeah, we just woke up like 20 minutes ago. It doesn't sound like it. It doesn't sound like it at all. No, not at all. I want to ask you because I watched your season of American Idol and I've watched many seasons, not all of them, but I just love vocalists. And, you know, my Instagram feed and YouTube, it's full of people who are just, you know, insanely talented. What kind of doors did just appearing on that show open up for you? And what sort of obstacles did you encounter as a result also of being on that show?

Short answer, it opened all the doors. Yeah. And I think the biggest obstacle was...

I think being taken seriously at rock radio out the gate because of, you know, it's a pop show. And by the way, it's not lost on me. It was, it was, it was the thing that kept me from wanting to do it to begin with. It's like my heroes wouldn't do this. No, that's the common refrain, but when people talk about it, yeah. And, and great, you know, this was before YouTube, Tik TOK and all this stuff was, was, you know, huge avenues for people to take to get their music out there. So, um,

At the time, it was like you either get discovered in the club, which was not happening, or you get in a van and tour the region, the East Coast or wherever you're from. Yeah.

Couldn't do that. Had a family to support. So it was one of those things where it's like, well, this is like low-hanging fruit. Yeah. It's still a Herculean chore regardless. Well, and that's one of the things I kind of wanted to mention because you bring up YouTube and TikTok, and I think it's illustrated a couple of things. Number one, that there are a lot more talented musicians out there than we realized. But also...

That doesn't necessarily write you a golden ticket. You have to have great material, and then there's a business that has to run through this thing. In order for you to really make a, I mean, to really hit the tops, it's still this many people. I'm showing my finger and thumb at a very small. You got to have more skills than just good musicianship in order to become a successful musician, I would think.

Yeah, and you got to love it. You got to really love it more than the things that come with it, you know, because, you know, we're doing this, what, 17 years later? Yep.

None of us are rich from it, but we love doing it. And, you know, we get to play music every night, you know? Right, right. And a couple of years ago, you kind of took the reins on not bowing down to the powers that be and running your own show. Is that part of your love for what you do? Is that why you did that? Well, yeah. I mean, I think...

I always wanted to kind of be in control of my own vision. How much can you bench? I honestly don't know. I don't even pay attention to the numbers. No? Do you have gym equipment in your caravan? Yeah, it's like some resistance bands. Health is very important to you. We were looking at

going to have photos of you earlier. It's a little more than resistance. Well, that's what's on the... No, that's just what's on the box. Do you... When you're plotting the tour, do you plot the gyms that you want to get to? No, we just know that hotels have to have them. Okay, but you...

You're not a hotel... I mean, you'll do it when you have to, obviously, but I'm sure you're a real, real, real gym, gym kind of guy because, you know, a lot of times... Some hotel gyms will blow your mind. Are they rocking it? And then there's some where you're like, do better. Right? I hate that when you say, do you have a gym? Yes, we have a gym. What kind of gym?

We have an exercise bike. We got two dumbbells and a treadmill. And the dumbbells aren't the same weight, right? No. It's like a 15 and a 10. Yeah. Someone stole the other ones for whatever reason. They don't need a set. We were down in Florida. And so, again, the Phil's, they're a training camp. And so, hey, there's a gym in the hotel across the street you can use. I go over there and it's Florida.

It's all windows facing the sun. Oh, yeah. The air conditioner is dead. And I'm like, oh, my God. I felt like Papillon. The cable machine is broken. It was horrible. Yeah, I felt less healthy by doing the workouts. I wanted to ask you with your voice and with, you know, people like Lizzie Hale and people who are known to have powerful driving voices. Yeah.

do you get asked to participate a lot on other people's albums? I mean, is that because I think in many ways your voice could be, some people might say you're going to overpower me. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like there's, it's a double edged sword having an instrument as precise. That was one of the cool, that was one of the cool things about working with Lizzie. It was like,

There was no overpowering her. Right. That's what I was wondering. But yeah, I do get, I do get asked a lot actually. Um, there's a, there's a couple in the, uh, in the, uh, you know, in the fire right now being worked on. But, um, yeah, I, I love working with people that I respect and look up to and,

uh, people that I'm fans of their music. So it's, it's a lot of fun and really cool when they asked me to do something on their stuff. I wanted to, uh, also make note of the fact that, you know, your, your music and this, that your, your, your new song obviously has all, I think a lot of it has to do, I think with mental wellbeing, your, your mental state. Um, you know, uh, um, you obviously connect to that. Um,

How do you maintain when you're out and away from your family or, you know, I don't know that. How do you maintain your own mental fortitude as you are working very hard, but you kind of not able to spend as much time with the people you love? Well, I don't. Not that you don't love your band, by the way. I don't party anymore. I go to bed early. I'm up early. I go to the gym. Like, I just do like.

the boring grownup stuff. And I drink tons of coffee. That's in beyond. Um, yeah. And I, and you know, I, I, I think, um, uh, I, I'm, I try to, uh, keep a level head and when things go wrong, I try to just breathe more. Yeah. You know, what band, what band would we be surprised to find out that you're a fan of? Uh,

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I don't know if it would shock you, but I'm a huge Sleep Token fan. I don't even know who Sleep Token is. Enlighten us. I know Sleep Theory. If you just Google them and just look at the image, you're going to be like, what kind of cult is this? What kind of satanic cult are you listening to here? But then you listen to it and the juxtaposition between... Oh, dear God. Now, I'm telling you...

Listen to it. Okay. And you will be like, what? Oh, wow. The dude's voice is beautiful. Okay. It's like metal, R&B, jazz. Like, you can't pin down the genre. Do you like ghost? I appreciate ghost. Yeah. Just looking at the picture, it kind of, you think of that robe. It's definitely not, it doesn't give ghost vibes in the music. Right, right. That is kind of weird. Like, you know, sometimes...

There's so much that has to go into creating who you are as an entertainer, your look, what you project, what you participate in. That's some eyes wide shut stuff right there. Yeah, I don't see that working for you. It might even be Tom Cruise under that mask. It is cool. Did you spend a lot of time? Did you say, I'm going to be me, or was there ever a point at which you were entertained putting on a...

And Eyes Wide Shut Mask. Yeah, did it on The Masked Singer. Well, yeah, yeah. No, no, I've never. That just seems very cumbersome, at least to me. I know when I was in a dog costume, I was struggling to breathe. I don't know how Slipknot does it. Oh, yeah, yeah.

You're wearing a Billy Idol concert shirt. He played our festival show last year. Do you know Billy at all or been to see him live? I've never met him, but I am a fan. It was impressive. There were a couple songs I'd forgotten about, like Eyes Without a Face and stuff. Or no, there was Flesh for Fantasy. Flesh for Fantasy. Those are great songs. Those are great songs. So great. Yeah.

Cradle of Love. And any live performance I've heard, he still has it, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Totally. Yeah. I mean, being in this industry has... It's not like I get to sit down and hang out with these legends, but...

I've at least shared the same room or the same hallway. Like, I remember, you know, watching only ZZ Top walk in backstage. I'm like, oh, my God. Like, they're actually real people. Yeah. So who's blown your mind? You know, your journey. Who has been brought to you? Who have I shared the hallway with? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Prince. Prince!

Holy hell. What was that like? He didn't care about me. It doesn't matter, though, does it? It was one of those out-of-body moments. You're literally shaking hands and talking to this guy who is a god and untouchable. And his response is about what you would expect. Just a head nod. And that was it.

But it was cool. It was on... It was actually the finale of my season of American Idol. He was like a surprise guest, and I walk off stage, and he's there, and I'm like jaw-dropped, and he's in his purple suit, and I was like, oh, my God. I'm...

I don't know. I don't even know what I said. I probably didn't say words, which is probably why he just nodded at me. And, um, and then I see him again at a Grammy party and he cared even less. Um, I, and, but I, but he got a pass cause he's Prince. So I was just like, uh, of course I'm not in his camp. Like who he isn't. Um, but, um, and, uh,

I mean, there's been so many, a lot of times I'll see people on TV and I'm like, Oh my God, I forgot. I've met that person or they're in my phone. Um,

that I've never called him because it just felt cool to have Tom Cruise's phone number. Do you have Tom Cruise's phone number? He said it was. You know whose number it is? It's Prince's number. That was years ago, too. You shared a moment with Don Henley, didn't you, Brian? Yeah, of course.

How was it? Was this a good one or a bad one? So first off, let me say I'm a huge Don Henley fan. As are we all. To this day, still a huge fan. So it was a bad experience. I don't know what kind of experience it was, to be honest with you. We were at a Grammy party. It was probably early on in our history of being a band. Yeah, it was like the earliest of days. I think it was the first year. It was.

It was a cool party, too. I remember walking up to this party. Keep in mind, only weeks before this, I was working at a print shop. Okay, yeah. Just be me for a second here. Walking up this red carpet, and the first thing that happens, I'm trailing behind Chris, is Jay-Z comes up and gives me a fist bump. Wow. So I'm like...

Okay, so this small-town kid from the print shop, Jay-Z deems worthy of a fist bump. That was cool. We go into the party. Dave Grohl met him that night for the first time. John Mayer, Jessica Simpson. That shows how long ago this was. Yeah, Jessica Simpson died. It was a slew of people. But at the very end of the night... Smokey Robinson. Wow. Yeah, dude, that's right. End of the night...

We're just dropping all your – watch your feet, guys. It was monumental. So at the end of the night, we see Don and his wife come in, and it was like this almost Gone with the Wind staircase type situation. Oh, wow. And he was at the top, and they were coming in. I told Chris, I said, hey, man, that's Don Henley right there. Chris says, you want to meet him? I said, yeah, you know him? He goes, nope. He's like, what?

We walk over to him, and he introduces himself. Chris says, Chris Daughtry, nice to meet you. Big fan of your music. And I don't remember exactly what he said in that moment. Probably, thank you. I don't know. Who knows? Yeah, it was probably a head nod. And then Chris kind of teased it up for me, and I said, hey, Daughtry.

Don, I'm a huge fan of you, man. Your music changed my life. And he looked away from me and he chuckled with his wife for a second. And then he looked back at me and he said, kiss my ass. What? What?

But I think he might have been joking. There was a chuckle in all of this. So I don't understand exactly what transpired, but my face was sort of like, huh? Wow. That's terrible. So let me ask you. I think it was more like, you're kissing my ass kind of thing. Now, let me just also say, I definitely had a few wobbly pops. So I might have been making a total ass of myself. It's hard to say. So what did it taste like? Eh.

Gold. Yeah. No. Well, there's such a level, right? Meeting the people that you idolize. Yeah. You know? We actually have audio of somebody telling Preston to kiss his ass. This is actually a pretty cool moment for you, though, Preston. Remember this? Good morning, Preston.

You can kiss my ass. Yeah, that's Stuart Copeland. See, it sounds so cool when he says it. That's probably how it was. Maybe that's what it was right there. Maybe, all right. Hey, man, I'm a huge Henley fan. It's a great story. That is a great story, man.

And, you know, you obviously, we've seen you with fans, and you're great with them. You're clearly appreciative of the people that want to come up. Absolutely. And you don't tell them to kiss your ass. No, no, no. And is that, you understand how, when people meet you, a big fan, what kind of impression that makes on them, right? I mean, I don't because, you know, I can't assume what they're feeling. But I do want them to walk away feeling like they had a,

good experience. Excellent. Yeah. Yeah. And that's, that's what, uh, you know, that's what the, the connection's all about. Yeah. Uh, so they're going to play, uh, tonight in Atlantic city and, tickets available, uh, daughtry official.com. Like I said, there may be some VIP meet and greet and stuff like that, but it's a nice bill. Um,

You guys are taking this new song out, and is this the beginning of a long road trip? I know you guys played, what, last night? Yeah, last night was the first show of the tour of a six-week-long extravaganza.

Well, hang in there, man. Good luck. It's just getting started. Absolutely. You got so many fans here in Philadelphia. People were extremely psyched when they heard you were coming by. Thank you so much, man. I appreciate you having us. Brian, nice to meet you, too. Nice to meet you guys, too. Thanks for having us. Enjoy the tour. It is our pleasure. Daughtry, guys. And the song is called Pieces. You'll hear it again later today. I'm certain of that. We're going to take a break, and we'll be right back. Stay with us.

Is your phone an app hole? You know, full of useless apps taking up space. Well, get rid of them and get the WMMR app. You can listen to us wherever you go, get important alerts and so much more. Because after all, the world needs less app holes. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve show podcast. I went to the dentist the other day. Kathy, I was thinking about you because you actually enjoy going to the dentist. But, you know, and good news.

No issues, no cavities, nothing. Everything looks great. So I was quite happy about that. But as I was talking to my dentist, Mr. Jeff Hartman, who's a great guy, I had... I don't know why. I was sitting in the chair and I was thinking about this. I was trying to think of...

What to him would have been his favorite moment of a dentist in a movie or TV show? What's his favorite depiction of a dentist in a movie? I assume it's not Little Shop of Horrors. I had two questions for him. I said, what is your favorite and what movie or TV show did they get it right? Okay. Because... I'm always interested about that. They butcher constantly. They butcher. And we talked about this a few years ago. Okay.

movies, TV shows, and they butcher professions. They just totally make up their own thing. They always figured it was this way and they were represented that way. So oddly, Steve, he said that probably his favorite would be Marathon Man. Marathon Man with the, yeah, well, it's horrifying. Is it safe? They're torturing Dustin Hoffman by openly exposing his nerve. But then he said Little Shop of Horrors. Was his favorite? Yeah. Wow. You've got to.

Yeah, it was fun. Where's the really cool dental scene in a movie? And then the other one he mentioned was, and I had completely forgotten about this, he said, horrible bosses. Oh, yeah. Jennifer Aniston is the dentist. And Charlie Day is her assistant. You remember? Yeah.

She knocks him out with nitrous and gets him naked and poses him in all these positions and stuff. Hilarious. Yeah, yeah. But the other thing he mentioned was the... He said, this isn't a movie because I just asked him about movies. He said, Harvey Korman and... Oh, Tim Conway? Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett show. And I just started cracking up even thinking about it. So I wanted to see if there's anyone listening who in your profession...

you feel that they got it right in the movies. 215-263-WM1. Movies or TV? Movies. We could do TV, too. So let us know. And then I started thinking about our profession, obviously. And I think the one movie that really got it right is...

was private parts from Howard Stern. And specifically his early days as a DJ because I remember going to see that movie and it was late, late, late in the run. So it was like me and three other people in the movie theater.

And there were a couple times where I was the only one that laughed out loud because he was doing stuff specifically for disc jockeys. And in his very first job, it's the classic line, you know, if you like music, you'll like Deep Purple. But it wasn't that. It wasn't that line. He stops after he turns the microphone off, puts his hands on his headphones, and he doesn't take them off. And he looks around. And I know exactly what he's saying. He's like...

have I finished? Am I done? Can I take my headphones off yet? And I'm like, you nailed it, dude. That's exactly what you do as a rookie when you're learning how to work in this business. You don't want to brush anything. And then, of course, in that scene, he knocks all the carts off. It hits the record. Yeah. And then there's another scene where he starts the song. I think it's a,

I think it's a Ramones song, and he starts doing this goofy little thing with his hands, he's playing air drums, and cranks the music up, and I'm like, that's it, that's it, that's exactly how you do it. It is the Citizen Kane of DJ. I agree. There's a movie, it's...

it's talk radio. Yes. Yeah, which is more for the talk radio format, the more, and who's the guy? I always forget the actor. He's excellent. Yeah. It was his stage play. Yeah, yeah. But that has a feel for it as well. But again, Private Parts is the one that nails it for what we do. Yeah. Yeah, that was, I would have put talk radio as a second on that, Steve, too. It did over-dramatize things a little bit. Is it Boghossian? Eric Boghossian, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's really good. He's got a great,

voice is a real resonant. And Alec Baldwin's in that movie. Yes, that's right. The station manager. Just going back to dentist movies, The Whole Nine Yards, some people are texting in. That's a really... Matthew Perry plays a dentist in that movie. And I think that those scenes are fairly accurate. And believe it or not, I always found Bill Cosby's description of going to the dentist from Bill Cosby himself. And there's smoke!

Yeah, and he's doing the thing where the Novocaine's in your mouth. I know where we all stand on Bill Cosby today, but when I was watching that routine as a kid, nailed it. What kind of sedatives do you use? I literally was thinking of that while I was at the dentist. I probably think that every time I think of Dennis because the line he opens with, he goes, Dennis, tell you not to pick at your teeth with metal objects. And then he goes...

And then you sit in their chair. The first thing they do. Yeah. It's like being on the golf course and not quoting Caddyshack. You automatically think those things when you're at the dentist chair or when you're on the golf course. I often heard for the longest time that the TV show Adam 12 was very representative of

police officers had selected that show as being very representative. Fairly accurate. Right. So that, you know, they would be responding to a door left open in the back of a, but it wasn't always running and gunning and TJ hooker, you know? So they, they dealt with that sort of stuff. Um, John Mulaney has a bit that he does about, uh, um, uh,

law and order. Yeah. Oh yeah. And it's hilarious. And you know, the cops coming in to investigate the guy who's working at the bar, you know, he's wiping down the bar and everything. And, and they're asking him about like a triple murder. Right. And the guy's like, I got drinks to make. I got, I got inventory here. I ain't got time to do that.

Oh, yeah, now that you mention it, the guy said something about walking up. And it's just like. And then he gets very, very specific about it. Very specific. And so that's getting it wrong, obviously. But I'm curious about who gets it right. I'm going to go to Ed. Hi, Ed. Good morning. Hey, how are you guys doing? You guys rock. Thanks, Ed. Appreciate it. What's up, bud?

Hey, so I'm a CPA, and I have to say the best movie is The Accountant with Ben Affleck. I dug that movie. It's a good movie. Does it accurately represent how accountants work? Are you an assassin? On the side. I got all of it. So you do the assassin. But the actual accounting, did that seem accurate? No, no. Maybe they just get it. I'm trying to think what accountant movie ever got it right, Ed.

There is no account of movies. That's right. Thank you. I forgot about that. Actually, they need a sequel to that movie. They had talked about it. I had heard about it. That's the word. The word is that shit, yeah. Because they left it open for more. I dug it. I thought it was a really good movie. Jay Barenthal's in it. Yeah, yeah. And, yeah. All right, Ed. Thank you. Appreciate it. We'll go over to Josh. Hey, Josh. Good morning. Hi,

Hi, Grandma. Hi, Grandma. What's up, Josh? So, I am a software development manager, and I got to tell you, that movie, Office Space, is a little older, but everything in that movie is 100% accurate. Wow.

I have five different bosses. Sometimes people are promoted to positions. They have no business being promoted to, um, you know, the TPS reports, you got to follow these stupid policies and procedures. Sometimes I'm telling you that it's spot on. Yeah. Well, my judge who wrote the movie and directed it worked in that industry. So he was, he knew from, uh, his own experience. Yeah. I had a feeling it was pretty, pretty accurate.

Yeah, and I got to tell you, like, I used to deal with a lot of financial software and, like, putting a virus in there. I mean, probably possible, honestly. Like, if you got access to the code and you're the only one that's in there, I mean, you could do a lot of stuff, a lot of harm. Okay. All right. Good to know. Appreciate it, Josh. I haven't given that movie a view in a long time.

a long, long time. That's a good one. And Jennifer Aniston's in that one. Yes, she shows a lot of flair. Let me go next to... You'll like this one, Kath. Hi, Katie. Good morning.

Good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you. Okay, so we're talking about shows or movies that actually depict your profession pretty close to the real thing. Yeah, so I am Katie the Horse Lady. I work with horses. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, hi, guys. So thank God Yellowstone finally got it right. Yellowstone. Okay. Yeah.

So it's a real horse ranch. Both of the farms are real horse ranches. They sell the horses that have been on the show. I saw one at an auction that was for sale and everything. So it's a real deal. The biggest thing that I can't stand about horses in TV and shows, horses do not just whinny all the time. They show a horse galloping along and it's like, whoo!

They don't do that. Right. But it is not an every time you see a horse, they whinny at you kind of a thing. They don't bark like dogs or whinny. It's just not the same thing. Yeah, I know what you mean, Katie, because whenever there is a moment where someone is about to publicly speak on a microphone, almost all

always you'll hear a little feedback whine at the beginning. And I'm like that very rarely it happens, but it doesn't happen every time somebody goes on the mic, but they do it almost every single time.

The other thing that it can't stand is in a movie or in a TV show, let's say like Black Stallion or Black Beauty or Misty of Chincoteague, they have like seven different horses that are the horse that they're supposed to be the same horse. And it's completely not the same horse. That horse has blonde hair and that one has spots.

So obviously you're on a horse ranch. In the world of horse racing, have you ever seen Seabiscuit? Do you happen to know if that's... They did a pretty good job. They did a pretty good job. I will give them credit too. Katie, did you ever see the movie Nope? I haven't seen it yet. It is on my list. You should see it because it focuses around a family that raises horses for use in movies and things like that. And it's...

It seems like they took some realities from what that world might be like. Yeah, I'll have to watch it and we'll report back to you guys. Okay. All right. Thanks, Katie. Good to hear from you. Thanks, guys. Have a good one. You too. Thanks. All right. We will go next to, yeah, I figured we might get a few of these. This is Ed, who is an EMT, I believe, or a firefighter. Ed, you're on the air. Good morning.

Actually, I'm a retired firefighter's current EMT and actually a former dispatcher as well. And the one show that got it right or still gets it right, I would say for the most part, would be 9-1-1. Okay.

Okay. But actually, there's another show that gets it right in the stupidity sense. It's Tacoma Fire. Oh, Tacoma Fire. Not familiar. It's from the Broken Lizard guys. Okay. Super Trooper guys. Right. The antics and the silliness and the stuff that goes on at the firehouse.

But just the stupid bets and activities and things after that, when we're not out on the scene or whatever, it was absolutely the stupid things we do, tricking people and each other, things like that. Hey, Ed, from realism, it's 9-1-1. For what goes on at the firehouse, it's Tacoma Fire. With 9-1-1, do they get it right mainly with the dispatcher stuff? What is that? Oh. It's happening. Ed, did we lose you?

It's gone. I'm sorry, I lost you. I lost you. All right, Ed, so your mother got on the phone.

The show 9-1-1, does it get it right mainly with the dispatch part of things or the whole overall show? Actually, just about everything. I mean, there's some things that I've seen on the show that are like, eh, that's not really how we do it, but it's pretty close. I mean, it's actually way more accurate than, say, like Chicago Fire. Like, I watch Chicago Fire, too, and I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Back up. Is that the one that, who's on 9-1-1?

Oh, I can't think of the one that was in. Jennifer Love Hewitt? What's that? Is it Jennifer Love Hewitt? She, yeah, yes. Yeah, okay. She's still on there. And Angela Bassett, it plays the police officer. Oh, yeah. And Peter Krause from Six Feet Under. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Ed. Appreciate it, man. See you. I will see you. All right. Let's go over to Steve, a detective for 18 years. Hi, Steve.

Good morning. Good morning. Hey, what's up, buddy? So, yeah, this one's a little dated. Okay. The best detective show ever.

By far. His point was Barney Miller. Barney Miller! So Barney Miller, I think 98% of Barney Miller just took place in the police precinct, at their desks, by the coffee machine. Is that what rings true to you? It's pretty accurate for the most part, in most places. You do have hours and hours of boredom and paperwork that's punctuated by fantastic security

sarcasm from your co-workers, fall break-in, things like that. The characters that you meet that come in, you know, victims and defendants, are absolutely modeled from that show, it seems like. Oh, cool! You get, you know, from one end to the other. The other thing is, you know, you see some of these shows, like I would get people tell me, people who weren't even police would tell me, oh, NYPD's so realistic, or, you know, NYPD's so realistic.

That's so far from realistic. You'd have one or two of the events that ever happened on one episode happen in your entire career. Right, right now, yeah. Every single day. It's nothing but paperwork and board. But the best part is the dialogue.

Yeah, most of your co-workers. Did you ever see the show Hill Street Blues? And if so, what did you think of that? So Hill Street Blues was pretty good, too. Again, what always cracked me up about shows like that is the stations are always so dark and everybody's hard to see. We have 6,000...

thousand watt light bulbs in there and couldn't, you know, your eyes burn when you try and take a nap, you know, cause you've been working for 14 hours. So the settings are always off, but sometimes like Hill Street Blues, they got some of the work, dialogue and characters, you know,

Do you remember an author, Joseph Wambaugh? He was the big, he is a former police officer, and he wrote Police Story and The New Centurions. And police officers would often cite his stuff as being very accurate. Yeah, I read a couple of his books. The Choir Boys was a great book and very accurate. Okay. Steve. Definitely Barney Miller. Barney Miller. Steve, did you ever see the movie So I Married an Axe Murderer?

You know, I did it a long time ago. Mike Myers, I think? Yeah, Mike Myers did it, but Anthony LaPaglia plays a detective, and he so desperately wants to have a relationship with his captain that's like you see in the movies where the captain's always yelling at him and telling him to get off his ass and bust his... and all that stuff. And there are so many... That's a standard trope in cop movies of the boss who's just a jerk and pushing buttons all the time, and you guys are slacking off and blah, blah, blah. And it's just...

That's not even anywhere near reality, is it? Most of the time, no. Real quick, one of the best stories of a boss ever, and I won't name names or locations. We had a vending machine in the hallway that happened to, the glass happened to break. Don't know how. But our captain at the time walks by, we're all standing around looking at the glass on the floor, and he reaches in and takes a candy bar out. I love it.

Thanks, Steve. All right, thanks, guys. Appreciate it. I'm his cousin. Tell who? Chuck D'Amico. Chuck! You got it. Let him know. All right, thanks, Steve. Casey, I was thinking of, as I was saying that to him about that, you know, the boss character is yelling. That's one of the reasons I kind of didn't like The Departed was because Mark Wahlberg's character was so abrasive. And I'm like...

Why would anybody ever live with that in a working environment? That's just... And here's a dude who's like... Did you see it to the end? Yeah. Yeah, I know what happens with him and everything. But if you're trying to keep a low profile because you got something going on... And you're screaming all the goddamn time. It's like undercover cops Starsky and Hush in a bright red paint job, the car you can hear from 10 miles away. And maybe Martin Sheen, his superior, goes, hey...

Can you dial it back a little bit? This guy has completely put his life on hold to go undercover to bring down, I don't know, the biggest crime guy in the city. Black Mass. So the FBI agents and that, that seems to have a real air of authenticity to it. But over time what happens is we'll see it one way depicted in movies and to this point and to this whole topic is that that's what we think it is, but it's not that.

I'm curious about chefs, too, because we've had The Bear. Yes. We have the movie Chef. There's a lot of really good cooking movies out there. A lot of text people chiming in on the movie waiting, saying how accurate that is for the service industry. Jennifer wanted to call in with that, so let me go to her. Hi, Jennifer. Good morning.

Good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you, Jennifer. All right, so you're a server or have been? I have been a server. I've been a chef. I've been the front of the house, back of the house, you name it. Okay, and you're concurring with what Nick was saying. It's a waiting. Is it a movie or a show? I'm not familiar. It's a movie. It's a movie, and they got it so accurate. You can't get any better than that. It was dead on. Ryan Reynolds is in it, correct?

Pardon? Yes. Yeah, it's pretty funny. You guys haven't seen it? I have seen it. Oh, okay, yeah. It's a great movie. I mean, it's funny. It made a second one. I never saw the second one, but Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris are the stars, and Luis Guzman is in the kitchen. It's a really good movie. It's fun and funny. Was there any part... It's a family environment. Yeah. It's the land of lost toys. The misfit toys? Yeah. Yeah.

Yes. I have to see it because I've worked a couple of kitchen jobs, so I would like to, and I know what that dynamic is like. Thanks, Jennifer. Appreciate it. Let me go next to Brandon. Hi there, Brandon. Good morning. Hey, guys. Good morning. Good morning to see you, Brandon. What's up, man?

Hey, so I worked a number of years in state politics on the communications side. And before I was in politics, I was a poli-sci major in school and was in love with the show Parks and Recreation. Yeah. And I could not believe when I was first exposed to town halls. And it's just like that. Really? Yeah.

Like, you would be having a message for, like, the greater good, and you have, like, more of, like, an inside knowledge than the public has, you know, is privy to. And you know that this is the real deal. We're really trying to do something good here, and then...

Not everybody, but you have those that show up with the most petty arguments. And you're like, this is just like Parks and Recreation. Like truth is stranger than fiction. Let me ask you where the classic in Parks has good attraction with the characters who are just classic paper pushers who just, you know, punch the clock and in and out and that's it.

You know, I personally, surprisingly, I didn't experience the classic paper pusher in my office. It was such a fast-paced office. But I'm sure at more of a department level, I'm sure something like that existed. Also, quickly to validate, I was a server for many years.

Waiting is 100% the most accurate moving. Okay, cool. Very cool. Another thumbs up for waiting. Got to see that. Thanks, Brandon. Appreciate it. All right, we'll go over to Eric. Hi, Eric. You're on the air. Good morning, bud. Hey, I am a eBayer, but I get my stuff because I do storage auctions.

Ah. Storage unit auctions and auction hunters is 100% accurate, and storage wars is a bunch of BS. Okay. And you can tell that, like, in the opening credits, the guys say on auction hunters you get 90% of your profit off of 10% of the units, and storage wars is, look at this Van Gogh in the back of this trash-filled unit.

Yeah, they do that a lot. And they hype up the drama on it too, don't they, Eric? I'll be honest with you, when they had more live auctions, there are characters even around here in Pennsylvania, but those guys out there, I mean, they're, yeah. Okay. And so when you go to these auctions, you are buying these units sight unseen? They don't even open the door or...?

Oh, no, no, no, no. They open up the door. You're allowed to look in. Of course, some of the guys try to step in. You're not supposed to and try to lift up lids and stuff, but you're supposed to not enter the unit, but just look, and then you buy. So just from the outside, you can't cross any line. You can't go in. You can't futz around and move stuff around. That's your one visual to determine whether or not you're going to buy the whole unit.

Yes. And just to give you an example, I know somebody that bought a unit because it had all these, like, Apple boxes, and inside them was just trash. They spent like $1,000 on the unit, and they got like $10 out of it. Oh, man. Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, you can find some really good stuff, but if you don't know what you're doing, you can lose your shirt and need to find a new career. All right, on Storage Wars, is that the one where they don't look inside at all and they have to bid on it, or...?

Storage wars and auction hunters are the exact same thing. Yeah, they lift up the door. Oh, they do lift up the door. Okay. Yeah, you can't buy a unit without knowing anything that's in there. That would be insane. Yeah. Yeah, totally. All right. Nice, Eric. Appreciate it, man. We'll see you. All right, bye. All right, bye-bye. That would be interesting. So we have a storage unit down in Maniunk, and that place is still there down by the bus station. Mm-hmm.

And every time I'd drive through there and I'd get my stuff in and out, you'd see the different, you know, the doors would be up on these different units. And you'd go, ooh, what's in there? And one had like all medical supplies. Oh, wow. Yeah. I mean, there's a ton of stuff. So there's a bit of fascination with that Storage Wars thing.

concept you know what what people are holding on to and what they need to store in a separate location we have a unit for uh the um the uh charity that rochelle works for and so we go over there and down and take stuff and move it out i'm always peeking around to see if anybody else is around yeah i want to see what's in there and i never get a chance to see that all right let me go to tom on the phones hi tom good morning sir

Hey, Preston. How are you? Great. What's up, man? Hey, shout out to Kathy. Also, Westchester University, Ramsgate, and Jake's Bar Person. There you go. You got them all.

There you go. What do you do, Tom, or what have you done? I sell toys for a living for the last 25 years or so. Wow. And I did work at Mattel. Okay. And I was excited when the Barbie movie came out. Now, this may sound really weird to you guys, okay? Okay. I'm a toy salesperson. But the Barbie movie depicted...

The Mattel corporate guys. Did you guys see the movie? Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So the way I went into that movie and I was like, all right, I'm going to watch a movie about Barbie. It turned out laughing out loud. The only guy in the theater. Cause I worked there.

That paying attention to the way they depicted the corporate guys, they were feral walking with the guys almost like militant behind him wearing basically the same suit and anything he would say, they'd repeat it back to him. So that dynamic, that character, that sort of, you know, the suck up surrounding him, that's something you saw.

You have no idea. Wow. The president's office was on the sixth floor of the building. And if you ended up having a meeting on the sixth floor, you would have people say, you're going to the sixth floor? They literally said that in the movie. I don't know how they got that little bit of information and inside stuff, but they did. And it's almost...

I was very actually proud of Mattel because they never make fun of themselves. And they made fun of themselves a lot in that movie. But if you work there, you kind of got it. Yeah. What they never do, they never, ever, ever make fun of Barbie. And man, they had so many little zingers of

about making fun of Barbie, which I was shocked. No, I, I heard, I heard other people say what you were saying as well, is that it was absolutely verboten, but yes, they do. They do make fun of their own product line and they did make fun of the, the, the corporate, uh, guys, uh,

Of course, the end result is they made a crap load of money off of the association. So, yeah. Wow. It's funny that you should say that they would be exactly like that because I thought, you know, Will Ferrell's character was played, obviously, to, you know, for extremes and comedy effect. But you're saying it wasn't that far off the mark.

They did it through comedy, but they nailed it. I'm 100%. I'm going to have to watch it again. That's funny. All right. Thanks, Tom. Appreciate it. It's nice when they... Hey, thanks for all the entertainment. You bet, man. Thank you. It's fun when they throw in a little bit like, you know, the sixth floor. They probably did that as a little... Yeah.

nod to the people who've actually worked there. All those little things when they include stuff like that. Again, you know, the things you think are just for you. I used to be excited when you'd have guys reload in movies. It's like, oh, yeah, actually, yeah, you have to do stuff like that. Here's a text that says, I'm a journalist. The movie, The Paper.

is spot on in some of the ways you described with the Stern movie. It's obviously, it pumps up the drama, but reporters love that movie. The paper. It says Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Randy Quaid. Yeah, it's a good movie. I don't remember that movie.

You think, Howard, come on and we could talk about the private parts with him? If we reach out to him and see, maybe? We'll love that movie. I saw Paul Giamatti when he was accepting, I guess it was Golden Globe recently, and somebody asked him if he would ever work with Sterling, and he's like, absolutely. He's like, that dude made me. He's like, that guy made my career. That was the springboard for

that took off and now he's, you know, phenomenal actor. I mean, yeah, but that is, again, you're right, you're so right. There's such, such nuance in that movie that depicts so much of what you would have to actually be in the industry to be aware of. Yeah. Pig vomit is such a great character. Yep. I mean, fortunately, we didn't work

here with anybody like pete glommett but i'm sure they exist in the radio world here's a text that says uh silicon valley is very accurate accurate to the it industry i like that show especially the part where they uh calculate how he can give everyone a handy in and out i've heard that well mythic quest is supposed to be very accurate to the game development world all right

Here's a text that says, worked at Walmart and Shawshank Redemption. Got it pretty close. That's funny. Let's see. We're going to go to Jake. Hi, Jake. You're on the air, my man. Morning, guys. How y'all doing? Good, buddy. What's up?

So I actually work in car sales and not like morally or ethically, but the goods live hard, sell hard is actually pretty accurate as far as the dynamic of like the different people in the dealership. And yeah,

It's a funny movie. It's Jeremy Piven. It's a pretty broad comedy. Who else is in the cast? Will Ferrell's in it. You got... Bing Reams. David Koechner.

Yeah, yep. But yeah, like you have like the cocky guy who thinks he knows everything, he's better than everyone, you have the curmudgeon-y old man. And Catherine Hahn is in it as well. She's using sex to sell the cars. Have you ever seen the Robert Zemeckis movie Used Cars?

No, actually I've not. Yeah, I think you would like that. I think it's one of the all-time great comedies. And it's a movie that you just don't see. They don't really show it on cable or anything. It's hilarious. They're doing some things in that movie, Jake, that seem to be

too accurate. The little things they're doing to sell these cars, it's hilarious. What's funny, too, is Fargo, I'm a manager. I find myself saying, tell him it's on the car. Tell this guy to pound sand all the time. Undercoating. Oh, that's primer. Thanks, Jake. Appreciate it, man. Let's see. We'll go next to Nick. Hi, Nick. You're on the air, my man.

Hey, bitches. Hey, what? What's up, dude? Hey, so a movie that's actually kind of scary accurate. You are so not invited to my bot mitzvah, the Adam Sandler movie on Netflix. Right. That is, I'm an MC for mitzvahs on the weekends. And,

And it is, wow. It's a little over the top, that movie, but for the New York Midsommar scene, that is so accurate. How much drama goes into the party, into that night, especially on the kids' side. It's hilarious. You must see a lot, because I know, and sometimes the amount of money spent on those events can be insane.

Oh my goodness. Yeah, it's so crazy. I actually, I worked one up in New York last year and they rented out an entire convention hall floor for this party. Oh my God. For this 13-year-old birthday party. Yeah. Full-size basketball court in there. Insanity. Insanity. Sparklers, fog machines, balloons over the dance floor. Yeah.

Dude, I remember my confirmation was like a little barbecue in the backyard. My friend Randy Kostanowicz had his bar mitzvah, and I'm like, oh, my God. Yeah, my buddy Brad, he was my best friend at the time, went to his bar mitzvah, and it was a massive party. Yeah.

So, yeah, they pull out all the stops. All right. So not my you're so not invited. My bat mitzvah. I got to say it. All right. Thanks. Appreciate it, Nick. I didn't like it. And it was only because the girl is just so mean in it. And I'm like.

And she's the main character. Yeah. But, you know, there's a reason behind it. And, you know, it's just like, you know, teen angst and stuff. But it's the same reason I didn't care for Diary of a Wimpy Kid because the main actor in that. Kind of annoying. And he was a jerk. Yeah. You know, his friend was a nice kid. I'll go next to Marcus. We got to wrap here in a second. Hey, Marcus, good morning. Good morning. How you guys doing? Good. What's up, bud?

I was comparing one of my current jobs, a similar form of my job, a financial advisor to Boiler Room slash Wall Street. All that stuff is fairly accurate when it comes to the scummier side of the business. Boiler Room is with Vin Diesel, correct?

Correct. Vin Diesel. We've got Ben Affleck. Right. That one, I've watched it a lot when I was my first start in the field because that scene with Ben Affleck when he's recruiting people, it's so true. Let me ask you, so you mentioned Wolf of Wall Street, which I love that movie. And so does that ring true to you in a lot of ways?

So not to me, but like there's definitely people in the profession like that where it was, hey, what can we say to get this person to buy it when we know they don't need it and we know we're going to make a ton of money off of it?

That part was so accurate. He's like, don't judge me on my winners. Judge me on my losers. They'll say anything. I don't work at those kind of places anymore, but it's so accurate. When it comes to Boiler Room, don't those Wall Street bros sit around and they're quoting other movies? They're quoting Wall Street in Boiler Room, so do guys now sit around and quote

Wolf of Wall Street and Boiler Room? Yeah. Yeah, Wolf of Wall Street. They were definitely like, we would talk about Boiler Room at my first job doing this. And they were like, well, no, we don't want to compare it to that. Yeah, it's life imitating art imitating life. I was thinking that scene in Wolf of Wall Street where he's there, Nick, and he's got the guy on the phone. He's showing the other sales guys. He goes, you know, this is an opportunity for another $10,000. And as he's talking, he's double fingering the phone going, come on. Reeling them in. Yeah, yeah.

That's true. They had calls like that in the office where it was like everyone could hear it and it was on. You couldn't talk, but you were listening to the conversation. It was the same thing. You're just like, oh, my God, I can't believe these things. Jesus. That's pretty brutal. Nice. Thanks, Marcus. Appreciate it, bud. Absolutely. All right. We'll go to Phil on the phones here. Hi, Phil. You're on the air. Good morning, buddy. Good morning, guys. Good morning to see you, buddy. What's up?

Hey, so the Green Mile, I've been in the prison system in New Jersey for almost 15 years. So I saw Green Mile as a kid and never saw nothing of it. Good movie. After working in the jail for a couple of years, they nailed it. No way. So compare it to Shawshank. Do you think it is better than Shawshank in its depiction? In its depiction, yes. And this is on...

On the view of the staff. Okay. Tom Hanks nails, like everybody works with a Percy. Yep. When you have Percy on your shift, you know you are screwed for the night. Oh. Talk us into some crap. Yep. That we got to talk our way right back at it. Yeah. And like Tom Hanks, his mission is like we keep them calm. It keeps the problems down. That's part of our job is to...

Even though we may detest these individuals, our job is to keep things from happening here. That's exactly it. Okay. Liability mitigation. Oh, wow. Oh, that's cool to hear. It is. I suspected it was accurate. I say, too, with Shawshank.

Did you ever see the movie, oh man. Stir Crazy. Nope, nope. It's not a prison movie. Ed Norton, he goes to jail. He's a racist. American History X. Yeah, when he's in prison, they come out and the guards are like, immediately when he steps out, they just start screaming and yelling at him. And I'm like, I think that's a bit.

over the top. Yeah. Oh God. In today's society, we'd all be sued. Yeah. Yeah. You'll be sued. Right. Yeah. All right, Phil. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Thanks guys. All right. We'll see you. All right. Well, I was curious. They've, uh, you know, they get it right every now and then there's so much that, uh, that's depicted and dramatized that they really take liberties with on professions. Yeah. Uh, and, um,

I was just curious which ones kind of fall true. Get close. Yeah, and it makes me wonder when you watch a show or a movie that is about show business or whatever, how accurate that is. Kath, I know we watch a morning show. Yeah. And there were some things that happened in this last season where I'm like, I want

I wonder how accurate. I mean, this is being made by people who are in this industry. Just working in the industry in the beginning for a few years, they got a lot of news. Did they get a lot of right? Oh, yeah. You ever see broadcast news? No, I don't think I saw that. The dynamic between people and the stabbing in the back. In the back? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. Of course. And the egos. Larry Minty thing here. Yeah. And Regia Lane. It was real. That stuff really happens, I guess. Yeah, there's these dynamics.

That TV show is real. Well, anyhow, thank you for your calls. We do appreciate it. I want to take a break. Stay with us. We'll be right back. 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.

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30-year-old Veronica Rolene Gast is facing charges of second-degree assault and criminal vehicular operation, bodily harm, gross negligence, and domestic assault. The incident happened Wednesday when Gast drove with her boyfriend to a therapy session to work on their relationship. While in the car, the boyfriend decided to break up with her and asked Gast to take him home. Instead, Gast...

allegedly stopped the car in the middle of the road and ordered him to get out. The victim exited and walked in front of the vehicle heading for the sidewalk. As he passed in front of the car, gassed, locked eyes with him, and then accelerated trying to run him over. On the plus side...

Now you have something to talk about at therapy. There you go. Yeah. Let's dive into this. Anything fresh? Yeah, she just tried to run over me. Well, the boyfriend rolled over the hood, smashed into the windshield, shattering it, and he suffered a laceration to his right elbow. Safe flight repair.

A police report said the defendant admitted that she was pulling away. She hit the victim with her vehicle. I was pulling away. The defendant said that she slowed down and stopped to call the police and said that she was in shock at hitting the victim. So she did not stop right away, but did let off the gas.

What about backing up? Gast told officers the windshield crack wasn't caused by his body, but by him punching it. It's unclear whether Gast sustained any injuries. The police report stated the couple has been dating for about a year and they live together. Sounds like it's blissful. Have you ever tried to punch a windshield? Do you think you could punch through a windshield? God, no. You know who can? The Terminator. Yeah, right. That's about it. So in Tasmania...

A woman who was allegedly filmed performing a sex act on a live trout. Oh, come on. Has appeared in court for the first time.

You know that Mormon docking show we talked about earlier? Yeah. I'd take this over that. Catherine June Lee, who is 58 years old, faces three charges in relation to bestiality material allegedly produced between February 2022 and January 2023. Okay, I'm asking this in only the most clinical of ways. If you were to get it on with a fish, which one would you select? Oh, me? Yeah. Wow. I'm going to have to get back to you on that. Grouper. Grouper? Yeah. Largemouth? Yeah.

Lee appeared in Hobart Magistrate's Court on Monday seeking for an adjournment without plea. Police alleged the disturbing film showed Lee lying on a boat at sea somewhere near Tasmania South as her male co-accused used a live brown trout to perform a sex act on her.

Wow. Yeah. Wow. The footage depicted sexual activity between Lee and the Trout. Lee's so-called Ashley David Hellam, or co-accused, I'm sorry, Ashley David Hellam, faced court in May this year but is yet to enter a plea. Police reminded members of the public it is an offense to possess or distribute bestiality material in Tasmania. If you think, if you were to go to an adult toy store, do you think they would have a fish toy?

I don't know. They have a variety of things, but I don't know if there's a fish device or not. Let me see your face. Do you have a river trout? Yeah.

A man is accused of holding candy store workers at gunpoint over a return dispute in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Is that a candy store? Joshua Kim went into Sugar Life Ice Cream and Candy Bar and argued with two employees over returning candy. When one of the employees told Kim that he could not have a refund, he pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot the two workers. This is going to get bloody. Why are they returning candy?

A manager at Sugar Life said that they don't do returns on candy. Do they even hand you a receipt? Isn't the presumption you're simply going to eat the candy? And she said, and they make that clear during the checkout process. Employee Edison at Meijia said, he said, I put a chunk in your head if you don't bring me back my money right now. Oh, my.

put a chunk in your head. Well, maybe he ordered a chunky. Management said the incident happened in front of other customers, including children. The police said they reviewed surveillance footage at the scene and it corroborated what the employees had told them. Officers also arrested Kim and Chelsea Lowe later that night at a resort.

Police searched a truck at the resort and said they found a half gram of cocaine and weed inside, leading to drug charges for Kim and a single drug charge for Lowe. Along with the drug charges, Kim was charged with two counts of pointing and presenting firearms at a person in an unlawful manner. And the truck is the same truck that Kim and Lowe were seen leaving another, quote, related incident. Another candy store? With the three kids in the car. And it's unclear what that related incident was. The Bonnie and Clyde of confections. Crazy. Crazy.

A woman who was a passenger on a small commercial airplane admitted on Thursday to interfering with the flight by lunging at the controls as the plane was landing, causing it to accelerate and turn on the runway. Tracy Lynn Eagleman pleaded guilty to interfering with an aircraft in a flight facing a maximum...

Of 20 years in prison, by the way. Eagleman was a passenger on Cape Air Flight 1793, a small passenger plane that departed from Billings. On the final approach, about 10 miles out, Eagleman stood up and started yelling about the landing. The flight crew, a captain and first officer, were able to calm Eagleman down and get her back into her seat. However, just as the plane touched down, Eagleman lunged forward from her seat and hit the flight controls.

Eagleman hit the throttle for one of the two engines, causing it to accelerate and prompting the plane to yaw or turn on the runway. At that time, the plane was traveling between 70 and 75 knots, which is around 80 miles an hour. The flight crew regained control of the plane without further incident, stopped on the tarmac, and eventually taxied

safely to the airport terminal. One of the passengers recorded the incident on a cell phone. While they didn't capture the moment that she lunged the control deck, other passengers are heard yelling in fear that they could have been killed. It was so serious that he had to erase the footage of his wife banging a fish. Oh, no. To get that footage. Wow. All right, and then one last story, and we'll end with that. A Detroit man...

Rear-ended, arguably the worst car he could. It was a patrol car, a police patrol car, and he did it while he was actively eating chicken wings and driving. A 73-year-old man was attempting to eat the wings while driving. A trooper was stopped in the left center lane for a red light, and the man struck him from behind.

No one was injured. There were minor vehicle damage. Did they administer a roadside poultry test? They issued the driver a citation for the incident, such as distracted driving. And apparently it is risky behavior that leads to preventable crashes. And they said that the officer said it is important to remember to focus on driving.

When behind the wheel. By the way, you're driving. Say you're driving and a police officer sees you eating a sandwich or sees you doing something like that. Is that akin to a level one? Because they talk about the seatbelt thing, which I think now they can actually pull you over. Yes. I'm not sure, Steve, if they...

pull you over for that reason alone or not. But I know what you're talking about because they... Didn't they also change using a phone that can be in New Jersey? A primary? You can't be holding a hoagie up to your face. Dude, yesterday, this guy driving a truck, he kind of slightly swerved over into my lane. I'm like, okay. And he was in the right lane, I'm in the left lane. And I just... I'm like...

I want to see what he's doing. I want to find it. So I pulled up next to him. He literally has his phone. He has both of his forearms or elbows on his steering wheel and is texting with both hands while looking at it. And I just, I drove up next to him and I just looked at him and I just shook my head. I'm just like, you can use the voice thing to send it.

Yeah. You shouldn't even be. Unless you have an iPhone and the voice thing doesn't work. Or one hand, thumb it, you know, but this guy's both of them up. Or just don't do it. Don't text and drive. Don't text and drive. How about that? I saw you in school today and I thought you were adorable. We've talked about this before, but you can tell when you see that slight weave in the lane, you're like, they're on their phone. You know what they're doing. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And there you go. That's what I have in the bizarre file for you. We'll be back in a sec. Hang out.

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Yeah.

And finally, Zach Bryan's ex, Brianna LaPaglia, accusing her former beau of emotional abuse. LaPaglia claims that Bryan insisted on playing country music. And that's your Hollywood trick. Tomorrow's 420. Yes. But, yeah, I'd forgotten about that. But I saw a list of stoner movies and shows to celebrate 420 with. And I thought this might be worth passing along to you. You know, Casey just mentioned what I think, for me, might be...

you know, upper, upper tier stoner movie is the pineapple express. I really enjoy that. It is. Have you ever seen it? I have not. It's hilarious from beginning to end. It is really. And the, the, the friendship between James Franco and Seth Rogen. Yeah. And I think James Franco steals and Danny McBride. Yeah. Yeah. Nick, when you and I were in college, Dazed and Confused was like the big stoner.

stoner movie at that time. Like the Citizen Kane. I mean, because... Up in Smoke would be. It sort of transcended. It wasn't just... It was a lifestyle movie, but it was really a stoner movie and it was really, really good. But then, right after that, there was an onslaught of like, we're going to be the next stoner movie. There was a movie called The Stoned Age that we watched and it was like

terrible. Nick, do you remember that one? I don't remember Stone Age, no. But Days Confused is one of those ones that sort of germinated under the radar for a bit. That was a home video movie for us. I didn't see that in the theater. It took two or three years after it came out for it to become loved as much as it is now. For you, Preston, what was the first one that hit? A stoner movie, Up in Smoke. Up in Smoke, man. That was... Yes. You couldn't get more. I mean, it was...

Deep into weed culture than that movie. Well, speaking of that movie and those guys, did you see Cheech and Chong on with Bert Kreischer yesterday? No. Yeah, so he does that cooking show. Okay. And they talk to him. They're talking about people that they've smoked weed with over the years. And Bert asks them who he's surprised. And the one person that Cheech says was Wally Cleaver, apparently was a massive weed smoker.

Wow. Jerry Mathers? No, Wally. Oh, Wally. Who was Wally? Wally was the older brother. The brother, yeah. No way. Tony Dow? Tony Dow. That's funny. Oh, my God. I love that. Yeah, we had those guys by one time, Cheech and Chong. Didn't we have both of them here? Definitely Tommy Chong. There's a picture of... We had Cheech, too, yeah. My daughter was in here.

um she was maybe four years old or something like that like in the back of the picture literally just a couple of months ago she's like dad who is this guy holding me so right over right behind where you're scanning there's a i have a picture of tommy chong holding casey and her pajamas with her messy bed head i don't remember why i had her in the studio but uh yeah i'm like dude that's tommy chong

And at the time, we couldn't even believe that movie could exist. They were allowed to show that much weed smoking. I thought it was illegal. So in that movie, I think you'll agree, one of the main scene stealers is Stacy Keach. Oh, yeah. It's so effing funny. Yeah. So other movies that you might want to check out, according to this particular list, are The Big Lebowski. Yeah. It's funny, man. Some of these movies, it's crazy. I've never watched The Big Lebowski.

about it. Oh, really? Yeah, I know. It's sacrilege to say that. It took me a while to get around to it. It's a great movie. Did it take you a while to love it?

I really liked it. And I wouldn't even say that I love it right now. I appreciate it. I really enjoy it. It's one of my all-time favorites. I absolutely love it. But it took a few viewings for me to really appreciate it. Although, you know, I don't really think of it as a weed movie. He drinks White Russians a lot. Because of the dude. It says, yeah, it says Jeff Bridges is the dude, leads an all-star cast, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi. Oh, that's all it says about it. What?

It says, for a toke of stoner wisdom. Okay. Yeah, because he does smoke pot, and then he's, you know, constantly... Not constantly, but he's smoking a joint. I love when he...

He drops a joint in his lap when he's driving the car. It's the best. And then they cut to the outside of the car, just swerving and smashing into a dumpster. It's really, really funny stuff. I didn't, I hosted the movie screening for that, Nick, at like the Ritz 5 when it initially came out, not knowing anything about it. When I left that movie theater, I was like, dude, I'm so glad I stayed for this. Yeah. I just, I loved it.

So it recommends why you might want to watch these. So it says for Pineapple Express, it says a bromantic bud comedy. And that's exactly what it is. It also has, for me, one of the funniest scenes. I know you haven't seen it, Preston, but there's a whole bunch of stuff smeared on the windshield. It's James Franco, who is the pot...

you know, pusher or distributor. And he kicks his foot trying to kick the windshield out. Seth Rogen, yeah, you can do it. I've seen it in movies. You can kick the windshield out. He puts his foot through the windshield and he's driving...

Oh, no. His foot is stuck in it. That's great. That's excellent. Very funny. To watch while you satisfy your munchies, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Yes. Yes. I totally forgot. All three of those. That movie, all three of them, and Nick, an unsung hero, is their Christmas movie. Absolutely. It says where the phrase, Bye, Felicia, came from. Friday. Oh, yes. Chris Tucker and Ice Cube. Do you consider that a... Yeah. Yeah.

You do? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Okay. Let's see. To learn something about the universe while getting high, watch Cosmos, A Space-Time Odyssey with Neil deGrasse Tyson. All right. Or the original. So that's if you want to kind of, you know,

Just get into the universe. I always heard, and this is years ago. In fact, I think the movie company years ago, MGM ran an ad for it as such, but for people who like to indulge seeing 2001. I could see that. This says on this one to feel all right, all right, all right. Dazed and confused. If Sean Penn will always be Spicoli to you, watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Because you remember they roll out of the van and all the smoke comes out. He's smoking weed and banging the vans on his head and stuff like that. Now it also says for a marathon 420 celebration, that 70s show. Were they smoking a lot of weed? All the time. All the time. So they would have this, it was them sitting around the table, the camera would do a 360 and they were smoking pot in the basement.

All right, and now this movie I've never heard of. It says, to have your mind completely blown, annihilation. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Is Oscar Isaacson that one? Oscar Isaacson, yes. And Natalie Portman. What's it about? So what happens is we are led to believe that aliens have come to Earth and are terraforming our planet to resemble theirs. Okay. And there is some trippy stuff that happens in the movie. Okay. Okay.

And I think that's it. But they call that a stoner movie? It's just a trippy movie. They made that caveat. Maybe some of this is to where you want to smoke and watch. I just wanted to show you that picture. Oh, my God. It's so funny. That is great. Casey's daughter, Casey, being held by Tommy Chong. And like her little peaches. She's a little bitty. So, his baby. What year is that? Okay, I got to look at her.

2009. That's a great picture. Lest we forget, he did Jail Time for selling bongs. I used to have his contact information because we had him on the show. A couple times. Yeah, we had Tommy on a few times and Cheech was definitely here too. How is Half Baked not on this list? Oh, that's right. Oh, you know what? I'm sorry. That's the one I missed. Oh. It says for those who still quote the Chappelle Show regularly, Half Baked. Yeah. So if you want to see that, those are some suggestions for 420.

You know what I think I realized? I think we're in the junk drawer. Oh, all right. I apologize because I'd like to apologize. It's the junk drawer. Preston's cleaning out his junk drawer. Getting things out of his junk drawer. Finding stuff here in the junk drawer. I apologize. I'd like to apologize. I apologize.

I'd like to apologize. I apologize. I'd like to apologize. I apologize. Oh, thank you for that. Oh, my God. Okay. Yeah, because I saw a couple of things that I'd like to mention before we get into the weekend, and it is indeed the junk drawer. So...

All right, I found this. LinkedIn's annual top companies list came out this week, highlighting the 50 best workplaces for career growth in the U.S. in 2024.

This year's companies include well-known names such as Tech Health and Financial Services. In Tech Health and Financial Services. LinkedIn breaks down the report in two lists. One for mid-sized companies with at least 250 employees and one for large companies employing 5,000 or more workers. I just have the list of the large companies. You know, it's a funny thing about LinkedIn is it actually makes me feel sad when it comes up because a lot of times, initially when it came out, I hopped on and I have, you know, my account and then people...

would reach out to have me at some level be in their networking chain. I guess it was sort of a feather in the cap. It's social media. It's social media. That's all it is. Right. So...

And I would always forget my login information. Like, I logged on for the first time about four months ago, and a friend from years ago had reached out on LinkedIn, and I'm like... But you don't use it because you don't really need it. I don't need it. Yeah, and you have other social media platforms that you use, but it's really evolved into a workplace social media. Right, and I'm...

woefully out of the loop. I have an account, but I deactivated it because that was the same situation. And also, which I didn't know, is if you go to somebody else's profile or you look or whatever, they can see it. So like...

There may be businesses like, hey, this business is checking me out. Maybe I should reach out or look for an email coming from them or whatever. But I was using it for a few contacts for the show or more recently because I looked into reactivating my account or trying to log back in or whatever. You think it might be a useful tool? Well, when we were down in Clearwater, there was somebody that I was trying to contact for the show and I could see them on LinkedIn, but I couldn't see if their contact information was there because...

my account was like I had to figure out my account so I think I'm going to open it back up but like for that reason if there's you know somebody out there that we could potentially contact yeah through LinkedIn might be worth it I never even thought to use LinkedIn for that type of stuff I was actually talking about this last night and so you know how you have like your predictive text when you're sending a text myself you might want this word and then this word and this word but on LinkedIn and some of these other places like I think maybe Facebook has this it's completely like if somebody has a post on their LinkedIn profile and

There is already for you to choose from an AI-generated response, not just a hi, but like an AI-generated response that you click on that and it will send that response to whatever their post is. Wow. And that is all designed to help you –

develop your business and your LinkedIn page and correspondence. No, it makes sense. So to come up with the rankings, they used LinkedIn data to rate companies on eight pillars that have been shown to lead career progression. Those include skill growth, gender diversity, the availability to advance, and company stability. So I'll give you the top 10 large U.S. companies to work for in 2020. All right, let's hear them. We'll start at number 10. Alphabet Incorporated. Oh, Google. Google.

Number nine is Moderna. Wait, wait, wait. Alphabet is Google? Isn't that the umbrella corporation that is Google? How about that? Number eight is Verizon. Number seven is AT&T.

Number six, United Health Group. Number five is PWC. PricewaterhouseCooper. Oh, okay. It's Pwick. Pwick. Who do you work for? Pwick. Pwick. Hi, we have Steve from Pwick on Line 5. He's one of those Pwicks. Yeah.

You are a quick. He's a quick head. What is, how would you pronounce this case? Deloitte. Deloitte? Yeah, that's. How do you know that? You're on the other side of the room. Are you looking at the same list? He's a mind reader.

Deloitte's for, go ahead. Yes, I know how to read the list. Nick, I didn't know you were looking at the list, so that's why I was asking how you knew it. He asked me the question and you answered it. Yeah, I asked him. And that wasn't up on the page. I asked Casey and I'm like, how would that, you're reading my mind? Yes. Deloitte is a consulting company. My brother used to work for them. That's how I knew how it was pronounced. Okay. Number three is Wells Fargo. What's that? Uh,

It's a bank. Oh, well, the Wells Fargo wagon is. Do you guys remember that one? No? The music man? Oh, I've heard. I remember. I've never actually heard it. Pum, pum, pum, pum. That's happiness, which I watched yesterday, by the way. Number two. Thank you. It.

I'm glad we know that. I just finished Henry Winkler's biography. Yeah, it was the one. It was the episode, Steve, where they invite Fonzie to the yacht club to make fun of him. Oh, I remember that one. Of course. Class warfare was a big part of both Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. Number two is Antifa.

Amazon, best companies to work for. So your son does. Is he working technically for Amazon or a subsidiary of Amazon? It's like a third party. But he drives the Amazon truck, right? Yes. But they didn't ask him to. The company is called Lightspeed.

But they deliver for Amazon. See, I always thought the people that drove the Amazon trucks worked for Amazon. And then when you get that random person in their own car tossing it, like that's the... They're working. But I guess not. There are vehicles that come that are not Amazon vehicles that are delivering Amazon stuff. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But these say Amazon on them, but they're... I don't know how it works. I should ask them. It's such a huge company. You would imagine there are outside sources for it. Yep.

And then number one company to work for is J.P. Morgan Chase and Company. Oh, get out. Get out. According to LinkedIn and the parameters that they use to figure this out. It's interesting because, you know, every one of these, there are people who, and every company, who piss and moan and say, you got to be careful. I can't believe my company's on this list. They're horrible or whatever. So it's all, you know, you can find good experiences in a company that everyone hates and you can find horrible experiences that everyone loves. Does J.P. Morgan need a morning show?

Right? So they base this on skills, growth, gender diversity, ability to advance, and company stability along with how much you weigh. So that's what they use. It's a very heavy company. All right. We're going to move on. I found some other things here in the junk drawer.

Alright, here's one I've not heard of before. The hottest new thing in home trends is one that will help you keep the stresses of the outside world out of your living space. Meet Rest Corners. Rest Corners. Yes. An area for you to...

Imagine if in your own home you could find one corner. Like you don't have a room. You can just go into the corner. How bad has your life gotten where you can't close a door in a room and rest? You have to secure a corner.

I actually, I like this idea. Well, I kind of have a corner. Is it in a room that you could be in by yourself? Yes, Steve. So you have multiple corners. But hold on. It has glass doors. So it's not like, even if I close the doors, Jace can still see me and get to me. The cats, it's where I broadcast when I was broadcasting at home. And the cats would knock on the door. The cats knock on the door. So I have like a corner.

corner in there that I can go to where like maybe the cats can't see me. Maybe I'm missing this thing. What are the aspects of the corner? All right. So apparently they're popping up on social media here and there, Pinterest, and everybody has a different idea, an own idea of what a...

What a rest corner is. So it can be a corner or small space in your home that is devoted to chilling in your own way. People use them for reading, meditating, napping. That's what I do. I read. Doing yoga, lounging, enjoying self-care, rubbing one out. No, it does not say that. That's my corner. It doesn't say that. Happy, you read. Soothing hobbies. You rub one out. Knitting. Knitting. Sorry.

Wait, hold on. Painting or doing puzzles? Oh, I'm not painting in there. That's a mess. Yes, I read, Casey. Like, you read books and stuff? Yes. Listen, I've known you a long time, and I know that you are a beautifully intelligent person, so this isn't a... But I've never heard you say anything about a book that you love reading. The Life and Times of David Faustino. Ha ha ha!

I actually saw Kathy reading down in Clearwater. Oh, really? Yeah, you were out on the lounge chair. Remember I came down? Yeah, when you came to your airline ticket. You were reading your airline ticket. No, no.

Case, I think when you reach a certain point in your life, a certain age, women, they become readers. I mean, it's relaxing. That's what I'll do. I'll go into my rest corner and I will read my book. Or yes, when we were away in Clearwater, I was there by myself. I loved it. I sat on the beach. My wife is a voracious reader. Loves it. It is amazing.

Anytime she can get, she's the classic pull up a book and start reading and she loves it. She's currently tearing through the Reacher series, Preston. But yeah, yeah. For me, the only way I can consume stuff like that is now listening to Audible. Yeah. Have you ever thought about or ever taken part in a reading, a book club?

So I'm not part of a book club, but only because we've talked about it. My group of friends, all of my neighbors, we swap books. Everybody is, you know, once you finish a book, you pass it on to someone else. But we haven't gotten to the point where we're sitting down and discussing the same book that we read. Do you know what we did with Astino? No.

Do you guys want to hear how to make a rest corner? Please. Okay. So you start by finding a space that you want to dedicate to this purpose, one that's away from screens and noise, ideally. A low traffic area is probably best, but it could be in any room or even a closet that

As long as it's a place that you can decompress. Okay. You section it off, if you can, with curtains, privacy screens, or you move furniture to help it feel a little more secluded. So you're building a fort. Yeah. That's what you're doing. You're building a fort. You're building a fort, guys. But you're also going for...

I love that. You're going for it to be clandestine. As Kathy said, you want to not almost be invisible. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And you are in a fort. When was the last time you built a fort? I think I need to do that like today. It's been a while, but yeah, we used to do it with the kids. There are places in my house where it's fort-ish. Like when I – we call it the media room, which is where I have my audio stuff and –

That feels like I close the door and that's where I can get away. Yeah, but you're going to need a blanket. Are blankets involved? Then it becomes a sleep corner. No, no, no. I mean to make a fort. Oh, the fort. Sorry, sorry, sorry. You need sofa pillows. Well, so now they make – because I just saw it on my Instagram feed. Basically, it's like a fort in a box and it is just a series of –

Cardboard. Yes. We had them. Okay. We had them, and it was towards the end of like Jace's fort building time. So we only used them a few times, but it was cool. It was like instead of using like chairs and blankets and clips and this and that like we did as kids. Think of a cardboard eagle. No, no. But the reason I have this expression on my face, I thought we talked to somebody who created that or something. Did we? Maybe I saw a news story about it, about this family that has created this.

you know, you order it and it's sent to you and you have all these pieces that you put together. You're not talking about the... Actual cardboard. Okay, you're not talking about the dream huts where they come and they... No. Okay. No. This was... Maybe I saw it on the news, but yeah, so you can do that. All right, anyhow, back to the rest corner. They recommend you use calming shapes and colors like nature-inspired blues and greens to add to the relaxation. It's like mine. I swear to God.

To make it as cozy as possible, add a soft faux fur rug or fluffy blanket over a chair. That's perfect. And don't forget a plant or two and some candles. Done, done. Do you have all of that? You know I don't have candles in my house. That's true. But I do have a plant. If your rest corner can be near natural light, even better, and it will help you feel even more relaxed if you can do that. But I like the idea of light. I look for a spot...

where it can be just me. Sometimes when I'm doing work, I like to have a nice... Absolutely. And I don't like to sit at a desk and do work. I like to recline. Where's your favorite spot in the house for you? If it's not technically a corner, where do you find this solace in the house?

There is a special spot on our living room couch, and that's if nobody's watching TV or anything like that that I can kind of settle in and I have everything that I need right then and there. But you know, actually, where I like to go, when it's Christmas and we put the tree up

We have to move a section of the couch. Yes. And then we move that to a whole other room where we have, it's kind of where my little bar and game room is. Okay. And we move that section of the couch in there. And it's literally, if you know sectionals, it's one sectional piece and that's it.

and this sits in the front room, and it's all by itself. We just put it there to get it out of the way for the tree. I go in there and sit on that. May I suggest something? I love it. Why don't you get something like a couch or something that's like that and just put that in that room? I know. Unfortunately, where we put it gets in the way of other things. It's on the dining room. It's just there for a month, so we don't really have to deal with it too much, but it's in front of the dartboard and stuff like that. But yeah, I would like to do that, to be honest. Okay.

All right, so anyhow, rest corner. Rest corner. All right, we have time for another one. One more. One more. Oh, man. It's busting at the seams here. Yeah, this is a good one, too. I would like to apologize. All right, I got it. Sorry. I apologize.

Wallet Hub has come out with their list of 2024's best airlines. Wallet Hub? Yeah, they compared the nine largest U.S. airlines plus a regional carrier on 13 factors including cancellation and delay rates, baggage mishaps, in-flight comfort, and cost in relation to amenities. Are we in the... I assume that we are in...

Right in the summer vacation planning. Yeah. Right now. Right. You were definitely planning our summer vacation. So the best airline overall, Alaska Airlines. With the door coming off. Door coming off. Right. Yeah. Alaska Airlines. For those who don't require doors on their aircraft. Yeah.

You had issues with Alaska last year. It was two years ago, I think, and it was American, and they transferred me on to an Alaska Airlines flight. And I think the reason they were able to do that is that they're in the same umbrella company. They probably are. But I'm probably wrong. No, because that's happened to me before. Like, I've ended up on some airline that was supposed to be American. It's got to be somehow connected. So they're not, with this airline, it doesn't have as much...

as other airlines. So what do they say makes it so good? You know, Steve, there are the four majors. I just found this out. Delta, United, American, and Southwest, and Alaska is the fifth of the majors. Wow. But you're right. I mean, it doesn't have...

And nearly as many routes. And so maybe because they have fewer routes, they can service their customers a little better. And they fly at an altitude where they don't require both doors. It's just the overall of the factors, which include cancellation, delay, mishap, baggage mishaps, in-flight comfort costs. In-flight snacks include blubber. All that stuff. So the most affordable airline is Spirit Airlines. Spirit. Most reliable airlines...

Delta Airlines. I know a lot of people who fly for their corporate office and they fly Delta because they are the most reliable because they'll be flying from one appointment in one city to another appointment in another. If you get delayed or canceled, then you miss your meeting. They love to fly. They never use Delta. I never even think about it. It's so expensive. That's why. If you go through...

Listen, I fly almost exclusively American. I've flown Frontier and Spirit, which is fine. It's affordable, basically sitting in a lawn chair. Philly's a hub for American. It's easy to find the flight you want. So John, who works down the hall, he lived in Atlanta for a while, and Atlanta was a hub, I believe, for Delta. So he flies exclusively Delta. I just think it's just too cost prohibitive. I have never seen a Delta flight where I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, that's affordable. It's always been like...

hundreds of dollars more expensive. The most comfortable airlines, Delta Airlines as well, and JetBlue.

It says. Yeah. My family in New York flies JetBlue. No, you don't like it, Steve? My JetBlue experiences have been less than wonderful. Oh. I was upset that both doors stayed on. And then the last one categories the safest airline, and that's Spirit Airlines. Casey, you wanted to comment on Spirit? Yeah, well, I flew home from Detroit on Spirit for $22. Wow. Uh-huh. We weren't able to bring a bag with us, so I only had my backpack. Listen, the...

It's fine. I can fly in a chair, and I'm only 5'7", so I fit in these chairs a little bit better than most people or anybody taller than me. You're 6'1". That's what my license says. What if you did shorty airlines for smaller people? Yeah. And longy airlines. Longy airlines for the talls. But I'm saying, those chairs, I mean, you're sitting in a folding chair. It is very, very uncomfortable, but totally manageable and doable for people

an hour and 15 minutes. On another note, the greatest improvement revelation has been the extension, I don't know why I'm so gerbing today, but of the overhead compartment making it much wider. Well, and

And the way they open. Much wider. And the way they open. The way they open is so much better now. It's been a godsend. And they've also had people to start put them in. They tell you to put it in the right way. Put it in like a book. Yes. They say you don't lay it sideways. It's been awesome. Yeah. It fits much better and it can fit more. So when it comes to discount airlines, and I want to ask this question delicately, but does it invite people who don't know air travel etiquette that,

Do you know what I mean? Because the... I think there's all... There's that all over the airlines. All over the airlines. Because on my flight back from Detroit, I ran into... There was a group of people that I thought were just completely and totally annoying and rude and, like, didn't care about your personal space. And then one lady in particular who I was...

First of all, she had a patch on her backpack that said, F around, find out. I was like, okay, that's what you travel with. But then she was using her younger daughter as a blocker as she was coming off of the flight. She was probably five rows behind me and got off the plane five rows ahead of me. I'm like, how did that actually happen? That doesn't sound like...

Not knowing the etiquette. That sounds like not giving a damn about the etiquette. I just have to piggyback on Katie's spirit because I've been flying Frontier a lot because I can get to and from Denver in like 50 bucks. And as long as you are just bringing a backpack for the weekend, that's all. I think the problem comes...

even less sometimes steve like each flight will sometimes be like 22 so you just bring you just bring on a backpack that's it yeah and and you're you're going round trip to denver yeah and then you could you could easily just buy the clothes that you're gonna need for the weekend there and then throw them away and you're still gonna save you're still gonna save in the long run think of what so think of what what would like a uh i mean like a bolt bus is like 10 20 bucks right that's

That's half an airline ticket to Denver. Guys, the last flight I just booked, I splurged and spent $19 to get an exit row window seat. Wow. I still want to try that Avello Airlines out of Wilmington. They don't do a ton of flights every day, but you can get to Puerto Rico for dirt cheap. Yeah. You're five foot nothing. You don't need to be sitting in the exit row seat. I'm over six feet tall.

Get out of that thing. You can buy it. And it's the exit row. I'm saying she doesn't need it. It's the exit row that doesn't have a seat in front of it either. So I have like all the like. The seats don't recline either. It doesn't matter where you sit. Oh, the seats don't recline? Not even a little bit.

Yeah, but $22. Who cares? I think the problem is when people try to go on like a long, week-long vacation with multiple bags and everything like that. I've done that. I've flown to the Caribbean on Frontier and even so it was cheaper. I did it because it was cheaper than the other airlines. And they do pressurize the wheel well. No, but even

with the baggage fees and the seat fees that you have to add on it does still end up being slightly cheaper depending on when you fly all right well listen we got to wrap it up i'm sorry so we got to close up the junk drawer i apologize all right we are going to take a break we'll be right back

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