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I was keeping you on info pillow. Please go away. Let me sleep for the love of... You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR with Preston Elliott. You will listen to every damn word I have to say. And Steve Morrison. Words are like bullets lost. Casey Boy. They all can't starve it. Kathy Romano. I wanted to

Nick McElwain. I'm just not the hero type. And Marissa Magnata. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMO. Hey! Hey!

Good morning, dear friend, and welcome to another day we spend together. Some of us are. Let's dive into the weather forecast and see what we have in store. It's absolutely stunning this week. And today we're going to have clouds, partly clouded and mostly cloudy.

High of close to 80 degrees. I love that. Partly cloudy tomorrow, high 78. Sunshine on Thursday, 81. Clouds on Friday, but the high 80. And this continues into the weekend. Maybe a slight chance for rain. We'll see about Saturday. And now, Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano.

Tuesday, April 22nd. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning in the news this morning. Cardinals have taken their first decisions following the death of Pope Francis, setting Saturday as the date for his funeral and allowing ordinary faithful to begin paying their final respects starting Wednesday with his casket.

which is being brought to St. Peter's Basilica. My mom is watching this like so closely because when I was in second grade, a second grade teacher of ours is now like a priest. And he may have a he's been in Rome for quite a while now. He used to work at the, you know, Basilica here in Philadelphia. You know, he worked his way up the ranks and all of that sort of potential. No, I mean, pretty crazy. If Jimmy Oliver, you know, knows, you know, Delaware County became the pope.

Became the Pope, yeah. Jesus. Quite literally. Jesus. I was watching that clip the other day. Me too. I swear to God. Jesus. What? History of the world? Yeah, history of the world. Did you guys see the stat yesterday that Keith Richards has now outlived seven Popes? Oh my gosh. And the punchline was one more and he gets to be a saint. Wow. Wow.

So the Cardinals met for the first time Tuesday in the Vatican Synod Hall to chart the next steps before a conclave begins to choose Francis' successor as condolences poured in from around the world grieving history's first Latin American Pope. The Cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Peter's Square to be celebrated by the Dean of

College of Cardinals Cardinal Giovanni Battista Ray. President Donald Trump announced he and First Lady Melania Trump will attend Saturday's funeral. Argentine President Javier Millay is also expected. Francis died Monday at the age of 88 after suffering a stroke that put him in a coma and led his heart

to fail he had been recovering in his apartment after being hospitalized for five weeks with pneumonia he had his last public appearance sunday delivering an easter blessing and making what would be his final greetings to followers from his popemobile looping around st peter square it was sort of a sweet kathy they showed a picture of the pontiff's apartment preston there was a rush poster up on the wall which i thought was had a feeling maybe amazing yeah yeah

No, but probably a soccer picture. Soccer, yes. Yeah, he was a huge fan. Soccer matches in Italy and Argentina were suspended in honor of the Argentine Pope, who was a lifelong fan of San Lorenzo Soccer Club. Bells sounded in chapels, churches, and cathedrals around the world, and flags flew at half-staff in Italy, India, Taiwan, and the United States after Francis' death was announced. I wonder how many people were processed by the body. I know. I mean, you're talking a...

Global religious figure. Well, if you remember last time this happened, I mean, it's like days they can come by, right? Yes. Yeah. It was like you just saw, I mean, crowds packed in there. From everywhere. Yeah. From everywhere. World leaders praised Francis for his moral leadership and compassion, while ordinary faithful remembered his simplicity and humanity.

Crozier Health will be shutting down after months of hearings and proposals to save the troubled company. Again, here we go. I think this is it, though. Is this the United States of Hospitals, the ship? Yeah, the USS Hospital. This means Crozier, Chester Medical Center in Upland and Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park could shut down in a matter of weeks.

The timeline was revealed in a bankruptcy filing by Crozier Health's owner, Prospect Medical Holdings. The closure would leave patients having to travel farther for treatment and thousands of employees out of a job. The closure comes despite the fact that millions of dollars have been injected into the hospital system to keep it open. That's what they're saying. Like they put all of this money into it to keep it open and now it's closing anyway. Crozier Health plans to start diverting some patients as soon as Wednesday and the system could shut down as early as May 2nd.

The move will impact up to 3,000 workers at both hospitals, including nearly 400 registered nurses. New Jersey is trying to make it easier for people to get a real ID if they have urgent travel plans. Starting May 7th, people must have a real ID or a passport to fly domestically. Beginning Thursday, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission will grant emergency appointments specifically those who need to board a domestic flight within 14 days for life or death reasons or for urgent travel plans.

Applicants will need to provide proof of their emergency and confirm that they have the required documents. All appointments will be handled at the MCV's Trenton Regional Center and it will cost $80 for an expedited shipping charge. You're actually pretty good with that. Excuse me, I needed a quick turnaround on my passport and I applied for kind of that same sort of emergency service.

And they got it to me. Well, it was years ago. I don't even remember where I was going. But I went to take the passports out for a trip like the week we were leaving. And we couldn't find them. I couldn't find them anywhere. And you know, I never found them. Get out.

So I don't know what the hell. There's another Catherine Romano. Touring the world. And I had to go down to whatever the office was. It was at like 2nd and Chestnut. And I had to sit and wait in line. And then we got our picture taken, filled out all the paperwork, left for lunch, came back. And I mean, fortunately, it was ready and we were able to have them. But if not, we wouldn't have been able to go on this trip.

Of course, in the broad scheme of things, you have to figure that you're not the only person in the world who's ever come up against a situation like that. So they have to have something in place to do that. So these appointments will not be available for scheduling through the regular scheduling platform. So you'll have to go to the website, get the information, and then you have to prove that it's life or death or an urgent travel plan. You have to have the documents and then pay the expedited charge. In sports this morning...

Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy. What the f*** is that?

The Phillies lost to the Mets 5-4 last night in New York. What the f*** is this? Francisco Lindor hit two more home runs, including a leadoff shot for his second consecutive game. Francisco, that's fun to say. And the Mets held off the Phillies in the first meeting this season between the rivals. What the f***?

What the f*** is that?

Smart move. Yeah.

The Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. And that's what I have for you this morning. Thanks, Kath. I'm looking at our day. We're packed, folks. We got a lot happening today. Chance for you to win some stuff. We'll start with the fact that we do, of course, have the presidency of 20 money coming up 8 o'clock. Your first crack at it. We'll do it five times throughout the course.

of today we also have tattoos day so if you're interested in getting a free tattoo that shows your love of our program we would love to have you on board and all you have to do is text word tattoo uh to 610-660-9333 no is that not how we're doing it any oh yeah that's right never mind

Things are changing, folks. So we're going to have you just go to WMMR.com and figure it out while you're over there. 1729 South Street in Philadelphia. And I'm sorry. I apologize. I messed that up. That's my fault. I'll be more strict about it, folks. There are a lot of things in front of me, a lot of information here. So make sure you go to WMMR.com. I sat in your seat for three days last week.

It's information overload. I'm telling you, it's information overload. There are so many different colors and buttons and papers and all that sort of stuff. I grow a greater appreciation for what you do on a daily basis. As you can imagine, Casey kept that all to himself. I don't have press

and dozens. Well, and listen, there's a lot of things changing with our phones and our access and all that stuff. I don't think it's ever been a better time to relay information than currently, Preston, because everything is so rock solid. Right? Exactly. Listen, we also have a lot going on as far as guests on the program today. We will have

So the Truist Championship is coming up at Philadelphia Cricket Club. This is a big, big golf tournament that's in town. If you're not familiar with it, it's May 7th through the 11th. So...

The biggest of the bigs are going to be here. Rory McIlroy, the recent Masters winner, is going to be here. Grand Slam champion. He will be on board. Scotty Scheffler, Justin Thomas. I mean, the bigs of the bigs are going to be in town. So we're going to have the executive director of the 2025 Truist Championship, Joey Chitwood, stopping by this morning. When you said he's going to be here, I was like, what?

what did I miss? I'm like, this is so cool. Now he's going to be in Philadelphia. Rory is going to be in Philadelphia. I stopped. I'm like, why is he so

calm about this. The executive director of the event will be here in our studio. That is exciting though. So he'll be here in the 8 o'clock hour. We're also going to have an amazing musician, Chris Thiele who is with the band Nickel Creek and he's this prodigy mandolin player. He's going to be performing

tomorrow night at the Marian Anderson Hall. And he's got an orchestra backing him up. It's the whole thing, Philadelphia Orchestra. So we're going to talk to him in the 9 o'clock hour. And speaking of musicians, William DeVault, lead singer of Alice in Chains, will be checking in with us this morning as well. And, of course, we have the MMRBQ coming up on May 10th. So that on top of money and the tattoos and the other stuff that we will have to give away, we've got a lot.

So let's take a break. Come back in a second and we will get to the entertainment report right after this. Stupid question as well. Stay with us.

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Fast, fresh, and right to your door. Acme, fresh foods, local flavors. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Let's give something away. We got a four-pack of tickets to Driven to Serve, a muscle car, Jeep, and truck show. Maple Grove Raceway. It's happening Saturday, April 26th. So the question is,

That I'll pose to you is this. We've mentioned the show Emergency from time to time. It was one of my favorite shows as a kid. So what was the squad number where the paramedics worked? All right. In the show Emergency, 1970s.

What was the squad number for the paramedics where they worked? See if you know the answer to that. And you can text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the link and then you jump on and see if we can get the answer from you. That reminds me, you said a show. There's a show that you guys are all watching and you love. And I started it. I'm just saying this so you remind me later to, I can bring it up. Okay.

I hate it. All right. Do we need to know what show it is? Severance. I haven't started watching it. Do I need more time? No, I said this on air. I loved it and I hated it. It's a show that I loved that I don't even know if I liked it. I can tell you that my wife...

ran the whole two seasons in the past couple of days, the past week. She loves it. Loved it? She loves it. Okay, well then I need to talk to her. Do I need to give it more time? Give it time. Or is this just not for me? It may not just be for you. That's my understanding. I dabbled a little bit. I liked...

where it was going, so I'm probably going to watch it myself, but I can tell you that she loved it. Kathy, how many episodes in are you? Well, I got through like 20 minutes of the first one and I was like, this is awful. I have to force myself to put more time in. Yeah, be patient. It's brilliant television, but you have to be patient with it. All right. Glad we could help. But you gave it a good 20 minutes. Today's birthdays, April 22nd, include Amber Heard. She has her birthday today. Yes, Aquaman.

Pineapple Express. She pooped in the back apparently. We've since learned that it was probably dog poop, but still the legend lives on and you can't find that. She turns 39 years old today. Actress Cheryl Lee has a birthday today. Okay, here's where I run into my information sources, where I get these birthdays from.

It includes the, here are her credits that they include. Yeah, yeah. Okay. One tree hill and dirty sexy money. Wasn't she Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks? Yeah, she was. Maybe you want to put that in the credits. That was a big deal. Yeah, it was a big deal. Well, she's 58 years old today. Stinking service. I'm saying. Or...

No, she's not a whore. No, but we're sure there are a few whores employed in that company. It's Negan's birthday today. Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Happy birthday. He turns a year older. Who's going to blow out the cake?

He turns 59 years old today. He's a great actor. We loved him as the comedian and watchman. Yeah, he's been in some great stuff, man. He's also, when he plays regular people, he played the father of the brothers in Supernatural. He can be very likable. Very likable. The same dude who has a barbed wire baseball bat can be really likable. Yep. Let's see. Sherri Shepherd of The View is 58 today. Okay.

uh ryan styles uh who we love whose line is it anyway drew carey show uh he turns 66 case i'm saving this one for a minute because he's oh i got you okay so i skipped i skipped around casey glanced at my oh oh at my birthdays and sometimes has some music and sound effects and things you know what i'll go ahead and get to this okay you saw someone who's ready now last of the actors on my list because they do have some musicians and uh

directors and things like that, but the last of the actors, it's Jack Nicholson's birthday today. It's Jack Nicholson's birthday today. Thank you. You're welcome. He turns 88 years old today. 88? You're goddamn right I did! And he's still out and about or no? No. He showed up at a Lakers game and it was kind of like big news that he was sitting courtside again. He was actually on a

He made a TV appearance, a rare TV appearance. It might have been, was it for the SNL 50th? It was, yeah. Yeah. He was there for that. And he actually had a couple of lines, Steve. He did? Yeah. Okay. But beyond that, he's not done any acting since that film that he shot in Philadelphia, How Do You Know, with Paul Rudd. Do you know what's wild, though? His son is rising up in the acting world now. He's really good. He's in that...

Smile, too. He's done a couple of other movies. He's got the Jack thing going on full-blown. And think about him being 88. I mean, we just saw Gene Hackman and how he looked at the end of his life. And once you start to hit a certain age, there's no denying it. You get into old...

old man. But is that, was that picture that was pulled up, was that him at the game? I don't know because that looked pretty good, right? That looked pretty damn good for 88. Yeah. It says, Jack Nicholson makes rare appearance during SNL 50th anniversary special. I think that is. He looks

I'm good. He looks really good. Happy birthday. Goddamn right he does. Jack, you're goddamn right. Happy 88th birthday today. Are we clear? We crystal, sir. All right. It's also Peter Frampton's birthday today. The great Peter Frampton turns 75 years old.

from touring, but he kind of dragged it out a little bit longer. He was doing better. He has a degenerative muscular issue, and he can't really play guitar to the level that he wants to. So it's my understanding that the progression of the disease is being held at bay a bit more effectively than they thought it was going to be. Which is great. But, I mean, this album, which is basically essentially a collection of

I ate a fungus back in 1994.

And I sat in a chair and listened to this song for two hours straight. On repeat. It's a good one to listen to. And I drank Kahlua and cream because it just felt so good going down my throat. It was all about sensory stuff. But at one point, I actually thought that I could tell the future. I was sitting in the chair and this guy, it was homecoming day. And this dude was like, I'm leaving. I'm out of here. I'm going home. And then he left it. And I turned to the person next to me and go...

He's not going anywhere. I'm like, he's staying here for another couple of... And sure enough, like, the dude didn't leave. And I was like... And I sat in this chair. It was like a throne. You're a regular Nostradamus. Unbelievable. Soon there'll be a History Channel special about you. Wow. It'll be sponsored by Kahlua and Cream. God, I only hope we can get Peter Frampton on someday so we can share him. Once I heard this amazing story of this chap who barely was...

Able to tell the future after listening to my music. But I can see while on psychedelics, hearing the TalkBox guitar would be a transcendental moment for you possibly. Everyone had this album. Everyone was blown away with that, what is it, the vocoder or what do they have? TalkBox. TalkBox. Yeah. So what is a vocoder then? Do you know what that is? I think that has to do with a keyboard. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, so and I...

What's that thing? Does he have bronchitis? The talk box is actually the speaker. So when you hit this button, the guitar switches to a speaker that's hooked up to...

essentially a funnel and a tube. It's almost like a reverse beer bong. And it goes up to your mouth and all the music is coming through your mouth and that's why it's right up by the microphone. So you're hearing the sound that goes into the musician's mouth and they shape it by opening and closing it. Is that wild? Yeah. I did not know that. It's been around forever. Yep. So he is 75 today. What's a vocoder, Nick? It's what you said. Okay. Let's just keep going. It's Daniel John's birthday today from Silverchair.

He turns 46 years old today. He was 16 when they recorded this song. Wow. That was 30 years ago. Yeah. So he turns 46 today. Happy birthday.

Byron Allen, the comedian, TV personality, founder, owner, chairman, chief executive of Entertainment Studios and owner of the Weather Channel. Mogul. Super mogul. Tyler Perry level mogul. Is 64 today. The great John Waters, who we've had on the program many times.

Is 79. Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Serial Mom. A lot of great movies. Serial Mom was just on the other day. So awesome. I think he's touring. I saw his name float across something coming to Philadelphia. With Frampton. Yes. He's got the dog box this time around. And then the last birthday today, we have a friend of the program and probably a friend of yours. If you're a fan of the Phillies, ladies and gentlemen, Mickie.

Morandini turns 59 years old. That guy cracks me up. He's awesome. He's just terrific. Every time we have him on, we have a blast. So happy birthday, Mickey Morandini. He's the ultimate GIFs zero Fs. Oh, totally. Totally. All right. We will see if we can get a winner for the question, the stupid question that we have this morning. And in the show emergency, what was the squad number for the paramedics? We have...

Tyler, whom we are checking in with via Zoom. Yo, Tyler, morning, brother. Eat my shorts. Eat my shorts. That's what they say every day. The great John Bender. That's from us, yeah. And then the Simpsons stole it. All right, dude. What was the squad number for the paramedics on emergency? All right? Kalula and Cream. 51. 51. 51. Yeah.

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I'll watch an episode now and then it holds up. So we're going to start with Meghan Markle. British author Mel Elliott claims that Meghan's cancelled Netflix series Pearl bore striking similarities to her earlier children's books about a character named Pearl Power. Son of a bitch! Meghan is a feminist who sticks up for other women so she said, I was disappointed and confused to see how similar Netflix's proposed show Pearl was to my own.

Her legal team sent three letters to Megan and Netflix starting in summer 2021, warning that the show might infringe on Elliott's intellectual property. But she says she never received a response. In May of 2022, Netflix canceled Pearl, citing budget cuts. But Elliott believes that her legal action played a role in that. Wait, this is a TV show or was this the reality? No, no, no, no. It was a...

children's show. So Pearl was an animated program about a little girl who finds inspiration from influential women across history. So she had said, what I really wanted was to have been acknowledged or invited to work as a collaborator. Pearl was my dream project and now it's going to look like I copied the idea from someone else. But they cancelled it, so it doesn't matter. Awesome.

Dick Van Dyke and his wife Arlene Silver spoke to People Magazine about their enduring 13 year marriage despite skepticism due to their age gap. So for reference, he's 99 years old. She is 53 years old. She said or Van Dyke said everybody said it wouldn't work.

To which Silver added, people the same age don't last. And the couple emphasized how well they connect, sharing that we just care about each other so much. Van Dyke recalled their first meeting while speaking with the outlet, saying that he never said hello to a strange girl in his life. He said, but for some reason I jumped up and I said, hi, I'm Dick.

Silver shared how... I've got plenty of... Empowering. The relationship has been as well, saying that he's made me feel like I can do anything. He's still a man. Vital. I saw him singing a song from Mary Poppins. I saw an interview with him just recently, and he's saying, he's like, I'm going to be 100 years old in however many months. And he goes...

People ask me how I did it. He said, I have no idea. He's like, I think it's because I sing and dance every day. Yeah, yeah. I got to do more of that then. Maybe. But he's a very active guy. He exercises regularly. He does. He takes care of himself. And there was a point in his life where he was a raging alcoholic. No kidding. Yes, he was. Was it a Dick Van Dyke series post? Yeah, yeah. Wow.

Alright, so listen to this story. Will Forte, Nick's close personal friend. Son of a bitch! Reminded, and Steve's jealous of that. Just reminded everyone that not all pranks are worth the laugh, especially when they go way too far. He was on Hot Ones and

And he was eating some very spicy wings and recalled what he called an awful memory from his teen years. He said, it's horrible and you'll see why. And he just started to dive into the cringeworthy story. He said at 14 years old,

I can't believe he did this. He left a fake suicide note on the front door and pretended to be lifeless on the bathroom floor to prank his mother. No, no. Right? That's actually, no. Yeah. That's not a prank. So he said hearing her scream, it was the worst. It was the worst thing. Clearly, it's the haunt. The memory still haunts him. He said he popped up and immediately said, Mom, I'm kidding.

But the damage was done. Oh, my God. And reflecting on it now, he said, it did teach me like, oh, not everything is funny. There are things that actually hurt people. Yeah. So can you believe that? Wow. Wow. That's terrifying. I mean, do you go from like, are you immediately relieved or are you pissed? Pissed and low. I don't even know what you're...

your second reaction would be... When you're 14, you have no concept of what it means to be a parent. And so he thought that he was being funny. Clearly he wasn't. I'm glad that he has regret and he addressed it. But he didn't have any perspective of what his mom was going through at that moment. He thought he was playing a prank. But what Casey is saying, though, you as the parent, immediately, when they get up, is it...

I think I would be enraged more so than relieved. I don't think I would have enough time to register with you. You've sent someone you love into a panic attack of indescribable severity. But you guys are thinking about it from the parent perspective, which is totally understandable. But he's describing it from a 14-year-old's perspective. Here's the twofold. It's a two-pronged thing, though. I've done the at the bottom of the steps thing.

You know, we're like, oh, but I didn't write a suicide note. Yeah, sure. I didn't write a suicide note. Yeah. No, no. So, Nick, I know what you're saying, but I'm curious as to how...

As a parent, I would... My initial... Because I know my initial reaction would be complete and utter devastation and grief and sadness. And you don't even have time to process that. And then... What are we going to turn the bedroom into? I almost maybe wouldn't be mad right away. I think I would probably... There'd be a sense of relief. I would probably drop to my knees. I get a man cave. Yeah. No, I know what you're saying. How would you... Oh, man. Well, it's...

It's an obvious. It's an obvious. At that point, you would perceive yourself as having lost a child. And I can't think of anything more horrifying. Wow. Curse you, Will Forte. I would be so mad. I would be so insanely mad. How long would it take you to get over that? Do you think? A long time. A long time. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. All right, so. I don't like that Will Forte anymore. He was a kid. All right. I like that. He was a kid. He was an idiot. Yeah. Reconnect with him a little bit.

recently. It'd be cool to get him back on the show. Definitely, especially to ask about that. All right, so we told you yesterday Mike Goodenough's perspective on his breakup with Valerie Bertinelli. He said on social media that he was going to say his piece and then move on, not speaking on it again. Well, that lasted a couple days.

To be fair to Goodenough, he was responding to someone who was taking shots at him on social media. And two days after speaking out about their split on Instagram, Goodenough addressed a comment on threads that said, she left you, bro.

And he broke his silence long enough to respond. That's enough. To the trolls saying, I ended the relationship. You tried, though. You really tried. I think it's always best to respond to comments on social media. I know. It'll turn out great all the time. So she left you, bro, is what incited him to respond. That was the call. Oh, that broke the camel's back. Yep.

Hollywood stars are used to randos sliding into their DMs, but have you ever heard of it being the other way around? One Tree Hill star, Barbara Ellen Woods, revealed on a podcast that's exactly how she ended up with her current boyfriend, Mark Anderson. So as she tells it, Anderson, who would later be a contestant on The Golden Bachelorette, had previously caught her eye in a cameo on The Bachelor. His daughter was on The Bachelor, and at the end of The Bachelor...

They go to their hometown. They take the bachelor home to meet their family. And Mark was there being all cute and dimply, it says, and sweet and like, who's that guy? Woods looked up on Instagram and DM'd him and Anderson never responded. In the bachelor finale, it was announced...

Anderson would be part of the Golden Bachelorette, at which point she DM'd him again, and that time, the spark caught fire. Anderson eventually left the show in episode five, but romance was already waiting in the wings. I remember when the Golden Bachelor premiered, and I watched the first episode, and I'm like, oh, this is...

These are people who've got it. They're later on in life and they've got it. They're past the bull crap of earlier years. No, they descended right into the same crap. Right into it. That's what they do. So Dave Bautista has been named honorary deputy sheriff in Hillsborough County, Florida.

He was posting on Instagram Sunday and he said honorary deputy sheriff of Hillsborough County, Florida. I didn't see that one coming either. He said Tampa's held a special place in my heart ever since I moved here 20 years ago. Always has always will.

So he's got a badge and the whole deal. Do you remember that series where Steven Seagal, it was a reality show. He was like a, he was a deputy or maybe, I don't know what he was. He was an honorary sheriff and they went along on ride-alongs with him. I remember that. And didn't they have one with Shaq too? Didn't he do that? Shaq legitimately went through the whole program. I wonder how if Steven Seagal did likewise. Yeah. I mean, could you imagine that being pulled over by Shaq?

Shaq? No. Or Seagal? It'd be awesome, actually, if that were the case. I know you. Might go driving around just to try to get pulled over. Wow.

So the sequel to Ready or Not, which I'm not familiar with Ready or Not, is adding some star power. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood are joining what's being called Ready or Not, Here I Come. I think this is a horror movie. Okay, sounds like it. It's an ensemble cast. They joined previously announced stars Samara Weaving, Catherine Newton, along with Sean McAvoy.

Hadassi, Nestor Carbonell, Kevin Durand, and David Cronenberg. So this is a very good... The Weaving, the woman you mentioned, that is Mr. Smith from... You are Weaving's daughter. Oh, no kidding. So she is great in this movie. She marries into a family. Andy McDowell is the mother, and it's this wealthy family.

And they basically play this game during the evening. And she's, you know, the guy is, she's going to marry, it's wonderful, everything seems nice. And the basic conceit is if you lose at the game, then the family is now going to hunt you throughout the house. Ready or not, here I come is basically it. And they're all living in this fear of,

that if she doesn't get sacrificed and killed, something will happen to them. Okay. And throughout the movie, I don't want to give it away, but throughout the movie, you're like, why are you guys so panicked about this dumb thing? Yeah. And I loved it. I thought it was a lot of fun. That was the first one? That was the first one. To be honest, I don't know where they can take the second one, but I'm all in. All right. Sounds cool.

The filmmakers Matt Bertinelli, Olpen, and Tyler Gillette said we're thrilled to be returning to the world of Ready or Not with Samara, Brett, and Avery and Andrew. They added that we're excited to work with the immensely talented cast in Ready and the incredible artists across every department joining the Ready or Not family. The first movie in the horror franchise starred Weaving as a bride who finds out her new family's wedding night ritual involves a murderous game being played. Plot details about the sequel are so far under wraps on

I'm going to encourage you to watch that. I'm also going to try to convince you to watch the movie Companion. That is on my list. You told me it was great. It's finally out on Max now. So I am definitely going to watch it because she's great. She is amazing in this movie. Is that a scary movie? What's that? Is that a scary one? Well, it involves, I mean, they give it away in the poster where she's basically a programmed...

quasi-sex robot that is unaware of that. And you think it's going to go one way and it takes a turn. And I loved it. And her performance is amazing. Yeah, Sophie Thatcher is her name. I know her from Yellow Jacket. She plays Kathy. She plays Natalie in Yellow Jacket. She's great.

So, director Dustin Fairbanks has shared the official teaser trailer for his new Revolutionary War thriller. It's called 1780 and it stars Kevin Spacey and DJ Qualls. It's kind of wild. It is set in the vast forest of Pennsylvania. And DJ Qualls is playing George Washington, correct? No, he is not. It's a wounded soldier.

Finds refuge with the trapper and his young son as British forces close in and misnavigate loyalty, survival, and the harsh realities of a world at war. So this would have to be considered a major step forward in Spacey reclaiming his career. Yeah, he's mainly been in indies like Peter 5, 8, and Control.

And since 2017, he's remained, you know, obviously a controversial figure. But he was found not liable in a lawsuit and later acquitted in the UK for sex crimes. 1780 is set to be released at some point this year, but I'm not sure exactly when. So we'll see.

Now that Minecraft has got box office gold, all bets are off when it comes to video game film adaptations. Yesterday it was announced that director Michael Bay and Sidney Sweeney will be teaming up for a big screen take on the 80s arcade racing game Outrun. Bay will direct while Sweeney will be a co-producer. It was like a Ferrari, right? You know what? I'm not sure. Probably. You know what they never followed through on was Spy Hunter.

I love that game. Wasn't that a great game? Yes. Loved it. OutRun was an arcade game, right, Case? It was Sega. So I guess it probably started in the arcades and then made its way onto the console. Dwayne Johnson was supposed to be part of Spy Hunter. Was he? Yeah, and then nothing came of it. Sega's OutRun series is a video game franchise known as much for the exciting urban racing action as it was for its soundtrack.

and was Sega's best-selling arcade cabinet of the 1980s. Yeah, it was a Ferrari case. Okay. Yeah, we're looking at it right now. That was a fun game. Do you have this in your console set up at home? I'm sure I do. I have all the Sega games, so it's got to be on there. There's literally thousands of games.

Yeah, Case, if you look how antiquated the graphics are in this, but at the time, they were cutting edge. Cutting edge. Absolutely cutting edge. I still have fun playing with the retro stuff. Yeah, I agree. So the first teaser for Weapons is here, and it's already creeping people out in the best way. The trailer shows kids mysteriously leaving their homes.

With one chilling line standing out, it said, those kids walked out of their homes. No one pulled them out. No one forced them. Director Zach Krieger, known best for his crass skit show, The Whitest Kid You Know, is back behind the camera and is also slated to direct the upcoming Resident Evil reboot. The weapons cast is stacked with Joss Brolin, Julia Garner, and Alden Ironside.

Iron Reich, among the names. And at CinemaCon, New Line's Richard Benner called it intriguing and unpredictable with a nice helping of insane. So what they need to do with Resident Evil is they really need to really fully reboot it. They need to...

get some heavier hitters in there in the acting realm, and they really need to apply the moodiness. The movies have serviced the mechanics of the game well,

But that panic that you would have, Preston, when you're playing the game and, you know, they need to get that into the movie. Yeah. And they haven't so far. He's going to work on weapons first and then the Resident Evil reboot. So hopefully something good comes of that. Video game movie stuff. It's cool. Yeah. Well, Minecraft. Minecraft needs so much damn money. Yeah.

All right, this is interesting. For the last few decades, pro wrestling has been moving away from the conceit that what's happening in the ring is real and outside of it was real as well. But now revealed as highly coordinated entertainment, the last bit of the old facade will be stripped away with a new joint WWE slash Netflix series.

It's even spelled out in the title. It's called WWE Unreal, a 10-episode reality series that takes viewers inside of the WWE's writer's room.

In case you're still holding on to the idea that wrestling is real, the teaser for the series will put the notion to rest as Paul Triple H Levesque shares the why behind the show. He said seven days a week, 365 days a year. This is a calculated, coordinated production. It's time and we're going to lift

the curtain. So the series is expected to debut this summer. So years ago, a couple of Conan, a couple of his writers went to join the WWE and were writing stories. And I remember them sort of chronicling their move over to the WWE and writing these storylines. And this could be cool. I think it'll be really interesting. Get an idea of the mechanics of how that works.

big machine works. Doesn't mean they're still not ricocheting bodies all over the... Oh, totally. The athleticism is still badass. The storylines are, you know, it's acting. They're having fun. It's pretty cool. So it's full on sports entertainment. That's what it is. Let's play the clips now.

Star Wars fans are thrilled that Andor is returning for its final season. And here, Diego Luna talks about the audience's impact in the continuing story. This is spectacular and unique. You know, like you shouldn't expect this in life to happen. Like it's not normal, you know. It doesn't happen that thousands of people get together to remind you that...

They care about the story you've been working on for two years and a half. Disney talk, buddy. The first three episodes of Andor are premiering tonight on Disney Plus at 9. I had somebody email me who pleaded with me to watch this series. Yes, he emailed me as well. And I don't disagree with anything that he wrote. There's just too much television out there present. But it might be the best Star Wars ever. Bar none. And it plays off of the Rogue One...

It's completely those characters. It's building up to Rogue One, yeah. Which is great. There's so many allegories to the real world, and they take time to build characters. And if you're not a fan of lightsabers or the Force, this is the perfect Star Wars for you. It's really good character building. Okay. Here's our next clip.

Race for the Crown is Netflix's new horse racing docuseries. In this clip, executive producer Ian Sambor talks about how the sport hasn't been represented in its, to its enough in media. What? Yeah, you know. Just reading it. Here we go. You've got the situation where there's been these great films made.

right, that are really shot cinematically. And there's been other great shows made about horse racing. But there really hasn't been something that's like super premium done in real time where you can really live the season with the people that are involved. Having sex with a horse. Oh, my God. They're going to include that? They're going to include that, man. Wow. It's what happens when they stop being bacon. They start getting real. Wow.

Took a turn. Doesn't it always? Yeah. All episodes of Race for the Crown premiere today. You'll find that on Netflix. That show gets raw, man. Yeah, it does.

All right, and there you go. That's what we have in the entertainment report for you this morning, friends. All right, something I failed to mention at the top when I was telling you what's going on today. We are going to have something very cool and exciting in a little while. We have new music from Hailstorm to debut this morning. When should we do that? We're going to do it.

in the 8 o'clock hour, I think, KG? Yeah, so we will do it right before the bizarre file. Okay, alright. So, hailstorm, darkness, always, so that's before the 8 o'clock hour then, usually.

That's a little bit before. Yes. Yes. Mr. Man. A little less than an hour from now, we will have the new music for you. We don't want you to miss out on that. We have, uh, cash to win, obviously, uh, with Preston and Steve's 20 money. We have a number of guests that are going to be on the program. Uh, Joey Chitwood is the executive director of the 2025 Truist Championship Golf Tournament coming up in Philadelphia Cricket Club, May 7th through the 11th. Uh,

Chris Thiele, mandolin guitarist or performer extraordinaire, who's going to be playing at Marian Anderson Hall tomorrow night. William Duvall of Alice in Chains, playing the MMRBQ on May 10th, will be joining us as well.

And this is pretty cool. We have this stencil artist coming in this morning. I'm really curious to see what's coming in. Who's a part of his Stencil A Day Challenge for the month of April. His name is Rob Nero. You can catch him on Instagram. We'll tell you about that when he gets here and everything. So it's a busy day today in all the best ways. We'll take a quick break. Oh, Tat Tuesday as well. And Sunny and 80. This is all coming together. It's all good. It's a beautiful thing. We'll take a break and we'll be right back. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, your first shot at winning $1,000, 45 minutes away for the Preston and Steve 20-Money Contest. We also have brand new music that we're going to be playing from Hailstorm this morning, and a number of guests will get to all that in a little while. But we want to chat a little bit, double back, and talk about this story about...

Uh, Will Forte, who was on Hot Ones and was revealing a story about his adolescence when he played a prank on his mom and he went way too far with it and wanted to open up the floor for discussions and admissions.

of a prank that went too far. Yeah. You thought it would be funny. The other person thought it would be funny, whoever it is. And if you want to join in, you can text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the link and then you can jump on and tell us. So let me give you this story real quick, Casey, before you jump in here. So Will, when he was 14 years old, wanted to play a prank on his mom. He thought for whatever reason it would be funny.

He wrote a suicide note. He tacked it to the front door of the house. And then he laid on the floor like he was dead. And I think, was he in the bathroom? I don't know. I don't even know if the mom even found him. I think he heard her screaming and he was like, oh crap. I don't know, but she screamed. He got up. He's like, mom, I'm okay. And he said that he realized that

While you may think it's funny to pull one over on somebody like that, some things, not everything is hilarious. No, and some of them we were talking earlier about that, to be that...

To be a parent and think your kid off to himself. I mean, but again, he was a kid. You don't know. You know, like I was dumb. Yeah. You know, I've told my son on many occasions, hey, you think this is funny, but adults don't. OK, so like, don't do that. You know, don't bring the fart spray to the hotel because adults don't want to get into it. Right.

Farts. An elevator that smells like farts. Okay? And guess what? They didn't. Yeah. They hated it. No, but the story I was going to share was back in 2002, I got engaged. And I was working. We were working at Y100. And I was...

At my now wife's house in Maniunk. And I was getting ready to go out for the evening for work. I believe on Saturday nights I would do a four hour appearance and live broadcast. I was either at Maui or I was either at Reed's. Because it was at Maui and then it ended up moving to Reed's. Doesn't matter. I was out and about for four hours. I thought it would be funny to take my wife's

engagement ring and hide it from her. And so... Why? I don't know, Kath. I just thought it was funny. He's going to confuse her. She'll be upset. You know, it'll be hilarious. She'll always bring it up when we have a fight. It'll be something I'll live under the shadow of for the rest of my life. What could go wrong?

Did you quickly learn it wasn't funny? No, I didn't find that out for a few hours because I hid it. And so what I did is I put it on a clothes hanger, right? So I put the thing around and then I put it in her closet. I was like, she'll never find it. It's hilarious. And then I left and I was gone for six hours. Dude, Kath, when I came back to the house...

Her entire bedroom was turned upside down. Of course. Turned upside down. I had completely forgotten that I had even done this. Oh, no. Because my gig was 10 to midnight. I might have hidden it at like 8 o'clock at night. You know what I mean? In the lap of luxury at Maui. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not 10 to midnight, 10 to 2.

But either way, I was gone for a long time. Right. And, you know, I don't know. I don't recall that she ever tried to call me saying, hey. Or if she thought I lost. I lost this. I cannot. I cannot call him. Why would you have taught like?

Of course it was. It's hers. It's jewelry. You wouldn't be doing anything with it. So she probably was ripping the house apart looking for where she put it. Like, he's going to kill me. I lost this thing. He's going to kill me. So you come back and you find her in a panic? Or is she crying? Now, listen. Oh, yeah. Absolute panic. Absolute panic, right? Aw.

I could have and in hindsight should have maybe saved the day. Oh, I found it. Oh my God, it was here this whole time. It was here on this coat hanger in the closet. But instead I was like, instead I revealed myself right away. I was going to say, what he probably would have done was taken it off of that hanger while she was out of the room and placed it somewhere and gone, oh. Dude, it was here the whole time. Look, it's right on your finger. Yeah.

You just like hold her hand. Oh, we'll get through. Oh, look. Yeah, that happened 20 some odd years ago. And I literally, not right now, but we were talking about something a couple of months ago and I got a text and she's like, do you remember? I thought it was so funny to hide my engagement ring. This is going to be a point in time where you're both like on really life preserving medication and she's going to hide something that you need.

Just to get back to you. I hid your heart medication. I hid your heart medication. Does it come up from time to time? Oh, yeah. Yeah. In fact, I'll see if I can locate the last time I got reminded. Oh! She just texted you? What?

At about 7, 18, she said, how about when you hit my engagement ring and then you disappeared for eight hours? Right before you mentioned it. Right before I mentioned it, she sent me that message. Now, I mean, therein lies your perception of what is funny.

On the whole, I'm not a big practical joker. Neither am I. I don't like them. I don't like the way it makes people feel. Casey used to pull pranks like that. And he learned early on with me that I was like, no, don't do that. Don't do that. In fact, there was a time where I thought he was playing a prank on me because he had done it so often. It was when we took that cheap Caribbean trip to St. Martin and Guam. And we...

We get back on the... I think we're back on the catamaran to go back from Anguilla to St. Martin. And Casey goes, dude, your wallet's not here. Or you left your wallet on the beach or something like that. I'm like, whatever. F you. No, really. Seriously. I'm like, dude, I'm not falling for it. I'm not getting off the boat and I'm not going back on the... It's not...

It was. Therein lies the boy who cried wolf aspect of it. Thank you. So somebody who is a recidivist is going to have less and less friends over time. Right. All right. There's some text coming in. This is messed up. This one says, I haven't read this yet. It says, I once put up a Craigslist ad stating that I was giving away Puggle Puppies.

but they had to be picked up by a certain date or else they would be euthanized. Oh, no. I found the cutest picture of Puggle Puppies online.

and attached it to the ad. I then attached a phone number that went straight to a voicemail stating that if you're calling about the puppies, sorry, they had already been euthanized. Oh my God. Dude. Why? Like why? He said the voicemails that I got from people was absolutely insane. So I guess it was to get recordings of people that were pissed off. And so you have to say, who are you targeting in that case?

Who is the recipient of that ha-ha moment? Someone who's mortified that you're murdering puppies? Yeah. Oh, my God.

It's terrible. Here's another one. It says, I waited at the top of my steps for my grandmother, jumped out to scare her as she grabbed the railing not to fall down the wooden stairs. Oh, no. Did she fall? No. He said she would have gotten banged up and probably broke a hip. Could have died. Yeah, that's right. He said he felt horrible. Taking grandma's wheelchair up to the top of the steps with her in it. Yeah. You know, no, it's too dangerous. Yeah. Yeah.

No, I've never liked being... I'm with you, Preston. The word went out quickly that I'm not to be practical joked on. I mean, listen, that stuff is... I mean, that's terrible. That's death and people getting hurt. Hey, I'm going to kill you. No, there were no bullets in the gun. And listen, I wasn't really ever the recipient, but like Casey's...

you know, the office pranks that you did with Rovine. Oh, dude, I'm thinking about when I put that... That was hilarious. When I put that police light on his car and he drove all the way to Manioc with a flashing light on his car. Like, just fun stuff like that. That's fun. That's good, yeah. I did so... I had my neighbor who was just annoying, but we all, you know...

We all tolerated. This is when I was a teenager. I had a car, the back of his car set up. He didn't see it. He always walked. We noticed, or at least I noticed, that he got in his car by walking around the front of the car in the driveway. So I had everything on the back bumper, a big enough bumper on the car, just...

Just married, streamers, cans, the whole thing. And he's driving around and these people are honking going, yeah, yeah. And that is a benign prank. So the twist, though, that would have happened, Casey, going back to the Rovine, if you were to put the flashing light on, what if he was a pot smoker and he had some weed on him and he got pulled over?

That's even better. He's got a dead hooker in the trunk. I mean, listen, it does, when you're the recipient, it does make you angry. I mean, I think Rovan got angry a couple of times. One that I thought was hilarious, but really was a lot of cleanup for him was, was it jelly beans or M&Ms that you put in the entire overhead compartment? Or is it marbles or is it ping pong balls? No, it was candy. It was candy. I don't remember. And so he opened it up as one of those ones that lifted forward. He opened it up and it just,

down on his desk. And then he got me back so bad by saran wrapping my car. And then I never even, I basically got out to my car, didn't even know that it was ever saran wrapped because he did it. And then I guess security came and was like, oh, we got to clean this up for this guy. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, man.

Oh, man. He never was able to get it over. Casey was always better. So listen, if you want to, this is kind of confession time. If you want to fess up to one that crossed the line, you thought it would be funny, and it indeed was not or perceived not, you can text the word ZOOM

We won't judge you. Not at all. Anytime you use poop, you've crossed a line. And I remember friends of mine from high school talking about they went to this party. Now you're quoting Shakespeare. I think they went to like a

It was a party like Widener or something like that. And this guy, he's telling me this story. He took a dump in a pizza box and left it in the bathtub. I was like, why is that funny? And this guy was well-respected in his field. In his field, he was. That was not a prank. Wow. That was just an accident. No, I mean, when you're... Listen, so the old prank is lighting the bag full of dog crap on someone's porch. Right. I mean, it is...

When you have to clean up a mess, when you're actually causing vandalism, when you're... Vandalism is not a prank. What was the main ingredient in Poo Dollar? Was there actual poo when we did Poo Dollar? No, no, no. It was just... Yeah, okay. You just wipe your ass with...

So there's a little bit of poo. I mean, it wasn't like freshly after taking a dump. No. We're not barbarians. There was an essence of poo there. We'd have like Casey run around a little bit and get swamp ass. Right. And then you'd stick the dollar between butt cheeks. A little poo. Might smell like. Okay. You know. For the radio and listening audience, there was poo. But in reality, there was no poo. There was just the odor of poo. Yeah.

All right, we have a Zoomer who we're going to go to. It is Phil that we are checking in with. Hey, Phil, how you doing, my man? Good morning, Gadzooks. Good to see you, sir. Good morning. All right, Phil, what did you do that was a prank that crossed the line? Well, first time, long-time listener, guys. It's an honor to be on with you. Oh, cool. So, yeah, eighth grade, we thought it would be funny to...

Give a kid X-flax. They were the little squares. So we just rubbed off the E-X on them and they look like Hershey's, little Hershey's chocolate. Yes. Yeah. So we put a bunch of them in a bag and we went over to them and we're like, hey, man, I went over to him. I was like, hey, man, I've been eating these all morning. Like, I can't have any more. Do you want the rest of these? Oh, man. He was like, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Big handful.

No. You know, like an hour later, I get called down to the principal's office and he ended up getting really sick. They had to take him out of school. Oh,

I can give you some comfort here because that was actually a fairly common prank because the laxative you're talking about did look exactly like little pieces of chocolate. And that was the deal. But you're right. You give somebody enough of that, you can make them deathly ill.

Yeah. And then I got suspended and I got home and my mom was super pissed. My dad thought it was funny. So mixed messages. He gave the kid X-flax and they gave you three days off of school for it. Phil, question. Was this kid a friend or was he kind of? Yeah, I mean, mutual friend. You know, we went to school all through elementary school. You know, we just thought it would be funny. We laugh about it.

now. Okay. It wasn't like a bullying thing. No, no, absolutely not. You were pranking a buddy. Yes, I got it. So, you know, Preston, another thing that came from this. Thanks, Phil. Appreciate it, bud. Thank you. After wedding crashers, I know people tried the Visine trick and they don't realize that

You can make somebody really, really sick. You can make somebody really sick. And speaking of X-Lax, by the way, who is the genius that invented X-Lax and said, let's make this look like a chocolate bar? Why? I mean, it was for years. It was an easy go-to prank to pull on people. I remember before, obviously, the disease existed. There was a...

I think it was a dietary supplement called AIDS. Yes. A weight loss. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's called AYDS. Yeah. My friend from college, she just sent me a text. She said, I told my college boyfriend that I was pregnant on April Fool's Day. Oh, dear God in heaven. He threw up and cried. What?

So we haven't had this conversation yet, but I guess you don't want to have kids. Wow. Maybe not in college. All right. We're going to go to Steph via Zoom and she's got one to share. Hi, Steph. Good morning.

Hi, good morning, Gadzooks. Sorry about you guys at work. No, we're happy to have you. All right, so this was a prank that was played on you, right? Yes, I actually have two stories. Same person played pranks on me. So my grandmother was a huge prankster. One day I left for school and it happened to be April Fool's Day. She could not think of anything all day to do. So when she heard me come home from school, her first instinct was to play dead. So she rolled over onto the floor. Oh, my God.

And just laid on her face when I came in from school. So there's my grandmother with the TV on, like everything's normal. Face on the ground like she's dead. How old were you at the time, Steph? I was in high school. So maybe like ninth or tenth grade. But my grandma was like the one who raised me. You know what I mean? So I come in, I'm like... And she does not like any like...

So she didn't want me to call an ambulance. So her first thing was, I'm okay. I'm okay. Don't call an ambulance because she didn't want the neighbors to know. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And then another time I had like a futon bunk bed. And so at night I'd climb up in there. You know, I wouldn't get up there until it was like nighttime. So she had gotten a clown mask.

And stuffed it with towels and put it on top of my bed. So then when I climbed up in my bed, completely dark, all I have is like the TV light shining. All I see is this literal head with these yellow teeth and the hair sticking out. Oh, my God. I went upstairs screaming at her. It was traumatizing. Now, at the time, how long did it take before you got over that? I mean, you must have been pissed for a bit, right?

Honestly, she does this all the time. This kind of crap all the time. I was ready for it. You know what I mean? I got over it quite quickly. But the playing dead thing, man. That's heavy duty. That is not funny. Why do people keep doing this? That one was a little bit far. But my grandmom, it was a really great prank. You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah. The problem with grandparents that pull that trick is that they're not that far away from having it happen in real time. So you can just accelerate it. Oh, no, I just found it here. Thank you, Steph. Appreciate it. Thanks. Bye. Do you remember, and it just reminded me, there was a TikTok prank or something that was going around, which was reading the fake obituaries. And there was a celebrity son.

who was reading it to his, and I'm forgetting who it was, but she had a legitimate reaction because it's someone they knew.

that they were friends with. Oh, and they were reading the obituary and the mother just started freaking out. Do you remember what I'm talking about? No. Yeah, but you would read a fake obituary to someone. Okay. And it was someone they knew? Someone they knew who was alive and fine. That's terrible. That's bad. All right, we'll go to Zoom Dave next. Hey, Dave, you're on, buddy. Good morning. Good morning. Sorry to bother you guys at work. Good to see you, my man. All right, did you prank someone or someone prank you?

We, myself and a bunch of the students in my high school auto tech class decided to prank the principal. Okay. It was being a little bit of a, let's just say, hard on the student. Okay, we got you. So we decided to wheel his, and I'm going to date myself, this was senior year 1995. He had a brand new 1995 Lincoln Continental. Oh, wow.

We put the dollies on the wheels, wheeled it into the auto tech room where we had a full garage, disassembled the entire car and brought it out piece by piece into his parking spot. Oh my God. How long did that take?

It literally took us like seven hours out of an eight hour day. Oh my goodness. How did you not get caught? We definitely got caught because the next year there was no more auto tech and we were suspended for a week. They got rid of the whole program. He got rid of the whole program. Oh my gosh. So were you then required to put it back together? Yes. I don't know if I would trust students reassembling my car. Okay.

Our teacher was kind of cool about it. He kind of was in on it because he didn't like, nobody liked that. Nobody liked the principal. That's great. Jesus. He only likes it three years at the school. It's like straight out of that scene from Real Genius. With the Volkswagen in the car on the pneumatic pumps. All right. Thanks, Dave. Appreciate it. That one's pretty bad.

It's crossing a line of getting in trouble. It's not scaring someone to death. Yeah, it's when the vandalism occurs. Here's one that says, my wife, and I've seen videos of people doing this before, by the way, and it's great, and I'm waiting for an occasion when I can do it.

It says, my wife always falls asleep in the car and scares easily. So anytime I see a tow truck towing a car, I wake her up in a panic as if the car is going the wrong direction, about to crash into us. So what you do is you speed up and then you go, oh my God, wake up, oh my God. And then they think that the car's coming right at them. There are a number of videos of that happening. This guy says, so the car's going the wrong direction. It was always funny until I did it with a semi truck getting towed.

She grabbed the wheel and swerved us into a guardrail and actually wrecked our car. There you go. That one crossed the line. So you got to be careful on that. All right. Up next is Kyle via Zoom. Good morning, Kyle. Morning. Good morning to see you, buddy. All right. What's up, man? So back in college, I decided it would be a fun prank to.

fill the garage with a fog machine. With a fog machine? Yeah, I did that after my dad got home. He got home early from work one day. So I closed it just to see how it would look. And then we opened the door and it looked like the house was on fire. So I'm like, okay, cool. My mom was on her way home, so I closed the door. I filled it back up again. And then we waited inside, me and my buddy.

So when she opened the garage, we like ran out like it was on fire. And I'm friendly tapping on her window and she's rolling down. She's like, what's wrong? What's wrong? I'm like, I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to. Dad's still inside. And she was like, oh, my God. She clutched her chest.

Yeah, yeah. I'm like, oh, okay. Thank God nothing happened. I was like, all right. I didn't mean to. Dad's inside. Oh, my God. You sick bastard. Yes, I am. Did a punishment follow after that, Kyle?

No, but I did feel bad. Yes. I mean, no one wants to see your mom have a frigging heart attack. Wow. Exactly. Yeah. That's a pretty good one, though. All right. Thanks, Kyle. Appreciate it. If you're just jumping in, there's a story. And it's Will Arnett was on Hot Ones. Will Forte. I'm sorry. Will Forte. Forte was on Hot Ones and had said that he pulled a prank.

on his mom when he was a kid. He wrote a fake suicide note. Man, oh man, that is so bad. It's like it reminds me of the one that OJ pulled on his ex. Oh, yeah. Stop it. Got your head.

So he had written a fake suicide note and then he laid on the ground and pretended that he was dead and she came, she found the note, saw the body and freaked out. And he's like, that was, I made a big mistake on that. I mean a suicide note. Yeah, dude. That alone. And I think you're right, Casey. She might have just read the note and screamed and he realized, oh crap. Here's one, here's a text. Somebody says, 27 years ago,

I threw a scarecrow from a crosswalk bridge in front of a train that had a hole cut in the fence. The train slammed on its brakes, ran it over. Police showed up. They dispatched a helicopter looking for us, ran all the way home, told dad I had been home all night and just look at me. He looked at me and said, OK, OK.

Uh, so I don't know if he ever got busted, but there are things that cross the prank line into, I'm thinking about things like over throwing things from overpasses, Preston. Yeah. That's just sheer. Well, yeah. And then you lit a, a field on fire. That wasn't a prank. It was just a carelessness. Carelessness. My buddy lit a dumpster on fire. It was not supposed to happen like that. It just happened. And, uh,

Yeah, like, you know, you used to, like, flick matches like that. Yep, yep. Avoid fire when you're working on pranks. Fire's not a good practical joke item or a prank item. We're going to go to Kevin now via Zoom. Yes, Greg. Oh, there we go. Kevin, you're on the air. Good morning, bud. Good morning. What's up, my man? Yeah, so, um...

About 13 years ago, we always went down to Washington, D.C. with my neighbors or our best friends. Our kids were young. It was October. So they were having like a breast cancer awareness thing. And there was a line of like 75 port-a-johns. And the event had ended. And I thought it would be funny to call my wife.

Okay. Oh, dude. Yeah.

And then involving the guys that were cleaning the port-a-johns up on the truck. I'm sorry, that's hilarious. They were banging on all the port-a-johns. And it pretty much ruined the entire trip. Here's the thing, Kevin, is that you've got your wife and your family and they're worried for you. And as you're seeing them panicked trying to find you, does it start to occur to you that this was the wrong joke to play?

Yeah, at first it was hilarious. And then once everybody got involved, I was like, oh, crap. The fire department. The fire truck. And that's it. I think like Casey coming back, Kevin, and, you know, when he realizes his wife is now panicked over the ring, it's like, oh, no, this is no longer funny. Oh, yeah. Well, we haven't been back.

Thanks, Kevin. Appreciate it, bud. Uh, Nick, there was a text you had over here. Uh, there's a bunch of them coming in. Here we go. Uh, here's one says, uh, my buddy and I got drunk. We wrote and we drew an outline of a body at a murder scene in front of our small college administration building one night. Uh,

The staff who arrived early refused to go in until the sheriff's department would verify that no crime had been committed. I've done the chalk outline a few times. Yeah, it's fun. Next up we have via Zoom. It is Erica that we're going to go to. Hey, Erica. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Doing great. All right. What is this prank you pulled? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I was probably about 12 or 13 and there was a gathering at my grandparents' house and they were all drinking vodka and I was like, I want to drink vodka. And my mom's like, oh yeah, you want to be a big man or big girl or whatever? She poured a whole glass of vodka and handed it to me and then walked out of the room and I

poured it out and filled the glass with water. And when she came back in, I found it. Oh, wow. And she was hysterically crying. She ran out of the house. She didn't know what to do with herself. I was like...

Like, I didn't see that coming. She was beyond herself. If the glass is big enough and you're a kid and you swallow it, that could kill you. Exactly. I think you should have taken comfort in the fact that the caring mother that she was, she decided to run out of the house. Yeah. After pouring the drink. Yeah. After she set you up with this big stiff drink. Yeah. Joke's on her. I guess I have to leave town. Yeah.

Maybe she was upset because you wasted all that vodka. I would have been too, actually. Now that you like vodka. That's great. Thank you, Erica. I appreciate it. Here's a text. It says, when I was a kid, my sister was babysitting me. We got in a fight, and I went into my room and slammed my door. She ended up coming up to my room in a panic with a knife covered in something red and said that someone broke into the house and killed our dog. Oh.

It turns out that it was just a prank because she was mad at me. I was devastated. Wow. That's from Ashley. That is a lot. Yeah. Hey, man, listen, you got to dig deep. You got to act. You have to sell that, right? The dog. I can't believe they killed the dog. No, I don't buy it. I don't buy it. Well, I'm not a good actor. We will go next to Katie, who's joining us via Zoom this morning. Hi, Katie. Good morning.

Hi, good morning. You guys rock. We love you, Katie. Thank you. All right, so you pulled a prank on your parents at one point, right? I did, yes. As soon as I heard turning the radio on my car, I was like, oh, shoot, I have to call it. I'm a prankster. I'm 38. I still love hiding behind a door and scaring people. It's like that. Hi, girl. I was at college. I went to Penn State.

And on my freshman year on April Fool's, I was in my friend's dorm. And I'm like, oh, I'm going to call my parents. So I called my parents and pretend crying. And I told them I got caught cheating on a test and I was getting kicked out of school and, you know, everything. And they were shockingly so calm about it. I remember my mom being like, well, you know, that's like the consequence, you know. And I was like, oh, my gosh, like they didn't freak out.

You're an adult now, and these are, you know... Yeah, that's what happens in life. Yeah. Now, where were we having lunch? Sorry, go ahead. No, go ahead. Yeah, so, so I got away with it until months later, I had gone up to Arts Fest with my friends, and this was like end of the summer or August or something. So...

And I was a big partier. I was a big partier. And I get in maybe like a week after I get home, I get a letter in the mail with State College Police Department letterhead printed on the top saying I am due in court for an arrest at 3 a.m. on August 14th or whatever for public drunkenness, underage drinking, public urination, all of these things.

So I call my friend, my friend, Jared. I'm like, oh my God, Jared, what did we do? What were we doing at 3M? Did I get arrested? You know, I didn't know. And that, you know, sometimes happened. And he's like, I don't know. I think we went and got pizza and blah, blah, blah. And my dad like turns around the corner and he's like, that's it. Oh, that's great. Excellent. That's good payback. That's great payback.

Yeah, so it was a taste of my own medicine, I guess. Well, it's clear where you get your prank genes from. Yeah, that's fun. Sending the fake letter. Thank you, Katie. Now, obviously, and you can obviously doctor an email just as easily. But you can also send people into...

panic attacks. If you get some sort of legal document or something that looks like you've been served papers. There was one not that long ago that somebody amongst us in our group sent and it was that somebody had died, I thought,

and it turned out you had to click on the link to see it, and you went to the guy with the gigantic penis sitting on the bed. But I forgot who it was. It was like when I first saw it, I was like, oh, man. Oh, no. Yeah, I remember. You remember that? I do, and I forgot what the context was. It was not you, Kathy. I know what it was. Yes, I've been...

I don't know who sent it. It may have been me. I don't know. It was the healthcare executive in New York City. That was me. Who was shot. And then it said that another, from another healthcare company, the CEO was also shot. And you clicked on it. And it was our press. Anytime it's San Francisco Chronicle, I think is the name of the website. That's it. Okay. Because that one had happened. And that was a big deal. Like, oh my God. People popping off CEOs. And then another one, we're like, oh my God, this is crazy.

And he was so well hung. Yeah. So I sent that to you guys because I fall for it every time that my friend Chris sends those to our group high school texts. And I'm like, oh, my God, another. But as soon as I buy into it, I'm like, I think my coworkers are going to buy into it as well. I'm going to read one more text and we're going to go to a final zoom. And this one, take it for what it's worth. It says here, less of a prank, but my uncle robbed a Chinese food store with a water gun.

The guy had a heart attack and died and he went to prison for 15 years for involuntary manslaughter. That is great. Is that real? It sounds real. Stuff like that happens. Somebody checking in. Case, I'm thinking of Dumb and Dumber 2 where he pretends he's for 16 years, he pretends he's completely catatonic. He craps his pants. Oh my God. Our final Zoom is our friend Craig Ligon. He's joining us. Hey, Craig.

What up, white folks? How you doing, buddy? I'm fine. Just sitting here on top of the world. I noticed you got a great view of Philadelphia behind you there. I am. Yeah. My problem is I have no excuse. I was 35 years old and I was at a place of business. I worked at a W.H.Y.Y. and that's a great building, but it's only got two floors. So people rarely use the elevator. But.

But when I'm on the second floor, I can see people who are waiting for the elevator. So I thought it'd be hilarious if I got in the elevator and laid down and laid my arm against the door. So when the door slid open, my arm would flop out. Okay. Great. Right.

And I did that so that the door opened, my arm flopped out, and there above me was the head of HR and a new employee she was showing around. Oh, no. The head of HR who might address such issues. You could see that people were waiting for the elevator. You didn't see it was them? I can't tell them from behind. There was somebody starting their first day and your last day on the job. That's great.

Well, after I got up and just quickly and ta-da! Happy. And she got the person on the elevator and then later on, not that much later, about 20 minutes later, I got called into HR's office and her name is Kathy. She and I are friends and we've always had a great relationship. But the first thing she said to me was,

do you want to get fired? Nice detail though with the arm flopping out because you could have just laid on the floor. You got to sell it. When the door opens, it flops out. I love it. Craig, great to talk to you, brother. Take care, man. We'll see you.

All right, well, thank you. But keep in mind, if you're a prankster, that there are some that can cross a line, and it's hard to come back from crossing that line when you do. Think how you might react in the same scenario. Yes. Yeah. Will Forte. A suicide note. Come on, man. Laying dead on the floor. That's too much. Terrible. Too much. Wow, wow, wow.

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Brought to you by Sequoia Outback. You can stop in for their annual spring in Sequoia sale, which is going on now. Route 309 in Hatfield or Decksupplies.com. Experience the ultimate in outdoor living at Sequoia Outback. I had never heard of this before, but United Airlines Flight experienced an engine fire shortly after takeoff that it was apparently caused by a rare rabbit strike.

United flights 23, 25 had departed Denver International Airport en route to Edmonton, Alberta. And you can hear audio documents from an audio file that the flight crew was asking that the plane be inspected for an engine fire and being told that it was a rabbit.

that apparently got sucked into an engine. So it was like a flock of rabbits? It must have been a flock of rabbits. So, rabbit, it said, you can hear the audio, rabbit through the number two, that'll do it, according to the pilot. Bartledoo. Yeah, crap mall snack. The Boeing was carrying 153 passengers and six crew members. Jeez. And a passenger, Scott Wolf, said there was a loud bang and a significant vibration in the plane.

Uh, the plane proceeded to climb. He said every few moments there was a backfire coming from the engine, a giant fireball behind it. Yeah, that's a rabbit. All right. And everyone in the plane started to panic. Uh, Wyatt McCurry saw the flames from the ground at the Denver international airport and said, my stomach dropped. And I thought, Oh my God, I'm going to see a plane go down. Uh, the flight safely landed back in Denver. Uh,

The passengers continue to Edmonton on a new aircraft the FAA is investigating. So to understand that the point at which they're on the runway, somehow a rabbit got sucked up because those engines are incredibly powerful. Yep. And blew right through and that's how it happened, right? Exactly, yeah. All right.

In general, wildlife strikes are fairly common, with the FAA reporting more than 20,000 in the United States last year alone. We don't think about on the runway. Among those, there were only four rabbit strikes reported, including one at Denver International Airport. The vast majority are bird strikes. Well, it was rabbit season because I thought it was duck season. I think it was rabbit season, to be honest. But I've never heard of a rabbit being sucked into a jet intake before. That's crazy.

This was terrible to see. L.A.'s fragile urban canopy was dealt a vicious blow this weekend when a chainsaw-wielding vandal cut down a number of shade trees along South Grand Avenue and other areas of downtown, according to media posts and photos that were uploaded to Reddit and Instagram. This was so sad to see this. The L.A. police said it had no information about the tree destruction, and an email and phone call to the city's urban forestry division went unanswered Sunday.

Social media images showed a number of trees, like big trees, that were severed at the base while others were cut several feet above the pavement. A few of the felled trees were still connected to their trunks by just a thread of bark or wood. A number of the trees appeared to be drought-resistant species known as the Indian laurel fig or ficus microcarpa.

Big mothers. Trees provide myriad of benefits to urban areas. They capture stormwater runoff or replenish groundwater. They slow the deterioration of streets. They also clean the air and help cool the air as experiencing increasingly hot temperatures. And you can piss on them. And you can piss on them, too. But many noted that security cameras are omnipresent, so video evidence should be available for investigators to review. But they don't have any word on who did it or why, as of yet. It's stupid. You were just talking about dumbass pranks. Yeah, that's a dumbass prank. Yeah.

An Arizona man had dialed 911 after allegedly shooting his mother, and then he apparently changed his mind and said, nah, she was at her pottery studio. That's a terrible prank. Aaron Morse was charged with second-degree murder after police said he actually shot and killed his mother. She was at a pottery thing. The 74-year-old Susan Morse, officers responded to a 911 call made by Aaron Morse that afternoon. He spoke with dispatchers while sitting outside waiting for police, and then he asked if he could, quote,

call the whole thing off. Okay. Potato, potato. sure. Uh, court documents. I didn't kill anyone. You guys, you boys can go home. Classify the call as an unknown trouble call. And during the call, the defendant reportedly told, uh, dispatchers that he and his mother had just had an argument and that nothing was wrong. She was actually at her pottery studio. But before she left, I killed her. When they arrived at the residence, they found Susan Morse with a gunshot wound to her head. Uh, she was taken to a hospital. She was later pronounced dead. Uh,

Morse allegedly shot his mother, then reportedly placed the weapon in some Tupperware after unloading it. And he did not provide dispatchers with any information about the argument that he claimed to have with his mother. I'm thinking of all those women at the pottery class going, where's Esther? Yeah.

All right. And actually, we need to wrap it up there. Casey's giving me the wrap up. So a little bit of shorter one this morning, because we have a number of guests that are starting to join us. And we're going to welcome our first one right now. He has an event that's going on for the month. It's Stencil a Day Challenge for April. And man, is he a talented artist. We want to welcome Rob Nero to our program this morning. Hey, Rob, how you doing, bud? Good.

Why is the microphone not working? Let me try this one. There we go. How's that? That's better. Nice to see you, Rob. How are you, bud? I'm great. How are you guys? Doing wonderful. So you've been doing stencil artwork for a long time, right? Correct. Yeah. Now probably 10 to 12 years.

10 to 12 years doing stencils? Just stencils, yeah, yeah. So I've always been fascinated by stencils. So am I. The way it plays with light. Yeah. It's something that seems to be kinetic even when it isn't. Sure, sure. But these are next level stencils that Rob brought in here. As soon as he started...

whipping this stuff out and putting it up on display here, which we have on our, if you're watching via our YouTube channel right now, you can see them. Those are stencils that you're looking at. So these are, this is paper that's essentially sliced up to make a photographic reel.

of different people. So we have behind him, we've got Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber and there's a whole bunch of me. You got Gritty and Jalen Hurts. I said to you,

I'm like, how the hell do you make those? Like, we'll talk about that when we get on the air. So I'm asking now, how do you make these things? Sure. So this has been years of just my process evolving. Now it's at the point where it's everything's created digitally and everything's cut with a laser.

Okay. It used to be hand cut, but those days are behind us. So compare, obviously, computers are going to vastly accelerate the time in which you can do it. How long would it take old school? Old school? I mean, hand cutting like one of these would probably be three hours. Three hours. Yeah. So the process, what is great about this, and it plays with the light source behind it, correct? Correct. And that's the whole thing pretty much, is it not? It is, correct. Yeah. All my artwork leading up to now has kind of been...

light and negative space. So it kind of goes along with that. I see these things all the time and I find them fascinating where it is a rotatable sculpture, so to speak. And when you rotate it one way, it appears to be perhaps a man walking a dog and you rotate it the other way and it's Roman planet. Some dumb thing. But it

Do you ever dabble with stuff like that as well? Because that's all light-based as well. Sure, not yet, but that'd be something cool to explore. Well, you and I will do it. We've been looking for something to do. No, that's cool. How many of these do you have in your portfolio? God, now probably a couple hundred. Oh, wow. So what is the initiative for April, this stencil a day thing? So this month I've just been trying to challenge myself, trying to sharpen my skills to

really evolve my my stuff to get better to always always evolving always trying to get better uh so every day i've been doing a new stencil um picking a lot of times like philly related people um so yeah that's just that's been it and so are you doing a stencil of us is that why you're here today and you want to see them where you guys are yes and you can see rob's work um

on Instagram and it's his account handle is at Nero underscore one, the word one spelled out on Instagram. And he's about ready to reveal the stencils he did of us. Here we go. Yeah. It's me. It's you. And you're beautiful. Oh, that is so cool, dude. Wow, dude. Oh my goodness. And there's Steve. Steve!

What do you think? I am... That's amazing. Really? That's absolutely incredible. And I have that always quasi-pain look on my face. Yeah. Yeah.

That's amazing. So with these stencils, if someone wanted to, you know how a lot of times you use a stencil like for spray paint to spray it onto another, I don't know, medium, I guess, whatever. Can you do that with those stencils? Totally, yeah. So the cool thing about stencils is you can spray it on anything. So I'll take these, I'll spray them on canvas, clothes. I host events where people can bring me shirts or pants, whatever, and I paint these on them. So-

It's a quick question pertaining to that because there is such a narrow space between the slivers.

Using it as a full stencil, does that gum up the work, so to speak? A little bit, yeah. I only get so many uses out of each one. Right. But I do... My process involves... I'll spray glue on the back of them, and I'll adhere them to whatever I'm painting. And then by spraying, it comes out really super clean. The lines come out super clean. Wow. It makes a really nice high contrast. And so have all these been used, all the stencils that you have behind us, including Jalen Hurts, have they been used to create...

They have, they have, yep. Oh, wow. Can you do me a favor? Can you hand me one of those? I promise I won't break it. You broke it! I need to see what this material feels like. Right, right. Just cardstock, just normal poster board cardstock.

Wow. It's not as delicate as I thought it would be. No, no. So I'm actually touching it right now because these are just thin strips. Massage it and stroke it. I just stroke it and massage it. Does it have a kind of a Venetian blinds feel to it?

Yeah, yeah. But okay, so my hand just ran across that and I could see where I could tear that easily. Don't do that. If I'm not careful. I don't want to do that at all. But Preston, as you're moving it around, as it's coming across your shirt, suddenly Jalen's face pops up and then it disappears. Yeah. He's holding up Jalen Hurts, by the way. Yeah, yeah. I love it.

Preston, turn that around, if you don't mind, and show that direction to Steve. Now, Steve, we were talking about sort of the negative light and how when I saw this, and tell me if I'm insane, I saw Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and not Jim Hertz. No, I can see that because of the

beard placement. Oh, yeah. All right. So I'm not insane? No. Okay. And I think it plays, it's almost like... It's looking at a negative. It's looking at a negative. When you look at a negative, for those of you who don't remember what negatives were, they were when you actually had to have film processed. It was on a negative, which white was black and black was white, you know, like from the movie JFK. And it's hard to kind of

catch what everything is sometimes so yes when you look at jalen hurts he looks a little bit like lennon a little bit uh not john lennon turn turn it uh perpendicular to your there we go all right yes it's crazy how it uh how it catches it in a different way it's very nice that's amazing so this process is called heftoning lennon did try out for qb of the uh i didn't know that yeah yeah

It was called what? This process is called halftoning. It's actually used in screen printing. Screen printers will use it to get really high quality images printed. So I saw it and I thought, hey, that could become a stencil. It reminds me of when you look at the New York Times. Or not New York Times, at the Wall Street Journal. Right. And they will have sketches of

People, real human beings. And they're just itty-bitty little dots and lines. And it's amazing how that comes together in shading, in subtleties. Right, same thing. Halftoning. Halftoning, okay. Yeah, the suggestion of. Are there other things in this realm that you want to explore besides stenciling that play with light this way? Yeah, I've actually been exploring some ideas of using the stencils and light itself to cast images around.

onto walls or... You haven't tried that yet? No, not yet. You've got to be kidding me. I'd be all over that. I'm saving that for a really special project one day. I'm hoping to do it sometime. So when you take our stencils and you shine it on the side of the Arc de Triomphe, you're going to do that? So, Rob, you're doing the Stencil of the Day Challenge for April, and people can follow this on Instagram or they can go to your website, nero1.com.

Are you for commission? Do you do work for people? I do, yeah. People can just reach out to me and I can, I call it stencilifying. I can stencilify anyone, anything. Just reach out. This would be great for like a wedding. Oh my God. To tell you the truth, like this would be really, really cool for a wedding. It's an atypical way to memorialize an event. Totally, yeah. I've been asked to do bar mitzvahs, birthday parties, Christmas parties, holiday work parties.

anything, honestly. So people could come to you and you can do a rendering of them? Correct. Wow. How long does that take? It was just a photo. Well, now my process is so quick and a lot of things are so digital. I can do it within a day. I can have someone stencil-fied in a day. Stencil-fied. Is that a term that you coined? It is. People are telling me I should copyright it. You should, yeah. Stencil-fied. Protect-ified. That's exactly it.

Stensified. Redactified. Electrified. I think we have your new theme song. There you go. Put the trademark on it. We're not kidding. Own that. Stensified.

You know, get your process. You know, you want to own this. You want them to pay you forever. All right. And also I want to mention this because we do have to take a break. But there's an art show coming up called it's May 2nd and it is art from the underbelly. Correct. What's what's going on there? So a friend of mine is putting this together. It's going to be 100 street and graffiti artists all from Philly putting together one of the biggest art shows the city's ever had.

ever had. It's going to be crazy. It's going to be a lot of cool art. Everyone should come check it out. We have such a great art community in Philadelphia. It will be at Huddle, May 2nd and 3rd, which is 338 Brown Street and it's sponsored by the Streets Department and Tattooed Bump. Are you considered like a... You're not a...

What's the word? You just said it. Street artist? No, not street artist. The other one. Vandal graffiti artist? Graffiti artist. No, I don't consider myself. Okay. I used to be, I would consider myself a street artist before, but now I do so much as canvas and clothing related stuff. You're a stensificator. A stensificator. I like that. There you go.

Excellent. We're making words. Rob, very cool work. We appreciate you doing it. It was so awesome that you would render us like that. And you can, like I said, check him out on Instagram at Nero underscore one, the word one. Preston, we've been rendered speechless. We have been, Steve. And you can go to Nero1.com as well and check it out. Thank you, Rob. Appreciate it. Rob Nero. Yeah.

Street artists here. Instincts of fire on the program. We are going to take a quick break. We're going to come back in a moment. The Truist Championship is coming up at Philadelphia Cricket Club. We are going to have the executive director of that event in our studio next. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Get ready for an MMR exclusive event. Thank you so much for coming. Pierre presents... Let us welcome Duke Philadelphia. Mammoth WVH. Mammoth WVH.

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IHateStevenSinger.com, but hurry, these will not be restocked and supplies limited. That's IHateStevenSinger.com. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Kathy. We have a guest who is in our studio. I've spent a fair amount of time recently watching the Masters Championship take place. Roy McIlroy bring home

The green jacket and also a Grand Slam title now that he has. He joins a very, very small group of people to claim that. And he is going to be in town playing at one of our premier golf courses. We are so lucky in the Philadelphia region to have some of the greatest golf courses in the world, period. Philadelphia Cricket Club is certainly way up there on the list. And not only will the master champion Rory be here, but a load of bests.

Big, big names playing golf in the 2025 Truist Championship Tournament, May 7th through the 11th. And we have the executive director of the event, Mr. Joey Chitwood III. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Really appreciate it. Nice to see you, Joey. Thanks for being here. Yeah, absolutely. I tell you what, I'd love to get this weather.

A couple more weeks that week in May. A little more wind would help. We want to give these guys a challenge. But for us, getting a chance to play the cricket club, it's such a phenomenal property. And really has never had a chance to host an event like this. So for us to bring the top 70 on the PGA Tour signature event, $20 million purse, I think they're going to put on a good show. And yes, we're going to have Rory. And yes, we're going to have Justin Thomas, who just won the RBC title.

Hilton Head, I think Keegan Bradley, Wyndham Clark, you name it. All the guys that are up there running up front are going to be there. It's going to be a really good show. I was looking at the list. Colin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth, Brooks Koepka, Max Homa, Patrick Cantley, Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith, Tommy Fleetwood, Ricky Fowler,

Victor Hovland. I mean, all these amazing guys that you watch on TV all the time are going to be right here. I've had the extreme pleasure of playing cricket club on many occasions, the Wissahickon course. There's two courses there, the Militia Hill and the Wissahickon. And, of course, the premier one is the Wissahickon course. Those are going to be playing on. So for me, it's a super treat to watch these guys play on a course I know fairly well. And when you go to events like this, those who have not played,

been to a premier golf tournament before you are you're right on top of these guys i mean you are walking amongst the greats i would say golf is an intimate experience you're literally on the rope line next to the players you could be 10 feet away they were putting on a green you know for us we build hospitality in between holes with two sight lines in terms of holes behind you in front of you it's a really great experience for any fan who is a big event fan

a golf fan, or just wants to enjoy a day at a golf course? I love going to golf tournaments. I've been lucky enough to go to a bunch over the years. We've had a lot in our area, LPGA, Senior PGA, regular PGA, and it's just, there's so much fun, and you're right up on, I mean, like, if you've never been, it might not seem like an exciting event to go to. It's so exciting and so much fun, and you can, you know, walk from one green to the next. You can tour the entire course, or you can just park yourself in a certain location for a while and watch as all the, you know, the groups come through. It's just a really cool experience. I can't recommend it enough.

Wiley. I think our fan, you get to choose what you want to do that day. Yeah. You know, I like this par three. I want to watch everybody hit their shot into a par three. You know what? I'm going to follow around the Grand Slam winner, Rory McIlroy. I'm going to watch every shot, every hole from one through 18. You get to pick and choose what you want to do. And there's no better property than Philadelphia Cricket Club in the Wissahick and that historic course. When you think about Tillinghast, a classic design, I think our PGA Tour players are excited to play there because they don't get to play courses like this anywhere.

in the regular routine of a schedule so it's special and unique for them as well i want to mention something real quick because if you've ever had the desire uh to play a golf course that has been prepared in championship condition because when you've got these guys coming out the course gets ready for it sometimes they'll plan a year in advance they'll start getting it ready they'll they'll bring in the rough a little bit they'll they'll they'll change the dynamics of the way things work so i'm actually playing in an event next week i'm the host of this event i have been for several years i was

actually supposed to play with Joey here. But then he found out you were playing and he said no. Yeah, no, but he was going to be in my foursome, but he's got another big golf thing coming up. But it's called the Devereaux Advanced Behavioral Health

Golf Classic. And I want to give that a little plug. They might be sold out by now, but you might be able to get into a group and have a chance to play on a premier golf course in prime condition. And if you don't know about the Devereaux Foundation, they're amazing. They do work with emotional and behavioral health challenges, intellectual developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, brain injuries, people with that. And they help guide them. They help kids, adults, you name it. It's an amazing group. So you can do a quick search for the Devereaux Advanced Behavioral Health

Golf Classic, and maybe play next Tuesday in this event right before all these biggies come in. So you get to kind of take advantage of the optimum conditions and be a part of it. And then go back home and, you know, then come out to the event and watch these guys play, and it puts it into a whole other perspective. How many people are expected to attend this over the course? So for us, it's a bit of a challenge. It's a unique course really in a neighborhood.

And so for us, we've been out there begging, borrowing, figuring out how to get parking lots here and there so we can transport folks in. We'll actually drop off all of our customers at the Militia Hill Clubhouse. You'll walk down the hill through the tunnel, and that's where the main entrance will be. So we've got a lot of great transports available. We expect anywhere from 12,000 to 15,000 a day, and that is our max capacity. We cannot fit any more on property, again, because it's such a smaller property versus some of these newer courses that are built today.

specifically for big events with parking lots and access and things like that. It's gorgeous course. I mean, I don't play, but I've been a number of times. And just even walking around it is beautiful. Casey, when you were in a fraternity, didn't you do something in that tunnel or something like that? It was crazy because, you know, I went to Ersinus College down the street. And one night when we were pledging, they kind of blindfolded us and put us in cars and took us to this tunnel.

Okay. And we had to go in the tunnel. We each had a gallon of beer and we weren't allowed to leave the tunnel until we finished a gallon of beer. Okay. So that was 1996. Okay.

I'm playing golf there in like 2009. We were playing together. And we're driving through this tunnel. And I had, it was like a deja vu, right? And I'm like, oh my God, this is where we were. I had no idea. See, all the history at Philly Cricket Club, you didn't even know. That should be part of the prank segment. Let's go back to that. I mean, goodness.

The one thing you and Rory have in common, Keith, is you have walked through that tunnel. Yeah, yeah. What happens on Wednesday? Because I actually have tickets for Wednesday. And is that open to the public? So what's the deal with that? Wednesday is open to the public. It's our pro-am. Okay. So we have three amateurs per professional. So Rory will actually play with three amateurs for nine holes. And then we'll actually have a second pro take them on. So it's a good day because everybody's a little bit more relaxed.

There's a little bit more fun in the air. You'll find by Thursday they're focused and they're intent on scoring well and really getting it. But Wednesday is a great day to come out and check it out. How does an AM get to be a part of that? So we typically have those packaged in larger sponsorship deals. And we do have some groups that just...

love the fact they can play with a tour professional. And obviously our dollars all go to the charitable side of what we do. So our event will have about a $2.5 million charitable impact on our community, whether it's with First Tee. I know we're doing Mutz and Putz. We're picking up all of the adoption fees with the dogs here the week of the tournament. So instead of balls, you're playing with puppies. We've got Wednesdays for any babies born in local hospitals.

We have a really good time making sure that we leave the community in a little bit better shape than when we showed up. And it's not just about the sporting event. It's making sure lives are affected in a positive way. So what you said earlier, so this is kind of a first and then this particular course getting on the radar. Once that happens, can we expect a more subsequent interest in sports?

Larger events coming? So I would say, I'd put it this way. Wissahickon is such a unique course. I'm not sure they'll raise their hand for an annual event or a larger field event. Typically, a full field event is 144 players. I'm not sure we could manage that at this course. But a 72-player field, signature event, high purse, no cut works great. I will say the response I've seen from hospitality, publicity, you name it,

golf and Philadelphia go quite well together. And there should be a lot of folks in this community that say, why aren't we doing more golf here? There's great courses. The market's fantastic. It's a huge sports town. You can already tell that golf is underserved in this market.

I mean, as far as courses, it's not underserved. But as far as events go, because, you know, we've got Marion, we have Aronamick, we have Philly Cricket Club, we have Applebrook, we have, I mean, you know, Pine Valley is right across the way. I mean, we have premier golf courses here. It is set up to have more events. So it's amazing we have a partnership with First Tee. First Tee is a charitable organization that helps children, you know, build their skills all around the game of golf. They actually operate two...

two of the munis for the city of Philadelphia, one being Walnut Lane, and the charity itself raised money and built their own clubhouse there, because that's how popular, and they're doing 40,000 rounds at a public muni in Philly. That tells you, from amateurs all the way up to exclusive country clubs, there's an appetite for golfer. It's

really why we're here. It got on our radar about 10 years ago when they hosted a senior event. And that's when we started realizing, well, that's a really unique property. They don't get a lot of big events, but we could only come here if we had the right kind of event that made sense. And when the signature event needed to be moved out of Charlotte for one year only, it

We targeted Philly, and it was a very quick conversation. Are you from North Carolina? I am not. Where are you from? I'm from Florida. Florida, okay. All right. So a little bit about your background. I'm sorry, Nick, to jump in here, but you have a famous father, right? Yes.

Well, actually, my grandfather is the namesake right down the road in Redding, Pennsylvania. That's where his business used to be. We moved down to Tampa, Florida in the mid-60s. But I used to travel all through the Northeast. And I've been to many speedways and racetracks and carnivals here in Pennsylvania with my family's automobile stunt show, the Joey Chitwood Thrill Show. So I grew up for 20 years.

of being a stuntman in the show, but the family ran that for 55 years from 43 to 98. You might be related to Kathy because she apparently had a... My grandfather was a race car driver, Ralph Liguori, and he... I know who Ralph is. Yeah. And he apparently spread his seed all over the country. No.

He basically left my grandmother to... Find the seed. No, for a racing career. And so my dad and his sister and my grandmother lived in New York and he traveled the country and he liked the women. And we later found in life... Actually, he recently passed, but right before he passed, we found that

My dad found a sibling out in Allentown and we connected with them. That is probably not an unusual story for racing back in the day. But my grandfather raced at the Indy 500 back in the 40s. Finished fifth three times, was the first man to ever wear a seatbelt.

At the Indy 500, they thought it was safer to get thrown from the car in an accident. Now, in 1946, they're averaging 120 miles per hour around that two and a half mile speedway. You want to know why they thought it was safer to get thrown from the car? Who wants to get thrown from a car at 120 miles per hour? They did not have fuel cell technology.

So any accident would really create a fireball. Big time, yeah. So most of the fatalities were being burned. And so that's a little interesting story about racing back in the day in 1946. It's very interesting. So there's a little bit of merit to the thought about being thrown out of the vehicle. Yeah. There you go. Seatbelts are effective. I have a two-part question, Joey. The first is, have you been to the Masters? And the second is, next time you go, can you take Preston? So I...

Don't share this story often, but I've had a chance to stay on property and play a couple days. Wow. You stayed in the cabin? I did. Oh, my goodness. I did. In fact, the cabin I stayed in, remember about 10, maybe 14 years ago when Rory Duck hooked it left on 10? I stayed in the cabin over there. But it's a glorious property. It is truly phenomenal. And to be inside the walls, but as just a person enjoying around a golf, it's pretty special. I will say this.

It is a lot smaller than you realize. And there are no level, I mean, it's all uneven level changes, you name it. I think what's interesting, seeing Rory win, and I got to see this in my racing days when I was at Daytona and Dale Jr. won his second Daytona 500. The emotion, the outpouring, because when they're younger, they don't realize that it's not going to continue forever. And it's harder and harder to win again. And so that appreciation, the emotion that comes out,

as to what it takes to compete at the highest level. And then so excited he gets to come here and sample the Philadelphia Cricket Club because for fans, we all want to see athletes achieve athletic accomplishment we could never hope to. And so you get to see him live and in person at the cricket club and perform. So it's why we enjoy sports. We appreciate those that kind of raise their game to win something that we could only dream to. So now you've played Augusta. Have you played Pine Valley? I have.

Oh, okay. So in my racing days, I would just say a lot of people wanted garage passes. I wanted to play bad golf at good golf courses. Somehow I was able to work out some trades and Pine Valley is, let's just say that I left there and defeated and not sure I ever wanted to play again. But again, you know, golf is such a great sport when you think about it because it all levels.

No matter how young you are, how old you are, you can always play. It's great from a camaraderie perspective. But then you get to see these fantastic venues with unbelievable architecture. And the beauty of the course comes to light. And you see these athletes just put on a great show. And then eventually you learn that you're not allowed to video record while you're there, correct? Oh, I got in trouble for that. You know, I have to say this. I give Augusta a lot of credit because, you know, as we all have younger people in our lives and we watch how they live.

through their phones and things like that, you know, go to a sporting event and not have to worry about that and just soak it in and live in the moment and enjoy it, not record in the moment. Yeah. It's pretty good. Yeah. And so it is a process though to make sure you get through there and not have your phone on you. I saw a side-by-side shot of LeBron breaking the scoring record and everybody at the arena had their phone out recording it versus Rory winning the Masters and nobody did because they didn't have their phone. People were in the moment while that happened and I appreciated it. I think Rory even said it

and maybe some others did, that they can feel a better vibe from the crowd because they're more engaged because they don't have their social media apps open and they're posting and tweeting and all those things. So it's interesting just from a professional's perspective, they could feel the fans being more engaged without the phones in the front of the crowd.

So, Joey, for the Truist Championship, May 7th through the 11th, how does one go about getting tickets? And are they available for all the days right now? We've actually sold out of our grounds tickets on Friday and Saturday. The demand's been so good. But the truestchampionship.com is the easiest thing to go to. For those that enjoy great golf, this is the place. For those that enjoy the chance to see...

phenomenal holes and structures that we built, but we have a hospitality structure. And in my years of doing this, I've never had a structure where we could actually put it in between five different holes. So we have a structure. It's two levels at the highest point of the golf course. You can see the second green, the 14th green, the 15th tee box, the 15th tee box,

the 17th green and the 18 tee box. I've never seen a venue. Wow. It's in between. It's called our 1854 lounge. It could be the coolest thing that we've ever built. Wow. Because I've never been able to tell anybody, oh, usually it's, you've got one hole in front of you, one hole behind you. No, we've got five holes that surround you. So we've taken advantage of this older golf course and

And we've built things in places you never would get a chance in these newer venues because holes are much more spread out. And it's a little bit more of a distance. So we've got some really fun things. Whether you're a grounds admission customer or hospitality customer, you're going to have a great experience at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. Will there be live TV coverage? There will be. It will be CBS and Golf Channel. Okay. And so we like to pipe this out to a couple hundred countries across the globe.

20 different languages. We make sure that the global spotlight will be shining on Philadelphia and everybody's going to get to see how phenomenal the skyline is, but also this classic golf course. Are you making the deal because of the limited area, people offering up their homes for parking and things like that? So we've had a couple. I'm sure there'll be some entrepreneurs out there that actually figure out their own plans. Rideshare is the easiest way. We did identify something very close, which will be appropriate for everybody, but

you know, that's the part of the sporting event. There's always going to be folks who get to, you know, let's just say be part of it by offering their homes or their driveways for fans who want to attend. I got you. Nice. Well, good luck with the event. We'll all be watching for sure. And we appreciate you coming by here, Joey. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Joey Chitwood, the director of 2025 Truist Championship, May 7th through the 11th, Philadelphia Cricket Club. We're going to take a break. When we return, Chris Thiele will be joining us. He's going to be performing at the Miriam Anderson Hall tomorrow night. We'll be right back.

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IHateStevenSinger.com, but hurry, these will not be restocked and supplies limited. That's IHateStevenSinger.com. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you, Kathy. Really quick before we welcome our next guest, I want to thank Anthony Della Penna for sending us all of our

Easter cake. Like clockwork. Every year he leaves a giant box of Easter candy. If you went to the supermarket and you noticed that there was no Easter candy in there, it's because Anthony bought it all and sent it to us. And sent it to us. And if our next guest was here, we'd share some with him. Yes, we would. But he is joining us via Zoom. But maybe he's in town tomorrow night. Maybe we could leave some of this for him there. Sure. He will be performing at the Marian Anderson Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Pretty damn cool. He is a world-renowned musician.

Mandolinist, I guess would be the way to say that. And he's a member of one of Casey's favorite bands, Nickel Creek. And the Punch Brothers. And the Punch Brothers. Please welcome Chris Thiele. Hey, Chris. Hey, y'all. How's it going? Great, man. How you doing, bud? Good.

It's so good. Man, the pro radio thing is the best. Y'all are just crushing it. Listening in now in the last couple minutes. It's awesome. And listen, I have to thank radio for turning me on to you because we had Oscar Isaacson's studio to promote Inside Llewyn Davis.

Almost.

But that entire genre of music I wasn't familiar with, even. Oh my goodness! Yeah, so, you know, Lake Street Dive was a part of that concert. Marcus Muffer was a part of that concert. As well as the Milk Carton Kids. Like,

All of these bands, all of these musicians, I had no clue about. So this opened up a whole world for you. A whole world. Yeah. Yeah. And one of the coolest things is when I was watching, there was a music video that you guys had done for the Smoothie song. And I'm like, hang on a second. I'm like, is that Robert

Trujillo from Metallica playing bass? Yeah, so you guys span all over the place as far as genres. And just because you have a guitarist in a heavy metal band does not mean that he doesn't appreciate folk music or anything. So how did you guys get turned on to... Little known fact about that music video.

The guy at the counter, so it's set in a music store, like a guitar shop. And we filmed it on the Lower East Side here in New York. And so, yeah, people notice Robert Trujillo playing bass because he's featured. He gets the great hair and he's going crazy on the...

on the big double bass. It was the first time he'd ever touched an upright bass. And so, yeah, thankfully he was bass syncing by design. But no, if you watch closely, there's a guy at the counter of the music store and that's Jim Currier, the tennis great. Oh, wow. Wow.

That's awesome. That's great. Jim Currier in the Nickel Creek music video. Listen, Chris, to echo what Casey said, I've had this happen in my life before where somebody has turned me on to either a band that's been established for a long time or a genre of music that I've never explored. And I liken it to opening a treasure chest. You open this up and there is...

all of this that is there for you and all you have to do, you can just take it and you can take it in. Have you had moments like that in your life as well, musically? Oh, absolutely. I mean, I keep having it. I used to host this radio show called, well, it was initially called A Prairie Home Companion and then we changed the name to Live From Here. And my job, so one of the things about being a musician is so much the time

uh, you listen to music almost like the way, uh, an athlete hits the gym or something, you know, you're like, you're, you're listening to something. I need to work on my sense of harmony or I need to work on this. And you, you, you, you put on a record and you're like working. Yes. Um, but that, that experience turned me back into a music lover, like where, where my job was to put music in front of people that they, that, you know, might help them get through their, their days. And, and it,

And it put me back in that position where I'm listening to the record and wondering, is this enriching my life? Do I feel better right now? And the amount of times it happened, oh, God, it was so good to get music back in that way as opposed to, you know, it's my craft. It's my life's work. It's also my love, you know? Well, you know, it's funny because I saw you and I was watching an interview with you and you were talking about, with great specificity, about...

as opposed to CDs, and you were taking sort of a, what I thought was a very fresh approach to it, talking about how music...

that is recorded digitally should be heard on digital devices. You're a big proponent of vinyl. But in that conversation, you really established yourself as a pure music lover. And so was your first surge of music adoration, was it bluegrass? What first really spoke to you? Man, my earliest memories as a human are of music. I can remember...

hearing music before I could speak English. You know, like listening to the Gets Gilberto, the famous Gets Gilberto record that has the girl from Ipanema. Yes! She lived right up the road from here. By the way, she lived right up the road from here. Yeah, yeah. Last year.

Yeah. Yeah. Is that wild? Yeah. Astrid. I remember hearing that before I knew the difference between the English and the Portuguese. Like they both sounded, I just, I was just like, yeah, the girl singing, that's my mom. And the guy singing, that's my dad. Clearly, that's what it is. But then shortly thereafter, my parents started frequenting. We had no money, man. And we were just in Southern California. Dad was a piano tuner.

And every Saturday night, they would take me and my baby, baby brother to this pizza place called That Pizza Place in Carlsbad, California. And they had a live bluegrass band every Saturday. And that was their big entertainment for the week because all they had to do was buy a pizza. Right. And what was amazing is it's a pizza place. And I mean, they could be in the middle of like a haunting bluegrass ballad. And you get normal people.

28 features ready like right over the top of long black veil or something you know and um so i could tear around like a kid but also be listening to this music that was not you know freaking baby beluga or whatever right and so it was it was i mean it was life-changing and the guy i talk about this actually in the piece that i'm that i wrote for for the for the orchestra um

but it's, uh, the guy in the band, the leader of the band was a mandolin player. And I always tell people like, if he'd played to who, you know, Chris, uh, Casey turned me on to nickel Creek. And then I became a fan of yours and I'm a fan of radio. So hearing you on, on the evolution of a Prairie home companion, uh, and then the tiny desk concert, like I've been really excited to have you on the show this week. Uh, and super excited that you're coming to Philadelphia, but I read an interview where you were talking about, um,

When you started putting together the show, you weren't sure that you were qualified to do it. And I'm curious as to why you feel like you've evolved to a point now where you can, I don't know, keep up with the orchestra? Where do you feel professionally, musically, where you feel like, I got it now and I want to play with these guys?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a funny thing about a craft where you're always trying to put yourself in a position where you're a fish out of water. You just want to see, like, hey, can I evolve lungs real quick? And

But I always have loved, since an early age, on my mom's side of the family, it's a bunch of professional musicians, predominantly in the, for lack of a better term, the classical world. So it was something that was around. My grandma sat me down in front of the

Glenn Gould's second recording of the Goldberg Variations, Bach's Goldberg Variations. It kind of changed my conception of all of that. When I heard him play, he had a very rhythmic conception of those pieces. So not this free-floating thing that I had associated classical music with up to that point. This was music that resonated with the body. If you didn't move, you were dead. And

And so I think right then I realized that, that, that, that, you know, genre it's helpful for talking about music, but it's not that helpful for making it because it's all the same stuff. It's, you know, it's harmony, it's melody, it's rhythm, counterpoint structure, and, and just gestures, effective, um, computational gestures that are spun out in various ways. Um, you know, whether it's improvisatorily like I, like the world I come from often, um,

Or, you know, really getting to dot your I's and cross your T's, like if you sit down to compose an orchestral piece. But it's really the same activity. And sometimes you just have to kind of pull your mind out of the words that we apply to it. I wanted to ask you, Chris, in preparation for you being on the show, I did a little bit of research and watching videos, and I came across a video, and you mentioned having this

uh the amount of uh musicians in your family i found a video when you were 13 years old uh and i think it might have been on tnn and they were you came on to perform with these guys so what i was not aware of is that you were this musically inclined from a very early age at what point do people start taking note of how talented you were oh yeah let's see um

I started begging my parents for a mandolin when I was two. Wow. That was about when the pizza place thing was going on. Wow. And they finally realized that it wasn't how I was also begging them to be allowed to become a killer whale when I grew up. Yeah, since you were up farther reach. Yeah, but that was a thing that I was also asking for. I want to be a pitcher for the Cubs. There were various things. Yeah.

But I did play. As soon as I got that mandolin, I would just sit. I sat with it for hours at a time with sort of un...

unstructured time with the thing. So my parents started going like I was their first. They were a little mystified as to whether this is just what kids did or if I had something going on. But they started hearing from other people pretty quick. I started playing in the local talent shows and things like that. I started competing. There's all these bluegrass instrument competitions. It's very strange. You've got guys that are like, man, I'm going to absolutely kick your butt.

on Salt Creek right now. On a mandolin. Salt Creek like this, dude. You know, the thing about people who show an early inclination and talent, I read Alex Van Halen's

biography recently and he was talking about Eddie and Eddie, while he did take to it naturally, what really drove him was A, his love and connection to the instrument but the amount of time that he spent working on it. Now he did it out of love. It just felt right to him. It's not like he's like, I have to sit down and work and work on these things and work, work, work. He just couldn't get away from it. It sounds like you had the same thing. It was just like, you're figuring this out. It is a love for you but you spend hours and hours and hours and hours working on that.

Yeah. And there's just something that there's something that helps the world make sense about it. You know, I feel so lucky. Um, like my little kid, um, has ADHD and, and we've, we've, we've figured out he got it from me. And I just found this thing when I was little, um, that, that channel, you know, all of a sudden the ADHD, I think had a place to go and, and, and, and the mandolin really helped, uh,

make the world make sense. Just pouring a whole bunch of focus into that. And I think sometimes it drives my wife crazy. Like if I'm in the middle of working on music, nothing else is going to get in there. Let me ask you this. You're...

So you're this, and Preston was talking about that video where you're on, you're I think 13 years old, and the host made reference to the fact that the members of the band were a little intimidated by you. So you're this phenom, but how do you... Everything I've ever seen or read about you, you're just such a nice, level-headed guy. Was there any point at which you were flirting with it getting to your head? Oh, man, I...

I feel like even when I see those, like an old video of me at that age back, I see a kid like on the inside, like I come to see the right stuff. And on the inside, man, I was like, I am fucking new. But you were.

I mean, in your defense, you were crushing it. And listen, I love the sound of a mandolin. I like it on its own, but I think it just accompanies the acoustic guitar just so perfectly. Yeah, it's fun. There's a young group that I'm kind of getting into right now called the Crowboys, and it's just an acoustic guitar and a mandolin player. I don't know if you're familiar with those guys at all. No, I'll check it out.

Oh, I think, yeah. So they have an album coming out. I think four or five songs off of their album are available to listen to now. Really, really solid stuff. But I want to ask about when you guys, when you got hooked up with Sean and Sarah Watkins. The first time I ever saw you guys perform was a song called Destination. And I immediately started crushing on Sarah. I just love watching her sing.

That song, and it's such a great song. So, you know, when you are as talented as you are, obviously you're going to be introduced to other talented musicians. So how did you guys end up getting hooked up?

Well, it was at that same pizza place way, way, way back in the day. That pizza place. Yep. So they also, I ended up starting to take, you know, after my parents finally got me a mandolin, I started taking lessons with the guy who was the leader of the band at the pizza place. And then, and it turned out that Sean was also taking, Sean from Nickel Creek, eventually from Nickel Creek,

was also taking mandolins from that guy, mandolin lessons from that guy. And then Sarah was taking fiddle lessons from the fiddle player in that band. And so there was like, there were these two other kids at the pizza place and they would seem to be paying more attention to the music than the other people our age.

And so we started playing and started talking about how they played and we started jamming. There was a hallway that led to the bathroom at the pizza place. And we would sit in there and play fiddle tunes together. Eventually the band had us up. So then it was like the three of us sitting in with the band. And it was...

Shortly thereafter, this local Bluegrass Festival, they wanted a kids band, a cute kids band to have early in the day on Friday or whatever. It's not the Telluride one, is it? Because I need to get there. Oh, you have to. Telluride was one of Nickel Creek's earliest gigs. I was 11. Sarah and I were 11. Sean was 15 when we played Telluride for the first time. No, it was just the Lake Henshaw Bluegrass Festival.

And they asked Sean and Sarah's parents, hey, do your kids have any friends to play? And so they called me and that was it. We called ourselves, there's this bluegrass band. Oh no, we had two names at the point. We called ourselves the Itty Bitty Dirt Band. The Itty Bitty Dirt Band. Yeah.

Pretty good, right? The famous bluegrass band Seldom Seen that we call ourselves is Seldom Clean. Very clever. Let me ask you, so obviously to the point that you sort of become a gun for hire, you played with Dolly Parton on her Little Sparrow album. So when you're talking about like a Chernobyl level talent, you know, I mean, just that amount of stuff going on with Dolly Parton, intimidated, eager? What was the experience like?

I was still so, so eager that, you know, I just like, when enough, so much had happened to me already that it just seemed like kind of a natural progression to me. I didn't really stop to think about it. I just kind of went into the studio with Dolly like, all right, play a mandolin with Dolly now. And it goes, she's the best. Everything you hope that

that she is based on what you see out there, that's her. Wow. There's no act at all. Love it. We were in the studio and she brought in chicken and dumplings. Yes. What star of that magnitude is in there with the band at 10 in the morning banging out tracks? Yeah. She's in there singing scratch vocals to these. By the way, you could have used any of those quote unquote scratch vocals as the lead if

It was insane. That's awesome. She taught me, like, oh, she just takes time with everyone. She taught me that wherever your head is at, try and be 100% present with the people that are around. It's great. Because it's like their attention is such a gift. And so if you can return it in kind, you're, you know...

your life is going to go better. Great advice. Listen, Chris, we got to wrap, man. It's been so cool to talk to you. Chris Thiel will be performing at Marian Anderson Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Will they have fiddles or violins? Well, you know the difference. The only difference is no one spills beer on a violin. No one spills beer on a violin.

I love it. Get tickets at ensembleartsphilly.org. Chris, if you ever find yourself in Philadelphia again and you can stop by our studio, we'd love to have you here, okay? I can't wait. You guys are the best. Thank you so much. Chris Thiele, guys. Amazing musician. Very cool. A lot of fun, man. I'd love to spend all day with that guy. And that theater in the Kimmel Center is just so beautiful. It's acoustically perfect and it's going to be a great show. We are going to segue over to another Zoom and I've been told he's at the airport

and he's about to board. We do not have much time. He will be performing with his band as we've seen many times doing an amazing show on stage at the MMRBQ. Ladies and gentlemen, from Alice in Chains, Mr. William Duvall is joining us. William, good day, sir. Hey, good morning. Good to be here and good to hear you guys. Thanks for coming on again, man. So you're getting ready to jump on a plane right now?

Yes, I am. Yes, I'm at the gate. Life of a rock star. Do you ever get used to the bouncing from city to city thing, man? Oh, you know, you do. And yet, there's still always challenges, especially the longer you do it. So you kind of get used to it. And you kind of also part of getting used to it is just getting

putting up with the things that are more challenging. I can imagine. Diplomatically put. Have you ever had a chance to see a viral moment happen on a plane? Because you've been on planes so often. When I get on a plane, William, I'm thinking, okay, am I going to get to video somebody doing something stupid today? No.

Wow, you know, that's a really interesting question. Luckily, my flights are usually pretty event-free, although I will say that right after...

September 11th, I should say like the first flight out of Dulles Airport after September 11th, I happened to be on that plane. And this was before we had, you know, smartphones with cameras and viral moments. But I do remember that someone got dragged off that plane. Wow. That was pretty wild. Yeah. That was pretty wild. Damn. That would have been...

quintessential viral moment had we had the technology. Right. You know, it's funny though, you traveling and you out in public, so you put off, to me, I see you and I'd say, that's a rock star. Do you often get queried as to whether or not you're a rock star because you just, you got that look, you got that energy. Do you get hit with that a lot?

There are times when someone will say, what do you do? And then there are times when you get straight up recognized and all that. But yeah, the people who don't know, they'll be like, so what do you do? Are you an artist? And they usually mean like a painter.

Like a painter. I love that. Sometimes I go with that. Yeah. Oh, totally. So, William, I drove across the country last year with our nighttime DJ. His name is Jackie Bam Bam. And the guy looks like a rock star straight out of the 80s. And for all intents and purposes, at the time, he was. But we're driving across middle America. And I'm telling you, the amount of heads that were turned because people are like...

That's somebody. Who is that guy? That's somebody. And we ended up having dinner in Palm Springs. And the waitstaff wouldn't leave us alone because they thought he was a rock star. And I don't think anybody really had the guts to ask him who he was. So they just treat him like a rock star. He has to be in it. We're just going to assume it. Yeah.

He didn't even get the, what do you do? I wanted to ask you something, William. So you joined the band in 2006. We started our radio program here in 2005. We're at our 20 years. You're approaching your 20 years. Is that something that you've thought about and how that feels to you of being almost 20 year milestone in Alice in Chains?

Yeah, yeah, it's a trip, honestly. You know, it's the kind of thing you certainly can never plan for, but here we are, almost. And it's a milestone, and it's not lost on me, and I don't think it's lost on any of us, you know, kind of how incredible it is, really. I mean, if you think about it, and this is something that occurs to me as we go through, you know, obviously the initial grunge rush and the initial, you know, rush

that period passing and obviously some bands fell into disarray. To me, the tale of Alice in Chains surviving and thriving at this point, it's something you can never dispense with because it's simply amazing and cranking out, I think, some of the band's best stuff. Was there a point... Obviously, you joined a little bit later on, but was there a point where...

that hit you where you had that revelation that this is going to be a long haul issue, that this is, you know, this isn't the, you know, soon playing casinos thing. This is a real deal band that still has its place. Yeah. I would say after Black is Way to Blue and moving into the Dinosaur record was when it really kind of got like,

It hit me how, what a generational act, you know, what a generational band, uh, Alice is. Um, and you, cause you, you see it, you see it in the audiences, but,

I think it was after that first campaign going into that second campaign when, uh, it sinks in and it's like, yeah, okay, this is not, this is not a fluke. This is just kind of what it is. Yeah. And we're going to, we're going to get these people of all ages and, and it's a pretty wide swath of people and you can go all over the world and people are going to show up and it's going to be a multi-generational thing everywhere you go. And, and, uh, yeah, I think that's,

That really started to hit me around the Dinosaur Records. Yeah, I can... Because the first time you don't even know, like it might be a fluke, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. There was so much noise going on around that Black is Red or Blue record that everything was flying by us so fast that a lot of it couldn't even process. But by the Dinosaur Records, it started to process it.

Yeah, I think anybody in any sort of media or entertainment or whatever, you go through that phase where you're like, okay, was this all there is? But there is more. I wanted to ask you when you are performing, because there is a rich library of material to pull on. Is there that one song, that one point in the evening that you say, okay, here's where I can go. Here's where I can let loose.

Well, they're all kind of there. I mean, pretty much all of them are pretty challenging in that way. It's like it's yeah. I mean, there's there's really not a lot of downtime. Not a lot of downtime. Is there one that you enjoy? Yeah. Is there a song you specifically that you just love to perform? I know you love to sing them all. But is there one that just is a bit above the others?

Yeah, I got to say, there's a few where it's like, oh, that's always a fun time, you know. I really always enjoy, like for a deep cut, I always enjoy the song Dirt. I also really enjoy Last of My Kind, Black is Way to Blue. Nice. I enjoy Never Fade off of Rain, There's Fog. And, you know, there's...

Like I said, there's the ones you can't leave the stage without playing, like, you know, Wood and The Box and Rooster. And those are always cool, too, even though you know that it's kind of required playing. They're crowd-pleasers. They're crowd-pleasers, yeah. But the energy of the audience in every, you know, town and every show kind of makes it new again. So it's kind of...

It's kind of cool, you know? I love that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, listen, we know you're traveling. We know you're busy. It sounds like you might actually be on the plane now. Did you board yet? I am. I boarded while we were talking. I heard that telltale ding there for a moment. Yes. I'm like, okay. So you probably don't want to...

You probably don't want to sit there. It was a pro move. You got a glimpse behind the glamour. Well, you're probably sitting in first class, though, right? Right. I'm not complaining. No, it's okay. Fair enough, man. We don't want you to be the subject of a video where this guy wouldn't shut up on his phone next to me.

Yeah, I'll be the viral moment. You'll be the viral moment. Oh, my God. We'll get a headline, man. I love it. Well, William, we'll let you settle in and get on your travels, but we're stoked to see you and the guys in Philadelphia on May 10th. You always put on a phenomenal show, and we're excited that you're a part of the lineup, so thank you, man. Right on, man. It's always great to play

See you in there, Marbecue. It's great to talk to you guys again. We look forward to seeing you. All right. Excellent, bud. Safe travels. We'll see you on the 10th, all right? Right on. Excellent. William Duvall, guys. Alice in chains. I don't want to have him sit there on...

In first class, it's just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All the guys are sitting around. Son of a bitch won't shut up. Super nice guy, though. And you're right. He's got just this rock star vibe. He does, yeah. You can just tell by the way he looks. Hey, we have a moment. I wanted to play some audio. Yeah? Yes, yes. So Nick sent us. It's making the rounds. It was a video.

of these two women in Australia that were doing a television interview. They were talking about getting carjacked. And you think, okay, these people are going to be telling their story one at a time. What's going on? What happened? What traumatic event took place? Well, these two ladies are identical twins. They're identical twins with the exact same hairstyles, the exact same clothes. And they're telling the exact same story at the exact same time. And you can tell this is not rehearsed because some of it is...

They're saying a couple of different things, but they are, they're not finishing what each other is saying. They're saying it at the same time. In unison. And they're together. They're together. They're standing side by side. And this made it all over the place. Here's the video up here. But it made me think of what they classically refer to as twin speak or twin sync.

where they plan that ahead of time and they say the same things at the same time because people know it looks creepy and weird. They're telling a story and the other can't help speaking. So they're not doing it purposely? No, they're both telling this story and for whatever reason, I think they must be a little odd in their relationship in that they speak at the same time. So let me play this for you, Kathy, because it's pretty wild. Yeah, I didn't see it. All right, here we go. And one guy, he was up there with our mom.

And he went up there and he was coming back down towards us. And he goes, run, he's got a gun. And our hearts started to pound. And I said, well, mom, where's mom? I mean, the one is trying to take the lead. And the other one is just saying what she's saying at the same time. But the fact that they both were the same, in fact, he's got a gun. Yeah.

Stop. Don't run. So this continues. It goes on for a while. And poor mum was stuck up there. But apparently our brave mum, she goes, are you all right? Because he had all blood all over his face.

And he goes, I'll shoot you. She goes, hey, I'm here to help. And mum distracted him to make him look the other way. And he looked the other way. And mum ran into the bush behind the fence.

And the guy goes to us, I'll find you and I'll shoot you. All I was thinking about when we were running, I hope he doesn't fire. Yeah, we were so blessed. How close to him do you think you were?

Well, see, he was up there. And we were past the drive-by. Yeah, yeah. You don't think of all of that at the time. No. You just run for your life, dear. By the way, they also do hand gestures at the same time. But they did it in a mirrored way. Oh, wow. So one's using the right hand, one's using the left hand. Oh.

You ever seen a group of starlings flock together? Yes. There are these brain waves and sensory information that the birds can pass from one another so they all know which direction to turn at the exact same time. There's got to be something happening between twins where they can sense one another and the direction that they're about to say before they say it. Something has to happen in their genetic code because it's not like they know exactly what's going to happen next. They are in unison.

Yeah. It's not somebody trying to finish the other person's sentence. It's not somebody trying to talk over somebody else or interrupt the other person. They're doing it at the same time and their brains just have to be functioning in the exact same way at the exact same time in order to make that happen. There was a TikTok trend not that long ago where they would take twin kids, babies, you know, toddlers, and they'd put them on either side of a door or either side of a wall and the mom would

tell them to do something, dance, turn around, lift one leg. And they would do, they would turn in the same direction. They would lift the same leg. They would dance the same way. Wow. And they couldn't see each other. Wow.

It is pretty wild. I mean, you know, you go like to the classic tale of, again, twin speak like the Corsican brothers or, you know, this sort of connection that exists. It's there, you know, to varying degrees. The twin speak thing is interesting because it happens when they're toddlers and not yet worked out all of language. Yeah. And they speak in gibberish and understand each other. Yeah. Yeah. It's like zooby-dab-a-do-ba-da. You know, it's like somebody speaking in tongues. What?

Exactly. And they do it to each other. And I talked to my uncles who are twins, and I asked them about that one time. I'm like, do you guys remember doing that at all? They're like, no, I don't remember any of that. Well, it's kind of what wedding crashers...

she has the, it's not twin speak, but she has her language that she developed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaks to a imaginary friend. Imaginary friend, yes. So my nephews are twins and they are just a couple of months younger than Avery. And Avery was, you were able to have a full-on conversation with her at two years old. And these guys,

They just talked to each other. And that was it. And they had their own speak. They didn't actually speak speak until much, much later on, which is actually kind of like, you know, for my sister-in-law, she would see Avery having a full-on conversation. She's like, what the hell is going on? Yeah, yeah, yeah. My brother has twin three-year-olds right now. They're a boy and a girl. So, you know, it's a bit different than this. These look like they were identical twins.

But they, just the way they communicate with each other, they speak very well. They've been speaking since they were, they were very young. But the way they, they communicate with each other, like just to watch them is pretty amazing. Even just a normal conversation and them playing and they don't know you're watching. I mean, it really is just such a. Auntie Kathy, I've defecated in my pants. No,

No, but it is such a special bond. You know, it's different than another sibling. That's your twin. Yeah, that is a genetic reflection of you. So the girl I dated years ago, she had twin brothers. And I love this because the dad, he had fun with it. He's like, okay, the boys need winter jackets. And he would take them to the store separately. And he would, you know, take them to the winter jacket section and see if they would pick the same jacket.

And they did. And they did. Yeah. Like all the time. He would do this all the time. And, you know, it might be like the same jacket, different color or, you know, something along those lines. This is your girlfriends at the time. They were brothers? Yeah. Wow. By the way, Nick pulled this up. The birds, the flocks is called murmurations.

and they're not just uh starlings but um some other ones can do that as well where they it's pretty wild when you see that yeah because they make these bizarre shapes in the sky it's astonishing it's hypnotic and and really beautiful to see when it takes place well i wonder if you can hire them to spell out things right starlings yeah that'd be cool if you could get them to do that

But you have been in conversations with people who are not twins who do exactly what these ladies are doing, where you're talking to somebody and then they finish your sentence for you. Yes. Like I'm trying to say something right now. Yeah. And you know what I'm going to say. No, I was trying to get him to do it. You know, I saw an article not that long ago about one of the things that people need to work on is.

talking over other people. We have a system here on the show. We raise our hands. It's a different story. It'd be weird if you were doing that in person, but we still do it when we are amongst each other and the mics are off from time to time. We'll raise a finger when who's up next. All the time. And I'm terrible at it. And I think apparently I have off the charts, what, ADHD or syphilis, whatever, whatever I have.

And it can literally be excruciating for me waiting for someone to complete a sentence that I know how it's going to end. And it's something I have to control. It's not anyone else's fault, and I feel terrible when I do it. But it is... I understand...

the inclination also on a comedic level if I've got something that I as a punch or whatever I want to get it out but it is I get it I get that rush you know what I'm saying it takes practice and especially if you're speaking to somebody on the phone there's the slightest delay

in the conversation, because this happens with my sister a lot, and I'll realize that there's a delay. I know what to do when that happens. They don't. They don't know what to do, because we, in the broadcast industry, a lot of times when you're relaying to someone, there is a slight delay, and you have to finish your thought, and you have to wait for

And the inclination is to jump in again because you haven't heard anything yet, but they haven't finished hearing what you have already said, and they're waiting to respond to you. So there's a little game at play there. You know what you should do? You should pretend there's a delay when there isn't. Oh, my God. Yeah. That's a great idea.

I'm sorry, there's a delay. Could you repeat that? There's a guy that Casey and I know, and I pointed out to Casey a couple of years ago that he finishes your sentences, and I feel bad for pointing that out to you, Casey, because now you can't not notice it. Oh, no, no, no. I know who you're talking about. You didn't have to point that out to me. It was very, very apparent because he does, like, he will finish your sentence. And he's a very nice person. He's not being an a-hole. I think, Steve, it's what you were talking about earlier. He feels...

a bit of a compulsion and there's no controlling it unless you actively have mindfulness and an attempt to control it. And I have a good friend who does that. I can't bring it to myself to tell them that though.

You know what I mean? When you're talking to them live, say, I'm sorry, there's a bit of a delay. Hang on. I'm sorry, there's an echo. Do I hold my fingers up? I'm sorry, there's a bit of a delay. There's a little delay here. Could you wait until I finish? I have to get this. One of the funniest things to see is in movies, sometimes you'll catch somebody in the back who's familiar with the dialogue and their lips will be moving. Dude. And there's a whole bunch of outtakes of that. You see it in real life, in Home Alone, in the very beginning of the movie, where

The kid who they actually... Home Alone's not real life. It's not real life. Hang on, though. So when they're counting and they count this kid as Kevin McAllister, he's the neighbor. You see him mouthing the lines from the guy from the movie. Oh, really? Really? Yeah. Okay. I think I just did it, Preston. You said, the other person on the other line, about the delay. And I said, they don't know the delay. Like, I jumped in. You jumped in. And I just jumped in on you. I finished your statement. Hey, you did. Yeah.

But it is, I mean, there are times, I have, there are people in my life who are just wonderful and they tell stories about,

And, you know, and sometimes they'll tell them at the slowest clip and I'm like, oh, my God. But our job makes that difficult for you, Steve. I mean, we are a fast paced show. Yeah. And when you get out of this environment, literally when you leave this room and have conversations with other people away from our work, the dynamic changes. And so we're used to talking fast and doing the dynamic that we have in this room. And so when you do it with other people, you have to force yourself to be like, oh, wait,

This isn't radio. This is an actual conversation in real life. That's why if you could just go up to someone and say, I've perfected the art of the Vulcan mind meld, and you just hold your hand to the side of the... I got what you're saying. That's it. Oh, I picked up on it. And I agree, by the way.

I'm going to play this one more time, these twins giving this interview. And one guy, he was up there with our mum and he went up there and he was coming back down towards us and he goes, run, he's got a gun. And our half started to pound and I said, well, mum, where's mum?

And poor mum was stuck up there. But apparently our brave mum, she goes, are you all right? Because he had all blood all over his face.

And he goes, I'll shoot you. She goes, hey, I'm here to help. And mum distracted him to make him look the other way. Did you hear the development in the story? Uh-uh. The mum had paid the guy to shoot her. She couldn't take it anymore. I can't take it! Looked the other way and mum ran into the bush behind the fence.

And the guy goes to her, I'll find you and I'll shoot you. All I was thinking about when we were running. I hope he doesn't fire. Yeah, we were so blessed. Is an arch Aussie accent suitable for sexy pillow talk, you know? No. He ain't plop your genitals right here on my chest.

You going? Depends on who's saying it, I guess. Yes. The fact that these two ladies are wearing the same damn shirt also kind of gets under my skin. Did they shop at the same time? Did one person buy them for both of them? Sometimes twins do embrace, you know, they embrace the twinniness and will dress similarly. Those are scrubs. They work at like a child dentist or something like that. Or they treat a bunch of baby rabbits, Easter rabbits on their outfits. Yeah.

Yeah. No, but those look like they are like dental hygienists or, you know, something along those lines. But it's the same hairstyle, same necklace, you know, like same earrings. Yeah. And then all speaking at the same time. Yeah. Twins will do that sometimes. They like to do that. But it's hilarious. Yeah. The visual should go along with the audio. So when you get a chance, seek that video out and take a look. You'll get a kick out of it. We should take a break because...

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Brought to you by Pro Team Collision. If you find yourself in an accident, trust the pros of Pro Team Collision. Your trusted auto body repair shop located in King of Prussia. Go to proteamcollision.com. So, in Richland, Mississippi, 58-year-old Carl Domino made things extremely easy for the police who pulled him over after Domino was stopped for a traffic violation. One more time. All right.

Call! The officer on the scene reported catching a hearty whiff of marijuana coming from the vehicle. Not only did Domino admit to the weed, but he actually handed the officer the joint. That would be what they call probable cause. And the vehicle search was on. And in that search...

This guy handed over a joint. And in the search, they found 120 ecstasy pills, over three pounds of pure ecstasy, around five pounds of mushrooms, 12 vials of LSD, close to half a pound of weed, and two digital scales. He didn't even see my house. He didn't hand those over, though, right? He wanted to do this for himself. In all, the police say seizure. It's like a big drug Dagwood sandwich. A street value of over $200,000. Jeez. Whoa.

A man is recovering after, this is messed up, after startling, a startling unprovoked attack left him without an eyeball. And the alleged assailant with an aggravated assault charge. So here's what happened. An unnamed Arizona man was walking down to Phoenix Street around 1 a.m. The victim told police that he passed a man outside, later identified as 38-year-old Daniel Lanks.

And he asked him, how are you doing? Uh-huh. Lanks, who the outlets reported had just been released from jail in a separate case two days prior, then allegedly told the man that he would whoop his ass.

The man kept walking, but Lanks came up to him from behind, stuck his fingers into the man's right eye socket, and pulled his eye out. Well, in his defense, that was a very provocative question. The victim then fell to the ground, and Lanks allegedly punched him in the face several times. The man immediately went home, and his girlfriend called 911. The medical personnel discovered that he had fractured his jaw when police arrived at the man's house. They asked him to remove a towel that he was holding from his face,

And they quickly realized that his eyeball was dangling from the socket. My God. God. Later, around 2 p.m., police found Langs in the lobby of a health care office, and he was arrested. He allegedly told officers to shut the F up.

And that he didn't understand his Miranda rights. So, by the way, why did they release him from jail? Three days later, the victim identified Lanks in a photo lineup. In the documents, the victim told police that his life was dramatically altered by the assault, of course. Lanks was taken to the county jail and has been charged with felony aggravated assault, being held on a half million dollars cash bond. I just want to assure the parole board that I'm not going to do anything like tear people's eyes out or stuff like that. Wow.

And Steve, I don't know what he did in the original infraction. He was an optometrist. A Delta flight from Washington, D.C. to New York City's JFK Airport was meant to be a quick journey, but for one woman, it ended up turning into her worst nightmare. Noelia Voigt recounts her experience in a now TikTok video describing that the moment she was unexpectedly projectile vomited on by a man seated behind her. Wonderful. She begins a viral clip by saying...

I need to vent. A girl next to me and myself just got projectile vomited on on a Delta flight. She said, I first smelled something weird. It was like something, someone burped or drinking beer or something. Initially dismissing the smell as an inconvenience. She soon realized the gravity of the situation when her seatmate tapped her arm. She said she gestured to herself and then pointed at me. And that's when I saw it all over her hood and my left side.

The vomit, which Voight believes was propelled by minor turbulence during the descent, had arched over the seats, landed on both women and their belongings. Instead of this man vomiting down towards her feet, she said, he did one of these and then mimicked a forward motion. Voight described the aftermath as surreal. She said, we literally were minutes away from landing. We couldn't just jump up because the plane had just landed and they say that you can't stand up while you're taxiing to the gate.

forced to sit in their soiled clothes for several minutes. Voight and her seatmate pressed the flight attendant call button twice before receiving assistance. She said whenever they came over, they only brought us cocktail napkins to clean ourselves up. No gloves, no wipes, nothing. The lack of adequate cleanup supplies.

left void scrambling for solutions once she deplaned. I'll kill myself. She said, we were sitting there with full realization of the fact that we have this man's vomit all over us. Making matters worse, her carry-on bag, which had contained a change of clothes, had been checked at the gate.

Said, had I been allowed to keep my bag, I could have changed immediately. Instead, she had to purchase new clothes at JFK Airport and carry her vomit-stained coat in a trash bag provided by Michael Kors' store. Is the airport liable if you're vomited on by another passenger? I mean, the airline, I should say? So she expresses frustration not just with the incident itself, but with Delta's response afterwards. So she said when she reached out to the airline's customer service, she was initially offered 3,000 SkyMiles

Sky Miles as compensation. Displeased with their offer, she decided to escalate her complaint and they offered her 20,000 miles. But she remains unsatisfied. She said this wasn't spilled soda. This was a biohazard exposure. And so she doesn't blame the passenger. She believes he was intoxicated. But she does hold Delta accountable for handling the aftermath and maybe operating a little too slowly. Do you know any sympathetic vomitors who with a smell can make them vomit?

Not that any come to mind. Yeah. A friend of mine was, he was gone. Anytime he smelled anything remotely, like in school. Yeah. It's not the smell. It's seeing it happen. For him, it was the smell. Yeah, but I don't, I mean, it just makes me. The sound can do it for some people too. All right. And that's what I have in the Bizarre File because it's tanning. 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia. Yoo-hoo.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Beautiful song from Oasis this morning on 93.3 WLMR. Don't look back at it. Don't do it. Look at this beautiful sunny sky right now. That's what we want.

80 degrees is our high temperature today. Tomorrow, 78. Thursday, a little over 80 degrees and into Friday. And then we're looking at clouds on Friday, maybe moving into...

rain on Saturday. We'll see about that because last weekend, like the week leading up to that weekend, they were calling for rain on Saturday and everything. Ended up being absolutely fantabulous. Listen, we're going to get more of this and the more the merrier. I think we deserve a nice...

Yeah, especially leading to MMRBQ. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, we're looking forward to good weather for that. Hopefully, we will see. But, yeah, wouldn't it be great if we had days like this for MMRBQ? Which, by the way, there are ticket raids coming up. I will tell you about them in Music News in just a moment. We're about to do that. But in the meantime, we'll ask today's lesson question.

Pardon me. Steve and I are both dealing with pollen issues big time, man. Yeah, it's bizarre. I don't usually have that, but this year, yes. I got loads of Flemish. If you need some extra, let me know. I got plenty. So we'll ask a lesson question. Here's the deal. You need to text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. We'll send you today's link. Get yourself ready for that because you may know the answer to the question.

Which I will ask now, and we are going to give away as a prize four packet tickets to join Casey Boy to see an advanced screening of The Thunderbolts. Nice. April 30th, 7 p.m. at the Regal in King of Prussia. So the question that we pose to you this morning is, which Russian dictator once tried out to be quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles? It was mentioned earlier when we had Rob Nero, the stencil artist here this morning, and

Which Russian dictator once tried out to be quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles? Have you heard that? And you know, text the word ZUN6106609333. We'll send you the link. Click on that. Maybe you'll get on the air with us and quite possibly win the prize that we have. All right. In the meantime, we'll do the trash. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. To pass the time, let's get some stories. Steve, what's going on this morning? I've got them, Preston. Actors Zach Guilford and Kylie Sanchez, who play husband and wife on Criminal Minds and are actually married in real life, have filed for divorce.

Producers are planning on having the show mirror real life by having no one care. Oh, my God. X-Rated, who is a rapper who spent time behind bars with the Menendez brothers, say they're very optimistic about getting out of prison soon. X-Rated says both Lyle and Eric are confident...

that when they get out, there will still be plenty of people to kill. Oh, my God. And finally, Joseph Siders, the drummer and founder of a band called The New Pornographers, has been arrested for possessing child pornography. Siders admits he thought he had covered his tracks by removing the word child from the band's name. Wow.

All right. We will see if we can get ourselves a winner. We threw a question out there looking for an answer from earlier this morning. The question was posed at 8.15 a.m. And if you know the answer to this, text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. The question is, which Russian dictator once tried out to be a quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles? And we do indeed have Christopher who's checking in with us this morning. Yo, Chris, morning, bud.

Hey, what's going on? Yeah, man. Looking for the answer to the question, which Russian dictator once tried out to be quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles? Do you know? Lennon. Lennon is correct. All right, buddy. Hang on.

We are going to give you a four-pack of tickets to join Casey Boy, who is going to be having an advanced screening of The Thunderbolts, April 30th, 7 p.m. at the Regal in King of Prussia. And it's brought to you by Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts. They're not super, they're not heroes, and they're not giving up. Only in theaters on May 2nd, and you can get tickets for that now. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News.

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Visit them on the web at admoyer.com. The Cure is getting ready to release a brand new version of their album from last year, Songs of a Lost World. The new release is a remix collection. You said you have this album, Steve? Yeah, it's great. It really is. They did this a while ago with an album that I love called All Mixed Up, which are variations on their songs. They tend to do a really good job with this stuff. So it's called Mixes of a Lost World, and it will feature fresh takes on...

the songs from EDM artists including Fortet, Paul Oakenfold, and more. Robert Smith said, just after Christmas, I was sent a couple of unsolicited remixes of Song of a Lost World tracks, and I really loved them. And The Cure has a colorful history with all kinds of dance music, and I was curious as to how the whole album would sound entirely reinterpreted by others.

Ahead of the album dropping, remixes of Can Never Say Goodbye and Alone have been released. And mixes of Lost World drops on June 13th.

The band Foreigner isn't acting like a band ready to ride off into the sunset with a South American tour happening and a new song with OG lead singer Lou Graham on the way. The band is once again hitting on all cylinders. Yesterday, they announced that to celebrate 50 years of Foreigner, they'll be playing a five-day mini residence in Vegas next year, backed by a 20-piece orchestra.

The performances are set for March 6th, 7th, 11th, 13th, and 14th. And tickets will go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific time. I did not see

where the venue is, where they're going to be. But it will be in Vegas and it is a residency, so just heads up on that. All right, and I know this is a little outside of our format, but I figured I'd bring this up because we have a past with Deadmau5. Deadmau5. Deadmau5 is the name, but it's spelled D-E-A-D-M-A-U and then the number five. And the first time I saw it, I said it was Deadmau5. I would have thought that too, yeah. But he is acknowledging a weekend...

a weekend two Coachella set where he appeared on stage looking drunk and slurring his words, writing on social media that, quote, I don't remember a thing. So he was drunk and slurring his words. We were just talking about that type of thing yesterday. Yeah, blackout drunk. So the producer's post goes on to say that the Friday night show, the Friday night set was, he said, probably my last Coachella show. Wow.

The showing question was back-to-back performances from Deadmau5 and Zhu on the Deadmau5. And the dance-focused Quasar stage. I am Deadmau5! Which hosts extended DJ sets and also featured Idris Elba, among others, by the way. He's apparently an accomplished DJ. Yeah, he was doing that, I guess, before his acting career really took off.

Presser's an artist that I'm fairly certain his name is David, but he spells it D4Vid. And so I don't, you know, I do the same thing with your dead mouth five. I'm like D4Vid. Listen, if you're going to have a clever name and a clever way to spell it and get a little cutesy on us, you should always provide a pronunciation key. Just be ready for people to say it incorrectly. You're going to get dead mouthed. It's a stupid day.

In a subsequent post from Sunday, the producer posted a picture of his cat alongside the caption, even my cat is disappointed in me. Though it could be argued that she always has been. So he said, to be fair, I felt the first three quarters was great. Huge shout out to you for introducing me to whiskey and carrying my dumb ass till the bitter end.

He said, let me quit smoking, do some effing personal resetting here at home, find my spirit animal, work on some new music, and come back better. So he's apologizing.

And then one last thing to mention, there are two MMRBQ ticket raids this weekend. So Saturday, Steve Morrison will be at the Boozy Mutt on Poplar Street in Philadelphia from 5 to 7 p.m. So stop by because every 15 minutes, Steve's going to have your chance to win tickets. So it's this Saturday, 5 to 7 at the Boozy Mutt on Poplar Street in Philly. And then on Sunday, the MM Army will be at Rita's in Rockledge.

And that'll be from 1 to 3 p.m. Stop by, same thing, every 15 minutes.

It's a chance for you to win a pair of real old school paper tickets, it says. How cool is that? Collector's item. Yeah. And of course, the show is Saturday, May 10th at Freedom Orchard Pavilion. And we just spoke to William DeBall earlier this morning about some chains who are going to be performing there. And Three Days Grace and Mammoth and Dorothy and all these great bands. So and the President Steve Show side stage as well. Oh, yeah. And I need to mention this, that live band karaoke voting is.

is going to be taking place. It starts on Friday. Yes. So we are going to go through the singers and get them all put up on this area where you can check them out. And then you get to vote on them. So 10 singers will be chosen. Each gets four pack of MMRBQ tickets. WMMR.com for all the details. And by the way, tickets for MMRBQ, there are four packs available for $100. It saves you 40 bucks in fees if you do the four pack. Right.

Okay. So go to WMMR.com for those details. Yes, Case. So I wanted to have a little fun with audio, Preston. I wanted to play something for you. Just give me like two minutes of your time. On Instagram, I came across this audio last night and I just thought it was the...

It was so much fun. Now, a couple of weeks ago, I came across this audio and I didn't save it or like the video. And so now I'm being more active and liking things. So just in case I want to go back and grab audio, I can do that. Because the one I found a couple of weeks ago, it was somebody who redubbed a Korn song. And it was like basically if Korn didn't have any distortion in their music, it was awesome. Now, this one, we all know this song right here, right? Yeah.

Mother. Misfits. I'm not a Danzig fan, but I do love this song. And I think this song is great and it stands alone on its own. Okay. But I was scrolling through Instagram last night and I came across this. I've heard this. It's good. Tell your children not to hear my words.

What we need, what we say. Mother. It works. It totally does. Mother. Can you keep them in the dark? DJ Cumberbatch? Can you have a fun life? It might be. It's not? There are a lot of people that do these mashups now. Mother. Mother. Gonna take you down the hall tonight.

I bet if you... I'm Bill McClintock. Yeah, this is Vinyl Is My Drug. That's the handle that shared it. If you were to release this during the height of the disco era, you might have had a hit. Yeah.

I love it. They call it Donzig because it's Don of Summer in Danzig. That's great.

All right. Do we need to hear more of it? No, that's it. That's it. I just wanted to take you guys for a little bit of a trip. Some of that stuff is actually really enjoyable. I mean, like when we did the belly flop championship, Pancake would DJ for us. And I told him, I'm like, dude, grab some of those

hard rock song mashups that have dance beats to them. They're great. Because it's kind of a club atmosphere. Yeah. But it's an MMR crowd. Yeah. And if we put both of those things together, I bet you people would kind of like it. So he did. And...

It was a lot of fun. The rest is history. Yeah. All right, let's take a break. We will come back in mere moments and wrap up our program. You'll get the letter of the day for the World Reek Prize. I believe Ray Coob is in today. Yeah. For one, Mr. Pierre Robert. So we'll see what he's got coming up for you. We'll be right back. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

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Coming to a close and what a busy day. And in all the best ways because we met some really cool people this morning. A full list of guests that came by. I will mention all of them and then I'll get to our tattoos day. But I want to start by thanking our artist, stencil art phenom, Rob Nero. Yes.

Really impressive. Unique works of art using stencils. I mean, really detailed photographic representations of our faces and other Philly notables and everything. And he's doing this stencil a day challenge for the month of April. And he wanted to do us. We were honored. Yeah. So he came by, brought the stencils, and we'll point you in the direction of his social media on Instagram at Nero underscore one. The word one spelled out.

on Instagram and it was really cool to meet him so thank you Rob for being here then we had the executive director of the 2025 Truist Championship Golf Tournament which is going to be at the Philadelphia Cricket Club May 7th through the 11th I mean Rory McIlroy Justin Thomas Scotty Scheffler the best in the world are all going to be at this event and we want to thank Joey Chitwood for being here this morning those tickets are on sale now if you want to go it's at Philly Cricket Club it's going to be pretty exciting stuff

Then we had an amazing musician join us. And a little outside of the box musically for WMMR, but we do that on this show from time to time. And he is a mandolinist of the highest order. His name is Chris Thiele. And he is performing at Marian Anderson Hall tomorrow night at 730 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. And he's a super nice guy. He is, man. He's very positive. But he's like...

He's like a prodigy. Yeah. He's amazing at his instrument, and he plays in Nickel Creek, and what's the other group you want to punch brothers? Yeah. So it was cool to have him on. He's going to be with the orchestra. And then we had lead singer of Alice in Chains, William Duvall. MMRBQ, May 10th at the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden. Nuff said, come and join us. He was great, too. It was really cool to talk to him. So it was a full day and a wonderful time. Tattoo's Day, so let's give away that. Tattoo.

We have a $350 gift certificate from Floating World Tattoo and Piercing for Larry Broad from Lumberton, New Jersey. And he sent his info in and we have that gift certificate. Floating World Tattoo and Piercing is going to get a President's Day show themed tattoo. If you want to check out all the stuff they do at Floating World's,

You can go to floatingworldtattoos.com or go to Instagram and type in at floatingworldtattoos. You will find them. So it was really cool. And then we had Ray Coop. Good morning, everybody. It's so good to see you. Such a friendly voice there, Ray Coop, isn't he? I got to tell you, William has been a real joy for anybody who was part of Loving Alice in Chains. And this radio station was part of the original fan base of that band in Philadelphia. Mm-hmm.

I just love the fact that he continues the legacy of my buddy Lane. Yeah. It's really good to see that. Also, Chris Thiele was a special moment. You guys bring him to us all the time, but that was really great to learn all that stuff about him and his history. And you realize that sometimes musical genius is now spawned by music.

spectrum to some degree. From what he was saying about his story, I was really totally locked in. Yeah, he was really cool. Thank you for that, Coop. I appreciate that, bud. Can we get a letter out of you? Oh! The letter of the day. Yes. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the daily letter. And the Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter T. Wow! Whoa! Whoa!

Because a little birdie told me what yesterday's letter was. All right. And that leaves it wide open for the rest of the week. The letter T. And we are going to give away on Friday a $500 gift certificate to Nebraska Brazilian Steakhouse. And they're in Philly and Horsham. And they've got you covered for your birthday. Get the most delicious birthday feast that Nebraska has to offer.

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And we'll give you a chance to score today. Fully plugged in. Yep. Interview with Pierre Robert. The whole thing. It's going to be awesome. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Ray Coop. Appreciate you, brother. I don't want to thank our sponsors. We'll be what you stand for. The President's Steve Show is brought to you today by Duncan. And the President's Steve Show runs on Duncan. Also brought to you by Acme Markets. Fresh foods. Local flavors.

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