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93.3 WMMR Audio On Demand presents the Preston and Steve Show Podcast. Everybody. WMMR Philadelphia. I think you're sleeping. I was keeping you one towel. Hair towels need sleeping. I was keeping you one mint bomb pillow. Please go away, let me sleep for the love of...

You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93 WMMR with Preston Elliott. You will listen to every damn word I have to say! And Steve Morrison. Words are like bullets. Plus. Casey Boyd. Lay off me, I'm starving. Kathy Romano. I'm going to the

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. All right.

All right. All right. Everyone calm down. It's only Thursday, but Friday is in sight. No sad bro on the way. Let's take a look at the weather forecast to begin our day. And it continues to cooperate. We got sunny skies high of 81 degrees. Same thing tomorrow. Now leading into Saturday, and I have looked a little further into it. Yeah, it's going to be a full day of rain. There you go. Thunderstorms pretty much most of the day. It's going to blanket the area, but it's going to lead to a pleasant all day.

albeit a little bit cooler day on Sunday. Sunshine, the high of 77 to Monday. We're right back up to it. Upper 70s and sunny skies.

Now, Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. Today is Thursday, April 24th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, a Delaware County mom is thanking the store owners who helped her daughter out of a scary situation Tuesday when a man began following and yelling at her. The incident happened at 7.15 in the evening on the 2100 block of McDade Boulevard.

in the home section of Ridley Township. The owners of Euphoria Integrative Health and Wellness witnessed the situation and intervened. The child looked over and said, hey, is that my Aunt Rachel? The woman said, yes, it is. Aunt Rachel was actually Tina Moss. She and her husband Bill own the wellness shop. Surveillance video shows the man holding a liquor bottle as he starts to follow the girl on McDade Boulevard. The first thing that he said to the girl, are you afraid? He then made more inappropriate and sexual comments to the child.

Yeah. Yeah, terrible. She just thought, I had to get out of this situation quick, and so she said, Aunt Rachel. Tina and Bill helped her get away. She ran into Tina's arms, and they brought her inside of the shop. Bill says the man followed her directly from the store to the window and banged on the glass.

They locked the doors and called police. Ridley Township Police say the man who was still outside of the store when they arrived was arrested and charged with inappropriate verbal contact with a minor. Police have not released his identity. The couple says they hope someone would do the same for their own children. And the child's mother says she hopes the man gets help and hopes that this story will help parents talk to their children about strangers.

A fast-moving wildfire engulfing part of New Jersey's Pine Barrens in Ocean County has not resulted in any injuries, officials said, though it's expected to grow before forecasted rain later this week. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service said the blaze has grown to 13,250 acres and is 50% contained as of Wednesday night.

Acting New Jersey Governor Tahisha Way declared a state of emergency in response to the blaze. Based on the weather forecast, the fire is expected to continue until we get rain, which should move into the area Friday night into Saturday, like you said, Preston. Kathy, they say the fire is getting very close to the non-existent GPS casino out there. Borgata. Yeah, the Borgata. The Borgata.

The fires are expected to persist until we get soaking rainfall, which could be Saturday. Officials said this could end up being the largest wildfire in New Jersey in 20 years. Video released by the state agency overseeing the fire service showed billowing...

White and black clouds of smoke, intense flames engulfing pines and firefighters dousing the charged structure. The cause of the fire still remains under investigation. Professor, when we did the bonfire at the Carboard Classic that first or second year that we did it and we were standing near it, those flames were up fairly high. But when you're seeing flames going up

three, four stories, a wall of fire. The firefighters that must deal with that, it's almost an inhuman capability to do that because you have to feel that heat. Oh, absolutely. I mean, and that's why they wear those thick-ass coats, man. I mean, it's insanely hot. If you've ever been to a concert when they set off those flashbots, it's like,

Whoa. Yeah. And that's just for a moment. Exactly. Yeah. It still amazes me how they, you know, even with this type, you know, forest fires, even house fires, whatever it is, how they can find the cause of it. Yeah. I don't understand how they even, I can't even begin to understand how they do that. Also, bonfires used to be a bigger thing back in the day, didn't they?

Yeah, well, NGK would do their big one, right? But my football club always did a bonfire every year. I think they're illegal in some spots and like certain times of year and stuff like that. We've had a good long run of very volatile conditions. So they cut back on the bonfires for a while. Yeah.

Angelo's Pizzeria is a South Philadelphia staple that has gained international fame, but it's causing frustration for neighbors on 9th Street. On Wednesday, about 60 residents met with the lawyers representing Angelo's Pizzeria and Councilman Mark Sequilla to discuss the problems and solutions. "'I have people who camp out on my steps and eat and leave trash,' said one resident who lives on 9th Street. "'I hate the lines. I hate their business model,' said another."

Neighbors claim they are rowdy customers. There's public urination, illegal parking and speeding. Some even suggest Angelo's should move to a different location. Others argue that the pizzeria benefits the neighborhood. One neighbor says people come from all over to try the pizza. It's pretty cool.

The pizzeria's attorney, Peter Kelson, said the owners want to continue to work with the community to protect the quality of life and remain successful. So far, they've added trash cans with extra pickups, applied for a loading zone, and I guess some bullards were installed. They also hung a sign on the window advising customers not to sit on resident steps. That'll do it.

Angela, can we still piss on them? I was reading this article and then I went into the comments section and the comments section was fine. But this is a situation where you can't. I mean, some people are totally fine. Some neighborhood people are totally fine with it. They're like, this is what comes with the territory of living right next to the Italian market. And then other people are like, well, it's the suburbanites who don't know anything about living in South Philly. I

I don't know. Like, I don't know how I would react if I lived three doors down from there and I got people eating, you know, cheese steaks on my stoop and they're trash and everything like that. Yeah, I don't know. Preston and I were talking about this morning. We're not familiar with it. Is this... Why is everyone flocking to this place? This is... All right, so a couple of different things. Portnoy went in there and said it was the best pizza in Philadelphia. But then also the cheese steaks apparently are like the...

the best and they make all their bread on site. In fact, Kath, I think the guy who owned Angelo's when Contra Haka Bread Company went under, I heard that he went in to purchase that. Don't quote me on that. But I actually went there one time. I was like, oh, I'm in the neighborhood. I'm finally going to try Angelo's. I go up and they're like, okay, it's going to take...

I waited in line, got to the register and was like, okay, it's going to be an hour from now until you get your food. I was like, oh, I don't have that kind of time. So Angelo's is a local family business and the lawyers also discussed hiring security again during business hours to control the crowd. That's insane. I mean, it could be a good problem to have, but if you're doing that kind of business, you're going to outgrow your location. Yeah, that's true. So on Delisandro's, it was near me, and every day for the big

bulk of the lunch rush. There are loads of people outside. Mind you, some of that crowd hangs out in front of residential homes. But those people have been dealing with that for years. Many of them probably moved into those homes knowing that was going to be the case. And then they're right next to a really good food place. Alright, in sports this morning... Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy.

What the f*** is that? The Phillies lost against the Mets. I know. What the f*** is this? Falling 4-3 in 10 innings yesterday afternoon in New York and the Mets completed a three-game sweep. Starling Marte ended a two-run 10th inning with a walk-off single and the Mets won their seventh straight game while the Phillies...

lost their fourth in a row. Jordan Romano, who pitched the 10th, took the loss and his ERA ballooned to 13.5. The fills are off today before opening up a series in Chicago this weekend against the Cubs. Tywon Walker will get the start tomorrow afternoon. The first pitch at Wrigley Field will be at 220. In the NHL playoffs, the Washington Capitals beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 and lead that series 2-0. In Colorado, the Avalanche saw the return of their captain, Gabe Landon's Cubs.

After a three-year absence because of injuries, only to lose to the Dallas Stars 2-1 in overtime. The Stars lead the series 2-1. And in the late game, the LA Kings beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-2 and are up two games to none. In the NBA, the Boston Celtics beat the Orlando Magic 109-100 to go up 2-0 in the series.

The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 121-112 and are also up 2-0. And in the Western Conference, the Houston Rockets beat the Golden State Warriors 109-94 and that series is now tied at 1.

And the Eagles are still there for both shares. And that's what I have for you this morning. All right, thank you very much, friends. And we welcome you. I was asking Kathy in the office, is it too early for a cocktail? No. No. The bar's open behind you. You know what? You're right. This is growing. This is growing behind me, my whiskey selections. I don't drink, and I need a cocktail.

All right, well, we welcome you to Thursday. We're almost there, folks. Friday is right around the corner. And no sad bro will be on the way. And when that hits, we'll give away the $500 to Nebraska Brazilian Steakhouse for our Word of the Week prize. We're set to go for that. But on top of that, we can start our giveaways before we even get to Friday because 20 money continues and we have your chance to win $1,000. Next opportunity, 8 o'clock this morning to kick off the day.

Five chances in total throughout the course of the day. So get yourself prepared, hopefully to win some money. We also have a few other things going on. We have an announcement concerning the President Steve Show side stage at the MMRBQ. We will get to that.

probably around seven ish uh we also have a couple of guests on the program comedian uh casey rocket is going to be performing at helium comedy club uh tonight and through the weekend so casey's going to stop in the eight o'clock hour and actor john ortiz is going to be on he's talking about the show uh the diving king which is available video on demand starting tomorrow you may have seen him in a bad monkey he's great he was the uh the

partner, the police partner of Vince Vaughn's character. He's great. In fact, not to give too much away, there's sort of a bit of a cliffhanger at the end. He's a part of. We're going to pump him for some information. Absolutely. So we have a few things on the docket today. Let's take a quick break. Come back in a second and we will begin officially when we return. Stupid question coming up. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. We will be giving away a four-pack of tickets to Driven to Serve Muscle Car Jeep and Truck Show Maple Grove Raceway. It's this Saturday. For the correct answer to the stupid question, if you happen to know it, text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the link and then you can click on that. Maybe we'll jump on and get an answer from you. The question I have for you this morning...

Food-related question. The most traditional Greek feta cheese is...

is made from what animal's milk? All right, reach out now. The most traditional Greek feta cheese is made from what animal's milk? Text ZOOM to 610-660-9333. We'll see if you end up getting through. Today's birthdays, while we wait for that answer, on the 24th day of April include Jimen Honsu. Like that guy. Yeah, Guardians of the Galaxy. It's the first movie. Gladiator. Amistad, was that the first movie he was...

Sounds like that to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember when he jumped onto the scene around then, yeah. Very, I wonder how tall he is. Because he seems like he's like 6'6", you know? Really? Yeah, he's an imposing guy. He was also in Rebel Moon. Rebel Moon, yeah, yeah. He turns 61 today, by the way. Ha ha.

Oh, he's only 6'2". I know. Nick just pulled up that information. Okay. That was my guess. So, us short people, I think we have a better idea. How tall people are. He's always looking up. Gotcha. We also have a Shirley MacLaine case. She's 91 now. She's out of the zone. Is she, though? Have you seen her recently? Yeah, I have. I couldn't possibly. Do you think when she sits down, her anus leaves a stain at this age? We were talking about that yesterday. Let's put some lipstick on her butthole and find out.

She's 91 today. Michael O'Keefe. Okay, so remember yesterday I told you about the prep service that I use here that gives me the birthdays and they list their credits. It has two credits, Roseanne and Ghost of Mississippi. Michael O'Keefe was the lead character in Caddyshack. Yeah. For crying out loud. They're horrible at this. He's also the kid in The Great Santini.

He's great. He celebrates a milestone birthday today. He's 70 years old. So Danny Noonan, 70 years old. Jack Quaid has a birthday today. And he's great in The Boys. He's in The Hunger Games. I'm kind of having a brain fart at the movie. Novocaine. Yeah, Can't Feel Pain. It did pretty well at the box office. He did. He's 33 years old. He's in Companion Press and he's the scumbag boyfriend. I gotta watch that. That's on the list. From the world of Stranger Things...

Actor Joe Keery has a birthday today. Casey's man. They get together from time to time and talk about Wetzel's presence. That's all he wants to talk about. Casey, if you don't know the story, Casey had a chance to meet him at a movie premiere. And Casey found himself in a room alone with him, I think. No, it was just four of us in the room. And you were so excited. You had never had Wetzel's pretzels before. I knew what the target guy was going to be.

He knew halfway into the conversation, I need to stop talking about Wetzel's pretzels, but I can't. We've seen you get this way, and it's adorable. So you're trying to fill the pauses, and Wetzel's pretzels was where you went. I had never had a Wetzel's pretzel, and honestly, not for nothing. My mind was blown by Wetzel's pretzels. I can't even talk.

So, and then I met Joe on the heels of that. You were still basking in the glow. Yeah. I hear you. And by the way, I want to remind you about Joe. He's going to be in this movie about the band Pavement. Yeah. We talked to the director not that long ago, and he stars in the movie, and there's a character in the movie that works at a radio station called WDRE. Yeah, yeah. And the DJ's name is Preston, and apparently it was, they...

They use me as an example. It's not actually me, a character in the movie, but they wanted to use the WDRE name and they remembered me from the radio station. And so therefore, I kind of have this pretty cool, interesting influence in this movie, which is pretty awesome, man. And his band is coming to town very soon, actually. I need to find out the dates on that. But he turns 33 years old today, Joe Keery. And that was Roy Perry's son that did the directing, right? That's correct. Yep.

We also have, from the world of Game of Thrones, actor Aidan Gillen. Who do you play? You play Lord Baelish. He was also the dad in Sing Street. Oh, I love Sing Street. And he is one of the managers of Queen in Bohemian Rhapsody. He's in King Arthur. He's been in a lot of stuff. He was great in Game of Thrones. Steve, he's a guy you just hate. Oh, really? He's not...

He's not a hands-on evil person. He's a behind-the-scenes, pulling strings evil person. You need a good bad guy. Yeah, and he's solid at it. He's 57 today. It's Kelly Clarkson's birthday.

I can't wait

Or that she is also in the running to join the Today Show. Oh, really? And might conceivably walk away from the talk show to get folded into the Today Show round. Wow. Yeah. Those are the rumors. Everything I know about Kelly Clarkson. She is 43 years old today. So happy birthday to Kelly Clarkson. Nick just found this out. Doubling back. Joe Keery's band DJO.

is going to be performing at where are they going to be Nick? Philadelphia May 3rd I want to say it's I'm not going to say anything no I think it's the wine bar we all got it wrong except for Marissa thank you Marissa

City Winery or something. City Winery, thank you. Kathy just heard wine and bar. That sounds amazing. Oh my God, that sounds intriguing. Do they actually have wine in lots of it? If you add wine bar at the end of it, I want to try it. You want to go to the bowling alley and wine bar? Yes. Oh my God, what? Bowling.

Why? A little bit of your bowling. Why? It is also Barbara Streisand's birthday today. And Barbara, by the way, need I remind you that she's not only an EGOT winner, but she's one of the rare EGOT winners who has also won a Peabody Award. Yeah. She also has the Kennedy Center Honors Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes. She is one of the...

Most awarded performers of all time in America. So I love the movie Funny Girl. I love her in that movie. There's a number of things that she's been a part of. And I consider What's Up Doc one of the funniest movies. And she's tremendous in it. So a mega talent. Happy 83rd birthday. She's one of the... She got Judy Garland, who is considered one of the great singers of all time. She loves Barbra Streisand. No kidding.

Happy birthday to her. Cedric the Entertainer is 61 today. And the last birthday I saw is Jean-Paul Gaultier. Right, from the action movies, right? Like Bloodsport. No, he is a designer. And you may know his fragrances. The ones with the bottle shaped as a green male body and a nude female body.

Are you still, is Mark Anthony, do you wear colognes at all? No, I don't wear colognes. You wear his fashion, right? Yeah, I'm just a fashion guy. You know that. You know it's from me wearing my butter t-shirt today. Listen, you can't see if a president is wearing the exact symbol on the side of a bar of butter. Yep, so sticko butter, that's me today. So Paul Gaultier is 73 today.

All right, let's see if we can find somebody who knows an answer to this question. Most traditional Greek feta cheese is made from what animal's milk? We're going to check in with Dave this morning. So let's go to, you got to hit it, Case. Okay. Let's go to Dave. Actually, no, it disappeared. Sorry. You don't have Dave up there anymore? No, you know what? I actually, I deleted it. When I deleted it, I was like, oh, what name did I just delete?

Now you know. Now you know. We need Dave to help us. I'll do it for you. Dave! Dave! All right. Hey, Dave, you're on the air. Good morning, buddy. Good morning. Gadzooks, guys. Gadzooks. All right. So most traditional Greek feta cheese made from what animal's milk? It is sheep's milk. Sheep's milk. Dave! You got it, buddy. Hang on a second. Dave!

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We'll start with Blake Lively. We haven't touched on this in a few days. The legal battle with Justin Baldani may soon involve her famous friends Taylor Swift and Hugh Jackman. They were reportedly set to be subpoenaed. A source told the Daily Mail that it could happen at any time and that Swift has been waiting for it. Baldani alleged Lively weaponized her friendship with Swift to influence their 2024 film, It Ends With Us.

He also referenced a message praising a script rewrite saying, makes it so much more fun and interesting. And I would have felt that way without Ryan or Taylor, to which Lively responded by calling Swift and Reynolds her, quote, creative barometers and dragons.

So Baldani's attorney claimed that this suggested pressure from two influential and wealthy celebrities while Swift is allegedly felt used in this legal battle. Insiders say she's ready to move forward after she received a genuine and heartfelt apology from Lively. No word as to why Jackman has been pulled into this. I have no idea what the connection is there, but.

That's a rumor. We'll see if it's true. I finally watched that movie. It ends with us over the break. And they're both incredible actors. I didn't know much about the movie. I really didn't know anything about the book. The only thing I knew about it was all the drama post-movie. And it's a good movie. It's just like the whole time I was watching it, I kept thinking about...

the lawsuit and how these people hate each other in real life. And it sort of distracted me. I was actually glad I watched it prior to knowing. I'm sure. Yeah. So Nick, from your perspective, knowing all of this stuff and knowing the accusations and, and the uncomfortability supposedly on the stage and on the set, uh, well,

Did anything seem overly weird or tumultuous? You know what made me feel, Steve? It was like, these guys are good actors, but they're not that good because I can see it. I'm projecting. But yeah, I would do the same. Because you know a pretext. Oh, yeah, no, I think in that scene... He's all feeling her up. Yeah, he's not being nice to her in real life at all. But look, it's just a movie. I didn't love it, but I thought it was a good movie. But yeah, it's funny to watch it now knowing how much they can't stand each other. Yeah.

Shut up.

Adding that he has a really nice body, too. Oh, wow. Yeah, Martha opened up about the recording session, saying he was very talkative and very excited about his new sauces. It's my understanding that during the interview, she pulled out a vibrator, Preston. Did that, in fact, happen? I didn't read that. Okay. You know, I don't know if it happened or not, but she was talking about Powell's new condiment line, Smash Kitchen.

During the episode, Stewart praised his acting chops, or Stewart praised, yeah, his acting chops in Hitman saying, I love that one. And even gave a shout out to his rom-com with Sidney Sweeney and brought up that he's a handsome actor amongst other things like his sauce.

business. Glenn had shared how his sauces were inspired by his family's DIY creations, saying that the Powells loved to eat, but we also love making our own sauces, and I think that the thing for me is that I always had this desire to create. So he's diving into that world. To get the blessing from Martha Stewart on your culinary stuff, that's pretty good. Yep. So we have an update on David Harbour. He's still keeping things tight-lipped

When it comes to a split from Lily Allen, uh, in a new GQ hype interview, the stranger things star responded to the topic with, Oh boy. And then he took a long time to comment on the matter. And what he landed on was I'm protective of the people and the reality of my life. Uh, he said, and, uh, he said, there is no use in that form of engaging with tabloid news because it is all based on hysterical hyperbole. Uh,

Although he didn't directly deny the breakup, he dismissed the headlines and refused to fuel what he called a salacious show of humiliation. Meanwhile, Allen has been open about her recent struggles, telling fans that she was spiraling before checking in a trauma center for a month. So I just feel grateful that I've been given the time and the space that I need. During that time, Harper was seen ringless at major events and reportedly dating model Ellie Beers Fallon.

Sources claim that Allen is very upset about the new romance, but feels so much better and is focusing on her own healing. So we will see where this goes. So we've known for a while that Pete Davidson's tattoo removal journey was ongoing, and pictures we had seen show the amazing progress that's been made. However, the process is not cheap. In an interview with Variety, Davidson revealed that he has spent so far...

around $200,000 on tattoo removal process. Listen, his body was a mess with some of the ugliest tattoos I've ever seen just randomly, haphazardly put all over his body. So I can see that with the cost to remove all that...

would be a lot. He's gotten an entire ad campaign out of Verizon, though. Yes. Verizon's running this ad campaign with Pete Davidson talking about the tattoo removal and how you can adapt to life and they'll adapt to your phone needs or whatever. So he's making some money off of it as well. So he's 200 grand in and only about 30% finished. Wow. Yeah. Not only is it costing him money, it's costing him time as well. He said, I have to plan it in between work because it's a six-week healing process each time you get one removed. Yeah.

I said, so each tattoo is 10 to 12 sessions. That's 60 weeks of your life right there on just one tattoo to remove.

Which is true. I looked into some tattoo removal. There was a potential client here at the radio station. And, yeah, it takes about a year to have a tattoo removed. Yeah, and they can't remove all colors, by the way, which is pretty interesting. So you might want to look into that if you're going to get a tattoo. Yes. If you do change your mind someday, make sure that, you know, or you think you might change your mind, make sure you use colors that they can't eventually remove. Michael Lowen.

He's going to be spending the rest of 2025 behind bars. How about that? What? Page Six reports that Loewen was sentenced to nine months in county jail for violating his probation. A judge in Palm Beach, Florida ruled yesterday that he will receive a credit for 38 days for the time that he has already served. He was initially charged with five counts of patient brokering and sentenced to four years probation.

He was judged to have violated that probation in February when he was arrested for allegedly assaulting his estranged wife, Kate Major. He spent time in jail before, wasn't he? In like the Nassau County lockup for a while. I remember him being in jail or something else before. Yeah, I don't remember, you know, like for what?

stretch or if it was just, you know, I think he beat up his brother-in-law or something like that? Well, maybe he did that too, Steve. I don't know, but he was also investigated for and arrested for insider trading in the early 90s. But to your earlier point, he was convicted of criminal contempt of court, insider trading, sentenced to three years in jail in Nassau County, and then released on five years probation. And then he violated his probation and he got in more trouble. Dude, just come on. Whatever.

Come on. If you get in trouble and you're on probation, you've just got to be on your best behavior for a little while. Get your ass together. I mean, officer, like at a certain age, you know, like it's not cute. Oh, yeah, right. It's not like you're a loose cannon, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, exactly that. At a certain point, don't you grow out of it? It's a young man.

game. You're in your 20s. Yeah, I got arrested. Oh, okay. What happened? I got a little disorderly outside the bar. Whatever. How old is this guy? There's no excuses. Yeah, he's 50 something. All right, so I have a two-parter on this story. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay joined the growing ranks of A-listers who have been swatted.

Of course, swatting is when somebody calls in a fake incident report, causes law enforcement to descend on an unsuspecting person's home. People have been killed when this happened. Yes, it has happened. LAPD officers responded to the call 8.40 p.m. Tuesday after an unknown person...

Called in a report of a gunman opening fire at Gordon's mansion in Bel Air. Run, he's got a gun. And those were his neighbors. This is going to be every time we have a shooting, I hope. I've been sitting on that all morning and then you hit me with it. Run, he's got a gun.

TMZ reports that Ramsey was not home at the time. Cops talked to neighbors who insisted it was all peaceful and the investigation continues. No arrests have been made at this point. So the other part is a local story. Yes, it is. And this was in Philly Mag apparently. So Gordon Ramsey recently shot an episode of this new show with our buddy Steve Wilson at Wilson's Secret Sauce. Now,

the name of the show that they were told was Restaurant Refresh. Right. That's not the name of the show. And according to the article, do you know what it is? Secret Service. What is it? Secret Service. Okay. And apparently the tone and tenor of Secret Service is more like we're going into this dump

and we're going to turn it around. And so the article Victor Fiorello writes in Philly Mag that that seems wildly hard to believe because we all know Wilson's. We've been there, we know. So there's this point of contention. We'll see what happens. There's nothing concrete.

But there is the potential, as you're saying, of like a bait and switch. Yeah, so it may turn out that they position Wilson's secret sauce as this ratty hole in the wall that needs to be rescued. Exactly. But when it's not that, and we're hoping that's not the case, we'll have to wait and see what the final product is. So I do not know.

But we do know that Steve Wilson is a class act and food is phenomenal. It is. It is excellent. For you and myself, it's our favorite cheesesteak. Yeah. It's the impossible cheesesteak. It's not even made with real beef and it's phenomenal. So, all right. Anyhow, we'll see how that plays out.

Let's see what time we got here. Yeah, this is great. Wednesday is back. The hit Netflix series not only has a premiere date for season two, but it has a trailer out as well. Yeah, according to series star Jenna Ortega, season two will lean more into horror than the teen romance angle of season one. Along with much of the central cast of the first season returning, new cast members will include Billy Piper, Steve Buscemi,

Joanna Lumley, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor. And Lady Gaga will also appear as a guest star. And Wednesday is returning to Netflix. It's going to be in two parts. Part one of season two will drop on August 6th. And part two will follow up on September 3rd. So not a gigantic gap between the two seasons, which is great. I'm happy. Yep.

I love the trailer. Yeah, it looks great. Looks wonderful. Love her. Love that whole world. So looking forward to that. Casey, I sent you this this morning. I don't know if you had a chance to watch it. No, no, no. Oh, okay. HBO is a new two-part documentary about Paul Reubens, Pee Wee Herman. It's called Pee Wee as Himself.

And it was filmed shortly before he died in 2023, allowing him to speak out for the first time and tell, quote, the factual story of his life, it says. I'm so glad they were able to get him. This is a posthumous biography because having him speak on all this stuff and give this insight is going to make this much better. It's worth watching the trailer alone because he's sitting there and he's telling he's like, I love.

He's like, I had all these characters. I wanted to be a performance artist. Yeah, yeah. And he's like, and just one day, Pee Wee popped out of me. Like, he would play all these weird little characters. And Pee Wee popped out, and he tried it, and people just responded. And then all of a sudden, that became almost like his public persona. And he had this character that he would kind of hide behind, he says. Couldn't escape it, yeah. Wasn't he...

in a movie theater? Was that him? Yeah. He's pleasuring himself. And he talks, he dives right into it. Yeah. In the documentary, he's like, and then the world went black. He's like, I just, I got consumed by my anonymity or my lack of anonymity. Yeah, yeah. And we'll have to see. It doesn't,

say in the trailer exactly what he has to say about it, but I am interested in that, obviously. Absolutely, unless we forget Fred Willard had the same thing. It just sucks because you're in an adult movie. Listen, it's a scuzzy place to begin with, but what the freak do you think people are doing in there? You know, like... I think it started with him even being there. Why are you there? Go home and do that. It's...

It's totally legal to be there, though. I did it at home all the time. Well, Preston, you'll agree, the theater experience. It's true. We've gotten away from that, haven't we? You might have seen that. Nicole Kidman, go spanking at the theater. Case, it is legal to be there, but it's not legal to do what he did there. Whether or not that's the movie. Yeah, I know. But it's not like he was doing that at the freaking screening of The Lion King. You know what I mean? That's a pretty hot movie. But Casey, it was Pee Wee Herman in a public place.

yanking it. It's news. I understand that. I have a problem with the person that busted him. Leave him the freak alone. You know what I mean? Like, leave him alone. You're saying of all the... And I see there's nuance there. Did you bust every single person there that day? Because that's what every single person walked into that movie theater. But you know what story's going to generate money? I know. That one of them was Pee Wee Herman. No, but they probably have busted people doing that over and over. Captain Kangaroo. It just doesn't make

the news yeah mr rogers they were all there all there you're bad you know i will it's a big kid show jack off case i'll argue until the end with you because this was just like the icing on the cake for me i never liked him i hated the show and then that happened and it was just uh you'll i will i i never liked him i i always loved i love that character from the beginning i love that original hbo special i loved when he was on letterman as the character it was some of the

really innovative comedy was coming out of that group. Hey, that collective jerk-off in the theater experience doesn't really exist anymore, right? Like, you can't go out and do that? You know, Nick, the old phrase used to be the art house. You call it an art? In Long Island, it was the quorum art

art house, but he's wondering, does that exist now? Yeah, I know what it was. There were two of them on Market Street or right next to each other, and I just, you know, has home internet ruined that experience for the people? I bet it has. I think it's made even, like as Kathy said, you

You can just do it at home. Unless you really like movie popcorn. Does Philly Jack still exist? I don't think so. I don't think that's existed in a long time. Explain what that is because that existed for a while. It's just a club that guys would go hang out and rub one out. Rub one out together. Rub two out.

Well, anyhow, no, I don't think there are movie theaters that show porn anymore. I think that stopped a long time ago. All right, anyhow, the documentary will examine the rise and fall of the beloved Pee Wee Herman character as well as his fall from grace after several headline-making run-ins with the law. Pee Wee as himself premieres Friday, May 23rd at 8 p.m., and both parts are airing back-to-back. You'll be able to see that on HBO. It looks really good, actually.

I know I wanted to get at least, oh yeah, Steve, you and I will be all over this. HBO is diving into one of the darkest chapters in American history with a new series about cult leader Jim Jones. Yes. The man behind, of course, the infamous 1978 Jonestown Massacre. The project is coming from Bill Hader and Daniel Zellman with sources saying that Hader is also being eyed to potentially star and even direct if the show gets the green light.

The project tells the story of Jones and his people. According to the official logline, of course, over 900 people died in the Guyanese jungle under Jones' command. Many forced to drink cyanide-laced fruit punch while others were injected. Hader and Zellman will co-write and act as co-showrunners, giving the series some serious creative firepower. So you'll remember the miniseries with Powers Booth, which kind of put him on the map. That was riveting. Yes. And the thing with this whole thing is that there's footage of all of these...

moments like when they shot him up at the airport as they were attempting to leave with the senator all of that is chronicled on film so it's I hate to say it it's such a horrific incident but I'm perpetually fascinated by it most definitely that someone could persuade that many people to do that type of thing that's what blows my mind so if they do the series that'll be really interesting alright we're ready for some clips now

Ben Badgley has been playing an unhinged serial killer for seven years in the series You. And here Ben talks about the fitting conclusion for Joe Goldberg. I think that, look, everybody's wondering how this man will be brought to his end, right? The show to a conclusion, this man to some kind of end that will be satisfying. And I promise you, I really wouldn't say it if I did. I would dance around the question and just say something else. I think we bring this character of Joe Goldberg to a fitting, I'll say resolution. ****.

You. The final season of You is out now on Netflix. Here's our next one. Jean Smart may play a tough boss, but behind the scenes, she is a great scene partner. In this clip, she talks about filming the big fight scene with Ava in the Hacks season three finale. I think it was such a shock, the turn she did. Double cross. I certainly remember when I read it. I thought, this is so perfect. I couldn't wait for audiences to see it. Yeah!

A new episode of Hacks will air today on Max. That's where you can see that. All right, there you go. That's our entertainment report for this morning. We've got a bunch happening on the program today. Obviously, we have the presidency, 20 money, a couple opportunities this morning alone for your chance to win $1,000.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kat. So, heads up, the Preston and Steve Show side stage at the MMRBQ, we are getting set to vote on our singers tomorrow. This is not the announcement. This is just a lead up to this. But this starts tomorrow, and there's going to be 10 singers chosen. Each gets four packs of MMRBQ tickets. So, WMMR.com has all the information, but we are going to ask you...

to take a peek and let us know what you think about the singers and who you think should be up on stage performing on our Sideshow stage. We're going to do two different sets.

of the live band karaoke with Sidearm performing the live music. Now, as is tradition that we've found, it's always nice to have another full band set up on the side stage. So we are going to do this. This will be for the first time ever. We are going to have a main stage band playing the Preston and Steve Show side stage. That's awesome. And we're happy to announce that Fat Mez is going to be performing. Yeah.

They are a South Jersey band, and they are going to be doing a separate and combined

completely different set than what they are doing on the main stage. So they are opening the show at 1 o'clock. They're opening up the MMRBQ. They have the early set, and then later on, they're going to combine, they're going to do a different set on the President's Deep Show side stage. I love this. Is this them? Yeah, this is their original stuff. I saw them last summer just strictly as a cover band.

I was blown away. Chuck D'Amico, he's the one who discovered these guys on IBF, I guess. He's a mega fan. He is a mega fan. And what I love about them and their coverness is that

They didn't do just like, they're not out there doing like, you know, Eats 6, Inside Out, and, you know, My Own Worst Enemy. Like, they're like, no, we're going to do this deep cut from George Harrison. And if you don't like it, tough, you know, tough cookie. So I... Yeah, he's told me about them doing like some Allman Brothers and some, you know, like Boston or just, and deeper cuts, things that you're like, wait, is that...

Whoa, I've never heard anybody play that song before. I'm looking forward to that. They're going to be doing an original set on both stages, mind you. But they may throw in one of their well-known versions of a cover song. I don't really know. But we're excited to have these guys on for...

our side stage, our President Steve Jobs side stage set. So I don't know exactly what time that is going to be happening, but we'll get it all set together and let you know what that is happening. But get there early, see them on their main stage set.

and then see a completely fresh and different set on the President Steve Show side. I love this. I love that we're doing this. That is yet another cool thing to show up at the MMRBQ for. And speaking of that, there are a couple of ticket raids coming up this weekend. Chance for you to win tickets for free. Steve is going to be at one of them. The Saturday appearance.

He will be at the Boozy Mutt on Poplar Street in Philly, and that's in the evening, so 5 to 7 p.m. Really looking forward to this. Stop by, grab a cocktail, and maybe win some tickets. And apparently you can register to have, like, they let dogs in there. You have to go through the little thing online where you just, you know, register, just pass some hurdles to make sure the dog is good. But if you're a dog lover, if you don't have a dog and just want to come down and hang with the dogs, that's fine. But it looks like a really cool environment. I'm loving it.

looking forward to a good time and you'll have tickets every 15 minutes every 15 minutes and then the following day uh rita's and rockledge uh they are going to have an appearance by the mmr me uh one to three and your chance to go by and win tickets like i said every 15 minutes of course we have that also that really cool thing with uh mammoth that's taking place on the monday following the mmr bq is going to be playing a uh wmmr exclusive event you can only get

tickets through us. You can't buy them. They are free, but you've got to listen to Pierre or whoever's filling in for him. Today, Sarah Parker's going to be filling in. She's going to have tickets to win for that show at the Met. It's so rare for these kind of things to happen where the music company gets behind it and really does something special and exclusive like this. So do whatever you can to get in on this. Here's a text that just came in. It says, super excited for Fat Mez. I've been watching them rise on social media. Them kids can rock.

As far as playing classics, they kill it. So thank you for checking in on that. And they're young. They're like a very young band. Extremely talented. Like several, you know, multiple singers in the band. Like really, really good stuff. So if you don't know anything about them, I suggest you check them out in both sets. Yep. Looking forward to it. All right. We got other things to tackle, folks. We haven't done this in a little while. It's time for Survey Says...

This is where we really find out about what the general population is thinking. Well, we've got loads of surveys that come in. And some of them are substantial and others are stupid. They've gotten better. Yeah, we're going to dive into one that says from a YouGov survey. They asked 1,100 U.S. adults across the country about which meal, breakfast, lunch, or dinner, they like most and what time they typically eat most.

who they eat with and what they're doing while they eat. What do you like to eat? What do you like to eat? The most reflexive question. That's our standby question for an interview when it's gone south. It's like, what do you like to eat? A bacon. Next question. So the most popular meal, what would you say the most popular meal of the day is? I'm going to assume for a lot of people, breakfast? Breakfast?

I'm going to say dinner. Okay. Yeah, I think it's dinner. All right. I'm going to go with breakfast. It is dinner. Okay. The most popular meal. I would vote on dinner as well. That's the one I look forward to the most. That's technically the one meal that I eat. Yeah. My one meal of the day is dinner. As a kid, when we would have breakfast for dinner, it was like such a treat. And then as an adult, I was like, oh, my parents were phoning it in that day. You know what I mean? Like you thought it was a treat. It is easy. So wait a minute, Steve. You eat one meal a day? Do you eat eight meals a day?

any food up until that meal? Yeah, I'll have like a yogurt and, you know, like a midday. So you kind of snack through the day, but you eat a full meal. Dinner is the one. Exactly. So it's around 5.30, 6 o'clock every day, and that's my one meal. And, you know, the notion of eating breakfast, and I do love breakfast, but I don't eat it a lot, and I find that I get sluggish if I have a big breakfast for breakfast. So what time of day is the first time you eat anything? 2 o'clock.

Wow. Yeah. No way. No way, dude. As soon as I get in the car, I'm eating. No, I hear you, man. It was an alien notion to me for the longest time, but I'm kind of amazed at how I've adapted to it. I don't know how, but you work out before that, right? I work out, yeah, a lot of times before. So you're working out on a calorie deficit, so you're just burning straight fat all day. How do you have the energy?

I do. You know what it does? So by happenstance, not to go on this thing again, I was sitting right in the realm of doing intermittent fasting without really realizing it. The one thing I was effing up is I was putting sugar in my coffee for the 16 hours. So when you do that, you throw everything off. Right, right, right. But to that point, I feel I'm kind of burning everything I bring in. So my body is kind of wired that way. I don't feel it. I don't see it.

I know people who would be so hangry by not eating that amount of time they go to their mind. The second we finish the show, I have to eat. I have to eat or I am miserable. So breakfast comes in second place is most popular with 23% saying that, followed by lunch with 19%. More than half of the respondents say that dinner is their favorite meal. Do you know the bulk of people, I mean lunch-wise...

I see a lot of people skip lunch. Like I see like grab a quick snack. I usually skip lunch. I didn't yesterday. You know, I grabbed lunch with the boss yesterday. What do you like to eat? You know, but I do. So I have to eat in the morning. If I want to have any energy at the gym, I have to eat in the morning. But like if I eat right before I go to the gym, I can't like I get so sluggish and like I'm so full and stuff. So.

There was a female comedian a while back. It might have been Marsha Warfield. I'm not sure when she was doing stand-up. She was like, I hate skinny people. And she's like, you ever hear somebody say they forgot to eat? They forgot to eat. F you. Yeah. I hear that. Uh,

Dinner is the meal that Americans are most likely to always eat with 56% always eating dinner compared to 29% who always eat lunch and 31% who always eat breakfast. During the week, because of our schedule, dinner is the one that I'm most likely to skip. I'll have like a big lunch. When we eat our lunch at 2.30 in the afternoon or whatever, does that count as dinner because we've been up since 4 in the morning?

Yeah, I mean, our schedule is vastly different in the way that the meals are kind of falling in your waking hours. But if I have a big lunch, Steve, then I don't want to eat dinner because it'll keep me up late at night. You know, I won't sleep well. You had mentioned eating lunch at 2.30. What time do normal people eat? Between, I'd say between noon and 2.00.

For lunch? Yeah, something like that, I would think. By the way, two-thirds of Americans watch TV while eating dinner. That's me. I absolutely love to watch TV while eating dinner. TV goes off.

Really? Yeah. So you do the family sit down dinner thing? Yeah, I mean... You talk to each other? That's great. It's more so that... So there's not background noise. Well, actually, it's more so because you can't eat in the white living room. So we can't have CG on. No eating in the white room. No eating in the white living room. You're going to get something on the rug. But yeah, I mean... I love that design on the wall.

I have a 13-year-old now who doesn't like to talk much. So that's the time where the phones go away and TV goes off. Are you trying to promote communication? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

This is the theme music that plays when you walk into Kathy's living room. Welcome to the White Room. Oh, my God. Look at the black curtains. Now I've got to let the lyrics kick in here. Like we said, you walk through the front door into the living room. In the curtains, we don't eat here. Yeah, they don't eat there.

During dinner, 63%, like I said, watch TV. 41% talk to the people they're with. Yeah. And 28% look at their phones while they're eating dinner. My wife and I are usually eating at the same time. And we are usually watching Jeopardy. Okay. And or the news, you know. People's favorite part of food prep is cooking the meal. And the part they like least is cleaning up as well. Do you...

Here's my own little mini survey. As you're making something, do you clean up as you go along? Absolutely. I do too. I hate to have something and think, okay, now that I finished the meal, I got to go take care of that crap. Well, usually while you've got steps in between while you're making things and that's when I take the time to clean the things up. Makes perfect sense to me. So what you should do in my house, because I pay for the meal and then I cook the meal, the kids are the ones responsible for cleaning up. Do they ever do that? No. Yeah. No.

Of course not. All right. Here's another survey for you, Fred. Hey. Hey. All right. What would your perfect day look like? There was a new survey that asked 2,000 Americans to find out how they would spend an ideal 24 hours.

Some folks may argue there's no such thing as a perfect day, but plenty of people are already having them. The average respondent experienced 12 of them last year alone, and they're optimistic they'll enjoy 16, quote, perfect days this year. That's one every 22 days.

So they surveyed these people and here are the answers. Rather than percentages, I'm going to give you the answers from the survey. Yeah, let's find out how they're reconciling this. So someone said sleeping for an average seven hours and waking up at 7.48 a.m. on average is the perfect day. Yeah, I guess so. That's considered a perfect day. Spending quality time with family for three hours.

watching TV or movies for three hours, eating for two hours, hanging out with friends for about an hour and a half, being on your phone for about an hour and a half, enjoying your hobbies for an hour and a half,

Spending time with your pets for about an hour. Working out or playing sports for 48 minutes. Shopping for 48 minutes. That's a busy friggin' day. That's fun. When do you have time to spank it? Listening to music for about 1.3 hours. Squeezing in a nap for about 40 minutes. That's about the amount of time I take to nap.

And going to bed at a reasonable hour with 11 p.m. considered the ideal bedtime on average. So I think you're probably closer to this perception of a perfect day than I am. I don't do, I don't get nowhere near that much sleep. I don't take a nap. What about writing my manifesto? Don't you work on that every day? I work on that every day for about an hour. Even if I don't have anything to complain about, I still write. A perfect day for me.

Wow. Would be waking up when I feel like waking up. Yeah. You know, and that's like, you know, after 8 a.m. because of the hours that we leave and wake up at, you know, I wake up at 345 every day. So waking up at 8 is a nice time.

for me to begin the day. Then it would lead to a nice, quiet breakfast around the house with my wife. A little bit of exercise. I do like to do that early. We can't do it during the week. It's impossible. I do it after a nap on a regular day. So a perfect day would be wake up, breakfast, a little exercise. Would you like me to spot you, Preston? And then...

Play golf. Yeah. On a beautiful day. Right. Come back home. Have a... See, depending on what time of day it is. I don't like... Even while playing golf, I don't like to drink.

I'm not a day drinker anymore. That's kind of old to me. Not at all. No, I've evolved into a day drinker. Yeah, because it lessens the hangover, to be honest. There's a rhyme to the reason here, but drinking during the day started to take away from your perfect day. But booze would be a part of my perfect day, just later on. Yeah, later on. Off to the conservatory. Weed actually would be an earlier part of my perfect day. Are you doing both at the same time, or are you doing separately? Maybe golf.

uh, then, then a little smoky smoke, uh, lunch would be involved there too. And then a little nappy poo. Uh, and then, um, yeah, maybe some, maybe some TV time, a show that I really like, uh, dinner with my wife would be fantastic. Preferably outside on a beautiful day. Uh, Al Fresco. Yes. And, uh, and, and maybe a little, uh,

what is it? Affogato to end with. All right. Thank you, Kathy. What's affogato again? It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's

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And then, then, then cocktails. Okay. And that's... When you talk about your penis. And then a pretty much perfect date. And of course, sex in there somewhere would be... Yeah, a little bit. Thank you, Nick, for the gesture. I thought... He did the finger in the other hand gesture. I thought the only thing... Because I love your day. I think that's a terrific day. I would just add sex pre-nap because the sex pre-nap makes nap better. It does. Yeah. I agree. And then sex again pre-bed. Okay. That's good, too. And the rest I'm good with.

These are all good days. We're not going to have time to go through everybody's perfect day. No, no, no. But you created a nice, wonderful picture. So, yes, but they do include...

This is like through everybody surveyed, I guess they funneled through the most common things that people had mentioned. But yeah, Kathy, shopping for 48 minutes is part of that. You need more time, right? I mean, not online. Really? That's a decent amount. Do you brick and mortar these days? You got a target, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, there's still some. I just don't go really to the mall anymore. How much time do you put aside for chewing gum? Yeah.

So think about your perfect day and maybe it's in line with some of this stuff. All right, let me go to another survey. So this survey was a new Pew Research Center survey.

And it's about social media and the effects that it has on people. And this is interesting. And it reveals that nearly half of teens, these are teens, these are people that are using social media the most probably, believe that social media negatively affects their peers' mental health. This is coming straight from the teens. I've been seeing surveys like this. As they say, the worm is turning.

So my youngest, Caleb, I did not know this until recently, has an app on their phone that limits the amount of time for them to spend on social media sites. What's the name of this app? Self-governing. I don't know. I'll try to find out. I'll go on social media and find out. So, yeah. But I was so impressed. I'm like, you decided to do this on your own? They're like, yeah. I'm like, that's...

So healthy. That's good for you. I'm hearing and I've seen more and more surveys to suggest that the incendiary, the acrimonious side of social media that a lot of younger people are turning away from and saying, I got to step away. It's basically cratered so much that people are just voluntarily saying, this is effing up the way I perceive the world. Yeah. And it's...

Honestly, it's why I don't really contribute to social media anymore. I will rarely post something on my Instagram account. It's the only social media that I have now. Only fans.

And I just, I don't like doing it anymore. And you know what can do it? Just one snarky comment is enough for me to go, you know what? My intentions were nothing but good here. Yeah. And you have just crapped on it. F you. Why do that? You negative piece of garbage. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.

I hate you. I hate you more than anything in this damn world.

It's like I said, you know. You can post snuggles to Fabric Softener Bear and the third comment down will be something horrific. Yeah, it's insane. But I enjoy the funny videos you send me. Oh, well, thank you. I dabble every now and then if I have a little time. Well, you're texting those. I'm taking a poop. I'll search a little bit. I sent you one last night. I didn't see it yet. Yes, you did because you wrote back the Lucius Malfoy one.

Oh, yes, you did. That's great. So here's where my dilemma was because I want Preston to see this. I think that it's funny. I think he'll enjoy it. Do I DM it to him or it might get lost in the DMs and he'll never see it? Or do I text it to him and distract him during the day or whatever? And like it's –

The intent, speaking of intent, there is just to like share something that I find funny with somebody else that I will also find it funny. Right. But I know that you're deliberately not trying to spend time on your phone. You know, it's just it's a weird conundrum. If you really know I like it, text it to me. OK. And then I then I will get into it. But it's interesting that the teens have said this in this particular survey. In fact, 44 percent of teens surveyed think that social media is mostly harmful to people their own age.

teens cited issues like cyberbullying, unrealistic beauty standards, the pressure to appear perfect online as major concerns. Despite these challenges, some acknowledged benefits such as staying connected with friends and accessing support networks. 9% of those surveyed believe that it's mostly beneficial and the other 47%

Didn't really have an opinion either way. I mean, it tears me up. I know the other day, President was about to leave and I was on social media and I thought what I had on was a cute outfit. I just didn't feel pretty. Yeah. Listen, I have to, I do have to say that every now and then, I get some great ideas from there. Some of them come in the form of cooking.

And I love that when that happens. There's certainly a lot to recommend. The more benign aspects of social media. But it can get really soul-crushing. Yeah, exactly. All right, another survey. Let's go with this. We got Mother's Day coming up. Mother! Mother!

According to... Wait, was that when you played that band track the other day? Oh, God, we got to hear that again. Hold on. This is your song. Yes. Tell your children not to walk my way. Tell your children not to... Anytime we talk about Mother's Day, this has got to be our soundtrack, Casey. Yes. Every time. No doubt. So, according... Mother! Keep them in the dark.

According to new research from Open Table, 39% of moms have had to book their own meal to celebrate their special holiday. I can't think of anything more depressing. Step up! By the way, my wife working many years in the...

There was a restaurant, there was sort of the family restaurant to go to. It was called the Millerage Inn up on Long Island. And she worked there and worked her ass off there. She said by far the busiest day of the year was Mother's Day. By far. So half Americans are planning to dine at a restaurant and celebrate Mother's Day this year. But that doesn't mean that they've already made reservations. Nearly a third of Americans admit to panic booking a restaurant within 24 hours of Mother's Day. That would be me.

Stuckies, do you take reservations? Moms really want to take a back seat when it comes to planning, as 44% say that having someone else take the lead on decisions for Mother's Day would make the day the most special. In fact, that's what's supposed to happen. Yes. Mom isn't supposed to make the plans. Yeah, can you whip us up something, Mom? So dining early is a way to go. 46% of moms share that they want to start celebrations early to maximize relaxation time during the day.

Brunch is always a popular choice and 73% of moms want to celebrate Mother's Day with a family brunch. Where can you go to get a good $100 brunch? Yeah, Nick. I got some recommendations. I was just thinking about it. I was like, all right, I haven't made reservations yet. Uh,

Where should we go that isn't that place? There was a time where I enjoyed brunch. I don't really, I either want to have breakfast or lunch. I don't, I'm not a brunch guy. Well, we were talking about it the other day when referring to Easter or whatever. It's too much food for too much money. And to me, it's just not worth it. Yeah. So brunch is two thirds of people plan to celebrate multiple times over the holiday weekend as well. 66% said that.

And 30% of moms are considering dining out solo. Oh, that's depressing. As one of their celebrations, though, for a little me time. Oh, okay. So they want to do this. But it's depressing that they want to do this. I know. You think anybody's going to bring their mom to Emma's BBQ for Mother's Day? I bet you. Yeah. That would be cool, right? That's right. It's the day before Mother's Day. Mother! Oh, my God. If we could get somebody to do this version of this song. Maybe Fat Mez. Maybe Fat Mez. Maybe Fat Mez.

Donzig. What? Donzig. Donna Summer meets Danzig. Oh, that's great. Yeah. I want to hear that mother again. Sleep right here. Hang on.

Love it. Love it. All right. Survey says... Parents put a lot of pressure on themselves to be perfect. And since no one really is, we end up feeling guilty as a result of feeling like we've let our kids down in some way. A lot of us try to make up for it by buying them something. And according to Ameriprise Financial's new study...

It's called Parents and Finances. 52% of the 3,000 moms and dads surveyed admit to shelling out money for treats and perks because of guilt. I don't see how you...

at some point do something like that as a parent? I mean, over the course of the lifetime, you're not going to do something or you think you've screwed up and you're not going to get something. Now, listen, I can say categorically the way I've raised my kids has been flawless. Well, I bet you this is a little more, you know, not just like, okay, you feel... Don't tell mommy about the hooker. What?

No, but maybe like a divorce situation where one parent feels guilty that they're not around as much or they don't get to see them or, you know, as opposed to like just, oh, you know, you felt bad about something so you bought them a little something. You're exactly right. There was a friend of mine when I was...

Elementary school, Kathy, one of the, when you first divorced became something that you heard about, like, oh, wow, that's actually, that actually happens. This kid was showered with gifts from both parents trying to, like fumbling, trying to figure out what to do to make the kid happy. I have a friend who, I mean, that's, that's what he does. And, you know, he sort of knows it, but it is what it is. That's how, and his kids now associate him with that.

And so every time he's around, it's like, where are we going? What are we doing? What are we buying? What store are we going to? And that's like his relationship with him. So I can only speak from my own personal experience. And I think that most parents probably want this. For your children, you want joy. You want them to be happy. And so therefore, when they... And this is not like the kid is begging for something, but...

I will want to do something for them. And if I feel, you know, and if that means it's not just buying monetary things, it's like experiences, taking them to go do this. Or just afraid of gold bullion. No, but if it falls short a little bit, then there's...

I'm not saying I feel horrible and guilty, but it's like, oh man, they could be happier. I'd really like to see them happy, so I'm going to do this. You know what I mean? So if my... I just was having this conversation. We've had this conversation a couple of times. My mother... Mother! Yes. Was a people pleaser, like nobody's business. And I think I inherited a lot of that. And that has caused me a lot of...

where I feel most inadequate. I want everyone to be so happy around me. And I can't deliver it. I somehow place myself at the nexus of their happiness. And it's going to lead you, especially, Preston, with kids that you adore more than anything. If you fall even slightly short, it's going to gut you. Just a little bit. Yeah, I mean, it can. So the study finds nearly half, 43% of parents say that they overspent on an item or an experience.

While a third say they went over their budget. The pressure to be the perfect parent is real, and so is the guilt. But 44% say that they just want to provide the best possible life for their kids. The research also reveals that paying for their kids' education is top priority. 39% say that. And nearly 90% of moms and dads polled say that they do plan to help pay for their kids to go to college.

close to half started saving money before their child was five. And this is what Rochelle and I did. 9% started before their child was even born. Oh my gosh, you started before they were born? Yes, we did. Wow. If you can. I mean, once Rochelle was pregnant. Yeah, yeah, of course. And then one was on the way. Yes, we started setting up

We got to pick a college. Yeah, the college education funds and stuff like that. Isn't it nice, though? Well, I mean, some of your kids are in college, but to look at that and you're like, wow, I did it. I did it. I saved it. They're going to be in good shape. Yeah. That's the only thing people say, you know...

Grown-upping, that's part of the process. Adulting, yeah. Yeah, adulting, yeah. Kathy, they still have to get the grades, though, so that's the hard part about it. But you know what? You did your job, you know? Right. You're asked. I'm done. I'm setting him up. He's going to have everything ready to go for him, and yes, now then he would just need to go and do well. You said you had an epiphany, Kathy, with that, I mean, with your parents' children.

helping you. Oh, yeah. I mean, and that you may not have quite appreciated it at the time. Oh, I didn't at all. I remember when it hit me and I thought to myself, oh, wow, they didn't have to do that. They didn't have to pay for my entire college education, a car so I could get around, you know, work, make a little money while I was at college. They didn't have to do any of that. And I remember when it hit me and I was like,

Thank you. Yeah, yeah. What is that line in Parenthood where Jason Robards talks about there is no finish line, you never stop, it never ends. And when you get divorced, it never ends. When you are married to the same person forever, it never ends. And my son graduates from high school in a month and a half. His last week of high school is next week.

Because he has finals next week and then he goes on the senior project after that, which is a great way to coast in your senior year. But yeah, he's got a job and he's doing all these things right, but you still got to pay for college. You still got to prep for everything and every contingency and all of it. It's never-ending work. Maybe a $30 brunch. Nick, that scene in Parenthood is one of my all-time favorite scenes. Jason Robards is telling Steve Martin, he is Steve Martin as his son,

about how, listen, this worrying about your kid stuff never ends. There's no finish line. You don't cross the goal line and spike the ball and do your dance. And then Steve Martin starts to unload the problems that he's having with his child. He's like, this is going on, that's going on, that's going on. And Jason Robards just stops and he goes...

You worry too much. Yeah. And then, of course, Steve Martin's son also worries too much. Yes. But you never stop being a parent, you know? Never. It's just, it's never ending. It's the best possible thing that has ever happened to me, and it's also exhausting. Not to go off on parenthood, but there's a great scene where he has in his imagination, he can go one of two ways, and he makes a bad call with his chronic and, he's got a gun! He's shooting people from the tower. Yeah.

Wow. He's got a gun. Yes. All right, let's do one more. Although we got to be on time for 20 money. But I do have this last one and this is kind of a stupid one. I like the stupid ones. A survey of

Of 34,481 U.S. adults, they asked the question, do you consider a bowl of cereal to be more of a snack, a meal, both equally or not sure? Well, I mean, it all depends on how and when you're eating it, to tell you the truth. I'm going to go not sure. That's my answer. I've come to this conclusion. If it is a cereal I like and I sit down to eat it,

It is a really risky proposition because I can blow through a whole goddamn box of cereal. If it's a cereal I love, and that's why I end up eating cereal more as a snack. I would go... Sorry, I would lean towards meal. Like if I'm going to eat cereal...

I'm not going to eat a meal later. Right. Unless you're eating it as a snack. But I think like, well, it's not really a meal. So here's how I treat myself, Kathy. I'll get a little bit of milk and a glass and I'll get the box.

And I'll be eating it that way. So it doesn't feel. Do you know what I'm saying? That's more of a snack. I need to lie to myself. That's a snack approach. Yeah. When you pour it into the bowl and then pour milk over said bowl, then that has become a meal. Now you're down a slippery slope. It's a default dinner. Yeah. It can also be a default dessert. Yeah. No, you're right. But I don't think it's a meal unless you have a second bowl.

I see. Yeah. No. It's a warm-up. In case for me, you have to eat the entire box. Or like in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, where his character has essentially a salad mixing bowl and uses that as his cereal bowl. Jethro, Beverly Hillbillies, an entire box of cornflakes, an entire quart of milk.

Into a baking bowl. The way I consume cereal is always for breakfast. And when I do have it, that's all that I will have. So I would call that a meal. That would be breakfast fully. So according to the survey, 23% said a bowl of cereal is a snack. 43% that it is a meal.

29% said both equally snack and meal. Sneal. And like Kathy, 4% said they're not sure. All right. So consider that today as you go through your day. We should have more questions like that. I do have more. We'll get to more next time. Just last comment. I never eat cereal. Okay. I don't dislike it. It's just not something I buy. It's not something I get in the house. I don't really like milk. So it has to be like a really good cereal for me to...

stomach milk with it. I made the mistake of grabbing a box of cinnamon toast crunch. That's dessert. That's not a mistake. That's great. That son of a bitch never had a chance. Nice work, Steve. I saw the box weep.

When you picked it up? Yeah. I knew it's time on Earth. It's dead. Done for. All right, we got to wrap up the surveys, but hopefully you enjoyed some of that, friend. We got business to take care of. We do have your chance to win $1,000, your first shot today with presidency of 20 money. We'll take a break. Come back with that a little bit later on this morning. We're going to have comedian Casey Rockett in the studio performing at Helium Comedy Club. We'll be back in a sec. Stay with us.

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So an Australian woman has earned a Guinness World Record with her collection of 1035 minions from the Despicable Me franchise. Western Australia resident Liesel Bedeke had said that she fell in love with the minions while watching the first Despicable Me film and started collecting merchandise about 15 years ago. Does her twin sister collect them as well?

I think that just the ones that have a gun. I'll find you and I'll shoot you. Oh my God, I didn't mean to offend them. Western Australia resident Liesl Beck, like I said, she started collecting 15 years ago. So she said, I remember laughing so much at the cute little pill-shaped henchman. I'm just a big kid at heart.

So she is now the record holder of the largest collection of Minions memorabilia. She said that while... I don't really go out on dates. Some more casual fans might find the Minions interchangeable. She has a clear favorite. She said, my favorite is Stuart.

The sassy, one-eyed minion with attitude, and he is the one that I have tattooed on my arm. So many people and kids comment on the tattoo, but we start talking about our mutual love of minions. I don't understand locking on a character and collecting things that pertain to that character. It's not at all. It's an alien concept to me. She said her collection is still growing, by the way.

A team of British researchers studying chimpanzees in West Africa said that they have documented the primates eating and sharing alcoholic fruit. The University of Exeter team said cameras set up at Kent Enhez National Park in Guinea-Bissau

captured the chimps sharing fermented African breadfruit that was later confirmed to contain ethanol. The team's study suggests that chimpanzees could be using the alcohol for a similar purpose as humans who partake in intoxicating beverages. Is that wild? Anna Bolin from the University Centers for Ecology and Conservation said, "...for humans, we know that drinking alcohol leads to the release of dopamine and endorphins and resulting in feelings of happiness and relaxation."

We also know that sharing alcohol, including through tradition such as feasting, helps to form and strengthen social bonds. This means ugly chimps can now have sex. She said, so now we know that wild chimpanzees are eating and sharing ethanolic fruits. The question is, could they be getting similar benefits?

A researcher said it is notable that chimps were documented sharing the fruits rather than eating them alone. He said chimps don't share food all the time, so this behavior with fermented fruit might be important. We need to find out more about whether they deliberately seek out ethanolic fruits and how they metabolize them. But this behavior could be the early evolutionary stages of feasting.

Well, and then so that we as a species collect together to imbibe, right? Yeah, exactly. So it said, if so, it suggests the human tradition of feasting may have its origins deep in our evolutionary history. Interesting. Now, we're going to switch gears a little bit here. In the course of a child pornography probe targeting his younger brother, an upstate New York man caught a legal ricochet shot when investigators discovered videos showing him eating

engaged in sexual acts with animals, including a cow. What a family! Right?

So Mark Banks, who's 38 years old, was arrested earlier this month for sexual misconduct for allegedly having, quote, sexual intercourse with a dairy cow on the property of Windsor Acres. That's an utter catastrophe. A farm where he worked for 22 years. Having sex with a horse. A New York State Police investigation originally focused on Banks' brother, Christopher, for possessing child pornography.

When police executed a search warrant at Christopher's residence, which he apparently shares with his sibling, they found an assortment of electronic equipment. And a review of the seized materials resulted in the filing of the felony charge against Christopher possessing the pornography. A school cafeteria employee, by the way, Christopher, was immediately fired by the local school district. And in a handwritten statement given to police, Mark wrote, out of my own free will, he wrote...

The state police found some videos on my device today involving sex with animals, adding that when I was younger, I had sex with a cow. Oh, my God, dear God. Now, listen to this. It gets better. Well, the teats. After describing the illicit act, Mark wrote...

I did not finish. Oh, well. But hang on. But did so because of a sexual urge. And it didn't work at first. And I shifted the bucket and tried again. This did not happen again after that. This is what this guy wrote. It's okay.

The Banks brothers are due in court to answer the criminal charges. Wow. Could you imagine the cow trying to comfort the guy? It's okay, baby. All right. And then we'll do this story, a much lighter story. Let's go with this. That was pretty good, though.

Kathy sent me this one this morning from 6 ABC. A bakery in Cumberland County, New Jersey is creating a stink with some of its customers. Century Bakery in Bridgeton took to social media asking its customers to utilize the drive-thru

If they wear strong perfumes and colognes. I mean, this is my, I think I might have to go apply for a job there. It literally makes you ill. The bakery says that the lingering smell makes it difficult to breathe for some of its cashiers who suffer from asthma. I've seen signs at smaller boutique-y stores that ask, that make provisions for people who are, yes, I've seen them for cologne and perfume.

So, like, what would a sign say? Like, please... You smell like crap. Stay outside. Well, there's a sensitivity to colognes and perfumes. Okay. They apprise you of it that way, I assume. I don't remember the actual wording, but that's what it suggested. Wow. You be aware that someone in the store is sensitive to it. Okay. I think that somebody who doesn't suffer from this quite often

quite understand and they think of it as like, oh, come on, like get over yourself. But I mean, it will, when somebody comes, when we have a guest that comes in here and is wearing cologne and if it's somebody that, you know, I know well enough that I'm going to give a hug to, like I know, I'm like, when Robert Irvine comes in, I'm like,

I have to hug him because we hug. But like, I know... Kind of hold your breath a little bit? No, if it gets... I have to like almost like put up a barrier so that he doesn't like touch my clothing. Because if it lives on my clothing and I can smell it for the rest of the day, it will ruin my day. I will get a massive headache and my day will be ruined. I told you last... I think it was a Flyers game I went to and there was a guy who was sitting in front of me and he was just bathed in it. And I like couldn't stand it, man. It's...

You know, it's almost acidic to your nasal passages. It's weird. So I wear cologne. Does that bother you? It doesn't. Actually, Casey, yours has been strong the last couple of days. Yours never is. And for whatever reason. Because it's a new one. It's a new one. Yeah. There you go. So I'm wearing Versace Eros right now because my Yves Saint Laurent is gone. Oh. Oh, no.

Well, you can't go to this place, Casey. So the scents inside the store were also reportedly so severe that they nearly called an ambulance. Holy hell. Which is what led them to the change.

The bakery told Action News most customers have been very supportive of the request, while online some have called it outrageous. And that is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. A reminder of your Preston and Steve 20 money keyword. It is RAPE.

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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. Thank you very much, Kathy. We were prepared for one person to come in here this morning, and we have three. How about that? So you got to bear with us, because we only know Casey Rockett, who's here. Who's going to be at Helium Comedy Club tonight and through the weekend. Hi, Casey. Hi. Ready, guys? Three, two, one.

Run, he's got a gun. Run, he's got a gun. We've been practicing that for like 45 minutes. Swept the frigging world, those two, man. It's hilarious. All right, Casey, who you got with you here, man? I am with my good friends and my openers, Rob Stant and Jim Gillespie. Hi, guys. How's it going? How are you? Nice to see you. Now, you guys are both from here, from Philly? Yeah, yeah, from Delco. Yeah.

Oh, nice. Well, there you go. What part of Delaware County? Havertown. Havertown. You know what? Aston, PA for me. I learned about... Wait, what part of PA? Aston. Oh, Aston. I had just learned the other day I was on... I did a podcast with the Delco Live guys.

And Havertown, or Haverford, has the most bars per capita in the entire county. Were you aware of this? Yeah. Okay. He's been to all of them. He's been to all of them. He has absolute knowledge of that. How did you guys become friends? Or is it just you guys are meeting for the first time? No, we're friends. I came to do Helium last year, and I met these grubby boys. We've been having a...

A real bangaroo. Yeah, it's been real fun. And you said, Casey, you're a big fan of Philly. You love the whole vibe of Philly. Oh, yeah. And you said it in a way that was authentic. Sure. Because a lot of times, Pete, you have to say that when you come into town. I love this town. But I get the sense you really do dig Philly. Oh, I love it. Yeah. Helium Philly is probably my favorite club in America. Yeah, it's super. When Philly people are on your team, and I don't want to jinx it.

it when they're on your side no you're a wise man yeah if you get them on your side if you can and we learned this years ago if you come in like you you deserve it you're entitled you'll get crucified but if you earn it and you spend time and you're you're then you have a fan fan base like nobody's business yeah i i think they can see that i'm pure of heart and i mean well yes you do you're a source of good i was familiar with you uh the uh from the kill tony um

uh a podcast and and obviously your your favorite there and it was just kind of vaguely familiar with that you'd you know obviously very funny learning about you and i was telling the press and i said i don't know if you know a lot about this guy like i saw you with the buddy dan soda and you know talking about your your history and so on and so forth you you're what we would call a colorful character and and mainly what blew my mind and i had no idea this was a thing i mean i'm not

I'm fairly well versed in the world of stimulants, but Robitussin apparently has been a big part of your life, correct? Oh, sure. I didn't think we were going to be talking to us. I have to because this is so crazy. I never, and this is the thing, I did some research and I'm like, apparently, what do they call it? Robo or? Robotrippin. Robotrippin. Did you say talking tuss? Talking tuss. I didn't realize we were doing T squared. Had you ever heard of this, Nick?

Oh, yeah, sure. I'm lawfully uninformed. It's the thing. There's some, like Bieber was doing it for a while. That was like scissor. Is that scissor? Yeah, yeah. But it was a rush you could sort of get. And look, if there's nothing else, and then Tuss, if we're talking Tuss, if Tuss is available, I guess you got something. Yeah. Right? If we're talking Tuss, I'm listening. You have my full attention. Yeah, you know, I'm just as happy with a good book.

It's the same vibe. How much tux does somebody need to take the trip? I don't know if I want to, not probably a bottle. It depends on the size of the bottle. Yeah. Just a bottle to the dome. Have you ever had propofol? Have you ever had a colonoscopy? Oh, that would be cool. No, I haven't. Not the propofol, not the colonoscopy. Okay.

You're 30. You're on track, right? They're saying get him earlier. You got to get him earlier. Are you guys fans of Robert Tussin? I've never tried it, but he's talking me into it. Yeah, I'm more of a Delsim guy myself. I'm warming him up to it. Okay.

It's been a long summer, and it's been such a long summer, it's almost May. It's been 11 months of summer. The old thousand days of summer. It's hard to get perspective sometimes. But so, like, real drugs don't really cut it? Well, no, sure, I did plenty of that. Oh, okay, all right, all right.

The test was when I was younger. So yeah, it's like whatever's in arm's reach. Got it. I was going to say, man, if you're still doing that. No, he's... You've done the... Listen, it's just fascinating. And you've... Fentanyl, you've... Sure. Yeah. They did the research. We're high five. But I mean, you're sober now? You're kind of...

Yeah, I've been sober for several years. Yeah. I mean, we talked to a lot of, you know, a lot of comedians and live in the life and you go through your different phases. And so but you came out the other end. It's pretty cool. What did you have? Did you have a did you have a everyone has that bottom out moment? Did this one come to mind for you?

Well, I would have them all the time and then I would give... Normally, I would be on like a six-month cycle where six months would pass and I'd be like, okay, it's okay. Like I can drink and like party now. And then something crazy would happen and then, you know, I'd go back into it. So I'm good at like lying to myself. But there was a lot of stuff like that, yeah, for sure. We were talking a couple of days ago. There's a story about Haley Joel Osment, you know, the Sixth Sense kid who is now an adult and apparently had, he claims, had a complete blackout moment with...

Where he was yelling racist things in the back of a car. Oh, by the way, he was skiing while he was doing this, too. Sounds like a fun weekend. See, when I black out, I just get really close to people and talk about worms. There's something I'll be like whispering. What if worms could scream? Who is this guy?

Wow. Well, Casey, Meredith, who brought you guys in here, was saying that you guys had some sort of a story you wanted to tell us or something along those lines. Am I correct about that? We went to Rivers Casino last night, shout out, and we had a big falling out as friends. What happened?

We're not going to name names, but somebody might have been playing blackjack, and Casey might have called that person while they were playing, and then that person might have hung up on him. He hung up on me? Sorry, he hurt my feelings. He hurt my feelings bad. One of these guys? Who'd you call? I broke his heart. He trusted me, and I abandoned him in the casino. He got lost, and I just hung up on him. Yeah.

Okay, wait a minute. So you guys are at the casino together. Yep. He's playing blackjack. He's trying to find you. I'm playing blackjack. He's trying to find me. He's trying to find you and...

And you hung up on him? So I was at the table and the dealers, they don't like it when you're on your phone. So he was trying to get me to like, he was like, are you hitting or standing? And I was like, oh, Casey, one second. And instead of actually taking one second, I just hung up and kept playing. Okay. Well, listen, it's not too hard to find the blackjack tables at a casino. There's three of them. Don't turn this on me. And by the way, if you're on the phone and in front of a dealer and you're sitting there going, yeah, I'm about to take a card right now.

Why don't let's just be open about our cheating. You know, the guy's got a computer on the other side and figuring it all out. All right. So that happens. And how bad did this get? This little. So I'm not. I'm not good at like expressing my emotions. So I was down, you know, I was down a couple hundred bucks. And I think they thought I was sad about the losses. Right. And eventually I just blurted out and I said, no, I'm sorry.

I'm sad you hurt my feelings. And we hashed it out in the parking lot. Can't say that, by the way, brother. Yeah, it was just a strain. It was the first real falling out our friendship has had. Were there tears? No, no, no.

It wasn't that serious, but we're all sensitive. So it was a lot of apologizing. I shouldn't have hung up, man. Yeah, you shouldn't have. I was looking everywhere for you guys. Two grown men in a parking lot hugging each other. I still have a moment outside of the Sinesta. It was insane. I'm 30 years old. It's just kind of weird, man. Are you a good gambler or do you tend to lose? No, it's not going great. Yeah, once I sit here and lie to you, it's not going great. What's the most you've ever dropped?

Oh, I don't know. Because, you know, Norm Macdonald was legendary for just... And then, like, occasionally he would win and he would store... Like, he was so happy to have the chips that... There was a story, I think Colin Quinn told it, of he had his refrigerator filled with poker chips that he didn't want to cash them in because he was so thrilled at having all that at one time. Yeah, tokens of his victory. Yes, exactly, yeah. Mm-hmm.

Keep an eye on it. No, I mean, I've lost maybe 500 this week. It's not going great. No? I won't say it's going great, certainly. But again, I'm just as happy with a good book. So I would be happy either way just to have my friends. But now, since last night, I don't even know if I have.

You don't even have the front base. I'm wearing his merch. I'm trying to make up for it. I noticed. By the way, I like the name of your tour, Casey, which is If I Riff Before I Wake. Sure, yeah. Yeah, born riffing. Yeah, so a whole lot of riffing going on.

A lot of improv, a lot of being stinky. Friends for life, so I thought. You describe your comedy, which is true. And it's very... I'm trying to... You know, you have a very sort of freeform way about you. You go on laughing. You're kinetic on stage. And you describe it as really silly. And I think there... And it's true. It's kind of a...

Who are your inspirations? Who got you to where you are comedically? Because you started in college? Yeah, I started when I was 20 years old, so I'm 30. So I've been doing it like 11 years. And there was a guy in LA who was named Brody Stevens, who I used to like. Oh, I love Brody. Yeah. I love Brody Stevens. Yeah. So I would watch his videos, and I found it so much funnier when

when he was performing and no one was laughing. And I thought that that was so interesting. It gave me a good perspective on like, it's not even necessarily the people in the room that matter. It's not about laughter, right? As long as you're doing something that you truly believe in, as corny as that sounds. You're talking about something that, so years ago, I had a run with stand-up, you know, with eight or nine, ten years. And I

I would try to describe to people how funny it would be, though you'd think it would not be the case, when you're with other comedians and the audience isn't responding. You can have, it can be very funny and very fun, though you would think it would not be. And so that's the vibe you're talking about, right? Sure, yeah. Sometimes it's, you know, it's just not all about laughter. Though technically, you believe it is. It is a comedy, though.

But not technically. So I'm curious as to what your audience is. Who comes to your shows? And if you have somebody who comes to one of your shows who has no idea what to expect, do you...

How do you handle that? Oh, I'm not sure. It's a lot of like maybe tends to be younger people, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like high school to college age or mid-20s? What are we talking about? Well, I think the clubs are 21 and up. So, yeah, like just young, cool, fit people with good attitudes. You have to be fit? You have to be fit to roll with you, right? There's a scale when you enter the club. It's like heart attack cafe. Yeah.

Deep cut, right? See, a lot of people don't know that you have to pass a physical. You had mentioned being in college. Somebody texted and said, Casey Rockett surprisingly has a degree in online journalism or something. That's what they wrote. Yeah, I have a degree in like regular journalism. In journalism, okay. Yeah, like print.

Where did you go to school? I went to Georgia Southern University in Georgia. Yeah. What state? I'm sorry. What city is that in? It's in Statesboro, Georgia. Okay. Yeah. And they have a comedy scene there? That's where I started. No. I was one of two comedians in the whole city. Is that Ullman Brothers country? Is that Statesboro Blues? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

For sure. Are you an Allman Brothers fan? Or is that like an old person reference that I just made? Well, I love, you know, rambling country music. I'm not as familiar with Allman Brothers as some other people. You come from like rural Georgia though, right? I mean, yeah. What's the name of the town you were, was it Bogdansk?

Oh, Ball Ground, yeah. Ball Ground. Is that the actual name of the town? Oh, yeah. It's a really small... I don't even know if it's incorporated. It's a small town by Forsyth County, Georgia, which is North Georgia up there in the mountains, yeah. Did you ever have a Southern accent? Because you don't have one now. No, not particularly. My parents don't have it. Really? They survived that? Yeah. Well, I was born in Illinois. It's a long story. I can stick around. I'm not doing anything till lunch. We'll hang out. But...

I was born in Illinois, so they don't have accents, so I didn't grow up to have one. Sometimes there are pockets that are totally like antiseptic to getting the local dialect. It does happen. But you, so you weren't, you went to college overseas for a while, right? Didn't, were you in, I mean, you were in Spain and where all did you go? You were learning, you know, English.

in different countries was that a good time was that a good time in your life oh it was beautiful yeah I studied abroad in Paris for two months it was the same cost as tuition in America so I went there when I was 20 or 21 that's pretty cool went to Spain Barcelona Barcelona that was good

You did pick up something. Well, that's actually the test when you walk into the door of the show. You have to say, Okay, he's cool. He's fit and he knows how to say it. Put him in the front. Any experiences? I mean, did you culturally, you know, did it help or was it just a case to sort of run crazy? Were you sampling the women, the local stimulants? What was that like?

Sure, yeah. What's the tusk like there? Blur tusk. They have in Paris, codeine is legal. And back then, I had just stopped drinking. I was like, oh, I'll just do codeine. Just trade it off. But you have to ask for it by name at the pharmacy. So it's called Tussamax Comprimi. And so I kept going into pharmacies and be like, oh, yeah.

Bonjour. I don't speak French, but I was like, bueno, that's Spanish. Now I'm panicking. I'm spiraling. You're speaking Spanish in a Parisian pharmacy. But yeah, I would say, and they would like look at me like I was a junkie. So apparently there is a...

It's a loophole, but they don't like... It's just for old people, I think. Okay. Yeah, and you clearly don't read as a senior citizen. I had the same thing in England as well, because I remember when we did our show over there, somebody that we work with asked me to get him...

codeine essentially bring that yeah yeah yeah you'll have to write that name down but uh yeah yeah it was good that yeah the codeine thing happened and um a lot of other stuff and are you in a mad rush to get back are you have you you've as you're touring taking you overseas or oh i was just i just got back from australia last thursday how did how did you dig that

Oh, I loved it. Yeah, I was in the Melbourne Comedy Festival. A lot of slaps, a lot of pokies. They call it having a slap when you do, what is it called? Slots. Oh, really? Yeah. My brother's in Australia right now and he flew to Sydney and then he's been spending time in Brisbane and I was chatting with him earlier this morning, which I think it's like tomorrow there. I don't even know. Mm-hmm.

he is feeling like he wants to move there. He's having so much fun. Wow. Did you have those thoughts? Oh, yeah. I didn't want to leave. I loved it. I loved it. I loved everything about it. They appear to be sort of like a pretty chill group of people. Did you vibe well with them? Sure. We got along. I think...

as far as comedy goes, silly is the rule in Australia. And America is the exception. So they were super nice to me and they lifted me up and accepted me as a brother and it was so fun. How long were you there? I was there for two weeks, yeah. You kind of need to be there for two weeks because it takes so damn long to get there in the first place and you're on a plane forever and then you're... Were you jet lagged? Did it take...

beat the crap out of you? Oh, it was awful. Yeah. I was in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne. So yeah, it's a 20 hour flight. Did you fly over? No, listen, so you can drop a load of cash and get like the full bed situation. Did you have that?

No, I'm a bit of a penny pincher. I didn't do that. Yeah, but there's plenty of room for everyone. Yeah. You would hope. We got room for everyone, guys. That's a great way to travel. Did you get to travel? So you stayed sort of in it because it's a

big continent there. Was there any place, I mean, was it Bondi Beach is considered one of the most beautiful beaches in the world? Are you a beach dude at all? No. I went to some museums and I went to a lot of zoos. I go to a lot of zoos. Okay. You a big animal dude? Sure, yeah. That's something I'll do every day. No, not every single day. Why am I spiraling? But if I go to a new city, I'll go to the zoo. So yeah, I saw lots of

koalas and roos. Did you go to the zoo here? It's the oldest zoo in America. Have we been there? I don't know. You guys have had to have been to the Philadelphia Zoo, right? I was going to take him, but we got an argument. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now you're mortal enemies. Wait, so, Casey, and not to make this about my brother, but

They were in a zoo this morning and he's texting me pictures and there's kangaroos and koalas and everything and then emus and cassowaries, those birds that are a-holes. They can kill you. Yeah, they can slice your gut open like a velociraptor. Did you see one of those bad boys? Yeah, I printed a picture. I should have brought it.

And it's my face on a Cassiwari. When I got back to America, I did a show and I pulled it out. I said, oh, it's a Caseywari. Kind of stupid. And the crowd was like, what is that? And I was like, oh, they would have loved it in Brisbane. You got to remember where you are. Yeah. Brutal. That's cool. Did you play Madison Square Garden as well? Did you? Yeah. Yeah. So I was...

I saw it and I'm like, you know, who are you with? Who are you drawing with? That was a Kill Tony thing, but... That was the Kill Tony thing? Yeah. So...

We've asked everyone who's played. It's a legendary arena. It's an amazing facility. You, in your career, which is a decade plus now, what is that like when you are on? Even though the format of the show is different than a classic center stage with one spotlight on you, what is that like when you take the stage at Madison Square Garden? Oh.

Um, yeah, it was, uh, it was electric. It was very exciting. Yeah. My dad came to watch me, so he was proud of me and that felt good. I think that's all you really want is your parents to be proud. Did he support, did the family support the comedy change from the, the, the school, the schooling that you had? Was that a tough sell? Not at, not at first. I don't think even until maybe like two years ago, then they were like, okay, it's working. Like he's making a living, right? Right.

There was a lot of years where I lived in like abject poverty and my dad would, and he's been very supportive of late and before, but he would like send me applications to like Lowe's every, every single day. Like they're hiring managers at Lowe's. Dude, I'm not going to be a manager at Lowe's, man. Look at me. I can't work at Lowe's. You're out of your mind. He was shooting too high at that time. Yeah.

Yeah. You can't be a manager right off the bat. That's true. Yeah, I don't even have, yeah, it's unprecedented for several different levels of crazy. I can't jump into a manager position. You have to work up to that. You said abject poverty, and I read that you had lived in your car for an amount of time, right? Oh, yeah. So what was that?

And how long was that? That was about six months. Yeah. When I first moved to Austin, I drove from Boise, Idaho. And I just, I didn't know anyone there. And I just heard it was going to be like the new Los Angeles for comedy. So I just lived in my car in the Walmart parking lot. Wow. And would shower at Planet Fitness. Wow.

You were showered at Planet Fitness. Okay, I was going to ask what your day's like when one lives in their car. Yeah, showered at Planet Fitness. I would stay up real late, but the sun would wake you up in Texas because it was a black car, so I would wake up as if I was in a microwave every morning. Oh, my God. Yeah. Just get thrown awake in the sun. That was awful. That's got to be charming. Was your car just jam-packed with stuff? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I had a storage unit, so it was whatever, but...

Did you ever try sleeping in the storage unit? I heard that you couldn't, and I would be afraid that I would be locked in or something. Right. If you got one of the... You couldn't, in Texas, you couldn't do an outdoor...

because you'd have to get an air-conditioned indoor, but a lot of people do, and sometimes they'll discover people, right? It's like Cool Hand Luke. They throw you in the hole. They throw you in the hole, yeah. When you were in the Walmart parking lot, did your dad suggest maybe you could get a job at the Walmart itself? I didn't tell my family that I was living in my car at the time. They didn't know. Yeah, so I said I was, like, staying with friends, and sometimes...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They thought I was just saying with friends. I can relate because my dad sent me so many applications to jobs over the years and it's just like they just want what's best for you, right? And he's just trying to look out for you, but you look at the lows and you're like, probably not for me. Not while Home Depot's right across the park. Much better benefits.

Well, yeah, and what world does that? And again, he was just trying to help. And as I've aged, again, this is like three or four years ago. It's not that long ago I was living in my car. But I've come to really appreciate it. You know, they just want you to be happy and not living in your car. Well, were you happy when you were living in your car? Yeah. Yeah. I think I was happier than I am now.

I think I was the happiest I've ever been. Is it because you were heading... You could see that thing that you wanted and now you've kind of gotten it? Yeah. I was just truly like living for my dream. Yeah. Just doing shows all day. I had no rent. I had no overhead expenses. It was just open mics, all day.

all day and showcases sometimes. I can see that. They say sometimes, you know, be careful what you wish for, you know, because with it will come other things that can kind of make it suck. But have you, have you, you know,

You are such a personality and such a character. Have you tried or considered the acting path or character parts or things of that nature? Have you done commercials or anything? I auditioned for a Mountain Dew commercial last year, but I think that

This is not a bit, but I think it was like too on the nose. I think that they thought like, I'm not doing material. But it seemed like a person who would actually drink Mountain Dew. And I think they wanted something a little more glamorous. They wanted to create another image. That's hilarious. If it was the actual audience for Mountain Dew, like, wow, who's this savant? Yeah.

It's too close to home. No, we want a you type, not you. Yes. That

That's hilarious. So does that end the audition process? Are you not going to try that again? Well, sometimes my manager guys will send me stuff, but nobody's biting. I'm trying. I've done a couple in the last year. A couple come along. You're stage tough, and your mind is going a mile a minute. I think you could really, if you got your hands on a character, I think you could...

Is that something that is just like, oh, if I get it, I get it, or that you would really like to do it? Yeah, I think my whole life has been stand-up for so long, it might be nice to switch gears for a couple weeks and do something. I think about that often. I watch movies obsessively. So yeah, that would be cool to...

Kind of live as somebody else for a little bit. Like really pour yourself into something. Right, right. Yeah. When you watch movies, do you like to go back to older stuff or is it mainly just what's current? Yeah, you know, I watch everything in theaters and I typically don't go before like 1970. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. For sure. For whatever reason. Yeah. Well, I was on your Instagram and you were wearing, it looked like you were wearing a shirt, a Bottle Rocket shirt. Oh, yeah. Okay, so. And? No, it was the movie, right? Wes Anderson, yeah. Wes Anderson. Yeah, I love Wes Anderson and Alex Garland and a lot of his new directors, Ari Aster, and

Yeah, a lot of cool... We're in kind of a golden age resurgence of cinema where in the early 2000s, I feel like it kind of fell off and got more commercial and hacky and cheesy. With A24 and these new independent studios and stuff. Those are the kind of... You can audition for them because they're the movers and shakers right now. The 70s is often talked about as that second golden age where, I mean, you would...

You know, everything now is just either number three, number four, number five. And in the 70s, you had all these unique movies coming out. I mean, The Godfather freaking came out, you know, one and two. So, yeah. So what's your favorite movie of all time? Can you narrow it down?

Maybe Magnolia. Magnolia! That's a solid choice. Yeah, I love Paul Thomas Anderson. And people forget how great Tom Cruise is. I mean, that is, you know, Oscar worthy. Oscar worthy, yeah. Yeah, he was incredible. You know, I compare myself. I don't like to compare myself in terms of like glass half full. Like if I do something, I'll go, yeah, well, Paul Thomas Anderson rode Boogie Nights when he was 25.

Yeah. You know, so. Yeah. I like to knock myself down a peg. Right. Or I go, yeah, well, he made There Will Be Blood when he was like 34. So, you know. Yeah.

Just because I'm not a savant, I'm not doing well in my head. Like a wonderkind. Yeah. Oh, man. I get it, though, because it is the imposter syndrome. It is why I shouldn't even be here. And where is the person who thinks all the time I should be here? Like Orson Welles. Orson Welles' first movie redefined cinema. Citizen Kane. Yeah. And spent his life in pursuit of replicating that and was never able to do it. But all the time, he...

He never thought he wasn't the best around, you know? I mean, so I think it's good to have built in a built in humility. Sure. Check just to keep from going off the rails. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Yeah. Just trying my best. Just trying your best. Well, the Orson Welles of comedy will be performing at Helium Comedy Club tonight. There's one show tonight.

There's two shows on Friday and Saturday. Jim and Rob, are you guys at all these shows? You're going to be opening for all these shows? Yeah, we'll be there. They're the Mercury players to his horse and well. And I believe the early show tomorrow night is sold out. So you might want to...

Get the tickets now. We're looking to get your tickets now because these will sell out. Yep. HeliumComedy.com. Well, cool. Well, great to meet all three of you guys. Thanks for having me. And try to stay friends. I'm glad you guys patched things up. I just want to say, this is like, I'm just so happy to be here. This is the first time my family and friends have ever been excited about anything I've done. Oh, come and buy our show? Thank you, man. It's crazy. None of it matters. They were like, President Steve. Yeah.

That's awesome. Well, thank you, guys. We appreciate it. Happy to be here. Yeah, thank you. I love Philly. I'm happy to be here all weekend. Thanks, guys. Have fun at Helium Comedy Club. Thank you very much, Casey, for being here, Rob and Jim. And like I said, HeliumComedy.com to get those tickets. We're going to take a quick break. We will come back in just a moment. Stay with us, my friends. MRV is coming to you.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. I'm going to piggyback on that sponsor, Kathy. You mentioned the Truist Championship. We were talking with the executive director the other day, Joey Chitwood, who came by. And something I found out about the Truist Classic is that on... So the whole thing is the 7 through the 11. Then the biggest golfers in the world are going to be here at Cricket Club. And...

The Wednesday, May 7th, they were having an event called the Creator Classic. And this has started to pop up from time to time now. I've watched several golf content creators on YouTube specifically. That's where I go because you get the longer form videos. Usually it's instructional, mechanical things. You can pause and go back. Yeah, how to play the game. And there's some really, really good stuff and some really, really great content creators.

So a few of them from like Dude Perfect and a few other well-known ones are going to be playing in an event at the cricket club. And one of the players will be Paige Sporanek. We love her. She's great. She is, was it Maxim recently that called her the most beautiful woman in the world? Yeah, I think last year she was the number one. But listen, I and Steve and I, I stumbled upon her.

upon her years ago, kind of early on when her videos on Instagram were just starting to catch some footing. And she's obviously stunningly beautiful, but she is a great golfer. And I would mainly watch, she was wonderful to look at, but she has some great tips for strategy around the golf course and also mechanics and so on. And so I would watch

mainly for that, but the fact that she looks like the most beautiful woman in the world certainly is an attraction to keep you coming back. But would love to get her on the show.

Absolutely would love to get her on the show. So we're going to try to reach out with our resources. But somebody's got to know her maybe. There's got to be a connection. I'll say this again. Even if you dabble or just interested in the culture, I don't play golf. But I'm interested in the mechanics of getting good at something. And she does do that. And her YouTube channel, she broke down the – she was with this guy who is –

she says at any point in your game, it's, it helps to sit down or go out on the course with a pro who's going to catch you on certain things and traps you'd fallen into. And, and she was like talking about how, uh,

I'm nervous. And the guy dismantled a lot of stuff she was doing. But by the end, she was playing better. So that can pour over to all that other stuff. So, yeah, I'd love to have her on the show. Yeah, so we'd love to see if we can make that happen some way, shape, or form. She's got a fascinating story. She was a gymnast before she became a golfer. Yeah, I'm kidding. And then she was on the tour for a season. And that's how tough that tour is, man. You can't, you know.

She only lasted one season, but she's a great golfer. And the world is filled with amazing people that are like club champions and incredible golfers. But to be the elite of the elite, it's ridiculous how good you have to be. So on a scale of one to ten, if you're a top level club golfer, where do you sit from one to ten?

No, just an average. Oh, from one to ten? Saying a pro is at a ten. Like a touring pro, because there are teaching pros, there are club pros and things like that. But the touring guys... So I know a few guys, club pros, that have played in the Open Championship. That are really good. The U.S. Open, anyway. Oh, they're amazing. To even get...

on that to qualify for that you have to be incredible but but uh all the ones that i know have never even made the cut so they play two days and then they're done and i asked one of them particularly i said uh you know because he was in it like five times he was in the open something like that i said well i go were there was it mistakes that you made or do you do you blame yourself or was it the fact that they're so good he's like it's that they're so good

He said it's just they can hit it so far and with such precision. But like I said, to even qualify for that, you have to be amazing. So I remember, to draw the comparison between tennis case and so obviously going and seeing club, you know, accomplished tennis players who were at different clubs and had a reputation. And then to go to like the Open, the U.S. Open, or I mean the Forest Hills.

when it was at four shows, I think it still is, and go see them play courtside and see the speed and control. It's a whole other game. By the way, there's another guy that's participating in the same thing that Paige Sporanek is, and his name is Joshua Kelly, and he does these hole-in-one trick shots. His Instagram handle is hole-in-one trick shots, the number one. But he is local to our area, and he'll be at Truist, what is it, in a week and a half, right, two weeks?

Um, so maybe through Joshua, if anyone knows Joshua, we could get from Josh to page and we could have them both on. Yeah. I'd love to have them both. He does it like, uh, Steve, he does these happy Gilmore style shots and, uh, it's, they're incredible. And, um, yeah, he's, he's worth talking to as well. Uh,

Yeah, I didn't know that he was local. Yeah, me neither. Wow, interesting. All right, so anyhow, if anybody knows Paige Schmanek, just send her our way. That'd be kind of nice if you wouldn't mind doing that. We have an interview, but not for another 15 minutes or so. So we've got some stuff to talk about. Yes, Casey? Can I wish everybody a happy National Prostatonist Awareness Week?

I want to thank you guys for allowing me to do it. No, I'm just kidding. But Dr. Bentz, I'm getting implants in my teeth. Right. I'm telling you guys, I like not having bottom teeth on the lower left hand part of my face.

has ruined like eating it everything sucks so bad wow yeah i like so i have to you know chew everything on my right side and then i'll kind of park it over on my left side just to kind of get you need the whole my god i i thought the right side of your face looked a little more muscular and it was throwing me off because it's asymmetric it is asymmetrical and it sucks but but anyway so but it is national prosthodontics awareness week

Oh, you were serious. I am serious. I thought that was a joke. Dr. Bentz, the Bentz Dental Implant Prostodontic Center sent me and us sticky buns. To rip out more teeth. To rip out even more teeth. And listen, I'll eat them, but it's just not the same. No, I will, but it's just not the same. Like I'm telling you guys, I never realized how important it is to have all of your teeth in your mouth in order to...

to enjoy food fully. You're preaching to the client. I know, I know. So I want to thank these guys because in a month's time, I'm going to start to get implants and get my jam-packed press. We know somebody who would change it, turn their life around. Sticky bones!

When you talk to him, can you ask him, please, why someone in the dental profession would send one of the most sugary, sticky things anyone could ever put in their mouth? It ensures his...

Good point. Seriously. Good point. It's exactly what it is. I didn't even think about that. He's just a smart dentist or whatever. You know, Scarface never dipped into his own stash until the end of the movie. I've been, I told you guys, I'm watching one of my exercise shows. I've been watching John Adams and in that series at the end of it, towards the end of it,

as it goes through his life, his teeth start getting worse and worse. They do a little mention of Washington. He notoriously had dentures. I mean, I remember he had wooden teeth, wooden dentures or whatever. But you start to see these teeth turning black as they age. And the idea of having your mouth...

in that poor of condition has just got to be miserable. You know what I mean? Anytime I ever have a... We're looking at a picture of Paul Giamatti with those blacked out teeth. But anytime that I have a dental issue of it's just...

It's nagging. It's constant. It sucks. It's just, and if it can get really bad, it's got to be just hell on earth, man. Yeah. I mean, the nightmare. That's why having a good dentist, having good people in your corner makes a difference. And now more than ever,

Dr. Patula is my dentist and she's awesome. But the ability to – if you have a condition now, there are things available that you might not be aware of to turn that frown upside down. Well, you were going through it for a while there as well because you had gotten implants. And so I'm completely and totally unfamiliar with the implant process. And by the way, really –

What they can do now is amazing, the way they handle it. Dr. Cosme also was a part of that as well. It's just amazing what they can do. Yeah. And I have... My bite issues are gone. I'm just wondering when I'm actually going to be able to enjoy a burger or a steak fully again. Well, I mean, it's not like you're bereft of teeth in your mouth. How many...

Listen, it's these bottom teeth. They're really, really important. But teeth don't affect. If I had one more tooth, it wouldn't be as bad. But I'm missing the two main mashers in the back side of my mouth. All thanks to Brett. Okay.

All thanks to bread? Yeah. I bit into a piece of bread and my bridge came. It wasn't the bread. It was the dental health of your mouth. And then the bread just took it out. That was the last straw. Yeah. No, the straw did me in. That's how I lost it to you. Oh, yeah. Steve literally was drinking out of a cup with a straw. You're getting the story.

And his tooth fell out. This is the last straw. Really? The stories are inverted there, Preston. Literally. He's bread, I'm straw. Good point. That was a fake tooth, though? Or was that...

That was a tooth. Yeah, that came out. That was just loose. Yeah. That was your actual tooth. It was my tooth. Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. That's crazy. It was crazy. Did it hurt prior to it? No. I'll never forget it because you were laughingly just kind of like, my tooth just fell out. It was so funny. I would have been like, oh my God. Yeah. My tooth fell out. There's a great scene in It's Always Sunny where Charlie is like, he's got it, where he starts to pull out a tooth. And he goes, oh, he goes, that was loose. And he just starts pulling it out.

And they're going, stop it! Stop pulling out teeth! He kept pulling teeth out? He kept pulling out teeth. Oh, my God. Wow. Are you about to go to something else? I can. Well, because I have a question, but I wanted to ask it today. We're just kind of free-for-all. I know, yeah. I've been hearing rumors for a week that Pearl Jam is in town. Their tour starts tomorrow night, I believe it's tomorrow night, in Florida. And they've been practicing, from what I have heard, at the Leochor Center on Temple's campus.

I've not heard any confirmation at any point. I've reached out to our friends at Live Nation. I've talked to people who work here at the radio station. But I've heard these rumors from a bunch of different people in the Pearl Jam world and fans of Pearl Jam in and around Philadelphia, including our buddy John Clark. John Clark from NBC10 and NBC Sports Philadelphia. He's a huge Pearl Jam fan. And pretty reliable, too. And, yeah, Steve, he's a really great reporter. I mean, John goes to the—his nickname is Johnny Airport because he goes down and he gets all these scoops. So I don't think John would—

hear these rumors and think that they were complete conjecture. So I'm just putting this out there. If anybody knows if there's any validity to it, will you let me know? Because I'm just curious as to A, if it's actually happening, and B, if it is, how they've kept it a secret for the better part of a week. Pearl Jam's in the area. Yeah, it's weird because I know that bands will come to this area. They'll go to Lidditz because there's like the soundstage there. And I know that the Stones went there. I know Phish went there. I know a lot of bands will go there to warm up for a tour. So when you would say...

I'm like, did somebody get it wrong and say Leah Chorus Center thinking, you know, mixing up with Lidditz? Yeah, I've heard that as well, Casey, about that area. And the reason that the Leah Chorus Center made sense because there's a local band called the Leadbetters and they are a Pearl Jam tribute band and

And they stood in, they were stand-ins for Pearl Jam on their last tour, which is the Dark Matter tour. And there was a lot of visual effects that went around with Dark Matter when they were performing live in arenas. And in order to coordinate the visual effects with the band performing up on stage...

Pearl Jam hired these guys to just be up on stage, do some songs, and play as the band Pearl Jam. As they were doing that, and the place that they did that, Pearl Jam was watching, but they were doing those moves at the Leah Chorus Center. So the band and band's management is familiar with Temple's Campus and the Leah Chorus Center, and I heard that that building itself was just on lockdown. So I'm just throwing that out there because I'm super, super curious. All right, so you first mentioned something like this, I think like on Monday, right?

We were off last week and I heard it on Friday. You're wondering if they are still around? Their first show is tonight. I'm guessing they're not here anymore yet. They're in Florida tonight. If anybody saw them at any point, don't you think that would make news? Secrets are able to be kept sometimes. Would it be odd if the person who calls in to verify that they were here was Paige Sporanek? That

How would she know? How would she know? Stranger things have happened. So, I don't know. Interesting. But that would be wild if they had indeed been doing that or not. Somebody texted in. And again, it's just like all these rumors are flowing out there. Somebody texted in saying Pearl Jam was practicing on April 2nd at the Leo Kors Center. Okay. So who knows? Yeah.

I'm just, if there's any confirmation at any point, yeah. Ah, hell. So thanks for letting me ask that. Okay, no problem. I did see this, there's a couple things we can mention. We're waiting, we're going to have our interview in a little bit. John Ortiz is going to be joining us for the Diamond King, which is a really interesting documentary. We'll talk to him in a few minutes. Mini stream of consciousness. I guess so.

Yeah, we got like eight minutes to play with here. Mini stream of consciousness there. So I did see this article and it's about responding to text messages in a speedy fashion. Right. Sometimes, you know, when you're not responding to someone's text message, sometimes

Um, there's, uh, you know, you might be, feel like it's, I don't know. A slight? Yeah, maybe so. So apparently it says that's only in your head and shouldn't be that big of a deal. Sometimes the person texting you might give you grief about taking too long to respond to a text.

But that's not your issue either. Etiquette and manners expert Nick Layton points out that texting is just another form of communication and it's okay to prioritize what's going on with your first before... What's going on with you first before succumbing to a feeling of obligation that you need to respond to someone else's text immediately. So just know if you don't get a text back, you're not priority in that person's life. Well, see, that may be what some people think. But I...

I'm bad at that. I don't respond immediately to some text messages. Yeah, there are times when I literally, it's a conscious effort to step away and not be so dialed in. And sometimes I'll see a text chain well after it's been

Sometimes I'm in multiple group texts and they're firing so quickly. At first, you know, I try to keep up and then I just, like you said, Steve, I just have to put it down. I'm like, I'll either catch up later or I won't. Like, I'll just skip that conversation in the group at that moment.

Or call is something I'll do too. No, I don't want to. Don't call me. Don't call me. Text me. Maybe I'll read it. I'm OCD. That should be a shirt for you. Text me. Maybe I'll read it. I'm OCD about responding. I have to. I can't stand unread messages. I can't stand unread emails. Oh, that little red...

badge it drives me nuts it's anxiety inducing for me Preston so I try to by the end of every week reply to every email every direct message on Instagram and every text and if I don't one happened over the break and I'm mad at myself that I didn't reply to I actually replied to the guy this morning I was like I'm so sorry I didn't get back to you

So I'm bad about it. I probably take it to the opposite level of where you take it, Steve, because I get super anxious about not responding. So I'm down to two text messages and one, it's not a message left on my phone. It's just that someone called a spam message. That's one on the actual phone. My email though, take a guess at my email count. $30,000. Yeah, something like that. Higher.

60,000. 200,000? Higher. Oh my God. Don't email Steve. I get bombarded. See, I always make the mistake of, would you like to have email sent? Yeah, go ahead. It is currently at 289,226. You'll never clear that. I'll just do a bulk delete. Wait, is that one email account? That's

One email account. That's my, yeah. Wow. Chris? Guys, I'm at 850 unread text messages. 850 unread text messages. But I actually had a revelation recently and I actually stress out over it in my own personal way. So I'll see the text and

And first I'll see it. And if it's like somebody who's really important to me, I look at it and say, I'll respond to that later because I want to respond to that when I have time to actually talk to them and not respond now quickly and then distract myself. It's total ADHD because I will distract myself from what I'm doing, focus on that, lose focus on what I'm doing and then move on. Then I have a level of stress because I haven't responded in enough time.

Then I start writing it and I go, well, I don't know what the right thing to say right now. Do I apologize? Do I just not acknowledge it? Do I acknowledge it? Then there's another layer where I haven't responded in enough time that I think it's too late to respond to them. Right.

And it just goes on and on. And it's like opening it up and then seeing that. And then, Kathy, you talk about the group messages. Well, if that person is in a group, well, I can't respond to the group. Oh, totally. That person's solo. Absolutely. And I'm like, oh, God, I can't post anything on Instagram because that person sees that I posted something on Instagram and I haven't gotten back to their text message. And that's just when I go dark. All right. Let me ask you, though. You have 800 and some odd unread messages. Unread.

She hasn't even taken time to find out what the message is about. You can tell. She reads the preview. Sometimes you can see what it is and I can then prioritize, is this important? And my best friends, they know. Marissa, respond right now. No, but listen, I had one not that long ago and I read the first couple lines. I'm like, okay, that one can wait. And then eventually, like a day later, I clicked on it and it was like...

Yeah. Insanely long. And I'm like, uh-oh. I'm sorry. Uh-oh. The new OS in Mac and for both the phone and the desktop has what they're claiming is the most comprehensive summarization feature for email and for text. Yeah, but that was like in effect

for a little while and now it's not anymore. Well, they quote unquote refined it so that you'll get a real sort of AI chat GTP approach to summarizing briefly what you're going to find. Yeah, I was getting those and for like the long text messages, it was like this person is angry about blah, blah, blah. If you've got like a long rambling text, it would summarize it. It's now baked into the OS. I think it's a little

buggy because I have it on some text messages and not others. You can actually go into your settings and turn it off or off the summary. It is nice for group messages though. Have you ever gotten a text message so long that it almost...

Comes in the form of a document. Yeah. You have to click on it. No. And then it'll be... To expand it. To expand it. Yes, I have gotten those. I was like, what is this? And it was, yeah, it was not fun. I've also gotten a few texts, notably Todd Glass, like sending the voice to text and a long voice memo. Oh, yeah. And when it's something lengthy that he wants to share, rather than call, Steve, he'll do that. Pierre does voice to text and Pierre...

is a talker and so he has a lot to say and so his texts are also long and sometimes it's a little too long boom boom that's a briefer version yeah i have a good friend who does the voice message to you through text message it's really if it's more than a sentence she will send you a voice message instead

Wow. Well, this particular article talks about, you know, that you shouldn't feel stress over responding immediately. And it says here, plus you're a grown ass adult. Yeah. And you're more than capable of being able to discern from the someone sick and needs help messages. And the what do you mean you didn't look at what I just cooked message?

And determine which is more important. If my brothers don't respond on our group text, I just write good talk. And then immediately you'll get the response. I good talked to Preston on Saturday. Oh, you did? Yeah, I sent him a text. Well, you got back to me eventually. But I sent you a text at 4.15 on Saturday. And then about a half hour later, I sent you a good talk text. And then...

four hours later, I sent you another text that just said, wow. And then you said, yo, yo bud, sorry. I didn't see this until now. I put my phone on disturb because there were people that you didn't want to talk to. Yes. And so, but I was just kidding. You can override that by the

I know, and I sent it anyway, but I also knew that they were blitzing the house. I just sort of assumed that he didn't get back to me because they were really cleaning the house top to bottom. They were taking things out of their cabinets and cupboards and stuff like that. That's how...

how intense the cleaning situation was. So it's not you, it's me. Uh-huh. That's all. Yeah. Okay, you leave it with that. Yeah. We do not have our guest yet. Okay. Okay, so meanwhile, I get emails from my dad saying, hey, I've fallen and I'm in the emergency room. Like, that's a phone call. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pick up the phone and give us... Yeah. Begin a camp out for hunger. I got that email. I was like, what are we supposed to do with this information, Dad? I got this emergency postcard. Yeah.

Right? Here's a telegram. Wait, on the text messages, when it says the person has silenced the notifications and you hit notify anyway, what does that do? So I would think, my guess is, is that it will alert them. It will make the sound and the text message sound and vibration. When you have it on silent...

You know how you have your, what do you call these, widgets, I guess, or notifications? It won't come up on the screen at all when you have it on. So you don't even see the notifications that a call or a message has come in. But it sends it through. It sends it through, but it won't.

notify you. You have to go into the message app or you have to look at the message app icon that there is indeed a message there for you. I just think it's kind of weird that the person on the sending end can determine if the person on the receiving end receives it even if they don't want to. Yeah, so that's to indicate, look, this is important.

You know what I mean? And if that person oversteps those bounds a few times, then you're obligated as a person who put this on do not disturb to say, hey, when I have it on do not disturb, unless it's an emergency, don't disturb me. That's right. My thing was, my invention, which they should adapt. Are you listening, Apple? So when you have your phone on vibrate and you lose it, you should be able to, from the find my app thing, override the vibration and make it

You know, like give it a full ring. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's happened so many times where, hey, can you call my phone because I lost it? And it's not ringing, you know, or the FaceTime is not ringing. So it's like it's pointless. I agree with you. Do we have to fix everything? Yes.

Yeah, we're working on it. We're working on it. One thing at a time. We're going to save the world. The good news is we got our phones taken care of. Yeah. Jesus. Dear God. Don't even get me started on that. All right. But our next guest is ready to go. So we're ready to talk to him. And he's on to promote a documentary. It's called The Diamond King. It's a really, really cool story.

We fell in love with this guy, especially, we've seen him in many things like Civil Lines Playbook and American Gangster and there's a list, but Bad Monkey. He was just wonderful. Terrific. And we want to welcome John Ortiz to the program. Hey, John, good morning to you. Good morning, fellas. How are you? We're doing wonderful. And yourself, sir?

I'm doing great, even though I just woke up. All right. We'll let that slide, and you'll be all good. Listen, the documentary, as I mentioned, is called The Diamond King, and it's specifically about Dick Perez.

the official artist of the Baseball Hall of Fame. And once I started to take a look at the trailer for this, I immediately recognized the artwork. I'm like, oh, okay, this is what we're talking about. Very classic imagery of baseball greats that this artist created. And you are a lifelong baseball fan, right, John?

That's correct. I've been loving my Yankees since I was five years old. Wow. We're going to let that slide, too. Yeah. But when did you when did you first notice the the artistry of Mr. Perez and it spoke to you?

I actually, not until, even though I had some of his cards, some of your listeners might have them themselves. He's like one of the most produced artists in the history of art because he made these Diamond Kings for Flair, and they were like a special baseball card. So even though I had those cards, I didn't know who he was until they told me about him, and then I was like, oh, my God, he's...

an amazing artist. I think I have some of his cards. He's Puerto Rican. He, he, he, he came to New York. He actually grew up in Philadelphia, uh, uh, and, went to college at the college of arts there. And I was just like, I just need to be a part of this project. Yeah. And, and, and in fact, a lot of his artwork did focus on the Phillies and the Phillies at the, um, hall of fame section of citizen bank park there. There are a number of his paintings, uh,

So this definitely has local ties. This is iconic stuff, these paintings, and people are saying a documentary about paintings. Well, the history is super rich. The fandom is obviously passionate about it. But there are also cinematic techniques that are used to show the paintings. They're actually slightly animated in some cases, which kind of bring them to life.

Yeah, that's really cool. The director, Mark Evans, he has a real eye for animation and a passion for it. And when he told me about it, I was like, how are you going to make big cards and artwork come to life? And

Lo and behold, they come to life, but it's like really subtle and beautiful and it's nuanced into the story. And what I love about it is the history of baseball is covered in it. But then you also have, so that's for the fan, but you also have like this, the story of this man who created all of these amazing stories.

uh, artwork, um, and his story and his story with his mother and, and, and also the love story with the love of his life, who he met at college in Philly. Um, and they're still married, uh,

Lucy, who's also a character in the documentary. It's so cool because, again, we are used to getting, you know, 4K resolution photographs and representations of games and reality and whatever we happen to be a fan of, we can call up on our phone, you know, millions of pictures in high detail.

To see moments interpreted through an artist's eyes, I'm a big horror movie fan, and there was a famous monster, it's a Filmland magazine, and they would be these painted covers of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein, an artist named Basil Gogos, and I was a huge fan, got to meet him. And I lived and experienced my fandom through his eyes, through his artwork. And that's why...

This is so cool because this gentleman has meant a lot to a lot of people who weren't aware he was affecting them. That's right. That's right. Like a lot of them didn't even know that he was responsible for this item that gave them so much joy until they were much older because they were getting these cars as kids and they would just, you know...

in love with baseball and the cards and you don't think twice about what you may have. And then 15, 20 years later, which is how the movie came about, he's with his son and his son is looking through his cards and he breaks out his old cards from the old boxes and his son starts asking him questions about these cards that look totally different. And he's like, oh yeah. And he

He started doing a little digging about the artists because when he collected them, he had no idea. He was like, I think this will make a pretty cool movie. He got in touch with Dick Perez and the rest is history, as they say. The Diamond King will be on video on demand starting tomorrow and you're the narrator of it. John, since we only have you for a little while, we definitely have to ask a little bit about other things in your career. We all fell in love with Bad Monkey. We were all here on the show watching it at the same time and coming in each day after watching the episode and talking about it.

And one of the things we loved was how inviting, other than all the murder and stuff, that the Florida Keys looked. And how much fun was that to shoot around there and spend those days, you know, lounging out? I'm sure you weren't lounging the whole time. You probably had an opportunity to enjoy the Keys. I was...

I'm lounging, but also sweating. Your ass off. Yeah, yeah. We shot it in the middle of the summer. By the way, thanks so much. You do these things, and you have no idea if...

if people are going to watch it. There's so much content out there. So when you start hearing that people are actually liking it and watching it, it's like, oh man, it just made me feel so good. I had a blast doing it.

We love it. In fact, earlier this morning, I said I was going to mightily try to pump you for the secret of what is in the trunk of Vince Vaughn's car. Yeah, at the end. I tell you, but I'd have to, you know what, to you. You might end up in the series in season two. Has season two been shot yet or what is the status of that?

It hasn't been shot yet. It has been confirmed. And we're going to be in front of cameras in a couple of months. Excellent. Excellent. Yeah. Yeah. Doing a brief check here. I know we have a limited time. It blew my mind to learn was in fact Carlitos way your first movie. It was at your film debut.

That was my film debut. First one ever. Al Pacino, Sean Penn. John Leguizamo. John Leguizamo. That's your first acting job on screen. Viggo Mortensen. Yeah. Wow. God, man. I mean, that's heavy, heavy duty. You as a young actor, that must have been as stressful as the situation could be.

It was pretty stressful, but I tell you, I like quickly, um, wisened up and said, you know what, this is going to be the equivalent of like at least four years of intense acting class. Yes. Like, you know, and that's what happened. You know, Viggo Mortensen actually, uh, I don't tell the story a lot, but he showed up at

at the first table read like weeks before we started shooting in a wheelchair and did not get out of it he like remained in this wheelchair he went around everywhere in this wheelchair and I was like wow that's commitment he seems like a method guy kind of a method dude that's awesome

Well, listen, John, we know you got to run, but we'll remind everybody of the Diamond King. It's available video on demand. John is the narrator of the film, and it's got direct Philly ties. So check it out where you can find that on demand. It's called the Diamond King once again. And we'll be looking out for that next Bad Monkey season. So, John, thanks for coming on. We appreciate it. Thanks so much, guys. I had a blast talking with you. Excellent. Take care. John Ortiz.

He's great. He's great. I didn't know he was in Carlito's Way. I haven't seen the movie in years. That's a great movie. He was in Carlito's Way. He was also Ronnie in Silver Linings Playbook. He was Pacino's friend. And he was also, have you seen American Fiction? Dude. American Fiction. Oh, I was thinking of American Gangster because he's in that as well. Yeah, but American Fiction, he is the book agent. Oh, Jeffrey Wright. Jeffrey Wright. Yeah. It is. I really love that movie. I didn't put two and two together until just now, Steve. Yeah, he's really good in that.

What's it about? He's a writer. Jeffrey Wright is a writer and he has, writes about his black experience, but he has to black it up. You know, he's not black enough to write a selling, you know, a book that's going to sell well. So in order to market it, he has to become, quote unquote, more black. So all the white,

literary critics want the real experience because they think they understand it better so he creates this persona that's not him to sell books and it's very funny and he's and uh you know and there's there's a lot of heart to it as well yeah interesting yeah i think it's uh uh

on Amazon Prime. Anyway, it's a streaming person. You can see it. Okay, cool. All right, well, listen, we are going to take a break. We've got money to give away and it is with the presidency of 20 money. When we come back, we'll have your shot at that at as close to eight o'clock as we can get it. Bizarre File stories are coming up too. We'll be right back. Stay with us.

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Why was his kid playing with that toy in his ass? He went to the hospital complaining of severe pain in his backside, admitted that a foreign body was stuck up there, later revealed to be a 6.5 centimeter diameter ball. The ball was a transparent sphere with two cartoon faces on either side. It also contained smaller ball bearings and a red liquid.

I've never seen Mickey look so sad. An examination revealed that the ball was stuck in the man's rectum around seven centimeters away from his anus. Oh, here it is. You have a ball up your ass. The unnamed man, who was 62 years old, was given a minor colonoscopy. Could you just euthanize me? Which found a higher than normal blood flow in the area, as well as swelling of the mucous membrane. Dear God. Doctors also found some bleeding inside where the ball was rubbing the flesh.

To get the ball out, surgeons came up with an ingenious plan to make their lives as easy as possible. They placed the man under general anesthetic and then used a scalpel to pierce the elastic ball. Wow.

All of the liquid inside of the ball drained out while the ball's overall size was reduced as air rushed out. That's inventive. It was then successfully removed using forceps and a foreign body clamp through the man's rectum. This thing looks, we're looking at a picture of it, it's pretty sizable. In the aftermath of the procedure, another colonoscopy showed minor erosive bleeding, but the act of bleeding had completely stopped. There was no perforation to either the anus or the intestine.

The removal of the children's flashing ball was claimed a successful example of a minimally invasive procedure. To each his own, but I would find, to me, that would seem uncomfortable. In Florida, a U.S. Postal Service worker was arrested earlier this month in Melbourne after she drank alcohol at a house party on her route and was later caught driving the wrong way in traffic.

Caitlin Dye was arrested on a DUI charge. Police were notified that a mail truck was driving the opposite travel lane on a road and that the driver was throwing plastic cups out of the vehicle. When officers arrived, they saw the mail truck driving west before making a U-turn to head east.

Police said that the truck swerved in and out of its lane and traveled in the opposite lane as well. Is it possible she and her twin sister were eluding a gunman? Maybe they had to run. He's got a gun. Officers pulled over the mail truck and said, die appeared confused and disoriented. By the way, this is in Melbourne, Florida. Oh, uh, the officers conducted field sobriety exercises and said that her results were indicative of someone under the influence. Uh,

Police questioned Di, who said she was delivering to a home when she was invited inside for a party. Di told police she drank two shots of vodka before she was pulled over. The officer asked why she was swerving in and out of traffic, and she said it was because she had fallen asleep while driving. They also asked about her cup thrown out of the vehicle, and she said that was just water she used to swish in her mouth to not smell like alcohol. Very considerate.

Police said they also spoke with witnesses who called in the incident and they reported seeing the male truck on US 1 where she almost struck multiple vehicles as a truck swerved on the roadway. She was booked into the county jail after that. To be honest, it's amazing she didn't hit any of the vehicles. Absolutely. That alone is an achievement.

A naked man arrested on suspicion of breaking into a school in Soka City, Japan on Monday night is also suspected of being involved in a number of traffic accidents in which one person was killed and six people injured. Yeah, police said that the suspect had been identified as Daisuke Nishimura. And police told a news conference...

that they are investigating his involvement in a fatal hit-and-run theft of a taxi and three additional incidents that occurred before he broke into the school. According to police, there were multiple reports of a completely naked man with tattoos stealing a vehicle and causing a hit-and-run incident on which a man in a motorcycle was killed. It was around 9 p.m. He had reportedly stolen the taxi. The male driver had two passengers in the back seat when the taxi stopped at an intersection. Nushimura dragged the driver out of the vehicle while yelling, I'll kill you!

I'll kill you. And assaulted him, then stole the taxi with the passenger still inside. Where you going? He crashed outside of the school. Nishimura, still naked, entered the school. When a school official called him out, he punched him on the right side of his head without saying a word. Police were called back and took him into custody. Police said that he was neither confirmed nor he had neither confirmed nor denied the allegations and quoted him as saying, it would be bad if I told you that. Yeah.

All kinds of people all around the world. There is this thing about like fighting or freaking out that more so than ever where people go to nudity as the end result. I'm going to get naked now. Yeah, it's supposed to be the clothes at some point when you're in a stupor like that are supposed to be.

They feel restricted or restricting or something like that, I've heard. So who knows? All right, we have to wrap up the Bizarre File because it's a little after 10 and it's time. 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia. What the f***? It's time for a Preston and Steve 20-Money Keyword.

I love these clips they've been playing. All right. The word, the keyword is record or record. They're both spelled the same way. R-E-C-O-R-D. And you have until 25 minutes after the hour to enter it. You can do it through the MMR app or WMMR.com. You can also text it to our special contest short code number, which is 456.

One random entry wins $1,000 in this company-wide contest. And each MMR winner gets a pair of MMRBQ tickets as well. Winners will get a call from Beasley. Make sure you answer your phone. There are contest rules available at WMMR.com. And the whole thing is sponsored by...

by United Tire and Service. So I'll give you that word again. It's RECORD. R-E-C-O-R-D. So enter that right now. And that is if you want to win $1,000. I mean, come on, man. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. We'll get our lesson question. We'll get some trash. We'll get some music news. We may have announced something about the MMRBQ Press and Steep Show side stage earlier this morning. I'll reiterate that if you haven't heard it yet. Stay with us.

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IHatesStevenSinger.com, but hurry, these will not be restocked and supplies limited. That's IHatesStevenSinger.com. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Great song, another celebration at the end of the world. That is from Mammoth.

Wolfgang Van Halen's band. We have not only an exciting show to expect from that band at the MML BBQ, but we also have a very exclusive thing that is taking place on the Monday after the MML BBQ. On May 12th at the Foundry, there is a Pierre Presents show.

with Mammoth WBH. The band will be fully plugged in. Not a little acoustic thing. Acoustic things are fun. They're great, and I love going to those. But this is going to have a little bit more octane to it, a little bit more power. And you can only get tickets to this show by listening to Pierre's time slot, and I say time slot because he's not here this week, but Sarah Parker will be along shortly, and she's going to have your chance to win four packs of tickets to go to this show.

It's the only way to get them. Although you can go to WMMR.com. There is another chance to win over that way as well. But it's very cool that he's agreed to do this. We're looking forward to it. All right. Lesson question time. Now, heads up.

If you think you're going to participate in the lesson question, go ahead right now and text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. That way we will send you the link to join us. And if you do know the answer, you can just click on that link and then pop you up and see if you happen to know the answer to this question. Let's go with this one. In his version of A Perfect Day, what is Steve always writing?

It was a perfect day. All right. Let's see if you know that. Like I said, text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. And we'll see if you can get through and take a shot at it. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. All right, Steve, what's up this morning? Well, Sidney Sweeney and ex-fiance Jonathan DeVino were recently spotted out together in Florida. Now, sources are saying the two are not back together and that it was simply DeVino's weekend to spend time with her breasts. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Denzel Washington defending the $900 tickets for his Broadway run in Othello, saying there are cheaper seats available. Denzel says some of those seats are even in the theater. Oh, my God. And finally, Dancing with the Stars pro Gleb Zetchenko telling E! that his tumultuous split from Brooks Nader has left his reputation in tatters. Friends are reporting that the normally glib Gleb is glum. Oh!

That's my favorite thing you've said today, Steve. All right, we're looking for the answer, and we've got to wait to get people online. No, okay, so keep things as are. We're going to get into music news, but the question again for Steve, when it came to his dentistry, no, that's the other question I could have gone with. In his version of A Perfect Day, what is Steve always writing? Let us know, and we'll do music news. Music news.

On 93.3 WMMR. I have a few things to mention. We'll start with the American Music Awards. Nominees are in. Kendrick Lamar leads the pack with a whopping ten nominations, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. Post Malone follows with eight nominations, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year.

I believe so. Actually, I read that line twice. Billie Eilish, Chapel Roan, and Shaboozy are tied for third with seven nods each. It's a name that I think the late, great Paul Lynde would say nicely. Shaboozy. Taylor Swift has six nominations and could extend her lead as the artist with the most wins ever.

In American Music Awards history, she already has 40 of them. The American Music Awards set to air live from Las Vegas. It'll be 8 o'clock on CBS, Monday, May 26th. It will be hosted by Jennifer Lopez.

Kathy! Hello.

Except for the collaboration of the year and social song of the year, voting for those categories will stay open through the first 30 minutes of the event's broadcast. I wonder what the social song of the year is. Something that is perhaps like an activist sort of thing.

I was thinking something on social media. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Like TikTok, maybe Hot to Go. That's a Chaperone song that was huge last year. The Texas song, the Beyoncé, the Beyoncé Texas song. What about the Mother song we've been playing? Oh, yeah, sure. That's everywhere. Or maybe, yeah, Casey, maybe you're right. Tell your children not to walk my way.

I thought maybe that it would be a song that originated on social media, but it makes more sense that it is used more on social media, that that would be the award. And without even looking at what the nominees were, the song that I mentioned, Hot To Go, is up there. It's one of the nominees. To me, it's kind of funny because there are already songs in the running and out in the...

musical sphere, so it's just the way it's being purposed. And that deserves an award? It's funny because the Hot to Go song, I had actually heard the, like, oh gosh, they were like covers. No, no, no, like covers of it, but like the guy Chase You, he's a food...

What do you call it? Influencer. But he did like a Wawa hot dog song. Have you guys heard Eddie Vedder cover Hot To Go? No. Yeah, he did it with his daughter. And it's not a joke. He was on stage. He was doing a solo show and did that song for a little bit. Don't we have a clip of that right now? H-O-D-D-I-E. Come on. That was so good. You had it. H-O-D-D-O-G-O-T.

Oh, is that, he spelled, that's how it's done? That's how it's done. I've heard that. Yeah, that's how it's done. H-O-G-T-O-G-O. La, la, la, la, la, la, la.

It's super catchy. It's stupid catchy. Yeah. Like you hear it and you're like, oh, no. My earworm curse, Nick, is mother. I can't get the goddamn song out of my head. All right. Speaking of earworms, one was sent to me yesterday and I want to share it with you guys. I'll send it to, it's Japanese Pop Music.

Rock. And I'm going to... If we have time, we can play it today, but I'll send it to you guys. Is it Three Girls by any chance? Yes. Dude, I actually played that for Preston a couple of weeks ago. Okay. I'm like, I don't know what these guys are singing. Send it over. I want to hear it. It might be the same one. Yeah, it's... Well...

Yeah, Marissa's sending it to her. Okay. So we can get the actual rundown of it. All right, stop that right now. Stop, please. Yeah, or else, please. Play me some K-pop. Hi. BTS. There's a show coming to town. Brian Adams is hitting the road this fall with his massive Roll With The Punches North American 2025 tour. His biggest tour in years. And he will be joined by special guests Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. Oh, ho, ho.

So they are opening up for it, Brian, for all of the U.S. states. It's a 40-day arena run, and it includes a stop at Wells Fargo Center here in Philadelphia. God, I'd love to get Neil Torello and...

Pat Benatar on together, yeah. I'd like to get Brian Adams on too, man. So this is going to be October 29th. And Adam said, I am so thrilled to be announcing the North American leg of the Roll With The Punches Tour. He said we'll be playing all the classics, some deep cuts, and sharing some brand new tracks from the fourth coming out. This is my Brian Adams jam. Thank you.

Sounds like an idea. His first hit, and I remember... That's mine, too. First time I caught it, I was like, this is a good song, man. And then the ballad. There's actually a great guitar solo in this, too. Remember this was in an empty pool? The video? Yeah, yeah. The band was set up in an empty swimming pool. Yeah, Heaven? Yeah. Yeah, it's a great song.

So, General on sale for all dates is Friday, May 2nd at 10 a.m. So that'll be a really cool one. He looks like him now. I was seeing somebody press this. I was going to the 80s.

Maybe it's right said Fred or the lead singer or somebody. The guy's like 300 pounds. It just doesn't have the same vibe. Yeah. Apparently, Jackie Bam Bam has those tickets in his prize coffin. Wonderful. See as in coffin.

We love him. He's the best. Oh, he's so good. Riot Fest is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a massive lineup in Chicago's Douglas Park from September 19th to the 21st. Headliners include Blink-182 on Friday, Weezer and Jack White on Saturday, and Green Day closing out the festival on Sunday. That's a big-ass name. That is a big one, yeah. The three-day event will feature over 90 acts spanning punk, alternative, emo, and indie rock.

Notable performers include the Sex Pistols with Frank Carter, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, and Glenn Matlock.

Rilo Kylie, The Beach Boys, Weird Al Yankovic, Jawbreaker, Bad Religion, Alkaline Trio, The All Time Low, Dropkick Murphys, The Pogues, The Hold Steady, The Wonder Years, and Sparks. Three-day general admission tickets start at right at about $300 with VIP packages available. So this iteration of the Sex Pistols has been whittled down, but it does include Josh Groban? Yes. Does it really? I didn't know that. You raised me.

Someday we have to have him. Oh, that's Mark Summers at the end, right? Yeah. Did you see the picture of Mark Summers with David Letterman?

No. Okay. I just thought I'd bring it up. Why? What's interesting about it? He just posted it, and I was distracted for a moment, and so my ADD kicked in. But he posted it last night, and I really know what the context is. This is free fornication. Excuse me? No. It's current David Letterman, though. I thought maybe it was a throwback. No, no, no. It was last night, and I just was taken aback by it, and I love both of those men dearly, although I've never met Dave. Wow. All right. Cool.

So, Fyre Festival. I haven't really touched on much of this stuff. Because it's a laughing stock. Well, it's stupid, yeah. So, creator Billy McFarlane announced that he's selling his festival to start a new chapter. Do you know what was a more viable business venture? Crab food.

I mean, you get this. That's just for us. McFarlane posted a lengthy statement on Instagram detailing what the future of the festival will look like. And so he said that he spent the past couple of years pouring everything into bringing fire back with honesty, transparency, relentless effort, and creativity. You can't bring back something that never was. He wrote that the festival has worked on rebuilding trust with the community after the disastrous event in 2017. Uh,

He wrote that the brand is bigger than any one person and bigger than what I'm able to lead on my own. He called Fyre Festival one of the most powerful attention engines in the world and said he decided the best way to save it moving forward is to sell the brand as a whole. Oh, my God. Watch. That's not damaged goods. No. So the trademark will include the trademarks, IP, digital assets.

media reach, and cultural capital. That's my best. No, I'm just scratching my lower back, dude. What's the asking price here? The...

So it doesn't really say what the whole thing is being sold for, Case. One trillion dollars. But the announcement comes just months before Fyre Festival 2 is set to take place in, is it Isla or Isla Mujeres? Isla Mujeres. Isla Mujeres. The island of the women off of Cancun. Okay. Tienes esta niña?

That's Isla Bonita. Isla Bonita. So anyway, the location later switched to Playa del Carmen. Okay. Want to riff on that? Carmen Miranda. Carmen Miranda. Where in the world is that? Thank you.

Tickets to the event were being sold for $1,400 for one person, not including accommodations or travel, to $1.1 million, which organizers claim covered eight people. What is that?

Eight people. However, on April 2nd, Mexican officials said after a thorough review, there is no record or planning for any such event in the municipality. So he's an idiot. And he's trying to make a point somewhere. Steve, to echo your point, Billy himself only has 40,000 followers. He has fewer than 40,000 followers on Instagram. Really? Yeah. And then, I mean, our show has over 100,000. But the Fyre Festival itself, which I thought perhaps might have some...

They have only 91,000 followers on Instagram because there's nothing to follow. There's nothing to follow. Nothing occurred. There's no there there. Nothing on here. There's nothing on here. It's like you would not consider, you know, besides that iceberg incident, the Titanic had a successful maiden voyage. No, but this is like the NFT version of concerts or something. You know what I mean? Right. It doesn't really exist. Yeah.

All right. You know what does exist? The MMRBQ. Yeah. And I have a few different things to mention about this. Number one, tomorrow the voting starts for live band karaoke on the President Steve Show side stage. Sidearm is our live band. We have our potential singers. We're going to choose ten of them. Each one of them gets a four-pack of MMRBQ tickets.

You have to vote for them. It starts tomorrow. And you go to WMMR.com for the details on that. Now, speaking of the Preston and Steve Show side stage, for the first time in MMRBQ history, a band will play both the main stage inside of Freedom Mortgage Pavilion and then again on the Preston and Steve Show side stage. So we made the announcement earlier this morning in South Jersey's own stadium.

Fatmez will be opening the show at 1 p.m. on the main stage, and then later on that afternoon, we'll be headlining the Preston and Steve Show side stage. I love that we're doing this. Yeah. So there's sight.

Believe it or not, to be playing two different sets and they're going to make them both unique sets. So what you see on that main stage is not what you're going to see on the side. Well, also, listen, you know, if you want to talk about access and closeness to the if you're a real fan, you know, you're going to be right up close.

on the side stage. Yep. So, and also there's a DJ set from Jackie Bam Bam. Of course, we're going to do two sets of the live band karaoke and Fat Mez as well. So we're excited about that. And then one last thing about MMRBQ, there are a couple of ticket rates coming up this weekend. We have Steve at

The Boozy Mutt. That's located at 2639 Poplar Street in Philly. And you'll be there from 5 to 7. Yes. And again, as I said before, if you check out the website, apparently it's like a dog cafe. And you can show up and you don't have to have a dog. You can go. I'm looking forward to staying out with the dogs and you and loads of tickets to give away. And then on Sunday, the MM Army will be at Rita's in Rockledge. And that will be from 1 to 3. And that is 136 Huntington Pike.

So make sure you stop by because every 15 minutes at both of these locations, MMRBQ tickets will be handed out. It is by far the best opportunity for you to win tickets. So make sure you stop by. Oh, and then I'll mention this one more time for Chuck. He wanted me to mention the 11th annual Atco Battles.

Alzheimer's event is taking place this Sunday at Paradise Lakes in Hampton, New Jersey. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. It's live music all day long. Seven bands, including the Giuliano Brothers, Sunset Strip, Hickstown Road, 99 Reasons, Cat 5, Stealing Savannah, and The Blitz. Games, music, food, amazing auction items, and more. And it benefits those affected by Alzheimer's. Tickets are just $25, and you can get the information at atcobattlesalz.com.

All right. We're going to play this song, right? Okay, yes. So we have that. And then we also got to get a winner for our lesson question. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Oh, my God. I totally forgot about that. Let's get our winner first. Okay. In fact, I threw the question away. I thought we were done with it.

No, it's right here. It's right there. There it is. All right. So our lesson question in his version of a perfect day, Steve is always writing his what. And I believe we got Tom. We're going to go to. Hey, Tom, how you doing?

What's up, Preston? Yo, buddy. Nice to have you on. You at work right now? Yes, sir. I want to drive that thing that you have behind you. What is that? That's awesome. It's a de-fertilizer and weed control. It's like a little four-wheeler I whip around on people's property. Dude, that's awesome. I love my job. Good for you. All right, Tom, what is Steve always writing? Manifestos. His manifestos. Absolutely. Yeah.

All right, you hang tight, Tom. We'll get you in phone. We're going to set you up with a four-pack ticket to join Casey Boyd to see an advanced screening of Thunderbolts. It's coming up April 30th at 7 o'clock. 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 May 2nd. You can get your tickets now.

Alright, so this is an Airworm song we're going to play? Yes, and I believe this is the version where a DJ named Robert Miley is listening along to it and he's having fun unless Marissa sent over the original. The original?

Okay, this is the original. All right, so real hooky song. Here we go. I love that. I know. All right, so my version is...

No idea what they're saying. It doesn't matter. Yeah. What language is that in? Japanese. That is Japanese? Is there a chorus? It doesn't even sound like Japanese. She's got such a smooth...

Delivery? Tone and delivery that it's hard to pick up on what language that actually is. Yeah, and so, Nick, the version I have is different. It's more, this is like a live version. Mother! But again, no, it says, it says, understanding, zero. Vibing, 100. And absolutely, this is an absolute vibe. Here it is. Okay.

By the way, these girls look like teenagers. Yeah. We're looking at the video of them. They're really cute. Yeah. And they're playing the instruments. Oh, that's cool. So they're a full-on band. I love that. Yeah. What's the name of it?

We have it right here. The name of the band is Haku. H-A-K-U. Stands for Yoga Flame. Cover of, I think the name of the song is Mano No Aware. Oh, okay. Mano No Aware. Mano No Aware. All right. Well, thanks for playing it for us. Here we go. Appreciate that. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We will come back. We'll get the Letter of the Day for the World of Weak Prize. And Sarah Parker is in for Pierre. We'll wrap up the program in just a moment. Stay with us.

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It's 1046. Time for us to call it a day, Pipples. And a good one today. Very enjoyable. And leading into nothing but no sad, bro, which will be here before you know it. Of course, that's our theme for Fridays. But I would like to thank everyone involved.

on the radio program today. Our guests included, like Casey Rockett. Yeah! He'll be performing at Helium Comedy Club. He had Jim and Rob, his openers, stop in too. And they're local guys from Delaware County. Nice guys. And you can get tickets to tonight's show at 8 o'clock, but I think Casey said the early Friday show is sold out and then there are tickets for Saturday, 7.30 and 10 p.m. You can go to heliumcomedy.com to get those tickets. And then we had a great conversation with John Ortiz. Yeah! Hey!

Great actor. We loved him in Bad Monkey and Silver Linings Playbook and a bunch of things. And he's got a... It's a documentary that he narrates called The Diamond King. And it's about a local artist, Dick Perez...

who is like the official baseball Hall of Fame artist. And he did a lot of stuff for the Phils as well. Peter Max was for the Beatles. I like that same sort of correlation. He is the guy who's most associated with Major League Baseball. And John gave us little teases about filming Bad Monkey 2. Yes. They have not done it yet. He's right there. He mentioned how effing hot the keys can get. Yeah, that's right. Let me see. Oh, and...

We had a 20-money winner. I would like to congratulate a $1,000 winner, Christy Ferriella from Langhorne, Pennsylvania. And Christy's getting herself one $1,000. And we have more chances for you to win, friend. Your next opportunity with Sarah Parker! Yay!

Hello, good citizens. I'll tell you what, the tone has been set for today filling in for Pierre because I had a very Pierre-esque morning. What happened? It's one of those things where you wake up late and then you can't find anything and then everywhere you turn there's construction and then your car goes ding, ding, ding. You are so out of gas. So I now know what it feels like when Pierre, almost, I found a Wawa in time, but I felt like Pierre driving into work listening to you guys going, just keep talking, just keep talking, just keep talking. I'll get there in

You impress me as someone who's punctual and gets... You're more of a schedule fanatic. At the expense of my mental health, yes. Yeah, so this is extra torturous. See, the thing is, he can do that and be okay. How? I don't know how that happens. I remember seeing him running out of gas. I'll make this story short. And it was back in... I was like a teenager or early 20s. And in the days where you would just be scraping to get gas money. And there was one time where I couldn't believe that it happened. I actually...

into a gas station. I get started sputtering and I'm like, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. I looked around and there was a gas station and as I was pulling into the little ramp that you go up as you pull into a parking lot, boom, it conked out and I rolled. You literally emptied the tank. Rolled up to the tank. It was crazy. You didn't put it in a neutral and roll it down. I did, yeah.

Wow. Absolutely. I had to. At that point, I was cozy. I threw it in a nooch. All right. A similar story. I keep it in a nooch. My car was, I was driving. It started to, something was coming out, smoke, steam. I didn't know what it was. Car dies. I'm like, oh my God. There's a service center right there. I pull in. The guy comes out, lifts up the hood. And I go, so what does it look like? He goes, it looks like you need a new car. And that car stayed there until they pulled it away for junk. No way. I kid you not. Wow.

Wow. Yeah, I literally ran that car to death. We've all had our experiences. All right, Sarah, before we find out what you have going on, do you have the letter for the day? I am ready. All right. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. No.

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You can reserve your table today at nombrasa.com. All right, so you're in today and tomorrow. I am. What's happening today? Well, speaking of money, a shot at $1,000 with 20 money. You mentioned that that's going to happen at noon and then will happen one more time at 3 when Brent arrives. We've got more invites to Pierre Presents, Mammoth WVH. Very excited about

that and add a new spot to the foundry so that's going to be a really cool experience they do it right there oh yeah very cool awesome above the fillmore and then the workforce blocks at high noon we will do green day the talking heads and nickelback all right sarah's got your cover make sure you stay put and stay in touch with her

I want to thank our sponsors. President Steve's show is brought to you today by Dunkin'. And the President Steve's show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets Fresh Foods. Local flavors tomorrow on our program. It's nothing but no sad bro. We'll check in with our friends at 6 ABC early in the morning. And then we have a repeat performance. This is going to be great. When the Eagles were on their way to the Super Bowl, we had the Academy of Vocal Arts come in. These are the

opera singers. They're great. And they came in and they performed the Eagles fight song. Well, they've got some shows coming up and they're going to do a little performance for us. It's great hearing these world-class performers. You get to play around with some opera singers. It's kind of fun. So they'll be in tomorrow for a musical Friday. That's it. We are done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day and we'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Preston and Steve on 93.3

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