Daily Podcast (05.06.25)
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I'm just not the hero type. And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. And it's on. Welcome. It's a Tuesday morning Preston and Steve show. We are here for you, my friend. And let's do the first thing we always do. And that's deliver the weather forecast. Really?

Really lousy looking start of the day. We had some heavy rain in spots this morning. It's going to be off and on with that through the course of the day today. So scattered showers at times. High of about 74. Tomorrow, partly cloudy. Highs 76.

And there's a chance for shower almost each day. It depends on what day and what time. So Thursday, maybe some afternoon showers. Friday, maybe some morning showers. Cooler on Friday. High 63. Might be out of the woods by the time we get into the weekend. First time in a while that's happened. Yes. Hello.

Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. Today is Tuesday, it's May 6th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, all mobile phone signals will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday ahead of the highly secretive conclave to elect the next pope.

The Vatican also plans to use signal jammers around the Sistine Chapel to prevent electronic surveillance or communication outside the conclave that will see 133 cardinals vote on who will succeed Pope Francis and lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. Oddly enough, they are leaving access to draft kings.

which I don't understand. All right, well, you got to do your bets. They need something to do in their downtime. All have already arrived in Rome, the Vatican confirmed on Monday. For centuries, the leader of the Catholic Church has been chosen in a highly secretive gathering known as a conclave, which means with key in Latin, a nod to how cardinals used to be locked in until a new pope was selected.

Cardinals tasked with the Cardinals are tasked with picking the next pontiff following following an elaborate process with roots in the Middle Ages. The Cardinals will have to give up their phones and all electronic devices starting Tuesday and will only have their devices back once the conclave has ended. A Vatican spokesperson said just like it was in the Middle Ages. There you go. Yeah. Exactly right. They got rid of their phone. Yeah. I got to imagine if you're having this.

and you're in Italy, they got to provide pizza, right? I hope so. You would assume. The Cardinals will all be shut in the Sistine Chapel and locked away from the outside world on Wednesday. All of the Cardinals taking part in the conclave will be in complete isolation and will take a vow of observance, absolute and perpetual secrecy. Security has been ramped up throughout St. Peter's Square, the checkpoints at the entrances and the deployment of medical detectors and anti-drone systems at the public space.

The chapel is placed under total lockdown. Even the electricians, plumbers, and elevator operators who will keep the Vatican running during the conclave will commit themselves to secrecy. Do you know what they should do, President? They should put some of those Boston Dynamics robots around the Vatican with machine guns. Yep, and make sure they keep everybody out. Little people hat on there. I like that. Kathy and I heard a little factoid this morning. Is that right? The shortest amount of time has been a few hours and the longest...

A few years. A few years. When did the few years one occur? I don't know. They didn't expand. They didn't say. They just said it could be a few hours or a few years until your next phone call. That's what actually one of the people for consideration was Buddy Hackett. It took quite a while. Well, they had to consider that. That's a tough one. But you know what? Taking their phones, no, they're going to come to a conclusion quickly. Yeah, totally. They can't.

Come on, man. I got business. Yeah. Way back in 1268. It took 1,006 days. Wow. Wow. Well, you know, they didn't have the signal back then, Steve. Yeah, yeah. Took a long time. I'm not getting a signal. Turns out there's no wireless at all. You go up on the roof.

Well, all of this starts tomorrow. They are all there now, ready to go, but it starts tomorrow. Police are investigating a video taken at Barstool Sanson Street showing an anti-Semitic sign that was ordered by patrons. The Temple University student who has been suspended for the role that played in the incident denies his involvement. On Sunday, Dave Portnoy addressed the anti-Semitic incident that occurred.

He said he fired the two waitresses responsible for carrying out the incident. In a statement Sunday, Temple University President John Fry said after investigating the university's Division of Student Affairs, identified one Temple student involved in the incident. The school has placed that student on interim suspension. Or now he's still going to send him on an all expenses paid trip to Poland? No, I have that update. Good. He is not going to send him. Honolulu. Yeah.

Yes, so let me get to that point. So Portnoy, on Monday afternoon, Barstool Sports creator took to Instagram stories to say that though he spoke with the student on Sunday who says he took 100% responsibility for the sign, the student has since done a 180. Portnoy then posted a screenshot showing the alleged student's post.

where they do not take any accountability for the incident. In retaliation, Portnoy revoked the educational trip, which was meant to highlight the history of the Holocaust. Yeah, there's another way you can do that.

that. I mean, you don't have to send them on a trip and everything. There's plenty of people locally that I'm sure somebody could talk to and maybe... The Holocaust Museum, right? Absolutely. In D.C.? Most definitely, that's part of it. Portnoy says whatever ramifications come his way, he 100% earned and deserved, Portnoy wrote on his Instagram story. There was also a dance teacher from Dance Express Dance Studio that apparently was involved and the dance studio says that she will never teach there again. Well,

Major delays and cancellations that have been plaguing travelers coming in and out of Newark International Airport in the past week could continue well into next week and beyond if multiple issues, including staffing shortages and equipment malfunctions, aren't resolved.

The Federal Aviation Admission issued several ground delays and ground stops at the New Jersey airport, which is among the busiest airports in the country. At one point, arriving flights were delayed as long as six hours, while departures faced nearly four-hour delays. Oh, these poor people, four hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We sat for like 12. You battled scars. But listen, this is going into day nine of these delays and it all brings it back to Philadelphia. So the FAA blamed equipment outages and staffing levels in Philadelphia where the air traffic control center that oversees Newark's airspace is based as well as runway construction.

But the main issue that kick-started a chain of delays came after a number of system outages, including when controllers' screens essentially went dark for up to 90 seconds, causing them to lose the ability to see, hear, or talk to the pilots of the aircrafts they were tracking in the air at the key facility handling traffic in and out of Newark.

It is being described as a traumatic event that has left some employees taking a medical leave. United Airlines is advising passengers to consider changing to other airports because of these delays at Newark. Isn't the con-con system supposed to kick in when they have this case? That's a cyanol on Conclave. We have a... Con-con.

Sideline Conclave. I like that. It goes back to our first story. Sideline Conclave. I also heard another stat this morning. I think that the woman is out of her mind. Nine out of ten of these air traffic control centers are understaffed. Yeah? Yeah, that's crazy. In sports this morning. Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy.

The Phillies were off yesterday and opened up a series against the Tampa Bay Rays. They actually didn't do anything yesterday. Well, they flew. They opened up a series against the Tampa Bay Rays in Florida tonight. Zach Wheeler will get the start. The first pitch is set for 7.05. In the NHL playoffs, the Maple Leafs beat the Florida Panthers 5-4 in Game 1 last night in Toronto.

William Nylander scored twice in the first period before adding an assist as Toronto built a big lead before holding on to beat the Panthers in the series opener. Game two is tomorrow night in Toronto. In the NBA, the New York Knicks came back from a 20-point deficit to beat the Celtics in Boston 108-105 in overtime last night. Jalen Brunson and OG Anubi.

and a newbie. Each scored 29 points before Mikel Bridges stole the ball from Jalen Brown with a second left in overtime and the Knicks stunned the Celtics in Game 1 of the series. Game 2 is tomorrow night in Boston. In Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals, Aaron Gordon hit a three-pointer with 2.8 seconds remaining, supporting Nikola Jokic's 42-point, 22-rebound game and giving the Denver Nuggets a 121-119 comeback win over the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder. Game 2 is tomorrow night in Oklahoma City.

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. Welcome to Tuesday morning. And we have to have Tuesday all set up and ready to go. So go to WMMR.com. Check out the contest page and you can enter to win a chance.

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to walk away with some more cash today. We would love for that to happen. We have a couple of guests on the program today, all musically oriented. We have our buddy Victor Fiorello from Philly Mag and his band and the lead singer Dito from the Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret.

They have their 20th anniversary show at the Miller Theater on May 16th. So, uh, we get the great Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret crew in here this morning. I had no idea they'd been around for two decades. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Uh, we'll talk to Victor Anita later this morning. Uh,

And also in town tonight at Union, I'm sorry, in town on Thursday performing at Union Transfer is the band Larkin Poe. We love those guys. They've been here, played in our studio. They've played the MMRBQ. We've talked to them a number of times. They're really, really cool. It's Megan and Rebecca. So we'll chat with them around 10 o'clock. Just a little quick, quick chit chat to get you excited about their show coming up. So other than that.

Business as usual. Man, I was telling Steve when I got in this morning, it was some of the nastiest rain I've driven in in some time. Like...

Loads of cars pulled over on the side of the road. That blew my mind. That type is like walls of water. Yeah, because I had just driven in and I had nothing. And then Nick repeated what you said and just said it was actually raining in half the parking lot. Yeah, well, yeah. So first of all, it was so loud and thunderous this morning that it woke me up. And I didn't even need the alarm this morning because the rain woke me up. But then Preston...

I went to Wawa. It was not raining badly in Wawa. Get in and out of the parking lot, no problem. And then I get to this parking lot here and get off of Belmont. It was raining when I pulled into the parking lot. By the time I got out of the car to walk into the building, not raining anymore. It was a bizarre storm that sort of came through quickly. These weird little isolated cells. So that might be indicative of what we have in store for us today. So just a heads up as you're making your plans and heading out the door today. All right, let's take a quick break. Come back in a second. Oh, my God, the

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, stupid question time. We're going to give away a pair of tickets for Wendy Cummings at the Miller Theater. And the show is on Saturday, November 22nd. And tickets go on sale. They're on sale now, actually. So here's the question for you. What four U.S. states start with the letter A?

Need to know all four of those. What four U.S. states start with the letter A? And if you think you know, you got to text the word ZOOM to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the link. You can jump on, hopefully, and answer that question. All right, there's four of them. We'll go through some birthdays today, waiting for that.

Check in from you today being the sixth day of May. And George Clooney has a birthday today. George Clooney. Yep. George turns 64 years old. So he are. Yeah. This is a long time. He's doing Facts of Life on Broadway now. Oh, wow. On Broadway. I think that's what he's doing. Wow. But no, he dyed his hair black for the role. I think he's playing Edward R. Murrow. Okay. Yeah. And getting, I think he was nominated for his first...

Tony? Yeah, Tony, yeah. Yeah, a neighbor of ours went to see Good Night and Good Luck and said it was phenomenal. So it was absolutely amazing. He directed the movie. Yeah, I remember that. He turns 64 years old today. It's also Roma Downey's birthday. I like her. Touched by an angel. And she's been married to Mark Burnett, the creator of Survivor, since 2007. They're like this power couple.

The first time I ever saw her, she was a little bit more sultry on that series Hercules. You remember that, Kevin Sorbo? Uh-huh. And that's the first time I saw her. Yeah, but she's been, they're kind of a Hollywood power couple. Mm-hmm. She turned 65. We had her in studio, didn't we? We did, with him, I believe. Yeah, and I'm so sorry, but every time I hear her name and I know that she's associated with Touched by an Angel, but I think of the other lady from Touched by an Angel. I do, too. Yeah. The angel. Yeah. Yeah.

Not Roman Downey. Della Reese. Della Reese. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every single time. Yep, I do too. I get the names mixed up. Why? There are a number of those clips from Touched by an Angel are up as memes and they're Della Reese getting sassy. Really? Yeah. I haven't seen those. I don't know.

Gabori Sidibe has her birthday today. Precious. You know, I never saw that movie. It is powerful. It's heavy. That's probably why I haven't watched it. Yeah, it's nice. It's got to pick me up. She's pretty good in that heist movie with Eddie Murphy. Oh, yeah. I like that. That was a good movie. The Ben Stiller one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The tower heist?

Tower Heights. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good movie. She turns 42 years old today. It's also actress Adrienne Palicki. Oh, like her. She's beautiful. I remember first I took my...

to see one of the G.I. Joe movies and I'm like, who is that? Who's that? She had, um, David E. Kelly was producing a Wonder Woman TV series. She was playing Wonder Woman. Never made it to, um, to the schedule though. Um, Is she Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Uh, no. No. But she is, uh, she's a sexy assassin in John Wick, I think. Uh,

She was in the Orville. Orville, yes. She was totally in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Shut up, really? Yeah. Played Bobby Morse. Odd case. I don't even remember that at all. Here you go. 31 episodes. So, stand corrected. So, she turns 42 years old today. All right, Meek Mill's birthday is today. I used to break the times like this, to rhyme like this. So, I had to grind like that, to shine like this. His given name is Robert Remeek. Hey.

Hence the Meek part of Meek Mill. So I did not know that. So he turns 38 years old today. He used to work at Foreman Mill. Did he really? Foreman Mill. Meek Mill. Remember that old commercial? Also turning a year older is the great Bob Seger. Oh. Bob Seger.

Celebrates a big one. He's 80. What? Just night moves. That's a... Not night moves. We've got tonight. We've got tonight. You want to start a party. Night moves would have been a dance song. Come here. We've got tonight. By the way, in all deference to night moves, we've got tonight is a lovely ballad. It's a great song. Yeah. It's just not great when Bud Shaggles to play Metallica. Woo!

Full blast. Who's got tonight? Bud gets really mad at you for playing this song instead. Also, I mean, not for nothing, Metallica's also not the 2AM. You know what I mean? Like, that's not the vibe at 2AM. Well, in Bud's room it was. Yeah, Bud's an idiot.

But they had tonight. They had it that night. Nick wanted to be tonight. We're here together. Seize the moment. We've got tonight. Listen, I appreciate your defense, Casey, and yours too, Steve. I was in the wrong. What I did at that moment was because I was feeling sappy and I wanted to hear this song. And it is a great song. I love it just as much as you guys do. At that moment, at that vibe, in that room, not this song. Not in the place. Sometimes you've got to read the room. Did you ever see him in concert?

No, I'd love to. Yeah, I saw him once. Great concert. Again, like a John Cougar Mellencamp, wall-to-wall songs that you know. That's cool. So he turns 80 years old today. Happy birthday, Bob Seger. Also from the world of music, from Foo Fighters, Chris Shiflett turns a year older. One of those dangerous names to say in rock. Shiflett. Yeah. He is 54 today. And then the last birthday I saw is TV personality Mr. Tom Bergeron.

And it's a big birthday for him as well. He is seven years old. He's a great host. Excellent host. One of the smoothest. Dancing with the Stars, Funniest Home Videos. He's really solid in his job. Yeah, yeah. So happy birthday, everybody. And let's see if we can get an answer to the question. What four U.S. states start with the letter A? She's on the move this morning. We got Leah who's joining us via Zoom. Hi, Leah.

Hi. Nice to see you. Thanks for joining us. Do you happen to know the four states to start with the letter A, please? Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, and Alaska. Nailed it! Yeah! That is correct. So hang on, Leah, because we got you a pair of tickets to Zim MMR Rocks Whitney Cummings at the Miller Theater Saturday, November 22nd. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster. You can go to WMMR.com for more information. So thank you very much. All right.

I got some stories. The Met Gala was last night. I'm surprised I was able to wake up this morning. The red carpet was filled with stunning fashion choices. This year's theme, super fine. Tailoring black style pays tribute to the artist and legacy, artistry and legacy of black dandyism. Drawing from fashion photography and history and the official dress code is, was called tailored for you.

The co-chairs included Coleman Domingo, ASAP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Anna Wintour, LeBron James was the honorary chair.

Want to hear about what people wore? Oh, I know. Describe it. Yes. I'll describe it for you. Rihanna revealed that she's pregnant, by the way, with her third child. She wasn't hiding it either. She was wearing a form-fitting two-piece Miu Miu. Miu Miu. That made sure all eyes were on her baby bump. So you got to see her pop a little bit last night.

Too busy. Janelle, the outfit is too busy? Yeah, I agree. So some of them go for, they're going to do the outlandish, I rated my tool shed kind of vibe. And others are just kind of really trying to match the period that they're going for. Janelle Monae caught everybody's eyes. She wore a striking black, red, and white pinstripe suit.

and a large diamond brooch that was made from tequila. She was wearing something, at least if I'm recalling correctly, that looked like so. There was the picture of an outfit on the outfit she was wearing. You know what I'm talking about? Well, it looks like she had something over it and then peeled it off. Right, right, right. And are you telling me she could take her little pin off and take a sip? I don't know what that means. It's just a cath. I'm not really sure. Sounds cool.

But it's a brooch made from tequila. Made from tequila. I mean, it was Cinco de Mayo yesterday, so. It could be. I just need a brooch with tequila in it. Halle Berry wore a risky, potentially not safe for work, striped dress on the carpet. And it was stripes, literally. There were large stripes covering her body and they were strategically placed, apparently.

Ali, this is amazing. We can almost see your beaver. I didn't see it personally. Yeah, you can kind of see the ab to leg line, but not between it. Yeah, okay. You're on the road. You're just not getting all the way there. Lizzo debuted a platinum blonde look. She also channeled a bit of Cruella de Vil featuring black and white topped off with Disney villains, the Disney villains iconic long cigarette. I'm sorry, Lizzo.

This is a freaking costume party. This is a costume party that masquerades as a...

That's all it is. Well, no. And in fact, once I... You figured out... A lot of people were saying that this was kind of felt like a funeral for the Met Gala because a lot of the main celebrities didn't show up. And she talked herself, Anna Wintour, about two or three years ago about canceling the whole thing. Well, that's what I was going to say. She's been saying that for years. So, like, you can't say that this... I thought you were going to say maybe this was the last one. No, no, no. She's been saying that forever. Yeah, she was saying it for a while. Oh, my God.

Shaboosie. Shaboosie. Showed off. Everybody's Shaboosie. In a black suit that featured a turquoise watch and beaded design and turquoise grills. Wow. It matched his, he had like some sort of like beaded shirt or something on and his teeth matched his shirt. Are you into it, Kath? Do you like seeing this kind of stuff?

Yeah, I think it's cool. I mean, this is, you know, like Casey said, they're dressing up. For them, this is their dress-up party. It's supposed to be over the top, obviously. It's a little insane. It's a lot insane. But I guess what I'm wondering is, like, do you like seeing these sort of publicized,

possible fashion trends come to light? I don't think that any of them are possible fashion trends. But I understand the question, but this is... None of this you will see anywhere else but the Met Gala. Yeah, this is not a fashion show, you know, where, like, okay, you might see some variation of something coming down the runway. No, but you say that's... A lot of times that's the case with Holtzcouture, where you'll see they're wearing things that...

You know, Meryl Streep describes it in The Devil Wears Prada, how it distills down to what you actually wear. Because no one's going to wear that crap. Nick, I think at the fashion shows, you'll see some iteration of it, right, in the actual fashion trends. The Met Gala is just, they're just going over as...

over the top as they possibly can. Shakira showed off in a stunning pink dress that trailed behind her. Nicole Kidman debuted a two-toned pixie cut on the red carpet. A statement shared that Kidman's new cut was, quote, all about tailoring the right proportions. That's what I said. Chapel Roan,

made her Met Gala debut. She was rocking out in a full magenta ensemble and she paired the look with silver eyeshadow and extra long feathered eyelashes. What was Tom Papa wearing? He wasn't there. Gigi Hadid was golden. Literally, she wore a Miu Miu liquid gown.

gold halter gown dotted with multicolored beads. So I'm guessing Miu Miu is the designer right now because I've heard... It has to be. Gigi said it's a celebration of Zelda Wynn Valdez who was a fashion designer in the late 40s and she was trained by her uncle in his men's tailoring shop and went on to open her own store in Washington Heights so she knew all about that. She looked like, I mean that kind of looks like a normal dress. That's timeless. Like Sidney Sweeney had sort of a timeless look.

That looked like what I would describe as real clothes, not from another planet. So Sidney Sweeney was there? Yeah. What was she wearing? Like a black sort of sparkly. She almost looked like a flapper. Okay. Like a mudflap. Then we had Zendaya. She rocked an all-white ensemble featuring a white three-piece Louis Vuitton silk suit. And she also wore a matching hat. She could have been a straight-up model model.

You know, Zendaya with her body and she's long and lanky. Yeah. She's got the build. And then Miley Cyrus wore a crocodile skin crop top paired with a black maxi skirt. And she also rocked a thick gold choker necklace. It's wild because Billy Ray Cyrus showed up. He didn't get the actual invite correct. He showed up as Robocop. Oh, yeah.

Listen, they would probably celebrate that. You know what I mean? Miley looks good. Who's in the middle here? Sidney Sweeney. Oh, yeah, she looks great. Were you the one showing me the Miley Cyrus as RoboCop? Oh, yes! That's where that came from. That was my mental connection. You should be my therapist. Speaking of Sidney Sweeney, there's another romance rumor. She was now spotted hanging out with Machine Gun Kelly. No! No!

Split from Megan Fox. I don't approve of that one. I know you don't. I don't even care. You know what? I dislike her so much, I'm like, go for it. Why do you dislike Sidney Sweeney so much? Because of her character on White Lotus. Casey and I both don't see her as attractive as everyone else does because she was such a...

in White Lotus the very first season and like it rubbed off. Like you almost, you believe that because that personality is really in there. I hear that. I understand that. I'll probably come around at some point. I saw a couple of projects that soften that, but she was a bit of a biatch. Yeah. I like him less than her. I don't like him either. Yeah, he gets under my skin. So she was seen hugging

and talking closely while hanging out in Vegas over the weekend, which was enough for some people to wonder if there's anything going on there. That said, the two have actually known each other since they both starred in 2021's Down Falls High. So they actually have a history together. And they're on the same pickleball team. I would imagine. Yeah. Jennifer Aniston was enjoying a quiet afternoon at home yesterday when things got a little loud. A man drove through the gates of her house in Los Angeles. Oh, my God.

The actress's security held the man at gunpoint until the cops came and arrested him, and it's not known what he was booked for. The cops believe that the driver was in his 70s. I have two Whoppers and a Coke. What?

So was it an accident? I have two whoppers. He reportedly complained of pain after the crash and they had to get him out there checked out by an ambulance. So, Kath, I don't know. They don't know yet whether or not this guy did that in

Well, you're not Lisa Kudrow. If he just had a medical emergency or... Sometimes that happens. You guys remember that story in the 90s when a crazed fan tried to drive into Eddie Vedder's house? Oh. Yeah, and it was an obsessed fan, and her intent was to get into the house by crashing through the gate. Wow. Yeah, he had to put a wall around the house. Wow. This chick wants a Whopper.

I don't know what's going on with Burger King. Steve, somebody shared a story on Instagram with me of Eddie telling a story about the grocery store, going to the grocery store. It's a funny story. I'll share it with you guys. But your Eddie with a reverb is just, you know what? I'm going to send it to Marissa now. Okay, yeah. And you guys have to hear it because it's just Steve. It sounds just like Steve, right? Steve Morrison, yeah. Yeah, I believe it.

All right, Khloe Kardashian is opening up about her skin cancer recovery, revealing how fillers help repair the indentation left behind after surgery. Were those chemo fillers? She had skin cancer? She had skin cancer, yes. Okay, so she had tags removed, right? Well, I don't know. Probably. Or, you know, some kind of

Sometimes there are cancerous moles and things like that. But she said, I don't know if you guys remember, but I had a tumor removed from my face, she said. Oh, okay. In an Instagram story explaining that she's still healing even though it's been a couple of years now. She said she used a biostimulant filler to help smooth her area. It was popcorn. After the surgery left a deep indentation in her right cheek.

Okay, it's on our face. There was something on my skin that I had removed on my chest. It has left the most awful scar. Like a divot? No, it's not a divot. It puffed out. It's worse than what was there. And it wasn't cancerous. So I should have just left it.

Wow. And I'm so angry that I had it removed. Have you ever had a flirt with a skin cancer? No, I haven't had anything like that. But I mean, it was like a little spot. And so the doctor was like, well, let's remove it and we'll test it. And it was fine. And now I have a terrible. That's bizarre. It's red. It's raised. It's awful. I hate it.

I need filler. Nick, back in the 80s, it was definitely the WWF. I don't remember. I feel like it was Junkyard Dog. If it wasn't Junkyard Dog, it was somebody else. But

But the dude essentially had a hole in his back. Do you remember that guy? No. You don't remember that? Not at all. All right. I believe you. It was probably maybe about the size of a golf ball. What did he keep in there? Dude, I don't even know. And I've never looked at it because I didn't have the internet back then. Yeah. I'm going to look this up now. Stevie kept tater tots in it. I've got tater tots in my back for you, mister. Yeah, do a search on wrestler with a hole in his back.

and see what comes up. Revenge is a dish best served with cold tater tots. It's all part of the storyline. You got it, bro! We were looking at a picture of Chloe. It looked pretty significant what she had removed. At least an inch and a half. That was pretty significant for sure. I'm sure she had the best plastic surgeon do it. You could see maybe needing a little filler there.

Seeing a clinician regularly over nine months, she said, helped the mark almost become non-existent. Many of the guys, Preston, who repaired the collapse on 95 worked on her face. Right. But she did want to remind viewers that, you know, melanoma is deadly and you got to get regular skin checks. And that is definitely the truth. It's the deadliest thing that sounds so benign.

I didn't even have to Google it. I just had to say it out loud. And it came up? No, no, no. Craig Legans is my Google. He goes, it was SD Jones and he had a cyst removed. SD Jones? Yeah. Wow, I don't remember that wrestler. With a big hole in his back. I think you'd remember that.

I thought this was a fun story. Ashley Tisdale had a full circle moment recently when she was in the crowd as her niece Michaela performed in a school play. And the interesting thing was a girl was playing Sharpay Evans in a production of High School Musical, the same role that made Aunt Ashley famous almost 20 years ago. Did you ever, you saw those, right? Did you see any of those? I watched, you know, part of them here and there. And I thought they were fun. They were fun. And I thought she was great. I thought she was great.

But I didn't go all in and watch the whole thing. But I loved her character. She was over the top, you know, as far as being a privileged socialite and all that. You know my jam is The Descendants. Of course, me too. I did watch all of those. So Tisdale acted as Sharpay both in the 2006 film, the two sequels, the 2011 spinoff, Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure. As for how she felt watching her niece's performance...

So it was pure pride. She shared a photo of her niece on Instagram writing, watch my niece play Sharpay at her school. Life is wild. Another photo she wrote, I'm so proud of you. Love you so much. So that's kind of fun.

Well, after allegations that the White Lotus co-stars Walton Goggins and Amy Lou Wood were feuding, there seems to be quiet on the battlefield. After the two had sparked rumors of a tiff last month when they unfollowed each other on Instagram, whatever the issue was seems to have blown over as the two have refollowed each other. But just last week, Goggins abruptly ended an interview with the London Times after a writer had asked him questions about the status of their friendship, and he had said, I'm not going to have that conversation again.

So this may be just to shut people up.

Does this go back to the SNL bit where they sort of do what SNL does and they had one of the characters with her teeth and Walter Goggins was on the show and there was apparently some hurt feelings. Is that the step off point of all this? I thought this unfollowing thing happened before that. All right. That's what I remember, but I could be wrong. On the show, their chemistry is terrific. Yeah, yep.

So, let me see. What time is it? I got time for a couple quick things here. Let's see. How about this one? Movie fans have been wondering, why do all movie posters and graphics for the Marvel movie Thunderbolts feature an asterisk next to the word Thunderbolts?

Days after the film's successful release, Marvel Studios has revealed the meaning of the added punctuation mark. The asterisk denotes the movie's subtitle, The New Avengers. It's pretty cool. They had a couple of things on social media with them peeling off covers to the movie poster, rehanging movie posters with the new title.

So the new Avengers is the movie's group of Winter Soldier, Ghost, John Walker, Alexei Shostakov and Yelena Belova represent. And they're all expected to appear in Avengers Doomsday. And that'll be out a year from now, actually, May 1st, 2026. It's going to be a while before we got the barbecue this weekend. And so I'm not going to get any time, but hopefully next week, following week, I'll get to see it.

So real life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie star as a duo whose codependency leads them down a dark path after a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious unnatural force in the upcoming body horror called Together. This looks good.

As the couple struggles with their relationship, their physical bodies begin to fuse together. And what was a complacent, staid relationship gets so much worse after. Did you watch the trailer? No, I haven't seen it yet. So there's a scene where they're really close together and their eyelashes and lids start to move towards each other. And if you are into this stuff, and I do dig body horror movies...

but they're apparently going all in, and right now it has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. So the film comes out on July 30th, so not way too far off for you to be able to check that out. Let's see, I thought this was interesting too. When you see the film Final Destination Bloodlines,

You not only will be seeing the latest Final Destination movie in this series, but you'll also be witnessing a world record that is being broken. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Zach Lepofsky said that Yvette Ferguson, a 71-year-old former actress and stuntwoman, was brought out of retirement for the movie's opening scene, breaking the record for the oldest person ever unmarried.

on fire on camera. Wow, that is awesome. There was a record for that apparently. Yes. She didn't know she was doing a stunt, Nick. They just literally set her on fire. She posted a still of her big moment to social media writing, had the opportunity to do a fire burn for Burnett Simmons stunts. Thank you for a great opportunity and check it out in theaters.

Coming out soon. The movie will be out on May 16th, by the way. So I enjoy those movies because it's like a Rube Goldberg, how's this person going to die? What's going to hit what? And how's this going to happen? In fact, that movie, Monkey, Preston, has a similar, based on the Stephen King story, has a similar vibe to it. But I can't help it. I'm a sucker for this. I only saw the first one, Steve, but I will not drive behind a truck with logs in it without fear of one of those...

Bad boys hopping off and going right through my chest. Yeah, you know what I won't do? I won't, in the shower, pull that little string to hang things. No, no, no. Don't close the door down, the top of your tanning bed all the way down. You'll die. Yeah. All right, one more story, and then we'll get to the clips at

a four-year consideration event in Hollywood Reporter. Harrison Ford had nothing but praise for how 1923 wrapped up. He said, I thought it was very tight storytelling and I was obviously delighted with it. He called it the densest script that he's ever, that he's worked on in ages. And co-star Helen Mirren joked and said, I was convinced that

that I was going to die, so I was quite surprised. I was still alive at the end of the show after a character made it through the finale. Well, that's what Taylor Sheraton is not afraid of, is killing people off of these shows, and a lot of people did die, but the two of them did make it, and I thought the ending, the way they ended it, was great. I thought the whole last season was excellent. Is this one season or two seasons? No, it's two seasons. Two seasons, okay. The way they ended it, it's not what you wanted, but like...

They had to. You know what I mean? It was like, okay, it was that time. What would have happened if it was actually that time period? And I just, I loved it. So I saw the scene of Helen Mirren Preston is apparently aboard the ship and she's lost her hand and they've attached an android hand. And, and, um,

Nick, you've seen it? No, no, I heard about it. I saw some memes. Yeah, and they know that they have a journey ahead of them. Right. And they're standing in the large window of this. And you realize they're in outer space. For Christ's sake, it's 1923. Wow. What's funny is...

is there is a part of the show where amputation is brought up. So when he started to say that, I was like, oh, no, no, no. Really? He has the character wrong. And then it went from there. Again, but you love it. I love it. It was great. I know people who are fans of Yellowstone who like this more. Yeah. And again, I didn't want it to end the way it did, but it was still a great ending.

That's good writing. With 1944 reportedly in development, both actors said that they're open to returning, flashbacks or otherwise, with Ford saying that he's game if Sheridan asks nice. But he said, but I have no idea what his plans are. I actually went back, Casey. To 1129? Well, almost. No, to 1883, 1923. Like all of those to try to connect who the people are from show to show and if there is...

I mean, it's obviously generations later, but you can connect whose kid was to who and all this kind of stuff. Oh, wow. Okay. I got into it for a second. Maybe they'll make like, you know, 22 BC. All right. Kong, Kong, Kong, Kong. Nell's relatives.

Kong Kong. Nell, origins. Nell comes back as the more evolved. 22, yeah. 22, yeah, she's, this is what we become in future. Kong Kong. Kong Kong. Kong Kong. All right. Rick, I love that we have just that little bit. Kong Kong isolated. Kong Kong. All right, so. Kong Kong. Here we go with the clips.

Dwayne Perkins has been stepping into the comedy realm in the studio. And in this clip, he reveals his dream comedic role. Honestly, I would love to be able to do something big and comedic like Jim Carrey. Like The Mask or Liar Liar. Something that's just big, physical, wacky. I feel like I would really excel in that area. And I haven't been able to do that yet. Shut up, dummy. A new episode of the studio airs today. You'll find that on Apple TV+. Here's our next clip.

Not all actors who appear in horror movies are fans of the genre. And in this clip, Kevin Durant explains how his wife got him into horror films, which led to his new movie, Clown in a Cornfield. Honestly, I really love... Sorry, wrong thing. Here.

I wasn't a horror film fan until I married a horror film fan. And she would put on the most terrifying films on the TV. And because I can't look away and all this stuff burnt into my being, into my consciousness. And I became massively addicted. Yeah!

He's great. That's funny because he's a big scary dude. Yeah. He can be anyway. And he didn't like horror and she got him into it. Clown in Cornfield will be released in theaters this week. It's a funny vibe because my good friends, our neighbors where we live, Steve and his wife, she is the one into horror. He is not. I am.

It's the complete reverse. Sometimes it works out that way. All right. Well, that is what we have in the Entertainment Report for you this morning. We have a few guests joining us today. The band Larkin Poe, Megan and Rebecca are going to be checking in because they got a gig coming up at the Union Transfer on Thursday. And we will have the members of the Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret here in our studio. And Victor Fiorello will be here from Philadelphia Magazine. He's a member of that band. And we've

We got to ask him about his encounter with the Delco pooper. Yes. Because they had an interesting conversation. More information has been forthcoming. She made an offer to him. Yes, right. $5,000. What a bodyguard. Yeah. We'll dive into that. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in just a moment. It's a Tuesday morning, Tat Tuesday. So go to WNMR.com for you to win a free tattoo. We'll be right back. Stay put.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thanks, Kev. Real quick, a butt plug, if you don't mind. Folks, I got this email. It was very nice from a guy named Todd Hummel. He said, hey, guys, I'm writing to ask for a mention on air for a very important event coming up this Saturday. I'm a letter carrier in the Mooresville, Pennsylvania, 19067 post office, and I'm going to be

This Saturday's annual Stamp Out Hunger letter carrier food drive. It's the largest one-day food drive in the nation. We collect food from customers left by the mailbox, and it's distributed to local food pantries in the area as it is collected. Wow, I never heard of this. In our station, we send out postcards earlier in the week.

And then bags later in the week to encourage people to fill the bag with non-perishable food. We stock three local food pantries in our community that we serve every day. Last year in Morrisville, we collected nearly 40,000 pounds of food. The great thing about this food drive is it is going on all over the country.

All anyone needs to do to help out is to leave a box or bag of food by your mailbox, and your letter carrier takes care of the rest. So this is coming Saturday. I thought that was definitely worth plugging. So there's a little butt plug. And thank you. He says, thank you, and rage on. That's from Todd Hummel. Thank you, Todd. Want to make sure we spread the word on that one. There was an article Steve sent me, interesting story. It was a woman who was talking about how a simple splinter...

Led to nearly five years of excruciating pain, seizures, and eventually a complete loss of control over her central nervous system. So this caught my eye, Preston, because my wife Claire had just had a situation where she had a splinter. This is a fairly long piece of wood went into her foot.

We got most of it out. I was sitting there with the safety pin and the interceptor trying to do the deal, removing it. And just there was a tiny bit I could not get to. It was enough to irritate her. And I even said the de facto thing, which is, well, your body's going to push it out. And she said, no, no, no. And she went to urgent care and had it taken out. So when I saw this, I'm like, that's probably a good move to do that. Yeah, splinters.

Just suck. They do. Especially when it's one that you cannot get out, no matter how hard you try. You're picking at it, pulling at it. My splinter game's good. You're not getting it out. When I was growing up, like, I don't think we owned a pair of tweezers. They didn't exist in my household. So if we ever got a splinter, my mom had to take it out with either like a safety pin or like a regular pin. Yeah, man. Safety pin. Yeah, that's what I was using. Yeah.

So Billy Bedzer, a disc jockey from Australia, was blowing leaves off her lawn in 2020. She accidentally stepped on a stick. The wood pierced her foot, left a few splinters in her skin. She pulled out what she could and went on with her day, not thinking much about it.

But as time went on, she explained in a recent essay for Newsweek that her foot began to hurt immensely. So she sought out medical help. Doctors told her that her body would push it out on its own. Yeah. But she said that her pain only heightened as the days passed on. She claimed on Instagram that she was overlooked, gaslit and ignored by doctors for years.

As her foot got worse. And by 2022, she said she was bed bound most days. So this is two years after it happened. She said putting on any weight on my foot was excruciating. And she knew it was this, like she connected it to this. Eventually. Yeah, not to this level. Yeah. So at this point, no. Billy said that her health continued to deteriorate and she started suffering from seizures. Seizures.

Sometimes happening more than once a day, she said. So like you're having this, would you say, well, it must be the splinter that's causing my seizures? You wouldn't say that. No, I mean, the only thing is if my foot was hurting all the time, then maybe I might connect it. Doesn't your body work it out? We just said. Yeah, you stepped out of the studio. They had told her, doctors told her that it would eventually work its way out. But...

I'll explain why I didn't here in a moment. And by the way, if you have a story to share about some small tiny, it fairly seemed insignificant at the time saying it happened to you.

Share us. Let us know about it. You can text us or you can text the word Zoom to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the link and maybe you get on board. But she said that my body, eventually she started suffering like from the seizures and she said my body couldn't regulate its own temperature. I constantly felt like I was falling apart. My coordination was severely impaired. I've been battling seizures, fatigue, insomnia, memory loss and complete loss of control over my central nervous system.

All the while, she said that she was continuously dismissed by doctors who told her her symptoms were a result of mental health issues. Oh, you gotta love that. She said, I consulted psychiatrists, psychologists, and more doctors, but the go-to answer seemed to be mental health. She started to question herself as time went on and wondered if she was just being hypochondriacal.

But when she noticed a large lump forming on her foot one day, doctors finally began to take her seriously because they saw this actual physical manifestation. And in January this year, for the first time in five years, somebody finally took me seriously, she said, and agreed to run more thorough scans without dismissing me. So she said she had 16 appointments in January alone before finally receiving a diagnosis. And it was something called osteomyelitis.

A serious infection that occurs when bacteria or fungi infect the bone marrow. Oh, my God. In March, she underwent surgery in which doctors cleaned out the infection and shaved off part of the bone and removed the two centimeter splinter that was still inside her body. So it's still in there after five years. Yeah. So what I'm thinking and guessing, Casey, is that since it went to the bone, maybe it got really deep in there. Yeah.

You know what I mean? It got to the bone area. But, I mean, it's something we get splinters all the time in life, right? And, again, Casey, as you said, the body will just push it out. Well, in this case, she was five years of misery. Have you guys ever heard of the product called Splinter Out?

I heard of it, but I don't know exactly what it does. Well, I hadn't either. And a bunch of people are texting and saying this is the best product ever invented. And it's a medical product that you can get at a Granger.com or Amazon.com or whatever. But basically, it's a splinter remover that's also a sterile way of doing it. And there's medication that comes with it. And Steve, it's like it's this long...

stick, for lack of a better term, with a point at the end of it, and they use the point at the end of it to get the splinter out. So it's sort of a combo of tweezers slash a needle, like Casey was talking about, a pin or a needle to get the splinter out, but it's designed specifically for splinter removal. And it looks like it's really effective. Wow.

I wonder how this thing works. Yeah, we're looking at the video of it on the screens here, and it still looks kind of painful. Yeah, it doesn't look like there's much to it. Do you know what it looks like, Preston? It looks like when they test your blood type when you're going in for a blood drive. Yeah, it's exactly what it looks like. So we're watching a video of this guy dig into his finger. Yeah, no, thank you. Which I'm not enjoying at all. Watch it.

okay, I can watch Dr. Pimple Popper, but I don't like watching this. Oh, you can't do this? I can do this. Yeah, this is fine for me and Pimple Popper, no. Really?

Neither. All right, so he's doing the pin method. That's what I'm seeing. Nothing super new. You know what? I can't take the little... That's not going to kill you. It's not going to be excruciating pain, but that little jab over and over in the same spot. When I used to get... So I get my eyebrows waxed now. When I used to get them plucked and they would have to pull hair, I was squirming in the chair like a little kid. And all...

all of the people who would ever do my eyebrows are you are you okay blink blink blink the same spot or right around the same spot it was just i couldn't handle it no thank you all right so we have a zoomer on the line we are gonna go to uh ryan uh and check in with her hey ryan how you doing

Good. I'm great. How are you guys? Good morning to see you. Happy to have you on board. All right. So what's the story with the splinter you wanted to tell us? Yes, my boyfriend does a bunch of carpentry and he was actually doing a job. It was just about two months ago. He ended up getting a splinter in his pinky and he thought he had gotten it out. And then he kept feeling it, feeling it, but he couldn't find anything. Ended up going to the emergency room. They said it was out.

Like a week later, it's super swollen, red. I'm worried about it because I'm a medical professional. So I know he can get osteomyelitis. So I'm worried about it. Goes to the doctor, same thing. Antibiotics, don't worry about it. It's not in there.

It was like three weeks later, four weeks later, he finally keeps complaining about it. His doctor sends him to a hand surgeon. Hand surgeon says, it's not in there. Don't worry about it. You have a cyst and you have arthritis. And he's like, okay, okay. So it's like six, eight weeks later, all of a sudden he's at the grocery store. He sees this yellow thing. He thinks it's now pus popping out of it. It's the splinter.

And he starts squeezing it out. It's like a half an inch long. Oh, dear God. And so you're familiar with osteomyelitis and it's fairly common? Yeah. So a lot of times what they'll do is if I have another friend who has it and he ended up he has severe arthritis, too.

And I told him just to have it amputated because if you get osteomyelitis, you end up on IV antibiotics for months and months, which can tear apart the rest of your body. Wow. So he was actually a painter, but he's like, okay, I don't need my left pinky. So they took it. Oh, wow, man. And we don't need IV antibiotics. Yeah. So a lot of older adults, if they get it in a toe or something, they will just amputate because it's just easier for your body than having to go through. To chop it off.

So would your advice be, honestly, if you have a splinter, I mean, we don't want to be overreactive here, but if you have a splinter and you know it's in there and you feel it and you can't quite get to it, go to urgent care, go to a doctor immediately?

No, it doesn't need to be immediately because sometimes it will work its way out. But if you find that it's swollen and it's getting red, there's a bigger problem there. Right. That tenderness and that redness, that's going to indicate that your body is trying to fight something off, right? And that poor woman just got ignored for a while. And that's awful. Yeah. But yeah, if you can't see it, you can't feel it. He had an x-ray as well. X-ray doesn't show anything. It won't show wood.

That's right. Yeah. Oh my gosh, that's great. I mean, that's why boner x-rays aren't as erotic as you might think. Hey, how hard was it for him to adjust after losing his pinky finger? Was it...

I know. So my friend was his left pinky and he's right handed and he pees with his right hand. So he was fine. He lost half of it and the other half was fine. But yeah, psoriatic arthritis medications you have to take that lowers your immune system. And so that was like the fear. You know, he got the osteomyelitis. So, you know, then having all these weeks of antibiotics, just it tears your system apart. Yeah. Well, thanks for your knowledge in this department. Thanks, Ryan.

You're welcome. Thanks, guys. Take care. Thank you. It raises the question, too, Press. I'm sure you've thought about it. Which finger... Could you live without? Which? Could I lose a foot? How would I adapt? How would I deal if I had to give up one? Was it Jerry Garcia's?

Is it the middle finger? No, I think it's the ring finger. He's a guitarist. Yeah, I know. Tony Iommi. Yeah. Missing a guitar. And his fretting hand as well, which is pretty crazy. All right, we have up next, we have David who is joining us. Good morning to you, David. Hey, good morning. How are you doing? Good, man. What's up?

So I had a splinter in my thumb. It was, I think, two years ago, out working in the shop. Started hurting after five days. Went to the doctor right away, because I always go to the doctor for stuff like this. He looked at it and said it probably was a splinter. He couldn't get it out. Put me on antibiotics, oral antibiotics, for about 10 days. Kept getting worse. Went back to him.

cut open into the end, drained it out, put me on more oral antibiotics. Jeez. It kept getting worse and eventually he told me go to the emergency room. They admitted me to Christiana Hospital and I spent about 10 days there. Oh my gosh. A surgeon came in

Finally, the hand specialist came in about midnight one night. He said, well, we could either go to the operating room or we could do this right here on your bed. I said, let's get it done. So he brought up all his instruments from the operating room. They did a fresh x-ray of the finger.

Because it had already gotten into the bone. They determined it was bone infection. So he cut in there, did all the thing you talked about, scraped the bone, patched it all up. And I was on antibiotics in the hospital like for those 10 days. Then they sent me home with a PICC line. I don't know if you've ever heard of that. Yeah. What is that? Yeah.

You basically have to give yourself IV antibiotics. They run through your body the whole time. Oh, wow. You're attached at home. You attach a syringe to it. Wow. You push them in. I had to do that three times a day for six weeks. Jesus Christ. Finally cleared up. So we're looking at your splinter on the screen here. I mean, your thumb. It looks fine. It's fine now. And I'm a guitar player, too. And I was so worried because he was like.

You know, if this doesn't work, that's what they'll do. They'll amputate the tip of it. Do you know what the alarm or at least look, you don't want to freak people out and have them go, you know, badass, crazy hearing this stuff. But you went, you went to the doctor. They were looking at everything. Everybody always says, you know, I'm one of these people. I go on something and I did everything he said. And I don't really blame him.

It's just he did what he could and it had to progress, I suppose. Yeah, lucky you. Wow. Man, that's... It's quite an experience. It's all good now. Hey, but David, how bad did you feel when this thing was taking hold, like physically? Oh, it...

It hurts so bad if you just got anything near the thumb. But I mean, besides that, did you have fatigue, exhaustion, nausea, any of that stuff? No, I did not. I had a pretty good outcome. How were your bowel movements? How were your BMs? They're just checking in on you. It didn't really change anything. Did you have any sort of ED? No.

All right. Well, we're glad it had a happy ending, David. Thanks for checking in. Appreciate it, Mike. I just used my thumb. My cousin had to have knee surgery. This was probably 13, 14 years ago. And after the surgery, whatever they did, I think there's something metal in there, whatever, an infection formed. And so she had to go home with a PICC line.

13 years later, that infection still pops up and she has to go to the doctor, get a PICC line and come home and do those antibiotics three times a day for like two weeks. So it's a chronic situation. It's a chronic situation that keeps coming back. I'm scared. I remember reading stories in the Bizarre File before, and this is why I always clean my grill thoroughly before I cook food.

is because if you use a wire brush to clean off the grates, sometimes those little bitty brush fragments can stay and they're made of metal and they can get in your food and you can ingest them and then once they get in there, they're almost impossible to find. I mean, an x-ray can pick them up, but they're so minute and they're so thin that sometimes they don't know

what is causing and it can cause real problems like these infections you know and so in your gum or something or your hand or whatever if you're you know if it makes you all the way into your you know into your inner workings and yeah man it can be a real problem that's why we eat all of our chicken and meat raw because i am i will not put it anywhere near that barbecue do what you do to stay safe we're gonna go to uh brian joining us next hey brian morning bud

Hey, man. What are you riding in? An ATV there? What are you in? No, I'm in a work cart. I work at a golf course. Can we say which one or would you rather not? So I work at Bellwood Country Club in Pottstown. Nice. I played an outing there one time. Nice golf course. Yeah.

Yeah, you've also played at French Creek where I used to work too. Love that golf course. All right, well, anyhow, we can talk golf all day long, me and Brian. All right, what's your story, man? So I had to go to Home Depot and load two by tens for work. I'm pulling them out, jam a big old honking splinter right in between on my left hand, in between my ring finger and my middle finger. Okay. A week before my wedding,

So, doctor's like, well, we got to operate. I can't get in there. It's touching the bone. So, he goes, yeah. So, he goes, well, all right, we can do the surgery March 1st, but I have to take you to the Navy Yard at Penn and take it out there.

What? I said, I'm busy. Yeah, yeah, because they couldn't do it in the Limerick office. I said, I can't do it March 1st. He goes, why not? I said, that was the day I was getting married at the Cardboard Classic. Oh! Yes! So he had to rush it three days before the Classic, and I had to go down there

and get knocked out for 20 minutes for them to dig this splinter out of my hand. So what level of pain were you dealing with on a scale from 1 to 10? Like a 30 because I let it go for a week and a half. Wow. Wow. And was it debilitating? Was the hand numb?

It puffed up. It got real red all in between, right at the base of my fingers. Yeah. See, that's something that you would just dismiss. Okay, I got a splinter. It's going to work its way out. And here you are. Then he shows me what he pulled out, and it was huge. Yeah. And it was all but touching the bone. Wow. I do admire your dedication to both your wedding date and the cardboard classic. That's a real commitment right there.

I mean, it's the only way to do it. We appreciate it, man. You guys won best fail at that. It was awesome. All right, Brian, give your wife our best. I still have that trophy, by the way. Nice. Thank you. Love you guys. All right. Love you, bud. We'll see you. Let's see what happened with Claire. The splinter was sticking straight up out of the wood and basically like every horror movie went up. Ugh.

That's horrible. Man, I can't stand it when it happens. I told you guys the story not that long ago, actually. And I don't know when it ended up happening to this girl, but we had taken a spring break trip, bus trip to Florida. And as we were leaving, this girl decided she was going to climb a palm tree. Yeah, I can't. And the palm...

Palm trees are essentially, they have all these little splintery things on the bark. And she went up and she started to climb it and came back down. And the palms of her hands, she probably had like 50 splinters in each hand. Palm of her hands and on her thighs as well.

And that just had to have been... What about the cooch? I didn't ask about the cooch. Because I figured, I mean, that's an area that's going to be... I think it was covered by clothing. I think she was okay. She doesn't climb the palm tree naked? Not naked. I didn't see it happening. Well, that's why you don't. Yeah, exactly. You better put on your cooch protector if you're going to climb that little lady. Not an animal. I mean, come on. What are you, a monkey? But I thankfully have never had like a crazy bad...

experience and definitely not one that's gotten so infected that you end up sick. It does sit in the realm of the lancing of a boil or a pimple when you get it out. Oh, sweet relief. Most definitely.

Yeah, I told you guys about the time, and this was, my dad was moving railroad ties out in our backyard and dropped one on his toe. Oh, yeah, yeah. And that thing blew up, and of course, my dad is an, you know, he's an at-home surgeon. Yeah.

And tried to do his own work on that. I don't know. I don't remember if he actually took a Dremel or a drill and drilled into the... You said drill. Into the nail to relieve the blood that had built up. But he definitely heated up a paper clip on the stove. And lanced it with that. Preston, go get me a snapping turtle. Yeah.

By the way, enjoy your breakfast if you're eating. Yeah, exactly. Man. So you got to be careful, friends, because that thing, and this is why I want to be a proponent for, and even though this story is filled with, you know, this woman mentioning that she went to doctor after doctor and they didn't,

what it was. But there was another story I saw not that long ago of just people who just flat out refused to go to the doctor. When they have glaring, even glaring... Like real sick. Like it turns out that they've got a bad cancer diagnosis that could have been spotted. Or like a 50-pound nut sack. Yeah, that too. Yeah.

Should I go to the urgent care? Yeah! I'll get you a wheelbarrow. Not any of that, Preston, but welcome to the Romano household. My parents do not go to the doctors. Really? Your mother? No, my mother has not been to a doctor probably when she gave birth to Christopher. Wait a minute. She works in the medical industry. She sure does, Preston. Exactly.

She's a nurse. She is a mental health nurse. She deals with the brain. She doesn't deal with anything else. It's in the same building. You're bound to pick some stuff up. Yeah, no, they, neither of them. My dad fell riding his bike. He got driven off of the road. A car came by and almost hit him and made him fall. His muscle and tendons were hanging out of his forearm. That is cool. And we were like, dad. And he was like, I just pushed it.

back in. He goes, it's fine. He goes, the skin's going to heal over it. It's fine. It's not like fixing a zipper. So is it the same mentality of my dad is, they ain't going to go in there and charge me $500 to do this thing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Preston, I said, Dad, it is

You don't have to pay for it. Even when he snapped his femur in half, he calls my brother and he goes, I'm not calling an ambulance. Just come get me and put me in your car. Tie me to the hood. Wait, remember then he said, no, then he took, my brother got there and my brother goes, I can't move you, dad. And he goes, well, don't call the ambulance. Call the hospital.

Call the hospital. Have them send someone. My brother goes, that's the ambulance. Where do we send the Uber? Call the ambulance. Or call the hospital. Have them send someone. I need an emergency Uber. Dad, that's the ambulance. So how did he get into the... Did your brother carry him? No, my brother, he said, I can't move him with his leg like that. So no, they called an ambulance. He said it took four EMTs to get my dad into the ambulance. And he wanted my brother to pick him up.

and stick them in his car. That's a reality show, Preston. The people who think they're like sort of self-taught doctors arriving at emergency scenes, like your dad. Yeah, that'd be great. What should we do? All right, let me get, I'm going to get some olive oil and a barbecue tongs. Those pair of tweezers, yeah. Here's a couple of texts coming in. This one says, women are dismissed more oftentimes than men. I spent three years

telling doctors that something was wrong with my lungs. Shortness of breath. They ran tests. Couldn't find anything. Told me to lose weight and exercise. I've heard that before. I went to Penn Lung for a consultation. They suggested I see a cardiologist. I went to the cardiologist. They did a test and found severe blockage of the blood vessel in my lungs. What? Eventually diagnosed as fibrosing, fibrosis,

mediastinitis and never would have known if I'd listened to that first doctor. Wow. Here's another text says, my uncle is terrified of needles, so didn't go to the doctor when he had some issues. He finally went with the pain in his knee basically rendered him unable to walk. Turned out he had prostate cancer. By that point, had metastasized in his bones. He ended up dying four years ago, she said.

Wow, or a year ago on April 4th. If you remember, I think it was Gary Papa who...

He had ignored some back pain that he had, and that may have led to his. It was prostate cancer, right? Yes, he was very honest about it. There was the Gary Pop event, which would take place around Father's Day. They don't do it anymore, and I was there a couple times for it. That pain. The truth of the matter is, again, as we said before, it is a simple blood test that saved my life. Dr. Mike insisted on it. And they say, well, sometimes you'll get a false positive.

I'd rather get a false positive than miss a positive entirely and not know something's going on. So it saved my life. Yeah, it's sad. But that, you know, at a certain point, if there's something glaring going on, you know, if you jump on something early, your odds of being able to handle it. I mean, it was Penn Preston that helped diagnose my achalasia, which is horrible.

a condition that not many people are familiar with. And they caught it right off the bat. And I'd been to many doctors who missed it. Getting back to the splinter thing, here's a text that says, I'm listening to your splinter stories and I'm a hairstylist. And one of the things that people don't talk enough about is this. We get hair splinters. Oh, wow, yeah. The hair gets underneath our skin and they need to get picked out

and they can hurt and they can be lost in there as well. I assume that's when they're working on Groot. I don't know. I was not aware. You know, I want to say I have heard that before, but I didn't really think about that. There were a bunch of texts that came in. Another one, Preston, was from a dog groomer that had to deal with the same thing. Hair from a pet. And then there was another one. Yeah, I'm a hairstylist and we get hair splinters all the time. They hurt like hell. Skin will grow over it. I've had to cut open the skin and dig it out. Not fun. God, you wouldn't even think that's a regular follicle of hair or regular...

you know, hair would have the strength to embed itself in the skin. Yeah. I understand that when you, when you cut hair, the end of it is going to have a, like an angle on it, like a point. Yeah. Testicle. Uh, no, but it would have like a, um, a sharp, uh, edge to it. I guess so. But it's, it's so fine. And, and so far that is so fine.

They play so fine, don't you agree? There is a caterpillar out there that has like really, really... Yes. Okay. So you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, it's right out there in the parking lot. It's waving to you. No, but they have like barbs almost. Oh, wow. And is there not a toxin that they release as well? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They make you real, real sick. In fact, I saw a story I almost had in the Bizarre File. I think it was down... It might have been down in Texas or Florida, somewhere in a warmer climate that they were telling people to not touch...

these big hairy caterpillars. They can be poisonous and in some cases venomous to the point where they can kill you. I don't like that. Anyhow, interesting story. Bottom line is, I think, even though this gal kind of got the run around, but go get checked out if you've got a mystery pain somewhere. Know your bodies. Stick with it. She did. You know what the name of that caterpillar is? Sorry, Preston. Quite literally, it's called the Pus Caterpillar.

Yeah. Somebody didn't pay the right people to name that caterpillar. Yeah. I call this the snot caterpillar. All right, we're going to take a break because it is 747 and we're getting in close to time for your first shot at winning. Did you make it? I did, but usually it's nothing but basket. And I made a noise. Steve's cup. We have $1,000 to give away. Your first chance coming up at 8. So stay put. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kevin. Before we dive into the B-file, I've got a couple of short outs to do real quick. I got this one. It says, hey, Preston, I'm an avid podcaster and have been listening to you all since DRE. My friend Mary Marin is also a podcaster. Friends with Just Like a Roddy Sang. Oh, okay. She says.

An amazing mom and two crazy boys and wife to my friend Bill. Her birthday is May 6th. Can you do a juicy shout out for her on her special day or when you get a chance? She says, you guys make us smile and laugh every day. And we are a bit behind on podcasts, but I live on Gray's Lane with what has been come to known as the squiggly lane street. Ah, there you go. Which, by the way, did you see the lanes, the lines are gone. She says now the lines are sanded off. Yeah. Ah.

Have an amazing week. And that is from Anita Skowronski. And here's the shout out...

For Mary Marin. And then here's another one I got. This is from Sean Lally. He said, hey, I'd like to give a shout out to my lovely wife, Danielle, and her team behind the new restaurant called La Grange in Yardley in B-B-B-B-Bucks Co. The concept of the restaurant is French brasserie. The grand opening was yesterday. And the whole team has been working tirelessly at getting all the details in order to offer the best program. And

And... Oh, wait. I'm sorry. The best possible experience of the guest, Danielle, is the beverage director there. And has curated a fantastic bar program. And then he lists all of these cocktails that she makes. It's very detail-oriented, so I'm not going to go into all of it. But she said...

I'll give you one. Creme Brulee Martini. Ooh, nice. Sounds pretty damn good. He said, I think Danielle is the best bartender and mixologist around. And I think fans of a quality cocktail program will agree if they decide to visit. Incredible mother to our son. She deserves the shartiest of shart outs for Mother's Day. Cheers from Sean Lally. So here you go.

And good luck, man. Restaurant business, tough biz. It is. And we wish nothing but the best for you. All right, we can now do the Bizarre Five. Now. Bizarre. WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Five. Bizarre.

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A Wisconsin woman has been found alive and safe. This is a pretty amazing story. Audrey Beckberg was last seen in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 1962. She was 20 years old. She had hitchhiked with a family babysitter from her home in Reedsburg, Wisconsin to Madison and then took a bus to Indiana.

The babysitter said that she had last seen Blackberg when she walked around the corner from the bus station. Blackberg was in a troubled marriage and had filed a criminal complaint just days before her disappearance.

In an update this week, authorities say that Blackberg had been found alive and well at the age of 82. The Sauk County, Wisconsin Sheriff's Office said earlier this year the case was assigned to a sheriff's office detective for a review as part of cold case files. And through diligent investigative work, which included a thorough reevaluation of all the case files and evidence...

Combined with re-interviewing witnesses and uncovering new insights, Audrey Backberg is alive and well and currently resides out of state. Her disappearance was by her own choice and not the result of any criminal activity or foul play. So she was in an abusive relationship and she got out and took off and went into hiding and has been there ever since. Went off the grid, so to speak. Yeah. So the teenager had apparently said that she had...

Later, she was re-interviewed as an adult, maybe 15 years ago, according to one of the detectives. She said that Audrey had taken a bunch of pills, put them in a Coke can and drank it before taking a bus down to Indianapolis. She reported Audrey potentially hooked up with some construction workers that may have been in that area. And the sheriff's office said investigators pursued numerous leads over the years, but the case went unsolved for decades. And eventually they dove back into it.

And of course, like the DNA stuff helped out as well. But that is very rarely heard. She lived a full life. Yeah. All right. The growing epidemic of unruly air travelers hit the art world this weekend when news broke that James Rondeau, the president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, allegedly took off his clothes in the middle of a flight from Chicago to Germany. There you go.

Rondo, who has led the museum for nearly a decade, allegedly drank alcohol and took prescription medication, then removed his clothing while on United Airlines 953. Police were called to the flight after it landed in Munich. Is that the Half a Mile High Club?

The Art Institute confirmed the report saying that Rondo had returned to Chicago and is currently on voluntary leave from his position. Yes, I'm going to think things over. Founded in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the largest art museums in the U.S. with over 300,000 pieces in its permanent collection, over 30 exhibits.

special exhibits a year. Rondo was appointed as museum president and director in 2016. He's been at the Institute since 1998. I'm sure you understand we can't have a naked lunatic as the president. United Airlines has not responded. A request for comment in the incident. That's the one that's right on the lake, right? Yeah. And where Ferris Bueller goes? Yes, indeed. We went there, right? Yeah. Okay.

A man visiting a zoo was attacked by a crocodile after he climbed into the animal's enclosure to pose for photos. Yeah. The man, identified by the Manila Bulletin as a 29-year-old, climbed over a chain-link fence with a cell phone in hand at the Kabug Island Mangrove and Wetlands Park in the Philippines. Oh, this is too easy. Onlookers could be heard screaming at the man and the crocodile after it bit him on the arm and held on tight.

Though the man could be seen sitting still as he awaited help, the crocodile, a female named Lele, dragged him through the shallow water and rolled over. He gave him the death roll, twisting his arm even further as he screamed in pain. I mean, that'll rip your arm out of its socket. That hurts! Police officers told media the man had climbed into the enclosure because he thought the crocodile was fake. These things are real?

They're real. The zookeeper is in charge of Lele had attempted to stop the man from climbing the fence beforehand and eventually enter the enclosure himself to rescue the 29-year-old after allegedly hitting the crocodile in the head with a piece of concrete to force her mouth open. Kong Kong.

That's what they say down under. Paramedics, who's in the Philippines? I wasn't. Yeah. Paramedics were eventually called and they found that the man's right arm and leg had been bitten. He was taken to the hospital and received more than 50 stitches. Guess what? They're alive. But it's amazing that that guy lived to tell the tale after that. I know. Speaking of living to tell the tale, Tim Freed, a man from Wisconsin, let snakes bite him 202 times. Oh, wow.

Why? Over nearly 20 years to build immunity to their venom. Was his brother visiting the Philippines? He started this risky experiment to protect himself from his pet snakes like cobras and mambas, but later wanted to help create a universal anti-venom. Hmm.

So this is actually, this is a big deal. Yeah. Scientist Jacob Glanville found Freddie on Lyme and used his blood, which had special antibodies, to make a new anti-venom. Now, this anti-venom tested on mice, fully protected against venom from 13 snake species and partly against six others. It uses two of Freed's antibodies and a drug called Verispladib.

Snake bites kill up to 140,000 people yearly and currently antivenoms are hard to make and species specific. Sounds like a place where Boba Fett comes from. His work could lead to a treatment that works for many snakes but is still experimental and needs more testing starting with dogs in Australia. So I wonder, so obviously as he gets more protected by his own body's reaction to this, he's going to be a little better off. But in the beginning stages...

That had to be kind of nightmarish. Yeah, I don't know how you would deal with that. And the fact that, dude, that freaking, that hurts. It's poison going into your body. Ow! A lot of times in that hem, you think about like a wasp sting and how much that hurts. You can feel, by the way, sometimes if you have a bee stings your wasp and you get the, they get the, the wasp has a bit of venom, does it not? Oh, yeah. I think so. I don't know.

When I had the wasp sting, I could feel what felt like pumping. Dude, the last... Oh, so a bee has that little sack that detaches and can actually push that stuff in there. But the last time I got stung by a wasp, I was in my shed out in our backyard and there was a nest in there. It got me on the back shoulder. And at first I was like, oh man. And I was like...

Yeah. Dude. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, freaking hurts, dude. So careful out there. All right.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Hey, quick, I want to mention there's an event coming up that I'll be hosting. It's on the 31st of this month, May 31st, and it is the 10th year of the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event. Oh, wow. Whoa, whoa. For Laurel House. Yeah, so it's a milestone event. And Casey, we're going to be at Ursinus College. Oh, get out. It's going to be on the campus of Ursinus. Oh, okay. What's the date here? May 31st. It's a Saturday. What's the time? And...

You know what, Nick? I don't know offhand. It's usually around noon, 1 o'clock, something like that. 11, 12 noon, something like that. I had a big climb Philly that morning. Oh, my God. And I love Walk a Mile. It's a terrific event for an incredible organization. I'd love to be able to do both. I don't know if I can. Yeah. But anyway, your event is really worthwhile.

So you don't want to climb 50 flights of stairs and then put on women's shoes and walk a mile? I didn't say I didn't want to do that. But anyhow, it's benefiting Laurel House, which is one of my favorite charities to help out. Obviously, victims of domestic abuse, they help out. Men and women. All different kinds of ways. And not just housing them temporarily, but they help guide and find new lives for people. It's pretty amazing. So that event is coming up, and you can check out. You can just do a search on Laurel House.

And you click on their website and you'll find it right there. We'll get it up on our website eventually. But yeah, looking forward to that. Did you want me to say something, Casey? Yeah, because this is just like, it's kind of like breaking news, but I didn't know that this existed. Whoa. Yeah, I know. Hang on. Breaking news. Breaking news.

And have Patrick Swayze. Oh, it looks like Voxpro's not working. I got it. What do you need? So, if you go to the Wildwood Boardwalk, obviously, you know about the tram cars. Yes. Apparently, they are replacing the tram cars, and they're going to use trucks instead. What? Like 18-wheelers? No. Does it look like the truck is going to drag the tram car? Wildwood's iconic tram cars, they're going to replace it with Ford hybrid trucks.

Citing loss of nostalgia, safety concerns, and decreased charm. Wait, so... Yeah, that sucks. Watch the truck, please? Yeah, watch the truck, please. Watch the truck, please. That is a bit of...

That is a bit of nostalgia. Why would you trade that in? It looks like they're still going to be pulling the traditional tram, but just the actual vehicle pulling the carriages of sorts is going to be a truck. Maybe that vehicle, the pulling vehicle, just needed upgrades. I mean, those things can't last forever, and the trucks look new, so perhaps they just got some deal to have new pulley thingies. I would think so, because those...

the front, the tram car, the engine of it, if you will, looks really old. Like from the 1950s or something like that. Yeah, it'd be nice if they could keep that magic going. Perhaps they could take the wings off Cessnas and have them use those. Your mama is a whore. And even she knows

to watch the tram car. They didn't go with that. Even Patrick Swayze knows. And as you would imagine, the comment section on this post is... People are just so supportive. They've got to be ribboned apart. Any type of change whatsoever is obviously going to be met with venom. You know, because that's a part of so many people's growing up and their experiences.

It'll all work out in the end. But yes, I can see that. Even I'm a little pissed that I never really did it. Hang on. We have a variety of tram car. How about this one? Here's one of our favorites. Watch the tram car, please. And if you haven't noticed, I have three testicles. Wow. Lauer did one. How about this one? My mama told me to please watch the tram car.

And then Jenny got AIDS. Why would he include that? That's probably why he didn't pass the audition. Who's J.E. Jones? That's James Earl Jones. Here we go. Watch the tram car, please. He went straight ahead. Oh, here's a more dramatic one. I beseech you with every ounce of my being.

Please be aware of the tram car. Okay. All right. And then if you ever saw the movie Jaws. Watch the tram car, please. I really don't give a good goddamn. But, I mean, clearly you can see why Patrick won it because his was best. Your mama is a whore. And even she knows to watch the tram car. Yeah, it was like saying tram car.

And the whole mention of AIDS just was not for Forrest Gump. Yeah, can we get, uh, Gump, uh, this is not Tom Hanks, this is Forrest himself. My mama told me to please watch the tram car, and then Jenny got AIDS. Okay. It's not even time-wise. I gotta be honest, I don't see the, I don't understand the pushback on this. Like, it's just the truck that's pulling the tram, the trams.

The trams themselves haven't changed. The charm of being in the tram hasn't changed. I don't understand why there's so much pushback on the thing that pulls the tram. I guess, Nick, it's just like it's a big pickup truck now on the boardwalk. As opposed to a train-looking thing. That's it. It has a little bit more charm. It's a little bit more unique. Right now, I can see where it looks like the tram is out of service and it's being towed away.

But it's yellow. It has sights. They made it yellow. I'm sure they could mod it up a little bit. Put some spinners on it and undercarriage lighting. People just can't deal with change. No, I get the pushback on that. I certainly understand. And the charm of what you grew up with, having that replaced, I'm sure takes a toll. But you're still on the boardwalk. It's still summertime. You're still on the tram, you know.

Don't get used to it and stop complaining. Let me ask you, does the additional power that this vehicle provides, would that facilitate longer trams? Maybe it could go like 60 miles an hour. Yeah. You got to jump on the tram car. I just threw up. Yeah. Here it comes. Hey, hey.

You tore my grandmother's arm off! And then they get the real high-powered ones. Here, cut. Wait, get on the trampoline. I missed it. Damn it. And you just see half a body frozen in motion. Didn't mean to hit that button. Is that a slide whistle?

I don't think it looks nearly as, to use your term, Steve Charming or quaint or, you know. I like the fact that the old tram cars were kind of rickety, too. They were kind of, you could hear them kind of clunking along. So I, you know, I don't ever think I rode on one.

I've seen them and been near them, but I've never actually ridden in one. It's fun. You just kind of sit back and lounge and people watch. Watch the train car, please. Watch your head, happy. Yeah, it's fun. If you've got time to kill and you just want to be outside, you can take it the length of the boardwalk and just...

Go for a ride. I like doing that. Growing up, we were Long Island and those beaches and there was nothing really akin to what this is. But I love the concept and I do get it, the nostalgia. By the way, they replaced a lot of the boar bog. It looks fantastic. You were saying. Like Casey was saying, the

The facades need a bit of an uplift, but the boardwalk itself, the boards look great. Do they use wood, or is it that Trek stuff? No, they use... It's wood. Okay. Definitely, yeah. So they're sticking with that, at least. So we're watching video of a guy driving one of the tram cars. He's in that vehicle that you're...

accustomed to seeing pulling it i assume is this to because he was retiring i don't know what this video is about but or maybe is he going to continue to drive the uh i don't know the truck that's a good question i'm curious as to like when they reach the end of the boardwalk does the like what's the turning radius on this yeah that's a good question because it's tight there's not there's not a whole lot of room there about 30 seconds earlier in this video that we're watching in the studio do you see how difficult it was for this uh kind old man to turn the steering wheel yeah he's gonna have a lot easier time in the pickup truck all

But what's interesting, too, is the old tram car sits a lot lower to the ground. It's open air as well, other than just a little canopy on top. And I think this kind of removes the driver. Yeah. Because they're inside. They're up high. But also, like, you need to have, like...

like as much vision as you possibly can. And when you're in the cab of a truck, blind spots. This way the driver will get to play guess the bump.

Was that a person or was that a seagull? You joke, but that's kind of what I was thinking. Listen, I'm sure you can get injured by the tram car, but now you have a full vehicle up there with all of these people. I would imagine the tram car can only go a certain speed, whereas a truck can go road speed. I wonder if they'll fix that. Okay.

I see if it's a special, like, gear that only goes one speed or something. I don't know. Or maybe they're going to put nitrous on it, Preston. Oh, yeah. Fire it up! Here comes the tram car! Yeah. Your mama is a whore. And even she knows to watch the tram car. Yep. I don't know, man. All right, well, that's new news here. Didn't know that. That is a huge story. All right, well, other than that...

Nick has a follow-up to his red light story. Yeah. This is breaking news. Is this breaking news still? Breaking news. Breaking news. By the way, we've re-examined our breaking news and we've changed the parameters of what it actually is. You'll notice a certain relaxed attitude. Yes. Give me one second here. Okay. All right. So I got a really nice detailed... Well...

Before we do that, can I set up what you saw? Reset that. So Nick's wife was on the Northeast extension near Harleysville out my way. And this was over the weekend. And she saw in the sky this red glow. It looked like it was above the clouds and it was a very cloudy evening. And it was it had a certain shape to it, almost like this oval shape. And it just hovered there in the air.

as big and obvious and nick put it out on social media none of the responses were coming back legit other than somebody who said it might have been the new field they have at souderton high school uh because they have new lights and stuff like that but you have a follow-up to that so uh there's this guy named chris valentine and he uh direct messaged me yesterday and um his uh instagram handle is lc valent and i'm gonna post on instagram what chris shared with me and uh preston a long story short

He believes, and his evidence is really, would support this argument, that it is the new lights at Southerton. So he says, okay, this has bugged me for a while now. I'm convinced that it's the new lights at Southerton. The last two frames overlapped one another. He does this detailed breakdown of the video that I posted. And then he does this thing. He goes, so I was able to get the new position and position the lights from your garage.

drive versus the lights of this billboard and lights on Google Maps. So basically he triangulated where Andrea was on the Northeast extension, the billboard that you see in the video that I posted and Southerton High School. And he says, I was, he goes, and I was, then I was able to draw a line in the angle that you were shooting and then right from there to Southerton's baseball field. So he triangulated from the spot on the blue where the billboard was, where Andrea was driving and where the Southerton

fields are and the light hovering above. And he says, I am convinced that it is the lights above the brand new turf field that has been approved for the Southerton Area High School. And he says, my sleuthing is done. And he'll keep an ear out and he listens to the show every day. So, Chris Valentine, thank you for sending that information. And I'll post it up on Instagram later today. By the way, I don't think I've ever seen red lights at a school athletic field. The school color is red. Right. So, I don't know if that has something to do with it. But

But looking at the light, I mean, there's no beam going up. It was cloudy. Remember the old searchlights they would show? Yes, yes, yes. You would see the whole beam going all the way up. This is floating almost like a sky tampon. Like a sky tampon. I'll reach out. I know people that work there. I can find out from them. Yeah. But would red light do, you know, because that's usually with like a white light, you can see that the beam.

Would red light have a beam? These kind of things. I'm not really sure. He says there's an article that was posted on North Penn Now News, Preston, and it says the field will provide an on-site location for the high school varsity baseball team. They currently practice and play off-site at the complex's dirt field. The team has argued that the field's conditions are among the worst in the region, so they built this brand-new turf field. I still don't quite know why it would be a red light above it, but maybe it has to do with the school colors. Oh.

But the varsity softball field will also be turfed. And here might be a part of the compelling argument. He says both fields will receive LED lighting systems as well as zero-foot candle lighting at the property line. So perhaps it's designed to reduce light pollution. Yeah, I could see that where neighboring, say, residential area might have – if you have a stadium near you or something that might be a little bit oppressive for homes in the area. Maybe so this –

It is purposefully directed this way to create the Sky Tampon. I'll reach out to my sources and see if we can get to the bottom of this. And then I'll have more breaking news for you very, very soon on what that is, hopefully. One of those sources, Bill Cosby?

He's not in the area anymore, is he? Sometimes you never know. He's in the prison. You might learn something. No, he's not in the prison. No, remember he's out. He's out, but I'm wondering where he's living these days if he's back at... Chestnut Hill or wherever he was from? Elkins Park. Elkins Park. I believe is where he is in. All right. Anyway. All right. So another thing that I wanted to ask Steve about because he had mentioned to us off air that there is an annoying thing about Siri you wanted to mention. Yeah. So, all right. Let me try it here. All right. Okay. Hey, Siri. Hey, Siri.

What is the... Oh. That's what's bothering you? Shut the hell up. Oh, you're possessed of intellect now. What can I do for you, buddy? I haven't had that yet. By the way, you don't have to say hey anymore. You can just say Siri? So, let me see. Siri, what time is it? It's 8.45.

So how come you didn't get the hmm? Because I think it's a pause, Steve. I think it's the pause between what you're saying. It happens to me too. Let me try pausing. Siri, what time is it?

There you go. She said no. So I waited that time. I waited to see the little glowy thing pop up to indicate that she's listening to me. I don't need to see the glowy thing. There must be a little pause. Yeah. Yeah. Don't look for it. Yeah. All right. That was a distraction. We may have just ended that problem right here. But yeah, it's annoying as F. It's like when you're giving like somebody a phone number or an email address and you have your pentameter and you're like, OK, my phone number is 610. Right.

And then you're about to say 6-6-0 and they go, mm-hmm. Stop it! I have to start all over again. I'm going to get to it. Here's an annoying thing about voice activated stuff. One of Caleb's close friends' name is Alexa. Holy hell! And when they come over, it's like...

I'm not going to say your name. I'm sorry. We're going to call you A or whatever. It's like naming a kid activate missile launch. The only Alexa that I actually use is in my kitchen, but it goes by Echo. So you can change it. Oh, it's activator? The one thing that they were promising, this is going to be in the new iteration, which is coming out. I'm on the waiting list.

is that you can actually tailor it to the exact name or phrase that you want. Right now, you can have Echo, Amazon, Alexa, and I think Dot was one for a while. And then, yeah, there was maybe one or two others. But they need to make it as tailorable. Even with Siri, they should make it tailorable to what you want to use, the name you want to use. Okay. That's my two cents, Apple. All right. Well, it's all good.

Got it all figured out. We figured out what was floating in the sky and we figured out how to help me through life. I don't use that all that much. And I should. Do you know what I do as I'm writing or when I have access, I have the computer open or whatever and I have this production area in the house?

And I have the Alexa unit sitting there. And its ability now to give me the information that I want is pretty wonderful. So if I see the name of a ninth-tier reality star, and instead of doing the search, I'll just say, what show is Bumbleford Dimbick on or whatever? Bumbleford Dimbick. And, you know, Real Housewives of Sonoma. Yeah.

Is there a Real Housewives of Sonoma? There's going to be, yeah. Well, listen, I saw something that I am not familiar with. End of school is approaching. May has turned into an unofficial kind of December thing.

with a month that's loaded with events like school performances, sports tournaments, final projects, celebrations, stuff like that, teacher appreciation is weak. So there's a new term that's being used. I don't know if you guys heard this or not, but Maycember. So we were talking about this the other day. We were looking, and I always try to remind myself, and it's a good thing to do, remember during lockdown and all that stuff, and there was just nothing to goddamn do. So as

You were commenting that your calendar for May as is mine, just jamming in big time. Yeah. But you know what? It's better to be busy. I don't have that kind of clarity. Yeah. I'd rather not be busy. And sometimes I piss and moan, but I try to put it in perspective. So there's only so many weeks left in the school year, but the calendars are jam-packed.

And the hectic pace can be hard to keep up with, even with the festivities.

The clever name Maycember may be new to you, but parents say that it's spot on. According to mom of two, Meru Acosta said, what a perfect way to describe this whirlwind of a month. It truly captures the chaos and nonstop pace of May. Feels like December without the sparkle of the gifts. So for me, it's always been July because I use a lot of fireworks in May. It's very similar to July. I don't know, man. I don't know.

I understand Christmas Day is a special time, but man, Memorial Day weekend for me is...

just as I think special as Christmas is. Well, listen, I love the fact that right after that, it feels like it's time to maybe enjoy this weather and time off if you have a vacation coming up, which a lot of people do in the summertime. So I feel that same kind of excitement. It's almost like walking through a, you know, when the doors open somewhere and you go and you're like, ah,

It begins. You know what I mean? Living's easy. I'll tell you this. Saturday just passed. The temperature, you know, I had the umbrellas outside open. And you feel that, oh, okay, we're kicking back in again. And, yeah, so I love it. And Memorial Day does feel like that. So for you, that is a big exhale. Obviously, Memorial Day has followed Kenan's, which, you know, once we get past Kenan's. And it's a blast, but it's a lot of work.

But even like, you know, like I have a place down the shore now, but even before that, it was like, okay, yeah, it gave me something to look forward to at the end of the month. So here are some suggestions for those who are struggling to get through Maycember.

And these are people, these are things that are saying that this works for them. So you need to let some things go, according to the people that have chimed in on this particular subject. Don't beat yourself up if you can't be at every presentation, performance, and award ceremony. And this is specifically for people who have kids in school age. Or stalkers. Skip the stuff that you have to...

to skip the stuff that you have to and give yourself permission to let go of the mom or dad guilt when you do. Do you...

I assume, seeing anecdotally what I've seen, that's probably weighted towards the front of the younger ages of your kids. And after a while, you start to say, let's be real. No. We had a graduation party this past weekend. It was on Saturday night. And it was really nice. The people that hosted it couldn't have been kinder. But I knew no one there. And it was except for my ex-wife and my son and some of his friends. But I didn't know any of the parents.

And I just, I felt awkward going. And it was, I felt obligated to go because it's my son and it's his graduation party. And I wanted to see his friends and congratulate all the kids that were there. You guys like Bob Seger? But, I mean, it would have livened up my aspect of the party if I turned on, you know. Although the music actually was really good. But no, Steve, it was 100% obligation. Okay. I felt like I needed to be there. Steve, so...

I will try to go to as much as I can. But as long as one parent is there. That you know? No, no, no. Like either me or Dennis. Like as long as one of us is there, like it's covered. Obligations fulfilled. It doesn't mean that I'm going to sit home and put my feet up and watch TV if he has a hockey game. No, if I'm not there, it's just because I have something else. And there always has to be one person there.

So here's the difference between Rochelle and I when it comes to the kids and their activities. So let's say that Caleb was doing sound for the school musical or whatever. So we'll go to the Friday night

Go see it. Great. Loved it. We're going to the 2 o'clock or the 7 o'clock show tomorrow. We already saw it. What do you mean? We're going again? Rochelle likes to go to all and every. Every single thing. I get out of some of them. I saw it. It's great. I saw it. I did not enjoy it. Would you feel differently if...

Caleb was on stage and not behind the scenes. Maybe. Yeah. Because, I mean, with my kids being on the stage, I go to, like, all the shows. Is that when you pull out the, I saw the performance and I just don't see how it could be any better? No, I don't. Well, that's, you know, actually, the aspect of it all that I don't enjoy is the

after show experience where you have to be like we see the other parents oh so and so was so great oh you know what i mean i'm like you know you're obligated to say how great they were how great they were even though your son in particular was waiting everything down i felt like an energy suck when your son took the stage and i'm saying this to help help him yeah but i'm like i'm he's bad we go to everything bad we go and honestly uh uh was it oh last week

my daughter gave me the out. She said she had the spring concert. And she said, you don't have to go. Did you go? No. Oh, okay. Did Diane give you a little bit of guilt for not going? Well, she sent me a video of one of the performances. She goes, I can't believe you skipped this. And it was really, really good. It was a really, really, really good performance. And I felt bad. I felt bad about not going. Two things. The first is I try to keep in the back of my mind that I know at some point I'm going to miss it.

And so if I go now, I know that I'll have that memory. And when I look back five years from now, I'm glad that I went to it. The second thing is I watched this interview with Weird Al Yankovic over the weekend. I'll send it to you guys. He was talking about the interview. I asked him, what do you daydream most about? And his answer was my daughter at different ages. And he basically was like, I wish I could have a snapshot of my daughter at one through 22. She's 22 years old now.

And he's like, you know, and you'll see these memories pop up on your phone. You kind of get bombarded by them nowadays. Like the memories pop up all the time. And when they're of your kid, you remember what your kid was like at five and eight and 12 and 15. And that child is,

is gone you that that person doesn't exist anymore they're great now they're great who they become and they're great who they will be eventually but that person that was in existence at eight years old no longer exists anymore and so i try to keep that in the back of my mind it's like i'm only going to get one shot with this kid when he's 18 years old and he's doing his last band concert or he's got a graduation party or whatever and um so at the time steve when it's 5 30 at night on a sunday and i don't really feel like going to this thing i'm like you know what

But a week from now, I'll regret not being there. So when they're dating a guy who hands out bullets at social events, you're going to be like, I wish I could have those ears. Yeah. Well, Nick, my cousin said to me, and this was when the kids were a little bit younger, but like, you know, can you lay with me at night or can you play with me? And she said, do I feel like it? No. But she said there'll be a day that he doesn't ask for me to do that anymore. So I'm going to do it. And I always had that in my mind when he would ask. It's cats in the cradle.

That's right. It's the whole message of catching the cradle. Yeah. No, if I get a moment to cuddle, because we're at the very end of that never happening again. So you got to take advantage of that. See, I don't have that. I mean, obviously, I don't have a kid. So that's my pleasuring time. Okay. Don't ever lose that. I'll cuddle with my own nuts. Don't ever lose that. So anyhow. Oh, they're growing up.

Here's another tip for those going through Maycember. Lean on the village, it says. Lean on the village. Divide and conquer with your partner and delegate what you can to anyone willing to help. Carpooling can be a game changer too. Our village is awesome. And it's been kind of, we've had the same villagers for many, many years. We have the Nelsons, the Griffins, they all live within a couple of miles of us.

Gryffindor. Gryffindor. But they also had multiple children that are the same age as my children. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. And they all go and have gone to the same school. And I'm telling you, it's important. It's important to find your villagers and to lean on them and then to allow them to lean on you as well because it is a lot. And that's all I have to say about that. All right. And then Jenny got A's. Another. My mama told me to please watch the tram car.

And then Jenny got AIDS. All right. You also need to make space for sanity. It says you've got to put your own oxygen mask on first, so be sure you're taking care of yourself so you can handle the chaos better. So you guys often wear oxygen masks at these events? Haven't you seen them? Yeah. What's your dad wearing? Self-care, exercise, and sleep can make a big difference during December. Yep.

And then finally, it says find downtime where you can. When you find your family has some free time, make the most of it. That can include resting on days off and not overscheduling the weekends when you actually have that option. You know, it's proven to be a good sort of thing to remember for me is that a lot of times, you know, I committed to this thing.

You know what? I've gone, and I remind myself, I've gone to a number of these things and had a good time. And it's possible I'll not have a good time, but I won't know if I don't go. So, you know, go for it. It's an obvious axiom, life is too short. But yes, go for it.

Take the shot because you might have a fantastic time. That's true. That's how I usually feel about weddings. Oh, my God, I don't want to go. And then by the end of the night, it's like, oh, we had a pretty good time. Yeah. Didn't see a knife fight coming. No. Well, speaking of which, I was at a birthday party last week and there's a headbutt. A 50-year-old guy headbutting somebody? You know. Oh, my God. I forgot about that.

All right, but anyhow, for parents right now, people are starting to recognize that this time of year, this end of school thing, while there's light at the end of the tunnel for the kids, it gets very, very busy and very, very active for the parents because you're getting in those last few things involved with school. So Ben's graduation is a month from today, I guess, or June 4th. And...

He has this thing called Senior Project. So he's a senior in high school and it's his last month of school. And he had finals last week. He's wrapped up and he has to go to school a couple times this week or whatever. But I texted him yesterday morning during the show. I don't know, 8.30 or 9 in the morning. Hey, what are you up to today? What do you got going on with Senior Project? Three hours later, three hours later, I got a response, nothing. I was like, oh, all right. So you have coasted into Senior Project and you are just coasting your last four weeks, man. And like...

He's earned it. The kid works his ass off. He's been really serious about his academics forever. And so I'm not mad at him for not really engaging in the beginning part of the senior project. And it's a cool way for kids to end their senior years in high school. But he is...

He's on senior mode, man. Totally. He is done with this whole year. What is Senior Project? It's a senior internship. We used to do it here and then somewhere in the company we weren't allowed to have high school students be interns here anymore. Because we corrupted somebody. That was probably it. Yeah, I was thinking it was the porn thing. Yeah. But...

it's just a waste for them to end their senior year without having to go to classes for the last four weeks. Basically, it's almost a month off and they have to do this project, but it's senior internship slash career project. He's building a doghouse. Yeah, but it also kind of sucks that you don't go in. Like,

You know what I mean? Like, this is all you got. Even if you, like, went in and didn't really have anything to do. That was the best time. I don't know, man. I had it my last four weeks of high school. Casey, I loved every second of it. It was such a great way for us to end senior year. And we just ended up hanging out with our friends anyway. Yeah. I mean, I didn't have that. And I loved the last month of it.

school going into school wait nick is it like an internship or is he just doing it at like a solo project you both you so you can do a project and he chose an engineering project because i had a really awesome one i worked with a photographer who like shot for philly mag his name is john carlano so i would just like go into his studio in northern liberties and like help him with photo shoots and all many times you turn on the light while he's developing um

He's that fancy. He sends it out to get it developed. The hard part was because I played lacrosse. I went to three practices and then I think all the seniors looked at each other and were like, we're done. You don't want to be in this awesome internship and then have to rush back to school to go to practice and games and things like that.

I didn't know that you played lacrosse in high school. Yeah, I was a three-sport athlete. I was a three-sport varsity athlete. You were on the defensive line for the football team, right? Wow. Center for the basketball team. Yeah, yeah. Funny because, yeah, I was a field hockey goalie. I was a volleyball captain and lacrosse. And you were a javelin. Yeah. Well, the volleyball is almost as funny as the center of basketball. That's why I said it. I wasn't allowed in the front court. Okay.

All right. Well, anyhow, Maycember in all its glory. So just take it nice and easy and don't burn yourself out, friend. All right. We should take a break, right? Yeah. All right. We're going to do that. We've got guests joining us aplenty. When we return, stay put. We'll be back shortly. We'll be back shortly.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you, Kathy. We got a couple of guests in our studio at the moment, and they are here to talk an event that is about an event that is coming up on May 16th at the Miller Theater, and this will be an anniversary show. And first, I want to welcome our old friend and good buddy, Mr. Victor Fiorello. Yay!

You guys rock. Thank you. Nice to see you, sir, from Philadelphia Magazine, of course. And he is a member of a group, and I'm sure those who are into the Philly music scene know this, but we are going to welcome also a singer of that group. From the Martha Graham Cracker, we have Dito, who is joining us this morning. Hello, hello. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. And so, Dito, to cover this, because I'm thinking Martha at the same time. Yeah.

do you transform into this character, Martha Graham cracker for the, uh, for the band? I,

Yeah, well, not just for the band, but for everyone. When fronting the band, I should say. Yes, yes, yes, I do, I do. Now, we're familiar with your story because a while back, Victor had came in and told us about your struggle with leukemia. We have beaten that now. Yeah, that's right. Wonderful news. And this event is not only the 20th anniversary of the band, but this also supports the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society as well. That's right. Because you had...

leukemia i had actually if you really want to know the truth i had both you had both leukemia and i'd so i don't know how all that works i had lymphoma and then a year later i had i was diagnosed with an unrelated wow leukemia wow which is pretty crazy and the doctor who called me was like i almost fell off my chair and i was like that's not a good thing to hear from a doctor yeah he was really shocked he was like i thought maybe your lymphoma came back but it was totally unrelated so he sent me um to this amazing doctor at um

at Hospital University of Pennsylvania. And basically, the really good news is that I just passed my second birthday, re-birthday. I had a bone marrow transplant two years ago, March 31st. So I'm past my two-year mark. Great. And those are milestones. Anybody who deals with different levels of the prostate cancer and anyone who's had any type of

you know, experience personally with cancer, you have those milestones that you hit. When you hit those certain year markers, it means everything. So congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you. Wow. So the 20th year, you guys have been together for 20 years, Victor? It's true. I mean, I had a band previous to this one called the Brothers Sagarillo and Dito, who

would occasionally get into drag either as this fledgling Martha Graham Cracker character or her evil twin Polly Vonna Cracker who had a German accent. The best friggin' name she spelled by the wayside. I miss her. And then 20 years ago... Polly Vonna Cracker. 20 years ago, some folks opened a club in Queen Village or Bella Vista technically called La Taj and they needed a kind of anchor cabaret show and they called Dito and Dito called me and...

It started out as just me on piano and Dito singing, and we very quickly realized that I'm not a good enough pianist to carry that off. So we hired a bass player, Andrew Nelson, a drummer, Ned Sonstein, and then a few years later, we actually got a guitar in the form of Delco's own Rich Hill. So now it's a full band, and we've played with full-blown choirs. We've played with Philadelphia Orchestra string sections, horn sections. We have lots of different formats here.

But, you know, it really started as this like very intimate in your face rock and roll cabaret. It's wild because we were mentioning this morning as we're talking about this, that you have this kind of longevity for something that was just kind of a lark. And here it is. Obviously, we know you from your journalistic background.

If you want to call it that, sure. But so this, you know, this is this is transcended just a fun thing that you do. It's a legit set. It's a legit show, a cabaret show that you're doing. So do you feel the pull of both careers from time to time?

I mean, no, not really. I mean, I will say that my wife did not work out of the house for many years. She raised our kids at home. And to be honest with you, the Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret kind of bridged that gap for us. I mean, not that it made up for a full salary. Right.

But like, we definitely weren't struggling. And if I hadn't been in the band that was then getting quite popular, you know, and, you know, keep in mind, we sell out the TLA, we sell out union transfer. Uh, Martha has played at the Kimmel center, uh, with Yannick and the orchestra. That's great. So it's kind of a, it's kind of a big deal. Um,

But I also like that we don't have merchandise. I like that we aren't trying to get a record deal. It's all about being this live, very unique show that sits at the intersection of live music, comedy, theater, and drag, which when you talk about the longevity, I think that's why, because there's no other show...

that's quite like this. Well, and an example of that is one of my favorites, and I think it's well known that, Dito, you guys do a version of War Pigs. Yes, we do. With a crazy... Casey, we have one of those too. Oh, you do? Oh, yeah. We have a hand-cranked siren. We're a full-service show. We don't break it out that often. It's loud. It's very loud. Is it not in there anymore?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we have one just like that. Dito will start it up like... You have to use the finger thing. There you go.

You keep that under the console? Yes, of course. You never know. Just in case the drag queen comes. Emergency. I had no idea that was under the console. That's fantastic. But that's one of your signature songs, right? It is. Well, yeah, yeah. And actually, it was Victor's idea to cover that song. And I was like, really? You think I should do that song? And then I was like,

Oh, I love this song. I mean, I imagine. I mean, it's great, but for you, it has to be a blast to just tear into that. Yeah. It's a real, like, you get to do your Jesus Christ Superstar screaming. And I remember Brian Sims was at one of our shows, and he went berserk. He really loves that show. Wow, wow.

And I think one of the other things that contributes to the popularity is that, yeah, like we all, everybody in the band, like I kind of like metal. So I bring metal to the table and like I bring Van Halen to the table. Like the bass player is a musical genius who hates all that crap.

And, you know, he brings his own stuff to the table. And everybody has different influences. So you come to the show and you literally hear everything from Stephen Sondheim, Danina Simone, to Prince, to Led Zeppelin, to Black Sabbath, to Lana Del Rey. Yes, yes. I'm a fan. Yeah, I assume you can't be easily labeled. And so you present a lot of options for people who just want to take in a good show. That's right. Yeah. That's right. It's all about...

the entertainment and, you know, for those who haven't been to the show, if you go to a concert, normally the singer just kind of sings from the stage, maybe talks to the crowd a bit. Right. I would say half of our show is music and half is Martha conversing with, interacting with the crowd. Just blabbing away. Dito's...

It's called crowd work in the biz, and he's become a true master of crowd work. Oh, that's great. And there's a potential collab that might be in the works. I was hearing some side talk here. Yeah, yeah. I've been asked. Is that a surprise later? Well, I was going to ask if I... So Pierre's going to actually do the full-blown announcement next week. Oh, okay. But I'm writing this huge live aid feature for Philly Mag for the 40th anniversary, which is on July 13th.

And so two Fridays ago, I was like, wait, why don't I, in my spare time and with all my spare energy, produce a Live Aid tribute concert? So I talked to Union Transfer, booked it. It's going to be really cool. It's going to be, you don't hear this very often, 100% of all ticket proceeds are going to go directly to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Ah, great. Woo!

So that's a true fundraiser. A lot of times you hear some portion of proceeds. No, 100%. So this is going to be very much like Live Aid. It won't be transcontinental, unfortunately. I couldn't afford that. But we're going to have a bunch of different artists, including Dito, Martha,

doing songs that were performed at Wembley or at JFK that day. So we're going to redeem Led Zeppelin and do a proper Led Zeppelin reunion. I can only imagine that the iconic Queen performance is going to be in there. And I do want to put a call out. It's a little dangerous for me to do for myself. I want to put a call out to your listeners. We know a lot of people. We've asked some very big people to be involved today.

We also want to know, is there some local band out there who can just crush Judas Priest? Oh, wow. For instance. We know there are. My email address is phillyvictor at gmail.com. It's easy to remember. And if you've got some garage band out there or even a bigger band and you think you're perfect to play a song at this, please get in touch with me. We'd love to open it up to bands other than those which we are intimately familiar with. Okay. Let me ask. Have you reached out to the Hooters?

The Hooters are on tour, as is my BFF, Adam Wiener from Low Cut Connie, who hates my guts. I asked him anyway. But he's on tour, as is Kurt Weill. So a lot of people are on tour. But I did ask Preston if he would come sit in on drums, and he's checking his availability. Pierre, who was at Live Aid. Pierre will be there if he's available. He was at Live Aid. So it's very exciting. But yeah. Yeah.

What'd you do to Adam Wiener? Did something publicly happen in your magazine? I just ran an interview with him and he didn't like the headline, which was Adam Wiener hates fish just as much as you do. Oh, that's right. We talked about that. That's right. It always comes back to fish. Right, right.

Would you ever embrace a Phish song to sing on stage? No. No? He's not a fan. Casey is the big mega Phish fan here. No offense. No, no, no. It's not my band. I'm not offended at all. But speaking of which, I'm featured in Philadelphia Magazine this month because of Phish. That's right. And there's like a summer concert series, essentially. Are you okay with the headline? Yeah. Yeah.

Wait, which one? No, Adam was not okay with the headline, and I'm making sure that Casey is okay with the headline so he doesn't fight with Victor. I don't think there was really even a headline. It's called In Defense of Fish. In Defense of Fish. There you go. There you go. Take it. Oh, yeah, a balance. Yours have started over fish. Seriously. Yes. The band's number one fan, Casey Boyd from WMMR's President's Day show, tells us why the jammy ensemble doesn't suck.

There you go. So I had a little interview with Victor. And, I mean, essentially, I've been following this band for 30 years. I've heard it all. I'm not offended anymore. You know what I mean? And you don't even have to get defensive about it. And I don't even get defensive about it anymore. I know. You know what I mean? The argument, Dave Matthews sucks, Pearl Jam sucks, whatever. Like, okay, if you feel that way...

More power to you. But I like them and I'm going to continue to like them and I'm going to keep going to the shows and you're going to keep going to see Phish. So, you know, to each their own. But like defending them at this point, they're still selling out. They're still, you know, people are going to go see them and the concerts are going to continue to happen. So it's almost like you don't have to defend them anymore. Well, the elusive word is subjective.

Oh, yeah, definitely. I mean, being a Rush fan, I get there's that, you know. Oh, Rush sucks. Yeah, Rush sucks. No women like Rush and that whole thing. So whatever. It doesn't bother me. I'm like, they're my band. I love them. So you were weaned on. I mean, metal is figures prominently into your love, right? You sang metal. For sure. But I've also seen Barry Manilow three times. Yeah. I love Barry Manilow. What's with me?

That's right. We were in Las Vegas doing a show. It was so romantic. And we went to see Barry Manilow together. Yeah. So for the anniversary show, May 16th at the Miller Theater, tickets and all that stuff, what are the details? Yeah, so you have to go to the Ensemble Arts Philly website. Make sure you go to the official website. Except no invitations. If you Google Martha Graham Cracker tickets...

The top result is for $600 tickets to the show. Wow. Not worth it. We just, yesterday, this is very cool, we just released $25 tickets to the show. So you can get tickets anywhere from $25 to, I think, $100. And if anybody asks you for more than that, you're at the wrong website. Okay. All right.

It's really frustrating. But yeah, it'll be next Friday the 16th. We are working on the set list and we'll have lots of great music out there. And it's just such an amazing venue. It used to be called the Merriam. But something else before that, you know, Catherine Hepburn performed there. She did a Black Sabbath tribute as well. That's right. Sure did.

All right, that's excellent. So we will send people in that direction. On a side note, I wanted to ask you a couple things, Victor. Yeah, so the... This is so last week. The Delco pooper. No, it continues. Yeah. This is not so last week. We're still talking about this. We had...

When the video came out the following day, we were on the air and we were discussing whether it was legitimate or not. And we got immediately, we got a Zoom from Chief Madonna from Prospect Park. And he jumped in and tells it was legit. And then the next day, we had the kid who filmed it.

who actually zoomed in from his high school classroom to tell us all about that story. But you actually spoke to the person who dealt it as well. I did. I did. She actually called me and I missed the call. It was...

before she was walking into the Prospect Park police station to turn herself in. And I got a phone call from her, but my phone was messed up and I didn't see it. And I missed my opportunity, I thought, to talk to her. So then she gets booked, but she gets released on $1,000 cash bail. I'm like, there's no way she's going to talk to me.

And then she texts me and says, I've lawyered up. And I was like, yeah, okay, no problem. But then she keeps texting me and keeps texting me. And, you know, eventually tells me, you know, about her OnlyFans account. And if you want her to give you the Delco Pooper treatment, it will cost you $5,000.

And a bodyguard is coming with her. Yeah, she will bring a bodyguard. Which I think is standard protocol. I guess so, but if you're the Delco pooper, you don't really need a bodyguard. Who's going to mess with somebody who can violently poop at will? Yeah, you're pretty badass. You've got defenses. So to speak. Yeah, right, so to speak. Wow. Yeah, this story's going to be around for a little while, I think. It is, it is. And, you know, I wrote...

this is a record for me in two days. I wrote five stories about it because, you know, in the business that we're in now with the online, you see how many people are reading these stories. And also I just kept developing new, new leads and advancing the story. And at some point I was just like, I have to stop writing about this woman. And yesterday morning I got a new tip and I was just like, you know what? Like, I just can't do it. And then, and then, and I,

I promise I'm not going to get political because I know this is not a political show. But then I learn about all these local theater companies who are suddenly losing their NEA grants, including the very small Theater Exile in South Philly, which was supposed to get a $25,000 NEA grant. This is a small company. That's a lot of money. They're losing it, as are so many. And I was like, you know what? I have to start writing about how local arts are being gutted and stop thinking about the guts. Yeah.

Coming out of this woman in Delco. So I'm glad to be done with her. I've got more important things to talk about. But I'm happy to discuss it with you. Synthesize both. There's a marriage that can put money back in the coffers vis-a-vis a projectile crapper. Maybe that's an angle that has to be explored. Oh, my gosh. Wait, $5,000?

Let me do some math here. $5,000 times five would get... Yeah, you're set. All she has to do is poop on five people and Theater XL can do their show. I think she's got it in her. Do we have to think of everything? There's been no shortage of stories though lately, Victor, because I saw also this morning or maybe it was yesterday, you were writing about the Portnoy situation with the club in Philadelphia and then he had that interview that went awry with 6ABC and so it just seems like

A lot of spotlight has been on Philly lately. Some negative, some not so negative. But yeah, at least there's stuff for you to write about.

Well, that's true. I would like to be able to write about nice stuff. And I do that a lot, although I've become more known for the not-so-nice stuff. But I actually do write about a lot of nice things. I've interviewed you for the magazine before. I've got my summer concert guide with MMRBQ and KC Boy in there. So I do do a lot of other... do-do. A lot of other things. You can't. It's in your blood. But I think it's important to remember, too, that 2026 is next year, and Philly is going to host the...

Semi, whatever they're calling it. The 200 and whatever birthday of America. Yeah, 250. And, you know, there's going to be so much going on next year. And so I think all eyes of the world are going to be on us now and through then. And hopefully we get a lot of good out of it. And, you know, that...

people start behaving themselves. It's massive. It's massive. Like instead of showing up to a bottle service place in Center City and ordering a sign that says F the Jews with the actual word, not F, and that a waitress would make that sign for somebody. Like it's one thing to request it, but then the waitress says, okay, I'm going to cause a viral mania kind of moment about anti-Semitism by buying

writing these words on a board for some douchebag that paid way too much for a bottle of Grey Goose. Right. All right, I'll calm down. Here's another story that we found out this morning. We touched on it earlier, but did you, and you're a Wildwood guy. Did you hear about the tram cars being replaced? Yes, I did. What do you think about that? Because we had a little discussion about that. The tram cars, for those who don't know, are going to be replaced by a pickup truck, essentially. It's going to pull...

the carriages that the people ride in. So that little miniature train-looking cute little charming vehicle is our pickup. I am very much against this. I like old school things. I mean...

I have five royal typewriters at home and occasionally type out notes on it for people. Really? You know, I have lots of stuff like that. So I don't really, I'm sure they have their reasons for doing this. I haven't read about it. But the real scourge at the Jersey Shore is, of course, spray sunscreen. So let's keep that in mind. Yes, I know you hate that. But no, I'm really not into this tram thing. I mean, the old tram was great. I don't feel like we needed to modernize the tram. Yeah.

Hang on. You don't like spray sunscreen? It's so much easier. Yeah, but it's easier, but it gets in the air and all I can do... If I'm like five chairs away from you, all I can taste all day is spray sunscreen. Yeah, other people are using it without properly... Well, you have to...

find where the wind is. But people don't get that. I use the wind because it blows it onto your body. But if Victor's sitting behind you, then that's not good. So before you apply it, look at the weather vane and make sure you're... We keep a wind sock on. Victor happens to be nearby. Bye.

But no, this is all cool. We're excited that your show is coming up and that Dito, you're doing so great. And two years on is a wonderful thing. When is that rebirth date? It was my grandfather's birth. Oh, you already had it. That's excellent. Yeah, it was March 31st. Excellent. Good for you. What are you going to be? Now, having not been to the Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret event. Yes.

Are there wardrobe changes and things like that that happen during the show? Or do you stick with one awesome outfit for the night? There can be costume changes. There have been such a thing. But I don't think we have time.

In the show, because it just has to roll. So I think there might be like, I remove a layer. Right, okay. So a different look, but not necessarily full costume change. I will appear in one look and then it will turn into another. But we definitely have some dramatic surprises in store. Okay.

One thing that's always fun to play with is how does Martha enter the show? So right now, we're kind of playing with that. They nixed the idea of flying in on a kite from the contract saying it would violate OSHA. But we do have some dramatic things in store. Have you ever done the Cleopatra litter carried on the shoulders of people? I think he did that at the Trocadero for a pig iron gun. You guys have been around so long, you don't remember something like that. I did once enter on a

course. Yes. That's true. That's a good one. Speaking of the Trocadero, is there rumors a couple of years ago that somebody was going to buy that and refurbish it? What's the latest on that? So they were trying to get some state grant money, which they didn't get, I believe. However, it's very funny you should mention this because about four days ago, somebody in the industry told me that that process was starting again. And I went and pulled the

for the Trocadero property, and they're definitely doing work on the building, including plumbing and fire suppression. So that doesn't mean that the Troc is reopening, although I hear it will be. I love the Troc. It could also just mean that they're renovating the building for another purpose. And part of the charm of the Troc was its inability to suppress fires, I think. That's true. I've definitely done shows there where people were...

They came in from the cold. Yeah. And they were still like dressed in their parkas and their hats and their scarves in the venue because it's just that draft. But it's just magnificent. Yeah. It's great. It's like being outside and being in the city. Yeah. We had a couple moments where we didn't know if we were going to get out of the Trocadero alive or not. That's fun. Yeah. Most definitely. I miss that building. Wow.

All right, well, listen, we've got the word out. We'll make sure that we mention it again. But the Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret 20th Anniversary Show coming up at the Miller. And it's going to be on May 16th, 7 o'clock show. I have tickets. It says on my information, MarthaGrahamCrackerCabaret.com.

Or Ensemble Arts Philly? Yeah, so you can go to MarthaGrahamCrackerCabaret.com and there's a link for the show. Or you can just go to Ensemble Arts Philly for the show. Whatever works. Just don't go to EventTicketBox.com which is selling $600 tickets. And also, if I can mention real quick, the same issue that KC Boy and MMRBQ are featured in, there's a five-page interview with Dito, a.k.a. Martha Graham Cracker, that opens the magazine.

Very cool. So now you have three reasons to pick up a copy of Philly Mag. Some sexy pictures. Some sexy pictures. And you can get that at any Whole Foods, Barnes & Noble, or I don't know, probably other places too. Wherever things called magazines are sold. Oh my God, I open up this picture of you as the Liberty Bell is hilarious. Oh, wow. That's excellent. Wow. Okay. Okay.

All right. Well, have a great event, guys. Thank you. And Dito, it was great to meet you. And remember local bands, phillyvictor at gmail.com if you want to be involved in the Live Aid Tribute. And you need to know Judas Priest, too. I mean, I would tell people to look at the set list for UK and JFK and see if there's a song that you can do better than anybody else and give me a call. All right. Fair enough. All right. Thank you, guys. Victor, Fiorello, and Dito. All right.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right. Thanks, Kat. So in a little bit, we are going to have the gang from Larkin Poe joining us. Rebecca and Megan are going to be in town Thursday night. They're going to be playing at Union Transfer. So we're a few minutes away from that. We will get to the bizarre file first, but they're going to be joining us.

Right after we do the 20 money keyword, or at least they're scheduled to do that. But a moment here, as a butt plug I wanted to mention, I got this email from our buddy Bob Havens, super fan of the President Steve Show. Great guy. And of course, multiple winner at the Cardboard Classic. Yeah, yeah.

And he asked me if we would mention this. Nick, did you get the email too? Yep, and it's posted. Okay, so on Sunday, May 4th, he said one of our Casey's employees, this is according to his nieces, where his niece works. Our Casey's employees, Brooke Woolhaff, suffered a devastating loss to their home in an unexpected house fire. Brooke, her husband, and their six-year-old son were thankfully out of town, so they were all safe, but unfortunately,

Like the house burned to the ground. Oh, my God. Well, it says he lost everything. So he said that it says that she's one of our own. And we are kindly asking to pull together as a community and help the Woolhalves during this extremely difficult time. Anything helps and is greatly appreciated. So there is a GoFundMe that is up. And Nick has posted that on PrestonAndSteve.com. If you go to PrestonAndSteve.com and you click on events...

You'll see the community page. Click on that, and that will take you to not only this, but anything else that we have that people have made us aware of. And if you like, you can help out, and we would appreciate it. There's another one that I'm going to mention, too. This was sent to me and Casey. It's from Kelly Rogan, who says, I have a butt plug. I'm hoping you can help with seeing that you're both golf enthusiasts, and Casey is a Delco enthusiast.

It says Happy Souls is a Delco-based charity that has three main missions. First, they create care packages for people going through cancer treatments. It says socks, lip balm, tchotchkes to make them smile. Second, they help IVF treatments for oncofertility patients.

And that's a fancy term to describe people with compromised fertility due to cancer treatment. IVF allows them to go have families that they always wanted. And third, they sponsor Janet Bollinger Doherty Memorial Law Scholarship for a Delco resident to defray the cost of law school. And this was created in memory of my sister, Janet Bollinger.

uh was born and raised in springfield became a lawyer at a premier philly law firm and lost her nine-year battle with breast cancer that was back in 2022 so they have a uh a golf outing and it says in bold with an open bar at the end and it will be at mccall's golf club in upper derby monday june 23rd at noon it starts with a lunch 1 p.m shotgun start dinner after two hour open bar if you're not a golfer you can just sign up for the dinner as well they have raffle prizes and

so on and all proceeds benefit happy souls in their effort to make cancer patients lives better so i sent that over to nick and we have that up as well on the community page you go to like i said presidency.com click on events you'll see community go on that you'll find all these really cool events there always is and as we've said there are some that might be right down the street from you and some of them have an open bar and uh end up

actually not costing very much and you end up doing a great thing for people who need the help. So please help if you can. All right, now we can get to the bizarre file. Here we go. WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. Brought to you by Dermatology Associates of Plymouth and Meeting Research Department seeking volunteers for an alopecia areata clinical trial.

Adults and kids 12 and older with 50% more scalp hair loss are eligible. And you can learn more at PlymouthMeetingDermatology.com. So, oh, here's a peach of a guy. Vincent Conroy, 56-year-old man from Florida, was arrested for wandering drunk in a parking lot wearing just a T-shirt and nothing.

No pants. So he was Porky Pig in it. When police asked him for his name, he said he was Charles Dickens. Oh my God, I love Charles Dickens. The famous author of A Christmas Carol. You know, man, I'd love to get one of my books signed. Cops, later. Later, fam.

Found out his real name after they somehow failed to believe him. He was carrying an open bottle of alcohol, which is against law. He got in trouble for that, for showing private parts in public, and for lying about his name. You know what? You make me regret writing a Christmas carol. After spending a day in jail, the judge let him go free on Thursday without needing to pay bail.

NYPD officer Armando Silvestri pulled over a driver in Queens while in uniform last month, and he asked the driver to park and then requested a, quote, $1,700 loan promising to repay it with interest. Yeah, those roadside loans are very...

The return on them is very good. The interest rates. The driver gave him the money, but Sylvester never paid it back. What? That's against the law. And he didn't turn on his body camera or document the stop, which is obviously against the rules. After the driver complained of the NYPD's internal affairs, Sylvester was arrested on Thursday for official misconduct. He joined...

The MIPD in 2020 was recently moved to monitor security cameras. So when you see those flashing lights behind you, you got to think, here comes another loan. Here's the loan. Here comes the loan. The Lone Ranger. Yep. Yep.

Uh, Gisborne airport in New Zealand is often listed as one of the world's most unusual and potentially nerve wracking airports due to a rare striking feature. A fully operational railway line crosses directly over its main runway. It's a problem. That means we got to stop for the train. Planes have to plan their takeoffs and landings around the train schedule. Uh,

It sounds scary, but the system is tightly managed and safety protocols ensure that only one mode of transportation uses the crossing at any given time. Have the train and the plane stop. The submarine is here. It's also noteworthy that the airport is small with a single terminal and four tarmac gates.

It handles over 60 domestic flights daily and the railway only operates about 15 times a year. But still, there are 60 domestic flights a day. Yeah. It's the only place where your flight might be delayed because the train is running late. That's crazy. We're looking at it. It's absurd.

Officers with the Saskatoon Saskatchewan Police Department were patrolling an area west of downtown when they encountered an intoxicated man carrying open liquor who stepped onto the road. After a brief chase on foot, the officers apprehended the individuals. However, when they returned to their police car, they found someone stole it. So they're chasing after one guy and somebody else comes along. And steals it. Yeah, right.

Approximately 15 minutes later, the stolen cruiser was located in a back alley a few blocks north of its original location. Hey, you can't steal a cop car. They are still trying to figure out who briefly stole the car, but at least they didn't take it very far. The name is Robert Frost. All right, and...

And yeah, we'll end with this one. The NYPD scored an epic bust recently. Lucy Laura became a high-profile robbery suspect in New York after the NYPD released an attention-grabbing wanted poster featuring her in a provocative pose and showing off ample, barely covered cleavage. It's like the naked gun. Is this some kind of bust? Yes, it is. Very impressive.

She was arrested this week and charged with second-degree attempted robbery. According to police, Laura and her brother Carlos Laura Diaz stole an engagement ring from his fiance during a heated encounter at an apartment in Jackson Heights. During the struggle, Diaz reportedly injured the woman's thumb and pushed her to the ground, causing hip pain before both fled. Yeah, I've seen this picture pop up. Wow. Yeah, it really looks like a centerfold. She is just hanging out of it big time.

While Lucy has no prior criminal record, Carlos has three previous arrests. There's about 12 people in line to frisk her. Though the specifics were not disclosed and it remains unclear how the police obtained the sultry image that was used in the wanted poster. So, don't know. She probably has an OnlyFans. An OnlyFans, yeah. Doesn't everybody know? Yes. I mean, Kathy does. Kathy does. For crying out loud.

All right, and that is what I have in the bizarre file for you at this point. So we're looking at the clock, and the clock says 10, so that means this. 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia. Fair watch. It's time for a Preston and Steve 20-money keyword. Yep, and that keyword is fanfare, F-A-N-F-A-R-E.

You have until 25 minutes after the hour to enter it on our MMR app or at WMMR.com. You can also text it. We have a special contest short code number which is set up for that. It's 45911. One random entry wins $1,000 in our company-wide contest. And each MMR winner is going to get a pair of MMRBQ tickets on top of that. And winners will get a call from Beasley, so make sure that you answer your phone. There are contest rules available at WMMR.

at WMMR.com. So again, the word is fanfare. F-A-N-F-A-R-E. Make sure that you enter that now and good luck to you. All right, Case, what do you want to, you look like you want to mention something. Yeah, it looks like Marissa is connecting with Larkin Bow and I just got an email from their record person. So Megan is sick. So we're just going to have Rebecca on the call. I understand. Sometimes it's easier to talk to one person than two. Well, they were going to be in two different locations anyway. Oh, wow. That would have been even more difficult. Okay, well, um...

So we have a little bit of time, I guess, for now. Yeah, Merce is getting them set up right about now. So I do want to... There was something I was going to mention to you. I already mentioned Tattoo's date, yes. I can tell you about our Word of the Week prize in case you aren't aware of that, but we have the four VIP admissions to Pig Dog Beach Bar, Maury's Piers Amusement Rides, and you'll be able to check out the new and improved, improved tram car. I'm trying.

Raging Waters, Waterpark. That's for June 13th. And we'll give you some money to enjoy some food and beverage and all that stuff. So that's coming up at the end of the week. We'll give that away at the end of the show. We'll get you the letter. Okay, so our next guest ready to go now. And veteran of the MMRBQ, which we have coming up this weekend. But they already had gigs on the way. And we're excited that they're going to be in town on Thursday. ♪

And they're going to be playing Union Transfer. I'm actually going to play a little bit of the new song, Easy Love. So let me play some of this for you. I saw his face on the cover of a magazine The first of many dominoes to fall

There's something about a man with a guitar that really turns my head. And I sure do love a Texas draw. Veterans of the MMRBQ and their new album is called Bloom. Please welcome from the band Larkin Plo. God damn it. Larkin Plo. We have Rebecca Lovell joining us this morning. Sorry about that. Hi, how are you? How you doing?

Doing so good. Good to see you guys. Been missing y'all. Yeah. No, we're just glad you're swinging back into town. We'd like to have you at the MMRBQ, but you guys had this big tour scheduled for Bloom, and you are a hard-working touring band. I follow you guys on social media. Almost everything you guys post is live show stuff, and you are... Do you guys get worn out? Because you look like you're working all the time, Rebecca. Yeah.

You know, we do keep really busy. And I have to say, I'm grateful for it. I think especially in today's day and age, it's a lot harder and more expensive for bands to get out there and hit the road. So the fact that we're able to actually have this incredible tour in support of a record that we're really proud of, we love it. It gives us so much joy. We're super stoked on it. Well, a lot of joy in your world. You announced on social media not that long ago that you got a baby on the way. Aww. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How about that? A little summer baby boy. Yeah, we're really excited. He's been out on the road with us and I tell you what, he's going to be born late summer and we're going to get him his passport right away. He's going to come and finish up the tour with us in Europe. So he'll be singing

the sights and sounds of the European beauties in Paris and all across Europe. Yes. Are you doing any like, you know, having a photo album together of here you were in, you know, in Nashville and here you are at the Grand Ole Opry and stuff like that?

Yes, indeed. And it actually is really funny because so far the baby's gotten to do Letterman, Kimmel. He's going to support Sheryl Rocks, Sheryl Crow at Red Rocks. He's going to get to do a lot of cool stuff even before he takes his first breath. That's very cool. Wait, so what does an infant's passport look like? Are they still taking the photo? Is it just paperwork? What is it?

Dude, this is a great question. I started Googling it in a panic the minute that I found out I was pregnant because I realized that we would in fact need to get one. I've never been through the process. If anybody has any tips and tricks, they got to hit me up and let me know. I would imagine that that in some level is considered a carry on, correct? Yeah.

It is a little terrifying, I think, actually. I don't know that they take images. I believe that you just have to provide the birth certificate and our information. But it is kind of terrifying how, yeah, you could just carry the baby on and the baby can't advocate for itself. So you better hope that I've done my job well. That's right. So how did this, how many dates, how does this affect the tour? Like when you guys find out and you're like, oh my God, we have all these plans, you know?

Yeah, you know, it was a unique thing for us to move through because in our career as Larkin Poe, we've missed maybe or had to cancel due to illness. Like I can count it on two hands, like under 10 shows in the last 15 years. Wow. We did have a couple of festivals that we did need to cancel because they were right in that window where I would be heavily, heavily pregnant and no longer allowed to fly. Wow.

But they were so understanding. And it's a bummer, but also like it's for a good cause. I do think being able to enrich, you know, into the full expanse and spaciousness of the human experience. I'm really excited to have kids. I'm really excited.

to see where that leads our writing brains and the songwriting process. So I think it's all going to be for the best. So, I mean, you have obviously a rock-hard work ethic and you're not missing many days on tour. Do you go to extreme lengths to preserve the healthy environment? Are you in some sort of hyperbaric chamber that you sleep in? What are you doing to make sure that your health is maintained?

This is a great question. I feel like I'm still troubleshooting this as well. It can be hard to get really good sleep on the road. I think that most of the musicians and touring musicians that I know struggle to get good sleep because even when you get used to sleeping on a tour bus, it can be so volatile at times, like coming in and out of cities, people get woken up.

So really just trying to prioritize, like clearly I'm not drinking. It's definitely helping my sleep. But yeah, just trying to be good, you know. Is it already creating some ideas for new music for you? I know you haven't finished the process of going through this experience, but I can't help but think that this might motivate you to put something down on pen and paper. Big time. I mean, even just...

This is clearly not something that's necessarily spoken about or addressed a lot in the rock and roll genre. But, you know, even the fertility journey of getting pregnant, it was a huge phrase

You can hear a lot of the material that I was working through as a person on this most recent record, Bloom, as well. There's a couple of songs that were dedicated to some... I went through a miscarriage and that was really challenging on tour a couple of years ago. And so, again, just being able to be real and connect with folks through song, particularly in subject matters where it can be a little bit harder to put your heart on your sleeve. And so I am really proud of the way that Megan and I have...

have made that commitment to continue to delve deep and try to be as real as we can in our songs. I wanted to ask you, in talking about Bloom and rock and country rock and rock country and this bizarre delineation, you know, I mean, there have been bands like the Allman Brothers and so on and so forth, and rock and country have shared stage space and sound for a long time. Yet you do have audiences that can get very covetous of...

in different ways. Have you felt that split at all or has everything been pretty copacetic? Oh, I love this question. Yeah, I do feel like people have been pretty open-armed in their approach to the way that we've continued to evolve as Larkin Poe. And clearly there is so much shared history in the traditions of American music and the ways in which

Blues and rock and roll and southern rock and roll have all co-evolved over the years, built upon the traditions of the blues. And that being said, to be a female-fronted southern rock outfit in today's era, it just feels really liberating because I grew up on those records. I grew up listening to...

to then lizzy and the almond brothers and i always was able to connect in such a soulful way to the music but lyrically it was harder to find myself in the music so being able to again like channel our story in conjunction with these musical traditions just feels so great well and and you're really honest about it too because i was reading an article uh and and it was probably you rebecca that stated and you were like well we're kind of derivative like uh we're we're

We're taking all this stuff that we were inspired by and influenced by. We're putting it through our own filter. But there's clearly you'd be, you know, the influence is obvious, but you're not stealing things, but you're definitely showing your interpretation. And I think that's I think it's cool because, you know, it's to be honest, everybody's inspired by the people who came before, you know.

Oh, yeah. Lucky is the human that has an original thought. Yeah. Standing on the shoulders of those who've come before. And I see no shame in it. Like, you are what you eat. You are what you listen to. And being able to, I think in a really...

humble way, and I don't mean like false modesty, like a humble way, be able to shout out your heroes and let their influence be heard in your playing. It feels a lot simpler to me. It feels like there's a lot less posturing involved. Yeah, it's something that we talk about all the time. I love, you know, I'm a big cinephile. I love to hear...

the directors that I love who they love and, and, and on and on. I find it very cool. And you get turned on to different things. If you were to really CSI this back to the core artist who made you what you are, can, can you pick that person or that band? For myself? Yeah.

For us as a band, that might be a little bit more difficult. But I would probably say for us as a band, I do think it's the Allman Brothers, specifically because Megan's slide guitar playing is so... It's the defining thing in our sound. It's the interplay between her

her lead singing on her guitar and my voice, which of course is directly influenced by all those records you grew up listening to. I don't know if it's happened since or not, but you guys seem to end up on a lot of different festivals over the years. And I'm just looking at your Instagram account and you're doing one in October that I've not heard of before called Mooncrush. Avett Brothers are on it. Sierra Farrell, Molly Tuttle, who are incredible artists. Langhorne Slim, who's from our area, I love a lot. When you do these shows and do festivals especially...

Who have you been surprised that you're like, oh man, I want to go see this person or see this act and maybe kind of caught you out of the blue and you're like, now I'm a fan because I saw them at a festival?

I have to say, Sierra Feral was one of those for me. And that is something that I do feel so lucky for as a band is Larkin Poe has been booked on blues festivals, country festivals, rock festivals, pop festivals, world festivals, like across the gamut. So we're allowed to see so many

So much incredible talent. And I do think being able to see the representation for the female talent from Sierra Farrell to Molly Tuttle. You know, we did a bunch of stuff with Cheryl Crow earlier this year. We're going to work with her again. It's so refreshing to have the female perspective represented on festival bills. That's been my favorite.

I saw Sierra and Molly Tuttle both open for Dave Matthews band up at the Gorge a few years ago. And I love going to see the opening act because you're going to get to see stuff that you probably wouldn't see otherwise. And, you know, when you get like the support of an act like Dave Matthews band that says, come out and see this person, you're going to be blown away by it. And then he'll talk about them during the main set or whatever or have them come out during the main set.

It's just, it's encouraging to hear that, you know, and it's heartwarming because you're like, man, if Dave Matthews likes them, maybe I'm going to like them too. And so, and since then, I've been a fan of Sierra and Molly.

You say that because we got to do that same gig. I think it was three years ago. And so I have the utmost respect for Dave and the way that he curates and elevates and like tries to amplify that, that the artists that he believes in, it's so cool to pay it forward like that. Well, you guys are still kicking ass, obviously, and you're in the middle of this tour and the stop through Philly is going to be awesome at union transfer. Um, has Jackie Bam Bam reached out to you about coming on his show yet? This precious darling, he actually, he's been,

texting me photos. I don't even know how he gets some of the content that he gets. We had just finished a VIP event in, I think we were in Denver, and he messaged me an image of us with a fan at that VIP, and I was like, how is this possible?

gaining access to like the inner workings of our organization is killer. So no, we need to have him out. Yeah. Rebecca, we, we have been working with him for a long time now and all of us will come in. One of us will say, did you get this from Jackie last night? And he just sends us random pictures of an album, like his dad holding a 45 and we're like, no context whatsoever. Okay. He's a special guy for sure. Definitely. Uh, well listen, you guys are killing it. We love you. And, uh,

Thanks for checking in this morning, and we hope the show goes great, Rebecca. Thanks for having us on. I appreciate you. So good to see you all again. Anytime. All right, Rebecca Lovell, guys. Larkin Poe and Thursday Night Union Transfer is when and where that show's going to be. And one thing I want to point out, their harmonies are out of this world. I send Casey stuff from their social media all the time because they post things.

The four of them singing four-part harmonies, doing warm-ups and stuff like that. I love that. And they're such great singers. Does it put you in mind of the River Valley Vocal Band? Hi, dudes. Yeah.

you know, it's a bit of a stretch, but we're way better. If you're going to reference an album, the Safe Flight Repair album is probably the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Live at, yeah. Live at Safe Flight Repair. All right, so we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. Lesson question, Trash Music News are on the way.

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We're going to give away a pair of tickets as MMR Rock's Theo Vaughn at Wells Fargo Center Wednesday, July 9th. And the question I'm going to ask has to do with an interview we had Victor Fiorello and Dito in a little while ago. Part of the charm of the Trocadero was its inability to suppress what? Let's see if you heard that. It was around 9.34pm.

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Crystal says Ward has reminded her that sex doesn't always have to smell like piss. Oh, my God. Kanye's wife slash prisoner Bianca Sensori posting pics of a new longer hairstyle on Instagram. And in keeping with tradition, she also posted a picture of her butthole.

And finally, Prince Harry says he now wants to make peace with and reintegrate into the royal family. Harry says this has nothing to do with dwindling financial prospects, noting that he just auditioned for a new Roku series called Young Mr. Belvedere. All right. Looks like we got somebody who wants to take a crack at this. Question is, part of the charm of the Trocadero is its inability to suppress what? And we're joining via Zoom Mark this morning. Hey, Mark.

Hey, how's it going, man? Awesome, buddy. All right, so do you happen to remember the part of the charm of the Trocadero was its inability to suppress what? Fires. Fires. Fires.

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It says here Swedish hard rock band. Oh, so rock. Ghost. And I meant to say start with Swedish, but I started with rock band. Rock. I say to you. Swedish hard rock band Ghost hit number one on the Billboard 200 chart with their new album Skeletor.

Sold 86,000 units in his first week ending May 1st. And it is the first time, their first time at the top, and first hard rock album to do so since ACDC's power up in 2020. The album led by the single Satanized sold 77,000 traditional copies including 44,000 on vinyl. Setting a record for the biggest vinyl sales week for a hard rock album. Skeleta beat out big names like SZA.

And Kendrick Lamar to take the number one slot. That's pretty impressive. Yeah. Because those are big acts. Do you consider ghosts hard rock? I mean, not... I don't consider them overly heavy. No, neither do I. And I was surprised to learn that I would not perceive them that way. The imagery and everything is very intense. But...

Ghost is such an enigma to me. Catchy songs and interesting, but man, people that love them, love them. And a lot of people do, really. So it's good for them. So Goose, Ghost, Jesus. There's a band called Goose. Maybe they know the guy. No, I said Goose. Whatever. Goose and Ghost together. Coming to the Wells Fargo, Goose and Rock.

That'd be a show. I don't know what more exciting to see. What is that from? I don't know. Sam got it for us. Okay. Because of the listener, Rob. Because Rob calls in. It's on our name page. One more time, please. Uh-huh.

with Ghost. Ghost is now touring Europe and will hit the U.S. in July. Van Halen fans were in for a treat as David Lee Roth took the stage at M3 Rock Festival, his first live performance in five years. Was the treat that he eventually left the stage? The rock legend, he says, legend, God, I need to go home. Yeah. The rock legend-y

The next word is 70. That's what I'm doing. I'm putting these words together. You're just getting it done quicker. Kathy, yes, it's my vocal shorthand. That's it. That's how you do it. It's really incumbent upon the audience to know what you're talking about. You figure it out. Right. So he's saying in the merry weather. Do you want this to last all day or do you want us to wrap it up?

The Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, after a four-person band and four backup singers. And he sang a ton of Van Halen hits like Dance the Night Away, Hot for Teacher, Drop Dead Legs, Panama, and more. Bozy, bozy, bop, city bop. One person wrote...

He loves that one line. Bob! One person wrote, Dave Lee Roth just opened his first show in five years with Panama. Second tune, Drop Dead Legs. Third tune, You Really Got Me. Dave is back. He sounds amazing. And actually, I watched a little clip of it. Was it good? It wasn't too bad. For once, he was...

He was singing most of the actual melodies. That was your big issue. You've often recounted how you're a massive Van Halen fan, massive David Lee Roth fan. Then you went and saw him in concert, and he talk-sang. Yeah, I hate that. I heard a funny story about David Lee Roth last week. Apparently, he was coming out of like some, he was like a radio interview, and Henry Rollins was at the same studio, and David Lee Roth was wearing this long,

And he opens up the coats, and it's just lined with beer. Oh. Right? Yeah. Was that Bill Hader? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so he offers the beer to Henry Rollins, who's straight edge. And Henry's like, no. And he's like, what, do you got school tomorrow? I was blown away at how good Bill Hader's David Lee Roth impression is. Yeah. It's really impressive. Because David Lee Roth visited Bill Hader when he was working for the South Park Studios. And Hader was a writer there for a stretch. I didn't know that.

And so David Lee Roth came in. That's where the origins of that story was, Casey. So David Lee Roth came in, spent the day with the guys, with Trey and Matt and Bill Hader, and he was being David Lee Roth the entire time. Wow. The last time he was on stage was when he opened for Kiss back in March 2020, right before the pandemic started. And then one last music news story. Today, Brent Porsche will not only have members of Octane, who are going to be playing the MMRBQ, in his studio, but

But they have a new song today that they're going to play. Oh, wow. 4 o'clock they will be debuting it. And this song will be performed at the MMRBQ on Saturday. So love our buddies in Octane and looking forward to hear them with Brent today. So it'll be around 4 o'clock here. New music and get your tickets for the MMRBQ, which of course is on Saturday. We're very excited for the whole thing. Is this breaking news or something? Or hang on a second. The original tram is back. What?

Breaking news. Breaking news. Marissa. And now we go to our correspondent, Marissa Magnate. Very excited. The Hooters are coming in with Pierre today as well at 1.30 and debuting a new song. Oh, that's excellent. So that's at 1.30? 1.30. I bumped into Eric Bazilian at the Sing Us Home Festival this weekend. He's very excited. He said the new song is great.

You know what? I was getting a text from Dave Wasikinen just a little while ago and I didn't get a chance to read it. That's a big day here at the station. No, he texted in and said, does Jackie work? Ha! Ha!

I don't know about that. He texts me stuff, too. We're obviously on some of these huge group texts. Oh, that's great, man. All right, well, there you go. Your music news for the day, dear friends. We're going to take a quick break. We will wrap it up when we return. And make sure you don't miss the letter of the day. We'll be right back. The MMR app can't remember your Wawa order.

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Tuesday morning, Preston and Steve show a complete day for us, dear friend. We're coming to a close. And as we are coming to a close, I want to say heads up and nice job. This him right here? That's him. To our 20-money winner, Brian Dugan of Augusta, Pennsylvania. Brian walks away with $1,000 through Preston and Steve's 20-money.

which is sponsored by United Tire and Service. So congratulations to you, sir. And we are stoked that you're walking away $1,000 richer. Your next chance coming up with Pierre at noon. So do not miss your opportunity. I would like to thank our guests this morning. We have Victor Fiorello and Dito. Yay!

On the Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret. Their 20th anniversary show is coming up at the Miller Theater. And it will be May 16th, 7 p.m. show. And MarthaGrahamCrackerCabaret.com. And Victor was saying there are some places that had the tickets priced like $600. Don't buy those. They're not going to go to the charity. It's for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

So make sure that you get reputable ticket service on that. And then we had Rebecca Lovell from Larkin Poe. Phenomenal singer and guitarist. And their band is performing at Union Transfer on Thursday. Any good details at LarkinPoe.com. They're great. And then BBQ Veterans, too, which is wonderful. Pierre Robert is here. Hey, man. Great conversations with both.

Martha Graham Cracker experience is so much fun. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Martha, is Vito, is that his name? Dito. Dito. She is amazing on stage. And Victor plays great keyboards. And they draw great crowds wherever they go. I highly recommend it. What I loved was the other character, Polyvona Cracker. Yes, yes.

And then the conversation with Rebecca was priceless because as an interviewer, one of the things you, well, I don't know about you guys, but one of the things I get off on is if you can't go fishing for this, it happens or it doesn't. When the person you're interviewing says, wow, good question. Right. I love that. You got it twice, Steve. Nick, you got it once. And she clearly, you know, people love coming on your program. Yeah.

They feel comfortable. You guys don't ask stupid questions. You make people feel wanted. And it's a great vibe for any artist, writer, director, movie person, actor, musician to come on this very program. It's very kind of it. She's just a great interviewer. She's just very forthcoming. We'll talk. Both are. They're terrific. Yeah. And you're having...

in today as well, correct? We got the Hooters coming in today. Thus, my Hooters shirt that I wore the other day. I broke this out. I've had this for a while, but I haven't worn it until the other day, and you noticed it, Preston. I love it. Bright Hooters shirt. Yeah. I think Rob and Eric, maybe Davey, I don't know, are coming in. We've got a brand new song called Pendulum that they're going to debut. I've only heard it once, and we'll hear all about it, and I think that'll be...

Between 1.30 and 2, maybe closer to 2. So we're looking really forward to that. That's great. All right. And we'll find out what else you have going on. But first, let's get Letter of the Day. Yes. All right. Here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, The Daily Letter. And The Preston and Steve Show brought to you today by The Letter. A as in I.

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All right, what's up today, ma'am? I also like that you referenced Jackie Bam Bam, and she immediately picked up on it. Jackie's got this ID, so I always like to kid him whenever Larkin Poe's anywhere near town. Have you gone record shopping with them yet, Jackie? Not quite yet, because his ID has both of the women from Larkin Poe going. Next time we're in Philly, we're going record shopping with Jackie. How did you know?

did he get you to say that? But he always gets artists to say unique things about him. You know, if they just say, hi, this is Larkin Poe, you're listening to Jackie Bam Bam. No, no. Let's say, hi, we just got out of our spaceship. We're Larkin Poe and the first person we saw was Jackie Bam Bam. We're turning the spaceship around.

Yeah, he gets creative. They love him. Great IDs. On the program, we've got more tickets for Jackson Brown. Speaking of great in Atlantic City, June 28th, the 20 Money Keyword at noon and three with me and Brent and at five with Brent. And we'll have Workforce Blocks with Bob Seger, whose birthday today it is. Blues Traveler, Offspring, and as I mentioned, the Hooters will be with us.

Online it says 2. We heard 1.30. Somewhere between 1.30 and 2.30 they'll be here. So it'll be fun. And a brand new song. Excellent. Thank you, Pierre. And thank you to our sponsors. The President's Seeshow brought to you today by Acme Markets and Fresh Food, Local Flavors.

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And he's on to talk about the suits. Suits, L.A. He's got a chest that many people compare me to. Yeah. When you see him shirtless and his biceps and his biceps and his pectorals and pectorals. I mean, they say, dude, you look just like Steve. Yeah. And he gets it more about you. He does. Yeah. We'll ask him about it and he'll say, great question. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

And we also have our friend Greg Harris, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO. He will be on the program tomorrow to tell us about those induction ceremonies. So that's it. We are done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day, and we'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Hey, everybody. It's good to have you on the map.