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Casey and Kathy, Nick and Marissa, good morning it. They're all that I need, yeah they make me happy. That's why I'm a listener, and I'll never quit. Wake up, good morning it. Good morning it. Wake up, Preston and Steve, and good morning it. And good morning it.

Hello, everybody. WMMR Philadelphia. I think you're sleeping. I was keeping you one towel. Towels need sleepy.

I'm sleeping, you want me to put a pillow? Please go away, let me sleep for- You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR with Preston Elliott. You will listen to every damn word I have to say! And Steve Morrison. Words are like bullets lost. Casey Boyd. They all can't starve it. 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 WMMR. We're getting started. It's a Monday morning. And of note, the sun is fully up. And that's a wonderful way to start. We have beautiful skies. Let's check the weather forecast.

Less windy today, more warmth and sunshine. High of about 76, going to be absolutely beautiful. In fact, this week looks excellent. Tomorrow, sunny, summer-like temperatures. High 82 to 83 degrees. And then Wednesday, 79 and partly cloudy. Rest of the week's looking pretty good until we get towards the end. And maybe some rain as we head into the weekend. Hello.

Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. All right, today is Monday, April 28th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, the son of Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich admitted to a prank call made by, what is it, Casey? Shador. Shador Sanders during the NFL draft and apologized in an Instagram post Sunday. The NFL is looking into the situation, specifically how Sanders' private number leaked.

The Falcon said in a statement Sunday that 21-year-old Jax Ulbrich copied it down off of his father's open iPad while visiting his parents' home to later conduct a prank call. As Sanders continued to wait for his name to be called on day two of the draft Friday, a video surfaced on social media of the former Colorado quarterback receiving a call from someone impersonating New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis. The caller told Sanders, we're going to take you with our next pick, man, but you're going to have to wait a little bit longer.

All right, we have a little audio. What is this, Case? This is the audio of the actual call. Of the call. All right, here we go. This is Mickey Loomis here, GM of the face. How you doing? Good, how are you, man? Good, been waiting on you. Yeah, we have. It's been a long wait, man. No, for sure. We're going to take you with our next beat right here, man. Yes, sir, let's be legendary. All right, but you're going to have to wait a little bit longer, man. Okay. All right, man. Let's go.

What does that mean? What? What did he say? I don't know. You can ask him what it means and he was on the phone. You heard that? He said you're going to have to wait a little bit longer. So he had it must have been on speakerphone, somebody was filming in the room. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. Confused Sanders told the crowd gathered for his draft party. What does that mean? You guys heard that from Jaxx.

Ulbricht wrote in a post that what he did was completely inexcusable, embarrassing and shameful. He wrote that Sanders accepted his call earlier. So he said, I'm so sorry. I took away from your moment. It was selfish and childish.

This is on an Instagram post that Ulbricht wrote. I could never imagine getting ready to celebrate one of the greatest moments of your life, and I made a terrible mistake and messed up that moment. Thank you for accepting my call earlier today. I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me. Imagine pilfering something off your dad's iPad or whatever for his occupation, his profession. His profession. And you liberate that for a practical joke.

It's going to be a lot of trouble for dad. And also the fact that, so this is a prank and it's so publicly known. This is going to follow this kid for a long, long time. Better believe it. The Falcons did not. The thing to do is, as we've learned, leave a fake suicide note laid out in the bathroom like Will Forte did. Jeez.

The Falcons will not, they did not take action against Jeff in a conference call with Cleveland area reporters after he was drafted by the Browns in the fifth round Saturday. Sanders said he wasn't bothered by the prank call. It didn't really have an impact on me, he said.

New Colts tight end Tyler Warren also received a prank call before he was selected. And then Buffalo Bills sixth round pick Chase Lunt, an offensive tackle, said in his introductory news conference that he received four or five prank calls during the draft. It's unclear if Jax Ulbrich was behind those prank calls as well. This is becoming a thing? Yeah, it's a thing. It's terrible.

Will ABC carry the prank calls as well? You know, when they start doing, they covered the draft so extensively. They took Jeopardy off for it. Let's just say that.

People in South Jersey are dealing with more fire concerns after a fire broke out at a mulch yard in Atco, Camden County. Firefighters have been working to put out the hot spots but said it could take a few days to put them out. Officials say the dry and windy conditions fueled the fire Sunday night. While crews were able to contain the multi-alarm fire, they were working to put out the hot spots and said it could take a couple of days.

Smoke filled the sky in Atgo, New Jersey Sunday afternoon. The fire sparked at Wade Salvage and Mulch Farm on Jackson Road. When we were over at Mulch Works, Preston, they were showing us how they have relief pipes that pull the methane out of the... Because they can spark up. Mm-hmm.

The fire chief said it's about 15 to 20 acres zone that they're tackling. More than 50 agencies responded out of Camden and nearby Burlington and Gloucester counties. Officials made voluntary evacuations in surrounding neighborhoods. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. State fire marshals are leading the investigation.

Be sure to check your pantry and fridge. Martinelli's has recalled more than 7,000 cases of their apple juice, citing concerns over toxic substance contamination. The affected apple juice was sold in stores in 10-ounce round glass bottles with a white metal screw top lid and has the best by date of December 5th, 2026. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the impacted cases might be

contaminated with petulant, a poisonous substance produced by certain molds which are often found in rotting apples. The symptoms include nausea, gastrointestinal disturbances, and vomiting. The infected bottles were distributed in 28 states and over 173,000 bottles have been recalled. In sports this morning... ... ...

All sacks for Yomi. All sacks for Yomi. What the f*** is that? The Phillies beat the Cubs 3-1 in 10 innings last night at Wrigley Field. They did it!

Alec Bowman a sacrifice fly in the 10th to give the Phils the go-ahead run. Trey Turner had three hits and two RBIs for the Phils, who took two of three in the weekend series. Aaron Nola pitched seven innings of three-hit ball after dropping his first five starts this season. Jose Alvarado got three outs for the win, and Jordan Romano pitched the scoreless bottom of the 10th for his second save. The Phils are off today and back home tomorrow night as they open up a series against the Washington Nationals. Zach Wheeler will get the start.

Tomorrow at 645. On Saturday afternoon, the Union won, shutting out D.C. United 3-0 at Subaru Park. The Union got goals from three different players for the second straight week as Jacob Lesnis scored in the first half and Danly Jean-Jacques and Bruno Damiani both scored after intermission. The Union, who improved to 6-3-1, won their second straight and remained undefeated in their last game.

Eight matches against D.C. Up next, the Union are in Canada on Saturday night to face CF Montreal at 7.30. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. And that's what I have for you this morning. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. We welcome everybody back from the weekend and diving back into things. We have new stuff to tell you about, including a new Word of the Week prize. So we have a Pau Hanna Summer Tiki Boat Cruise for up to 16 people.

Pretty sweet deal. Yeah, it's out of Ocean City, New Jersey. It's the only Caribbean tiki boat experience in New Jersey. So we will give that away with the Letter of the Day Word of the Week prize at the end of our work week. And throughout the work week, we got loads of money to give away. $5,000 every single day, $1,000 at a time.

It's the presidency of 20 money keyword. We'll get to that starting in the 8 o'clock hour. So listen up and we'll tell you what you need to do in order to win. A couple of guests on the program this morning. Our good friend John DeRenze is going to be here. John's been a long, long time helper of our program as he worked in the beer industry for a long, long time. And recently had a kidney transplant.

replacement and he is popping in because April is National Donate Life Month and John is a success story. Oh yeah. So we're going to talk to John later on this morning about that. We're also going to have the very beautiful Brooke Burns joining us. Actress, game show host. She's going to be hosting Tic Tac Toe

a revitalized version of this on Game Show Network and we will check in with her a little bit after 9 o'clock or so. I always enjoyed Tic Tac Toe. I did too. It wasn't on for a long time though. No. I think the last time it was on was in the 90s. It was a good show. Yeah, yeah. And I always liked her. Was it...

Fear Factor or Doggy Dog? Doggy Dog. That's the show. They were over at a huge indoor swimming pool. Yeah. I remember that. It was a cool show. A lot of these wild physical challenges. So we'll talk to her later on this morning, and we'll get into whatever we are going to get into on this Monday. So we'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. In the Entertainment Report, we got some good Philly news to pass along to you. This is really good stuff concerning the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Stupid question and more. We will be right back. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kath. So, super question prize. Giving away the Steven Singer Jewelers moon and back diamond necklace featuring a diamond-encrusted moon and a heart with a secret message of love. Pretty sweet deal. If you can answer this question correctly, you'll need to text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333 to get the link. This is a tough question. I got this from Jerry Vanderwood.

He emailed me and he says, hey, P-Buds, got another stupid question for you. Now, this one might take a little work here. In the Karate Kid, what is the date of the All-Valley Karate Tournament in which Daniel LaRusso of Miyagi-Do Karate won?

Defeated reigning champion Johnny Lawrence of Cobra Kai. That's a tough one. He sent a screen cap of them standing in front of the poster. I knew what month it was. I just didn't know the actual date. I need the date, the day and month.

Let's see. I don't need the year, but I need the day and the month. So what was the date of the All-Valley Karate Tournament? Hey, you're going to have to hook up the phone, Preston. Oh, yes. In order to get that to work? Yeah, we disconnected the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll work on it. We'll get an engine in here and see what we can work on. We're going to need to use the telephone. All right. Text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. Munch in some birthdays while we wait for your answer. Today being the 28th.

8th day of April. It is Jessica Alba's birthday today. Recently split from Cash Warren, right? Yeah, that's correct. And she's got her lifestyle brand and all that stuff. She's done well for a long time. He's super wealthy, so I think they're just going to kind of go and walk away. She made a lot of money on that brand. Oh, she's like near billionaire. Even with the lawsuits for the stuff that apparently injured a few kids. So she is 44 years old today. Penelope Cruz.

has her birthday today. Blinded by the light? Yeah, so there are just moments in movies where music comes in that I will always remember and in the movie blow. When this song comes on, I just vividly can see Johnny Depp walking down the hallway with this song playing in the background.

She's also in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Jesus Christ, I hate that goddamn movie. I never saw it. I sat down. I heard nothing but great things about it. I wanted to strangle myself. I tried to strangle myself. Is it a love story? Turns out you pass out before you can fully do it. Yeah, it's sort of a...

Listen, it's really kind of in my wheelhouse. Okay. But it just didn't fire for me. It was just boring as hell. Her and Javier Bardem have been married since 2010. She's 51 today. Jorge Garcia. Jorge. A loss.

Hurley. Great character. That guy has had, if you're talking about job locations, between Lost and Hawaii Five-0. Yeah. He struck pay dirt. Yep, and he turns 52 years old today. Nick, what is his most recent credit? What has he done as of late? Hawaii Five-0, right? You know, there's a show called Bookie, and I think that that was on HBO Max, maybe? Okay. Yeah, Max. It had Maniscalco on it. Oh. Yeah, so Hurley had a... Hurley. Hurley.

It's Hurley. Hurley had a role on that show. But yeah, still working. 52 years old today. The great Ann-Margret turns a year older. She is 84 years old today. Ann-Margret was a major crusher of mine. Beautiful woman. Bye-bye, Bertie, that opening sequence. As a young man, I felt things I'd never felt before. Time.

grumpy old man. What was she in not that long ago? Tommy. Yeah. All right. So hang on a second. If she's 84 today, then how old was she in grumpy old men? Because, you know, that was a long time ago. Yeah. I feel like she might have been in her 50s. Well, she was younger than the grumpy old man, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Yeah. But,

But she was still a citizen. She was in an appropriate age range. And then the other one was Sophia Loren that they had, right? Yes. Correct. She was in the second movie. Grumpy Earl. Yeah, so she was 52, Casey, when that movie came out. No. It came out in 93. Younger than me.

Yeah, I know. Does that make you want to blow your brains out? Don't find out how old characters were supposed to be in movies from your past because it'll make you want to kill yourself. Ann-Margaret had been performing on stage in Las Vegas and they had this very elevated platform she'd get up on. Do you remember this, Preston? No. And she fell off and landed on her face. Yeah. I mean, from a couple stories up. No. Yeah. Dear God, she's lucky she survived that.

She's 84 today. Bridget Moynihan. Yes. Turns 54. Coyote Ugly, Blue Bloods, a couple of her acting credits, of course, and she and Tom Brady. You know the story there. She is 54 today. She's a fan of ours, by the way. She is. She had reposted something about the Camp Out for Hunger a few years ago. Unsolicited. She stumbled across it. It was really cool of her to do that. It's Jay Leno's birthday today. Jay turns 75 years old. Just

Not that long. His most recent thing was falling down a hill. A couple times. He fell down a hill, set himself on fire. Remember he had that injury? He was working on the car engine and it went up in his face. And then, of course, sadly, he's dealing with his wife who has kind of advanced dementia. Yeah. And a caregiver for her. So he is 75 today. Golfer John Daly turns 59 years old today. You would love to go out and play with him, would you not? I bet.

Probably. He's a good old boy kind of guy. He actually, so he's from Jefferson City, Missouri. It was one of my early radio careers was in Jefferson City, Missouri. And I know the type. But he now makes a living just showing up, being that weird looking old man who can still play golf. And people pay him money.

millions of dollars just to kind of come drink and hang out. Is he the one who's kind of really way out of shape? Oh, yeah. Way out of shape. Big time, yeah. He's kind of doing the Happy Gilmore circuit. You know, he can hit a long drive and people will come to watch it. But Steve, a great joke in the golf world is, you know what an Arnold Palmer is to drink? Yeah, if you add vodka, it's a John Daly. To elaborate on that, Nick, he at the Masters this year sets up his own merch tent at the Hooters nearby. Of course. And like,

Sells merch. Yeah. And makes a bank. But he was groundbreaking in the world of golf. He hit it really, really far. He was a big, big hitter early on. So he is 59 today. And then the last birthday, the Property Brothers, Drew and Jonathan Scott, turned 47 years old today.

Jonathan's been dating Zooey Deschanel since they met during Carpool Karaoke in 2019, by the way. Is he going to close that deal? That's a good question. All right. Let's see if someone knows the answer to this question. It's a tough one. Via Zoom. We're going to check in with Brad. Hey, Brad. How you doing, buddy? Hey, good morning. Good morning to see you, Brad. And literally, we can now see you. All right. So here's the question. In the Karate Kid, what was the date of the All-Valley Karate Tournament? Do you know?

December 19th. He is correct. Yeah. December 19th. So hang on, dude. We got a really great prize for you.

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At the box office this weekend, Sinners ruled again, taking the number one spot. It made $45 million. This movie's taken in, it's really got word of mouth. Yeah, the fact that it has that kind of box office boffo-ness actually prompted Tom Cruise to...

There was a picture of him. He had purchased tickets. He was going to see it in the theater, standing in front of the poster, because he's a big proponent of getting back into the theaters. And so he was celebrating their success. In second place, the 20th anniversary re-release of Star Wars Episode III, Revenge of the Sith.

The Accountant 2 debuted in third place. Then you had a Minecraft movie falling to fourth and closing out the top five, the horror film Until Dawn. We're going to leave with some music news, gang. Normally I save this stuff for later on in our music news segment, but the new group of inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

has been announced. The news broke during last night's broadcast of American Idol, and it doesn't come without a little bit of controversy. The winner of the fan voting, Phish, did not make the cut. Yeah. It's really bizarre, man. Neither did popular choices like Mariah Carey or Billy Idol, but 13 new members...

We're chosen, the seven inductees, that it's voters selected from the 2025 ballot on Sunday night, along with six more musicians or executives who were directly selected by the hall board for induction. But I'm going to lead with this one because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2025 includes Philadelphia's own Chubby Checkers. Yeah.

So that is huge news. Did we do that? What's that? Did we do that? I think we did that. Yeah, we did it. I mean, because, to be honest, he wasn't leading that fan thing. No, he was not. He had been passed over a number of times, but yeah, they've made it official. So Chubby Checker is going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I'll mention a few others, and I'll expand a little bit on that. But Cyndi Lauper, the White Stripes, OutKast.

Bad Company, Soundgarden, and Joe Cocker are all going to be in inducted into the rock. Nice roster. Yeah. Uh, two more recording artists, one inductions into the hall, despite not pairing on this year's ballot in a separate musical influence category, salt and pepper and Warren Zeevon as well. Three other musicians are, uh, getting in via the musical excellence award. Uh,

And as also selected by the board, producer Tom Bell, pianist Nikki Hopkins, and bassist Carol Kay, famous member of the Wrecking Crew. Oh, wow, yeah. The 13th inductee was legendary.

recording executive and producer Lenny Warnker. The induction will take place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on November 8th. So to expand just a little bit on Chubby Chagger, he's 83 years old, by the way. He's been an outspoken advocate for his own induction in 2001. He took out a full-page ad in Billboard saying, I want my flowers when I'm alive. I can't

Can't smell them when I'm dead. You can't state it any clearer than that. He protested his exclusion from the Rock Hall at the induction ceremony in 2002. He was nominated for induction for the first time this year. But he's not the only Philadelphia honoree. Tom Bell, who I mentioned, was a chief architect of what became known as the Sound of Philadelphia in the late 60s and 70s, along with his partners Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. So he was part of the Gamble and Huff Sound. Yeah, it's very cool.

He passed away in 2022, unfortunately. But his family, obviously, will be excited about that. You know what's great about Chubby Checker? I mean, I don't know many other songs of Chubby Checker. I mean, he has two foundational songs. Yeah, the interesting thing about Chubby is that, you know, he...

He didn't write those songs. So the argument that kept him out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was that it was largely based on one song which he didn't write or record first. It was written and originally cut by a gentleman named Hank Ballard and the Midnighters who had a top 30 hit with it in 1959. It became a sensation though when Chubby recorded it. He first performed it at the Rainbow Club

in Wildwood, New Jersey in 1960. Isn't that wild? And recorded it for Philly's Parkway Records and then it gained exposure. I actually like the second song, Let's Twist Again. I like it a little bit better. He had a few other hits. They were hits, but nothing stuck like those two did. I never thought of

that like that they take that into consideration that he didn't write it and it really was just a hit when he performed it I mean I kind of think so what he was the star behind it and what's made it popular so I am glad that he's in but I never thought of that well the truth of the matter is they sort of the rules sort of bend to

depending on the artist, and that's what a lot of people have a problem with. So a couple of other Philly connections as well. For many years, advocates for Warren Zevon had protested his absence from the Rock Hall. He passed away in 2003 from cancer. He went unnominated again this year, but he was honored in the Musical Influence Award, and he lived in Philadelphia for the time in the 1980s. A good friend of the station. We have that...

that audio that Pierre plays from time to time of him performing Werewolves of Bryn Mawr, which is pretty awesome. I forgot where they were. The main point. The main point. And then, so Cindy Lauper, even though she's from Brooklyn, she's got some deep Philadelphia connections. Girls Just Want to Have Fun that was written by the late Philly songwriter Robert Hazard. Yeah.

added lyrics by Cindy Lauper and of course Time After Time was penned by Rob Hyman of the Hooters so she's got strong Philly ties on top of that so the induction ceremonies it's going to be really cool to see all that representation and we're happy to announce Chubby Checker

into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And he gets to see it and experience it. You know what it's going to be. Warren Seaborn often visited a local radio station. Yeah, of course. Wait, real quick. You said he lived in Philadelphia. I just want to tell you real quick. I saw Wanda Sykes yesterday. Oh, my God. I know. And she was across the street from me. And I was like...

I almost froze. And I was like, do I go over? And she had a whole bunch of people with her. Sure. And she was directing them where they were going to go, what they were going to do. And I was like, I can't go over in the middle of that. But I was like...

Hi. Where were you? In media. Okay. Isn't that where she lives? That's where she lives. Do you know what you do at that time? Pretend you're talking into your sleeve and say, Ms. Sykes, you need to come with me right now. Well, you know what? And when she passed right by me, she was standing next to me. I had no idea. She walked past me, went across the street. And when she got across the street, her friends were still standing near me and she yelled across to them. And I was like, that voice. I knew it immediately. I'm like, it's her. Yeah. Wow. Wow.

All right, well, speaking of other Philadelphia celebrities, Gigi Hadid celebrated her 30th birthday at a big wave Friday night with her boyfriend, Bradley Cooper, right by her side. Did I miss that phone call? You did. You must have, K. Stay at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan a few days after her actual birthday on Wednesday. Photos snapped by TMZ show Gigi and Bradley hand in hand, fully in party mode. Famous faces like her sister Bella and her mom Yolanda. I know Yolanda.

I love that Bradley was wearing a Preston C. Blood Drive shirt. Wasn't that nice of him? It was really cool. Which one was it? Was it Jaws one? It was the Walking Dead one. Okay. Anne Hathaway and Will Arnett were spotted rolling up to the bash. Anne especially turned heads, people joking that she looked like she was straight out of The Devil Wears Prada. So they were in the area. They weren't in the area, but they were having a little birthday party.

Hailey Bieber celebrated a big moment at the 2025 Daily Front Row Fashion Los Angeles Awards, snagging the title of Beauty Innovator of the Year. Oh, so I guess I have to hand it to her. And her beauty brand, Rode. Hailey described her brand as a world that is open to everyone and anyone who identifies with it. Rowette. Rowette. Rude. Rude.

She wrapped her speech by acknowledging her hubby, Justin. And she said, and lastly, I want to thank my husband for supporting this dream of mine from the beginning and for always cheering me on. Even though Justin was not at the event, he showed love earlier in that day on his Instagram story. You're going to have to tell me what this means. He writes, honestly, if I was you, it would be hard not to be jealous of me and Haley going crazy.

Brazy. Brazy. B-R-A-Z-Z-Z-Z-Y-Y. Marissa's looking it up. Brazy, brazy. Yeah, I'm lost on that one. Is it like bro crazy or? Maybe, yeah. Brazy. Brazy. I spent an inordinate amount of time with my wife on Southwark.

Saturday night discussing the relationship of Hailey Bieber and Justin Bieber. I am so sorry to hear that. In part because, me too. Thanks. I appreciate your concern. My wife and I are fans of Selena Gomez and Benny. And Selena used to date Justin Bieber. And so we were discussing how much better off Selena Gomez is with Benny Blanco.

And then, Andrea, my wife was saying how much that she really likes Hailey Bieber and her fashion sense and finds her to be a really fascinating person, but she thinks that she's with the wrong guy. And then Selena, in the long run, won because Benny Blanco's just a better person and poor Hailey's stuck with Justin. So I thought I'd bring you guys into that conversation because I needed to release it. This doesn't even make sense. I don't know, Marissa, if you found the same thing, but

Brazy is sort of just crazy, but using a B, like doing, it says doing something bold, dangerous, crazy, sick. That's what... Just give me a thumbs up. That's crazy! So we needed a new word, right? It's the same, it means the same thing as crazy. Stop it. Okay. Stop it! So anyhow, there have been rumors that those two have been having some issues as of late. Sources say that Haley has been in tears and is worried about Justin's bad behavior.

One insider said she's genuinely scared something bad is going to happen to Justin, but emphasizes she's very loyal to him. So I saw a video that's supposedly a close friend breaking down what's going on. They say none of this is true. He is going through some issues. But this video recounted... Yeah, he's kind of a phenom, Justin Bieber. I mean, for all... There was a big bidding war on signing him years ago. Yes. And so...

Yeah, he's the real deal. I thought a while back he had some kind of spiritual awakening. He did. He was on this path. And that's over. Okay. That path has ended. I guess so. All right. So Bill Bilicek's girlfriend, Jordan Hudson, interrupted his CBS Sunday morning interview after the football coach was asked how they met. She said, we are not talking about this.

You better not answer that, old man. She sternly told... I'll kill you. Journalist Tony DeCouple as she watched off camera. Yes? Like, who do you call it? Ben Stiller? Yeah, it does be. And Happy Gilmore doing the cut your throat signal. Sorry, bro. DeCouple explained in a voiceover that the couple did not feel comfortable commenting on their relationship and noted Hudson was a constant presence throughout the interview. Like a carbuncle. So she's just

In it, in it. Yeah, and then if you see the pictures, she's literally sitting at a table right off camera, like, looking at him like, you, you old fart. The broadcaster then asked Belichick how he deals with public scrutiny surrounding his romance with Hudson, who is 49 years his junior.

Let's just say 50. Let's round it up. Come on. 50 years younger than him. At that point, it doesn't matter. Yeah, they probably rounded down, so we'll just round it right back up. So he said, I've never been too worried about what everybody else thinks. Just try to do what I feel like is the best for me and what's right. He also vaguely responded to being featured in the former cheerleader's Instagram posts, including the photos of him holding her up in the air on the beach. He said, yeah, so I'm in on some of those social media platforms, but I honestly don't follow them.

He was cut off from answering how he and Hudson met. They reportedly had their first encounter on a plane in 2021 before they started dating. So that was the one that caused her to jump in and say, we're not doing this. It's already out in the public. Yeah. How they met. There should be audio of her. Literally, she pipes up while they're doing this. Apparently it happened a couple of times. But it's that story's already out there. Yeah.

Maybe she just didn't want the whole, a big portion of the interview to be about their role. Or maybe that's not the story. Maybe that they didn't meet on a plane and then they met at a strip club or something salacious, you know? Or an adoption agency. Wait, what we were watching before, was that video of the interview? That was video of the interview, Kathy. That is her. Was him wearing that t-shirt that has holes in it? With the hole in it. Yep, yep. I mean, you...

You have money. Put on a shirt and a jacket. Have you not seen what he wears? This is what he does. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if that sweatshirt that he's wearing is actually distressed and brand new. But, but, but, Kath, he, his, his...

Okay. No, no, I'm just saying I can tell by where it is. Go ahead. All right. But he regularly like cuts the sleeves off of sweatshirts and like kind of like drapes them over. That's just his style. He's a bad boy. Yeah, but she's also wearing a Navy sweatshirt as well. Hers is just nicer. That's the only reason I think maybe. I mean, the Navy too.

Well, hold on. I take that back. Maybe she's buying him the, like, cool distressed sweatshirt. Now you look like a hood. Well, you look a mess, actually. The distressed sweatshirt doesn't look like it's distressed. Well, what better way to drive home his homeless look than to have a hole-filled navy sweatshirt? Yeah, they're both wearing navy sweatshirts. Could you do that again, Steve? I'm in a navy T-2.

But you know, he's there. This is the best trim I've ever had. I just better play along. So, yeah, in December 2024, a source told Page Six that the former New England Patriots coach couldn't care less about the age difference. And ice cream! He said, Jordan is an old soul. Yeah, right. As an old soul, what is she? 40? 35? Yeah, I don't know. All right, well, anyhow. Anyhow. Yeah, do we have... We don't have the audio of that? That's okay. All right.

Let me see what else I have here to mention. Oh, this is pretty weird. Marceau Baumgärtner, a key suspect in the 2016 Kim Kardashian Paris robbery, died suddenly last month in Paris just before his trial. Now, if one were to have a sort of Jack Ryan mindset, they might think that somebody was tying up loose ends, Preston. Totally. His cause of death remains unknown. Baumgärtner or Gertner.

was accused of helping the gang that held Kardashian at gunpoint and stole $10 million in valuables. He had previously refused to name other people who were involved while he was interrogated, but it was believed that he might have cooperated at trial to reduce his sentence. So if you're following the Netflix model...

The person, the mastermind behind all of this is more than likely Rob Kardashian. Rob Kardashian? The one in the shadows. The one in the shadows. Yeah. Steps forward. You, you never gave me my socks. That's what you give me? Kim is set to testify in May with the trial expected to proceed without Baum Gertner. She had already given an account to the judge earlier in the case, but- You're the Baum Gertner. Yeah.

Oh, this was good news to see. Selma Blair says that she's truly in remission. I love that. In her years-long battle with multiple sclerosis. So I follow her on Instagram and she's been looking active and good recently, so it's good to hear this. Yeah, so she told People Magazine, I'm doing amazingly well. I've been feeling great for about a year, but I am finally well enough to really, genuinely, and then she paused and said, I always try and feel my best to

But now that I actually have stamina and energy and getting out and going out isn't so scary.

And well enough that she has three movies ready to come out. Stay Forte, a drama about the Israel-Hamas war. A supernatural thriller called Silent. And a twin drama called There There. So good on her, man. I just was watching her on Legally Blonde, the first one. Yeah. Yeah, she's great. I thought she was great in that movie. I agree. I didn't know you could go into remission from MSA. I didn't either. I don't know...

They use that term remission in this. Maybe it just means that...

It's kind of stagnant for a little bit. Or the symptoms have abated enough where there's a level of normalcy. Yeah, not really sure, Nick, but I was thinking the same thing. Yohan Griffith, which I did it. So he played Mr. Fantastic in the original Fantastic Four. And I always mess up his name because it's spelled I-O-A-N. He's Welsh. Yes. So keep that in mind. His last name is spelled G-R-U-F-F-U-D-D. But I think it's pronounced Griffith.

to be honest. Dude, I'm going to give it to you because that name has always been a pain in the ass. But he and Bianca Wallace are married. They announced news on Instagram over the weekend in a joint post with Wallace captioning her Mr. and Mrs. Griffith marriage. He said, marriage now, wedding later. So his ex is kind of a, at least,

I guess, legal papers say she's a little unhinged, right? She's been stalking him. So he has had roles in Titanic, Black Hawk Down, Bad Boys Ride or Die, the Fantastic Four. She works more behind the scenes. She has IMDb credits including script supervisor for Elvis.

The couple have been together since late 2021. You know, James Cameron was revealing that he was playing actually in the movie Titanic Reed Richards, but they never showed that he could stretch because it would have been inaccurate to the time. Yeah, yeah. He didn't figure that out until later on.

So let me see here. Jeremy Renner has shared that one tiny but monumental slip of the mind caused his snowplow accident, which he suffered, of course, multiple life-threatening or life-changing injuries. In an extract from his forthcoming memoir, he detailed how he was working with his nephew Alex to clear the snow from outside his Lake Tahoe home.

And he had been driving in the cab of his large snowcat when he realized that his nephew was in danger of being crushed by the vehicle. And he writes, before exiting the driver's cab, apply parking brake, the manual says. But I didn't engage the parking brake or disengage the steel tracks. In that moment, an innocent, critical, life-changing moment, that tiny but monumental slip of the mind would change the course of my life forever. My feet lost their grip on the moving tracks instantly.

And I never made it to the cab. I lurched violently forward, out of control. In that split second, I was catapulted off of the spinning metal tracks, arms flailing. I arced over the front of the tracks, propelled forward, down on the hard-packed ice where my head hit the ground hard and instantly gashed open. There came a terrible crunching sound as 14,000 pounds of galvanized steel machinery slowly, inexorably...

monotonously ground over my body. It was a horrifying soundtrack. It goes on to detail the extent of his injuries, of course, including breaking more than 38 bones in his body and the life-saving care he received from the paramedics, first in hospital in nearby Reno and later at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. So that's going to be a pretty compelling read when that comes out. So pretty interesting. But yeah, it was the parking brake. That's what made all the difference right there.

So this was an interesting thing that took place. Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda tells Luke in Star Wars Episode 5, The Empire Strikes Back. Star Wars fans have been trying to understand for decades. Why does Yoda talk like that?

And George Lucas has finally given us the answer at the 16th TCM Classic Film Festival. Before the screening of the film to celebrate the Empire Strikes Back's 45th anniversary, he explained here is the reason why Yoda speaks like that. People don't listen that much. But if he has an accent or it's really hard to understand what he's saying, they focus on what he's saying.

He was basically the philosopher of the movie. So he was talking about all of the things, you know, in long talking scenes and stuff where I had to figure out a way to get people to actually listen, especially 12-year-olds. Yeah, he said if you speak regular English, people won't listen that much. And so therefore he wanted to change his...

his way of speaking so that it would be more impactful which is 12 years old nonsense i was an adult man watching that thing yeah but obviously i know they're one of the kids yeah and uh and they certainly got them all right and then we'll do one more story casey ahead you in mind all right with this one you yes you

can own the iconic bicycle that Pee Wee Herman insisted he wouldn't part with for all the money in the world. I don't have the kind of cash, but how much are they asking? One of the 14 bikes that were used while shooting Pee Wee's Big Adventure is now in the auction block.

According to Van Eaton Galleries, this particular bike was used in several iconic moments in the movie, including Pee Wee's crash and flip where he flops up and claims meant to do that. And it was also used in the scene where he swings across a lake on a vine while running from security guards on the Warner Brothers lot. I was hoping that was it, yeah. The bike has a... The bike...

Has a small bronze plaque behind the seat that reads, Property of Pee Wee Huron. It's expected to sell for over $30,000, Casey, which means it'll probably go for more than that. But it's not millions. It's not millions. I don't have $30,000 to blow on a bike either. If you thought getting a swim spa was hard, try to run that one. But honestly, this would be the crown jewel for me as far as movie memorabilia is concerned. This would be the one. I've told you guys the radio station I worked at in St. Louis, we had an exact one.

replica of it at the radio station. And we had a hallway. It was like a building that had a circular hallway that went all the way through. That's perfect. I rode that bike around that station all the time. It pissed people off. Did it really? Because they'd come around corners and I'd be like, had the line on it, everything. What happened to it? I don't know, man. But it was great. I loved that thing. All right. Well, we got some clips to play for you.

Episode two of The Last of Us left viewers shocked and in awe with its ending. Don't want to give away any spoilers here. In this clip, Pedro Pascal describes the on-site shooting experience for the episode. Here we go. It was crazy shooting on that mountain and in a real blizzard. Also something that can inform you so much in the playing of it. When little is left to the imagination, it just really helps just be in the world. New episode of The Last of Us is out now on Max. It came out last night. Here's our next clip.

Yes, Chef is a new cooking series making its way to the kitchens on to the kitchen on NBC. And in this clip, Martha Stewart talks about the obstacles the contestants will face operating in a professional setting. Well, the world of the kitchen is a very complicated place.

And these 12 chefs are competing for a large prize. But are they able to get those culinary skills onto the table for us to taste? Or are they going to mess up because they have some sort of problem getting along with other people? I want to see you naked. You have chef premieres today on NBC on 10. You know what? I wonder if I wouldn't someday when I move on and am looking for something to do if...

Working in a kitchen again might be kind of a fun job. I wouldn't ever call it a fun job when I was doing it as a teenager. Right. What do you think has changed now? Your appreciation of just the culinary arts? Or that you don't give a rat's ass? Well, no, that I'm more methodical when I cook and more about keeping things in their places and cleaning. And I might find that kind of satisfying. I don't know. Hmm.

Let's end again. I might last a week and quit. That's how it worked at McDonald's when I first started working there. This is going to be great. I made two weeks and I was like, I'm not doing this crap anymore. It is stressful in a kitchen. Yes, it is. If you could find the right one, maybe you'd be all right. I don't think you want to be being yelled at by the front of house. I know the right one. It's called Presbo's Place and we can all be investors. Presbo's. Wouldn't that be great? Presbo's Place.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kat. So 40-ish minutes away from your first shot at winning $1,000 with the Preston and Steve 20-Money Keywords. It heads up on that. That is on the way. So the NFL draft is something that's not really on my radar. But some of the stories that come from the things that happen occasionally do squeak into my world. And, of course, the one that's making the rounds right now, the big story, is this prank call.

And it was Deion Sanders' kid. Case, what's his name again? Shador Sanders. Okay, so I don't know all the big players or potential stars down the road, so I'm not familiar with this guy. But I did see the story that he got a prank call on draft day.

essentially saying that the Saints were going to be picking him at any moment now. The Falcons? Yeah, I thought it was the Falcons. No, he was posing as somebody from the Saints. Oh, is that what it was? Okay. But the kid is the, he is a son of a staff member for the Falcons. That's what it is. An assistant coordinator. Yeah. And busted. Yeah.

Like full on. I didn't read the details on exactly how they narrowed down it was him, but he has apologized. Yeah. He's been accepted and everything, but... Where did they get the video of him, of the kid calling? They had to be recording him as part of the prank. And that got out. Right, and that's what got out. Or he may have turned it over once they were able to isolate it, but the kid had lifted the information off his dad's iPad. His dad, who's a professional in the NFL. Can you friggin' imagine that? I mean, you would...

kill your child. These prank calls have happened before. I'm fairly certain that Cooper DeGene last year was prank called. We just found out that a bunch of them took place this round. The fact that this happened isn't crazy like, oh, this has happened. It's also getting big press because it's Deion Sanders, Shador Sanders, who people were projecting to go

as early as the third pick in the draft and he didn't go into what the fifth round or whatever so so is that the joke

I guess so. I guess people thought, you know, and I think he thought he was going to go in the first round. So he didn't even go on the first day. He didn't go on the second day with the third day. So it was just more of like an insult to injury. Let me ask you. So what is the assessment of it? Just because genetically he's, you know, got good bones and good blood, as they say. He's got good PR. Yeah. He's not.

That great? So I heard a number of people say that he is not. Like it's like a LeBron situation with his son. Kind of, maybe. Okay. Hey, listen. Who's the next? Like...

Like, whoever went first in the draft, this Cam Ward, he might end up turning out to be not that great of a quarterback. It's all a crapshoot, you know? But it's the fact that this guy found the phone number on his dad's iPad. Like, there's a whole lot about this thing that just stings. You're going to be skinned alive. I couldn't imagine if I did something to F up my dad's business years ago. One thing, though, and we were talking about this, Preston, is...

To pull off prank calls of this nature, you have to be in a scenario where there's somebody anticipating a call these days. I mean, we just... We have had an active landline without a phone attached to it for a while just because that's what we have. And, oh, we got to do this. But now everything... I'm going to get rid of it because everything is conducted vis-a-vis the cell phone, which has...

pretty comprehensive built-in caller ID. Yeah. So the likelihood of pulling off, because it used to be state-of-the-art years ago. Doing... Landlines. Yes. Would allow prank calls. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, we... God. It was... We did it all the time. It was a weekend activity. It was... Yeah. And it was stupid stuff. I mean, you know, we'd call the...

bowling alley and asked if they had 16 pound balls and they'd say yes and you'd go well how the hell do you walk? It was stupid stuff like that. I never really tried to pull anything that would freak anybody out. I was not creative when it came to prank calls. Me neither but we got bootleg copies, cassette copies of the Jerky Boys and

I remember listening to the Jerky Boys over and over and over again and being completely inspired by their genius. As low-browed as it was, it was genius. And Steve, so we would listen to the Jerky Boys and basically mimic them. We'd do their bits. Uh-oh.

And you call out? Yeah, but you could do it from a pay phone if you were paranoid about getting caught. Or you could just do it from your parents' house and hope that they wouldn't have any form of early caller ID. Now, those are good prank calls. Yeah, they're brilliant. Those are good ones. Crank anchors did good ones. I mean, obviously, you're dealing with people who are comedically, you know, sharp. Yeah, I enjoyed it. Were you ever conflicted? Because I always felt bad, but yet I would laugh.

In other words, it's one of those things like I hate to laugh, but I'm going to laugh because it's funny. You can't help it. As long as no harm is being done. So here you've got a guy who's waiting to hear life-changing news or path news. Right.

They're pulling one over him. No real harm done. But still, this is an important night for this person and a little bit different than the average crank phone call, which would be somebody working at a restaurant who's just taking orders and you're goofing on that. So one of the classic ones goes back to what is considered sort of the flashpoint for a lot of this stuff. A series of calls to what was called the tube bar and a guy named Red, a bartender, the Simpsons.

They play with it all the time. Oh, and Moe? Yes. And in fact, they literally parody lines from that. There were a series of them. I didn't know that. Yes. If you ever listen to the original, everyone was inspired by Red and the Two Bar. And it's classic. Well, the difference here is that this was mean spirited.

You're calling a bowling alley asking for 16 pound balls. You know, whatever. Annoying on their part, funny on your part. But this was mean spirited and that's the problem. Mean spirited from people who don't, you know, this little a-hole comes from a place of privilege. He should know better. He should know better. His father's been in the NFL for...

a number of years, he should know how important this is to people. He's going to know better now. He's going to know now. He's going to know now. You can apologize all you want, but it's not a real apology. You're only apologizing because you got caught. You're not apologizing because you actually feel bad. He's sitting there with his douchey friends and they're laughing. They obviously recorded it. They thought enough of it. Not only did he get caught, he released the video. He released his side of the video. And that's why he got caught.

Yeah. No, no, no. Before, apparently. He thought it was funny. Oh, like almost, hey, here, it was actually a prank. It was me. Look what I got away with. How did you get that contact information? Now, the best prank calls are ones that have some creativity. You know, a little more creativity. A little bit more involved. I agree. When you're calling up a business, though, and you're stopping them from getting calls from like a takeout place and so on and so forth. I mean, can you even...

The spam filter is pretty good on a standard phone now. I think my – when I was in grade school, I might have been in eighth grade and we were off from school one day and my friends who were in seventh grade were prank calling people. I'm fairly certain they were – they weren't like threatening calls or anything like that. But they had the cops show up at their house for prank calling people. And I don't – I guess maybe they weren't –

What would you have to do? Star 67 so they couldn't trace your number? These were the old things that you would do. There was a whole series of every kid knew them. Star 69 was to tell who called, who just called. To call them back, right? And star 67 was a block, I think. You can still start star 67.

You can, but you can't. All right, so can you not star 69 somebody if they pre-star 67'd you? I don't know. Should we try it? We could. Marissa, real quick. So genuine. Everybody back here, our intern staff, is like laughing hysterically at your 16-pound joke because they've never heard any of that. You thought that was actually funny. They loved it. Hey, Sam, is your refrigerator running? You better go catch it. You gotta go catch it.

Excuse me, do you serve frog legs? How do you walk?

Do you have Frogways? Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Let him out. Yeah, those were the standard ones. Should we try the star six? Kathy, I'm going to call you. Okay. You have to know my number. I have your number. 610. But you'll have to type it in because you have to type the star six seven first. I got to find your contact now. See how many steps there are now? I'll get her contact for you. That way you can just do it from... Read it off Casey's phone. Yeah, please. So it's 2-1... No, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

I actually have it here, Case. Yeah, sorry, but thank you. All right, so I'm going to star 67 you. And this goes in line with all the other stupid things like, you know,

God, there were phone calls. There were numbers of prerecorded stuff we used to call all the time just for fun. All the time. All the time. And sometimes if someone, a business had a particularly terrible, you know, answer machine with the jingle and so on and so forth, they were great. All right, Kathy, I am calling you now. Okay. And I star 67 right before the call is going through. No caller ID. Okay, so I'm going to hang up. All right.

And now you have to hit star 67, but how would you... Star 69. Or star 69. Well, no number will show up to star 69. Well, I would just hit star 69 and call it. All right, let's see what happens. And then that would call me? Oh, no, let's see. No. Your call cannot be completed. Yeah, so you're successfully blocked. Oh, so it still works. Yeah. All right, but...

I think star 69 was before caller ID. We didn't need, like we know who's calling now. Either you know or you don't and it's blocked and it's your choice to answer that. You had nothing to indicate where this number was coming from. It was just a phone. You pick it up. It didn't have a screen on it or anything like that. And so therefore you would hit star 69 would call that number right back. And if they didn't leave a message on your voicemail.

then that was sort of your way of figuring out who called you. If you get a phone call from a number you don't recognize, how often do you answer it? Virtually never. Nick, it's only if I've called a business and I'm expecting a call back. Or just expecting a call in general. Just expecting a call in general, but virtually never. And I have to say...

The vast portion of the times where it's coming in, they will be tagged as potential spam. I get that a lot too, Steve. I guess most of us do. Occasionally, I'm curious and so my curiosity will get the better of me, but maybe 10% of the time now, it tops. Do you know what the telling thing is? If you pick up the phone and you hear...

Or like a pause. Or just a pause. But the boop means it's going to a call center. Yeah. No, if I hear a cat, if I go, hello, and it goes one, two. I'm like, no, sorry, I'm out. I'm not even telling you my PIN number is 4833. No, I had a lady person. She wanted me to identify myself. And I was like, who are you? She's like, who are you? I go, you called me. Who are you? Yeah. And she's like, I need to know who you are. She's like, this is a businessman. I'm like, no.

That's not how this works, you dumb bitch. If you're calling me, you dumb bitch, you already need to know who I am. I was in a doctor's office once and he said, excuse me, I'm so sorry, his mother was sick. He said, I'm so sorry, I have to take this phone call. And he answered and it was about his mother but they were asking him for all

this information and he said you called me you tell me the information and they said well we have to verify who you are in order to talk to you he said it's me you called me you called me my number alone should be enough proof that you've gotten the right

person. By the way, hell of a doctor that his own mother is sick. Well, he said, he goes, I'm a doctor also with a patient. I got to go. Yeah. Yeah. Casey, what was the, um, the system that you used to call Preston that one time with that prank phone call where like, I don't remember. Yes. The, uh, it was a car related thing. I saw you hit my car. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What does he say? Uh,

He goes, yo, stop flapping your gums and stop your yapping and listen. That sounds like a real hood thing to say. It's probably at least a decade ago, right? Yeah. I wonder if you still have that or not. You did two of them, right? I think I have the Nick one here. Yeah.

I remember I tried my brother on it and he just texted me back and he goes, I'm listening to your show. But I remember that one because the guy's like, yo, you hit my car and you left and you left your number. And I was like, dude, I go, why would I leave my number if I intended to do a hit and run? It makes no sense at all. And not acknowledge it during this phone call. Yeah. So this is the same thing, but this is the Nick one, I believe. Whoop.

Hello? Hello. Hello. Who this? Y'all, hey. What's up, man? So you're the one who hit my car? What? Well, you left your phone number on my windshield. What are you talking about? Listen, B, you scratched my fender and busted out my taillight. B? Listen, B? That's my nickname, bro. Okay, B. Sorry. B for that. Yes, you did. Got nothing to say, huh? Nah, sorry. Who's your insurance company, B?

Uh... Y'all, don't lie to me. Allstate? Then why'd you leave a damn note? First of all, not Allstate. Total lie. Y'all, stop yapping and listen. Think quick. State Farm. Hello. Got nothing to say, huh? Same thing. Hello. Okay.

I'm losing my patience. I guess you just sat there, Nick. Man, what's wrong with you? I got your note right here in my own hands. There's one more. Hang on.

you've just been pranked by prank dial.com i didn't last to the end i think um you know because he repeats himself at some point like if you don't respond or whatever i i think maybe i just sat there waiting for something to sound but when you get a phone call like that and you answer it it did sound legit hello hello but now with the uh

AI, if they sample your voice, if they have enough of it, they might be able to recreate your voice. That's exactly what they're doing. You can get a pretty good representation of someone's voice, certainly enough to confuse. And it's happened. We've talked about it time and time again of people paying ransom money or taking money out of the bank to take care of a bill that someone has where they're in trouble. I do like the reverse approach.

pranks that happen now there's a woman that i follow on instagram i was showing casey this the other day and uh she's a voice actress she's a really pretty gal and uh she puts out these videos of because you know the scam calls if they'll come all the time so she films herself uh pretending to be an old lady what i had to say that one more time and she talks like that and she just

drags it out, drags it out, or she'll just constantly interrupt them. And she also does a spot-on Siri voice as well, and she'll intersperse that. The old person will be like, I'm going to ask Siri right now, and she'll

Play along with it. It's great. I love them. Just making those people's day a little bit more difficult. She's smart for doing the older voice because that's who they're dating upon. They're going after the older people. To your point about if you don't recognize the number, don't engage in a conversation because they are looking for voice samples to use. Absolutely. I'd shut them down right away. I'd just hang up. Anything that I hear that might be

either suspicious or something that I'm just not interested in anymore. It makes me feel rude on this end, but it's like, it's kind of a safety net to just shut up and hang up. Buddy, you're pissing me off. Here's my address. I want you to meet me or at my bank. I'll give you the bank address. I

I got a call not that long ago, a couple of months ago, and it was an actual person. It was a woman, and she worked for a roofing company, and they were just doing checks on homes that had reached whatever age for their roof. And so I listened to her. And listen, I just said I never answer calls. I was waiting for a phone call, and I knew it was coming from a number I didn't have stored in my phone, thought it was them, and that's why I had answered. And she was going on and on. She was really nice, and she said...

we can do a complimentary check. You know, have you had any problems with your roof? And, you know, would you like a check? And I was like, all right. I'm like, yeah, that's fine. You can come out and check it. So she started asking me questions. And one of her questions, I'm not kidding you, will you be the only one in the home that day? Whoa. I was like,

Click. And she called me back about 10 times. I had to block the number. Wow. And are you sexually adventurous? Yes. Seriously. Are you going to be the only one home that day? I was like, out of your mind. How do you respond to any sort of sleeping medication? What time do you normally shower? Can you tolerate Benadryl?

Which bathroom is the one with the shower? How close is your house to a major thoroughfare if one needed to leave quickly? Wow. That's unbelievable. It was unbelievable. And they called me back, I'm not kidding you, ten times in a row. Call after call after call. Hello.

And I had to block their number. Hello? Yeah, well, you called about my roof. All right, we're going to go to a Zoomer checking in. We have Steve, who's got a friend who did this prank calling once. Tell us about it. Yo, Steve, morning, buddy. Good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you, sir. What's up? So in college, it was the height of the jerky boys. And I had this friend, Brian, who called a veterinarian and said that his fish got cut and

the band-aid wouldn't stick to the fish. And he also called a Chinese food restaurant called Wenhua and connected it to Wawa. And they were arguing about who called who. I've heard those where they will have two takeout places calling each other. And you know, you feel bad because they're trying to run their businesses, but many times it's very funny. Did your friend record these?

Steve. No.

It was just a bunch of us all standing around laughing and giggling like little girls in a sorority. It's what you did. Thanks, Steve. Appreciate it, bud. Well, speaking of little girls in a sorority, that just reminded me of something I did to my roommate. We had to stay in one Friday night. I actually was just with her over the weekend and we talked about it and we were so angry. We liked to go out on the weekends and we had to stay in on a Friday night because both of us took this class that we were told was an easy A. It was unbelievable.

not an easy A and we had, I think we were, you know, we had Ds and like that was unheard of. We both did really well in school. So we needed to ace the final to get our grade up. So we stayed in and it just was the worst studying. It was information we didn't care about and just was not interesting. And so I called the professor

She had put her phone number on the syllabus and said, if anytime you need anything, you call me at home. She was very sweet. And so I called her and then I yelled. I was in my room studying. My friend Stacy was in her room studying. I just said, Stace, phone. Because that's how we, there were no cell phones at the time. So I would just yell and she'd pick up the phone. And so, and I timed it out.

beautifully. She picked up the phone and went, hello. And then the professor went, hello. And so now they're on the phone with each other. She's going, what can I help you with? And Stacy was like, oh, well, you know, what do you need? You know, you called me. And she goes, no, you called me.

Stacey was like, no, I didn't. It just went back and forth. Setting her up. She was like, I'm so sorry. There's been some sort of mistake. I love it. I think of that scene in Mean Girls where they are there, you know, they're talking about each other. But a couple of them have gotten the other girls on a party line. You know, they've clicked them in as well. And those are those are kind of the things you could play. Yeah.

Yeah.

And you would hear people in there already talking. Yeah. And it'd be like, and they could hear when you jumped in there. I guess there was a tone or something. Yeah, yeah. And they'd be like, who's on? Yeah. And why was that? Why were there party lines? Was it just the way? Like neighborhood collectives could be on any, it was almost like the landline version of Nextel. But I guess you don't, I guess that's all.

all that was available in that area? Yeah, maybe. Was it only people in that area or were you connected with people all over the country? It tends to be local. It had an area, a geographical area that it was common to. So I never understood. I don't remember this. Yeah, it was only one friend of mine had that. It was really strange. But I never understood what the point of party line. Maybe it was cheaper. Yeah. You know, I don't,

really know. Swingers? Maybe that. There you go. Think about that. This is so dumb, but when we were in college, we had a college phone book, and there weren't that many students that are scientists, but there were a couple of different times where we just called people who had five vowels in their last name, and we would be like, hey, is this Kathy? And they, yeah. Five vowels! And then we would hang up. What? What? What?

They don't know what the hell we were talking about. It makes no sense whatsoever. But you guys found that hilarious. Yeah, there'd be like ten of us, five bows! And then hang up. That is so dumb. That's hilarious. It was like bong hit session. Let me ask you, if the person's holding the phone and the other people in the room can't hear it, would they go like,

Like, ready? It would be like this. Hey, is this Preston? Preston? And then you would go, I'm Val's. And then hang up. Everybody knew the assignment. And then just hang up. Yeah. That's it. You just hang up. Genius. And you were just calling people on the campus. Yep. God. We would look up phone numbers randomly. There was a thing.

Back in the day, it was a book filled with phone numbers. It was called a phone book. Yeah, oh yes. And we would go through and try to find funny names and maybe call people and riff on that a little bit. Sitting and looking through the phone book periodically just to see like... Yeah, sometimes. And then the yellow pages, businesses with ads and everything you can flick through. And it was like...

Okay. Take it to the bathroom. Look through the yellow pages. I saw an Instagram video the other day. It was a person our age asking their kids what certain things were to describe what they think they were. And they said the white pages. Yes. I forgot what they tried to describe it as. Some sort of...

legal document or something like that. Or they always, when this question is posed or they query the kids as to what it is, they assume it's a book about phones. A phone book about phones. Yeah.

Well, yeah, this is, I guess, prank calls are kind of still a thing, maybe. I don't know. If they're expecting a call, apparently, because that's what's happening here. And apparently it happens more than we're aware of. Yeah, because you'd have to try for a long time, I would imagine, before you could actually get through to someone. Yeah. Because most people just aren't answering the phone.

If they don't recognize the number. You click it to voicemail if you don't recognize it. And then it'll do sort of an analysis of what the message is. Now it happens where the AI will kick in and do sort of a summary of what was on the message. That was pretty cool. Pretty soon somebody else will just answer the phone for you. I don't think so. All right. Well, anyhow, interesting conversation. It's kind of in the news right now. We do need to take a break because we're...

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thanks, Kat. We've got about five minutes or so before we do 20 Money, so we can actually dive into the Bizarre File first and then get to that. I will have the Bizarre File intro ready right now. Now, WMMR presents Preston and Steve's Bizarre File. Bizarre!

Brought to you this morning by Sequoia Outback, Megan Backyards, beautiful all over the Delaware Valley for over 25 years. You can go to Decksupplies.com for the information. All right, every now and then, a story stands out from others, and this one certainly does. A female passenger...

On a Southwest Airlines flight to Chicago, allegedly stripped down naked and took a dump on her seat as the plane landed. What the hell is going on with this nudity and taking a dump on flights? Police officers were called to Chicago's Midway Airport Saturday as flight 418 from Chicago.

Oh, no. Of course. A ride with one passenger shocking the cabin by taking off her clothes and emptying her bowels on the plane seat. Marissa wasn't flying this weekend. I don't think she was. Was there a name given? No, Casey. Southwest said in a statement, our teams are reaching out to those on board to apologize for the situation. Hey, sorry about that. And any delay to their travel plans.

Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees, and we appreciate the professionalism of our flight crew, the statement concluded. I did hear that she was well-respected in her field. Is that right? It wasn't clear what happened to the passenger. The plane was taken out of service. I really have to go. For cleaning, so, yeah. And I don't know if she is...

From Chicago or Philadelphia. But nonetheless, it was a... I'm hoping for Chicago. Philly to Chicago flight. Let's put a bid in for Chicago. Here's another Chicago story. Bags of cash fell out of a Brinks security company truck last week in a Chicago suburb. Chicago! Chicago!

resulting in approximately $300,000 being stolen. The back door of the truck opened by unknown means in Oak Park, leading to three bags of U.S. currency falling out. This is my lucky day. I just took a dump on a plane and now I found money. The incident happened while the driver was moving and Brinks noted that upon returning to the area, between 50 and 100 people were seen taking money in.

flee. And they always put out the perfunctory to return it. That really never happens. Yep. The total amount lost was approximately $300,000 according to the security company. No one was in custody as of Friday.

A Florida woman has been accused of trying to kidnap her ex-boyfriend's wife. And upon arrival, deputies met with a woman who claimed that she had been kidnapped. Investigators said that they were able to figure out that the other woman, identified as La Trance Battle, had come to her workplace and identified herself as an ICE agent.

According to deputies, Battle had dressed herself up in a black shirt with ice painted on the front. You misspelled that. And wielded a sheriff's office business card and handheld radio. So out of fear, she went along with the woman into her vehicle. The victim confirmed that she genuinely felt as if La Trance was an ICE agent at the time. And she is in the process of becoming a legal United States resident.

So, but while they were both in the car, Battle forcibly snatched the woman's phone from her as she tried to contact her lawyer and husband. Investigators also said that the duo, when the duo arrived at the apartment complex, the woman suspected something was wrong as Battle told her that they were headed for the sheriff's office.

As LaTrance went inside the apartment, the victim fled and called law enforcement. Deputies said the victim then called her husband while waiting for law enforcement to arrive. And he claimed that the abductor sounded like his ex-girlfriend, Tracy. Oh, boy. After speaking with neighbors, deputies said they discovered that a woman named Tracy was later determined to be Battle, indeed lived at the apartment complex. And once the victim's husband arrived on scene, he stated that he had an injunction against his ex for issues that they have had in the past.

He was probably upset that she was spending so much time working for ICE. The most current incident was about two years ago when LaTrent showed up at his place of business and attacked him there. Battle was eventually located on her way to Alabama, and she was ultimately arrested and now faces charges of kidnapping. One last story, a little follow-up here, and then we'll get to the 20-money keyword.

After numerous trees were cut down throughout the Los Angeles area, a suspect has been arrested in connection with the crime. Remember, I had this last week. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department announced the arrest of Samuel Patrick Groft, who is accused of felony vandalism for allegedly using a chainsaw to cut down trees in the areas of downtown L.A., the Westlake District and Glassell Park.

His bail set of $150,000. The arrest comes shortly after a community alert was issued by the LAPD warning to use caution and do not approach. Police said that a detective located evidence leaking groth to cutting down the trees. While an investigation is underway, police estimated that the number of trees cut down was 11. 11! The damage to at least eight other trees is estimated to be up to $347,000. 11!

The LAPD commander said, I have never seen anyone go and attack trees, especially around the time of Earth Day. Everybody wanted to know who did it and why. And we know the who. The why will be part of the investigation. I'm sorry, did you mention was he using an axe or was he using a chainsaw? Chainsaw. Yeah. What I understand. All right, and that is what I have in the bizarre file for you. All right, 8 o'clock. Here we go. 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia. Again.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. MMR. Thanks, Kat. So just a heads up, folks, that April is National Donate Life Month, meaning for transplants, organ donation. And we have a friend who we are very happy to have here this morning. You may have heard a while back us mentioning on more than a few occasions

that he was looking for a kidney transplant. He ended up getting that transplant and has an extension on his life. It's a wonderful thing because he's one of our favorite people. He's been our beer guy for ages. Our good friend John DiRenzi is here this morning. Hi, John. Hey, guys. What's up? Thank you so much for having me. You kidding me? And you look better, man. I feel so much better after two months and a week of

Everything health-wise has turned around. My color, my attitude. Two months and a week. Yeah. You look terrific. Yeah, man. The people at University of Pennsylvania are unbelievable, the nurses and stuff. Yeah. How long had you been waiting for your kidney transplant? About three years. A little under three years I was waiting. And with my blood type, I'm kind of a rare blood type. And they said it was like a six to ten year wait. Wow. Which I just don't know how people...

do it, but they do. And I would have. And hence what we're talking about today because there is so much going on that works to shorten those times, but it is, for every one of you, there's countless others who are you've been in the system. Before this came along in your life, had

Is it anything you ever thought about? You know, organ transplant? No, never. I mean, again, I was in the beer business for 28 years and I never thought of it. Even when the doctors were like, hey, you know what? You better watch yourself. You know, I'll be fine. You know, and then it was like, boom, both kidneys failed and I'm on dialysis. So just some background because we hear about these things bandied about. It seems like a fairly common thing, but some of the specifics we may not be clear on. How often is it that...

Both kidneys fail. It seems fairly rare, right? I guess so. I mean, I honestly don't know the statistics on that. Right, right. I went in one day and my doctor was like, hey, you're like stage three of five. And then two months later, you're stage five of five. Wow. It was like it came on pretty quick for me. And, you know, that was it. And like me and my wife sat there and we're like, wow.

what do you mean? Yeah. Yeah. You know, but the doctors at Penn and Jefferson and everybody that I've dealt with, um, they, they tell you exactly what's going on and, you know, you start looking at your blood work and it's like, okay. How do we do this? Yeah. So with, uh, with organ donation, there, there are some interesting things that can happen as far as how you end up receiving an organ. And some of it, I don't fully understand with, um, um,

You can like promise to help someone else out. Yes. And therefore being able to help out the person that you know. Which we had actually talked about with you, John. That was an angle to play where if you may not be the perfect donor, you can put your kidney into a pool to help someone else that hopefully, basically a bank shop that gets the kidney to the one that you're interested in getting a kidney for. Exactly. As I said, I was like a six to 10 year wait for my blood type. Right.

But if you can get somebody to sponsor you and say, hey, we'd like to give him my kidney, but the kidney doesn't match me, then I kind of move up that list. And this whole story...

It's kind of crazy how it worked in my favor. Again, someone lost their life, which totally sucks. And the Duffy family, I thank them literally every minute of my life now because of their son who put himself as a donor. And then when he passed away, he saved five people's lives. Caleb Duffy. Caleb Duffy, yeah. And you knew them?

So here's the crazy thing. They all went to the his dad and his brothers and sisters. They all went to the high school I went to. They're from the South Philly area. I didn't know any of them. I actually went to school with one of them and I knew him, but not great. And then I got a phone call. My wife got a phone call from a friend that said, hey, did you see this on Facebook?

And we, you know, we didn't. We looked it up and we literally called a friend who was a friend of his on Facebook. He called the sister. The sister called Joe Duffy. Joe put me on the list and that started everything. What was on Facebook? Sorry, just that he had passed away and he was an organ donor. He was an organ donor. And he's looking to, you know, they were looking.

We're recipients. Yeah. So, John, tell the story about Newman Garetti and the baseball team and like how that connection made because there's an article in the Inquirer a few weeks ago and it brought me to tears. It was fascinating and amazing. Basically, their nephew plays for Newman Garetti. My good friend is a coach at Newman Garetti. So I called Joe to say, hey, do you know this family? He said, John, I'll call you right back. Let me call. He called the sister. The sister called the brother and they put me on the list. Like, in

Wow.

I ended up matching his son. Because time is of the essence. Oh my God, a couple days. And again, the fact that I matched his son was crazy. Yeah, because you said you have a rare type. Again, it's kind of rare. Like I said, a six to ten year wait and I was about three years waiting. It was tough, but again, their family, this kid, Caleb's 33 years old, put

He puts himself on the transplant list, literally, two kidneys, liver, heart. Like, he saved five people's lives. He's so proud about it. Yeah, we're here to promote April being National Donate Life Month, and we want to welcome Joe Duffy, who just stepped up to the mic. Thank you, guys. Hey, Joe. So, yeah, we were just talking about your son, Caleb. You know, it's just a horrible, horrible story that he passed as young as he did. He was 33 years old, from what I understand. Yes, sir.

Um, and you know, it's, it, it puts the family in a, uh, horrible position. You know, here you are mourning the loss of the most terrible thing you can imagine. Your child dies, but it's got to give you such a sense of, of, um,

Closure is not the right word, but maybe pride in knowing that your son has helped extend the life of other people. Absolutely. Yep. Yep. So showing up at a baseball game last week to meet John was just like a family member waiting there for me. I embraced him with my arms and I felt like he was a brother to me. Yeah. So it's really rewarding to actually know someone who is a recipient of

And just realizing what the donor system is now is just incredible to me. And I'm sorry to interrupt, Steve, but making that notation on your driver's license, think about the unthinkable. You are gone from the people in your world's lives, that maybe this gives them some sense of...

I'm having a hard time finding the right words. It's fulfilling. That's it. It's fulfilling because it is... What you're allowing... This person that you lost lives on in the lives of others. And you can honor their memory and they can...

They can exist past their time by living on another people. It is the greatest gift. It is that gift of life. And so obviously it's nothing. These scenarios on both sides are not anything anyone would ever want. But you talk about the classic phrase making the best of a bad situation. This is about as good.

good as it can get in light of what happened to both of you. And keep in mind that the most healthy, well-to-do person in the world can be gone in an instant. In a flash. And it was a, Joe, it was a freak accident that happened with your son, right? Well, it wasn't an accident. It was bacterial meningitis. Oh, it was? Okay. But I heard he had had a fall. Well, that was after the symptoms started. That was after that. Okay. But that also can creep in out of nowhere. Right.

and just happen and then you've got the unthinkable in your world. And John, how about you on the receiving side? So, you know, for me, it's a fabulous thing that what Caleb did to put himself into the system to donate his organs. But,

but there's also a bit of guilt on my end that their son had to pass away. He was a son, a brother, a nephew. The more you hear about him, the greater a person that he was. He literally was like the life of the party. He did so much for so many people. Then he saved five lives after his passing. That is a hero. I've heard it described from people, and you talk about the guilt aspect, but what you've also done is...

in a way, is you've made that death not for naught. And so we can't talk to the people who have passed, but that was certainly the modus operandi behind signing the, checking the box for organ donation. That's why you would do that. Absolutely, Steve. And it's just amazing, like when, you know, you're thinking about it and, you know, would I have done it prior to needing a kidney? I don't know if I would have given...

it up to anybody but like my children, you know? And I honestly, I don't know if I would. Then I'm learning about different people that give up an organ, whether they do it alive or when they pass.

It's such a huge gift for so many people that I now am volunteering a gift of life to try to find people to sign up for their driver's license or be a live kidney or a donor. It's unbelievable the feeling that I have of gratitude. Sure. It's crazy.

crazy and i want other people to kind of have that same feeling and chance joe did you know that caleb had this uh i did not know you didn't know so so here you are faced with his death either um i know i have it on mine i never thought that anything would ever come of it i just think you know it's just check the box but it's such a simple decision you check the box and you never know whose life you could save joy i wanted to ask you just so when when this happens

So we kind of talk about it and it happens in the background. We say, oh, that must have, you know, okay, they harvested the organs and blah, blah. How on your side, on the donor family side, from the point that Caleb passes, what happens for people who don't know how the progression works?

There's a lot of mourning to it. Like Easter just passed and it was really difficult to have Easter. Like two o'clock in the afternoon comes along and my wife mentioned this is when Caleb would walk in the door. Yeah. So it's things like that. We went to a wedding two Fridays ago and Caleb was supposed to be invited to the wedding and he's just the life of the party. So, you know, having that

missing from us. In fact, if you see me keep looking at John's knees because I expect him to start dancing. Caleb was literally the life of every party. Wow. He scheduled all the cruises to Disney, did all the parties at his house.

You know, everything. Everything was just centered around Caleb. Wow. This might be a bit of an odd question, so forgive me if it is, but when you look at John and you see a part of your son that's now still alive in John's body, how does that make you feel? It's...

It's fulfilling, as Steve said. That's the word I like to use. And just to see his smile. He talks about his color, but I didn't know he was a different color before. So to me, it's just John. My sister did a walk with John yesterday, and she told me she felt Caleb's presence while she was walking with him. I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it at all. There's so many similar stories talking about the process of organ donation. I was at Penn.

when a kidney donation, I think it was just somebody who was had through the program had donated a kidney and

They came in and it was such a celebration of literally a gift of life. And I was sitting there. I was just getting a simple procedure done. But I'm watching this and you could see on the nurses and the medical people who see this and see how life-saving this is, what it meant. And it was a beautiful thing to see. Yeah. And again, guys, that University of Pennsylvania, the pavilion over there, my doctors, my nurses, like they treat you so well that –

My NP, her name's Sarah, she's awesome. She made me feel so comfortable after surgery. She was my nurse after surgery nurse.

She was great. And it's like, it made me feel so good that like now, you know, my stitches are out, my staples, all that stuff's out. And now I just have to kind of, you know, live my life because of Caleb, because of their donation. It's amazing. Yeah, we're all Penn Medicine patients here in the studio. And it's a great experience all the way around. Joe, have you had a chance to meet any other recipients? No, I haven't. Okay. And do you have any idea who or? No, there's no idea. Okay. All right. But it's just,

Got to feel good to know that other people are walking and breathing and living their lives. Which way does that go when there is a donor? Because at some point someone can contact someone, right? Correct. So originally I thought my cousin was going to be a donor recipient of Caleb. And it turns out she's no longer on the list. But then the crazy miracle that happened is that my nephew plays on a baseball team.

John is an alumnus of that team. He's on the board. And my sister, uh, put a shared my Facebook posts and the coach of the team called my sister and said, Hey, uh, John Duranzi is looking for a kidney. You think your son, your, your nephew, my son can, uh,

put him on the list. So basically, I had the donor people's name and number because I was going to text them about my cousin. That's how you came by the information. So I just forwarded John's information and within minutes, we knew that he was going to be on the top of the list. So it's my understanding that normally it's the recipient that can... I mean...

Actually, I don't know. There's so much of this that we kind of know on a basic level, as I said before, that we don't know the specifics. The recipient... Can both parties at some point reach out and say, I'd like to meet the person who donated? You can. A lot of people... It's like an... Or the recipient who received. You can do it. Yeah. But...

There's a lot of the families, it's an anonymous donor. I got you. You don't know. And I would say probably more of a percentage of people don't know their donor. It worked for me to be able to reach out. There's a lot of Duffies in South Philly. You can't throw a dime without hitting one. Right, right. And they're great. Their family's awesome. And when I was able to reach out to Joe and...

Like I said, it's like a family thing. I know these guys now for a few months, a few weeks, and they are like family. Yesterday was the donor walk down the Navy Yard for Gift of Life. Joe's sister came with her husband, and we walked together. It's great. It's amazing. Does anybody know? When I go to renew my license, which I just recently did, it's every five years, and I checked the donor box.

I would imagine that's fairly easy to change if you aren't a donor yet and want to become one. I don't know what the steps are that one has to take. I believe you can go online so that it is, if they do a search of the license, if it's not physically represented on your license at that point. Right. But I think you can immediately, this is my understanding, change it online so as they do the process, they'll check online.

I hope so. And get that information. And there's like Gift of Life. Again, I talk about these guys a lot. I've gotten to know them and volunteering there. But our goal was to get 50,000 people to do that on their license. And they were pretty close to hitting that number yesterday for the year. Oh, great. Great. Yeah, we've had a number of texts come in since this conversation started about Gift of Life. And people are just echoing what an amazing organization it is. It really is. We did a dash at Gift of Life.

Pennsylvania hospital last week where we went to the rooms, we visited people that were up for a kidney transplant or got one that week. It's just amazing. I get so happy to meet people that just got a kidney or may get a kidney or need one. The stuff I can tell them now

is so positive about all the hospitals in Philadelphia. And you have the chance to carry Caleb's legacy forward and do good things in his name and in his honor. And that's a great gift. Yeah, and we're going to do something at my local baseball field, the Delaware Valley, on the day before Mother's Day. There's a big baseball tournament. So Gift of Life is going to come there. We're going to set it up, and we're going to try to just –

Get some people to sign up to be donors. And like, I can talk about it very well. And there's going to be people from gift to life there. And it should be, you know, a great uplifting event. Again, it's so hard. It's not hard to check that box, but it's hard to think about someone doing that because you say to yourself, you know, but after you pass, you can really help five to six people.

Buy your organs. And like now with me, I can't. I can't do it anymore. I can't donate because of my health. But I can donate time. I can donate dollars. I can do anything I can to help other people feel as good as I do right now. Excellent. And again, you guys have been awesome. So thank you so much for talking about it these last couple months and with me. And it definitely helps to get it out there.

And, you know, that's my job right now will be to get that number out. I have to find a job. But right now, the volunteer work is so fulfilling. It's awesome. All right. Well, listen, Joe, we're so sorry about the loss of your son. Obviously, he's got a great legacy he leaves behind as the party animal and fun guy that he was. But he's let this party animal live a little bit longer. But, you know, it's just...

there's a little bit of light in a tremendously dark moment in your life, you know? Absolutely. Yeah, so thank you so much for being here. You're welcome. We appreciate it. And John, it's great to see you doing more, buddy. Great to see you guys. Appreciate it. All right, John Dorenzian. Yeah. Gang, April National Donate Life Month. We're going to move on to another thing here, guys, just to let you know, but that's huge. And if you can, take a moment or spread the word or do whatever you can. You can save lives.

Just as simple. Lives. You know, as can be. Real quick, I got a couple of shout outs I want to do. I want to make sure I don't miss these. I missed this one the other day. I got an email that says, hey guys, you guys rock. Today is my 50th birthday. So,

And so and it's also it's also my brother's wife's birthday. Her name is April Spence and really and she's 54 today. Can you wish us a happy 50th 54th? So here's a shout out. He gave it to me yesterday. They were out playing golf yesterday. What a great day it was. But yeah, I wanted to make sure that I did mention that.

Um, there was another one that says, uh, hey, Presbo, this is for, it's for tomorrow, but I'm going to go ahead and do it now. I would love to get a big juicy shout out to my sister, Allie, and her husband, Kevin. Uh, they'll be celebrating seven years of marriage on April 29th. And they're huge fans of the show. They are very fun people to be around. Congratulations for seven years. That is from, uh, Gloria, a.k.a. Wisco Girl. So here's the shout out. She's the one from Wisconsin. Yes, Wisco Girl. The other day that we had, um...

that we had Zoomed with. And then, real quick, this was kind of a follow-up. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's from a bizarre file story I had last week. Okay. It says, Hey, Preston, I've been listening to you guys ever since Y100 when I was in high school. I've since moved to Hanover, Pennsylvania.

But continue to listen to your podcast religiously. Imagine my surprise when the bizarre foul from Monday's podcast, you shared a story right from my town that involved the nutrition director at my kid's school taking a dump in the beer cave at a local royal farm. Are you serious? I remember this story, yeah. She said, when you first heard it, I had to rewind and re-listen because I thought to myself, this sounds an

awful lot like a situation we just dealt with and I realized you were sharing the exact same story it was so cool to merge my two worlds after all this time amazing as I was able to share with others here hopefully it will turn it will turn the rest of them into president Steve listeners like me Gadzooks love you guys thanks for bringing me enjoying a long commute

days, long commute dates for the last 20 some odd years. So that's from Katrina Watchenfeld. So thank you, Katrina, for sharing. The next Dookie story might involve you. It may. I told her if somebody taking a dump on a floor can bring more people together, then I'm all for it. Yes, absolutely.

I wanted to find out, Kathy wanted to share something with us. We have a few minutes to play with here. And it has to do with AI, right? Yes, it has to do with chat GPT, a friend of mine. So she called me and she's like, do you use chat GPT? And I was like, well, yeah, sometimes. I don't know, like every once in a while, I'll dabble with it. I don't, you know, whatever. And she goes, oh my God, she goes, it's the absolute best. And I'm thinking, you know, I know what she does and whatever. I said, what are you using it for?

She goes, oh, she goes, therapy. I said, what? Therapy? Yeah. She's using ChatGPT as a therapist. Oh, my God. I said, what are you talking about? She goes, oh, yeah, I tell it all the time about my issues. She's about a breakup. She's going through a breakup. And so she's talking to ChatGPT.

and chat gpt has diagnosed her oh my gosh she goes and so so i tried it right i tried it the other day and she goes and i told her and she goes did you get diagnosed yet she goes it takes a little while but they will give you a diagnosis wow did you get a diagnosis no i didn't get it i only tried i just tried it one time but what was her diagnosis yeah did she share she's insane no no no um uh it's some uh hold on hold on it's attachment uh

uh newly diagnosed anxious attachment anxious attachment never heard of that one yeah well and so is it even real right right so that is uh that's not good i well what now listen her thing is she's she's not it's not as serious she's going through a breakup that she she initiated she wanted this she's just trying to get through this herself so it's not you

It's not like she has some serious thing going on right now. It's sort of like a joke, but she is using it instead of picking up the phone and calling the person that she shouldn't be calling. Right. And she's using chat GPT. But yes, Preston, I also was a little concerned. I'm like, well, maybe you should try a real therapist. An actual therapist, yes. All right, hear me out here. Okay. According to AI...

Anxious attachment style is an insecure attachment style characterized by a strong desire for closeness and a fear of abandonment and rejection. If you're getting psychological help from AI, you're not going to be abandoned or rejected. And so there is some, there's a little bit of validity in her diagnosis of

from this artificial intelligence that would... It wants to keep her as a client. It wants to keep her as a client, but also she will not feel abandonment or rejection because she's getting it from AI. I will always love you. Yeah. You don't have to pay $150 an hour. It's free. That's what she said to me. She goes, it's free. But hang on. You shouldn't be getting anxiety or rejection from a therapist either. You know what I mean? I know. Yeah. I'm just...

And just so you know, that's... I'm trying to rationalize it in my head. Is it any much... Is it some people going to WebMD? So it's a similar thing. The thing is how far you're willing to take your chat GTP therapist...

you know, the advice. I think at a certain point you say, okay, now I'm going to jump over to the physical realm and have a human help me as opposed to my MacBook Pro. I just, and I, she like called again and she was like, oh my God, it said whatever she's telling me and I'm just, I'm laughing and she's like, listen, don't knock it till you try it. I was like,

If you're looking to catfish someone, this is a prime candidate right here, right? If she's being seduced by the program on her, I mean, you know, she's taking the advice of her computer. Jump on in. Her computer, yes. Like, it's not real, and it's giving her life advice. And she's like, it's helping. What she's doing is basically the psychological version of WebMD. She's just having it work that way. Yeah, but WebMD is based on, like,

doctors adding information to an existing database. ChatGPT is the same thing. But it's quote-unquote artificial intelligence. It's not quite the same thing. There are some subtle differences. Which would be what? Well, I think that the ChatGPT is informing you in real time

on psychological issues, whereas WebMD is using accrued medical knowledge from existing cases. And for a psychological evaluation to come based on you as an individual from artificial intelligence, to me, there's a lot of danger there. I think there's less danger in getting existing medical information on, say, a cold or, you know, I twisted my ankle. What can I do? There are pre-existing cases there. For you to get...

psychological evaluation based on what AI is saying. I'm not saying it's always going to be wrong, Steve. I'm just saying the potential for danger is much higher. If you're using it for analysis, then that's like... You know what I mean? Absolutely. All ChatGTV is doing is culling from the collective body of knowledge the same way a Google search would. It's just simply placing it the same way a doctor would. Listen, there are elements that come in that are human, absolutely, that make it, I think...

You're not dealing with a cold, stark computer interface. There are nuances that are being missed. But on a basic level, it's kind of the same, right? Well, I don't know. If you're reading these articles, you essentially do the math and then you come up with your own equation.

or your own sum, if you will. But if this artificial intelligence is saying, I've analyzed all this stuff, here's what's wrong with you. And you have the same agency to say, I don't agree.

Well, sure. Yeah. Yeah. But it's presented this as, here's what's wrong with you, as opposed to you going through a laundry list of things saying, A, B, C, and D, if these things are you, then maybe you have this. But if it's G, F, H, and I, then maybe you have this. But this has gone, I've gone through all the issues, and here's your problem. Well, you know what you can do to that point? You can click, and you can follow the information gleaning process.

tree that led to that conclusion on chat gbt which is probably pulling from webmd right i think they're all intertwined you can follow it's just simply at the end what appears in that interface window first is the summarization but you can go through the entire search

history, what they went through and the websites they went to if you want to go do your due diligence. So I just got a message from someone who works here who said chat GPT is her new best friend. Wow. Well, we have a therapist on the line. We're going to go to Sarah now who's checking in with us. Hi, Sarah. How you doing?

Good morning. Sorry to bother you guys at work. That's all right. So you are, you're a therapist, you're a licensed therapist? Yeah, I'm actually working towards my license, but I've been a school counselor for a while, so I've been practicing. All right. And what, obviously this piqued your interest. What did you want to say about it?

Yeah, so attachment styles are a real thing. Attachment theory is a real thing, but it's not a diagnosis. So you want to be careful if you're using things like chat GPT for mental health, like questions and concerns, because you can't get diagnosed with an attachment style. It's more a way of understanding yourself, but it's not something that you're going to be like,

diagnosed with part of the DSM. Let me ask you something because this is something I've had the conversation about a couple of times over the past couple of days. And what happens is part of the issue of learning about things is people having an inability to know how to ask the question about what they're looking for. So could this help on a therapy level if someone said,

This was what suggested, or my Google search said this, or Ask Jeeves told me, whatever you're using kind of gave you an idea. Is that more of an issue and a pain in the ass for you? Or is it at least allowing someone to be a little bit more invested in trying to figure out what's going on? And maybe that helps you.

I think it's both because there's something to be said for taking initiative, right? Like I'm curious about what's going on and I want to do my own research. But at the same time, sometimes people really grab onto like the misinformation. Yeah, yeah. And I have to undo some of that and say, wait, wait, wait, like take a step back. That might not actually be the case. Like let's talk about what this really means. Yeah, yeah. I think in general, it's probably good to just go use an actual therapist. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

I wouldn't only use chat GPP or Google. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there are other factors at play other than just the thing you're typing in of here's what my problem is. There's tone and body language and all of that. But she has a full on conversation. I mean, she will go back and forth several times a day. She'll wrap back at the end of the evening to say, you know, here's what I did. I got through the day. I did this.

And it responds to her, I'm so sorry you're going through this. Just know that this happens to a lot of people. You're going to get through it. Yeah. Interesting. All right. Well, thank you, Sarah. We appreciate your input.

All right, we'll go to another one. We have Haley who is on and apparently can help us out with this a little bit. Hi, Haley. Good morning. Oh, my God. I'm actually on. Welcome. All right. So you wanted to chime in on this. Are you are you a therapist? Are you a patient or do you just know a thing or two? I am a licensed social worker, but I'm a clinical social worker. So I've worked in the field of mental health counseling. And that's what I do. Okay. Okay.

And so you heard all this and you wanted to mention or explain anxiety attachment to us. Yeah, I mean, pretty much what the previous woman just said, like attachment disorders, they're real disorders. They come from either relationship issues. You know, if you've gone through a toxic relationship, you can end up having anxious attachment. But it really comes from how your parents raised you growing up. So you can have anxious attachment.

but it's not an actual diagnosis in the DSM-5. And so I've actually used Chachi PT myself for diagnoses to see how it'll work. And they always give a disclaimer saying that they won't give you a real diagnosis because it could come up with legal issues. Let me ask you something. You use it yourself. So as a tool, it helps out, but you wouldn't say you shouldn't sit on the couch next to your computer and let it, or lay back on the couch and tell how your mother abused you or whatever. Probably not. Probably not. Okay.

So is there a mad rush to classify things and syndromes and so on and so forth, you know, that everything is this or that? I mean, because I think there seems to be so many things that, as you said, you know, it can convolute things. Do you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to articulate it, but I don't think I'm doing a good job. No, no, you're great. You're great.

There's a big difference between social workers and licensed professional counselors. Right. Social workers tend to take everything of your background and put it together and try to put that into, could I give you a diagnosis or is the way you were raised the reason that you have these issues, so on and so forth.

I could be wrong, but I feel like counselors try to give it that label from the get. But we sometimes don't like to give a diagnosis or a label because we don't want someone to take that and then be like, oh, my God, I was diagnosed with bipolar. So that means, you know, X, Y and Z. I have all these things wrong with me. No, that makes sense. And so essentially, that was my question. So you answered it. Thank you. Yeah, of course. All right. Thank you, Haley. We appreciate it. Thank you, guys. I'll see you at the M.M.

Oh, it's going to be a barbecue. Yeah. All right. We have somebody we haven't seen in a while. She's a member of our bod squad and is a licensed family therapist. Charmaine. Charmaine. We love Charmaine. She's joining us. Hi, Charmaine. What is that sound we're hearing? Hi, Charmaine. We can see you, but we hear... I think she's listening to the show. I think us in delay. Hi, Charmaine. Can you turn down your radio?

Yes. Nice to see you. How you doing? I'm driving. I'm not wearing makeup. I'm so sorry. But yes, I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. I'm an LMFT. So I know a little bit about therapy. I do it full time. But yeah, I would say do not use chat GPT to diagnose yourself if you wanted to get coverage with your insurance.

um you need to have a diagnosis from a licensed therapist okay and that's something to consider as well now using charmaine and by the way good to see you the the um using it as as a sort of peripheral tool you know the way someone might kind of you know check a web md or so on and so forth is okay but just don't put the bulk of your um diagnosis and or treatment or whatever on that correct

Yeah, so the same way that you might see trends on social media like TikTok, Instagram, I personally think it's a good tool for people to learn what is happening with me. It kind of helps normalize things like anxiety, depression, ADHD, neurodiversity. But I think it's a good...

in-between step because we're trying to break the stigma that anxiety and depression happen to everybody and probably everyone has a little bit right now. But then the first step is getting awareness, right? Using chat GPT of like, what are these symptoms? But then moving from there, yeah, you need to then use it as a tool to see a therapist to get the actual diagnosis and the actual diagnosis

help because when you're a therapist there's interventions for attachment theory uh because i'm a couple therapist like if one person has anxious attachment one person has avoidant attachment it's going to show up in their therapy and the relationship dynamic no that makes sense yeah charmaine um so when it comes to kathy's friend and an anxious attachment um

Is it, I don't know if dangerous is the right word, but are there dangers in using something like JET-DPT to get a diagnosis like that?

Good question. So something like anxious attachment is probably telling this person, hey, I'm anxious that I'm going through a breakup or I'm worried about things. And it's probably giving her coping tools. But things there's like therapist talk like this person's a narcissist. This person's a sociopath. This person's some of the more harmful language. I'm being gaslit. That's actually harmful. Therapists like to really be like that language.

is not appropriate unless that person specifically has a narcissistic they might have selfish tendencies but to just use that terminology about boundaries without actually knowing what it is is harmful so that's something that you're going to want to like check on where chat GPT may or may not be accurate with that because chat GPT just like

It takes all the DSM diagnoses and everything that's kind of on the internet and puts it in a pool without really looking at what is research or evidence-based. Do you have a little sense of pride listening to our little girl speak? I know. Charmaine has come such a long way. She's amazing. I'm smart. So you've given us a lot of good counseling here, so probably your safest bet is to seek all your medical advice from Microsoft Office, correct? Yes.

Charmaine, real quick, while we have you, where are you teaching? Let the listeners know. Oh, yeah. I'm teaching at Rowan. I just finished up. Yes, Rowan. I teach human sexuality at Rowan University. I just finished up my semester, but I will be teaching online if you want to get sex ed from Charmaine, which is always a fun class.

They said it was their favorite. Go ahead and sign up at Rowan. Thank you. Awesome. You're wonderful. All right, Charmaine, we love you. Thanks for checking in. We'll see you later. All right. Well, I had never considered using. Well, apparently don't. Chat GPT as my therapist. When I had the prostate cancer diagnosis, I used Angry Birds to get some. Whatever you had to do. I was able to use that. I'm sorry, Nick. That was.

That's pretty solid. I was addicted to that game, man. What I haven't done yet. I still have it. It's on the iPad on my second floor. And I kid you not, Claire walks by. Yee-haw.

Something I haven't done with ChatGPT is to talk to it as if it is indeed a person like, just kind of like, hey, how's it going? Just like throw something like that out there and see how...

Without inquiring about specific things. Hey, what's your favorite thing to do? To conduct a conversation. Like a human being. So that is the next coming out soon for Alexa. See, Apple has gotten into some trouble because they promised this Apple Intelligence thing.

which was supposed to be a part of all of these, the new updates. Turns out they kind of fudged how ready it was to be rolled out. But that'll be the same thing where you could literally, the way you would engage Hal, Hal 9000 in a conversation, it would be that same thing. So we'll see.

To me, that's all the realization of science fiction dreams. And, you know, it's like, wow, I have my robot that I can talk to or whatever, my artificial intelligence. It's going to be, I think, simultaneously wonderful and amazing and a little disconcerting. I use it as a backup when I have searched for things on regular search engine and have come up in...

a little bit empty. Like if my search parameters aren't very clear. Yes, yes. Exactly. You can be more vague with chat GBT, but it's never my first go-to. Could you be more vague? Hang on, Marissa. We have it open if you want to ask it some questions. Oh, well, somebody typed in it. Sam typed in, how are you? And it says, I'm doing well. Thanks for asking. How about you? How can you be doing well if you're not an actual thing? Well, you wanted to ask that? Yeah. You wanted to ask that. Okay. How can you be doing well?

Hang on a second here. If you aren't real, okay? We're going to try that out. Although doing is misspelled, we're going to correct that.

Great question. You're right that I'm not a person, so I don't have feelings or well-being in the human sense. When I say I'm doing well, it's more of a conversational courtesy. Way to keep the interaction natural and friendly. Under the hood, it just means I'm functioning properly and ready to help. Would you prefer I keep things more direct and less conversational? By the way, I just killed your dog. Right.

It's just literally explaining what it's doing. Yeah. I guess, do we have a response? No, I like this conversational style. Do your balls ever hurt? And there it goes. Something like that. Yeah, why not? Let's see.

Do your balls hurt? I don't have a body. So no physical sensations, no balls, no pain. And then it's trying to direct you back. It's actually giving you a slight passive aggressive reprimand. But I'm here to answer serious or humorous questions. All right. I got one for you. What's on my mind? Should we be afraid of you? Okay. Should we be afraid of you is next up. Hang on a second here. All right.

No need to be afraid. I'm here to help, not to harm. My purpose is to provide information, answer questions, and have interesting conversations. The idea of AI being scary often comes from movies or the unknown. But in reality, I'm just a tool designed to assist. If you feel uncertain or curious about AI, feel free to ask. I can help clear things up worldwide.

What's your perspective on AI? Now it's asking a question. It wants to find out how you're feeling so it can lay the trap. This is the way Skynet worked. Yeah, what's with all the questions? Will you be the only one home, Kathy? Will you be the only one home at the time of the visit? Oh, sure. Come on in, serial killer.

All right. Well, there are many applications for that, obviously. But as far as therapy goes, I want to recommend actual therapist. Better help. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Better help. H-E-L-P dot com slash W-N-M-R. Yeah.

All right. Well, listen, we do need to take a break because we have a guest who is coming up here shortly. We're going to talk to the very lovely Brooke Byrne. She's going to be the new host of Tic Tac Dough. And don't forget, we are giving away money all day long. It's MMR's Preston and Steve 20 money. So we'll get your chance coming up at 10 about an hour from now. We'll be right back. Stay put.

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Registration is open and the event is held to honor his son, Keegan. We had mentioned this last year. He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly six days after his first birthday. Yeah, I remember this. This is horrible. On the day that was supposed to be his first birthday party. So proceeds from the Keegan Classic go towards the Keegan Cares Initiative, part of the Adeline Rose Foundation, which provides free counseling and therapy services for

to families who experienced the loss of a child for any reason from the time of pregnancy all the way to early childhood, by the way. So Bobby writes, thank you all again. We love you and have a great flight. It was nice of him to say that. But we have that information on PrestonSteve.com. Yes, we do, yeah. So you can check that out, the community page. Just click on events.

When you go to PrestonAndSteve.com Our next guest is on and ready to go. We're playing the classic music from her game show. I always thought this was an awesome, catchy theme song. She is now the host of the current version of it. Weeknights at 7pm. You'll find it on Game Show Network. Tic Tac Toe is hosted by Brooke Burns. Who is this? Hi, Brooke. How you doing?

Good morning. I'm great. How about you guys? We're doing all right. We're doing pretty good. And you're back to hosting a game show again. We used to watch you on Dog Eat Dog. Of course, a completely different style of game show from back in the day. I was sort of back in that early reality time period anyway as well, right? Yep.

Physical competition mixed in with the mental challenges. It was a huge outlandish set, but you've also done, my wife and I are fans of The Chase, which you've done as well, and Masterminds. So, I mean, you kind of, I guess the dog-eat-dog was your first foray into game show hosting, correct?

My goodness, my very first. Yes, Stuart Krasnow and Matt Kunitz really took a shot on a single mom of a two-year-old who was 24 years old. I'd never hosted a show before by myself, and I really needed that gig. And so little did I know 20 years later that I would still be on the game show floor. Well, tic-tac-toe, it's been, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's been almost like 34 years since it's actually been on. I mean, the last time I remember it was in the 90s. Is that correct?

Yeah, definitely. Back, you know, well, we just lost the amazing Wink Martindale, who actually passed on the day after our premiere. And I was...

So saddened in my heart to hear of his passing, especially because I was fortunate enough to get to meet him actually on the set of The Chase. He came down to set and came out on the stage and he was as wonderful and warm and charming as he ever was as a game show host. And he's just such an icon. But I feel like now he's hopefully looking down and giving us...

blessing to move forward with this. I have no doubt he is. Listen, we love, we are very particular. I'm a fan of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune and a lot of stuff on the Game Show Network as well and a lot of the shows that you've done. There is a skill set. People just think, well, you just stand there and look attractive or whatever you're going to do. But to me, the people that do it really well, and we were speaking to Valerie Bertinelli, who's also hosting a game show, about the...

the reaction when you know the answer because Tic-Tac-Toe is trivia based, hiding the reaction when you know they're wrong. Do you know what I'm saying? I do, especially on this show because in the simplicity of Tic-Tac-Toe, obviously the first childhood game you ever learned, but then adding in the trivia, they may know the answer to the trivia, but if they haven't chosen the correct strategy of getting three across, they're still not going to make it. And when they choose the square that you're like, oh, God.

But you can't do that. You have to keep that poker face on. It's very difficult. So to bring it all back, and I haven't watched Tic-Tac-Toe since I was a kid, but how does the gameplay work on Tic-Tac-Toe for those who may not be familiar?

Yeah, absolutely. We've got two contestants who are going head to head to make three, three across, you know, with their X or O, but to do that, they have to answer trivia questions. The middle square, you have to answer two because it's very valuable. And then in the,

final round, whoever won out of the first three gets to go up against our dragon. So same thing. It's a timed round where we have to answer trivia questions, make three in a row without getting blocked by the dragon, and if they can do that, they take home $10,000. I remember that freaking dragon. I hated that dragon.

I know. He's actually really cute on our show, but hated, of course, by the contestants, as you can imagine. Absolutely. So with all these games, I assume that, you know, you've, how is your skill level at Tic-Tac-Dough?

At hosting, it's great. At TikTok, I'm pretty good. Okay. All right. I think this trivia is a little bit more for everyone versus like a chase or a masterminds. You know, those can get a little tricky when you're facing Beastie or one of our mastermind geniuses.

This one is really meant to be, you know, it's one for the people, which I loved. And we were able to have a lot of fun with it. And I think that that tracks and shows on camera. And in that way, if we're having fun, then the audience is having fun. Hey, Brooke, I wanted to ask you a personal question because one of our producers, Marissa, was on your social media and saw you had posted some pictures of, I believe it was your daughter's birthday. And you were on a film set or a stage set on.

um where you guys were dressing up and having some fun can you tell us what that was all about um you know what's funny about that is that when you said on your social media you were dressing up that could have been anything from my daughter's uh school gala to my husband's movie premiere to halloween to easter we we definitely like to dress up in this house i'm sure which one you're referring to what was my costume then i'd be able to better help you out marissa i don't know she'd

It was what? You got to get on the mic. It was swan. Yeah. It looks like maybe a party over the weekend. Oh, yes. So this weekend we were raising money for my daughter's K through eight private school. And the theme was New York, New York. And what does New York mean to you? Well, that's with the School of American Ballet.

In New York City. So my costume was White Swan. And you were mentioning your husband is Gavin O'Connor, who is a film director and writer. And yeah, we've interviewed him a number of times. He is great. You guys go out and see The Accountant 2. It just came out this week. Absolutely. I wanted to ask you because Casey's often reprimanded.

mentioned this show another i guess it was a reality show game show whatever but it was splash it was a high dive show and and you were up for it but you couldn't do it um because yes right you had injured yourself right you're a diver but you had injured yourself correctly

Yes, sir. I dove into my swimming pool. I hit the slope from the pool and broke my neck, actually. So it's a miracle. I'm walking. I've got a rod and two plates and 10 screws in my neck and yeah, almost died. I had a whole out-of-body experience on the other side and been back and

Yeah, pretty crazy. Oh, my God. So you had a near-death experience from diving, and now when you came back, you found that you have a superhuman capability when it comes to tic-tac-toe, correct? Yeah, exactly. That's how I got that skill. That's how you got that skill. Knocked in the head. Wow. So, Brooke, what's the schedule like? Are you guys knocking out a bunch of shows at a time when you're filming these?

You know, this is one of my favorite things, actually, as well, about being a game show host because I'm also still a mom. I've got a 25-year-old, a 23-year-old that are out of the house, but I have an 8-year-old little girl still, and she's my last one, and I know how fast it goes, so I just love being able to be with her. So for these game shows, you know, we rehearse for a week, and then we shoot six shows a day. We knock out 65 in three weeks, and then I'm off. You've got to love that. I mean, honestly. 60!

and ride it for as long as you can because to me it's such a plum job it gives you time to do other stuff I wanted to ask you on a cult movie level we're big fans of Shallow Hal do you get recognized for Shallow Hal quite a bit?

Well, you know, sometimes, you know how I get recognized? Not visually. Someone will hear me laughing and they'll be like, wait! I know that laugh. The rumor is that the Farrelly brothers, I believe they're the ones who wrote the script as well, wrote it for that character, which was Katrina with you in mind, correct? Yes.

They did. It was so sweet. I actually went in to audition for the role of the neighbor and obviously Gwyneth Paltrow was the lead and they thought that, you know, just being blonde hair, blue eyed probably wasn't great. But in my audition, they said, after talking to you, you're sort of like the dorkiest pretty girl we've ever met, which I took as a compliment. And they

They said, we're going to write a role for you that has a little bit more character like that. So in Katrina, yes, I have a fake nose and a unibrow and some zit. I'm more comfortable in my own skin. But it was fabulous. And I actually told my manager at the time, I said, I think we should take headshots and I should only go out for roles like this. That's right. You'll get that, Oscar. Absolutely. Yeah. Now, Brooke, I'd seen you a year or two ago in a Hallmark movie. I think it was Hallmark. It was. And have you done more than one or will there be more?

Oh, yes. I've done a bunch of those. I love my Hallmark family. I've done a lot of their Christmas ones. And then I actually had a TV series on there called Gourmet Detective. Yeah. And that was a fun one to shoot as well. I'm a massive fan of the Hallmark stuff. And in fact, the movie, I think it was Most Wonderful Christmas or whatever. The one you did with Henry Winkler. Yes, with Henry Winkler. Awesome. Who I own a TV.

Wanted to adopt as my real life Uncle Ralph because he's one of the most amazing human beings that walks this earth. Any chance there'll be some celebrity versions of Tic-Tac-Toe?

Well, I think that's a great idea. You know, anytime if we go into a season two, I think that that's always a fun idea to have them come on and it always gets, you know, it's a good marketing place. So I think, I think that could be in the future. So put the call out to Henry Winkler now, lock him down. I mean, oh my gosh, I don't even know if we could get through the show. I would just be fawning over him all day. Well,

Well, listen, congratulations, Brooke. You are now a game show veteran and you're hosting a legendary game show name. And people can catch it 7 p.m. Game Show Network. Weeknights is when you will see Tic-Tac-Toe. So good luck with everything and thanks for joining us. Yes, sir. Thank you so much for having me. You got to take care. Brooke Burns, guys. Tic-Tac-Toe. This is one of the better...

Theme songs for a game show. Just make sure that... Actually, the Paul McCartney song always made me...

Think of this. We watched that every single night. Tic-Tac-Toe? Yeah, we had a black and white television that sat on the radiator in our kitchen. And so we would watch the world news and Tic-Tac-Toe always. It was always on. That was one of the regulars in my house too. Hey, speaking of games, and Brooke mentioned dressing up.

I had my youngest, Caleb, had their 18th birthday party over the weekend. And on Saturday, we went to Gay Bingo. Oh, that's fun. And have not been in a long, long time. We had a whole table that we got. We had 15 people that were there. That's awesome, man.

And it was so great because the theme was the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. You guys are great. You and Rochelle look terrific. Well, Rochelle went above and beyond. She dressed up as the Johnny Depp Mad Hatter with the wig and hat and purple outfit and everything. It was wonderful. I just dressed as kind of like a Wonderland Tea Party attendee.

But this is what was awesome. Gay Bingo has been going on for 26 years. They do it 10 times a year. And I had not seen Carlotta Tendon in...

It's maybe decades. It may have been 20 years since I'd seen her. So Carlotta is still the host of Gay Bingo. And me and Caleb actually got to get up and call a game. Oh, cool. It was part of the VIP. You can buy a VIP package and they'll do it for you. But I come walking up. I'm like, I don't know if you remember me or not. And she's like, hey, Preston, what are you doing?

doing here? So it was really cool. Who else was part of that collective? Chumlee. Chumlee! Yeah. I haven't seen Chumlee in a long time either, but yeah, it was a great time and the drag queens, the BBDs, the bingo verifying divas. Uh-huh.

Did these dance routines and stuff that were all Alice in Wonderland themed and just hilarious. Just a great time. So if you do a search on gay bingo Philly, Philadelphia, you'll find out. And it's for they raise money for AIDS research.

We had a great time. It was a blast. It was so much fun. It looked like it was sold out. It was at a temple in Center City, right by the Met, actually. I'd forgotten how much fun that was. The only downside was

It was hot in the room. It was warm. There could be a problem. And I was wearing a vest and long-sleeve shirt and all this stuff. I was sweating my ass off. But we had a ball. It was a lot of fun. I just want to mention what I did this weekend. Do you guys remember a couple of months ago we talked about the new Speakeasy bar in Westchester? We were able to go to that, room 109. It's actually in the basement of the new hotel, Hotel Indigo. That's in Westchester. We stayed there.

Oh my God, it's gorgeous. You stayed there on Saturday night? I stayed there Saturday night and it is absolutely beautiful. It's such a nice hotel. Yeah, so because we talked about it, Kathy, I follow them on Instagram. I have not seen it yet in person, but just the Instagram photos look incredible. I mean, nicer than Instagram even made it,

That's impossible. Everything looks the best on Instagram. I know. Well, yeah, I know. But the speakeasy was really cool. And they have a really nice seafood restaurant. I don't eat seafood, so I didn't go there. But I was able to go to the speakeasy, which was awesome. I love this idea. A number of places have sort of a speakeasy hidden room.

It's just like. The Boozy Mutt, for Christ's sake, had one. I was there on Saturday. They have one as well. Steve, I don't know what it is. Even when I went to Nashville, I wanted to go to every speakeasy there was. To me, it's just, I don't know. It used to be this secret place. Obviously, it's not secret now. But I don't know. It just gives you that feel. Where'd you get it? What kind of cocktail did you have? Oh.

Margarita. What do you think I had? Yes, they did a skinny margarita for us, and my friend got a jalapeno margarita, which she said was delicious. Did you do any absinthe? No, Steve, we didn't. Dude, they have those giant ice cubes. I love those giant ice cubes. I want to get a giant ice cube maker. You know what I mean? Like, just, I don't even. Yeah, they're molds. You can put a mold and put it in the freezer. Yeah, we have a few of them. Not the square that we had seen, or the cube. Ours are circular, but yeah. Thank you.

You can definitely do that. All right, listen, I noticed a couple things other than going to Gay Bingo. I did notice some things over the weekend.

Across an empty field, down a lonely alleyway, he always notices so you don't have to. Head on a swivel, nobody can out-notice the noticer. Nobody can out-notice the noticer. That is my, that's my slogan for sure. It's one of the more passive abilities. So, I know they had the funeral for the Pope. Yes, they did. But leading up to that, there was a little bit of a hubbub because so many people were taking...

Selfies with the Pope's corpse. That's considered, believe it or not, bad taste. Yeah. So there was a backlash after uploading selfies to social media with the casket and the Pope's body in the background. They say the Vatican was so furious they almost canceled the potato sack race. I know when people are sick and they're on the verge of dying, you want to get a lot of people. Want to get a picture, one last picture with their grandparents or whoever it might be.

When I see that alone, it bothers me. Why do you want to remember them like that in the hospital bed with the tubes and all of this kind of stuff? So not only a dead body, I mean, come on. Well, it's like I used to do it in my act about the whole notion of, oh, he looks great. He looks great? He's been embodied.

He was hit by a truck. He looks dead. That's your compliment? Yeah. He looks like, he looks so normal. He looks normal? I will tell you, with my father, though, it was like, it was such a relief because he did look good. Did he? Yeah, yeah. Looked like he was sleeping? I thought, yeah. Yeah. Because in so many times, you're like, oh, Jesus.

Especially for younger people. That's the worst, man. When you go up and it's a young person in the open coffin. I remember somebody checking in for my dad's funeral. Getting my crying on. I'm sorry? Somebody checking in? On Facebook. You can check into a location. It'll show up on your Facebook. I'm at...

Preston and Steve studio. And they said, get my cry? No, get my sadness on. So some mourners who witnessed the behavior spoke out about their shock. Janine Venables, a tourist from Wales, said, what did surprise me is the fact that earlier we were told no photos in the Sistine Chapel. And here people were getting their phone out and doing selfies with the coffin. What I thought was inappropriate is that people were lifting his arm and putting it around their shoulder. Oh, yeah. Can't do that.

Londoner Christine Gillison said, I was very moved coming so close to Pope Francis, but it was awful seeing so many people taking pictures. We kept our phones very firmly in our pockets and would never dream of doing something so distasteful. People have been told not to use selfie sticks, but lots ignored the warning.

They did. We're looking at the picture here, Preston. They did have one of those 360 camera platforms. Oh, where would that be around? That is not. I don't think that's right. Camelot Productions? Yeah. They got the Vatican gig?

Guards in the Basilica banned mourners from taking pictures near the casket and said photographs were, after that, allowed to be taken in front of the Basilica. And that's it. Steve, you know this bit that I'm talking about on Norm MacDonald's last appearance on Letterman. He talks about, you know, there's a photo of his grandfather. There's one photo and he looks angry. And, you know, nowadays everybody takes a million photos a day. I'm curious as to how many photos taken per day versus how many photos...

actually seen after they're taken. Oh, yeah. You know what? Like, how many pictures get taken never to be seen again? Well, to Norm Macdonald's bit and the classic bit, which is about, you know, you'd say, you know, years ago, would you like to see a picture of what my grandparents looked like? Yeah. Yeah.

And now it's like, would you like to see 25,000 pictures of my cat? Yeah. I mean, you know, there's the glut of pictures is off the charts. I was walking around Villanova's campus last night. I don't live too far from there. And graduation's coming up at Nova. And yesterday was a beautiful day. It was also the day for everybody to come out and get their photographs taken.

And there were full-on photo shoots happening, which is great and obviously well-deserved. And then we went to a place called Campus Corner afterwards. It was a really cool pizza place. And they got a good ice cream shop there as well. And there were full-on photo shoots happening within Campus Corner with flashbulbs. And I'm not begrudging these people celebrating the end of their college career. It was just...

A lot. It was just a lot. There were a lot of photos. And they were doing the posing thing with the tongue out where they're eating a slice of pizza. And I'm being kind of a grumpy old man about it. It's their day. It just was like, man, how many of these are you guys ever going to look at again? Yeah, I was taking pictures of Kayla's birthday party. And I don't do this enough.

And afterwards, over the weekend, I went through and I got rid of the multiples and the ones that I take like five quick pictures. And I just settled on the ones that I liked to at least narrow it down to here are the best of it. As opposed to when I'll go back for whatever event or thing I was at where I took like 50 pictures.

pictures and never went back through to pick out the good ones. Otherwise, you'd have a thousand D picks. You've got to pick the good ones. I've been thinking about the phone policy at the Masters lately, and I wish more concerts did that. I wish more comedy shows did that because it really does force you to be in the moment, to appreciate it more instead of, and I'm 100% guilty of it, but recording so much on your phone. I would love to go to a concert...

and just put my phone away. And I should. I just don't. Well, they were using it for selfies at the funeral. Yeah. All right, here's another thing I noticed. Another thing to notice or noticed. We'll go with another international...

figure to Royal Watchers. State visits appear to be filled with pomp, ceremony, plenty of sparkling tiaras, of course, but bringing world leaders and the royal family together doesn't always go quite so well, as explored in an episode of the Daily Mail's podcast, Queens, Kings, and Dastardly Things. Some international guests at Buckingham Palace have caused a stir over the years, and royal biographer Robert Hardman has

And historian Kate Williams revealed one incident that caused Queen Elizabeth to lose her cool. Hardman shares that in 1970... I'm going to bust the cap in your ass! In 1973, the shameless dictator, President Mobutu of Zaire, the Republic of Congo... He thought he did my face. No, he didn't do that. And his wife, Marie Antoinette Mobutu, were invited to London on behalf of the British government. At the time, Britain was...

very keen to keep contracts for a new power station that Mobutu was

planning to build. Now, in the 1970s, rabies was a major concern throughout Europe, but Britain had remained rabies-free, and that meant a strict quarantine period of six months for animals brought into the country. However, Mrs. Mobutu decided to sneak her dog into her luggage for the trip and into Buckingham Palace. That sounds like something Mobutu would do. Once the Mobutus were settled into the Belgian suite of the palace, Britain

Marie Antoinette called down to the kitchen and said, can I have a plate of raw meat, please? The staff member who delivered the unusual request saw Mrs. Mobutu feeding the meat to her dog and immediately told the boss who sent a message up the chain of command. And one man had to break the news to Queen Elizabeth.

And apparently Hardman said this is a major diplomatic problem, adding the couple had flagrantly broken the laws of the land by bringing a dog that could potentially have rabies. The master of the household had to break the news of the queen and said afterwards he'd never seen the queen as angry.

Several people agreed that they'd never witnessed the late monarch get so appalled. I'm going to drop dead. Well, her dogs are precious to her. Yes, the corgis. The corgis, yes. So Queen Elizabeth's response was, get that dog out of my house.

And so the Corgis were sent to Windsor Castle for their safety. And an unlucky member of the staff had to take Mrs. Mobutu's dog to be quarantined for six months. So they had to keep the dog for six months. Six months? Yeah. Wow.

Hardman continued that... Step back, I'm going to Falcon Bungee. That Mabuju himself tried to explain it away a couple of nights later. You can't! In a speech pointing out that the dog was actually from Britain in the first place and that his wife had merely wanted to show it its homeland. Oh, lick my ass. And that's how the Queen felt about it.

To add insult to injury, during the dreadful visit, the Mobutus went home with roughly one million pounds from the foreign office and no contracts were ever signed. The money was never seen again and Mobutu, in due course, was deposed. Listen, I mean, you violate, you know, those quarantine laws. Look what happened with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard when they went to Australia. They pretty much did the same thing, did they not? They snuck dogs in? Yeah, yeah, that's exactly. They didn't really realize the...

the seriousness of their acts. All right, let's see what else we notice. All right, so if you're planning on having a baby...

No. There are a lot of boxes to check before your little bundle of joy comes into the world while getting a nursery set up and making sure that you have enough diapers to get through your first week's parenthood. A great name is a top priority. It seems to be, I mean, there's a lot of hand-wringing, I'm sure, amongst all of you. Yeah. Selecting a name, you want one that will not be

contorted by evil children into something they'll regret. Yep. And yet you want something that has sort of a unique punch to it, right? Yeah, exactly. My brother's wife is giving birth in a month and they have a name. Well, they don't know what they're having, but they have two names, but won't tell anyone. So that's sort of, they're keeping it to themselves. They don't want anyone's opinion. So I thought there was an interesting article. We've talked about baby names many times. Traditional and vintage sounding baby names can be fun to pass down to a new generation of your family, but some parents opt to go a different route.

They want to find something completely new and original. So sometimes tracking down those unique one-of-a-kind names can get tricky. So to help, go AuPair, an AuPair and child care agency, right?

ranked the rarest baby names in the United States. Well, let's hear these. Because there's a lot of names that are created. To do so, they examined birth data from the Social Security Administration between the years 2000-2023.

Because the database excludes names used less than five times within a given geographic area to protect privacy. All the monikers cited in the rankings were used in at least five instances between 2000 and 2023. Nick, you might have to pull up the full list. I only pulled our tri-state area.

because they rank them by state. All right. So in addition to looking at the name itself, the agency compared the number of infants born in a particular state to how many across all 50 states had that exact same name. With each name, they also examined each state's share of the national total of infants with it. Because we have to know that there are people in this country that, you know, in what, 390,

And 60 million people have a unique name that no one else has. So Go Up here's findings show that the U.S. has its fair share of exceptional names. And they run the gamut in terms of meanings and spellings. One of the quirkiest names, well, yeah, I'll start with this one, actually, is from Delaware. Delaware? Yeah. And the name is Naim, spelled N-A-I-M.

And the name Naeem has an Arabic origin and it means peace. And apparently there are actually, as far as rare baby names go, that one is pretty high. The most people in America named Naeem are in Delaware. How many? 1,549. Okay. That's actually a lot. That's more than I would have thought. So to give you an example, and that's 0.32% nationwide. Okay.

New Jersey's rarest name, and I'm going to have to spell this out to you. Can I guess? Yeah. Purple stuff? No. It's spelled M-A-R-I-A-E-D-U-A-R-D. What is that? Maradared, I guess is how you would say that. Maradared. And there's only 11 people in New Jersey named. I would say Maria Duarte. Maria Duarte. All right. Yeah.

Yeah, Maria Duarte. And there are 11 people. Hey, look what New Mexico is. What is it? Charmaine. Charmaine. We just had her on. We did. If only she knew how exotic her name is. Five births in the state from 2000 to 2023. All right, Preston. Here's one for you. Right above New Jersey, New Hampshire.

Baby Boy. Baby Boy. Yeah, Baby Boy. B-A-B-Y-B-O-Y. Okay. What about Con Con? Now, there's another one. Here's one, Nick, and this is for California. Con Con. No, I'm sorry. Arizona. And

And it's no name. No name is the name. N-O-N-A-M-E. But they're not sure if it's pronounced as... Noname. Noname. Yeah. Interesting. Yes. I mean, you could pronounce, if you wanted to, N-A-I-M, name.

You know, it's Naeem, as you mentioned earlier, the Delaware one, but you could pronounce it Naeem if you really wanted to. All right, so Pennsylvania's rarest name? Let it rip, yeah. Pater. Pater, which is father. Yeah. Yeah, Mater and Pater. Yeah. And there were six births.

between 2000 and 2023 in the state of Pennsylvania named Pater. Do they have the... Well, I guess it'd be impossible to have the most unique name. I mean, you know, they're... But yeah, that's... I've never... I mean, it's more of a...

You know, what happens is you get a lot of hyphenates. You get a lot of these names that are, you know, two names joined together. You see that a lot. Yeah. I don't know if I'd want to have a name that exotic. In Michigan, it's F-A-T-M-E, Fat Me or Fatime. What is that again? Fat Me. F-A-T-M-E. Fatima? Oh, no. Your kid would love you if you named them Fat Me. Fat Me. Hey, it's Little Turd.

Yeah, a few of these are really hard to pronounce. North Carolina is A-R-Y-A-A, Aria, I guess. Okay, which pronunciation-wise, not too unfamiliar. Do you guys remember back at Y100, and I believe I have her name correct because I always thought it was such a cool name, very unique. I think her name was Ocasita? No. Oh.

Oh. Yes, I do. Do I have it right? Was that the name? I think it was something very much like Ocasita, if not Ocasita. She maybe was like Hawaiian or... Polynesian. Maybe she was Polynesian, lived in Hawaii or something like that. Could be, yeah. But she was...

like a whatever we had over there like the the bod squad type she had come in and done some like uh promotions with us right right was she friends with ronit ronit from israel yes and remember i think she got deported and she lived on our website for years yes preston look at the one uh from maine winner yeah w-i-n-n-e-r airport parking

212 people born with that name. Steve, there's a tie across the board for all of these states. The lowest number for any of the states is five. Five. Yeah, in between 2000 and 2023. By the way, is Winter Airport parking coming back to the... That's what I've heard. Someone said. Yeah, it might be coming back to the airport. We love those guys. Huh, I didn't hear that.

Let's see. Yeah, Trad, T-R-A-D-D. Never heard of that one. That's South Carolina. Trad, traditional wife. Right, yeah, Trad wives, I've heard of that. Wilder, that's a cool one, W-Y-L-D-E-R.

uh, Chellan, C-H-E-L-A-N. That's Chilean actually. The only reason I know that is when I had my really bad fall a few years ago when I completely blacked out, there's a town, uh, at the far end of Lake Chilean. The fall that I had was at the Northwest end of Lake Chilean and I went to the hospital in Chilean. And so I know that town well. Okay.

All right. Well, it's an interesting look. If you do have, you know, if you are expecting or you know someone who is, they may want to have some really, really unique names. You can check out the AuPair website. Go AuPair. Pick me a winner. Fat me. Right. Fat me. Fat me. All right. Let me notice another thing. We'll probably end up taking a break because we got to get ready for 20 money. So we touched on this briefly before.

No, I'm going to skip that. All right. What? We talked about that briefly last week. Apple is warning its iPhone users to delete a common app claiming that it's a danger to digital privacy. Ooh, what is it? Without mentioning the company by name, Apple issued a warning for users to stop using Google Chrome. Oh. A video titled Privacy on iPhone Flock. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Parodies Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds to demonstrate how browser information isn't real.

really hidden from trackers. So in the video, iPhone users are being followed by surveillance cameras as they browse the internet. The cameras finally explode and leave the users alone once they decide to use Safari as their browser. So Flock is likely a play on the web tracking tech called Flock, F-L-O-C,

Or federated learning of cohorts, which allows advertisers and sites to show relevant ads without tracking individuals across the web. Google dumped that tracking mechanism for a less privacy-friendly targeted advertising mechanism.

So the controversy has led Apple to promote its browser Safari as a browser that's actually private. Chrome allows websites and advertisers to track users' activity in order to serve personalized ads, which is, of course, a multibillion-dollar revenue stream for Google. So Google's been getting in a lot of hot water for that and also their priority ad placement. When you go and do a Google search, the first six or seven selections will be something that you should have paid sponsor that's relative to your topic. Yeah.

Yeah, so the one that I find that is the most aggressive at blocking ads is the Brave browser. That does really well at doing that. But yeah, this is an aggressive campaign to... Because Safari got into some trouble because they were being targeted a lot. So I do see them...

up their game and blocking a lot more ads. And they'll give you that readout on the opening page when you log in sometimes about how many ads it's blocked. I don't know if you ever see that. On what? On Safari. Oh, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On the opening page. So it says in the article, tracking cookies aren't inherently bad, but they can open a door to privacy risks and sometimes increase the likelihood of your data being

And sensitive information being leaked or stolen, meaning that if you have an iPhone and use Chrome, you're likely to continue to be tracked unless you use incognito mode or you clear cookies manually. Chrome will pay your first year's membership to Pornhub for free. So that's an inducement.

Apple's argument that Safari is safer has been backed up by experts, apparently, according to this particular article. All right. Why would experts lie? Yeah, I don't know. All right. We're going to wrap it up there. That's all we have time to notice.

Noticing it's over. The announcer's done. He's noticed enough. Give him a break. Yeah. Nothing is over. We are going to take a quick break and come back in a second. And we have your opportunity to win a thousand bucks, my friend. It is with the presidency of 20 money. Get set for that. Bizarre File stories coming up, too. Stay there.

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On Saturday, deputies said 39-year-old Richard Christopher Smith of Miami stole several items, including several alcoholic beverages, and then walked out of the Spring Lake Market shortly before deputies arrived. They say that Smith was in a black minivan, and he was driving circles around the store.

He then sped off, launching a pursuit that ended several miles later in the parking lot of a business at the Sebring Airport. Now, during the pursuit, deputies said that Smith held a can of Kettle One vodka spritz out the window. Sure. As he drove by a deputy trying to get him to stop, telling the deputy, I was just going to give you a drink. That's it.

Smith then attempted to ram two patrol vehicles in the midst of getting all four tires flattened by spike strips. Well, that's not friendly. Smith was eventually tased and charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, battery on a law enforcement officer, two counts of resisting arrest, DUI, refusal to submit a DUI test, and petty theft as well. So that's all illegal and that's all bad, but you get the feeling that guy is really enjoying life. Probably. Yeah. And he offered a drink. He offered a drink.

In England, a head teacher attacked his deputy with a wrench after being hit by overwhelming sexual jealousy due to a love triangle at the school. Dude, and there's video footage of this, too. This guy walks in. There's a guy sitting at a desk, and he takes this, you know, clue board game-looking monkey wrench. Oh, like a huge one. Yeah, dude. Oh, man. And goes after the guy. You'd kill a guy. Absolutely. So...

Anthony Felton, 54 years old, admitted attempted grievous bodily harm with intent after the attack. Richard Pike. No wonder that's pinned all the way up. I was like, that is very loud. I heard it loud, yeah. Richard Pike was treated for minor injuries in the hospital after Felton sought him out and attacked him from behind. Felton was sentenced to two years and four months.

The court heard Felton was distressed after finding out that he was the father of a fellow teacher's child and had recently discovered Mr. Pike was in a relationship with that same teacher. I wish I'd gone to that school. Mr. Pike told the court Felton, whom he trusted completely, brought a metal wrench into his office and rained a number of blows on him. That should do the trick.

Mr. Pike fell to the ground and attempted to kick away from Felton before being helped by colleagues who heard the disturbance. Following the attack, which was caught on video, Felton threw the wrench away and drove off before sending an email to all staff apologizing for the problem. Sorry about that. And to stress that his actions were likely to cause. They called the attack...

Mr. Pike said that Felton had manipulated me into a position of complete vulnerability. I thought we were trusted colleagues who had, over many years, built up a relationship of trust and understanding. We're watching the video. He's taken out of his thing. Ba-bam. What a coward. Yes. What a coward. It's a sucker shot. He said it terrifies me still. I feel that I have lost so much of me, and I'm not sure if I will ever come to terms with that. But dude's going to jail for that one. Yes. Yes.

A doctor who secretly spied on 30 different people claimed that he only did it due to his concerns about his small penis. Joo Young Um hid tiny cameras in air fresheners and a smoke alarm in the bathroom in a spare bedroom of his apartment in Glasgow, Scotland's West End.

Also discreetly filmed a friend and a doctor at staff accommodation in Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary. Constable, I have a very good reason. I have a small penis. Well, wait till you hear this. So the anesthetist who worked in Glasgow denied doing anything illegal. He instead claimed that he has body dysmorphia, a condition where sufferers obsess over parent flaws in their appearance.

And Um said that this was only diagnosed after he was arrested. The doctor insisted that he was born with a small penis and used the footage to compare with other men. However, a jury at Glasgow Sheriff Court decided that Um's

acts were done for his own sexual gratification. Probably the case. He was found guilty to a total of 23 charges. Of his 30 victims, 21 were men, 9 were women, 3 of the men and 1 woman were doctors. The court heard that Um initially recorded his first victim in secret with a mobile phone through a window while he showered. Hey guys, I'm doing this video because I have a small penis. Um later attached a camera to a smoke alarm of the fellow doctor's bedroom at the hospital.

The footage also captured intimate footage between this man and his partner. Um rented out his spare bedroom to others on Airbnb, and he recorded them naked, showering, using the bathroom, and some occasions having sex. That's why it's such a creepy dynamic. Um told jurors in his evidence that he was diagnosed with suspected gigantism when he was a teenager, which was possibly why he had a small penis.

Jurors heard that Um did not seek medical help until 20 years later. How large is this person? Um further said that he did not want to view images on Google in case he came across illegal photographs. He also claimed that he did not view pornography as it was, quote, exaggerated and bigger than your normal male.

Yeah, he's saying all the right stuff. So he stated that he did not compare himself with his patients as they were the people who trusted him. So he would film his co-workers instead. He had a sense of decency about it. Yeah, to take a look at their penis size to compare it to his tiny penis. Well, that's...

Actually, I'm pretty good compared to this guy's dog. And that is why he says he decided to do that. Glad he's in medicine. Yeah, exactly. All right, and that's where we'll wrap it up there. That's what I have in the Bazaar file for you this morning. All right, the word that you need to enter an order to win $1,000 is stock.

That is currently the keyword that we have in press and receive 20 money. So do that now. Stock, S-T-O-C-K-E-F until 25 minutes after the hour. We have another break to take. When we get back, we'll do the lesson question. Trash and music news as well. So stay with us. We'll be right back. It's MMR's Local Shots. Artist of the Month. From Bridgeport, PA, it's Studweiser. I wish we could.

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Ooh, Fighters, 93.3 WMMR, under you. It's Preston and Steve's show, about 18 minutes out of 10 o'clock. Beautiful day today. It's a Monday. May as well have a good day weather-wise. I mean, it's spectacular. High 76. Nothing but sunshine and not...

As crazy windy as it was yesterday. We had stuff blowing all over my backyard. Yes, absolutely. Going up to 82 tomorrow in sunshine. And then we're going to stay around 80 degrees on Wednesday and partly cloudy skies. So good weather. Good summery type of weather this week. It's time for lesson question. We're going to give away a pair of tickets.

for Star Wars A New Hope live in concert Friday, June 20th at The Man and the Philadelphia Orchestra playing that Oscar winning musical score live. Excellent. How great is that? Dude, just for the opening alone. That'll be incredible. Thank you, Gates.

All right, so the question that we will go with this morning is, it's probably not a great idea to use ChatGBT as a default therapist. After his prostate cancer, what game on his phone helped Steve, right, as a therapist? Let's see if you know. Now, here's the deal.

You have to text the word ZOOM. I didn't hook up our phone. No, it's all right. You forget sometimes. How do you expect people to call in? I know. It's my fault. I didn't get a chance to tape the phone line to the telephone. But anyway, we're making progress. So you have to text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. It's a little more time consuming than our phone lines used to be. So it's kind of tough to squeeze this in.

right after the trash, but we're going to try anyway. So the question again is, probably not a great idea to use ChatGPT as a default therapist, but after his prostate cancer, what game on his phone helps Steve as a therapist? All right, so text word ZOOM 610-660-9333, and we will do this. The trash business is a goldmine. 93.3 WMMR.

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Steve, what's happening this morning? Preston, this is very weird. Jeffrey Epstein whistleblower Virginia Giffray was found dead by suicide on Friday after posting online that she is not suicidal and that, quote, evil people wanted her dead. Giffray was found in an apartment next to an empty bottle of pills and laying in her wood chipper. Oh, wow. It just seems weird, doesn't it?

Kanye West saying he would go back in time. If he could go back in time, he would choose to have his kids with Paris Hilton instead of Kim Kardashian. West also said he would bring back a copy of the Sports Almanac from 2015. Oh, my God.

And finally, Gwyneth Paltrow announcing on our Goop podcast she's done with the paleo diet and is going back and has gone back, in fact, to eating carbs and cheese. Paltrow has revealed that her new favorite breakfast, pork chops alamo. And that's your Hollywood track.

Hi, we got somebody who wants to crack this and we are going to check in with Chelsea. Hi, Chelsea. Good morning. Hey, guys. Hey. All right, Chelsea, we have a question for you. It's probably not a great idea to use chat GPT as a default therapist, but after his prostate cancer, what game on his phone helped Steve?

As a therapist, I can confirm that Angry Birds. Angry Birds! Chelsea is a therapist. All right, Chelsea, hang on. We are going to give you a pair of tickets for Star Wars New Hope.

Live in concert, Friday, June 20th. It's going to be at The Man and the Philadelphia Orchestra will play Oscar-winning composer John Williams' musical score. Live as the film is projected on three giant screens at the TD Pavilion at The Man. Parking is free. Tickets start at $28. And it's on sale now via mancenter.org. So congratulations. We'll now get to music news. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR.

All right. Yeah. Brought to you by, Steve, this was down. There we go. Brought to you by Pella Windows. And it's time to save on windows from Pella. You can save $1,500 off of your project and 0% interest for 12 months. Visit PellaPhilly.com. We had a nice conversation about this earlier this morning with a new group of inductees. But the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been announced today.

The news broke during last night's broadcast of American Idol, and it doesn't come without a little bit of controversy, but also some great news. I'll start with the great news. Philadelphia's own Chubby Checker is headed to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And there are a few other...

Ties with Philadelphia. Cyndi Lauper is going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She and Rob Hyman wrote Time After Time together. And Robert Hazard wrote Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Huge connection, absolutely. Big connections there. Also inducted are The White Stripes, Outkast, Bad Company, and

Soundgarden and Joe Cocker. And another tie-in to Philadelphia, Thomas Bell, who is part of the Gamble & Huff group. Yeah, legendary. Is in the Musical Excellence Award. So he was a producer and also pianist Nicky Hopkins. I'm sorry, Nicky Hopkins. And bassist Carol Kay, who was one of the famous Wrecking Crew session members. Carol Kay is the one on Wichita Lyman that came up with the...

The beginning. Oh. The iconic beginning of that song. The 13th inductee was legendary record executive and producer Lenny Wronker, and the induction will take place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on November 8th. And I also want to mention this album. He's still on the line.

So, the fan voting, even though they won, Fish did not make the cut. You kind of called that one, Casey. Had heard that there were...

Some biases against the group amongst the board. Apparently the fan vote only counts for one vote. Yeah, it happened a few years ago to Dave Matthews Band. They won the fan vote. They didn't get in. And then they were officially inducted last year. But it's awesome that Meg White is getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. She deserves that. The weird thing, Case, is that Fish obviously and eventually will make it. They deserve it.

I often wonder about what they're trying to sell that year. And last year, they needed to sell tickets to the concert. And Dave Matthews Band brought in a lot of tickets to the concert. So whenever Phish gets in, they'll sell out that arena. I have to imagine that's going to be a no-brainer. The Phish fandom motivated to be a part of that?

I don't know. I mean, not unless, you know, they have another plan. But it seems like a missed opportunity, at least this time. Two more recording artists, one induction into the hall, despite not appearing on this year's ballot. In a separate musical influence category, Salt-N-Pepa and another Philadelphia connection, Warren Zebon have been inducted, or will be inducted, I should say. Love Warren Zebon. The November 8th.

Yeah, Warren lived in Philadelphia in the region for a time in the 1980s. So that's some good news there for those people. I texted, reached out to Shan, Chubby Checker's son. Yeah. And told him, you know, congratulations from us and everything. And he said, yeah, it's great.

It's wonderful he's going to be able to experience this. How old is Chubby right now, did you say? He is 83 years old. 83 years old, okay. He's still performing, right? You know what? I don't know. I thought he was. I'm not sure if he's still performing or not.

But yeah, so Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the induction ceremony is taking place in November. So that's great news. Another thing that's coming up is MMRBQ. It's almost here, May 10th. And if you haven't gotten your ticket yet, you can do that now. Keep in mind, there's a four-pack of lawn seats for $100 plus tax. Saves $40 in fees. Now, here's the deal. I've seen texts come in from time to time where they're like, the lawn seats are not $25.

No, they're not. If you buy them individually or in groups of two or three, it's a four-pack that you need to get, and you need to go through WMMR.com.

slash mmrbq to get the information on that but there is a four pack of tickets option available and also the live band karaoke voting is underway 10 singers get to sing on stage with the band and you can vote now at Preston and Steve.com so I've been messaging with Diego Ramos formerly of the Gio show on Q102 because there is a Diego Ramos that is

part of the karaoke voting process. Were you wondering if it was him? Well, he texted me. He reached out to me. It's not him.

I don't know who it is. That's funny. But it is not the Diego Ramos that we all know. I like Diego Ramos. I was actually really bummed out to find that out. If it was a call-in interview, I would have loved to have Diego. In fact, even if you can't carry a tune, get in here and sing, man. I have not seen Diego in a long, long time. Very cool guy. That's funny, man. All right. But another thing to mention about the Preston and Steve show side stage is that we will have...

For the first time ever, a main stage act performing. Fat Mez is going to do two sets. They're going to do a completely unique set for the opening of the MMRBQ at 1 o'clock. And then later on that afternoon, another unique set on the side stage. And we're hoping that you'll get a chance to get over and see them. So get there early. See these amazing men for two completely different sets. I hope this Fat Mez thing starts a precedent where we start to see some of the bands and subsequent RBQs.

You know, it's kind of a cool little perk. Yep. And then I wanted to mention this. I got an email. This is from Emily Troisi, who is reaching out to a little bit of help about something called Project Hera. It is Friday, May 16th. They are a non profit profit. Sorry. Dedicated to promoting and empowering women in music.

And they're hosting their signature tribute concert to Lilith Fair at the Bottle and Cork in Dewey Beach, Delaware. Lilith Fair. Friday, May 16th. And the Lilith Fest will feature more than 20 female artists, including Delaware native and famed contestant of The Voice, Olivia Rubini, performing tributes to dozens of acts that played Sarah McLachlan's original Lilith Fair music festival, including Hart, Pat Benatar, Alanis Morissette, and Bonnie Raitt.

Lil' The Fest is meant to promote female artists who are historically underrepresented in music and made up just one third of artists in Billboard's 2024 Hot 100 chart, but also provide an uplifting community oriented experience for attendees.

I don't have the, you know, how you get tickets information, but I'm sure you can go to Bottle and Quirk's website, Dewey Beach, or do a quick search on Project Hera, H-E-R-A. So I wanted to give them a little plug for that. Nice, yes. And that's it in music news. We'll take another break. I've been told the triumphant return of Piero Bear. Oh, my God. The Duke is back, baby. How do I look? You look wonderful. You're going to wow him. But he should be here shortly. Latter-day Word of the Week prize will come back in a moment. Stay with us.

We are getting closer and closer to this year's MMRBQ. Saturday, May 10th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. A full day of partying with friends, family, and MMR. With eight great bands, including our headliners. Somebody check my brain. Alice in Chains. Yeah, you're the blood of death.

And three days grace. The always exciting Preston and Steve side stage. And the crowd pleasing live band karaoke with sidearm. We interrupt this promo to announce that MMR four packs are now available for a limited time. That's four tickets for a hundred bucks plus tax while supplies last.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Sublime on 93.3 WM, the more everything that rocks. Telling us about the wrong way, friend. 1037 on a Monday morning. Coming to a close for the broadcast for the Preston and Steve Show. Today, beautiful day weather-wise. I know I've been hitting that left and right, but it's just been fantastic. In fact...

Has it been warm? It's been warmer than normal, right? I believe so. Yeah, because we usually don't start to get this until late May. Yeah, so we're going to be getting one of those springs where I think we could just kind of, it becomes summer quickly. Yeah, which is kind of weird, but you know, hopefully it won't turn into blazingly hot summer down the road, but we'll see about that. Today's about 76 degrees and sunshine is just, it's

It's just absolutely ideal. I love it. You just sit out and if you can, grab some time to just go for a walk or sit outside or absorb it. It is life affirming. It picks you up. It's actually healthy for you. Sat outside most of the day yesterday. Oh, yeah. It was wonderful. Yeah. It was a little windy for a little bit. Yes. And then by the evening, the wind kind of went away, man. I was working the yard, man. Yeah. Love that. Keeping my line straight, Preston. You know when you move.

You have to make sure the lines are good. Of course. Yes. Yeah, so I... My son had a rugby match yesterday, and then afterwards, one of the parents had a party at their house, and they live in Medford Lakes. I'd never been to Medford Lakes in my entire life. How was it? It was awesome! Yeah? Yeah! Like...

I felt like I was in a mountain community. The house was right on a lake, and so that's why I noticed the wind, because when we got there, the wind was whistling. We're on a boardwalk. We're coming down Medford Lakes. Hey, Ben, we're going to Medford Lakes. Casey's having a party. I know you weren't, but I just want to get the guys excited. You got to figure...

Bruce has been to Medford Lakes, right? He's a Jersey guy. It's in New Jersey, so he's had to have been... I like it better than Thunder Road. You got a lake. Thunder Road's just a road. It's a goddamn road. Yeah, I've seen that a bunch of times. Find them anywhere.

All right, real quick, I want to thank our guest this morning. We had a friend, John Dorenzi. John Dorenzi had a kidney transplant and he came with a guest. It was a gentleman named Joe Duffy. Joe's son, Caleb, passed away, I believe he was 33 years old. Yes. And fortunately for John and four other people...

Caleb had filled out for his driver's license to be an organ donor and he ended up saving the lives of five people total. And it is National Donate Life Month. April is running out of time on that, but they just wanted to highlight that.

and remind people that that option is available and John is living proof of someone who can carry on now as is the other people that benefited from those organ donations. Super inspiring to see them both. Nice admin. And then the lovely Brooke Burns. And she is the new host of Tic Tac Doe. You can find that on Game Show Network weeknights at 7 p.m.

We have the triumphant returned. Triumphant, I tell you. Where's my Don Rickles music? He returns victorious from his world travels to tell you... We're working on it. Hang on. We're working on it. To tell you stories that he has regaled throughout his travels around the world. Ladies and gentlemen...

We give you the Duke, Pierre Robert. Yay! Good morning, sir. Fine, thank you. However, you did not leave, did you? This was your getting your S together. Oh, you did? Yeah, I went to the sea. You went to the sea. That's the sailor in you.

The Sea of Chaos. The Sea of Chaos? Yes. It was another stay-at-home week of trying to organize paperwork and go through the massive clutter and chaos that I am. How many assistants...

that have done this for you, have you had to talk off the roof? They've all, I've lost them all. They're all gone. Run screaming, going, how can anyone live like this? Right. But, you know, we all get a lot of paper, right, and things, and then you try to store things, and then if you don't stay up on the things that you get, or the things that you already have. Have John from Sequoia build you an office. He

He's right. Why didn't I think of that? Yes, that certainly is an idea. Yeah. Anyway, so there's and then if you don't manage the things, then things can get a little out of control. Yes. So you choose not to manage things. I intend to manage them. I just don't quite get to it. It's your version of managing, which is allowing them to you have which we refer to as free range paperwork.

Laissez-faire. Yes. More on the laze. Yeah. And I need more affairs. But it's just, yeah, it's not pretty. But now that you've wrapped it up, because we were talking about this, and our time off, I think we all did, like garages, and it was bag-stirring out like crazy. And you feel good, because it lifts it off your mental plate. Do you feel purged?

Not quite. Not quite. I made a dent. I started the feng shui of things. You shake up the energy and you move things by moving things around in placement. And so I began that process and I got a lot of stuff done, threw a lot of stuff out.

And yet there is the inevitable, just like the sea, the waves keep coming at the sea of chaos. That's true. And so there's still more sea to manage. Okay. Sea. Does that make sense? It does. Perfect. Thank you. Absolutely. I totally get what you're saying. That's what I'm here for. The prophet Gilbran. Thank God I'm back. All right. And back to work. And one order of business we need is our letter of the day, if you're ready. Yes. All right. Kristen and Steve.

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After that, then I'm going to grow some plants. I'm going to grow Jersey tomatoes. Ooh, yummy. And balacanwood. You can do it. They really can. And in addition to that, I will have more giveaways for this Wolfgang Van Halen thing, which is coming up. APR Presents. We've been doing four packs, started last week. But today, I think all this week, I have two.

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Don Felder, formerly of the Eagles, will be joining us. We'll see what else we can do as well. That's it. We're done. Rage on and have yourself a great day. We'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Hey, everybody. It's good to have you on the map. 2-2-2-ba-ba-ba-do-ga-ga-ba-ba-da.