Daily Podcast (05.07.25)
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Everything, you all! Nick McElwain. I'm just not the hero type. And Marissa Magnata. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. What? What?

Hey, sorry. That guy was just cracking up, man. And I got to let him laugh. Well, it's time to get started. Let's begin. Take a look. Weather forecast for today. It's going to be a better day today. The 76 and mostly sunny. Not too bad at all. We have partly cloudy skies tomorrow. High 79. So things are looking good there, too. Friday, however, rainy and cooler. High 63. But for MMRBQ on Saturday.

Partly cloudy and 74 degrees. Awesome. Bring yourself a light jacket. It'll get cool in the evening. I promise you that. And then Sunday, high 82 and partly cloudy skies. We're looking really good. And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano. What?

Today is Wednesday, the 7th day of May. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, travelers who don't have a real ID, passport, or other federally recognized document will face additional security screenings at U.S. airports today, but will still be able to fly, the Secretary of Homeland Security said on Tuesday. So her comments reiterated the department's

previous guidance to travelers as a federal deadline to enforce the real ID law approaches on Wednesday. In addition to a real ID, other forms of acceptable identification include a U.S. passport, a global entry card, a Department of Defense ID, or a permanent resident card, according to the TSA. If travelers don't have one of those forms of identification at airport checkpoints today, they may be diverted to a different line and have to go through an extra step, but people will still be allowed to fly.

Travelers have been told that starting today, a standard state-issued driver's license alone would not be enough to fly with. But it seems like the government is, at least initially, giving travelers some leeway. Well, I was surprised when, Preston, you had boarded the flight and your license had lapsed. Yeah. But there was a grace period for that as well, which I was unaware of. Very surprised at that. I was surprised.

We had already flown. We were getting the rental car and the guy's like, you can't drive because this is expired. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me, man. I'm surprised nobody at the airport said anything to you. Yeah. Right, right. Like no word at all. So it had been, it had only been expired for a little while, but apparently you get six months leeway there. But I had got,

I already had a real ID. I've had it for five years. That license was a real ID and had gone through five years and expired. Wow. But I guess they remember it was a couple of years ago they had the deadline and they pushed it out. COVID and they bumped everything. Yep. Well, there you go. Yep. Congress passed the real ID law in 2005 and the Biden administration chose May 7th, 2025 as the deadline to begin enforcing it after the government repeatedly extended the deadline.

Do you think this will be like the TSA and Super TSA? Will there be a really real ID coming up after this? A really real ID. Super, super, really, really real. 81% of travelers passing through TSA checkpoints already have identification that complies with the real ID law, which was enacted in response to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Investigators found that nearly all of the hijackers who boarded commercial planes that day were carrying U.S. driver's licenses and state IDs and that most of those documents had been obtained fraudulently.

The conclave to elect the 267th Pope and successor to Pope Francis gets underway today. In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave and most electors... Con-con. The most electors ever with 108 of them being appointed by Pope Francis. So I had a long conclave. That's how they should start instead of any sort of daughter. Con-con. Con-con.

Ten of those are from the United States. All of the Cardinals will take an oath of secrecy before beginning to vote twice daily, two times in the morning and two times in the evening, and will continue voting until two thirds of the Cardinals have agreed on a post.

The ballots are burned after each vote and the smoke will emanate from the chimney that is being built on top of the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke means a majority has not been reached and the voting will continue. White smoke means a new holy leader of the Roman Catholic Church has been confirmed. The last three popes were chosen within days.

The National Weather Service confirms a tornado touched down in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, while severe weather was hitting the region yesterday. Officials say several social media videos captured the twister near Route 191 south of Banger on Tuesday afternoon. Tornado! Tornado! The strength of the tornado and its path will be determined after a storm damage assessment is done by the National Weather Service. Oh my God!

No injuries have been reported. Earlier this week, the Weather Service confirmed two land spout tornadoes struck Sunday in Berks County. Land spout? Yeah, I don't know what that is either. I know what a water spout is. That's over water. But a land spout would just be a regular tornado, right? Land spout tornado. Maybe you have to say, tornado! I can't yell as loud as that guy.

It's ground up versus cloud down. It's like the same thing in porn. Interesting. Porn is one analogy you could use. The one I would go with was stalactite versus stalagmite. It's probably better. Or ATM. You learn things here. Alright, let's do sports this morning. ...

The Phillies beat the Rangs 8-4 last night in Tampa Bay. Kyle Schwarber, Alec Bowman, Nick Castellanos all hit home runs and Zach Wheeler pitched seven strong innings to lead the Phillies to the win. Castellanos hit a three-run shot to break open the game in the eighth and finished fourth.

Three for five with four RBI. Schwarber, whose home run put the Phils on the board in the second, had three hits and two RBI. He has reached base safely in 41 consecutive games, the longest active streak in the majors. The series continues tonight with Christopher Sanchez getting the start. The first pitch is set for 7.05. In the NHL playoffs, the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Capitals 2-1 in overtime, taking game one last night in Washington. Game two is tomorrow night in D.C. In the Western Conference,

The Edmonton Oilers came back from an early 2-0 deficit to beat the Golden Knights 4-2 in Vegas. Game 2 is tomorrow night. And then in the NBA, the Indiana Pacers won Game 2, 120-119 over the Cavaliers last night in Cleveland. The Pacers now lead the series two games to none. Game 3 is on Friday night in Indiana. In Minnesota, the Golden State Warriors beat the Timberwolves 99-88 in Game 1. Game 2 for them is tomorrow night in Minnesota.

And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. And that's what I have for you this morning. Thank you very much, Kathy. We are locked and loaded for today. There's a bunch going on the program. First and foremost, we will have money, money, money, money. We have the presidency of 20-money. Casey likes it when I say that.

20 money. 8 o'clock is your first chance. Right before that, we will go live on Fox Good Day as it is a Wednesday. And that's what we do on Wednesdays. We will have our friend Greg Harris, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO on the program today to talk about the inductions and all that good stuff. And Philly's own Chubby Checker being in. A lot of Philly influence. Yep. So we will spend some time with him. And then at 9.15, we'll have Kyle Dillard.

Dunning. Dunnigan. I'm sorry, not Dunning. Kyle Dunnigan is going to be at Punchline on Friday and Saturday. So Kyle's checking in with us. And then we will have actor Stephen Amell on. He's promoting Suits LA. Yes. And you can catch that Sundays at 9 o'clock on NBC. So we will chat with him. And then on top of that, celebrating the new movie Nona's.

which tells the true story of an Italian restaurant run by a group of known as the Chefs Netflix, has partnered with three Philadelphia-based family-owned and operated restaurants. And it's Cafe Carmela's, Ristorante Pesto, and La Nona. And they'll be bringing in their original Italian recipes to celebrate the generations of...

of delicious traditions and heartfelt tales from their kitchens, just like the film. I'm very excited about this. Do you know if we're getting any gin and cheddy this morning? I have no idea what we're getting. I haven't looked at the menu. I do see, yeah, Casey, Linones is bringing gin and cheddy and a blush sauce. I'm down with that. So here's the thing, guys.

My tooth situation. Pasta is the only thing that almost gives me the full...

Let me ask you an experience. Does it actually hurt? Because I can't understand. I don't even know how to describe it. The sensation? The sensation of eating sucks right now. Does it make you appreciate Gary Lauer more? No, but sometimes, especially if I'm eating something that I know in my mind is delicious, I get mad. This could be more delicious. I'm also so... I'm angry a little bit.

at you. Be angry with me. Don't be angry at me. Stop it. Just go. Just stop. Pathy, do you know how we're talking tens of thousands of dollars worth of, you can't just go. You don't just go. You don't have dental insurance? No, I do. I do, but I'm also, I'm working with these other people across the street. I know, that's what I'm annoyed at. That's why I'm saying, just forget them. You have to get your tooth fixed.

That sounds like a valid plan. Don't be angry at me. Be angry with me. I'll explain. So when sometimes we want to have some kind of work done, we will ask our sales department, hey, as a potential client, and we could tie this in and I could be a spokesperson and the client will get some advertising and firsthand experience from me to do this. So we sometimes go to our...

and say, hey, I've got this. Do we have anybody that this would match with? And Casey went over there and we've had dental groups advertise with us before and they said, yeah, sure, we'll look into this. And they've looked into it and they haven't set it up for him. He's just dealing with this thing that could be fixed like that probably because he wants to help get some business to the station and have all this. So...

It might be time to think about yourself, sir. Yeah. Okay. Hey, by the way, I'm getting a garage door replaced tomorrow on my own. Can they do dental work? No, but this is the same thing. Like a two for one. My mom crashed into a garage door over a year ago. Wouldn't it be great if you could push a button and your teeth roll up into your gums? Yes.

And so what does that have to do with this story? But it's the same thing. I could have had this thing replaced a month later and they were like, hey, we have this. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm like, okay, I'll wait. I'll wait. I don't have a door. Preston, I do have to say back to the restaurant. I got a text yesterday and they were like, oh my God, that restaurant's coming in. They have the greatest food ever. You're going to love it. Okay. Oh,

Cool. So this was Lenona's? Yes, and that's where we started because we're talking about the Gin and Chetty. Thank you. We ended up with the root canal. And Gin and Chetty, by the way, is gnocchi. Yes. It's how your husband says it, right? It's how Dennis used to say it, yes. Yes, Gin and Chetty. Anyway, we are going to have $100 gift cards, $100 gift cards to each restaurant giveaway, plus a free month of Netflix to watch, which starts streaming this Friday.

Listen up for your chance to win. That's another one of the things we're going to do up through the course of the morning. So let's take a break. We've spent enough time here. We'll get to the entertainment report. Stupid question. I got to go in, Kathy. I had you in mind specifically for this question. We'll be back in just a moment. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Alright, thanks, Cass. So, I heard a song, made me think of you, Kathy. And here is the stupid question that I will pose. And we're going to give a pair of tickets to see Whitney Cummings at the Miller Theater Saturday, November 22nd. So, according to Tommy Two-Tone...

How much does a phone call cost? All right. Let's see if you know. So text the word Zoom to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the link to Zoom with us. Someday we'll just have you call us. But right now you can text the word Zoom to 610-660-9333 and we'll send you the link. So according to Tommy Two-Tone, how much does a phone call cost?

All right, we'll go through some birthdays today while we await that answer today being the 7th day of May. Tracy Lourdes. Lord. The former porn star went on to do mainstream movies afterwards. She turns 57 years old today. We interviewed her fairly recently. She had a book out and she was really good. She's actually been in a... She was in Tommyknockers. Yeah, that's right. Tommyknockers, Blade, Zack and Mary Make a Porno.

Uh, so, and Cry Baby. Cry Baby as well with Johnny Depp. Yep. So she's 57 today. Uh, Casey's buddy Breckin Meyer. Oh man, my old buddy. Turns a year older. Uh,

He is 51 years old. He was your Words With Friends buddy for a while. And then Mark Paul Gosselaar. Yeah, that was back when Words With Friends was fairly new. Yeah. I haven't played it in forever. Yeah. There was a chat function on there, right? So you could reach out and say hi to the guys every now and then. And at the time he was on a law show. A law show, right? Franklin and Bash. It was about law. Yeah. Clueless and...

Road trip, and he's been in touch. And the craft. He's a prick in the craft, though. 51 today. Oh, God damn it. What else was he in? Oh, never mind, never mind. Are you thinking of somebody else? I'm thinking of...

I'm thinking of Seth Green. Sorry. They're both short. So, you know, I get it. Mr. Beast has a birthday today. Man, I just saw him do something with those guys that did the Avageddon sharing excess. And he is...

I didn't know much about Mr. Beast a year ago, I'll be honest. I know he's like one of the most popular YouTube people on the planet. I am so impressed by that guy. He does a lot, a lot of charity work. He gives back all the time and his stunts aren't really geared towards me, but they're entertaining. It's, you know, it's geared for our younger audience and I think he's a really impressive dude. Jace loved him for a long time and so that's how I learned about him and Nick, same thing. He would tell me all these charity things he would do and sometimes I'd be like, no, I don't

think so, honey. And he's like, no, he gave a million dollars to somebody. And I'm like, I don't know. And we look it up and I'm like, oh my God, he's right. And he started telling me about all this different charity stuff he did. And I know there's been a little bad press around him, but for the most part, seems like a good guy. Yeah, and a positive experience.

Yeah. Example for a lot of people. It's okay to work that way, yeah. He's 26 today. Jake Bongiovi, John Bongiovi's son and husband of Millie Bobby Brown, is turning 22 years old. So what is his... Is he...

Into music? Or what is his career path? I don't really know. I know he seems like a really pleasant guy. Obviously, I've seen interviews. But he seems to be happy being in the background. And he looks a lot like John. Yeah, that doesn't hurt. You can see the...

You can see the lineage in his face. Is there a younger kid too? I don't know. Oh, they have four. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Because a friend of mine lives in the same neighborhood as them and their kids are somehow friends and she posted pictures not that long ago and they were at their house hanging out and the connection is the kid.

Yeah, Dorothea is John's high school sweetheart and they have four kids together. All right, and Nick pulled up his Wikipedia and he does some acting. So he's been in a few things. A romantic comedy called Sweethearts. He was in a musical film called Rock Bottom and a few other things. So I guess he's working his way through the acting realm.

But they make a great couple. They do. I love her. He is 22 years old today. Randall Tex Cobb. Love that guy. Turned 75 years old today. I was just reading a story about Ace Ventura. And in the scene where he opens up the door in the beginning, he's the crazed boyfriend of...

He has two black eyes. That wasn't makeup. He had been in a bar fight the night before. What idiot would fight Randall Tex Cobb? I know, I know. So, hey, that's the guy in the very, very beginning of the movie that he goes and steals the dog for the...

He is excellent in Raising Arizona. He's great. He is the kind of bounty hunter, baby hater guy, and he's awesome in that. Casey, he's also in Fletch Lives, the sequel to Fletch. Yeah, I don't really know that movie all that well. Oh, okay. Well, Fletch gets locked up in a county prison or whatever, and he's in there, and he's an inmate, and...

He walks in and he goes, hello. And he goes, bend over. And he goes, Ben, nice to meet you. So he is celebrating his 75th birthday today. Motorheads Phil Campbell turns 64 years old today.

And Motorhead is in the pantheon of ultimate rock bands. So this guy in particular, Preston, has one of the largest collections of Precious Moments figures. Wow. Little fun fact. Yeah, he loves them.

So Phil Campbell turns 64 years old today. Oh, by the way, let me double back to Randall Tax Cobb, another factoid that Nick figured out. In January 2008, he graduated magna cum laude from Temple University. How about that?

So he's a smarty pants. With a bachelor's degree in sports and recreation. Maybe he just threatened his way. I know that he lived here for a long time. I think that he still does. Maybe we've talked about it at some point in the past, but I'm pretty sure he's still a Philadelphia resident. I'd love to get him on. Yeah, I know. He's a fascinating dude.

We should talk to Wanda Sykes. Maybe she can broker that. Oh, I have a Wanda Sykes story for you guys later. Okay, definitely. Jot that down. All right, and then final birthday, director Amy Heckerling. Love her. She actually, Bert and Breckin Meyer, worked together on Clueless, and they both celebrated birthday today. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. That's why Casey's playing this, which is great. I can see those both perfect movies. I really, I mean, they're just well-executed, wonderful movies. She also created the Look Who's Talking movie.

movies or was the director of those as well. So she's had a really good successful run. She turns 71.

Years old today. I love this song, by the way. I love that Moog synthesizer in the beginning. Yeah. So cool. All right. Let's see if we can find somebody who knows the answer to the stupid question this morning. And we are going to go to Mark. Check in with him via Zoom. Hey, Mark. Good morning, sir. Hey, YouTube Mark here. How are you? Nice to see you, buddy. All right. So here is your question. According to Tommy Two-Tone, how much does a phone call cost?

for the price of a dime. That is correct, sir. Nice job. Hang on. And the reason I thought of Kathy is because if you do not know it, Kathy once gave her phone number to Bill Weston. Yeah, when we first started working at MMR, he asked for, you know, he was putting our phone numbers in his phone. Yeah, and it was like 610-867-5309. And he put it in and years later, he goes, I called you at home and your phone is disconnected. Do you not have a landline anymore?

I go, what home number? I go, what home number do you have for me? And he read it out loud. And we were all like, uh. Were you cracking up? Oh, I was. And I think he cracked up, too, when he eventually realized. I was like, Bill, read that number again. All right, Mark, hang on, buddy. We're going to give you a pair of tickets. It's 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. All right, I do have some stories to pass along to you. This is a follow-up, man. Jimmy Wayne Carwile said,

arrested yesterday, Monday actually, after driving through the gates of Jennifer Anson's home in Los Angeles. We told you about this and this led to police opening an investigation into possible stalking case. Yeah. Because I had mentioned the guy was like 71 years old. I was thinking, oh, I

I want a whopper. Maybe he had a condition or something. I don't know. Yeah, that's what I thought. 71's not crazy old or anything like that, but... It's old enough. I wasn't thinking about being a stalker of Jennifer Aniston. Yeah. LAPD's Threat Management Unit is handling the incident and authorities are reviewing social media activity linked to Carwild, including a Facebook post where he referred to Aniston as...

His bride. So they're married? I didn't know that. He was booked. But now you can understand his ire that she was locking him out of their home. He was booked on suspicion of felony vandalism and is being held without bail in the Los Angeles County Jail. Aniston was home during the incident, but was unharmed and did not encounter this guy. Now he's sitting in there thinking, time to switch to Courtney Cox. I guess so. Okay, this is messed up.

Smokey Robinson. Yes. The great singer has been accused of sexual assault by four former employees in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. The 85-year-old Motown legend faces allegations including sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, gender violence, and creating a hostile work environment. Now, I've never heard anything about

of a scandalous nature attached to Smokey Robinson. Have you? No, and listen to these allegations because there's some things that need to be hashed out. The complaint claims that Robinson's behavior was willful, wanton, and malicious with a conscious disregard for the plaintiff's right and privacy. His wife, Frances Robinson, is also

Also named in the suit for allegedly knowing about his misconduct and failing to stop it. So the ladies in this suit are classified as Jane Doe. So Jane Doe 1 alleges the assault began in March 2023 and was repeated.

Jane Doe 2 claims she was forced to resign in 2020 after experiencing the harassment that began in 2016. Jane Doe 3 alleges that Robinson raped her from behind. This is, I'm using this from the story, raped her from behind at least 20 times during her employment from 2012 to 2024.

And during her, the plaintiffs are seeking at least 50 million damages. So, I mean, listen, I think all evidence needs to be heard. But the fact that you worked there for 12 years and were raped 20 times and this is the first time it's coming out, I don't know. I was watching, maybe it was TMZ Live or something, but they were dissecting this. And listen, you always have...

This needs to be investigated clearly, be horrific if this is in fact the case. But the detective or the investigator they were talking to was saying, honestly, it does raise a lot of questions. Yeah.

So we'll see. We'll follow that as it develops. Lighter stories. Anna Wintour runs her Met Gala with an iron fist, of course, but some stars are slipping through her fingers. One strict rule for the gala, and we talked about this the other day, no phones allowed. However, some celebs...

weren't going to let the night go by without content for their socials so here are a few of the invitees who ignored the rule yes megan the stallion hallie bailey and quest love um and apparently they took videos and pictures for the event and uh while it's unclear exactly what the consequences consequences are for celebrities breaking the rule it is rumored the rule breakers may risk not getting in

getting invited the next year could you imagine yeah marissa shared us uh with us the quest love stuff from uh i guess you sent it to us yesterday maybe um yeah it was like pictures or video in the bathroom whatever yeah there's like 50 people all in the bathroom and uh taking a big selfie yeah it looks fun it is does seem fun and how can you expect all these people who live and die by this stuff yeah to not do it yeah so uh what marissa oh i'm sorry yes i feel like the

bathroom selfie has come out a bunch over the years, but it's the other Questlove video that got me where he actually recorded people singing and dancing within the venue. That's the one that got me because I haven't really seen it. So you say you can understand the stuff in the crapper, but the stuff out on the main...

Steve, like the bathroom selfie has just kind of become like a common thing. Right. But this you see like Quinta Brunson dancing and you see people playing and kind of out of their full on costume. So I think this is stuff that really gets. I'm surprised they don't have to turn their phones over or like.

I mean, I guess maybe they just sneak them in or whatever. Back to that bathroom picture, though. I was in a bathroom on Saturday. I had to go to a party at PJ Willihan's. There was an entire bridal party in the bathroom and the bathroom was not large. Like there was there's only three stalls in there. And there was an entire bridal party in the bathroom practicing a dance. So the bride was also there, didn't see them. And I was like, excuse me.

Trying to get through to get to the stall. And they're like, are you ready? Five, six, seven, eight. And dancing. It was really funny. Wow. So anyhow, we'll see if these peeps get invited back next year. I don't know if I could live with myself if I was taken off the list. Speaking of Quinta Brunson.

She has shown her love for Philadelphia, and now the city is returning the favor. The Abbott Elementary star is to be given the key to the city by Mayor Sherelle L. Parker on May 28th. Cool. And will also help dedicate an original mural at her elementary alma mater, Andrew Hamilton School, which served as the inspiration for the comedy series. We need to get Lisa Ann Walter to broker. Yeah.

Right, an interview with Quinta. Because she's amazing. We love her. She's actually coming back to town in July. All right. That's why I reacted like that. I'm like, oh, I just hadn't been...

Answered an email about Lisa Ann Walter. Quinta said, I'm so grateful to be receiving the key from my hometown, Philly. And the city shaped me. And now I get to give back with a mural that celebrates all it gave me. And I am truly honored. So in the teaser reel for the new season of It's Always Sunny, they are showing their take on that episode that aired on Abbott Elementary. And it looks great. I wonder if Rob will ever get a chance.

He should. Or has he? Or a mural? I wonder if we will ever get a key to the city or a mural. You know my caveat for that? The key, by my reckoning, should literally open every door in the city. Yeah. I literally have been having conversations about a WMR mural for years now. Yeah. There's a listener, artist, and muralist. His name is John.

I mean, literally last week we were just talking about it because, you know, the 60th anniversary or 60th birthday is coming up.

In just a couple of years. But we've been talking about it. I don't think we're going to make the hundreds. No, no, we won't. At least we have people on our side. Seems to do nothing. That would be cool. Some faces throughout the years of the DJs. Obviously, Pierre and

John DiBella, two of the biggies that should be on a mural like that. Here's my idea. As you cross the Ben Franklin Bridge, every building facing that way should be a member of the show as high as the building is. I love that. Maybe if we can get Mayor Parker to come to a camp out again, if we agreed with her that we'll never make fun of E-A-G-E-E-S again, that she gives us a key. Maybe. We won't do that. Hmm.

Give us a key. Okay. All right. So we got a bargaining chip. Yeah. All right. Kim and Kylie Kardashian were at the Met Gala, as was mom Kendall. But where was Khloe? Followers of her Instagram know she was home babysitting the kids and cheering the mom and her sisters on from the couch. Go! Yeah, what? Go to the party. Walk! She posted several clips. Eat hors d'oeuvres! Go!

She posted several clips to her Instagram stories of the group watching the Met Gala entrances and cheering on their family members. Get out of that limo! What the hell is that? Cheering them on. They did it! Pose! They won! Eat that hot dog!

So probably would be having hot dogs at the Met Gala. But although most of the Kardashian Jenner kids stayed home, Kim's eldest daughter North was with mom helping her prep for the event. I couldn't be there. I'm taking core samples of Saturn. Oh, pretty cool, right? Yeah, absolutely. I love you all people of Earth. One day I shall return.

All right. Let's see. This is pretty cool. David Spade has revealed that he was pitched a sequel to Tommy Boy, and he turned it down flat. He told the story of how he was offered the opportunity to reprise the role of Richard Hayden in a sequel, and for Spade, no Farley equals no movie. So the consensus is the sequel was Black Sheep, yeah. No, no. So he said, I was pitched a Tommy Boy 2, which was our character's kids are together. Wow.

So that was the picture. Oh, my God. He said, I was pitched this two years ago. So just...

Oh, just recently. Okay. He said, I was like, I can't find a scenario with no Chris Farley. He was the whole movie. It would be too much of a sellout. And I can't imagine it. No one could do that. It was our kids and it was about them. And I was going to help them on the road. And he said, listen, it was about Chris. If we did another one back then, it would have been a blast. But no. Agreed. Now, Chris Farley has a brother who's a talented guy. He's not Chris Farley. No. No.

He looks like Chris Farley. Have I ever seen him? I have no idea who that guy is. Yeah, he's shown up in stuff, especially like Chris Farley tributes over the years. And he really looks a lot like him. He acts like him. But he's a little bit more toned down. Yeah, exactly. And he tried to do some comedy stuff. It's kind of, Casey, it's like Brian Doyle Murray or the other Murray that was in the... Like Joel Murray. Joel Murray. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Think of Joel Murray to Bill and Chris Farley's brother to Chris. But you know what? In that family, Anne Murray did quite well.

Did she? Yeah, her Canadian songs. Oh, okay.

So, I was happy to see this. For fans of the 90s dramedy series Northern Exposure, it may be time to revisit Sicily, Alaska. You love that show. I love that show. Series star Rob Morrow and Janine Turner are reuniting for a rewatch podcast. The two who played the show's Dr. Joel Fleischman and Maggie O'Connell are teaming up to give fans behind-the-scenes views of the show. So, you know what's happened? There's become an entire industry based on these rewatch podcasts.

So you get the stars all out of the office or Smallville has been a big one recently. And they all gather and they literally watch and dissect each of the episodes. And then those tend to manifest into like conventions and cruises. Yeah. I mean, if you go a little further back, DVDs, the extras. Sometimes it would be the stars sitting down to watch the entire movie. I watched it for the 30th anniversary of The Breakfast Club. Yeah.

And I loved it. Yeah. It was great. They were sitting there talking, bringing it down scene by scene. Oh, you know, man, when we shot this, you know, I was going to wear a tutu. You know, they're telling you some story. If you're a fan, you love to hear that stuff. It's great. So this will be fun for fans of the show. It launches in audio and video form on May 20th with weekly episodes. Northern Exposure ran from 1990 to 1995.

So that'll be a fun little re-exploration of that. My wife just binged the entire thing, Preston. Really? Yeah, she got completely into it and it sort of just became, even though she'd never really watched it before, it became comfort food for her. It's still well-written. I watched a bunch of the episodes with her and it holds up. Yeah. It's a good show. It was a smart show, yeah.

So, let's see. Disney's live-action Snow White movie has gotten its digital release date. The movie starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot hits digital platforms May 13th. And that means it will be available on Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at home. It will also be available on June 24th on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD. The releases will include bloopers, deleted scenes, featurettes, a sing-along version, and more. Here's audio of one of the bloopers, Preston.

Dopey. Hilarious dopey. Little bastard. This is a new dress. So far, however, release date for Disney Plus has not been revealed as yet. That was an outtake. Yeah. Yeah.

So I'm going to mention this because we have the stars of this show in our studio trying. One of Apple TV Plus' longest running series is going to run a bit longer. The stream announced yesterday the show is renewed for a fifth season. They were so nice. They were terrific. So I did three seasons and kind of just rocked through them. I love them. They're completely charismatic and wonderful. This is good news. I'll jump in. And I mean, I'm currently...

I'm coming to the finish line on three separate series, Preston, so I might port over to that one again. Season five will find Nikki, played by Esther Smith, and Jason, who is Rafe Spall, dealing with the consequences of Princess and Tyler's biological mother, Kat, played by Charlotte Riley, turning up at their doorstep, causing chaos. So I was happy to see that that's continuing on. It's been successful for those guys. They're so nice. They're super sweet. Yeah. All right. And then one last story.

Let's end with this one. Sportscaster Stephen A. Smith is fulfilling one of his lifelong dreams. He is going to be a victim on Law & Order. Oh, I want to do that. Yes. You know, his first big bucket list item was being on our show. And he lived that dream. He lived that dream. According to the show's official logline, it's going to air this Thursday, by the way. It says, a tough love sports agent is found stabbed to death.

Leaving the squad with a trail of suspects who wanted him gone. Despite there being a ton of evidence, Price and Morin think that a lack of motive could hurt their case. In an interview with Variety, Smith shared that he's very excited to join the storied series. He said that's part of the bucket list, being on Law & Order, but not being the corpse.

My goal is to ultimately be a lawyer in the courtroom going up against the attorneys. Law and order you can catch on NBC 8 p.m. Eastern. So there are rumors that he might consider a political career. Really? Yes. He's very savvy. He is taking a deep dive. He's saying things that appeal to people across the aisle. And so if he parlays that, who knows? You never know. Okay.

That's what my aunt used to say. So we got some clips to play. Darren Barnett has been climbing his way up the Hollywood ladder since his first TV appearance. Read that a little bit slower as I try and grab these clips and put them into a different thing here.

Well, I'm not going to go that slow. I know. All right, so he has been climbing his way up the Hollywood ladder since his first TV appearance in 2017. In this clip, he talks about his close relationship with co-star Dermot Mulroney in the Chicago Med Universe. You want to hit it? Yep. Okay.

I was just stoked that he was going to be in Chicago while I was because it was making the transition quicker. I also just get warm and fuzzy every time I hear Dermot's name. He's been a great older brother type mentor to me since I met him. Love that man very much. Oh, God. Don't care. Don't care. A new episode of Chicago Mad Airs today. That's on NBC. Here's our next clip. You ready for this one? Yes, sir. All right. I'll fire this one up. Okay.

The new A24 comedy friendship is about a stubborn dad befriending his neighbor. And in this clip, Paul Rudd talks about standout comedy cast and co-star Tim Robinson. Both of them are so talented, so funny, so kind of all about the minor chords and getting...

Yeah!

Friendship premieres in theaters on Friday. Word of Mouth is very good on this movie. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I thought it was out already. So did I. Because we've talked about it. Actually, the release date on IMDb is 2024. And I know we've talked about it a bunch. And somebody, maybe it was Kevin Smith or somebody asked us if we'd seen it yet. I think I was asking. Yeah, because I was asking. You know, it might have been, um...

Will Forte. Okay. And it was concerning the, I had asked, I said, you would probably work well in the, I think you should leave now, series. Again, because he'd done that one bit and it was great where he was a disgruntled airline traveler. And he brought up the movie. Yeah, that's what it was. Okay.

So, yeah, it says, according to here, that it opens on Friday. Oh, there you go. All right. And that is what I have in the undercamber portfolio this morning. So it debuted eight months ago at the Toronto International Film Festival. So we've heard about this for a long, long time. So did the festival route? Yeah, did the festival circuit. Okay, gotcha.

All right. Now we got all that cleared up. We can take a break. Come back in a moment. We got a lot going on today. Several guests are joining us. We have lots of stuff to give away, including 20 money and some friends from restaurants that are stopping in. So we'll spell it all out for you in a little while. Stay put. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Cath. Case, did I throw away the information sheets for that? I have them up here. Okay, thank you, because I was just looking for that as well. I was like, I could have sworn Marissa brought that in earlier. Yeah, Steve's got it. So I just want to mention that we're going to be doing some giveaways in a little while, and we have three restaurants that are going to be here. We have La Nona's.

Cafe Carmela's and Restaurante Pesto. And this is all in conjunction with this new show on Netflix called Nona's. It'll be streaming this Friday. So we'll do... We have $100 gift cards today. Nice. So we'll do that in a little while. Just stay tuned for that. Steve, you wanted to mention something. Yeah, it's part of the Delco Gives...

thing that you talked about, Casey. In fact, it is tonight, this evening. It is a movie screening of The Public with Emilio Estevez. It's at the Media Theater. Oh, get out! Yeah, and it's, so the proceeds from that screening are going to go to Breaking Bread. It is the only pet

friendly shelter, I believe, in Delco. And it is a great place. The movie looks really cool. It is a new Emilio Estevez movie. It's about people who are homeless and end up being sheltered in a public library. That is this evening at 7 o'clock. You can do walk-up and purchase tickets.

And again, it will benefit this wonderful shelter. Say people are, you see them out on the street and they're homeless and they have a pet with them. And the last thing they want to do is part with the pet before they go in and get the help that they need. This shelter provides them refuge. So it is a wonderful thing. And all you have to do is go see a movie and be part of this great event tonight. Yeah. Come and hang out with me first. Uh, I'll be at like the Plumstead or not Plumstead, uh, the plum, um, uh,

mall area on State Street starting at like 6. So come by, say hi to me and then go to the movie at 7. That would be great. Nice. Alright, Marissa has some breaking news. Breaking news. So we now go to our...

Producer's desk, Marissa McNatta with this breaking news. Marissa, on to you now. Live from Studio 4K. I wanted to share something a little happy, a little promising, just to lighten our day just a tiny bit. Okay.

And in fact, oh my God, even all the listeners and you guys right here can experience this with us. I would like everybody right now to go to the Preston and Steve Show Instagram page. Okay. Click on our stories. Okay. We'll do this as we speak because I don't know what she's talking about yet. Because guys, we walked in and we have a sign of phones. What? Whoa.

We've been slowly getting equipment and new pieces. Preston, I showed you our new phone screener program the other day. Right. And then we walked in and our phones are lit up.

And it looks like we're like soon days away from actually having real phones. I'm sorry, Marissa, where was this photo taken? Right next to me. Oh, okay. That's what my studio looks like. Oh, it's the computer screen behind it. I thought it was at the wall. My apologies. Yeah, I was talking to Kristen yesterday down at Ben FM and she was able to use the phones, you know,

Yesterday, she was using them for contests and stuff like that. Okay. So they're saving us for the last. They want, in case all of these shows that are ahead of us have issues, they want to make sure it's perfect so we should have the phones within the year? Yeah. Yeah, that's why, Marissa, I appreciate it. Yeah.

Now, when we have phones, that's the breaking news. It looks cool. We were just so excited when it was lit up in here. I know. As well you should be. It's promising. It's something. I'm still impressed by the candlestick phone, Preston. I am too. I will always treasure my candlestick phone. My old school Mayberry phone.

When you would call Clara to connect you to Barney down at the jail. This is the phone that I have here. All right. Well, thank you, Marissa. Thank you very much. That is cool. Someday soon. Someday. We will have those phones. You'll be able to sing that song, Preston, 8-6-7-5-3-0-9. That's right. Yeah. All right.

You know what? We need to chat. We didn't get a chance to do this in a couple weeks, so I would like to dive into SurveyStay. Where we grab some surveys. I get lists of surveys every single day. And you know, much as the connoisseur was a reviled segment by Chuck D'Amico and it became one of his favorites, this started as kind of a no-man's land of the worst surveys ever.

that you could imagine. We were laughing at how bad they were. They got sent to us. And now I actually really look forward to some of the surveys. Some of them are decent. In fact, now I have to find the really bad ones. Like go looking for them. Maybe they've upped their game. It's still fun. I think we all like to...

you know, do our own surveys. You know, like I think surveys are a great conversation starter or rekindler. Like, you know what I'm saying? I'd like to do a survey of how many people like to do their own surveys. So meaning when you're with a group of people, you'd like to hear what everyone's opinion is on a certain topic and kind of do a quick, let's see, you know, where the consensus lies. One of the best, the best bathroom books ever had was a collection of pop,

pop culture surveys. When we were in Italy, we had a dinner with the parents and players and that was essentially how we kept the conversation going at the table. I don't really know you all that well. What was your top three movies of all time? Stuff like that. Here's the survey. A survey of 35,781 U.S. adults

When a friend tells you a secret in confidence, how often do you share the secret with at least one person? Well, I will have to say always because the caveat is always if you tell me, you have to understand. I'm going to... Claire will know. Oh, yeah. See, that's...

I immediately go to like Chuck D'Amico, our boss. Yeah. Because he'll be like, hey, you can't tell anybody. I go, wives too? You know what I mean? So I will clarify whether or not I'm allowed to share said information with my spouse. And if they say no, then...

I don't tell her. Agreed. Same policy. I think if somebody tells any of us in this room or Marissa something, we have to qualify it also by saying, listen, you can't tell everybody else on the show yet. Usually it's yet. But for now, like Casey, we really need to keep this between ourselves. And sometimes it's completely innocuous, like a cool guest we might have down the road and we don't want to jinx it by telling somebody else. But Casey, more often than not,

I will have to... There has to be at least one qualifier. Hey, I got a secret for you. No, really. I have a secret for you and just you and you can't share it with anybody else. And then once the secret is out and then I can reveal it to my wife, I have to apologize. Hey, listen, I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but I was sworn to secrecy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I apologize. So, yes, the choices are... How often do you share the secret with at least one person? Always, usually, sometimes, rarely...

And I would fall in the category of always because I'm always going to tell Rochelle. And unless I will adhere to the edict of, hey, don't tell Rochelle. You know, if this is important that she not know about this because it may hurt her feelings or whatever it may be. Then that I get. But, yeah, the standing rule is you tell me something in confidence, I'm going to share it with my wife. You know, I mean, that's pretty much the way it is. But, and Kathy, what about you and Dennis? So, I...

No, there's like my best friend. There's things that other people don't care about, you know, but like that she doesn't want to get out. No, I'll keep it to myself. Okay. What is the law? I've kept...

that people have asked me to keep secret for years and years and years. Do you have similar things that you've kept? Probably. Nothing's coming to mind right now, but I would imagine, yeah, there's one or two. The easiest secrets to keep are the ones where you just don't give a rat's ass. Yes. If you don't care. I'll sit on that. If you don't care. Yeah, mums,

the word. Sometimes you forget and then years later the person will come to you and be like, did you ever tell anybody? No. I have really no idea what you're talking about at this point. And they tried to get it out of me.

So the results of the survey are actually, if someone admits that they always share with at least one person, that was the least amount, 5%. I was actually kind of surprised. Yeah. Usually 7%, sometimes 12%, rarely 29%. And the highest percentage is never at 43%. Wow. Well, that's...

People answering this survey felt that, yes, your secret is safe with me. Have you ever said yes to keeping a secret where you knew you were going to betray that pretty quickly? Yes. Of course. As it's leaving my mouth. You're on the phone. Oh, my God. Could you repeat that? I can't wait to tell. Into my phone. Or when the secret is revealed to you, you're like, oh, man.

I have to tell somebody this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I swore that I wouldn't. It's too good sometimes, yeah. All right. So interesting peek into secrets. Here's our next survey. We'll get something to eat on this one. These are preferences and passion that people have for pizza.

A survey of 5,000 U.S. adults were asked a few questions. So here's some of the results. The average American eats 288 slices of pizza a year. Wow. Which am I talking about? I am talking about the need to eat pizza. Yeah, so you figure that's a good chunk of the year you're having a slice of pizza at some point. And usually, I mean, if you're having pizza...

Usually you're having at least two slices. If it's not a quick snack, at least two pieces. Three is like, yeah, I'm good. We can share a pie. Three is about it for me. It depends on where you're getting it from too. Depending on the size of the slice. Imperial Pizza in CK 610-540- I'm sorry, KI39393. That's the phone number.

I will eat half of that pizza on the way home from the pizza place and then finish it. And that's a regular-sized pie, but it's just a little bit thick. Hey, where did you get me the first Detroit-style pizza I ever had? You got it somewhere on the shore. Was that Summers Point? Yeah. Well, no, actually. Oh, God. Well, now it's in Ocean City. So pizzeria, it was Bakery at 1010. Okay. And that was in Linwood.

Linwood, just outside of Summers Point. Casey was so excited for me to try this style of pizza. Oh, I could imagine, yeah. And I totally get it. Right. It's heavenly. You are a Detroit-style convert at this point. I love it. But you can't eat more than one slice. No, one slice. Yeah, I was going to say that. It's massive. I mean, it's just so dense. There's a lot of dough to it. Yeah. Quick survey on this.

Are you reviled by the bubbles or do you run to them and embrace them as do I? I'll take them or leave them. I don't hate them. But I don't see a bubbly piece and go, yeah, give me that one. But going back to the Detroit style pizza, Nick, and it's so crazy because I have always preferred, you guys know, I love St. Louis style pizza, which is thin. It's almost like flatbread. And so I like that crunchy, thin thing.

But there's something about that Detroit-style pizza, the cheese. Oh, man, oh, man. I'm actually going to shoot right now just thinking about it. Yeah, Goat's Beard and Daisy Tavern, same owners, great Detroit-style pizza. Agreed. All right, so anyhow, about 95 billion slices of pizza are eaten by people across the country each year.

32% of those surveyed predicted that they'll eat even more pizza than they did last year. I'll eat more. In the questions they asked, do you dip your slices? 58% do. Shut up, everybody. Shut up. Okay, but Casey, ranch is the most popular sauce for dipping pizza. 38% said that they will, of those that are dippers, would dip in ranch. Do you see that place that is, Casey, and it is part of the deal, right?

The way they have it set up, the entire slice is dipped completely in ranch dressing. And this is apparently the way that it is served. That, to me, seems a bit excessive. Yeah. No, thank you. You know what, though? I probably should try other...

dipping sauces. Okay. Other than ranch. I don't know. You haven't? No. I mean, well, no, like there's like some like garlic butter. Yeah. So that's two garlic sauces. Number two. I know that Papa John's, I think they may have started like, you know, the, being the takeaway place that had the, uh,

garlic sauce. We're looking at an entire slice being dipped into ranch. That's disgusting. So what you're basically, you're actually eating ranch dressing with a hint of pizza. That's gnarly. Alright, so...

Followed by garlic sauce marinara. Yeah. Then blue cheese dressing. Yum. And buffalo sauce. So for me, it'd be buffalo sauce. Okay. A buffalo chicken pizza is something that I really dig. But, you know, it's funny because, of course, I adore pizza, but I know to stay away from it and space it out because I'll average three, but if I happen to be a little bit hungry, I'm going to go eight pass. It's not that...

A slice of pizza is like 250 calories. Yeah, what is half an entire pie driving home? How many calories? So as for the debate on the best way to eat a slice of pizza, nearly half say the correct way is tip first, not folded. Just the tip. Yep. So I don't do the fold either, unless it's a real floppy piece of pizza. So Dave Portnoy from Barstool, he does his pizza, one bite, everybody knows the rules. And the way he eats pizza, I can't sometimes...

I can't stand it. I just can't stand it because he bites the tip first and then he kind of turns it on the side and eats the crust and

So he gets a taste of the crust and the actual pizza. By the way, I think, especially with pizza, you cannot do a one-bite determination of the validity of a pizza. I totally agree. I will go in on the narrow, pointy side first. I will fold if necessary. But I think you want everything in one bite.

And that's the way it works. I do know people, though, who will eat it in the reverse from the crust. One of the most insane things I've ever seen was Nick McElwain had two slices of pizza and he just...

Stacked them on top of each other. That's a standard way. I was like, you could do that? Wait, you flipped the upside to touch each other like a sandwich? I think I took two slices. But in essence, in two slices, it can be one slice if you think about it. Yeah, but I'm thinking about your delivery method. So you put the...

It was cheese on cheese. Cheese on cheese? Yeah. Okay. Made a pizza sandwich, essentially. Yeah, I took the two slices. I took the one bottom of the one and made that the top of the singular slice. Okay. That's an interesting approach. Tony Manero eats it at the beginning of Saturday Night Fever. He stacks the pies, crust on the pizza. So they're all up the right way. Okay. And then folds it and then eats this big glob of pizza. Wow. Okay. Yeah.

So, according to this survey, eating pizza with a fork is a food crime. See, I will disagree. I disagree, too. Sometimes, I'm going to give it a pass. Yeah, it's okay. Friday is the most popular day to have pizza. 43% they have it on Friday, followed by Saturday at 23%, and then Wednesday at 11%. It's a fun food. It's fun. Yeah.

The thin crust is most popular, 29%, with stuffed crust coming in second at 24%, and then hand-tossed crust at 23%. I don't like the stuffed crust. As for pizza styles, New York is the favorite of the survey, while 22% prefer Chicago deep dish, and 8% like Sicilian style, and 4% say the Detroit style is the best.

I'd say a lot of people haven't had Detroit style yet, so there need to be more people. So am I the only one here who likes a deep dish? Oh, I like deep dish. Yeah, yeah. I think it's okay. You know what I don't like about it? I don't care for the crust. I think it's kind of like a cornmeal type of crust, so I'm not into that. I don't hate it, but I don't prefer it. What is the place, what is the chain that actually has kind of built the reputation? Uno's. Uno's, that's it. Yeah, Uno was a deep dish pizza place. Right.

So anyhow, there's your look on pizza in the surface. Here's the new one. And it finds that less than half of parents find it fun to read aloud to their children.

I like reading aloud to anybody. You do? I read aloud to my fraternity house. I read aloud to my wife. That's right. In fact, we were going to have, it was going to be a contest where you could win and Nick would come to your fraternity and read a bedtime story. Yeah, my wife is a little dyslexic and so she has trouble just reading straight from books. And so I like reading to her, which is a nice thing that we do at night. But so it's like, I'm the audio book.

for her. You know what? I, well, Preston, you and I are big proponents of the, of the audio books. Yeah. Something that I was staunchly against for a long time. Now I love it. So I guess in essence, I do love being read to. Okay. So I could sit in the back of your car. I would love it. And read you guys stuff. That's a service. There it is. Nick. Where Nick rides to work with you. You can begin. Call me Ishmael. Yeah.

So only 40% of parents with children age 0 to 13 agree that reading books to my child is fun to me, according to a survey conducted by data company Nielsen and publisher HarperCollins. The survey shows a steep decline in the number of parents reading aloud to young children, with 41% of 0 to 4-year-olds now being read to frequently, down from 64% in 2012. Let me ask you, so with all of you having kids...

I assume as with a movie that they like, was there a book that you were requested to read over and over and over again? Absolutely. Yeah, The Little Train That Could, Good Night Moon, especially when they're really little, Steve. It's the same books over and over. And during that time, they're like, all right, we're going to this book again. And now, of course, I would trade that moment for anything. I would love to be able to do that again. Wouldn't you like to hear what happens to the Red October?

Yeah, I read to Jace every night, multiple books. It was really important. And actually, one of his favorite books was Ben's book,

that you guys gave me and it was Bob the Builder. It was like, I mean, you know, like one, two years old and it was, he could recite it by, you know, by the time we had read it, you know, maybe a hundred times and he, he loved it and I think I, I might still have it or Melissa might have it. I would think that when you, you're young and you're in there, you're formative stages and you know, um, uh,

It allows your mind. It's like, you know, it's what radio does, the theater of the mind. It makes you more creative to hear a story and imagine it in your head. It's one of my regrets as a parent that I didn't do it more with my kids. I did it, but I also didn't like doing it, which sucks. I wish I did. Because you ruined my backseat. I know, but...

And I would always pick something short to read. Yeah, it's just, I was bad in that regard. One of the ones I remember, like I loved reading, though, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I thought that was a fun one. Another one we would read was, it's like, brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? Oh, yeah. I see a pink flamingo looking at me. Pink flamingo. Yeah. What do you see? Yeah, we had that one. Those were cute because the kids would say it along with you. Did you ever read Two Girls and a Cup? No.

Oh, my God. I also had that one in Spanish. And then...

Four little monkeys jumping on the bed. Oh, yeah, that one was good. One fell off and cracked his head. Wow. Doctor said, no more monkeys jumping on the bed. Yeah, that one was fun. So the kids would use that as a stalling tactic. You mean a story? They don't want to hear. This one's called The Stand. The unabridged version of The Stand.

So, Gen Z parents are more likely than millennial or Gen X parents to say that children's reading is, quote, more a subject to learn than a fun thing to do. HarperCollins said that parents in this age group grew up with technology themselves, so may think fun comes more from digital entertainment than from books. Did you... Do you remember that time where...

Because it always happens. I mean, even years ago, you know, even, you know, the prehistoric years when I was being raised, the TV would serve sometimes. Hey, watch this. Sure. You know, so I don't ever fault a parent for being, you know, you have things going on in inundated and it's an easy go to, you know. And then but I mean, I guess you got to try to fight doing that all the time. Yeah. But but take it.

Listen to me. It was a regret. I wish I would have done it more.

But most Gen Z parents still overwhelmingly see children's reading as a fun activity. With 31% saying that reading is more a fun thing to do than a subject to learn. Do you know what my mother used to do? And it was wonderful and some of my favorite memories. I didn't have many years overall considering my life right now with my mom. But the TV would be off and she would get a book. It was kind of a fun thing, a joke thing. And we'd sit in front of the TV with it off.

And she would read the book and act out the stuff into the reflection of the TV. And it was so cute. I remember it. I used to love that. So read to your kids, gang. All right. Next survey. This is according to a poll of 2,000 U.S. adults.

Nearly a quarter, 22%, admit they don't call their mom enough. I try to call my mom several times a week. I called her yesterday. I'm lucky to be able to do that. Stevie just talked about missing your mom. I love my mom and I love Chattanooga as much as I can. One time there was a terrible storm and the phone lines fell down on the cemetery. You got a message? Are you still doing the TV?

The other thing about calling my mom is that that's one of her love languages. Communication with her boys, that means a lot to her. Because I know how much it means to her, my brothers and I all try to check in with her as much as we can. She doesn't call you 37 times a day? No. That's you. And listen, if I don't hear from her, I also call her. But the majority of the time, I mean, it'll be a phone call, hang up, and then five minutes later, my phone rings.

That's her again. That's her again, yeah. Do you remember J.K. Simmons when he won an Oscar and he gave his acceptance speech and the last thing he said was, call your parents. Yeah. That was a nice little sentiment. It does mean a lot. On average, they talk to their mom once a week and the majority of them, 78%, confess that they can't go more than a week without talking to her. I think probably the purest thing is...

Sometimes you get into the ritual of there's a set time I call. If something's on your mind or something fun has happened, just call out of the blue. I think that means more. What bums me out as a parent is knowing that the...

it's going to be more of a hassle for my kids to communicate with me as they get older. Sure. You know what I mean? Like cats in the cradle, man, we'll get together. Well, and then he's like, yeah, well, the new job's a hassle and the kids that got the flu, but it's been nice talking to you. Yeah. Which is the line from that. Yeah. We're picking out a home for you now, dad. Like it just, it kind of bums me out to know that when my name pops up on their phone, that they, that their first inclination is, ah,

I don't want to talk to dad right now. That'll change. So Sunday's Mother's Day, and you'll be glad to know that we found a brunch location from our mom this weekend that is affordable, and we will all be going and not be leaving ahead of time. I talked with my financial planners.

And we can manage this. Just no bacon. Steve, it was funny. I mean, like, it was literally a conversation with me and my mom and my dad and Ben's coming and we're like, all right, so we're going to this place and we're staying there this time, right? You know, and everybody like knows what the expectations are going in. It's funny. I have a friend who speaks to his mother, um,

the same time every single day. And he had something terrible happen to him and he was not able to call his mom. And she knew immediately something was wrong because they talk every day. And so she was like, where is he? What's wrong? And was able to get some things in motion to figure out what was going on. Wow. Okay. Well, the closeness that some have with their mother pays off because two thirds claim that they know their mom better than anyone else in her life.

Um, people feel closest to their mom when making her laugh at 28% saying that. That was, that was one of my great joys. Making my, making my dad and my mom laugh was one of the great joys. Also having heartfelt conversations at 25% or just relaxing with her at 11%. Uh, but two thirds of all respondents say that their mom spends too much time worrying about everybody else. Uh huh.

Did you ever hit a point in life where you look back and you say you kind of understand a little with a sense of clarity as parents yourself what they were doing, when they were doing things that you may not have agreed with or understood at the time? Yeah. It does happen, right? It does happen, most definitely.

A third of those who are in contact with their mom worry that she doesn't spend enough time on herself. And 70% are afraid their mom has too much on her plate these days. So she neglects her self-care. Mom, you don't always have to be on the center pole. The champagne room is relaxed. All right. Let's do one more survey before we got a break.

Oh, actually, Casey, we're going on Fox Good Day. How are we doing on time? Yeah, we probably should. Well, you can... Time for one more show. A quickie? Yeah. Let me find one. Hang on. I got a bunch of them. Um...

No, some of these dive into a bit much. This is a beautiful piece of music, by the way. It is. All right, so this is a survey out of the UK. A poll of 2,000 adults who enjoy a good barbecue has found 28% admit to loading up their dish with as much food as possible when attending the popular garden get-together.

A fear of an empty buffet, not being bothered to get up again for seconds, and having eyes bigger than their bellies recited as the top reasons for this. Would you fall in this category, this realm of the plate piler? Not anymore. But at one point, yeah, as much as I could get on there. I do the other way. I kind of pick a couple things, see if that gets me where I need to go. And now I may go back.

200 times. But I try to parse it out so I'm not... The one thing I hate is having a plate full of food that I throw out. So here's a couple things they notice. Other classic barbecue archetypes include someone who will simply enjoy having food delivered to them so they never have to stand up.

So they're sitting down and you go get a plate for them. And bring back. And then they also indicate the food dropper was also highlighted. Someone who is notorious for ending up with more grub on the floor than on their plate. On a side note, there's a commercial that is at a barbecue and it is for paper plates.

And they're showing how ineffective this one brand is. And this moron, the way it's done, he's putting 18 pounds of food, like everything, beans and all this crap on the plate, and is stunned. And I know it's just a commercial. And I don't know why it lives in my head rent-free. But it just drives me crazy. All right, and then part of this, and like I said, this is out of the UK, so the number one on...

on here is a little bit interesting. Food's considered unlimited for guests at a barbecue. Yeah. Number one is sausages. Where are the sausages? Where are the sausages? That's number one? It's in the UK. Oh, yeah. That's why I highlighted that. They have very brittle teeth. I thought we'd go with a, in the USA, perhaps one of the coarse salads, like a potato or a macaroni. I think that should be expected to be bottomless. Yes. So number two is fries.

burgers. Number three is salad. And then we fall into that realm, Nick. Number four is coleslaw. Yeah. And number five is potato salad. Okay. On Thanksgiving, if the plate full of the carved turkey is being passed around, how many pieces will you take on the initial flyby? Like two. Two? Yeah. Okay. That's enough. By the way, so my mom used to make this great potato salad and I literally would just have a plate. I mean a full dinner-sized plate. Okay.

A potato salad. Yeah. Homemade? Do you have the recipe? Yeah, homemade. Absolutely. Macaroni salad for me. Yeah? Macaroni salad all day. I like a good macaroni salad. Sometimes I'm picky about them too. Yeah, yeah. But when you get a good one, hold on for... Rub it on my face and call me your life. I should make a...

My mom's spaghetti salad. It's basically macaroni salad. But with spaghetti instead of elbow macaroni? Nick's mom's meatballs. We had that conversation one time. Potato versus egg versus macaroni salad. I think maybe we even did a survey. I think in my own brain that I switch whatever my favorite one is from week to week. Right now, it's probably potato salad. Here's one off the beaten path. What about three bean salad? Do you guys ever get that one ago? I have not been...

on that street in a while. I need to redabble. Yeah, it's not like fall in love with it, rub it on your face and call you a bitch. It's a nice one. It's where you're from, slut.

Anyhow, now we need to wrap it up. After the slut comment. We'll wrap it up, survey says. All right, we're going to take a quick break because we're going to go live on Fox Good Day. I have no idea what those guys want to talk about. Probably three bean salads. We'll find out in a moment. Then we have our first shot at winning $1,000 this morning with 20 money. We'll be right back. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. WMMR, it's everything in rocks. We're going on Fox Good Day right now. When you invite people over to your home, let's say for the weekend, you have people in town. What are the biggest stressors when you realize they're about to show up at your house? Is it like, oh my God, we better clean the house? Preston, Steve, what do you think? Preston, what do you think?

Yeah, usually clean the house. And the inappropriate things that might be lying about the house. The sex aids. Yeah, all that. You know how it is, Steve. No, I'm not good with last minute. I like to be prepared if people are going to be coming over. Because you want to make them feel welcome and comfy. Yeah, I mean, you set the whole thing up. They're coming. You know you're going to poison one of them who betrayed you.

And so you got to set. No, I think the thing I used to freak out having parties at home or having gatherings at home because, you know, the thing you learn eventually is if you provide food and booze, it doesn't matter. So then they'll have a good time. So I but I used to panic. Yeah. Do you know what mine is? I guess I stress about people messing my house up.

Yeah. Really? Yes. She does. But I can get that because when people show up at my house, I hide all. I'm a big electronics guy. I hide all the remotes. I hide everything that can be effed with. Really? Absolutely. Because it drives me crazy. I understand there's going to be some spillage, but I'm like the great Gatsby wandering around with a garbage bag. And, you know, I don't really enjoy the party. I clean up.

It's a little crazy. This is another thing I believe. When you have people in from out of town, family or otherwise, you shouldn't stay more than two nights. That's it.

Two nights I can take. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. After that, then it starts getting weird. Beyond two nights, that's hotel time. If you're going to be at somebody's house for more than two nights, don't be at that person's house for more than two nights. Stay at a hotel. I always put people up at hotels when they come to visit. Unless there's like one person, maybe. But I always offer to put them up at a hotel because I know that when I go to someone's house, I feel awkward. Yeah, that's...

That Steve Settle message to you. Hey, I'll put you up somewhere if you want. Yeah. Because I would hate being at your house. And I assume you hate being at mine. Well...

I have struggled with that over the years, suggesting that they stay in a hotel. I just say, I just think you're going to be more comfortable. Yeah. But it's only because I'm not prepared to have people over. And you don't have anything in your fridge, so what are they going to eat? No, just stay in the hotel. I'll come see you. That makes sense. Is that rude? No. If you state your case up front, then you're absolved of any issues. Yeah.

And if you pay for it. And if you pay for it. Exactly, Alex. If you pay for it. That's what I do, too. I have lied to my children.

Which time? When they say, Dad, don't worry about getting us a hotel. I'll say, no, no, no, I got a huge discount. Or I say that it's free. So they don't feel bad. Listen, if you can't lie to your children, then I don't want to live in that room. Who can you lie to? Yeah. I lied about being their dad. There you go. Full circle, Simba. Yeah.

In reality, I have no children. Thank you. See you next week. Bye-bye, guys. Take care of yourselves. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I couldn't see Mike being the host. I couldn't see him

Rolling out the red carpet. He's a good one-on-one hang or take it in the town, but I don't think you're going to sit there and watch fishing shows. Exactly. Not Mike. Exactly. But it's funny. You would lie to people and say, oh, yeah, I get this great deal. Great deal, yeah. All you have to do is pay them for your rooms. All right. I am glancing at the clock, and it is 8 a.m. 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It's not looking too bad this morning. Much better than yesterday morning. But we are jammed 95 southbound from Cotman through to the Betsy Ross Bridge. The Vine westbound slowing 8th to the Schuylkill. Schuylkill delays eastbound the boulevard into the Vine. Westbound passing up to the Vine. The boulevard to Gladwin. Blue Route northbound. Heavy 95 to the Media Bypass. Northeast extension northbound. The off ramp to get on to the Turnpike.

Pennsylvania Turnpike, there is a crash there to watch out for. Ridge Pike in Plymouth Township at North Lane, an accident. Route 1 out in Bucks County in the Chamonix. Southbound on Route 1 at Rock Hill Drive, an accident blocking the right lane. 295 southbound slowing from 561 to the 42. Freeway 42 north backing up Blackwood-Clementon Road to 295.

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on research at its high-contaminant lab known as the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland for a safety stand-down. Now...

What they handle are things like Ebola and SARS, like the big, big biggies. The big mothers. In a report, Bradley Moss, communications director, noted, this decision follows identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromise a facility's safety culture. The director, Dr. Connie Schmalajon, Schmalajon? Schmalajon.

An experienced scientist and expert on hantaviruses was also placed on an administrative leave. No further information on the cause of the safety stand down has been reported by the NIH. However, an anonymous source stated the cause was a lover spat between facility researchers...

Where, listen to this, I can't believe this. Oh, I'm sure I'm going to believe it. Where one individual poked holes in another's protective equipment. What? So, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's a lover's spat. That's why, honestly, a lot of times...

businesses like that or pilots are discouraged from fraternizing or having relationships with coworkers. So this is according to an inside source. That individual has since been fired, the official indicated. So high consequence pathogens are serious and deadly agents that pose a substantial threat to domestic and global security.

Many are difficult to treat and frequently do not have preventative vaccines. You know, my mind's racing to the opening scene in the stand, Preston. Oh, totally. Consequently, they required specialized containment facilities to study them safely because they are known to infect laboratorians. Some additional examples include Marburg and Lassa viruses and anthrax bacteria. These are some of the deadliest infectious pathogens online.

On the planet with death rates that can range from approximately 25 to 90%. So that is just insane. So if you're having a lover's call, maybe to just take their food out of the fridge. Yeah. Yeah. All right. This is a much better story to share with you. It was scary. Kentucky woman was in a mess when she found stacks of boxes containing lollipops on her front doorstep.

The surprise delivery was ordered by her young son while he played on her phone. Now, wait till you hear the numbers.

Holly Laver says that she tried stopping eight-year-old Liam's Amazon order for about 70,000 dum-dum stickers. Oh, my God. Before the treats arrived, but it was too late. We're looking at a picture of them stacked up. Press it on the screen here. That's insane. Amazon had already delivered 22 cases to her home. She said he told her that he wanted to have a carnival, and he was ordering the dum-dums as prizes for his carnival. Again, he was being friendly. He was being kind to his friends.

So the surprise got worse after a quick check of her bank account. She owed about $4,000 for the order. She said, when I saw that number, I am about fainted. And then she found out there were eight more cases from the order that were unaccounted for. And after a trip to the post office, those cases were returned to sender. There was an AFV video of a kid who ordered, you know, those large, like they're fake Broncos, but that you can drive them and they have like batteries in them. And I mean, they're huge.

He ordered four of them. Oh, my God. And, you know, they're sitting on the front step. So her efforts to get a refund took a bit more time, but she got her money back. She said after a long day of working with the bank and talking to a few news stations, Amazon called and they're refunding my money. LaFevre said that she was changing some settings on her phone to make sure that there's never another surprise.

Delivery at home. By the way, I love dum-dums. They're great. They're great. Yeah, but 70,000 of them. It's a long weekend. Authorities were searching Monday for a black bear that killed a man and a dog in South Florida. The attack occurred in a rural area east of Naples.

Wildlife officers warned that the animal could still be in the area and they advised the public to be vigilant and avoid the area. Local law enforcement and wildlife officers are searching for the bear. My mind still reels with the notion of bears. Florida? And in residential areas. Yeah.

Yeah, authorities didn't say when they think the attack occurred or released the name of the man who was killed. Florida's black bears, which were once threatened, have increasingly wandered into neighborhoods and private property in recent years, especially in more rural areas of north and central Florida. I'm a big chubby bear with a furry little tail. I'll kill you and your dog.

All right, Kathy stepped out. I had a story I wanted her to hear, but I'll hold on to that for a little bit later. A security camera on a street in India captured the moment a wandering bull took a parked scooter for a spin. The video shows the stray bull investigating the white scooter before putting its front legs onto the seat. Wow! The bull rolled the scooter out into the road while passers dashed by out of its path. The attempted joyride comes to an end.

An abrupt end when the bull crashed the scooter into a nearby gate, causing the vehicle to fall onto its side. The animal, which did not appear injured, casually walks away from the scene. Thank God it wasn't a cow, Preston, because, you know, you would have had an utter catastrophe. All right.

And then this story. Yeah. Begun. The robot wars have in a Chinese factory. A humanoid robot went wild and attacked workers as seen in creepy video footage. Did you guys see this footage? No. Okay. Get ready for this. The robot held by a small crane suddenly starts swinging its arms fast and hard like it was angry.

Two workers nearby ducked and backed away and it knocked over a computer monitor and other stuff on a desk. Oh, wow, that's bad. And at one point, the robot even tried to walk forward as if it was breaking free. One worker pulled...

The crane to stop the chaos and the incident blamed on a coding error happened on May 1st. People online called it dystopian with some joking about a robot revolution. This comes after other robot incidents like the one that leading a showroom rebellion.

And it raises big safety worries about robots working near humans, especially in those that have seen science fiction movies. So looking at the appendages on this robot, which is meant to look like a humanoid, they look pretty heavy, those arms. You get slapped with one of those, it would hurt. Oh, yeah. I would think you'd get hurt really bad. But it's wild. The thing is just...

Just flailing around. Jitterbug. Yep. All right, and that is what I have in the bizarre file for you right now. We're going to take a quick break. We got a lot of people joining us on the show this morning. And don't forget, we have President Steve's 20-Money.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. WMMR. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. So we got a few restaurants that have dropped off food this morning. I'm going to do some giveaways in just a moment. I'll tell you how to win in a second. And it's in conjunction with a show on Netflix. I'm not going to say the name of that show. Okay. Because I have somebody here who is going to say it correctly. And she is from Restaurante Pesto. We have Gianna Verano.

Hi, everybody. Hi, Jana. How you doing? Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thanks for coming. We're going to talk about your food in a minute. Sounds good. Thank you so much. Okay, so, and she brought by this huge spread. I went in there and I said, okay, so this is with, or no, you were telling me about one of the recipes. And you said it was from who? My nonna. Nonna. Nonna. Nonna. Nonna. So I had originally said,

the first time we saw that this show was coming up, I said, nonas. Yeah. Okay, so a little off, nonas. But then I was told, no, I got ripped apart. No, it's nonas. Nonas. No, no, nonas. Like the word no. I'm like, it just doesn't sound right to me. And I would say that this is a valuable source right here. Yes. Wait, so you don't think she's saying nona? I think she's saying it correctly. She's saying nona.

So I went up to him. I said, no, it's not Nona. It's Nonna. Nonna. With that little accent in the back of your throat. Nonna. Not Nonna. Yeah.

Yeah, Nona is very a metagon, we would say. Metagon. The American version. Yes, exactly. And we're talking about grandmothers. Yes, yes. Yeah, and so that's what this show is all about. It's about a restaurant that's started by Nona's. Right. And Vince Vaughn's in it, and it's on Netflix. And so we have these restaurants that are coming in and dropping off food today. And we have a $100 gift card from Restaurante Pesto. And here's what you need to do. You text Netflix.com.

610-660-9333. And you could possibly win a $100 gift card from Ristorante Pesto and a one-month subscription to Netflix. So how about that? And then you get to watch Nonnas when it is out. So...

What did you bring in for us to eat today? Okay, so for starters, we brought in our carrots. They are given complimentary to all our customers as soon as we woke in. It's like an ode to my nonna, which was my dad's mom, Nonna Fletta. They grew up really poor. My dad had 20 siblings. Wow. Yeah, he was one of 20. 13 survived to adulthood.

And because she was so poor, they could steal and take the carrots from where she worked and stuff. So she would jar them in that sauce for months and months, and it would feed them throughout the years. It's an amazing, I mean, you're talking about a culture. I love the story because these nonnas are brought in to help this Vince Vaughn have a spin on the restaurant by using these nonnas.

revered recipes that have been accumulated over decades and generationally. And of course, you know, everyone has, there's a little bit of friction that goes between the way things should be prepared. But stories like that, you know, people pulling things together to make food that has now become

almost, you know, it's cherished, it's revered. And Kathy is familiar with the carrots, right? So I heard you guys talking about the carrots and I was just doing something on my computer and kind of listening. And then when you said pesto, I was like, oh wait, the carrots.

They're literally a staple in pesto. I know the carrots. They're delicious. They're some of the best carrots I've ever had at a restaurant ever. Yeah, and it's so crazy how the carrots of everything on the five-page menu, they'll come in and be like, you still got them carrots? And I'm like, yeah, we still got them carrots. And it's born out of poverty. Yeah, it's been two years. Who would think something so popular was from... I used to watch Mario Batali a lot on Food Network when his show was on there. And he's Italian is what he would...

specialize in. And he had always said that Italian culture and cuisine was based on what you had around. What you had lying around and putting it together and making it work. As opposed to seeking out all these exotic ingredients. And so something like your nonnas carrots falls right into that. Bon appetit!

Okay. And by the way, they're really good in vinegary, which is great. I started to pick at her. You know I like to pick out things. And I'm like, okay, I'm picking up on this, that, and there's time in this. I go, what else? And she, what did you say? Sorry, it's a secret. Can't tell you. Legit, you're looking to get this. In 32 years, no one has been able to even nearly recreate them. And we've been to a few restaurants that tried. And we were like, what are you doing with our carrots? Okay.

And people are like, these aren't the same. And they stopped it. But hell, like cheap. I was like, why did you take our carrots? Yeah. In Italy proper, you know, a lot of the cuisine is regional, right? So you'll get one type of cuisine in Venice and another in Rome and another in Naples. And then you get to the States and it becomes regional by the United States, right? So how would you qualify your Italian, quote unquote, Italian cooking? Is it regional to a particular part of Italy or is it just sort of an Americanized version of what your nonnas cook?

cooking was like? So actually it's not Americanized at all. My dad won't even serve meatballs or lasagna. Really? He believes that that's not Italian. That's not what he grew up on. That's not what they had in Italy. So he was born in a town in Naples called Avellino Montella. So everything is very seafood forward. Yeah.

inspired by the sea. You know what I mean? Right near Pasayana Coast. You know what I mean? It was all seafood. If you look at our menu, our number one pasta that we want on Rachel Ray for the caffatelli that we brought, that has lobster, shrimp, and crab in our rosé sauce. Wow. So people come in and they're like, you don't have meatballs? And my dad's like, no, that's a medican. If you want meatballs, you go to Aligarh. Get out of here!

And I'm like, well, I like Alvgarden, Dad. He was like, get out of my face. I actually went on Monday. Like, we do love it. You know, when you crave, like, it's good Italian. We love Alvgarden. But when you're craving, like, McDonald's for a burger, you get what I mean? It's kind of that vibe. Absolutely. I get it. Okay. So, gravy or sauce? Sauce.

Sauce. Okay. Yeah. Crazy goes on mashed potatoes. There we go. Simple as that. Even on Olive Garden venue, it says tomato sauce, Alfredo sauce. I don't know. But like, okay, so I grew up with sauce as well. And I mean, I remember the first time someone was like, no, it's not. It's gravy. And there was this argument, like, where did that even, but there,

So Philadelphia Italians call it gravy? Yes, South Philly. I have no idea why. I guess meat on it, but that's what we call bolognese. Yeah, bolognese. We had a caller one time say, and it sounded like she's being honest, that she got backhanded for calling it sauce. Yeah, her grandfather. That's crazy.

That's right. That's right. And I'm like, what? Like the Italians off the boat, I never heard an Italian say gravy. Okay. Ever. And my dad will look at me like, you're nuts. We say crab gravy, but that's also a South Philly thing. If you go to a lot of South Philly restaurants, they serve crab gravy. There was one bully at one point in South Philly. He's like, no, it's gravy. And everybody had to listen to that a-hole. And they're still living that nightmare ever since, you know? I'm screaming.

So, Gianna, where is Pesto for those who haven't been there? All right. So we're located in 1915 South Broad Street in the heart of South Philadelphia. We're right across the street from the Constitutional Plaza just to give people a visualization of where we're at. We've been there.

for about like 20 years, we had another location that we left and we moved into here because my parents bought two buildings on Broad Street and they decided to bring both buildings together. They were right next to each other and now we fit like 200 people in the restaurant. I'm sorry, what's a cross street or cross streets that are close to that? So Broad, Pashtun, Broad,

Is that Pachunk, McKeen, and Mifflin. You're right in the middle there. I know exactly where you're at. Perfect. So it's amazing that you did this generationally. You have these secret recipes, and that's kind of the idea of the series is that you have these dishes that are unique to you.

Is there a particular safe where these are stored? Are they all in the mind? Are you storing them in your brains? How do you keep track of everything and make sure you're staying on point? So it's crazy that you say that. It is all in the mind. My dad will not write anything down. Wow. My grandmom gave him the recipe, and then we also brought in the cheesecake. That's my mom's mom recipe. And he begged her, please give me the recipe. She said, if anyone ever gets their hands on this, I'm going to kill you. And she's still alive today.

You know what I mean? So he did not write it down. I love that. Imagine her saying in Italian. I'm going to kill you. In Italian, she said it. Yeah, yeah. And this is the cinnamon? That's the ricotta cheesecake top with the cinnamon. That's something she did for every birthday. Wow. Do you speak a little Italian? Yes. How would you say I'm going to kill you in Italian? Si mazza. Si mazza. That's a little dialect for Kyle Ray's. I have to give her the ode to that. She's the love of Ray's. So I just went to Italy for the first time in my life back in March, and I...

where I was, I was in the northern part, like Milan area, and the pasta was al dente there. Oh, you'll see our pasta is too. Okay. That's what I just had, the cavatelli, or I'm sorry, is that what it's called? Yes, the cavatelli. Okay, but I couldn't tell because it's...

It's a... More tender. Okay, thank you. That's what I was going for. Yeah, I prefer my pasta to be cooked all the way through. Yeah. Not al dente. Most people, when they come in there, we have to make sure we do perfect al dente. Not too, too al dente, but not mushy. Because my dad's like, I'll never serve mushy pasta. That's gross. Right. And especially, we cook every dish to order. So every dish...

is handcrafted. So al dente is a really big thing. So a little too al dente, you probably just get like your pinky cut off or something. And people set it back and then yeah, we're dead. Yeah. The carrot recipe, I kill you. Uh-huh.

Well, the food is wonderful. Thank you. I haven't tried the dessert yet, but we'll get into that later. That's ricotta cheesecake with cinnamon? Yes. Yummy. Oh, my God. All right. Thank you, Jana. We appreciate it. Thank you. I appreciate you guys. No problem. Congratulations. Thank you. It was nice to meet you. No, no, no. Are there any grandmothers out there? No.

All right. So, yeah, text Netflix to 610-6609-333. And we have a $100 gift card to Pesto and a one-month subscription to Netflix to somebody. And then we have a couple other restaurants that are here, too. Le Nonna's and Cafe Carmela. So we'll do some more giveaways throughout the course of the show. Excellent. A little bit. Nick wanted me to play some audio. And you can go grab a seat if you want. So thank you, Gianna. All right.

Yeah, so Nick, you want to set this up? Yeah, so Pearl Jam's on tour. It's a very, in my mind, strange, somewhat limited tour. There's only five or six cities that did the Jazz Fest last weekend. They're in Nashville. They were in Nashville last night, and then they're in Nashville again tomorrow night. The closest they're coming to Philly is...

Pittsburgh. They're there the 16th and the 18th. So this was a show about a week or so ago, and a nice listener sent it to me over Instagram, and it's a crowd video of Eddie telling a story. The story in and of itself is funny. We can listen to all of it if you want, but the reason I wanted to play it is it's Eddie on stage, just solo. He's about to do a solo acoustic set, but

during the Pearl Jam show and it's Eddie telling the story but I could not listen to this story without hearing Steve Morrison's voice and it's Eddie with an acoustic guitar and reverb on the microphone and tell me if you disagree. Okay, here we go. I went to the grocery store

And for whatever reason, I just had to get my fruits and vegetables and protein and get the **** out of there. And I just wasn't kind of in the mood to be like hassled, even in a nice way. So I go into the produce section and get a couple of things. I got my cart and then I look for a couple of other things and then I keep moving. And then sure enough, I wasn't there that long. And this guy started following me.

And then I just kind of, I just kind of pretended like I didn't notice. But now he's, now he's coming even stronger. I'm like, and now he's got his wife with him. And they're, they're running up and they're kind of, and I'm like,

Here it comes. And they said, excuse me, excuse me. I think you have our cart. Oh, that's great. That is actually a great story. That is awesome. But yeah, Steve's impression of Eddie. I was looking for carrots. Because I make them the way my nonna makes them.

The guy comes up and I said, yeah, it is your card. I'm going to steal it, you son of a bitch. He has that cadence. It's spot on. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, so this was a show in Hollywood, Florida on April 26th. Heard this wild story out of Delco, Pennsylvania. And I don't know what this chick was eating, but like projectile diarrhea. Like I've never seen. If you've ever seen Shamu take a dump and see, well...

Ain't got nothing on this chick. Oh, my God. That's actually because I've heard him...

tell stories that are not that good. I think his game, his stage parlance game is getting better and better. The first decade of the band, he was really, really shy on stage and the band itself was really insular and the last 10, 15 years he's got a lot better, much more comfortable on stage and now he tells funny stories like that when he tells stories about Jack Nicholson and Sean Penn and he's got, I mean, he's Eddie Vedder so he's

been exposed to a lot of pretty cool events over the years. And so he has good stories to tell and he's gotten better at sharing them. Nick, as far as earlier on goes, I went to see them on the Versus Tour. Wow, way back. He starts telling this story about, it was a news story about...

A cat that they had put mulch down on some, or not mulch, sod down on somebody's yard. And they accidentally put it over the cat. Oh, my God. And he's like telling the story. And he's like, and I realized that I was that cat, you know, or something like that. And I was, yes. It was funny, though, when we lifted it up, the cat was dead. Yeah.

I guess that's not funny. We were all sitting looking at each other going, okay. I threw the spirit of this cat into my body and then I started licking my own butthole. Anyway, this is Glorified G. Yeah, right. It's a really arty, weird, long story. And here's Daughter. I was walking across the parking lot and this nun came after me. Oh my God. With his smelliest foot. Oh my God.

Smell my club foot. She asked me to smell her club foot. And I said, what club does it belong to? The spirit of the cat gave me that joke. It was a dead cat. It wasn't intrinsically funny. Just the story itself. That the cat would scrape up that story. That's crazy. Wow.

Very interesting. Well, Pearl Jam is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In a little while, we're going to have Greg Harris, the CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to talk about the inductions and so on. So that's at 9 o'clock. We just have a few minutes to play with. So, Steve, I'm going to kind of switch gears a little bit. Sure. So you spend a little bit more time talking about something else. But you had said something. What do you got in mind? You had said something that triggered me to pull out this particular story. This was a...

Research that was done, and Gen Z is ditching old school terms of endearment like darling and sweetie. Yeah. One of them on the list that is considered outdated, you said chick. And that is actually the pet name that Gen Z daters considered the most outdated word is chick. I think that really is of a time. Yeah. I rarely hear people throw off the word chick. Oh, yeah.

unless they're kind of doing a, like a riff or a parody of somebody. Okay. I had a teacher, I'm sorry, Kathy, just real quick, I had a teacher in high school that hated that term. She thought she found it really, yeah, she found it like demeaning and offensive. And we weren't even allowed to say it in class, let alone write it on a paper. You didn't even say chicken, it'd just be in. I use sweetie as like, to like to piss someone off. Oh. Oh, thanks, sweetie. Thanks, sweetie. Yeah. That's like, bless your heart. Yes, exactly. So,

So they are still calling their love interest and crushes something besides their actual names to express their feelings of fondness. And you know what tops the list? What? You'll never guess. Oh, boy. Bro. Bro for a girlfriend or a boyfriend? I don't really know. Yeah, it says calling their love interest and crushes.

Is what? That's good? Yeah. That's what they're using now. I'm over that. I'm so over that already. Bro is like, I was telling Casey, man, there was, it was a couple of weeks ago and you probably saw this news story. It was in Florida. This kid's out fishing and this guy pulls up in another boat and he starts bitching at him from about something that happened the day before. And the kid, while none of this was his fault and the other guy ended up going to jail for it, the kid is trying to explain to him that, hey, that wasn't me. And

And when I say that every single sentence he uttered ended with the word bro, it is not an exaggeration. He was in a bro flurry. Yeah. And I hear that more and more from people. The bro usage is on high now. Yeah. Which is wild because it's bro.

has been around for a long, long time. It's just wrapping back around. It is, I guess so. I would have named that dead cat under the sun. I figured he should have had a name and I didn't know and I just thought it was kind of sad. What's up, bro? Hey, bro. How is it there under the sun? So, bro is the number one term of affection followed by bestie and friend. And it's talking about

You're a significant other. So I'm still sweetie. I will still also get baby, you know, and back and forth. We are, I get honkles, which is a, we were joking around one time and that, and it was a misstatement. Oh, that's a jokey made up thing. And so that's, but I mean, so in the, in the classic realm, sweetie, sweetheart. With, with the term friend, I find interesting. Nick had, had,

I was looking for a show to watch while I was exercising and Nick had recommended John Adams. You know, there's a lot of ties to Philadelphia. I loved it. It was great. We did a country to save, bro. No, when John Adams, when his wife, Abigail, passed away, he's there with her and he would... His...

Ultimate term of endearment for her was friend. My friend. Oh, all right. And I was like, friend. I kind of like that. And I know what friend means in the sense that we usually use it in. But, I mean, like Rochelle is my greatest friend. Sure. But if you're on the deathbed and... Friend? Friend?

Yeah, yeah. Really? Yeah. Come again? Yeah. Friend? I've been calling people friend. That's like my go-to these days. Let's say I'm going to like a checkout.

at a store. Thank you, friend. Yeah. Hey, friend, how you doing? You're not my friend. Yeah, I don't know. No, I do. I default to it a lot as well, Casey. And I'll say, hi, my friend. Yeah. Hi. And I find, and I mean it. You know, of course, you have to be sincere about it. Right. You know, and not just casting it off.

By the way, Casey and Ryan Shuttleworth have this little ritual they do. Are you guys aware of this? Is it the high five thing? No, it's not the high five. It's like a singing thing. They do. So Ryan comes in here at the end of the show to grab our commercial log before he heads into produce Pierre's show. And we can do this, Casey. Oh, he's here. Oh, Ryan, come on in. It's the first time we see each other in the day. Okay, so don't look at him yet. Okay, okay. All right, don't look at him. And Ryan, I'm going to put you on this mic.

And I now want you two to look at each other. Friends!

They do it every day. It's the first thing they say to each other. And sometimes you like try to harmonize. Or like, you want to go high, I want to go low. Whatever the mood fits for that day. We just find it, whatever it is. And how did that start? I have no idea. One day it just happened and we're like, yeah, this feels right. That's our thing. You also do something with Pierre that's funny. So as you're walking out, it's like a high five. Yeah, because we're in the studio.

you know, the 4J studio, they broadcast in 4K studio. So I have to switch things over. So once I've switched over and make the 4K studio live, we essentially, we high five and that's us passing off, passing the baton. You came in to do it and he was in conversation with me and you had walked out of the room and he ghost fived

like nothing because he thought you were still there. And I was like, oh, I guess that's a ritual. So I do a right high five with Ryan and then a left high five with Pierre and then...

then i don't have any more responsibilities speaking of the high fives and that my my very good friend jim and i uh we have we never get it right we we it's awkward every single time when we try to shake hand but if this bump high five you know you've done that right yeah yesterday we're playing golf and it's ritualistic at the end of the round you take off your hat and you shake hands yeah and jim and i are close friends so we give each other a little hug well i went in for the hug he went in for the shaking hand and he hit

me in the mouth stop it his finger actually went in my mouth so that was a good round that should be our i should suck on his finger yeah well that's like as our greeting now me and brent porsche we have a uh a way when we say hello to each other it's oh my god that was even better yeah have you seen that one yeah

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have this, they have your own handshake. A foot tap, a handshake. There's a foot tap, foot tap, and then a handshake. But then it ends with him and I touching pointer finger and thumb together. And that started because...

I wanted him to hand me a piece of paper, so I had my hands out like this. And he didn't understand that I had my hands out to get the piece of paper. So he just touched my finger and thumb. And now that's the way we say hello to each other. Many of these are born of awkwardness. I love custom greetings like that. Whoever invented the fist pump needs to be shot in the face because it has ruined handshakes forever.

for the rest of eternity. I love a nice, hearty, real handshake. I also love the Beastmaster handshake. That's a real forearm. Boom. I can talk to animals. Just got a text message from Pancake. Pancake, he and I were the ones that started the high five.

And that has continued, Pancake. I just want you to know that your spirit lives on and high-fives every single day. Every time Pancake would see me and when I would leave every day, he would always say, speaking of Eddie Vedder, actually, he'd always say, to Nick. And it was a greeting and a goodbye, and I miss that about Pancake. It was a nice way to end my day when I was walking out. Miss Pancake, period.

All right, so the pet names that Jen... I'm glad you were part of this. In fact, Preston, can I change the name of that dead cat under the sun from bro to pancake? Wow.

What an honor. You're Eddie Vedder. You can do whatever you want, man. Thank you, man. Okay. So, bae is another top choice for your significant other, as is queen, king. Okay, now this is Choi Mage. I don't know what the word is. Shorty? Oh, shorty? Yeah, like shorty, but shorty. S-O-T-Y.

S-H-A-W-T-Y. It would be like something that was rickety or cheap. It's shoddy. No, it's like taking shorty and just making it sound a little bit different. Got it. Shoddy. And then listen to this one. And here's a surprise. Sugarplum. Sugarplum is an old southern... Very much so. My little sugarplum. Where are you going with that dead sound, cat? And how about this one? Here's another one. Day one.

Oh, I get it. That's almost like a ride or die kind of thing. Like we've been... We've been together since day one. She's my day one. Yeah. Have you guys heard that? No. That's a new one to me. Dancing in the Sugar Plum Fairy. Yep. So the dated, and we have to take a break here in just a moment, the dated terms, according to Gen Zers, are, like I said, chick, sugar, hun, muffin,

Bubba. I think muffin would probably not go over well. You call muffin top. Yeah. Yeah. I say muffin. And it's funny that sugar is dated, but sugar plum is in. Right? Stupid. Then you have pet. My little pet. Babe. My little dead son cat. Yeah.

Babe was a big one when I was a teenager. Darling, angel, and love. Babe, I love you. So, yep. I'm sorry, those were on the way out or those were still? Yeah, they're considered dated by Gen Z-ers. So the queen and that sort of thing, not everyone is a queen, right? So, yeah. Slay queen. Slay queen. Mm-hmm.

So, yeah, I found some of these interesting. I found that I think probably social media has prompted the turnover of these phrases much quicker than they used to turn. Possibly. Because it would take longer for them to get out into the public discourse or mainstream. But now every couple of days there's a new phrase coming down. Do you know how the fire emoji became a thing? No.

So I would write in a text, Preston, I think Preston is really hot. And you would then hit the emoji button and hot would come up as the fire because the emoji can automatically replace a word within something you've already texted. So people started doing that by accident. And it just became a thing that it was like, oh, Preston is fire. Preston is hot. But then it became Preston is fire.

It just sort of, that language evolved from Preston being hot to the emoji to Preston being fire. Essentially a mistake. Yeah, but the truncating of language by using the emojis is now resetting the language. Exactly. You know what else is super millennial is exclamation points and stuff like that. So,

I found out from my 15-year-old daughter that old people use exclamation points and the younger people will use emojis as exclamation points. I love exclamation points. You do like them? Every message, if there's an exclamation point, I put three. My cousin sat me down. She was like,

stop doing the exclamation points. You texted me and you gave me the three proper and I went, my chest swelled with pride. I'm like, that is a proper exclamation. I was trying to say thank you, but like three times. Yes, yeah, I got it. You did it right. It's an emphasis, three times. You do what you want. You know what I mean? Do what you want. You do you. All right, shawty. Love you.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Kath. We have a friend who is joining us because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced their inductees not that long ago. We spent a good amount of time breaking that stuff down, talking about it. And we're going to get a little bit deeper because he is the authority on the subject. Please welcome the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO, Mr. Greg Harris. Good day, Greg. Good to see you. Nice to see you again, man. How are you doing?

I'm doing fantastic. I'm thrilled to be on with you because it is good news for Philly with this induction class. And I have to share, I was back there last weekend and caught something at the World Cafe Live. Okay. And the city looks terrific. It's all good. Nice. We take personal responsibility for that. We put a lot of effort into it. That's us. A lot of mopping and dusting. Yeah. Yeah.

I thought I saw that road sign. This mile is sponsored by Preston. That's right. Yes. Well, listen, Greg. Yeah, you had mentioned, you know, we're Philadelphia being represented in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies this year and one that we were very happy to hear, obviously,

uh was chubby checker uh you know he's he's been up for the potential for a long time i'm friends with his son and uh and so i know that they the family was really really pulling for him to get in uh because listen nobody's getting any younger and of course you want a chance for these people to experience this for themselves and uh and chubby's getting in it's so great you know

Oh, it's fantastic. And, you know, he was eligible for a long time. And this was his very first time on the ballot. And first time on the ballot, he went right in. So really positive news and wonderful. And you're right. Great that he can enjoy the accolades.

And we're thrilled that he's going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And you know what? We were wondering out loud when we were talking about this because the interesting thing about Chubby Checker is wonderful performer but didn't write the material and also was not the first person to record the material and have a hit with it. I don't know if that's ever happened before within the Rock Hall.

I think, let's see, digging through there, you might get some of that maybe even with Elvis. Yeah, true. Good point. But you're right. Historically, it's favored those that wrote their own material. This year, another person, Joe Cocker, is going in. Similar. Not a songwriter, but just a great interpreter and performer. And Chubby...

I think we all know Hank Ballard was the original, but Chubby just brought it to the masses. And also, not just the twist, he got everybody moving with the fly, with the pony, with different things like that, and was really a

big influence on a lot of artists and that's what this is all about it's impact and influence so and then philly's all over the place in other um representation as well i mean there's like four or five different uh inductees who have some at least a fairly significant connection to the area and that was really cool oh yeah you know and none greater than tom bell right um you

With Gamblin' Huff, everybody knows Gamblin' Huff, and I think most people do know Tom Bell, but he didn't go in with those guys. Think about him as a songwriter, as an arranger, and his stuff is all over. The Stylistics were doing his songs, and the Intruders were doing his songs. You just hear a lot...

if I could sing, I do la la la. I love you, but I just can't. Yeah. And they're just so sophisticated, just beautiful songs. And they define the Philly sound in Tom Bell, uh, is a wonderful addition to the rock and roll hall of fame. Sadly, um, he has passed, but, um,

I know that his friends and family and others are thrilled that he's being given this honor and kind of completes a nice arc for Philly music with Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Tom Bell all being together in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Greg, one of the fun things that I like about the Rock Hall now, excuse me, when the nominees are in, is because the Rock Hall has been around for a certain amount of time now,

you're starting to get those that are like, hey, why aren't these guys in yet? And so because because we got all the big, big, big biggies in early on, you know, right off the bat, the pioneers, the the the architects of rock and roll. And then it started to branch out a little bit. Now we're starting to get those. Hey, what about these guys? And it seems like Bad Company might have been the group this year that people were pulling for in that regard, you know.

Yeah, another one, Iconic Songs and Paul Rogers. When you look at the band members' legacy, being in Free, being in a number of other bands, Bad Company is a super group, and again...

There's another piece with impact and influence, and that is that you have longevity and you impact another generation of artists, another generation of musicians. And you're right. Bad Company had a lot of support. The voters really went for it. And we're thrilled they're going in and well-deserved. You know, before we leave Philly, I hope we get to talk a little bit about Cyndi Lauper. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

A huge city for her. That first record that had five or six top ten hits on the album has Philadelphia's fingerprints all over it. With songwriters contributing and parts of her band just really should be celebrated as well. It is terrific. We're looking forward to that. We also want to make mention of this SNL tribute that's going on because obviously they had that retrospective 50th anniversary and as well as all these iconic...

artists that have been on that show. So what, what is going on there? Oh, thank you for asking. We're opening up an exhibit, uh, later this month. It's 50 years of Saturday night live. As you may have seen, NBC had specials. There was lots of things celebrating it. Well, our exhibit specifically is celebrating all of the musical artists that appeared on the show. I believe it's 1800 that have been on the show and it's a who's who, uh,

From Elvis Costello and Patti Smith and David Bowie and Queen, just on and on and on. Well, we have all the things from that. We also have pieces from the musical sketches, so you will see the more cowbell outfit and the cowbell. Oh, great.

And then for another Philly connection, you know, Amir Thompson, Questlove, produced a documentary that was aired on NBC about the 50th anniversary. He did a special edit for us to show at the museum, and we'll be showing that as part of this exhibit as well. And visitors can come and watch every single past performance that's ever been on SNL while they're in the exhibit. Okay.

It's a short ride from Philly. It's a good summer for a road trip. People should come out and check this out. Hey, but Greg, with all these Philly connections, why not just move it here? Yeah. Bring the whole thing, man.

I could be zooming in from the shore with you. No, you guys always have wonderful things that are cooking. I love these special exhibits that come in and out. When something comes in that is a special exhibit, how long of a shelf life does it usually have?

You know, it'll be up all summer long. So definitely hop in the car. And then we'll extend it, I'm sure, you know, toward the holidays. Absolutely. But, you know, we don't want to make it sound too long because then people don't come right away. It's true. Yeah. It's the same thing in the bedroom. Yeah. Oh, my God. Dear God. That's what we do. The other thing about SNL is...

I remember sitting in your suburban house watching this thing at 1130 at night. All your neighbors were asleep, and there it was on the screen. And it may have been a band that – the Talking Heads or Devo or something really interesting that exposed you to something brand new. This was all pre-MTV when it originally launched.

And it just had a huge impact on all of us. Well, me personally, and we just had Kate Pearson from the B-52s join us last week. And that was a pivotal moment in my life looking at, and I was like,

What am I watching? Who are these people? What in the world is this weird music they're playing? Which I had no idea at the time I would come to absolutely love. At the time it was so foreign and strange to me. But SNL was the window for that. Another one, and I've told you guys about this, David Bowie had this really weird performance where he wore this puppet outfit. It was a horror movie. I didn't know what I was looking at. And that happened time after time after time. But then they would flip right around.

And have a James Taylor on. Yeah. You know, and doing a really mellow singer-songwriter thing as well. It was such a wonderful cornucopia of music and was a great way to turn people on to new stuff.

Absolutely. You know, a lot of credit goes to the music director for years that picked the axe was a guy named Hal Wilner. And Hal's a Philadelphian. And just to stake our claim to yet one other thing, he did it for years and years. And sadly, he passed in

But recently, but he was a real force behind getting these artists and he was trusted to pick those that he thought people should be aware of. And they were a little quirky at times. That was just his style. Greg, I'll tell you a little piece of trivia. I don't know if you'll know this or not, but G.E. Smith, who great guitar player, and he was one of the music directors on SNL. He made a mint record.

off of that, not just being paid by the show. He found out that if he wrote the little transitional pieces of music that they would play from, you know, like when they come back or short promo, we'll be back with more Saturday Night Live. He wrote those as songs. And when they performed, he got a writing credit and he got paid

paid and and then when they would run those in reruns he ended up making a mint on that for writing these little you know 30 second one minute long songs and officially were you aware of that story

I wasn't aware of that story, but I'm aware of the power of those interstitials in television soundtracks because our old friend from across the river, Ben Vaughn, he did all the music for Third Rock from the Sun. Yes, Tina Fey's husband.

No, I'm thinking of 30 Rock. Yeah, yeah. But yes, same sort of thing, though. Those little snippets that you don't think are full songs, but someone's getting paid for those. Yeah.

Yes, absolutely. Why didn't we think of that? I know, totally. Listen, look where we put the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It should have been here. So, Greg, I wouldn't be doing my job and I wouldn't be doing my fellow Fish Heads a service if I didn't ask you how the band that got the most fan votes doesn't get into the Hall of Fame. What is the point of having a fan vote if it doesn't do it? Totally.

700,000 votes only counted as one. Is that how that goes? Well, I know you have to ask the question and I get it. It's interesting that I think it's the top seven in the fan vote this year all got in except for Fish. Wow.

What it parallels is when the Dave Matthews Band went on the ballot for the first time, they ran the table, they won the fan vote, I believe two years running, and they finally got in. I think with Phish, they have such a large, loyal, dedicated fan base that really it's a great community, and they turned out to vote. Unfortunately, the bigger voting body of which is made up of all the other living inductees and a lot of industry people,

writers, historians, producers, and others, they just didn't get enough votes through that group on this first ballot. They're eligible again. I'm hopeful they go back on next year and we can see where it goes. But that's kind of the story. The fan vote itself is more of a directional fan engagement piece. I think some of the voters do look at it. But in the end,

induction of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame isn't a popularity contest. The big measure is those that are studying impact and influence, and it's all the other inductees. I will say that Trey was incredibly gracious in some interviews about their nomination and about all the other candidates, and he actually put himself behind a number of those when he ran through the listing, but...

I know the fans wish it turned out differently, and we are optimistic that they'll be back for another run. Greg, you mentioned not only the former inductees, but you said industry professionals. How does the Rock Hall determine who those people are that get a vote? Is that a board that makes that decision? Yeah, there's a nominating committee that's independent, and the nominating committee makes the ballot, and that committee has...

folks. It has some musicians, some artists are on it as well. And that creates the ballot. Now that, that committee chair also works on who the voting body is and they're careful to, to try and keep it fresh, keep it, keep,

People keep getting added. Those that have been on for a long time sometimes cycle off. So it's a process that the core group, the primary voting body, are all the other inductees. And the idea is those that made their living in this art form can judge the merits of their peers better than others can.

as well as those that have made their living in music. Just a quick question. So when you're inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame overall over the many years, do artists routinely notice a tick up in sales or does it have like a post-Oscar effect? Is there anything similar or is it just the acknowledgement there's not really a bump? Yeah, I think the best is I can't universally give any percentage or anything, but I do recall when, speaking of Philly, when Hall & Oates went in,

They mentioned that their activity increased greatly. It's more exposure. You're suddenly going into a smaller group and you have this imprature. I believe there is a value to it, but I can't really put a number on it, but there is one. The other thing before we leave the call, and sometimes there's some confusion I just want to be clear on, we also gave out what's called these Musical Excellence Awards.

But those folks are inducted. They're in the Hall of Fame. They have plaques. It's not any sort of consolation prize. They are 100% in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame equal to the performers. And this year, that's how Warren Zevon was going in. Yep.

Salt-N-Pepa are going in that way. The great Nicky Hopkins from the Stones. He also played with the Beatles, played with the Kinks. He's going in. It's really an amazing group this year. We're really thrilled with this. I was about a half hour away from you guys on Friday night. I was staying in Elyria, Ohio. And

I, I really, I was driving my daughter home from college and I really wanted to drop by, but I just didn't feel like I had the time to go there. So when you're going to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, how much time do you need to carve out of your day in order? Cause I, you know, that's like kind of the one museum I wouldn't mind going to. I'm not a museum guy, but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I definitely am. How much time? Yeah.

You know, a casual fan can breeze through in a couple hours. You would need a full day for sure. Right. Around every corner, you're going to have a memory from your life. You're going to have a memory of artists that you've interacted with. And it's a big, it's six floors. People should, you can probably drive out and experience it. But if you can do it well, I'd come and spend the night.

and come back the next day or come over early. There's theaters with shows that are running. You want to catch them. If you are inclined or your daughter was inclined, we have a space called The Garage. They can play instruments and jam with us. That's pretty cool. I like that. That's for you, Preston. Yeah, totally, man. I'll play my glockenspiel. All right. Well, Greg, before we wrap, when are the ceremonies and when will they air as well?

Yeah. So the ceremony is going to be in Los Angeles this year, and it's on Saturday, November 8th. When it happens, it'll stream on Hulu because we're in partnership with ABC on this. And then it'll air on ABC at a later date, December.

Last year, this year, I should say we ran it on New Year's Day. And it was a really great slot. We haven't announced the official air date yet, but it's going to be on ABC and it will be on primetime. I like New Year's Day. That's good. That's like a go-to tradition every year to watch that as you're hungover and recovering from the night before. So I like it. Shouldn't you be at the Mummers Parade that day? I don't do that thing, man. I can't hang anymore, man.

But it is a day to do that. All right, Greg, great to talk to you as always, sir. And we appreciate it. And we will catch up again soon. All right, my man. Cheers. Best of. Yes. Thank you very much, Greg Harris. Good spokesman. Rock and roll hall of fame. CEO. Absolutely. And, um,

Yeah, Case, man, I want to go and spend a couple of days. Right. And really take it all in. It's just my whole life is just all music. Well, I mean, you could spend a day just in the Cisco Pavilion.

I mean, that thong song trivia. And it's on a loop. It's on a loop, Kyle. And they have free thongs at the door. Wow, wow. All right, our next guest is joining us. He will be at Punchline Friday and Saturday. We love having him on. He's been coming by the show for years. Please welcome Mr. Kyle Dunnegan. Hello, everybody. How are you doing, Kyle?

I'm doing really good. How are you guys doing? We, sir, are wonderful. Is that a true statement or are you just saying that because a lot of people go, I'm doing great and then because they don't want to burden anyone. Oh, no, I'm doing actually horrible. And I kid you not. I'm doing terrible, but I'm doing my job as well. You understand the split that needs to occur.

I'm constantly lying. To segue from our last guest to you now, we have the CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's from Philadelphia. We have him on every year. Have you ever been there? I'm in the Comedy Hall of Fame. Nice. There's the tie. Now, have you ever done that? You ever been to Cleveland to the Rock Hall? I was just there, and I didn't go. I just...

I didn't think of it. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like when I left, I was like, oh, I never went to... What is it like? Have you been there? We've seen representation. Actually, initially, when it first was announced in the first initial years, it didn't seem like something that really popped. But now they've done sort of very thematic presentations and the structure itself...

is, I think, worth a tribute. They actually have a broadcast facility. They keep wanting us to come there and do the show from there. So I think right now it probably is something worth seeing. You're a musician, though. You... Can I... I am, and can I... I just have an idea that if they're probably still listening, maybe they could use this. Okay. But imagine you go there and, like, an Elvis impersonator greets you, like, hey, come on in here. And then you're going around. It's all famous musicians. Yeah. Like,

Like really good impersonators. As opposed to the Disney characters, you're getting that. Yeah, it could be like the Jackrabbit Slim in Pulp Fiction. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, just an idea. I like it. Kyle, just to circle back to what Preston was talking about earlier and then you mentioned how you're lying constantly up on stage and probably inherently a liar. If you're having a really bad day...

Do you feel better after a show? Is a show, being on stage, a catharsis for you? Or do you just go out and do your best and hope that you get through it?

Yeah, I have had shows where the audience did make me feel better. And I've had shows where I was feeling good, the audience made me feel bad. You know what you want to do? If you're doing a bunch of shows, like I'm in New York City, and sometimes you'll do six shows at a night, it's always the last one that matters. You can have five, whatever. But if the last one's really good, you go home feeling good. And you can have five fun shows. And if the last one isn't fun, it ruins your night. Yeah.

And universally, comedians feel this way. I've talked to many of them. It's the last one that matters. Well, because inherently, isn't that supposed to be the most in the pocket? That's the time for the comedy show to be taking place later in the evening. And that's the audience you assume is primed and ready for the whole thing. And that should be representative. Is that true? Well, you underestimate the money that the...

clubs in New York want to make. By the last show, it's sometimes, you know, 20 people. Oh, really? Or one drunk man. Wow. I kind of avoid... When you put in your availability, I usually avoid later shows because of that. How late do they go? How late will they schedule? Oh, my... I mean, the...

The Comedy Cellar does booming business. They got shows at 1 in the morning that go till 2.30 in the morning. That's ridiculous. Kyle, I wanted to know. You mentioned one drunk guy. What's the smallest group that you've ever played to? I played for...

Seriously. And he was falling asleep. And I go, you can go if you want. And he goes, I felt bad. I felt bad. Hey, literally, I was at this golf outing one time and I thought it would be a good idea to have a comedian. And like everybody left after the golf outing and there was like eight of us. And I was like, I don't know.

And I felt so bad for this guy. And I was laughing at stuff that wasn't that funny. And I was doing it just because. That's nice. You know, yeah. I felt horrible for this guy. Takes a lot of energy to laugh when you don't think it's funny. Right? I love your energy. Well, also, on the comedian's end, as you're writing material, and you're an accomplished writer as well, obviously, you say, okay, if this one doesn't go over a lot of...

this amount of time. I don't think most comedians figure in, okay, this one will get absolutely no response, so I'm going to tailor it this way, right? That never fits into the equation. Yeah, you never factor that in. But at home, it's all very funny. But putting comedians, this happens a lot, and I don't really do corporates unless it's like a lot of money. But in general, I don't do them because...

Stand-up, it's kind of like people think, oh, let's have a comedian and he'll be funny here. But it's such an active thing. It's not like music where you don't have to listen. You have to listen to every word the comedian's saying. You don't get the setup. It's just a very... It's got to be quiet. It's kind of got to be dark. The ceiling's kind of got to be low. It's just a very delicate...

thing to make work and a lot of times it's corporate. I did colleges and they just wouldn't think of it. I went to a college, I don't do them anymore, but they're like, do you need a microphone? And I was like, yes. And then they put me, I was on a ramp. There was like a ramp down to like this cafeteria and there were two cash registers to my left. Constantly people buying potato chips. And there was the book

Or no, it was the basketball finals was in the same room like on the other end of the room. So there was cheering. So I was trying to time my jokes to the cheers. It's impossible. I actually did years ago when I was doing stand-up. I did a college. I think it was in Louisiana. And I kid you not, Kyle, the same question. Do you need a microphone? They ended up handing me an old-style Rudy Valley megaphone like from the football games.

Like a cone with a handle on it. I swear to God. I started laughing. At least it was great for me. No one heard a single damn thing I said. But it was wild. That's crazy you did a megaphone show. Yeah, they're run by the kids. 18, 19-year-old kids are booking you, and they're also running the show. And so, of course, they don't know what's going on. I did a show at Amps...

What's the one in Massachusetts? It doesn't matter. Amherst. Amherst, yes. It was a big open field, a huge open field and this cement stage. Oh, my God. And there was these giant dorms all around. And there was one guy, I remember, in a red sweatshirt just in the middle of this field. And I was like, do I have to go on? I was just hoping they would just go, no, don't worry about it.

And they go, just go up there and start talking and people will start coming out of the dorms. So I just had to go up and just start talking. Oh, my God. Like Pied Piper trying to get him out. Yeah, wow. That's nightmarish. So we talked to a lot of people like Todd Glass and people who routinely would go in well in advance and walk the room and check the sound systems and so on and so forth. He's great. Are you that specific? No.

Todd is known as the greatest room decorator. He's lighting, he's sound. Yeah, he decorates the green room. Yeah. I mean, I love that, but...

But I, yeah, I don't do that. Like, yeah, he would literally go to Target and go buy like lava lamps and stuff. Yeah. Tapestries. His Instagram, I haven't even seen his Instagram. He's got such funny videos. He's great. Yeah, he did one the other day where he just rolled up the window and he was telling a joke and it was a bad joke and he rolled up the window. And because I know Todd and love him, it just made me laugh because it was him. But circling back to colleges real quick, Kyle, I wanted to ask you about

post gigs ever at colleges because I went to school in Central PA in the mid 90s and one year we got a huge comedian to come to visit us at school and it was Carrot Top and we were super excited that Carrot Top was coming so he came and he did the show and it was great it was fun it was sort of at the height of Carrot Top's career and when the show was over

He ended up going to a whole bunch of parties, inviting some co-eds back to the hotel like Carrot Top enjoyed his time on Bucknell's campus. Have you ever partied with the college kids after the college gig?

I actually, about care, care talk came to our school too and it was a huge deal. Yeah. I remember that too. I have, I do remember going to a couple of parties but it never being a good idea. I was always like, I wish I didn't go to that. Yeah, it seems like- I never got like hooked up with the college co-eds or I never did well in that area. I tried a few times but I aged out of colleges at a certain point. It's like,

you know,

They're so young. You know what I mean? So the things I'm talking about, some stuff to relate to. I haven't done colleges in like 20 years. The notion of going and partying, by the way, is you just can see that inside edition segment that's going to be... I don't need any of that press. One of them I went to, it's like, they're just wild. A kid jumped off a balcony onto a couch. Everyone's like, do it. And I'm like, I got to get that.

Our college comedian was Adam Sandler. Whoa. Wow. That's huge. What school did you go to? Westchester University in Pennsylvania.

We had a David Spade, which is stepped down, but still, I had Robert Klein years cause I I'm older, but I'm Robert Klein. And then he was one of my absolute favorites. And, uh, but I mean, the thing is, as you well know, Kyle, these colleges get the money and if they don't spend that money on the budget, you know, they have, they don't get it the next year. So a lot of times you'll get these smaller rinky dink schools that will drop a big load of cash. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It kept me, it kept me going. Um,

through like some lean years for sure but those those lean years are are we appears to be over because you're working heartily uh you've been doing uh the kill tony stuff uh which has been huge and i have to ask you with the the the delicate nature of the uh rfk impression because he has a medical condition but you nailed it i mean and it's and i i have to ask two questions the

Does that kill your voice when you do it, A? And B, I've seen him interviewed and he seems to have, when he's not talking business, a pretty good sense of humor. Has that gotten back to him? And if so, what's the reaction been? Yeah, I...

I think he does have a good sense. I met him backstage at Largo, this theater in L.A., and he just seemed like he had a good sense of humor. I don't know him at all, but yeah, he...

Yeah, he has that medical condition, but when someone's so rich and powerful, I feel like, I don't feel bad. I think you're fine. I think he would probably agree, but it just, like, you think, you hear, like, you know, the lead singer of a rock band going out and going for a long time doing that.

Oh, yes. Actually, the first time I did kill Tony, I couldn't stop talking like that, and I got scared. Like, I would never be able to stop. And I was like, okay, I'm going to go to bed now. And I went to bed. I'm like, I hope I wake up and I can talk. It got locked in. It got locked in. It was hours.

You have almost, so there are, again, it's an uncanny ability. You have your vocal, you sit in a register that makes the impressions you do. Like we're friends with Frank Caliendo and other people who are certainly tops as well. But when you lock on something and catch the voice, it's like Bill Maher and so on and so forth. And we know Maher's not a big fan of that.

I love Kyle Dunnigan. He's a great guy. Very funny. I don't know why. I don't have any ill feeling towards him, even though he was really mean to me at one point. But

I don't get that. It's just funny to me that it even bothers him, makes me laugh. It's like, why does he even care? You would think he would know after all these years, especially all the stuff that he has been able to sort of deflect and move through, that he would know the best response would be, oh, that's fun. That's flattering. It's the only thing that you can do. Even if you hate it or it makes you look bad, you just got to go, that's funny. There's no winning if someone does an impression of you and you go, like, I hate it. Yeah.

But, yeah, I heard about that years ago that he didn't like it. And I was like, what? Yeah. AJ Benzel was like with him and he told me, I was like, huh? Yeah. And then I was at a, I was at a Whole Foods and this woman comes up to me and she goes, I just have to tell you, I was,

a stewardess on Bill Maher's private plane and I asked him, I said, have you heard Kyle Dunning's impression of you? And he turned away and he wouldn't look at me and he didn't respond and then I walked away and then I was told by my boss I had to sit in the back of the plane the rest of the time and I didn't get a tip. Oh my God!

That's a sensitive man. It's also a revelation that they tip on those flights. I think they make good tips. I think it's like a private boat. Right, right, right. Nice flat boat.

wad at the end. Kyle is joining us via Zoom and I do have to ask, what is on that unsightly wall behind you that you have to have black curtains up behind you? Oh, this is a peek behind the mirror. These are curtains. I do green screening. Oh, you do green screen for that? Okay. Oh.

Your green screen stuff is phenomenal, and I love also the facial replication software, whatever. I love that it is high tech and low rent at the same time. It's very low. It's very low tech. Yeah, it's just snap camera, which... Is that still...

No, it doesn't. For some reason, they deleted it, but my friend who's a computer whiz made my computer like a hub. I don't even understand what he did. But I can still kind of run it. I don't think it works on Zoom, though. Let me see. Okay. I was going to give you a face, but it doesn't work on Zoom. It's great. It locks onto your face. And one of the best I remember was the Ray Liotta

Oh, Chantix. For Chantix. Yeah. Get Chantix. I tried everything. Cocaine, everything. I tried Chantix. Oh, man. I did the Chantix, dude. A, it works, but B, when you're coming off of it...

It is... You should hallucinate, don't you? It's wild. It's like cocaine. Yeah, no, it's like when I... Yeah, so, Kyle, when I would wake up from my slumber...

My first thoughts were, am I dead? Oh my God. Is that listed as a side effect? I might believe you're dead. Have I been dead and I'm just coming back to life right now? I'm telling you, it's scary. And it would be like that for like,

Three or four days after coming off of Shantix. It was a very, very jarring feeling. I don't know how else to describe it. Side effects include nausea and thinking you're dead.

Well, the nausea I can handle. And you know what? I would love to hear from anybody else that had similar sort of feelings because I don't know any other way to describe it other than like I just thought I had been dead and now I'm coming back to life. Ray Liotta was kind of a pusher then, right? Yeah. And then he died. He actually did die. Yeah, he actually did. He did. Yeah. Fucking chanting. I had a cigarette. Yeah.

Kyle, if the answer to this question is no, I won't be offended, but do you ever take requests during interviews like this? Did you already say no? I said no, but I do. Go ahead. I only ask for this because I love it so much, and it's the impression of your mom when you came into the bedroom at 3.30 in the morning. Oh, yeah. So this is my impression of my mom. I woke her up at 5 in the morning, guys. Okay.

Craig, what is this? Go back to bed. What is this? The next impression, I think that was it. That was it. That was it. So, wait, it turns out that your mom is Craig from Reno 911? What?

Oh wait, I was supposed to be my mom or I was supposed to be Craig? It doesn't matter. They seem to be one and the same. I watched the video of your mom trying to sing the Mamas and Papas. Hilarious. By the way, you're damn good on the piano. We mentioned at the beginning of this. Thank you. Are you formally taught or did you just pick it up yourself?

We had a piano in our basement that half the keys were broken, and I just banged on it, and my parents noticed that I was doing this for hours, and so they bought me a piano, which was really nice. I'm just self-taught, and I just... I just...

Yeah, I always just kind of played the piano. It's amazing. Impressive. Self-taught, yeah. And you were blowing through that... I forget which Mamas and the Papas song it was, but it was damn good. All the leaves are brown. All the leaves are brown. It's funny because nobody in my family has any talent at all. Like, none of them can do anything.

But they seem to know it because when you're doing the video and your family realizes they're harmonizing is hideous. Terrible. Yeah. Like, just, I don't know. Yeah. But, yeah, I love, I don't know, I kind of think it was like a therapy thing. I was really like a really bad reader. And I think I just kind of, you know, I think your brain...

well like you delegate it to certain things yes mine was delegated towards like math and music alright that was like my focus of my brain could the rest of your family read no one could read no one could read but wow but yeah alright actually yeah they can read ok alright well listen brother we got we got to wrap but we just want to remind people to come no I gotta go I gotta go he's gotta leave I have to go um

Punchline. And let me just say, by the way, if you're familiar, Kyle, the impressions are great, but the straight stand-up, some of my favorite, most clever bits are just brilliant. I just played for my wife the other day and she was howling. So you got the whole, it's a smorgasbord of talent. Thank you so much. And if anybody coming to the shows this weekend at the Philly Punchline, all proceeds come

go to me. Well, I'm glad you're transparent about that because sometimes you don't know where the money's going. Nothing goes to charity. That's excellent. Enough with that. Friday and Saturday, punchlinephilly.com to get your tickets. We shall see you another time, Kyle. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, guys. See you later. Kyle Duda,

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People who have achieved their PhD and they make a dance video to show how they did it. Sulo Ruka from the University of Helsinki won both the chemistry category and the overall prize with a dance about how food chemicals like spicy chili or cool mint create sensations in our mouths.

And he used sparkly costumes, musical theater dancers, and flashing lights to make it fun. Other winners included Priya Reddy from Germany who danced about plant-microbe teamwork. And R4 Holman from Austria who showed off physics with laser cooling.

And it may seem like an idea that came from TikTok, but actually, this contest started in 2008. I had never heard of this. So they've been doing this for a long time, and the production value on some of them are really high. Well, I was going to ask, and I said, these aren't the actual researchers themselves, because you're clearly professionals dancing here. Well, I think there are dancers. Are there? I think that you have to be in it as well. Wow. At some point. That's funny. It's pretty cool. Yeah.

In Oviedo, Spain, a curious neighbor noticed something odd at a house across the street and called the police. Officers found three young children aged 11 to 15 who had been locked inside for over three years by their parents, Christian and Melissa Stephan. And the parents were so scared of COVID that they kept their kids isolated, making them wear three masks each.

The family had moved from Germany in 2021 and the kids hadn't gone to school or seen anyone else. It's horrific. The parents were arrested. The kids are now safe with social services. And weird stuff like this happens every now and then. You hear about these families that are kept under lock and key. You remember the story about the guy who kept his daughter in the basement? I think it was Austrian for four years.

20 years. Do you remember the family of boys that learned everything about the world by watching movies? Yes. And there were like six of them and they were kept in the house for like 15 years or something like that. How do you make good on that missed life? I don't know.

All right. It's a project so important that it took three companies to pull it off. VML, the Organoid Company. Organoid. And Lab Grown Leather Limited. Kathy, they have teamed up to make the world's first T-Rex leather handbag using lab grown material. Wow. Yeah. They start with collagen, a protein from 80 million year old T-Rex fossils as a guide.

The organoid company creates synthetic DNA from this collagen, which lab-grown leather uses to grow leather-like tissue in a lab without animals or harmful chemicals. Is this bag the size of a T-Rex? I don't think so. Because that would be inconvenient. The process doesn't try to recreate real T-Rex skin, but instead builds a new material inspired by ancient protein structures. What I hear is, Preston, if you move a road flare back and forth, the pocketbook will follow you around. This T-Rex leather is...

cruelty-free, eco-friendly, and mimics the strength and feel of real leather. The handbag set to launch later this year will be a luxury item with a high price tag, which is no surprise since it's a dinosaur accessory. It's the first time anyone has made leather inspired by an extinct species, blending old dinosaur biology with new technology for sustainable fashion. Wait until they start selling knockoff D-Rex bags on the street.

Listen to this. National Weather Service offices around the country are on guard after recent threats to agency infrastructure, specifically Doppler weather radars.

And the threads are coming from a violent, malicious-style group. Emails from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Security Office show. The group, Veterans on Patrol, which the Southern Poverty Law Center defines as an anti-government militia organization, views the NWS's network of Doppler radars as weather weapons. Hmm.

The North Atlantic Atmospheric Administration Security Office noted that they were aware of several encounters physically or virtually with veterans on patrol. They said this group is advocating for anyone and everyone to join them in conducting penetration drills on sites to identify weaknesses that can be used to ultimately destroy the site.

The group referred to as NEXRAD systems, towers. They referred to them as weather weapons and claimed that there were no laws preventing American citizens from destroying the weapons. What are these weapons supposed to do when they're activated? It's unclear what the group believes the radars are doing. Yeah, predict the weather. Son of a bitch. We got people over here predicting the weather.

The Max Radar Next Generation Radar Network has been in place since the 1990s and detects precipitation in the atmosphere. They're talking about rain, people. It can also help pinpoint tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, prompting... They're going to advise you whether or not you should wear a sweater. Prompting timely, life-saving warnings. The system is also used by the FAA and the Air Force. Of all those things, those structures, the Doppler radar, it's usually a dome? Yeah.

Looks pretty cool. Yeah, I think so too. Among other actions, security offices advise that the NWS implement a buddy system when working at remote sites and be alert for suspicious activity. Do you know what I do? I would disguise them as mini sphere performance centers. The FBI and other law enforcement authorities are aware of malicious style groups activities and are tracking them. Security threat comes at a time of turmoil for the NWS when many offices short staffed due to hundreds of administration layoffs.

and early retirements as well. So this is a bad time for this type of thing to be happening. All right, and then we'll do one more story and we will wrap it up. Let's end with this one.

A referee in North Carolina was arrested after firing a concealed weapon inside a youth sports athletic facility. What could go wrong? Deputies who were already on the scene to act as security arrested 49-year-old Ernest Davis at the scene. Davis was working as a referee for a youth sporting event when he fired the weapon that had been concealed in his gym bag. I lost my whistle. Uh,

Officials said the crowd was filled with parents and children. Fortunately, no one was struck and no one was hurt. Davis has been charged with carrying a concealed weapon and discharging a firearm into an occupied area. And there you go. That is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right. We got about just a couple minutes before Steve Amell is going to be joining us.

So let me see what we can chat about, friends. Oh, you know what, man? Somebody need to give some love to, Case. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got another big frigging deal going on right now. That I would like to share with you. This is really, really cool. These are always great to take advantage of, these big frigging deals. And then they are what they say they are.

I meant to talk about this a while back. What is it? I got an email and I heard that these guys were going to be coming on as a client. I have not been there. I have not seen this as of yet, but the name alone has got me. It's a place in Westchester called...

Treehouse World. Oh, man. Come on, man. Treehouse World? Yeah, Treehouse World. I've always wanted an adult, not I'm talking pornography, an adult treehouse. Yeah, they've been there for a while. Have they? Yeah. Is that what these are? No, these are, I mean, it's like zip lines and exploring, but it's...

Up in trees. Yeah, I love that. I love to be up in trees. Kath, have you been there? So I haven't been there. I do think, though, that... I mean, there is like a zipline course and stuff, but I do think that there's a lot of stuff for little kids. I remember when Chase was little. Yeah, so these are like playhouses. Oh, we're looking at video. Yeah. There's lots of them. And I guess some of them are up in trees and they have that kind of treehouse vibe to them. But how cool does this look? They have a goat. And so...

We're looking at a news story right now, video of it, and they have a go at them. So you can get a $50 pass to Treehouse World in Westchester for just $25. Zipline, climb, and explore for half the price. Is it okay for adults to go by themselves? I want to check this out. Come on, yes. You can get this exclusive offer while supplies last at WMMR.com slash deals. And that's usually...

The way the big freaking deal works is usually half off, 50%. So make sure that you take advantage of this. So, yeah, Steve, when you were a kid, did you guys ever have the opportunity to build tree houses? Oh, God, yeah. Yeah. And we had one. There was a perfect tree my neighbor had, and it was at the top of a hill. I remember, by the way, President, all of us jumping out. Like, we were 13 or 14. Someone had told us that virtually every squirrel you encounter has rabies.

And so, erroneously so. But yeah, we loved that treehouse. It was a platform and it had a couple of walls. It was cool. Yeah, ours, the ones that we would build didn't have any walls. They were just essentially just platform. So you'd need three trees that were in the right position. And essentially we'd build a triangle with two by fours. And then slats across. The first girl I ever kissed was in a treehouse. That's like a

It was great. Yeah, we were playing Truth or Dare. We were spending the night. That's beautiful. And of course, we're up in this tree sleeping. Yes. There are no walls in a tree. Oh my God. One of us did roll out at one point. It might have been me. I just vaguely remember that. But yeah, that was important, man. First girl I ever kissed. Do you know one of the creators of The Simpsons or one of the people involved with The Simpsons, I forget.

who he was specifically, but he had this, he replicated the Treehouse of Terror, you know, Bart's treehouse in his backyard and would invite, you know, neighbors to hold, you know, parties there and so on and so forth. The town made him take it down, the HOA or whatever for the, and it was, but everyone loved it. But I've, to me, that's such a wonderful, it's a childhood thing, but it also appeals to

Just being up in a tree. Michael Giacchino at his house, because we went there years ago in Los Angeles. He had essentially a kind of tree house. It wasn't actually in a tree, but it was, you know, it was badass. Yeah. It was like right out of Indiana Jones because it had a swinging bridge. Oh, man.

you know, the rope bridge with the slats across it that you had as you went across it, you know, it kind of wiggled around. Yeah. And inside it were, you know, hammocks. Yeah. And all kinds of

The stuff you would find in an Indiana Jones movie, you know, like your jungle stuff. It was awesome. If you're not attracted to tree houses, hammocks, and swinging rope bridges, I don't know what's wrong. Yeah. My neighbor behind me growing up had a tree house. And this thing, I only went up on it a couple of times because it was so far off the ground. It was terrifying to get in and out of, especially getting out of it because you would climb up the ladder along the tree trunk.

And then in through the bottom of the... They should be fun as opposed to terrifying. I mean, it was... I mean, you miss a step, you're done. Yeah. You know, that was it. By the way, our ladder to get up into the treehouse were just other two-by-fours that we had cut down and nailed onto the tree. Yeah, that's old school. So safe. Yeah, yeah. Totally safe. I mean, the nails were safe. You just step out and penetrate your neck. Mm-hmm.

God, man. That's something that... Zip lines as a kid. I mean, the first zip line I put up, I mean, I wore that frigging thing off. I mean...

All of that stuff. Is it just, is it a rite of passage that you have to be into zip lines and all this stuff? Because I don't know anyone who says they don't like this. Do you guys ever have a grappling hook? Yes. No. Oh, I wish I did. I mean, I had a toy one with my Star Wars Death Star that I had, but no, a real grappling hook.

I bought it from Army Surplus. Yeah. There used to be an Army Surplus store in Northport, Long Island. Yep. And I bought it and I threw it up a couple times and snapped a couple branches and I said, this goddamn thing doesn't work. But I mean, honestly, what...

What can you do with it? You could just walk up the steps if you want to get to the, you know, or just put out a ladder. In concept, it's cool. You don't have the upper body strength to pull yourself up the side of a house? Yeah. Come on, man. Yeah, so my friend had a grappling hook and then my other friends, they had ninja stars and nunchucks and I was allowed to have those either. Did you have a, like a...

army surplus store wouldn't you like an i goldberg is that what that was nick was that army surplus yes yeah okay simply yeah but we had an army navy store there was one in paoli it was at the corner of uh south valley road and uh route 30 and didn't you love going in there yeah and and it was like um you could there's treasure you know there's stuff from um different eras of different wars and it was cool to peruse yeah case we used to have the shurikens those uh stars

Or we'd make them in shop too. Oh my God. In metal shop. In metal shop, the corner cutter. Right? Yeah. Sure. And then always above that were about 50 flying stars in the ceiling. Yeah. All right. So, Stephen Amell has not called us yet. Uh,

That's fine. I didn't want to talk to him anyway. No, actually, we do need to take a break. So we're going to go ahead and do that. But keep in mind, big frigging deal. Treehouse World. You get a $50 pass for just $25. So go to WMMR.com and go WMMR.com slash deals and you'll find it right there. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. And a lesson question. Trash music news. Those are on the way.

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Oh, Aces on 93.3 WMMOR. It's everything that rocks. Wonderwall. All right, it's 1025. Today is Wednesday morning and a beautiful, beautiful day, man. It just looks fantastic.

Crisp and gorgeous out there. How clear everything is. We've got a beautiful, beautiful day with a high of about 76. Partly cloudy skies, sorry. And then tomorrow, pretty much the same thing. Even the smidge warmer. Friday's the only kind of suck of the next few days. If we get the suck out of the way on Friday, we're good. Yeah, rain and a high of only 63. But Saturday...

MMRBQ. We're setting our sights on that. 74 degrees and partly cloudy skies. It's wonderful. It's a perfect day to go watch Paige Sporanek on the golf course. I'm lucky enough to go over to the Truist Pro-Am this afternoon, so I'm going to go over with some friends. There's a few YouTube stars that are going to be there, including Paige.

yeah so something sexy yes just so she's not part of the program right she's part of the creators cup yeah and i think they kind of all blend in with one another they bring in a bunch of different celebrities actually i think uh jason kelsey's there too yes he is um so yeah and and she's doing this with this trick golf guy who's from our area his name is josh kelly i believe i thought we were having him on yeah we were and then he had to go to

he's like Happy Gilmore presently. He goes from course to course and that's how he makes his living. So he was only able to call in and I was like, I'd like you to come in and show us some trick shots. But he'll come in another time if we want. I've been at outings where they hire somebody who comes by and does demos like that. That's cool. And they'll like, you know,

hit a golf ball through a watermelon and do all these crazy things. That's the stuff he does. She actually did a video, I think, before with him, Paige had, because she has a YouTube channel. Obviously, she's pleasant on the eyes. I don't even golf, but it's informative. Anybody who looks to improve anything that they do is a hobby. Through that, I fell down one of those holes. Maybe it's not funny to golfers, but that exploding bullet

bomb sound golf ball. That is effing hilarious. To see the reaction, it actually, a regular golfer will hit the ball and it sounds like something. Like a gunshot. I do have a trick shot in my arsenal, Nick. What I'll do is I'll aim forward and

And then when I hit the ball, it goes completely to the right. It's so funny. So you're looking in a direction and it appears that you want to play a good game of golf, but you don't. I don't. There's another one where I have a two foot putt and I hit the ball five feet past the hole. People don't see that coming. To the casual observer, it looks like he's trying to sink it.

Actually, one time Casey and I took a golf trip to Florida and these two guys got in our group. I think it was those really boring guys from Michigan. It wasn't Hot Carl. No, it wasn't Hot Carl. That wasn't Disney. Anyway, so Casey had literally a two-foot tap-in putt. And Casey walks over and he goes, all right, if I can just make this one. He takes a putter and he took a full swing at it.

And I mean, set it like, you know, 50 yards. Like, oh, I hit a little too hard. Damn it. It was really funny. It was very funny. So you do have a trick or two up your sleeve. All right. Today's lesson question. We are going to give away a pair of tickets as MMR rocks Theo Vaughn at Wells Fargo Center in

It's a bit of Cosby. Wednesday, July 9th. All right, the question that we ask you is this. What did Eddie Vedder name the cat that was buried underneath the sod? There's a couple answers you could get. I have two of them, actually. Let's see if you know. And if you know, let me take some time here and tell you how you can...

answer this question. You got to text the word Zoom to 610-660-9333 because you see our phones don't work. And what happens is a whole gauntlet of things that need to take place in the future. We will talk to people at great distances through a little device called a telephone.

Cos was a soothsayer. He was. But yeah, we haven't had phones for a couple months now. So what you do is you text the word Zoom usually to 610-660-9333. And pull over if you drive because it's a miracle we haven't killed people yet. And participating in contests while they're motoring down the highway at 70 miles an hour. And we will send you a link and you can...

click on it and possibly join us. So what did Eddie Vedder name the cat that was buried underneath the sod? Let's do the trash. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. All right, brought to you by Coors Banquet. Join the Preston and Steve show live from Kenan's in North Wildwood Friday, May 23rd for the

Official opening of the Jersey Shore from Coors Banquet. Start your summer. Start your legacy. What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, Preston, rapper Finesse two times is back in federal custody after violating his supervised release three times for failing two drug tests and for threatening to kill someone. Finesse says he knows he got off to a shaky start but believes he's really got it this time. Woo!

Kaya Nicole, saying she's tired of just being known as Travis Kelsey's ex. Nicole says that people took the time to know her. They would see she is so much less. Oh, my God. And finally, Amazon MGM Studios is moving ahead with a sequel to Jason Statham's The Beekeeper. Director Timo Tejanto says Beekeeper 2 will pick right up where the first film left off, with most people regretting having seen it. Oh, no.

We're going to go via Zoom to listener Tom and check in with him. Hey, Tom. Morning, buddy. What's up, dude? All right. Let's try that again. You were breaking up. What did you say, Tom? It looks like he's completely frozen, man. That sucks. We have to give Tom the opportunity to answer this question because he is on and did link up with us. But it looks like he's still frozen.

But you see, someday we're going to have this technology. In the future, people will talk across great distances using, I envision, a device you can hold in your hand. All right, now we got it. Your vision is great. Tom, can you hear me, man? Dude, what's going on? Yo, buddy. All right, so what did Eddie Vedder name the cat that was buried underneath the sod?

I believe his name was Bro. Bro! That's correct, yes. Hold on, man. We would have also accepted Pancake. But we're going to go with Bro. And since you got it right, buddy, we are going to give you a pair of tickets. MMR Rocks Theo Vaughn at the Wells Fargo Center. Wednesday, July 9th. And tickets go on sale Friday via Ticketmaster. For more information, you can head to WNMR.com. Preston and Steve's Music News.

On 93.3 WMMR. All right. And music news brought to you by Family and Company Jewelers. You can get the perfect gift for the mom in your life. Browse the huge selection of gifts at every price point. Route 70 in Marlton or at FamilyJewelers.com. South Jersey's diamond destination. Speaking of diamonds, Diamond David Lee Roth has announced a run of U.S. dates for this summer. Do you think...

with what you've been hearing recently. Do you think you would entertain taking that in? Nah. I don't think so. But, I mean, here's the deal. I saw part of one song and it sounded better than I have...

or seen from Dave in the past. Whether he does a whole show like that or not, I'm not sure. So when he left, when he had his solo stuff right after Van Halen and when he had the top-flight musicians playing with him. Yeah, Steve Vai, Greg Bissonette, Billy Sheehan. Did you ever see any of that? No, I've never seen footage of the day. I just saw the videos. Right, right. The music videos. So that's a good question. I wonder how he handled that. If maybe his audience

Just his solo stuff, if maybe he gave a little more reverence to it. Right, right. I don't know, but I'm guessing probably not. So he returned to the stage with a set of Van Halen songs at M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, Maryland on Saturday. He's going to play 13 shows in July and August, and two of them are going to be in our general area. August 8th in AC at the Hard Rock Live at Addis Arena.

And then he's going to be in Bethlehem at the Wind Creek Event Center. Tickets for the new shows will go on general sale in May 9th. He did in 2022 was doing a farewell concert.

tour thing, but COVID was underway and some shows had to get canceled and it was just a difficult time, obviously. So he's going to take it out first. Yeah, it was COVID. Yeah, right. But we'll see if this sparks more interest in him getting back out on the road.

Halsey has announced that they've got a new single coming out and they're putting it out with the help of Amy Lee of Evan Essence. The singer has confirmed their next single called Hand That Feeds drops this Friday and is being released for the upcoming film Ballerina, the John Wick spinoff with Ana de Armas.

And Halsey has been a documented fan of Evanescence since they were a kid. While promoting their album The Great Impersonator last year, Halsey even dressed up as Amy Lee while cosplaying as 18 of their musical heroes and called Lee the quote OG dark rock queen. So that's pretty cool.

And then finally, with just two months to go until Black Sabbath performs their final ever live show, founding bassist Geezer Butler has admitted to some intense anxieties ahead of the gig. The band's final performance takes place in Birmingham, England on July 5th. And you'll see the band's classic lineup for the first time in two decades with the likes of Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Alice in Chains, a myriad of others. I believe Hailstorm is on board for that, so a lot of big ones.

Butler admitted that while he's unsure of how the performance will roll out or how Ozzy's health may affect the show, lofty expectations behind such a gig have left him feeling immensely anxious. He said, I'm already having palpitations. In fact, I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed everything went wrong on stage and we all turned to dust.

Wow, that's pretty profound. He said it's important that we leave a great impression. It's not too far from the truth, though. Impression since it's the final time that people will experience us live. So it has to be great on that night. Now, Ozzy pointed out that Black Sabbath are not planning on performing a full-length set. He said we're only playing a couple of songs each.

He said, I don't want people thinking we're getting ripped off because it's just got to be kind of a sample. We're going to do the first part and then we're going to bring the wiggles up on stage. He said, you're going to get a few songs each by Ozzy and Sabbath.

Though Ozzy has noted he's been undergoing extensive training as part of his preparation for the show, the end result will undoubtedly be far different from what fans have hoped for. But as much as he can handle, given his health condition, he said, I'm used to doing two hours on stage, just a little bit of work.

jumping and running around. I don't think I'm going to be doing much jumping and running around this time. I may be sitting down. But the point is, I'll be there. I'll do the best that I can. So all I can do is turn up. Is jumping and running around being genuine? Because I've heard for many years, and hardcore Aussie fans would go and love the shows, but that

he remained fairly locked in position. He just kind of lurched around would probably be the proper term. He had a cane, stood by the microphone,

He sang, you know, and I guess it was a show. But yeah, there was not a lot of movement happening. All right. And that's it in music news. So we're going to take one more break. We'll come back in a second. We will wrap up our program for the day. And I want to remind you, if you have not done this yet, we have your chance to win a hundred dollar gift card to one of our three restaurants. Lenona's.

Cafe Carmelas or Restaurante Pesto. And that is courtesy of the new Netflix show, Nonas, which is streaming this Friday. And not only can you win a $100 gift card, but also a month of Netflix as well for free. So text the word Netflix to 610-660-9333 and you'll be in the running for it. All right, we'll take a break. Come back in a second. Letter of the Day, Word of the Week, Prize and More. Stay with us.

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Scorpions on 93.3 WNMR. Rock it like a hurricane. 1048, man. Yesterday, not a hurricane, but I was in a hailstorm yesterday. Yes. We could have played the band Hailstorm. That blew my mind when you said that. My buddy Jim and I were playing golf and a thunderstorm came through and they blow the horn. That means get the hell off the golf course. So we went into the clubhouse.

And so grabbing a bite to eat because you have to wait a little while. And sure enough, man, hail starts falling and filling up the golf course. It was pretty wild. Hadn't seen a hail storm in a long time. So when hail falls down on a golf course, I assume the play becomes entirely a different thing, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, we had to wait it out. Anytime there's severe weather, they pull you off.

Oh, and I just made this amazing shot. Yeah. Casey, 125 yards out, two-tier green par five, third shot, put it four feet from the hole. Get out. It was awesome. Oh, I love that. Put it right up on the top shelf, man, and then...

Did you leave the ball there? No, I marked it. And then we came back. And I missed the putt. But I got a par. It was pretty wild to see a heel. I hadn't seen that in a little while.

I would like to thank our guests for being on the program this morning. First of all, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO, Greg Harris. Yeah. Philly guy through and through. I checked in with him, not only talking about the inductees and all the Philadelphia connections, but also the fact they had this SNL music exhibit, which is coming out and sounds awesome. So.

Sounds really cool. It does, yeah. He wants you to take a summer drive and head to Cleveland and go to it and spend some time there. Then we had a great conversation with Kyle Dunn again. Kyle's at Punchline Friday and Saturday. Go to punchlinephilly.com to get those tickets. And I want to thank our three restaurants this morning. La Nona's, Cafe Carmela, and Ristorante Pesto, which we had Gianna Veralo.

who came in and taught us how to say nunas. She was great, man. Not nonas, not nanas. It's a mix of the two. Yeah, nunas. And she gave us a peek into the world of old-school Italian cooking. And she also, I think, authoritatively answered the question, sauce or gravy? Sauce. Sauce. Shrimp. If you're from Italy, sauce. If you're in South Philly, gravy. But everywhere else in the world...

It's soft. So, yeah, she did clear that up a bit. Pierre's here. I and my sisters have always said silver paper as opposed to aluminum foil. Silver paper. So just wanted to pass that. Is that something just within the family or had that been? No, I've never heard it outside. I have three siblings, two.

two sisters and brother, they're twins, my sisters, and older brother, they're both older, and we would say, can you get me the silver paper? Yeah. And I've always called it silver paper. Oh.

We stole, well after it was aluminum foil, called it tinfoil. Tinfoil. But technically, it's aluminum foil. Correct. Or if you're British, aluminum foil. God, I love how they say that. Aluminum. Aluminum. And vitamin. And vitamin. And it's also perfect for making a pyramid hat. Yes. As you ride. To protect you from the cosmic rays. For real. As a kid, you would take a sheet.

Push your face into it and get your... Do the mold. The mold. Of your face. I haven't done that in ages. Or you could wrap it in a comb and make it kind of like a harmonica. Yeah. Yeah. Which you could do. But there's nothing like the pyramid. And I encourage everyone to get aluminum, whatever it is. Aluminium. Aluminium. If you can fit it into your schedule. And...

After you get petrol, take the lift up to the aluminum factory. In your lorry. In your lorry. And get yourself some and make a... We need protection. We do. And this... Put a rainbow on it, too. That'd be nice. Because I just came from Devo last week. And they're...

What are they called again? Energy domes. Energy domes. I felt much better having worn some. And... Well, it cost you 65 bucks. Yes, it did. That's right. Well, it didn't, but it did. Although I got Brent a t-shirt, which was about 40. But that's all right. He wanted a t-shirt. And he... But...

This is important. So please do it today. All right. All right. Done and done. We will heed your advice. Get the silver paper. Get the silver paper. Make your hat. Okay. If you got them. How about we do the letter of the day? You ready? Yes, please. All right. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

Now, the Daily Letter. So, the Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter R as in robot. All right, and we have four VIP admissions to Pig Dog Beach Bar, Maury Spears Amusement Rides, and Raging Waters Water Park on June 13th, plus a $40 Maury Spears gift card valid for food and beverage and a limited edition gift card.

of the official Eagles Autism Foundation Sunny Seagull along with a commemorative Eagles Autism Foundation event poster. Two days away from giving that away. What's happening on your show today? On this lovely day, and you're right, it's lovely. Get out there. You kids run out of the building.

And get out and enjoy the day. A pair of tickets for Jackson Brown coming to Atlantic City June 28th. Another word at noon which could win you a thousand bucks. This is our last week. And possibly Emma BBQ tickets. We've got a workforce block of The Doors and Weezer and Grateful Dead. And a fun afternoon to goof around in springtime. Excellent. Thanks, Pierre. I want to thank our sponsors. President Steve Schultz brought to you today by...

Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors. Also, Dunkin'. And the President's Steve Show runs on Dunkin'. And brought to you by Adam Home Services. Heating, cooling, plumbing, and electrical. AdamHomeServices.com. Tomorrow on our program, our good friend Tom Papa. Yeah, he's the best. Checking in with us. We'll talk sourdough bread, I'm sure. So that's it. We are done. Rage on. Have a great day. And we'll do it again tomorrow. Bye-bye. President Steve on 93.3.

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