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And to answer your question, yes, we're going to keep that intro song going. And the new Tommy Boy, have you seen the video of the babies voicing that scene? I love it. I love it. It's wonderful. So we welcome you to a Friday morning friend. Here we are together once again. We have some stuff to get to throughout the course of this program. But let's dive into the weather and see what we have in store.

It's very, very soupy, dense fog around the area, especially here in Bala Kimba. We're looking out the window. It is insane. You can just see out to the parking lot, and that is it. I don't know how long that's going to go before it burns off, but heads up, we're going to have mostly cloudy skies, maybe a slight chance of a morning shower or afternoon shower. We'll see how that shapes up. The day's high, about 80 degrees. Tomorrow, some clouds throughout the day, sun in the afternoon, high of 86%.

Sunday, partly cloudy, 74. We're looking pretty good for the next few days, so that's solid. We're going to take a look at traffic, see how things are shaping up, and it's going to be nasty with the fog. And now, Kristen and Steve's news update.

Today is Friday, it's the 16th day of May. We will begin with New Jersey Transit. Transit engineers going on strike early this morning, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to find other ways of reaching their destinations or just having to stay home.

Walkout comes after the latest round of negotiations didn't produce an agreement. And it's the state's first transit strike in more than 40 years and comes a month after union members rejected a labor agreement with management. Yeah, I can't remember one this extensive in a long time. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said, if they're willing to meet tonight, I'll meet with them again tonight. If they want to meet tomorrow, I'll do it again.

Murphy said that it was important to reach a deal that is both fair to employees and at the same time affordable to New Jersey's commuters and taxpayers. New Jersey Transit is the country's third largest transit system and operates the buses and rail lines in the state, providing nearly one million weekday trips, including to Philly and New York City. Did you at any time in your life rely on mass transit for getting around? No. Any consistency? No, I've always driven. Same, same. I've only taken it for...

events, things like that. Mercy uses it all the time.

Yeah. I'm so sorry. What did I say? What did I do? I thought I interrupted you or something. No, but I just found this out. Like she uses the trolley system all the time. Right in the city. Yeah. But like not to travel outside. Right, right, right. So the walkout stops all New Jersey transit commuter trains, which provide a public transit routes between New York City's Penn Station on one side of the Hudson River and communities in northern New Jersey on the other, as well as the Newark airport.

Ford is recalling nearly 274,000 of its Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs across the country due to an issue that may cause a loss of brake function while driving. That's pretty handy to have. That's kind of maybe need that.

So this potential for more crash risks. And according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the front brake lines in these recalled cars may be in contact with their engine air cleaner outlet pipe due to the potential installation defect.

Now, that can result in a brake fluid leak or a loss of brake function. The recall covers over 223,000 expeditions and over 50,000 navigators between model years 2022 and 2024. Ford expects only 1% of these vehicles have the defect, and the company is not aware of any accidents or injuries related to this recall.

Ford and Lincoln dealers will inspect the front brake line of impacted vehicles and replace it or the air cleaner outlet pipe free of charge. And dealer notifications were planned to begin earlier this week with owner letters set to be mailed out between May 26th and May 30th.

Drivers can also confirm if their specific vehicle is included in this recall and find more information using the NHTSA site or Ford's recall lookup. I always find that I...

Like I'm unaware of recalls. The first time I was real, it just happened recently. The recall notification came up on the screen in my car. Yeah. That's, oh, okay. Yeah. But I mean, if I get sent it in the mail, I have to be honest, I always miss it. So yeah, now they're starting to do that. It, you know, depending on how old your vehicle is, if you bought,

bought from a dealership they and and you're in their database they should email you they should something or maybe even text you now depending on how you've signed up for communication with them but yeah some of the uh some of the systems now will you know number one they'll remind you of service calls and all that stuff but yes they can alert you i've had that as well yeah case and i both drive uh subarus and steve i use the my subaru app all the time and um i'll just check

I use it for a remote start or whatever. But it does that too. Oh, cool. It'll be like, hey, you're due for an oil change or there's a recall or anything along those lines. So I didn't really use it the last car that I had, but now I use it all the time. Well, the last thing you want to do is walk into the dealership and have them go, oh, I thought all of these blew up. Yeah. What happened? Yeah.

And finally, Philadelphia is installing speed slots along Lincoln Drive in West Mount Airy with hopes of slowing down cars on a residential section of the busy road.

I did a deep dive on speed slots this morning, and I still can't figure out what the hell they are. Well, maybe this pertains to what they've done on Lincoln. I'm in Mount Airy. It's not the Post. Are you talking about those things? I'm talking about prominent speed

bumps. No. Like a concerted effort to sort of corral you into the speed bumps. So they're different than speed bumps and speed humps. Okay. So I looked because I was confused. Yeah. I've never heard the term speed slots before.

I looked up photos. Some of them showed speed bumps and speed humps, but some description said that they're actually narrow slots that go into the road. What? Yeah, it's... What? Like, they can't make up their mind. I couldn't find any videos that showed you what these things are. I've heard of speed sluts. Those are quick process. Speed whore. Yeah. No, so we're looking at something that looks nothing like I've ever seen. Yeah, so those are speed cushion. Yeah. Speed cushion slots. So I...

I don't know. I have no idea. I believe, and Preston, I did the same thing. I had to look it up, and I'm confused by it, so I don't know for sure that this is the answer, but it's speed bumps or speed cushions with slots in them, like so where the tires would go. So essentially, you're aiming your car for where the grooves are in the speed bump or in the speed cushion, and because you're aiming your car for that particular slot, the intent there is to slow you down. That makes sense. Okay, I can see. So it's only going to...

They're not as bad as speed bumps or speed humps. Unless you miss. Yeah. So it behooves you to pay a little bit more attention. But you know there are some people that are just going to rip right through there. So I had no idea they put the most nondescript speed bump or speed bump

slot signs up along Lincoln. I was telling this to Kathy. You actually had the same interaction when we were at the barbecue. I'm driving along. I didn't realize they'd done this. And I took what felt like a Dukes of Hazzard launch off one. I'm like, what the hell? But you're right. Those...

I don't mind the slots because my aim is pretty good. Yeah, but you still have to slow down. Yeah, they have slots right over here in West Philly. Oh, do they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like on my way to my son's school. You know, it's just like one of the ways we go. Actually, it's kind of fun. It's like a little video game. A little game. Well, crews at the Philadelphia State Department have started work on four sets of slots between West Allens Lane and West Avenue. Unlike speed cushions...

Speed slots are intended to slow down cars without disrupting the flow of traffic. Is this sort of the car equivalent of Guitar Hero? Yeah, kind of like that. Yeah, you have a comment, yeah. Try to time it out. Right, right. Richard Montanez, the city's deputy commissioner of transportation, said the goal is to get people to drive the speed limit of 25 miles per hour on the 1.4 mile stretch.

where cars routinely move much faster. He said, what we're hoping to see at the end of this is a reduction of crashes. Overall, people driving the safe speed, which is the speed limit, and people not leaving the road and ending up in somebody's property, damaging fences or trees, even hitting a pedestrian who's just walking on Lincoln Drive. Between 2018 and 2022, there was an average of 13 crashes a year between West Allens Lane and Wayne Avenue, according to PennDOT.

The highest total was in 2018. There were 16 crashes along that stretch. Crews are installing four different sets in that section of the road, and the work is scheduled to be completed by the end of May.

So on this aspect, Preston, I know you have a lunatic that you encounter every morning who's or at least were for a while. Right. There is a guy when I'm coming into work who comes down, who comes tearing past me virtually every day, blows every goddamn red light, like doesn't even stop.

Just blows through them. And I'm like, same guy. It's like a crap car. I hate that guy. I hate that guy. I just stop it. Yes. But they won't. No, whatever. All right, look over there at sports. Ball sacks are jumping. Ball sacks are jumping. Ball sacks are jumping.

What the f*** is that?

All right, the Phillies were off last night. They open up a weekend series in South Philly against the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight. Ranger Suarez will get the start. The first pitch is scheduled for 645 in the NBA playoffs. The Nuggets beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 119-107, winning game six in Denver, and evening the series at three games apiece. Game seven will be on Sunday afternoon in Oklahoma City. In the NHL playoffs, the Carolina Hurricanes eliminated the Capitals with a 3-1 win last night in Washington. Head coach Rod Brindamore's Hurricanes took the series in five games.

And they're now going to advance into the Eastern Conference Finals. In the late game, the Jets stayed alive with a 4-0 win over the Dallas Stars last night in Winnipeg. The Stars still lead that series three games to two. And game six is tomorrow night in Dallas. The Union are on the road this weekend. They have a match in Georgia against Atlanta United FC. The Union are in second place in the Eastern Conference with eight wins and 26 points. And the match will begin tomorrow night at 7.30.

the eagles are still the super bowl champions how about them and that's what i have for you this morning all right thank you very much nick here we go on no set bro friday happy that you're joining us once again we got a stacked deck as always uh in just a little bit we're gonna check in with matt and tam at 6 abc uh we are gonna have a couple of comedians stopping by today ian five is gonna be here at 8 20 and then stephen ho is checking in at nine o'clock now ian is performing at

Punchline and Stephen will be at Helium Comedy Club. They're both great. A lot of comedy in the city this weekend, so make sure you take advantage of that. And I want to move along quickly because we got to get, we got to be in time for 6 ABC. So let's find out who the coolest teacher is.

All right, we had reached out to Prep Charter School via the airways yesterday and asked for the students to vote, and they did. And we would like to congratulate the coolest teacher of the year at Prep Charter School, Mr. Sean McGee. Can you teach me? Can you tell me not?

I wonder if he was Prince's boss. Remember my boss was Mr. McGee from Raspberry Beret? I don't know. But Sean McGee is a math teacher and he's also a baseball coach. And as we find out from a lot of these teachers, obviously he wears several hats. It's crazy how much some teachers will do. They do their lesson plan. They have their regular subject that they teach. But then...

They're the coach of the baseball team. They are on this committee. They're leading this. It's crazy. They're involved. How much extra work gets done. So, Mr. McGee, we are taking care of you. Or your students are. Our friends from Dunkin', the fine sponsors of the coolest teacher of the year, are going to set you up with a $50 Dunkin' card and we will give you

The official Preston and Steve coolest teacher of the year coffee mug. So that's from the students, my friend. And if you get a chance to give us a call this morning, feel free to do it. We would love to hear about you and why maybe you deserve this award. How did you win this? All right. And with that, we need to draw another one. Who's up? All right, Case. All right. I got it. Reach in there and find out what the next one is. They get the weekend to vote, by the way.

Go elbow deep. I am. He's all the way in. We have a giant mason jar. Here's the one. You'll put pieces of paper with the names of the high schools on them. I'm trembling. Casey has got one. The next high school for coolest teacher is... Yeah? Oh. We're going North Monco Technical in Lansdowne, PA. All right. Whoa. We have North Monco Technical.

All right, and here's what you need to do. If you go to North Montco Technical, you just have to text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. Now, it's important that you let them know at the school that this is happening. Maybe they can get the word out to everybody. And then we'll give you until Monday morning at this time to have everything done, and we will tally up the votes, and we'll find out who the winner is going to be. So, again, North Montco Technical, home of the fighting...

Tech people. Tech people. We pulled up their website. They do have a car show coming up. Yeah, did you? We'll find out about that. They have a really nice looking campus and they got, it looks like, I mean, a great tech school. They have a lot of different operations including kitchens and wood shops and metal shops. This looks like a 3D printer to me, so it looks like it's pretty impressive. You know what I'd do? I'd take the entire school body, put them into the auditorium and allow each person

teacher to campaign for this. I think it's a great idea. Take the day off and just do campaigning. Do campaigning. Alright, listen, we have to break now. Alright, so we're going to come back in just a moment. We'll go live on 6ABC and we'll get to the Entertainment Report. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Hey, welcome to the Preston and Steve podcast, which is brought to you by Acme Markets. Hungry and in a hurry? Acme's flash grocery delivery or pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. Acme, fresh foods, local flavors, and the official grocery partner of the Preston and Steve Show. Thanks for listening to our podcast, and thanks to Steven Singer for being the official jeweler of the Preston and Steve Show.

Thanks, sir. We are going to give away, as a stupid question, a pair of tickets for this event that's coming up at Live Event Center at Live Casino in Philly. And it's called Experience the Second City. And it's the 65th anniversary tour, Saturday, July 26th. So it's that improv group. They're fantastic. They do these great skits and stuff. So if you can answer this question correctly, we'll give you tickets to that. What shade of color is...

Smalt. Smalt? Yes. I have never heard the word smalt. Neither had I. So I thought it was a good idea to throw this one out there. What shade of color is smalt? If you know the answer to that. Sounds like something you find in your underwear. How did I get smalt in here?

Uh, just, uh, I almost said text the word. No. Call 610-660-9333 and we will see if you know the answer to that. By the way, so we have a couple of seconds before we're going to check in with these guys about a minute and a half until we go to 6ABC. We drew a name for a school. It is North Montco Technical in Lansdale. This is for the coolest teacher of the year. So, you guys, you need to text 6ABC.

And let us know who the coolest teacher is. Now, you don't text the teacher's name to us. You have to text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. We send you the voting link and then that's where you enter the information. So if you go to school there, let them know. Make them aware and get the word out within the student body. And we'll get loads of votes. And we shall see who is the coolest teacher tomorrow morning. We made the announcement just a little while ago that yesterday's school, Prep Charter School...

The award goes to Mr. Sean McGee, a math and baseball coach. So, yeah, you're right. And they always combine. It's always a couple of things that they're doing. They're always very involved in the school. And obviously, students respond to that. Yep. So let them know.

And maybe we'll hear from Mr. McGee at some point this morning. We've got about 15 seconds or so before we go on 6ABC. And just a reminder that we are still looking for more people to be a part of our Seagulls Screech-Off at Canaan's Irish Pub, which is a week from today. All right, here we go, friends.

high risk. What an amazing story and beautiful baby. There's a summer celebration coming up. The movie Jaws has been entertaining and terrifying audiences for half a century. To mark the 50th anniversary, an endurance athlete is swimming 62 miles around Martha's Vineyard to try to change people's negative perceptions about sharks. So let's bring in WMMR's Preston and Steve. Guys, I'm sure you'd be more worried about how cold the water is rather than the sharks. No, you'd be wrong. You'd be way wrong.

I've been to Cape Cod, stayed at a place called the Chatham Inn in this general area. They have such a robust seal population that guess what they get as well? A huge white shark population. And I'm like, you'd have to be out of your freaking mind to do this. No way for me.

I think this is why we have aquariums. It reminds me of the guy who was like, oh, bears are wonderful people. We should hug bears. We're friends with bears. And then the bear ripped his face off. So I think we should leave the sharks alone. Yeah, let's give this guy a nickname. Chum, I think it should be. The nickname. For the same reason I don't wear a zebra stripe shirt when I jump into a lion enclosure. I'm not going to put myself on the menu. Listen, I get it. Great white sharks aren't...

You know, they're not plotting to kill us. But if you avail yourself to them, they're going to eat you. Most likely. Yeah. It's never premeditated, I'm sure. Personally, I'm mostly worried about two animals. Number one, the mosquito, which actually causes more human deaths than any other. And the hippopotamus. Well, you remember those two huge summer movies called Mosquito and Hippopotamus that had them lying down on the lawn. Ha ha ha.

I, on the other hand, side with Samuel L. Jackson when it comes to the snakes. Oh, really? That is true. That's your biggest fear. Just don't fly. You'll be fine. It's never snakes on a bus. Yeah. Yeah. I saw a snake in a Sharknado one time. Everything's in Sharknado. Yeah. Iron's earrings in a Sharknado. We'll see if this guy actually makes it the full 60 miles around Martha's Vineyard. And then I guess he'll go be posh.

and go to a clam. Hope he doesn't get hypothermia. Yes. Great to see you again, guys. Have a good weekend, guys. We'll see you later. All right. So the stupid question. Oh, we're going to go through some birthdays while we're waiting for the answer for the stupid question. I have several of them and I'm going to zip right through them because I know you probably set up music and stuff like that. I have a bunch to get to. David Boreanaz turns a year older. He is 56 on this 16th day of May. We need to talk to him.

Yeah, is he from Wilmington? Is he from where? Is he Delaware? Wherever his dad was from.

Oh, yeah, yeah. David Roberts. But I will, I can text him, but I just checked all of my text chain. And it just seems like May 16, 2023, and then May 16, 2024 without a response. All right. One of two things happened. Either he stopped talking to me or he changed his phone number. That could be it. It's Pierce Brosnan's birthday today, too. It was a great change of mind. He turned 72 years old. How many did he do, Steve? Just a couple. Yeah, a couple. All right.

Also, Remington Steele, huge success for him. I loved him in Mrs. Doubtfire as well. Great. So happy 72nd birthday. Megan Fox has her birthday today. 39 years old. And recently had a baby, right? Yes, she did. With Machine Gun Kelly. That's right. Who wouldn't be proud to call Machine Gun Kelly dad? This is my dad. Machine Gun Kelly. She's 39. Tracy Gold of Growing Pigs. Show me that smile, ooh.

Show me that smile. She was good on that show. She was a good sister. I think she had a brief issue with... Anorexia. Anorexia? Yeah, I think so, Steve, if I remember correctly. Yeah. She turns 56 years old today.

A comedian and actor, Kevin MacDonald, used to be on Kids in the Hall. He is 64. It's Tori Spelling's birthday. There we go. If anyone has served as my creative muse throughout my career, it's been Tori, of course. She turns 52 years old today.

Our old buddy, because he's been here in the studio, Danny Trejo. Love him. Machete. Were you not, though, blown away? I knew he was smaller stature when he came in. But he's still scary as F. I'm not taller than a lot of guys out there.

I tower over this dude. He's 81 years old today. Maybe he's shrunk over the years. It's possible. You do as you age kind of shrink a little. But he's 81. It's Deborah Winger's birthday today. And she celebrates a milestone birthday. She is 70 years old. She's in one of the movies that makes me cry the hardest, Terms of Endearment. Yeah.

Officer and a gentleman, huge hit for her, obviously. And then two more birthdays. It is Janet Jackson's birthday today. Of course, that's Miss Jackson, if you're nasty.

She is going to receive a special award from the Grammys this year, like an icon award. Or was it the American Music Awards? It's the American Music Awards. Yes, they're going to do a very... They've only given it to like two other people. I think one of the other ones was Michael Jackson. It's a big deal. So she turns 59 years old today. I always liked Janet. I thought she was cool. There's the one album that... I forget what the name of it was. The Rhythm Nation. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that album. Yep.

Huge hit record. All right, and then the last birthday is Chris Novoselic of Nirvana fame, bass player. And he turns a big 6-0 today, 60 years old. God, that's an amazing trick where he tosses his bass up in the air. You remember that footage? I saw him. Yeah, yeah, it was on MTV. It might have been the Music Awards. I saw him on Geddy Lee's special short called Our Bass Players People Too. And he went, and Chris is a...

He's a real arty dude. He's really cool. Very nice. Actually super laid back. Former politician. Former politician. And still dabbles in politics as well. So he turns, not as a career, but he turns 60 years old today. All right, let's see if somebody knows the answer to the question. I want to know what shade of color smalt is. Smalt? And we are going to go to...

Let's see. We have Holly on the line. Hi, Holly. You're on the air. Good morning. Good morning. All right, Holly. Smalt. Do you know what shade of color that is? It is a deep blue. You are correct. Oh, you're my boy. Hang on a second. Holly, we're going to give you those tickets. Woo!

Experience the Second City 65th Anniversary Tour, Saturday, July 26th. Most influential and prolific comedy empire in the world. It'll be at Live Events Center for two shows at 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tickets start at just $19.99. For more information, you can go to livecasinofilly.com. Yes, it was made of powdered glass, and it was popular in European paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries. When I look at Smalt, it looks like you're over a blue body of...

Yeah. And it has that kind of look. A steep blue. Just a quick question. Did that question come to you yesterday when we were looking at shades of blue on your computer screen? No, actually it didn't. We were looking for designs on something. No, I just, I found it randomly this morning. But yeah, we were discussing blue yesterday. But maybe we'll consider smalt now. All right, so we're going to start with this. Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas are stirring up plenty of buzz with the recent low-key hangouts they've had. And according to Us Weekly sources...

Things are at its low-key, still new and in the early stages phase. And their romance is definitely on the down low. This is what they're saying. They're calling it a romance, according to Us Weekly sources. It still hasn't really been confirmed yet. They're doing laser tag and bounce houses and stuff like that. They're not going on real super intense dates. They connected over work back in February, but a source claims that Cruz was super smitten and Ana de Armas developed cruises.

feelings. Yeah. So he's- All right! So like, who wouldn't fall for her immediately? I mean, come on. She had to warm up to Tom if this is the case. Well, Tom is older. So the actress and actor, apparently their mutual friend Penelope Cruz put in a good word for her. Here, get him off my back. Giving her the seal of approval, both personally and professionally. Even though Cruz is really into her, the source says, DeArmas is wary of the public attention.

something she didn't like in past relationships and she doesn't look for anything to move too fast. She's taking it really slow. He had been linked to Hayley Atwell before this. His co-star in both these movies. He's working it, man. I less and less approve of his relationship.

I don't know what it is. I know what it is. It's the Scientology. You have to pay the female companion to be a part of Tom Cruise's live and the whole thing where they created a meadow of flowers that he could run through and have a picnic with one of his girlfriends at one point. I think Tom Cruise's movies are phenomenal. There's not many Tom Cruise movies I don't like. And I love the Mission Impossible series. He's freaking weird. Is it not?

Baird. Bird. He's intense. Not Baird. I would say this. I have no concept of what he would be like on a casual date when you're sitting there over nachos. And what is Tom Cruise like at that point? Anybody that ever meets him says he's the nicest guy on the planet. I get all of that. I think behind it is some nefarious stuff. All right, we'll keep an eye on this and see how things go. Don't kill Ana de Armas. So this is...

Sean Penn sat down for an interview and he was talking about actors in his peer group and one who garnered extreme praise was one of his earliest co-stars and that is Tom Cruise. And he said he's a guy who pursues excellence on a very high level. And he also addressed Cruise's fondness for doing his own and often extreme stunts. He said he's probably the best stuntman in the movie world when it comes to the amount of skills that he has and what he can do with them. He said it's pretty amazing.

And he also believes his assessment of Cruise as a stuntman may be shared by other stuntmen. He said, I would like to think that they probably celebrate a guy like that. It makes the whole genre that is the most demanding of those skills create more jobs. And I'm sure that he's had some very good training from exceptional stunt people as well. They first shared the screen together in the 1981 film Taps. Which I still enjoy. It's a great movie.

This is fun. Jimmy Fallon and The Weeknd surprised Fordham University seniors by crashing their graduation party at the Lincoln Center this week. The Weeknd stunned the crowd by performing Blinding Lights, and the crowd even joined in to sing along. And he followed up with an encore of Can't Feel My Face, and the fans joined in as well. Fallon, meanwhile, handled...

DJ Duties. The Weeknd has been partying it up all week, including a celebration for his new film, Hurry Up Tomorrow, where he danced with co-star Jenna Ortega and was seen holding hands with Simi Khadra. By the way, we had Kelly Endo on the other day, and he started going into it, Jimmy Fallon. I didn't even know he did a Jimmy Fallon impression. It was excellent. Alright, what else we got here? People's

How about this one? I have three celebrity deaths, unfortunately, to pass along to you. First off, Joe Don Baker. Seasoned actor. Impressive roster of big screen appearances passed away. The esteemed Hollywood actor recognized for his dual roles in the James Bond movies.

film series. Yeah. Passed away at 89. His passing was confirmed by his family in a heartfelt statement. Joe's family shared the news on May 7th honoring him. His death was on May 7th and they honored him in their tribute as a beacon of kindness and generosity. Joe spent his childhood, teenage years and college years in Texas

After graduating from the University of North Texas, he served two years in the U.S. Army. After his service, he relocated to New York City where he pursued his love for acting. After years in the thriving theater community in the Big Apple, he relocated to Los Angeles and his acting career took off. Over the years, he starred in a number of television shows and films, often casted as a tough guy and in some of his most well-known movies over the years.

Include his roles in Walking Tall, of course. Which is a movie I love. It's based on a true life story. Yep, and he played the lead. Joseph, wait, no, Pussard. What was his name? Buford Pussard. Buford Pussard, thank you.

Charlie Varick, The Outfit, The Living Daylights, and among many others. Also, let's not forget Fletch. Yeah. Who plays the chief of police in Fletch. And the whammer. Yeah, in The Natural. Yeah. As for the small screen, he appeared in shows The Edge of Darkness, In the Heat of the Night, George Wallace, and more. He played Tootie. As for his personal life, Joe Don had an 11-year-long marriage experience.

and did not welcome any children. When I saw him pop up, I was like, I always liked it. He was good in the Bond movies, too. I believe he was playing Felix Leiter. His family has asked his fans to plant memorial trees in his memory as he was a passionate environmentalist and shared a lifelong love for nature.

Also passing, Charles Strauss. Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-winning composer known for Broadway's Annie and Bye Bye Birdie. Those are some big ones. Yeah, he was 96 years old. The cause of death was not given. Strauss' dozen-plus Broadway credits are no doubt among his most enduring works, including three Tony Award-winning musicals, Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie. And the Tony-nominated Golden Boy, Charlie and Algernon, Rags, and Nick and Nora.

Strauss graduated from the Eastern School of Music in 1947 before receiving two scholarships to Tanglewood, where he would learn from composer Aaron Copland. There was a musical for Flowers for Algernon? Yeah. Oh. I mean, there was a movie. Yeah, but there were a couple, but I never realized there was a musical. Yeah, it says Tony Award winning musicals in the list. Yeah, so those were Tony nominated. Oh, all right.

So he met longtime collaborator lyricist Lee Adams in 1949 at a party, and the two cut their teeth in the industry writing songs for summer resorts in the Adirondacks for off-Broadway musicals and writing specialty work for the likes of Carol Burnett before their first hit, which was Bye Bye Birdie. And that, of course, featured beloved songs like Put on a Happy Face.

And a lot of living to do. Ultimately, he won four 1961 Tony Awards, or that did, I'm sorry, including Best Musical. His second Best Musical, Tony, was stemmed from Applause, which was based on the film All About Eve. His third for Best Original Score came from 1977's Annie.

And Annie was a massive hit. Ran over 2,300 performances on Broadway, two revivals, was adapted into two films and two different TV productions, respectively. In total, it won seven Tony Awards and also earned Strauss' Grammy for Best Cast Show. That's your favorite, right, Case? My favorite of all time. Annie is your favorite musical of all time. Love it.

I'm sorry, Preston. No, go ahead. I was just going to say that musical, Steve, was called Charlie and Algernon. I just looked it up. So it was based on that book. But it had a relatively limited run. It started in December of 1978 and was on Broadway only for a few weeks in 1980. And then it was not on Broadway again. So it just must have been a darling of the critics. Yeah. On the film side, his scores include Bonnie and Clyde. Oh, wow. The Night They Raided Minsky's. There Was a Crooked Man and All Dogs Go to Heaven.

And his best known work on television, and you guys all know this, he wrote Those Were the Days from All in the Family. He was the composer of that song. And it's also known as just the theme to All in the Family. But Those Were the Days was the title. That was originally performed as an emo piece. Wow. Yeah, yeah. A little bit dark and pretty. Songs that made the hit parade.

So he was 96 years old. Jesus Christ, I'm going to kill you. I know. Archie was like that close to committing homicide. And then there was a third celebrity death. Oh, yeah.

The alligator that appeared in numerous TV shows and films over three decades, most notably in Happy Gilmore, has died at a gator farm in southern Colorado. Based on the growth rate and tooth loss, Morris, the alligator, was at least 80 years old when he passed away. The last time I saw him was at the Met Gala. He was nearly 11 feet long, weighed 640 pounds.

He was found in the backyard of a Los Angeles home as an illegal pet, started his Hollywood career in 1975, and retired in 2006 when he was sent to the Colorado Gator Forum. He appeared in several films, including Interview with a Vampire, Dr. Dolittle 2, Blues Brothers 2000. He also appeared on Coach, Night Court, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and of course he did some stuff with Steve Irwin, too. Was he in A Few Good Men? No, he was not in A Few Good Men.

But his most famous role was Happy Gilmore. The title character, played by Adam Sandler... Wait, I thought that was Adam Sandler. Okay. ...confronts Morris after hitting the golf ball that ends up in the gator's mouth. And Sandler posted a tribute to Morris... Really? ...to Instagram on Wednesday. He wrote, We are all going to miss you. We could be hard on directors, makeup artists, customers, really anyone... Or you could be hard on anyone. He said, Really? Anyone with arms or legs? Really?

but I know you did it for the ultimate good of the film. He said, the day you wouldn't come out of your trailer unless we sent you 40 heads of lettuce taught me a powerful lesson. Never compromise for your art.

The Colorado Gator Farm, which opened to the public in 1990, said that it plans to preserve Morris' body, so they're going to stuff him. I want that one, that one. I pass away. They said, we have decided to get Morris taxidermied so that he can continue to scare children for years to come. It's what he would have wanted. So do they suggest what the average age of an alligator is?

I know that they can live to long, long, long, like up to 100 years. I don't know what the average age is, Steve. Maybe in captivity, but because out in the wild, that's a whole different animal. Do you want to know a wild alligator movie fun fact? Sure. In the film Live and Let Die, when James Bond runs across...

A whole row of alligators. Those are real alligators. That's crazy. I remember reading about that, Steve. Yeah. And you see, he goes, there's like six alligators in a row. He just jumps on the backs of them to get over the water. It's pretty friggin' wild. I thought for sure that... The alligator bit my hand. Oh, my God. It says, here's a factoid, Steve. American alligators typically live to the age of 50, possibly over 70 years old.

So they can, they have some have the long term. Hollywood alligators, of course, get into cocaine and stuff like that. Oh, here's the scene up on the screen here in the studio. All right, I gotta watch this. Yep, from Live and Let Die. No, stop it. That's legit. That's legit. And they all snap at him too, which is crazy. All right. Enough. I got a bunch of other stories. Enough of James Bond. Why'd you bring it up? So Michael J. Fox is,

is joining season three of Apple TV Shrinking as a guest star. How cool is this? Well, he has Parkinson's and Harrison Ford's character has Parkinson's. This is the first role since 2020 when he retired due to the issues related to Parkinson's disease. And the details of his role has not been shared at this time.

I imagine he's going to be like a buddy to Harrison Ford. I think so. Somebody who can talk to him about Parkinson's. And the way that Harrison Ford, of course, obviously is a great actor, but the way they've relayed his coming to terms with it in the series has been really pretty amazing. Very much so.

Other new additions in the cast this season include Jeff Daniels, Sherry Cola, and Isabella Gomez. Shrinking Stars, of course, Jason Segel is the therapist who starts making big changes in his and his patients' lives as he grieves his late wife. Dude, it's kind of bittersweet they just signed that alligator as well. Oh, no. Yeah. That's a shame. I'll find another one. Hey, do you know when it's going to drop?

It's not going to be a little while, right? It doesn't say, Case. I don't really know. 51-20. So we all saw this yesterday. Mark Ruffalo is stepping into his gritty crime drama era with HBO's Task, which was filmed in our area. It's from Mayor of Easttown creator Brad Inglesby. Yes, he's great. And the series Vagabond.

follows an FBI agent played by Ruffalo who leads a task force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man played by Tom Pelfrey. We just found a car with poop on the hood. Actually, one of the scenes that I saw in the trailer, I need to find out where this is, and if it isn't Delco, I need to apologize and perhaps revoke my card.

But there was a quarry that they were swimming in. I believe that's one of the only scenes that they shot that was not in Delco. Okay. What is featured is Mulch Works, where we went that day where they were filming. They shot the scene there. So, yeah. I don't know if I saw it in the trailer or not.

He's listed as one of the stars. I talked to Brad a week or two ago, and they're in editing. There are a lot of post-production stuff, and he's going to come back and visit us when the show premieres, which I think Preston is in September. I think it's mid-September. And Brad's living locally again. He was living in L.A. for a stretch, so we'll get to have him come back in. And I think, and I hope, knock on wood, he's going to bring Tom Pelfrey with him. Oh.

Awesome. He's so good. So, Task will roll out. It's seven episodes, one week at a time, keeping fans hooked. And Inglesby is back as creator, writer, showrunner, and executive producer. Damn, he's good. With Ruffalo also pulling double duty as star and executive producer.

And by the way, Marissa handed me this note. Newman University is in a lot of the scenes as well. And Newman, of course, does a lot of really awesome video work for us here. I bet they got it because of the association with us. And Brad said, what is the school that works with that show that I can't remember the name of? Stands to reason. All right, one last thing. She might be itching to get away from her daytime talk show, but that doesn't mean that Kelly Clarkson is stepping away from hosting. NBC has revealed...

that Clarkson will be interviewing some of music's biggest names in the upcoming limited series Songs and Stories with Kelly Clarkson.

The run of four sit-down specials will premiere this summer, and she will be chatting with Gloria Estefan, the Jonas Brothers, Lizzo, and Teddy Swims. The hour-long episodes are set to debut August 19th, the 26th, September 2nd, and the 9th, and it will be at 10 p.m. Eastern on NBC with Next Day streaming on PBS.

All right. We got clips, people. Do we have movies opening up? We got movies, people. All right. All right.

Alright, here's what we got. Final Destination Bloodlines. It's a horror film starring Caitlin Santa, Tony Todd, and Breck Basinger. The newest chapter in New Line Cinema's bloody successful franchise takes audiences back to the very beginning of death's twisted sense of justice. Played by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stephanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.

It's an hour and 50 minutes long, rated R, wide theater release, and Rotten Tomatoes hits it up with a 94%. What? Really? The reviews are really good. Stop it. I have enjoyed this series quite a lot. Yeah. You know exactly what you're going to get. This is Tony Todd's, I think, last film. He's terrific. You know the guy who played Candyman as well? Right. But yeah, I...

I really enjoyed the series and they say this one is amazing. I saw somebody put together a reel of their own Final Destination movie and I give that a 95%. If I can find it, I'll have to show it to you. Yeah, it's on the internet, yeah.

The guy made his own Final Destination where he plays every character. It's a satire. He cracks his neck on a stool or whatever. I have no idea what the reference is, but I'll just have to trust you and eventually see it. Pretend like I didn't say anything. Another movie opening is Parsons Island Revenge. It's an action drama and it stars Donnie Most, Ralph Malfe,

That's it. He's still got it. Terrence Knox, David Michael Reardon, and the plot is it's set against the backdrop of Prohibition. World War I veterans go head-to-head against a notorious purple gang in the roaring 1920s.

It's an hour and 55 minutes long. There is no rating, and it's playing somewhere, probably at Donnie Moe's house. Rotten Tomatoes score is not available, though it does get two thumbs up from the Fonz. All right, we're ready for clips.

Murder bot follows a rogue security bot who gains free will and wants to watch soap operas. In this clip, Alexander Skarsgård talks about taking on this bizarre character. I expected a very different, more kind of confident, assertive, classic hero's journey type of story. I did not expect to meet a character who was so socially awkward and, um,

confused and appalled by humans and who just wanted to be left alone to watch the space soap opera. I want to see this. Murderbot premieres tonight, Apple TV+. Here's our next clip. The Chi.

is a coming-of-age story that takes place in the south side of Chicago. And in this clip, Tiffany Boone talks about how she created her character, Jerrica. I kind of created the character, Jerrica, thinking about the girls that I know because I think she's the closest character that I've kind of done so far to myself and my girlfriend. So I thought about that and really...

I built on chemistry with Jason. I feel like a lot of stuff that we created was just improv and just us connecting with each other. Shut the f*** up, huh? I thought she was going to say just improv and what she's been come to know as. Season 7 of The Chi starts streaming on Hulu today. There's your entertainment report, people. Suck it. Yeah. All right. Yeah.

We've got stuff going on today. We've got people stopping by. We have actually a little surprise. We do. A little later on this morning. So I'm not going to mention who that is, but somebody's stopping by today. We also have comedian Ian Fidance who's going to be joining us, and he's at Punchline tonight and tomorrow. And then comedian Stephen Ho will be stopping in, and he is at Helium tonight and tomorrow as well. Both the early shows for Stephen are sold out.

So we're going to spend some time chatting with those guys. That means, with those coming up at those time, means we got to get to the connoisseur right away. We do. So we got stuff for you to win. We got stories to share. We got clips to play. We are going to take a quick break. I would like to remind you that the coolest teacher of the year school is North Montco Technical in Lansdale. If you go to school there...

Text the word TEACHER to 610-660-9333 and we'll send you our voting link. You can also go to WMMR.com. There's information on there. And we want to congratulate Sean McGee of Prep Charter School in Philadelphia. He was our winner from yesterday. We'll take a break and we'll be right back. Stay put. Stay put.

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Sweet. Oh, my God. I love you so much. From 93.3 WMMR. Everything that rocks your wallet. Sponsored by United Tire and Service. Don't drive alone. Drive united. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right. Thanks, Nick. Real quick before we dive into this next segment, I did want to do a shout out. I didn't want to get away from this, but I got this from Brian Unangst.

who said, hey, Preston, my son Reed and I went to the Take Steps Walk last week for his best friend Sam. Sam's G.I. Joe's, that's the name of the team. And I asked him if he met Preston, and he said, the radio guy? He said, yeah, he's going to give Sam a shout out. And anyway, I thought that was, this was on two different pages.

And then he wrote, oops, fat fingers, sent way too early. So he sent it off before it was finished. All right. So the second part of the email says, Reed has been through some stuff as well in his life. He was born with congenital diphagramatic herniation.

hernia as a result of he has pulmonary hypertension and scoliosis. He spent a lot of time in the NICU and all that stuff, 25 surgeries and counting. And he said, but he and Sam have been best friends since preschool. And he's a huge Metallica fan. And I'm taking him to Metallica next weekend. And if you're there, I'll keep an eye out for you to say hi. Thanks for hosting a great radio show and for taking a few minutes to talk to my son,

Sincerely, Brian. So I'm going to give a shout out to both of these guys. So that one's for Reed and this is for his best friend, Sam. So thank you guys for being fans of the show. We do appreciate that. I wanted to get the word out. And for going through all that. Absolutely. All right. It is Friday morning.

Order up. It's time for the game. Oh, wait, wait. No, it's not. It's not. There's a guy on line one that we need to talk to. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. I totally miss that. We got our coolest teacher on the show. Yeah, yeah. All right, so we'll come back.

Hang on, Mr. Announcer. All right. We are yesterday. We had drawn the school prep charter from Philadelphia and we asked the class to vote for their coolest teacher. And they came back with the gentleman who we have on the line now. Please welcome Mr. Sean McGee. Hey, Mr. McGee. Morning. How are you guys? We are doing well. And yourself, sir.

I'm doing well. You got to be doing well. You won the damn prize, man. How about that? Yeah. I know. Very exciting. All right. So tell us just a little bit about you. You're a math teacher and baseball coach. That's all we know. Okay. I've been teaching down here for 24 years. Wow. 24 years. For 21 years. Yeah. 21 years coaching baseball. Okay. And also now the athletic director for the last five years.

So we found over the course of doing this that teachers are like doing nine different things at once. And in so doing, you end up experiencing a lot with the students. And so you've been there for so long. What else do you do besides the coaching and the teaching? Is there anything else you're involved with in the school?

Not really, just with athletic directing and coaching and teaching, it pretty much takes up all of the day. Is the baseball season still going on? I'm so sorry to interrupt. Yes. Yeah, we're actually in the public league PIT tournament, and we have a baseball game this afternoon against West Philly. Okay. Well, clearly you resonate with the students. Can you feel that you have a good connection over these years?

Yeah, it's very nice. It's good to interact even in the classroom and outside the classroom with the students. It's

It's good to get to know them on both levels. Do you think you might have won because you had the ability to make them run extra laps if they didn't deliver for you? I don't think the laps would have helped me. That's true, but there's always that leverage. There's always that leverage. Now, you're obviously doing something right. Ten laps, go! Yeah, nice.

Well, Mr. McGee, apparently they think a lot of you and they have shown it by reaching out to us and letting us know. So we are happy to award you with a couple of things, just a little token. It's just a small thing. We're going to give you from our friends at Dunkin. They are a fine sponsor of the President Steve's coolest teacher of the year. So we're going to give you a $50 gift card for Dunkin. And of course, we give you for display or use the coolest teacher of the year, President Steve coffee mug. So we want to award you with that, Sean.

Thank you so much, guys. That's awesome. Absolutely. And that's from the students. So we hope you have a great summer and good luck with the rest of the season. And thank you, Sean. Nice work, bud. All right. Next school up is North Montco Technical in Lansdale.

If you go to school there, make sure that you text the word TEACHER at 610-660-9333. You guys have through the weekend to vote. And we'll find out who indeed it is. Make sure you let them know in the front office that that is the case, that they have been chosen in case you want for the word to spread amongst the school. All right. Now, can we maybe do it? I'll try to get an order up. Weekend edition of The Connoisseur. But it's always kind of on a Friday. Enjoy. By the way, I've noticed we now have...

More bells than we've ever had as a show. Yeah, we have three of them. Four. Four? You have one. There's two behind you and I have one.

Wow. It's effing nuts. All right, so we're going to dive right into some of these stories, and we will begin with this one. It has to do with the way you eat your ice cream and apparently can reveal a lot about your personality. I bet it does. I was thinking about this the other day. Now, if we're talking out of a pint...

I do, and it's more to deceive myself, Preston. I shave down in layers. Like, I don't dive deep with a scoop. I'm like, oh, it still kind of looks like when I opened it. If I keep scraping in a flat way. In the same way. Keep it flat on top. Keep it flat on top. You're like, I'm only two inches down. That's not bad. You can't tell. No.

Might be a little OCD in there as well. It's a tremendous amount of OCD, yeah. So a new survey of 2,000 adults finds that 63% prefer to lick theirs while 39% bite their scoop. So this is more like an ice cream cone. Ice cream cone. I am a licker. What does that reveal about them? People who go at it with their teeth and bite their ice cream are more fearless, confident, and impulsive.

This is explained by psychologist Jo Hemmings. She explains that biters are very in the moment. They are probably extroverts and like instant gratification. So I would say my lick is lip assisted. So I will do the, I'm using my lips also to, with a sucking. You're gumming it. And a licking and a gumming. You're doing a gum job. I'm not chewing because I don't want that chill going.

to run down my teeth and, you know. The only time that I will use my teeth on a scoop of ice cream, a cone, is if it's, first of all, it's like hand-dipped, not soft ice cream. If it's hand-dipped and it's cold enough to where it's got a little bit of solid...

presence. Texture to it. And so therefore you need the assistance of the teeth to get in there. So I quite often will get peanut butter ripple ice cream and kind of have to bite through that. Yeah. And if you get a mint chocolate chip that's like loaded with chocolate chips, a whole bunch of them, that's a teeth move. You ever get caught off guard by a chocolate chip or a piece of chunk in the chocolate and it throws your jaw out of whack? Caught off guard? Yeah. I power through.

No, I'm saying like you're going down on a bite and you didn't realize that there was a bit of chocolate chunk in there. Yeah, and it, I mean, I want to tell you. That's like a nice surprise though. That's like a little nougat. It's a nice surprise, but until your jaw is ripped off. I like finding a nice broad swath of ripple, Casey. Like when you're going through, and lately for me, it's been chocolate ice cream with a peanut butter ripple. And so every now and then you'll get one of those bad boys that's like,

It goes to the bottom of the container. Are there any more beautiful words than ripple and drizzle? You go to Handles by any chance? I like Handles, yeah. The lines at Handles are insane. So that's part of the reason why I don't go there that often. So McCloskey, he's one of the teachers at my son's school. And he loves going there. And we met up for an ice cream date. And...

And I went at like, I was like, let's go at five. And he was like, who eats ice cream at five? I was like, I don't want to wait in line and go at eight o'clock when everybody else goes. All right. Two things. That's a total old man move. Uh-huh. And buddy approved. I would like a scoop of vanilla on a waffle cone, please. So,

I haven't been to Handel's. They have one in Royersford, and I've never been there. It's excellent ice cream. It's really, really good. And I think it's local. I'm not 100% sure. But yeah, Preston Casey is 100% right. If you show up at like 7.30, 8, 8.30, you're waiting in line for a good half hour. I've never been, so I will have to try. Steve, there's one in Berwyn on Route 30. That's the one I usually go to. All right. All right. Lickers.

They lick their ice cream and they tend to be methodical and relaxed as they patiently enjoy their scoop. That's me. Lickers prefer delayed gratification, Heming says. They crave the dopamine hit, the brain reward that they get from extending their

The eating process. Probably wear a smoking jacket. So do you like to drag it out a little bit, Steve? I do. I do. And hence my idea of shaving off, I think you can agree with this, in the pint configuration, shaving lines off because it seems to go on forever. The cold, hard facts of ice cream are, and I think you can agree with this, if you have a flavor that you love and you're in the zone...

I could literally go through a gallon of ice cream. I mean, it's that good. I'm a little sad because Acme's signature brand, they have a mint cookie crumble, which I love, but they also had a salted caramel pretzel. Yeah. And it doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, they have a salted caramel now, but not the pretzel. And it was like, dude, it was like this...

Like it had like a pretzel crumble in it. Have you done a deep search? Have you looked online? I haven't looked online. Okay. Have you tried to contact Governor Shapiro? I probably, you know. Wait, who's got his number? Get him on the line now. Get him on the line. Let's see. Here it is. Shapiro. Shapiro. Shapiro. Shapiro. Shapiro. Shapiro. All right.

All right, so it looks like online they still have it. This item is out of stock. It's out. Hey, Acme, everybody listening.

That works at Acme. Please bring it back. It was the second best ice cream flavor you guys had. Can I ask you to go back to the mint one you described? Yeah, the mint cookie crumble. All right, so I'm guessing cookie crumble means more like chunky than regular chocolate chips. Yeah, so really what it is, it's a love child between cookies and cream and mint chocolate chip. My only issue with mint chocolate chip, and I love it, is occasionally the chips aren't enough. You know, you get too much of a smooth mint ice cream sometimes, so I would like to up my chocolate quotient.

I thought you were going to say sometimes the chips can be sharp. Yeah, yeah. Because sometimes they're like shavings, you know what I mean? Right. They're like there was a flat, thin layer of chocolate that they let cool off and then they cracked it. I like that, though. That's like an adventure. When you lose a flavor that you love... So I'm losing Zaz ice cream. We talked about this. And they do...

an Earl Grey ice cream, which is so good. That sounds weird. It's really great. I love it. It is akin to like a coffee ice cream vibe, but it's delicious. I love that. It's got a

There was one that Turkey Hill made called Graham Slam Steve. And man, was it badass. And I think it disappeared. Maybe it came back. But if it's back, let me know. By the way, Nick, thank you for getting me that Heavenly Hash like a year or two ago that you got for me. You choked on it. That was awesome. And Nick, thanks for selling me hash. You're welcome. And also, thanks for mentioning Graham because you should try the Hershey's Graham Central Station, which is in my top five. Wow. With all this thanking, I love you guys. I love you too. I love you.

So we've mentioned, by the way, Rock, are you a biter or a licker? I'm a licker and a biter. I'm a sucker and a... I was about to say the F word. I can't say that. Can you say that on the radio? No! By the way, there's one group we've left out. The Nibblers. The Nibblers. That's a... What a fun fact. Mickey's a Nibbler.

I told you not to tell anyone, Rock! As for those who nibble, they're more likely to be cautious, gentle, and thoughtful, but possibly a little controlling at times. Okay, I have another psychological profile I'll throw on this list, Connoisseur. The cone.

Do you eat the cone? Do you bite the bottom off and suck out the ice cream residue? I don't do that. First of all, I'm a cake cone guy. I'm like a rare person. Most people like sugar cones or waffle cones and things like that. I like a little more bland ice.

taste to the cone to not interfere with the ice cream. So a waffle cone is not in your... Nah, nah. And so I let it go all the way to the bottom. Now, at the bottom of a cake cone, there's like a little grid structure. Yes. And they're hollow. So what you have to do is, with your tongue, as you're getting near the bottom, you have to push the ice cream down into that little grid. You're a professional. I know what I'm doing here. And so therefore, your final bites are...

Or a heavenly mashup of ice cream and cone. I can run an entire cone on the hottest day of the summer and run completely dripless. In other words, I'm good. I've mastered the art of successfully eating a cone and handling drip management. I buy my own cones to bring home. Oh, I have my own. Well, I don't take them. It's not BYOC. He's like, excuse me.

No, no, no. I have my own. It's like walking in a pool hall with your cue and a case. Opens up a little briefcase. No, I like having cones at home for when I buy pints to take home with me because I feel like I get more ice cream in the cone and every now and then, you know, when you put it in the bowl, you're just not getting every last little drip. And so I want to have all the ice cream that I can possibly have. And I do love the cones that have the little chocolate nubs at the bottom. Those are great. They're terrific. Those are usually...

You can get cones that way, but drumsticks. Yes. I always have that. Marissa, we have not checked with you. Are you in the licking, biting, or nibbling category? Oh, I'm licking, and it has to be even. Like, I will constantly twirl it around, and like whatever is dripping, you have to catch it. So mine is like very neat. Yeah, you're like a sculptor. Yes. Yes, exactly. I know what you're talking about. Sugar cone, and I eat... In fact, I will...

dispose of some of the ice cream just to enjoy the cone. Okay. Like if there's too much ice cream on it, the cone is my favorite part. I don't identify with that, but I appreciate your attention to detail. Do you want a little bit of craziness? I have purchased just the cones and I will break them off and have them with tea. Oh. Without any ice cream. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm not going to be able to go this call, but Veronica, Steve, says Van Leeuwen's has Earl Grey ice cream as a replacement for you. All right, thank you. Thank you so much, Monica. We got to move along. Yep. All right, so ice cream is never out of season, by the way, for some folks. According to this, 62% of surveyed respondents admitted that they like to eat it no matter how cold it is outside.

I agree 100%. Ice cream is a year-round treat. Yep. All right, we have our first movie clip to play. It has to do with food or drink. If you can identify this film, our sponsor, Acme...

Who, Casey, I know that maybe, you know, they can bring back your ice cream for you. Acme is giving up $50 gift cards to give away. Here is the first clip. Did you lose weight? Actually, I have been trying this new fat-free diet I invented. All I've had to eat for the past six days are gummy bears, jelly beans, and candy corns. God, I wish I had your discipline. All right, so call us now. 610-660-9333 if you know which movie that is from. Order up.

I saw this when it's almost weekly that we talk about pizza. And here's another time that we're going to do that. Everybody argues about which city has the best pizza. But there's actually a surprising champion when you're talking about who has the most pizza. A new study by Maine Lobster now says New Hampshire, not New York or Chicago is America's top pizza state.

Well, these are states. So New York would be a state, but Chicago is a city, so I guess it beats out Illinois. I'm fairly certain my brother said that the pizza, he's been underwhelmed. He just moved to New Hampshire. I got to check, but he was a little bit underwhelmed. So he lives in a small rural area, right? I mean, that's pretty much all in New Hampshire. He's dealing with fish and cats. So with just over 1,000 pizzerias...

It has 72.73 per 100,000 people beating others by a lot. So it's per capita. It's per capita. So that I can get. All right. Maybe that is the case. Yep. So the study looked at pizzerias per person, Google searches for pizza, and average pizza prices. And New Hampshire's love for pizza makes it number one.

While New York ranks 29th with only 19 pizzerias per 100,000 and pricier pies at $19.73. If you're a pizza delivery guy in New Hampshire, you got to be clocking some miles. Yeah. Because you got a ways to go. I got to figure. All right. So you have Kansas, West Virginia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Indiana also ranking high on this.

And Kansas stands out for the cheapest average pizza at $14.96. I assume that's for a large pie. I don't know. What is the closest here? Have you found something that is close to your beloved St. Louis pizza? Emo's. From time to time.

I have, and it's usually not at a pizza joint. It's at a restaurant. Is it more a flatbread? That will have flatbread pizzas and things like that. But still, they don't use Provel cheese. So they're never going to get it the way I like it. All right, so I know it's Provel cheese. Can you find Provel cheese anywhere except for in that area? Not that I know of. I mean, it's a blend. It's a blend of, I want to say it's mozzarella cheddar and Swiss. And it's super duper creamy. I can't.

think so, Case. I'm not 100% sure, but I'd have to double check on that. But I've never found it around here. When we first moved here, we went to DeBruno Brothers. And I asked them about Provel and they're like, what the hell are you talking about? We got Provolone. Get out! We got Provolone. Is that what you're talking about? I'm like, no, it's called Provel. And they were like, never heard of it. It would be considered like a bastard cheese. Why don't you hop on your jalopy and drive home?

Literally, just get my thanks, Kevin, by the way, for listening. My younger brother's listening right now in New Hampshire. He said, yes, the pizza here sucks. I started making it myself. Wow. So that's where he's at right now. All right. We're going to see if somebody knows what clip this is from. Did you lose weight? What movie this is from? Actually, I have been trying this new fat free diet I invented.

All I've had to eat for the past six days were gummy bears, jelly beans, and candy corns. God, I wish I had your discipline. All right, we are going to check in with Larry to see if he knows what movie that is. Yo, Larry, good morning, buddy. What's up, everyone? Hey, man, we are looking to find out if you know what movie that is from. What is it? Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. That's correct, sir. Yay!

Hang on a second. Can you give him that one more time, Casey? F*** you, Larry! All right, Larry, we're going to set you up with a $50 Acme Markets gift card. Hungry and in a hurry, Acme's Flash Grocery Delivery or Pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. Fast, fresh, right to your door. Acme, fresh foods, local flavors. Let's tee up another one. What movie is this food clip from? I'll have a Kettle Cosmo with a Red Bull and some bread ASAP. We don't have bread.

What do you mean you don't have bread? How can you not have bread? We're a Vietnamese restaurant. We just don't have bread. All right, here's the number, 610-660-9333. Let's see if you know that, and order up. ♪ music playing ♪

All right, so we just mentioned Chicago. I'm going to dive a little bit deeper into Chicago and their culinary expertise, which, by the way, Chicago is a phenomenal food town. Yes. Phenomenal food town. Long been associated with great food. And we know that firsthand, too. So, Portillo's.

is paying tribute to the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope and a Chicago native, and they have now created a limited-time sandwich in honor of the pope. All right, what is in this? It's called the Leo. Leo! Leo! And it features... Leo! Leo!

Portillo's signature Italian beef dipped in gravy and topped with a choice of sweet peppers, hot gardenera, or both. And nod to the company, to what the company calls the holy trinity of peppers. That is like the, I mean, that is what the bear cooks. Yeah, the bear. It sounds very similar to that. Italian beef. If I were to do them...

If I were to be them, I would set up a contest. Every restaurant will have their contest. You've got to eat one of those big sloppy sandwiches but wear papal vestments. Everything white. And not get anything on you. And see if they can... If you can do that. Give them the sloppiest sandwich you can and see if you can do it stain free. I am a huge fan of this Italian beef. I love it. I make it myself now. I crock pot it.

I've even, and I love it so much, I'm like, maybe that's my second career is I just open a little sandwich joint. You've talked about this a number of times. I will invest $1. I will invest.

By the way, I would like to try this because it has a garden era. Do you guys know that? Oh, yeah. Pepper. No, it's a it's a medley of vegetables that are pickled and you'll see it in grocery stores. And it's usually cauliflower, carrots. Yeah. What else is in there, Casey? Like some red peppers, red peppers. You said carrots already, right? Yeah. And celery, I think. So it's an odd mix for a sandwich. Spicy, too. Sounds like it might be pretty good.

The sandwich will be available through May, which is also Italian Beef Month. So, Casey, you got to make some soon. I got to do my Christmas shopping. In a statement, the Chicago-based restaurant chain called the sandwich a divinely seasoned Italian beef. Divinity, yeah. Pope Leo was born and raised on Chicago's south side. The limited time... If you don't think you can get one, you vada can't. No, you vada can't.

Uh, the limited time item reflects both the city's pride. I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you a bell on that. Uh, the city's pride and its love for bold flavors. According to Portillo's, uh, they have 94 locations nationwide. Uh, nearly half of them are located in the Chicago area. So I don't know how far out those branch. Uh, you guys have been to pot belly, right?

So that gardenia, they have, like, that's like one of their main toppings for their sandwiches. Okay. Yeah. And I think they might be a Chicago-based restaurant. Okay. But that sauce is super spicy. So you got to be careful. All right. So let's see if somebody knows what movie this is from. I'll have a Kettle Cosmo with a Red Bull and some bread ASAP.

We don't have bread. What do you mean you don't have bread? How can you not have bread? We're a Vietnamese restaurant. We just don't have bread. All right, we are going to Andy to see if we can get an answer. Andy, more to Bud. Good morning. All right, Andy, movie, please.

Is that Garden State? It is Garden State. Good call. You got it, dude. Hang on just a second and we'll get your info and you serve. One of $50 Acme Markets gift card. Hungry and in a hurry. Acme's flash grocery delivery and pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. Fresh, fast, and right to your door. Acme Fresh Foods, local flavors. We have yet another one to play for you. What movie is this food clip from? I failed, okay? Let me just sit here and enjoy the one thing that makes me a little bit happy.

This fresh, delicious, tasty, meaty, turkey-filled, cold-cut,

combo i eat three every day to help keep me strong all right 610-660-9333 do you know all right order up so salads are often perceived as nutritious dishes of fresh vegetables mixed with mixed with greens lean proteins and vinaigrette casey i had your mind when uh

I came across this story. Is it ranch in there? Nope. Okay, good. It's a whole other thing. So the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines salad as... Meaning that...

Candy salad is absolutely legitimate. All right. While not all sweetened Midwest salads include actual candy bars, among the most famous recipes is one, and we make this from time to time at my house, it's called Snickers salad. Snickers salad. Dude, it is absolutely...

out of this world. So it's a delightful mix of chopped pieces of the candy bar, diced Granny Smith apples, instant vanilla pudding. We use French vanilla pudding. And non-dairy whipped topping. All this together gives a feel of a caramel apple without the struggle of eating one on a stick. Do you make this, I submit to you, as a dessert or as an ambrosia-like dessert?

It's a dessert. It's flat out dessert. Absolutely. I mean, it has apples in it, but it's full on dessert. Are you an Ambrosia fan? I do like Ambrosia. Yeah, like Ambrosia, Watergate salad, stuff like that. Good stuff. What is your favorite fruit associated with a dessert? Like an apple pie or something, you know, a strawberry with chocolate, you know, chocolate covered strawberries. I'm going to have to go ice cream. That's not a fruit, Steve. That is a good question. Like Sherry's Jubilee. And now that Kathy is here.

She hated cooked fruit, remember? It's a shame. She's missing out. I know. But she would be protesting. Let's get her back on the show. All discussions. I'm all for it. Yeah, all for it. Like a cherry, probably cherry maybe, like a cherry cobbler or a cherry pie or something like that. I'm not a cherry fan. So for me it would be, we had a wonderful piece at the barbecue. They had a rocket apple pie, blueberry pie, but cherry doesn't do it for me.

Have you guys ever been to Stephen Cookies before? Oh, yeah. Their blueberry pie is one of the best desserts in the area. Hands down. And it's just about to become blueberry season for those New Jersey blueberries. It is so, so good. It is like full of flavor.

fresh like pop in your mouth blueberries oh you're gonna make me shoot i like a uh a dark chocolate raspberry tort you know like a raspberry and dark chocolate yeah yeah but like cheesecake style or like uh you know really thick chocolate damn i just bought it was a uh one of those uh impulse buys at tj maxx yesterday it was dark chocolate raspberry uh salted caramel oh my god that's awesome yeah

I'm going to leave right now and go eat that. To answer your question, probably a classic apple pie. It's phenomenal. It's so good. Many Midwestern salads take inspiration from tried and true dessert flavors such as strawberry pretzel salad and classic Watergate salad, both of which are excellent ways to use leftover Cool Whip. Predating the TikTok trend by generations, the candy bar salad

can be traced back to Minnesota and its large population of immigrants hailing from the Scandinavian region of Europe. We will eat candy! Though it goes by different names depending on the area, a Norwegian comfort food called rommelgrat...

And adjacent variations are thought to have inspired Midwestern dessert salads. The creamy pudding dish is a celebratory food consumed all year long, and those new to America found ways of adapting the traditional recipe to include more readily available ingredients.

So if you want to look it up sometime, there are dessert salads or candy salads that are really, really good. Case, I thought of you because from time to time we'll go to a restaurant. Case will order a salad. And little did we know he spoke to the waiter ahead of time and they will deliver. And we saw this one time, a slice of cake served on top of a bed of lettuce. It was a scream when you did that. That was a chop. That was over a chop. Oh, God rest the chop. Yep.

Because CHOP doesn't exist anymore, right? Well, it's...

There's a nut. It's the Xfinity building. Nope, they're gone, Marissa. All right, we got to move on. I need to find out if somebody knows what movie this clip is from. I failed, okay? Let me just sit here and enjoy the one thing that makes me a little bit happy. This fresh, delicious, tasty, meaty, turkey-filled, cold-cut combo. I eat three every day to help keep me strong. All right, we're going to go to Bill. Bill, are you there?

Yoo-hoo!

All right, Bill. Name that movie, my man. Happy Gilmore. Damn, I'm skipping. You got it, bud. All right. Hang on, Bill. We're going to get you a $50 Acme Markets gift card. Hungry in a hurry? You got to try it. Acme's Flash Grocery Delivery Pickup. Get your fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. All right. Let's tee up another one. See what I did there? All right. This is our next clip. It has to do with food. What is this?

I'll blow this place up and be home in time for cornflakes. Ooh, that's a quick one. Yeah. All right, let's see if you know the answer to that. 610-660-9333. Order up. All right, this is connoisseur slash music news. Really? Yes. Anthony Kiedis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, has launched his own brand of concert-friendly coffee. It's called Jolene. Jolene.

What? What?

Jolene is sourced through an all-female co-op in Peru and is said to directly support the women's growers and their communities. And the name comes as both a nod to the phrase Cup of Joe and the classic Dolly Parton song of the same name. I was wondering. Jolene, of course. Yeah.

So two flavors are available. Cold brew and oak milk latte. And it'll be available for purchase online at retailers in Los Angeles and New York, as well as at the aforementioned Live Nation venues and events. So it's going to be available at The Gorge, Northwell at Jones Beach, and the Alaskan.

A lion's amphitheater, and that's in Virginia. I'm going to try to work my way into oat milk. I know so many people. I'm an oat milkman. Did it take a while to get used to it? Not really. I feel like you do need more to get that. Should I start by giving oral to hobos? Probably. We have it at home in the fridge case. And...

Andrea likes it. I just don't. Steve, I've not come around on it. I'm glad you have, Case. We literally have the oat milk on one part of the fridge and then the 1%, which is what I drink, cow milk on the other side. That's what I do. That's what I go with. The live music venues, it will be offered both on its own and as a part of four signature cocktails. This is funny because according to the new description, the origin of Jolene goes back years. Kiedis recalled how the idea of it first arose. He said,

Shane had shouted at me down the sidewalk saying, hey, let's do something. And I shouted back, how about coffee? And he said, done. And so began the adventure of putting a high-quality spin on a can of coffee. So look for Jolene at venues and at service points near you. All right, we're going to play this clip, and let's see if you know what movie it's from. It is.

I'll blow this place up and be home in time for cornflakes. All right, we are going to go to Tammy and see if we can get the answer. Good morning to you, Tammy. Timmy. Timmy. Timmy. Yeah, it's Timmy. Sorry about that, buddy. All right. How are you doing, man? Doing well. How are you guys? Good, brother. All right. So name the movie, please. Total Recall. That is correct. Total Recall. Total Recall.

Hang on, and we will set you up with that $50 Acme Markets gift cards. Make sure you go to Acme's Flash Grocery Delivery, or their pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. I was just watching that the other night, and you forget at the end of that when they're sort of, you know, the oxygen is filling Mars, and this whole reclamation is taking place. And for about 10 minutes, it seems, Arnold's rubbery dummy... Yep. Yep.

It's wild. All right. This is our final clip. Let's see if you know what movie this is from. Sorry. You'll have to buy lunch today. I didn't have time to fix your carrots. Yeah, well, she's only eating carrots to increase the size of her breasts. All right. 610-660-9333 if you recognize what movie that is from. All right. Let's do another order up.

No fast food roundups this week. Oh, man. The ice cream I kind of think took care of a little bit. I have a quick review about fast food, though. You have a review? Yeah, because... Well, you know what? Go ahead. Solo on this one. All right, I'm going to solo on this one. Yeah, you can hit the roundup if you want. Just to set it up. Here we go.

All right. Time for Casey's Fast Food Roundup. I made my way to McDonald's earlier this week. I got my McDouble meal deal, which comes with a McDouble, a four-piece nugget, and small fry and a small drink. I ended up getting the sweet chili dipping sauce that comes with the McChicken strips. And I'm telling you. You dipped your burger in it? No, no, no. I dipped my nuggets in it. You teabagged it. It is instantly in my top three of fast food dipping sauces. Oh.

I'm telling you, you have to try it for yourself. It is fantastic. The name of it again, please? Sweet Chili. Sweet Chili. Sweet Chili. And this is new? This is new. So McDonald's announced they have the new McChicken strips. And then they pair it with the Sweet Chili dipping sauce. That's going to be my new exclamation. Sweet Chili! You know what we ought to do? We ought to do a fast food...

dip and sauce dip off. I was thinking... Because there's tons of them. Let's do that. I don't think... Let's not just say it. Let's do it. My favorite is Chick-fil-A sauce. Yep. That's number one. But then there's like... Freddy's has their fry sauce, which is excellent too. That's my top five. And now I'm intrigued by this sweet chili sauce. We should do a dip off. But we're going to have to collect all of these things, but we could do that. When looking at that dip, when it was showing up on the screen here, my mouth started to water immediately. And I think, Casey, it might be one of the dips that I could drink.

There are a few that are out there and I wouldn't make a habit out of drinking any of these things on a permanent basis. Could you put it in this comb that I brought? I need to jump in here because the sauce that you saw, the picture, that wasn't the sweet chili dipping sauce. I don't even know what that is. The sweet chili dipping sauce was next to the one that was open. Diptease. All right. Yeah, so the color, it's a little bit more orange than your Chick-fil-A sauce. I guess my point is there are several dips out there that I could drink.

Okay, I believe that. And I want to see that on the day we do the dip off. I want to see him pound an eight ounce glass of dip. Steve, you know what's at the top of my list? What? You know, the honey mustard. Oh my God. Well, okay, that's not a fast food.

Well, I mean, for the dip-off. Is it in a dip-off? Well, you're talking about the one at Wells Fargo or whatever the hell it's called. Right. So we wouldn't allow that. I'm talking about from fast food restaurants. I didn't know we were playing international rules. But that can be your favorite. I'm not saying it can't be your favorite. When we do it. I'm just saying for the dip-off. You can't bring that to the table. When we do it, Nick, I'll bring in a flask. Just on the side. We'll have it in his inside pocket. We can take pulls off. We'll take a little tug. Hang on one second, guys. All right.

All right, let's see if somebody knows what clip, what movie this clip is from. Sorry, you'll have to buy lunch today. I didn't have time to fix your carrots. Yeah, well, she's only eating carrots to increase the size of her breasts. I don't know why I find that so funny. We're going to go to Lana. Hi, Lana, good morning. Good morning. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. No sad bro. All right, Lana, what movie? Name it, please.

16 Candles. Yeah, that's the 16 Candles. Nailed it, man. I don't know how I ever missed that line. I know that movie backwards and forwards. But we are going to give you a $50 Acme Markets gift card. Hungry and in a hurry? Acme's Flash Grocery Delivery or Pick Up gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. Fast, fresh, and right to your door. Acme Fresh Foods.

Local flavors. Yes, Steve. The little kid who delivers that line is the littler kid in Kramer vs. Kramer. I remember that. Yeah, yeah. All right. That is it for The Connoisseur. Thank you for joining us this morning, friend. We have a lot of things to get to. We got some guests stopping by. Comedian Ian Fidance is going to be here. Stephen Ho, comedian, as well, is stopping in. But when we return, I believe, with The Bizarre File, we have a special guest who's going to be joining us in the studio for a little hello.

We'll come back with that. Make sure you stay with us.

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Brought to you by Coors Banquet. You can join us, the President 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. I will start off with a very interesting story. An Echo Park resident made a disturbing discovery over Mother's Day weekend when he found a stranger sleeping nude in his bed. Michael Duarte, an NBC4 sports writer.

Found his home ransacked late Saturday night. Food from his pantry and fridge been taken out and his miscellaneous items were found scattered across his kitchen. He said, my first thought was, did some wild animal come into my home and damage everything? Upon closer inspection, the homeowner noticed a glass of his back door had been smashed and

and used as a means to break in. While surveying his home, Duarte took a look in his bedroom and saw a man sleeping in his bed. This bed was just right. Well, he said, to see a man not just sleeping in my bed, but completely naked sleeping in my bed, I was shocked. It was like Goldilocks from Three Bears. Following the alarming discovery, Duarte told his friend who was waiting in a nearby car to call police. Officer then arrived.

And this is what... It gets better as this goes along. All right. Officers then arrived, dressed the man, and took him to jail. Now, he said, as he was being walked away in cuffs and thrown into the back of the squad car, he was yelling to me and my friend and also the officers, and he said, I'm going to kill you! Okay. So... That's a bad guest. As if the break-in wasn't enough, the intruder helped himself to the resident's kitchen and ransacked the home in a bizarre way. Where's my pumpernickel? The man...

clogged the toilet with towels. Oh, man. Ate a box of ice cream sandwiches, ate a box of Beyond Beef Burger patties, and raided Duarte's stash of chewing gum. Listen to this. He

He said, I had a fresh pack with 60 pieces in size unopened. He opened it up, chewed all of them, and then spit a big wad of gum about the size of a softball. What? This guy was playing for keeps, man. And he ate all those Beyond Burgers? And the intruder also killed a possum on the back patio by using a statue. What?

Well, I mean, thank you for that. Neighbors said the bizarre break-in has left the neighborhood shaken. Law enforcement has not released the name of the suspected intruder. The case remains under investigation. Listen, that was me the other night. I was having a bad day. All right, here's a follow-up for you. Love this story. The serial Tesla road rage driver who landed back in bars for allegedly assaulting a teen driver and her mother in Hawaii last week. We mentioned this story yesterday.

He was found beaten to a bloody pulp in prison. Talk about getting your comeuppance. Yeah, Nathaniel Rademach was assaulted by inmates at Halawa Correctional Facility on Monday. And the hot-headed driver sustained injuries to his face and torso and was taken to the Queens Medical Center for treatment. Rademach was photographed...

Excuse me. Photographed wearing his orange prison jumpsuit and a hospital wheelchair with a badly bruised and bloody face following the alleged assault. The Department of Corrections Rehabilitation said it's investigating the incident. Radomak's assault comes after he was arrested May 8th for losing his temper and allegedly becoming violent with another motorist. I hope he was in the cell with some like Jason Momoa sized guys.

He has been out on parole since August after he served only 10 months of a five-month sentence. And he was speeding in a gray Tesla when he raced past an 18-year-old driver parking her car. The female teen driver yelled at Rademach to slow down as he sped by and prompted him to get out of the vehicle and start arguing with her and her mother. The girl's mother, Diane Ung, said that Rademach was driving around 40 to 50 miles per hour. She was trying to teach her daughter how to parallel park outside of the home. Ung claimed that Rademach stuck her and her daughter in the face.

during the confrontation before he got back into his Tesla and fled. He was charged with unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle and two counts of assault. He made headlines as the pipe-wielding Tesla driver who terrorized California highways over the years. So this guy is now scheduled to appear in court this week to face a new felony charge, but he got his ass beat.

by the other prisoners. I'm sure it was because he punched a teenage girl in the face. Do you think that'll take? Do you think that'll cause any behavioral shift? Nope. The guy has serious rage issues, and when he gets out...

He's going to go right back at it. I'll bet you. All right. Here's the story of survival, man. This winter, a resort owner in the Sierra National Forest decided to keep cabin doors unlocked at his resort should anyone need shelter to survive while the area was snowed in just in case. And on Wednesday afternoon...

He came across a woman who did just that. A woman named Tiffany Slatton, a camper from Georgia, went missing three weeks ago. She walked through the blizzard the day before the resort owner found her seeking refuge in one of the cabins. He said she pops out, didn't say a word.

Just ran up. She wanted a hug. That's Christopher Gutierrez, who is the owner of Vermilion Valley Resort. She said when she got into the house, Preston, there was a naked guy in bed with a huge wad of gum in his mouth. Wow. During a previous failed attempt to reach his resort, Gutierrez spotted a search party in the area, and he knew that there was a missing camper matching the woman standing before him.

Slatton was ravenous, so he made her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I don't like peanut butter. Slatton's family hadn't heard from her since April 20th and reported her missing on April 29th. It's unclear how she survived for nearly a month. It's miraculous. She was last seen on April 24th near Shaver Lake, north of Fresno. She was found some 40 miles, an approximately two-hour drive farther east.

Then where she was last seen, officials first thought she turned back when she realized that the area was snowed in. She was traveling on an electric bike with a red trailer, choosing to visit California as part of her mission to visit all 50 states on a bucket list trip that turned into an absolute nightmare for the family. After an investigative five-day ground search, not a sign of her emerged,

Wow. Save her life. Yeah, she'd be dead.

to our studio. Is this the whole thing? Yes, sir. All right, we have a special intro for this next guest. Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, dammen und herren, from what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues, may I now present a cultured, sophisticated man about town. Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Weston. Yay!

Good morning. Good morning, good morning. This is terrific being back in the Preston and Steve studio. It's been over a year since I've been back in the building. Wow. We talked to you a little while ago and we've all determined no one that we know in our collective lives is doing retirement better than are you. Yes, the last time I was on the show I was in my bathrobe and my hair was unkempt and I hadn't brushed my teeth yet.

But it didn't matter because I was in my house. I tried my building pass. Does it? It doesn't work. Rodney deactivated it before I was in my car back in December of 23. He's out. He's out. Yeah. So, Bill, to what do we owe this appearance of you here? This day, this very day, May 16th, was special enough for me to...

get out of my bathrobe and brush my teeth and come here and wish you guys a happy anniversary. It was 20 years ago today that you guys were right next door in 4F and it was the first time you cracked the mic on MMR. Wow. It's wild. And it's been 20 years, which I know you had an anniversary of your...

your run as a show, which began at Y100, which you don't mention Y100 nearly enough on this program. Bill always hated that, by the way. Always hated it. But still. It died 20 years ago, Bill. Let it go. WMMR, I tell the stories, was 13th, and I know the Preston and Steve show was maybe 7th, I think. It was the perfect pairing, and you guys, for 20 years...

From this day in 2005, have been bringing it and have been entertaining the pants off of me and for everyone else. And it was such a, I'd like to say that, you know, it was all my decision. But John Fulham, who was our general manager at the time, had a lot to see. I presented him with a couple of dozen opportunities, different shows, solo hosts, teams, people, local people, a lot of the people.

out of state. It was a long search. It was a long search. I'll say this, just to jump in here quickly. Obviously, this is kind of on the schedule. Obviously, with Kathy not being here, we said, no, we really don't want to do this. It's not in a major way, but we really appreciate you commemorating it this way. I'll say our lives were set in

Paths that we could not even have foreseen in all the best ways because of everything that went down and because your advocacy for the show and support for the show. Yeah. It was, I know, with Kathy's absence, it is...

Yeah. But it's... Yeah, we were talking about doing some kind of a celebration for the 20 years, but once that occurred, we're like, we're not going to do it. But thank you for acknowledging it. No, it's awesome. And again, I didn't say, hey, I want to go on the air with you guys. Yeah. Hey, weren't you just on the air with like Christmas Miracle? Honestly, the only reason we agreed to have you in here today to recognize this date is because you were bringing breakfast. You know what?

I knew I couldn't show up if I didn't bring some breakfast sandwiches for Casey. But you brought what you did bring us some very interesting documentation, Preston. You were given something. Yeah, Bill has a letter that he brought in, which was sent to John Fulham, our former group manager here of the cluster.

And it was Bill's assessment of all of the other shows that he had considered for the morning slot. Listen, a big search. Yeah. And should I read some of this? Yeah, give us some. All right. It says here, the WMMR morning show solution, in a word, elusive, but not hopeless.

Over the past five months, I've interviewed numerous candidates, solos, teams, and trios. These have been recommended by consultants, talent coaches, agents, my fellow PDs, and my professional acquaintances. All have talent. None appear to be the automatic answer. An imperfect fit, either as a strong solo leader slash quarterback to work with Joe Conklin, who was here at the time, Blaine Ensley, Vinny the Crumb, and Gina, or a duo slash trio to come in and break new ground on their own.

And then he lists some that are the, I guess, the kind of frontrunners.

I can mention a few of these names. I don't know. There was Drew and Mike. They're out of Detroit. Lou Brutus. Elliot down in D.C. All solid. Larry Wachs. Mark Summers. Not our Mark Summers. Different Mark Summers. No, he hadn't sunk that low at that point. Tuttle and Klein. Tuttle and Klein. Birmingham. Kane. I remember Kane. Yeah. I believe. Ricky Rackman. Ricky Rackman. And then, by the way, he goes on to list...

his assessment of each one of these. And then dot, dot, dot. And if we're incredibly desperate, Preston and Steve. Grego Jackson was one considered. Well, it says here for afternoons, which ended up happening. Paul and Al, Johnny Dare, Bob and Tom, syndicated show. He said a secondary option. And Roger and J.B.,

He said many others were slash are being considered the chief criteria remain an individual slash show with proven success in Morning Drive. And we can't afford to cobble together a show with various personalities and talents that may appear to have chemistry. We must decide on one that already has established it.

which is a good idea. It's a smart move. A great idea. When you try to throw people together, it doesn't work. It doesn't always work. They had tried that with Mike Missanelli, right? And then they brought in Joe Conklin and Vinnie the Crumb was some sports guy who won a contest and,

And all of them were talented, but none of them could get along with each other. Yeah, you just have to gel. Preston, read the end of the memo. Okay, here it goes. Why Preston and Steve? And this is the one that you could tell he landed on us as the favorite. Is it more like, why?

And here are his reasons for wanting us as the show. Established show. Together five plus years as a team. Philadelphia show. In the demo, late 30s, early 40s. Defined roles. Straight guy and funny guy. Lame.

Likeable in person, likeable on air. It's a welcoming show, willing to work after the show. They want to work for WMMR. No head cases. Steve Morrison is a funny bastard. And I can make the show better. Research indicates upside potential. See call-out perceptual web polls posted below. Being able to listen to an in-market show for six months allows a pretty good perspective. Yeah, it's true. You don't...

That's, again, very salient stuff. You don't, as a program director, it would be hard to select a show. You had the ability to see how we were working within the environment you were trying to reach. Yeah. When we first decided that the Philly guys wasn't going to work...

I had mentioned the Preston and Steve show, and John Fulham at the time said, that may be the easy rock, but I want you to look under every rock. Okay. So we did like a six or seven month search, and it still came back to your rock. Shall I read you what I have here, Preston? Yeah.

What's this? This is the subject is 40-year-old virgin. This is back from Bill West and he writes, I cannot allow you to actually get WMMR's oldest male virgin laid using the airwaves. This is okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Options. After you find the oldest virgin, find an understanding woman who is willing to go out on a date.

But not the stated intention. And he goes on, after you ID the version, find a seemingly willing woman, proceed as if you're going on getting him laid. In other words, he was looking out for us. This was at a time when... He thought it was prostitution. Exactly. And in effect, it might have been. But anyway, we were trying to rattle the cage a little bit. Yeah, have some fun. Think about your job today and think about any...

memo or email you receive where the subject line says 40-year-old virgin. And it doesn't happen a lot. That's what our early days were like here. We found a gray area. Nobody was exchanged.

It was like, oh my God, Ellen Rubin was our corporate counsel at the time. She was illegal, yeah. I had so much correspondent back and forth. Back when, you know, the indecency thing, people were like really concerned about, you know. Johnny, is that a, what is that clip that she just couldn't stand? John, it was like a science film. Oh, Steve, it was Dead? Mother, I have a strange discharge.

Dad, can I talk to you for a minute? Oh, my God. I've never... I've never... I used to play that in full. Yeah, the whole thing. Discharge is what... Mother, I have a strange discharge. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. Mother, can you put down those muffins for a second? I have a strange discharge. But the... Yeah, but listen, all things considered, for all the ways things can go wrong like this...

It's been phenomenal, you know, save for, you know, recent developments, but it's, it's, it's, it's been great. Yeah. So I just, again, I, I, uh, very happy that our paths crossed and we had some mutual success and for 20 years to be, um,

on the air at the same radio station. Obviously, Pierre kind of dwarfs that. Oh, he's... But another level. But as an ensemble. Yes. And a morning show is... There's a lot of attention on a morning show about your success and your... Yeah. But the fact that you've been able to get along and to...

That alone is amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Not hate each other. Yeah. How many sandwiches did you bring? You brought a lot, actually. I brought 10. I brought some vegan options. Oh, for Marissa. Avocado toast and what was that kind of sweet treat thing that you got from there? That's the only vegan dish because it's oatmeal and it has no eggs in it. Anyway, so I just wanted to come by and congratulate you guys. We have 20 years at MMR. I asked Chuck two weeks ago about this and he did not respond.

So he's very busy. Chuck has been wrapped up, and as you can imagine, he has been slapped around a lot and stuff. He's been trying to work things here and fight for things that have been energy-sucking. I can only imagine. Well, we miss you, Bill. Good to see you, bud. I love listening to the radio show, most every day, in my bathrobe. What would you give our segment prior to this? You said it was meandering. Oh, no, I was just...

Come on. B plus. Not a bad story. Even in retirement.

All right. Love you guys. Thank you, Bill. We love you. Happy anniversary. Bill Weston, our man about town as he sashays saunters out of the studio in his smoking jacket. It's wonderful. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. Mr. Ian Fidance is going to be here. Stay put. We'll return shortly.

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Hey! Hello, hello. Thank you for having me. Happy anniversary. Thank you. I'm so stoked to be here. Thank you, fellas. We'll have you anytime, man. It's good to see you. I love it. Good to see you. Good to be seen. You are good energy. That's what I love about you. Oh, man. You're great energy. Thanks, guys. That's exactly how I feel, Preston, the first time we had you in here. We didn't know really what to expect.

stand-up comedy and being interviewed are two different animals. You know what I mean? You are an animal, by the way. Yes, thank you. You're an E-animal. An I-animal. But your energy is palpable and positive. Thank you. You want to know the litmus test? We have to put the brakes on talking to you too much prior to going on air because there's like a buddy thing going on. I'm like, save it for the air. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I appreciate that. I think the...

Was the first time I was in here, was that when I took my pants off? I think that was... I don't know. It could be. I remember that was an event. I was like, wow, what a welcome wagon. This is amazing. Bobby Lee leads the nakedity scale here at the Preston and Steve show. Pretty much anywhere he goes. He loves being naked. He loves it. He does. He took me to We Spa in LA. Is that the... It's a famous... It's like a...

famous fancy Korean spa and you have to get naked walking around and I wear glasses and when I take my glasses off I can't see anything and he's just Mr. Naked so we go in the locker room he takes his clothes off he goes I'll be in the steam room and I'm like wait I can't see you so I'm literally naked

Going around We Spa in Los Angeles, going up to other men because I can't see without my glasses going, Bobby, Bobby, is that you? Bobby? Just other Asian men. Are you not allowed to wear glasses in there? Why did you take your glasses off? Because it's like steamy and you're jumping in a pool and, you know. No, you don't want to lose them. And it's easier to cop a feel that way, Casey. Come on. Oh, I didn't see. I thought it was a doorknob. What?

I've never had that comfortability with, you know, I mean, I don't like to see myself... Steam room stuff, gym stuff, locker room stuff, it's not my bag. Yeah, no one should. No one should be caught. Let me tell you, I was there. I've never called back. I've seen myself naked and I know I wouldn't want to inflict that on other people. Yeah, well, I hope everyone else...

took their glasses off. I looked like a coloring book walking around with all my tattoos. We were talking about your tattoos, which are awesome. Thank you. And you're rocking full sleeves. Did we get your pants off because we were asking about your legs? Yes. That was it, right? Now I remember. Because I'm covered from my chest down and I just started doing my arms because I ran out of room with my legs.

I just started doing my arms in the past like three years. Right. Which I never thought I was going to do because I always had this pipe dream of like, I'm going to be a movie star and an actor. What's off limits on your body? What is off limits to ink? Neck up, hands, and privates. Okay. Although I have my butt tattooed. Okay, I was going to ask. What's on your butt? Uh,

That's probably what we found out last time. Lips. I had my friend Jade kiss my lips. I got tattooed in San Antonio in the kitchen of a Native American family. And this guy named Drunk Bob tattooed her lips on my butt. And then I kissed her right above her.

And they put my lips and a mustache over the lips. But at least you have a story. Yeah, so now when we're together, we make them kiss. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you're eventually going to run out of space. Are you slowing down a little bit? Well, my back is...

completely empty. So I gotta get my back done. It's a full canvas. Yeah, so from the front, it looks pretty cool. From the back, it looks very odd. Ben Affleck has the worst back tattoo if you've ever seen it. It's a full back tattoo. Really? It's the phoenix. Like a bird rising from the ashes. It's not done well. The quality's not very good. It's a full back.

He probably couldn't spend money on it because he lost all the money in his divorce. It's up on the screen now. Oh, goo! Yeah. Yeah, it's... I don't know. I don't want a back tattoo only because then I can't see it. Right. You know what I mean? Like, I want to be able to see my tattoos. Well, you better have it when you go to the Wii spot with Bobby Lee. Are you kidding me? That's how he can see you without his glasses on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think one of the things...

interesting things about the tattoos on your arms is that they're not sleeves. They're all individuals. Each one is its own thing, its own entity, but they don't necessarily blend together. Is there any theme or are they just all individual tattoos? It's

The style is American traditional. Okay. So it's classic style. Yeah. Classic Sailor Jerry. Yeah. Go in, pick it off a wall style. And that's what I do. I basically go into the guys at, I get tattooed by all the same guys. Right. At R&D Tattoo in Ridgewood, Queens. And I just go, what do you feel like doing today? I'm thinking about this. And they're like, oh, maybe this, that. And I'm like, all right, yeah, I like that. Let's go. I have kind of an old tradition.

dusty, crappy-looking tattoo on my shoulder. It's of a music note. And my youngest is 18 and is hitting me with, hey, Dad, I'd like to get a matching tattoo to what you have. And this is just to get the foot in the door to start the tattoo thing. And then they're like,

we could do matching tattoos or something new. And I'm like, oh man, it really sounds cool. But then again, do it. I don't know if I want to open the door on that. Why not? Did your dad have lips on his ass as well? No, no, no. He had a butterfly on his hip. And so I have a bunch of butterflies. I love butterflies and roses and skulls.

It's a nice combination. Yeah, but I say go for it. If God didn't want us to get tattooed, why did he give us all this skin? That's the point. Do you look at your tattoos? Because I wonder, I have a small flyers tattoo on my ankle. Oh, cool. So do you, when we first started the show and we love like the Suicide Girls and the, you know, the well done ink and we give away tattoos every week.

Is it sort of like looking at a photo album? Can you recall a memory? Totally. Really? Yeah. Like I got this. It's an eagle and it says free. And I got that when I got out of an abusive relationship. Awesome. Because I am like a bird. And I got everything from my elbow down to my right arm when I wasn't on my medication. Yeah, they all bring up stories. But those...

That is a constant, I think, reinforcement and reminder. I think that's a cool thing to have. Yeah. You know, at the ready. Yeah. I don't think the tattoo itself has to have meaning. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the design itself doesn't have to have meaning, but it can tell a story. The time frame. About that kind of chapter in your life. Yeah. You know. I want to ask you about mental health versus using stuff in the act, right? Because you're really, really open on stage about everything that's going on in your life. And I think that's part of the reason why so many people have embraced you, myself included. Yeah.

Is there ever a line of stuff, you know, I can't bring that up or I need to work on this? Or does it all sort of feed into who you are as an artist and a performer? I mean, it all kind of...

feeds in, it all goes into the grinder and comes out as a delicious hot dog to be eaten by all. This isn't live, is it? To be eaten by all. There are things I don't talk about. I don't discuss a lot of

I mean, there's a lot of tragedy that I talk about, but I don't go into specific details about, you know, like certain things in my childhood. Or if I'm in a relationship, I keep that private. Yeah. Or like I don't like to exploit stories of other people. I'm always the punchline. Like I always try to make it go back to me. And I never want to make anyone feel like they're being exploited or they're being torn down. And if anything, I'm the joke. I'm the one that's getting punched. That's the best way to punch. It's also the best way to get an audience the second you.

I mean, that's why we've learned over our years from other radio shows who we've seen who've done that, who will attack callers and stuff like that. It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Bring it on yourself. That's the best way to do it. I've worked really hard at being able to say pretty outlandish things. And I've worked really hard on everyone being aware that

the joke is on me that I'm saying it and not the thing I'm saying, I'm talking about in the joke. And everybody's aware that like,

I'm making these jokes about X, Y, and Z, and we're all in it together. And the second I sniff out anyone laughing for the wrong reason or anyone laughing at a specific person, I shut it down. And that's when I drop the jokes and I turn into Mr. Covered in Tattoo Guy. Can I ask you something? Because doing the research and leading up to you, it's always great having you in and trying to get caught up on things that have been happening in your life. And I became aware of this story.

You were in a halfway house. Was it Philadelphia? In Delaware. In Delaware. Newport, Delaware, yeah. And somehow it led to a painting of you on a rock.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Can you explain this? Because I thought this was a wild story. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I just celebrated 10 years sober in April. And you guys didn't congratulate me. Congratulations. So I'm not going to drink. You're not going to drink. I'm on my way out of here. Yeah. One of my brothers, two decades plus. That's incredible. That's amazing. I was going to say, that's so sad.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Just the most boring life ever. Literally, after shows, people are like, you want to hang out? You want to go get drunk? I'm like, no, I'm watching Forensic Files alone in a hotel room, okay? I'm 40. What do you expect me to do? No, but that's a huge accomplishment. Yeah, it is. No, no, no, I appreciate that, but I have 10 years sober, but I had been trying since 2008, so don't congratulate me. You know, I had to fall down a bunch, but in 2010...

a guy in recovery helped me get into a halfway house in Wilmington, Delaware, in Newport. He saved my life. Kind of your sponsor? He wasn't my sponsor. He was just a friend. He was a sober friend who we would go to meetings together and he really stuck his neck out for me to get me into this house right away. There's like a long process. He kind of superseded that to get me in because he knew I needed help. And he was a guy that...

When I didn't have a job, he was a painter. He'd take me out on paint jobs. He was also an artist. He painted and everything. And I would go to his art shows. And I had gone to school for teaching. And I was like... This was before I started comedy. I was like, man, can't find a teaching job. I don't know. I was working on my resume. And I was going for interviews. And he was like, you're not a teacher, man. You're a comic. You should be a comic. You should try doing comedy. If anyone ever...

thinks they should do comedy, go to rehab. And if everyone there tells you that you should be a comic, you should. Because they're the funniest people ever. And when you're around a bunch of crackheads from Chester and Kensington, they're like, yo, you funny, man. I really think I'm funny. If Lance Romance from the streets of Kensington is talking that I'm funny, then I am hilarious. So this guy was like, nah, man, you're too funny to be a teacher.

you should do comedy. And so I was like, all right, I'll give it a shot. So I went to Helium February 1st, 2011. Wow. Me and my friend at the time, Tim Butterly, who's a Philly comic. Oh, yeah, I love Tim. He and I are hanging out tomorrow. He's doing some guest sets this weekend at the club. Oh, that's great. We went to Helium and did our first open mic together. And when I had my first show, this guy, Greg...

painted a picture of me on a rock, on a toilet on a rock in the middle of the water. And my joke book said, I can't say the word, but S's and giggles. And he gave that to me. It was like such a nice thing. Cut to years later. One time he drove three hours to see me in LA and I bombed so bad he yelled at me at Mel's Diner. I was like, you didn't

even try. I came all the way for you. I was like, Greg, I'm sorry. Cut two years later, I get a message in my DMs from this girl and she goes, how do you know my dad? I'm like, excuse me? She sends me this picture. She goes, my dad was Greg

He unfortunately lost his battle to addiction. I was cleaning out his house and I found this painting in his attic and you're my favorite comic. How do you know my dad? Wow. And I got to tell her the story of how her father saved my life. That's unbelievable. And I got to tell her things. Yeah, I got to tell her things that she didn't know about her dad. And it was like a very wonderfully cathartic experience that

would only exist in sobriety because the only reason I can do comedy is because I'm sober. The only reason in my life I have today is because I'm sober. What an amazing coincidence. It was incredible. You could provide some subtext to the man that he was. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, it was a gift. Yeah. And so she sent it to me and I have it in my apartment.

It's pretty wild. With all the stories and everything that you've accrued, the thing is, again, you do have this positive attitude and everything, which is, again, it's a positive thing in general. I think you do the world justice by always trying to be...

and pay that forward. I would say, have you ever thought of putting pen to paper or finger to keyboard and chronicle? I thought you were going to say, have you ever thought about putting a gun in your mouth? Every day, Steve. Can you please free us? Can you free us from this nightmare? Please, Dave. We are out of this mortal coil, Lord.

Before you do that, start typing. No, I'm more about never get the book published. It's over. I have, yeah. I'd love to. And it's something that I have been accruing a bunch of stories and putting things together. And it's just such a process. Yeah. And I'm so...

I'm so pack jam busy. Yeah. And I'm doing a travel show when I go to different towns. Someone teaches me how to do their job and then I do the job. It's called Ian Do. Odd jobs with an odd guy. Right. And so I'm doing that in every town. I was supposed to pour concrete with a guy in Philly this weekend, but he's been working at some power plant and he's been working like

16-hour days at this power plant. He's like, I just don't have time to teach you how to pour concrete. I'm like, all right. The last thing I want to do is annoy an overworked union guy. I'm like, hey, man, take your time. You know what? It's funny, though. I had the revelation and I wanted to mention this to you. And I mean this in the most wonderful way. You are very much...

David Tellish to me. Oh, wow. And the fact that you just said you were doing this because he did the Insomniac show, which was similar. I'm sure we worked with Dave. He's my best friend. We talk on the phone every night. We have very much like a father-son relationship. I can see that. I opened for him for years. Matter of fact, when I was putting the show together, I went to him and was like, look, I want to talk to you about this. It's not

insomniac but it is like the idea of going around and working with and he gave me his blessing and I sent him the first episode and he was like I love this I'm so proud of you I think this is great and he's kind of prickly about that stuff and so getting his blessing on it was great I see it more as like um

Simple life meets dirty jobs. I love it. Just don't go into your old pornography because then he'll be pissed. I know. He's got that corner. I've done the research. There's too much out there. But no, he's the best man. That's high praise. I appreciate you saying that. Can I just interrupt real quick? You're kind of messing with my baseball cards, Ian, and I'm going to need this. Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't know it was bring your kid to work day. Sorry about that. Where can we see this?

It is not out yet. I'm putting it out on my YouTube. That's how you get, you have to put it out, have numbers to show that people want to see it and then network. So like, oh, now we would like to make money off of it. So I'm banking, I was in Rochester last week and I cut somebody's hair.

Horribly. What about tattoo artists? I tattooed in Wisconsin. I got my tattoo license in Appleton, Wisconsin. It took an hour and $65 and now I'm licensed to tattoo in Wisconsin. And I tattooed a huge... You know that S...

that we would all put on like our pencil case. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I did that on a guy's leg. Whoa. Uh, yeah. And we tattooed, we had somebody come in and it was one of our interns and we had this, this, uh, intern Olympics. Oh yeah. And, and, um, we, it was the simplest of things. I was sweating bullets. So it was a star, a black star. How'd you do? I,

get okay. But I could see if you're doing something of any and there's some amazing artists we have Floating World who does the tattoos for the show and they do phenomenal work. But I think even just something which is as basic I was sweating bullets. It's so intimidating. I can't even like

sign a greeting card without messing up and then you're just screwed. I've written a wrong my P looks like an F or something and then you just can't fix it. There's no way I would be on a human being's Do you know how many times after I tattooed this guy I was like, no, no, it looks cooler that way. I thought I was saying to the haircut guy too. Who's the expert here? For some ideas, have you tried window washing yet?

No. Would you do that? Are you afraid of heights? I'd do that in a heartbeat. Because sometimes we're... It'd be amazing. Sometimes we're sitting here and we'll look out the window and there'll just be dudes hanging. Really? Yes. We're like, who's the window washers? I'll tell you, years ago, I did a gig at a bowling alley on Long Island. And me and two other comics drove out to do it. The one comic who drove us...

bombed and got drunk to make it go away and we had to sit in a park while he sobered up. What club was it? It was a bowling alley. A bowling alley. It was a bowling alley. On Long Island. Like a hood. I started out in hood rooms. I started out at the Laugh House in Philly doing hookah lounges and going up to the Bronx and Harlem. Black rooms were the only rooms that paid you. Right. So I and all my friends were...

not white. They would like bring me around. I was like the token white guy. So I'm in this hood bowling alley and this guy comes up to me and he goes, hey, listen, I work at NBC Universal. I know the president and I'm big there and I'd love to hook you up, come in, maybe get you an audition for Saturday Night Live. And I'm like, oh my God, you never know what's going to happen. Always just show up no matter what.

You never know who's in the crowd. And he gives me his card and I leave and I look at it and he's this freaking window washer at 30 Rock. Oh my God. He's a window washer at 30 Rock. I'll get you in through the window. He goes, I see the president all the time. Yeah, because you're looking through his window. What are you talking about? Oh, that's a scream. I got a text from somebody. If you're just tuning in and seeing Finance, he's going to be at Helium. Nope. No, Punchline. He had mentioned Helium earlier. He's going to be at Punchline. Yeah.

And this text says, I served in the Delaware National Guard with the fight ants. Any relation? You didn't serve in the National Guard, did you? I mean, look, I was a blackout drunk for a very long time. Is it possible? You had a career in the National Guard and knew nothing about it. Things were a little iffy from like 2005 to then. Where did I get this gun? So no, I guess. No, no, no. I'm the last fight ant of my lineage. And I don't

think I'm going to have kids. And I like... I don't like saying like, oh, I'm...

I'm not going to have kids. I like saying, like, my bloodline dies with me. You know? It's very noble. Yeah. It's an interesting thing that you mention that because I don't have kids. And for a time, it looked like, you know, that the Morrison name, at least from our side of the family, was going to not go on because there were girls. But my older brother has a son. And so... And it's something that you think...

does that, does that matter? And then you start to think, I think it kind of does a little bit. I found myself like, wow, I,

You know, I'd like a name to go on. I'm the last of my family to carry on the name. And I did. I had three kids. But we're looking at the hand that we've been dealt here. And I don't think that... I think the name is dead. It's dead. My oldest is on the autism spectrum. He has no interest in women at all. My middle son is gay. You're right. My third is trans. And so we're like...

I think we're done with the name now. God was sending you a message. Stop it. Stop it now. We got a full house. You're like me. Your name dies with you, you know? As my blood falls into the soil, so does my name. I thought about it for a little while, but it doesn't really... No. Yeah. I mean, I was glad when my older brother had this on. I'm like, oh, I don't know. Honestly, my name will live on because I...

I don't talk about this a lot. I do have two sons and they're cats. My name will live on with them. In the feline world, it will be carried on. What are the cats' names? Glenn and what? Glenn Danzig and Samson from the Regina Spector song. And I have their names tattooed on my arm. Also, I just got a message from our boss who said, for your job thing, if you want to be a DJ, he's got a spot for you.

Oh my God. Dude, that'd be amazing. Are you kidding me? And then I'll wash the windows. And you should also do it with Jackie Bam Bam. Oh my God, that'd be perfect. Here's what you need to do. You're a massive Metallica fan. They're going to be here. Try to get back. Talk to the program. I'm playing Atlanta Helium.

I should cancel the gig, right? To be a roadie for Metallica? Let's go. Are you kidding me? Yeah. Who cares? I looked at my numbers. They're not that great. I want to miss me. How is Metallica it? Is it number one for you? Oh, yeah. My top three are Metallica, Nirvana, and The Misfits.

Wow.

And man, they were, I got ride the lightning. I think I was in like third grade. And that was it. And that was it. Yeah. That was it. And then a kid down the street that was on my baseball team, he and I, he had like a very religious household. So he and I would go to his house and we'd listen to like Metallica and like Danzig and Slayer just on the cranked one volume on his little stereo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Metal forever. Hail Satan, but not too loud. Yeah.

Do you want to hear a Danzig song that we just uncovered last week? Yeah, play it. This is a lot of fun. Okay. Tell your children not to walk my way. It fits wonderfully. That's perfect. Walk with me, walk the same way. Hang on. Can you keep them in the dark?

I mean, tell me you wouldn't dance your ass off. I just was. I just was. I can't help it. I met him at the Cherry Hill Tower Records when he was signing albums for Black Acid Devil. Was he dark and brooding? Or was he... For Seventh House or whatever. He was so nice. No kidding. He was incredible. I brought my guitar to get him to sign the...

he taught me how to play my first bar chord. Wow. And he's like, this is what you got to do if you want to play this type of music. And he taught me right there on the spot. Oh, that's awesome. Had me hang out and was so kind and nice to me. And then he...

offered us tickets more so to my mom and then asked her to look at the tour bus and then she took me out of the Tower Records and I was like what are you talking about? Mom, we have to go on the tour bus. She's like you weren't invited and we're leaving. It could have been my stepdad. Is your mom a looker?

I mean, now, no. She's deaf and I call her whistles because her hearing aid always goes off. But back in the day, she was all right. Yeah, wow. Your mom always got brought on the tour bus. I know. Mother. It was about my mom. Yeah.

Wow. That's hilarious. Wow. That is a hell of a story. Oh, my God. Well, listen, Ian, we could spend all morning with you, but we got to take a break. And I want to mention the shows because Ian's going to be at Punchline tonight and tomorrow, the 7 o'clock and 9.15 shows. And you can get the tickets at punchlinephilly.com. It is always great.

to have you stop by here. Please come and see us again soon. You guys are the best. I've been listening since Y100. After on the anniversary of MMR, I couldn't be happier. It's always such a trip when I get to come in and hang with you guys because I listen to you my whole growing up. So this is great, man. Thank you. All right, give it up for Ian Fine. Yeah!

Dance the night away. Playing that song now. We've got all kinds of songs we can play for Ian when he comes in. All right, we are going to take a break. We're going to come back in a moment. Stephen Ho is in the Acme Lounge. He's great. And we'll get him in here in just a moment. Stay with us. Be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you, Nick. So our next guest, his shows are selling out. So you better get your tickets now. He's going to be at Helium Comedy Club tonight and tomorrow. And only the late shows have tickets available, 10 p.m. So that's a good sign that this guy is one that you want to go see. Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in our studio, please welcome Mr. Steve Hull. Hey there.

Hey, Steven, how you doing? I'm good, man. How are you guys? Wonderful. Thanks for coming in. Yeah, thank you for having me. You got it. You had some complimentary things to say about our setup here, so we appreciate that. Yeah, one of the best setups I've ever seen for radio. We'll take that. Yeah. Nice. Where are you from? I grew up in the Bay Area, San Jose, about 30 miles south of San Francisco. Okay. Moved to Los Angeles in 2019. Yeah. Right before the big old pandemic. Lovely. You have a story that we've heard before.

A couple of times. So the pandemic strikes, you have your TikTok videos, which are very well known for. And I didn't put two and two together when your name came up when we were having you on the show. And then I said, oh, that guy. And explain what your TikTok videos are because they're very funny and very well done, but they took off for you. Yeah, so I worked in the ER for a very long time. And when the pandemic happened, I started making videos about what was going on.

and what was happening in the hospitals. And I had a series called Tips from the ER. Yeah. That kind of took off. And, you know, and then we also, yeah, we also did some memes, some skits, all that stuff that was happening. Was this before comedy, before you were doing any sets of comedy? Yeah. Okay. It was all before comedy. Okay. Wow. So you're doing this just kind of for fun. And then it starts to take off. How quickly did it start to catch?

So fast. I think I hit 8-9 million within a year. This is basically the time of the gold rush of TikTok. In social media, people are just looking for things to do and careers are made. The difference is

Did you have any theater training before this? I know you took stand-up lessons, right? I did. So I took a lot of theater classes, did some theater in the Bay Area. Right. Moved down to L.A. And then at the end of 2019 in November...

I took a stand-up comedy class at Second City in LA. So you went to a good one. Yeah, I went to a pretty good one. A pretty damn good one. And I think I had like maybe 10, 15, I was trying to get to 15 minutes by the end of 2019. And then 2020 happened and the pandemic happened. So these stories that you accumulated and things that you passed along in these videos, did that happen? Did that start day one in the ER? Because I would imagine you just see so much stuff.

So did these strange things, these observations that you made in the ER, did it start day one when you began that job? Like, did you immediately start to see stuff that was like, whoa, this is wild? Yeah. I mean, I was working in the ER six years before I moved to LA. So I had a lot of stories built up too. Ambulance as well, right? You're driving ambulance. I did. But mostly the ER stuff. So the question, and here's, it's funny because-

We've seen in the course of the years that have passed, people who are social media stars get up on stage and can't do it. But you leave a big wake.

of comedians who are like, that son of a bitch is good. And he's good quicker than you should have been and like you really took to it. That's got to be cool for you, knowing that, that you're bringing the material. Was that something that you were concerned about? Would it port over to the stage? Yes. Oh my God, absolutely. When I started, again, when I started to go on stage, we're selling out these areas, these clubs because I had millions of followers.

But then I was like, okay, does he have the time to go up there? And everyone's like, oh, just bring a bunch of comedians on, do 10, 15 minutes and just build from there. But, you know, you fill up a 300 seat venue. What the heck? Don't do that again, Steven. What the, you know, what the hell? Gosh darn it. Sorry, I totally forgot. No, no problem. So what hospital in LA were you working?

I was at UCLA. Okay, because I'm interested. I'm currently watching The Pit on Max. Are you watching that at all? Yes, I love that show. Because it just seems like, and this is set in an emergency room at a Pittsburgh hospital, and every single episode there's so much going on.

Is that how an ER in an urban area, in a city area is? So I will say that show is very accurate for relationships between everybody and the things that happen. But every episode they have, one hour,

That doesn't always all happen. It's like complete chaos. There's too much. There's too much happening. I remember there was like a thoracotomy, and then there was where you crack the chest and beat the heart, and there was a tracheotomy. That would never happen within the same day. Okay. Never. And obviously they're condensing it for dramatic purposes. Now, I did a lot of detail on a lot of the stuff you encountered, and you've seen some stuff. Mm-hmm.

And so we all have questions. And I think this is the fascination with the TikTok stuff in the beginning. It's almost like somebody on the inside telling us what we're seeing, but you do it in a very funny way. So...

I'm going to ask this right off the bat. I assume the big day ER where it's like where Christmas is to present purchasing, 4th of July has got to be the bane of an ER doctor's. Right. So what my question is, when someone blows off part of their hand or blows off their hand,

Are you, I mean, do they even realize the ramifications of what has happened? I mean, is there, what happens when you see that? Have you seen hands completely blown off? Yes. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I mean, I don't know if they, most of the time they're drunk. They're drunk. Yeah. Yeah. Because, you know, it's 4th of July, they're drinking. They're like, oh, we'll mess around with some fireworks. Most of the time they're drunk. Sometimes they're not and it's really sad. But yeah, they come in, they're already dazed because we give them a ton of pain meds.

Because they come in by ambulance and the ambulance has already given them a ton of pain meds. They get there, we give them a ton of pain meds. So they might not even be aware. And then I assume, who is the one who has to say, I mean, I assume if they can do surgery, they take them up. But otherwise, what happens if the hand is gone and that's it? They just bandage you up and go, you're now handless. No matter what, you're probably going to surgery and they're going to fix you up there. They're going to tie up whatever arteries and veins and try to get it together. All right, so blood and guts.

Boogers, puke, all of it. None of it bothers you? You good with all of it? All of it except there was only one time in the ER where my stomach just churned. Like the blood, the guts, the bones, seeing all that stuff didn't matter. Brain matter didn't matter. One time a homeless guy comes in with maggots on his leg. Oh, God. Yeah, see, exactly. Let me ask you something here. So he comes, he's got maggots on his leg. I want you to complete that. I've heard this recently was mentioned before.

that in cases where there are maggots on decaying flesh, they're actually serving a purpose. Is that right? Is that correct? That is correct, yeah. So this guy came in. He had a bag on his leg. I took the bag off. Maggots fall everywhere. Oh, my God. I...

I feel it. I feel my stomach just churn. You can't lose it, right? I can't do this. But what ended up happening with him was we can't just wipe the maggots off because they are serving a purpose for the leg. They're keeping it clean. And if we take it all off, his leg now becomes susceptible to infections very easily. So we have to wait for the right people to come down, take him up, and as they're cleaning it off, they have to bandage it up and get it fixed and nicely packaged properly.

Very fast. Or it becomes infected immediately. Right. So you're leaving the maggots on because it is serving that purpose. I assume the smell has to be staggering. I didn't know. Yes. Thank you for bringing that back. Is there any comedy born out of a situation like that? Can you come up with a joke? No.

I mean, honestly, like, because you use what you do or what you did for as a source of comedy. That one, I don't know if you can milk anything out of it. Yeah, I tried. But like, it just it just gives it just makes the audience more uncomfortable than it is funny. But, you know, we try. Well, you can't you can't make someone who's already and then you've mentioned this and you've talked about this. You can't you're not relaying. You're not going to want to.

beat up people who've gone through the worst moments of their lives. But everyone is curious. The same way we watch crime dramas and serial killer specials and stuff like that. It's like, it's part of the world. And everyone is sat in an ER for something at some point. And you have insight that not a lot of people have. Yeah. And I think that's what really blew me up.

I was able to turn these really sometimes sad and very horrifying stories into something that was a little bit more fun, a little bit more easily digestible. Yes, considering maggots. When you were driving the ambulance, you weren't really 911-like.

style stuff you're doing more patient transfers and things of that nature when i started it was what they call uh bls basic life support right a lot of transferring home maybe patients going to dialysis or home from the hospitals or to the hospitals for the doctor's appointments so i'm going to ask you something here that i've suspected for a long time we're on an ambulance route uh at when you go into a quiet neighborhood at two o'clock in the morning

Do you ever just say, I'm going to wake these people up? Is that something that's kind of a bit of titillation for an ambulance? You're shaking your head no. No. You never did it once? No. Not for the hell of it. This neighborhood's too quiet. No. I mean, we would mess around with the lights and sirens, but we would try to definitely find a place where it was a little bit more quiet, a little bit more industrial, like two in the morning. We would never wake up a neighborhood. All right. So that's so messed up. Because I think I would. All right.

uh there's a show uh steven i think it's called like uh strange stories of the er it's like on tlc or have you ever seen those or they do reenactments yes i've seen a lot of that one is loaded with stuff i'll bet you've seen uh just bizarre encounters with because you'll get people that that have come in uh may not necessarily have a weird thing uh you know outrageous anomaly that's going on but

they're just weird people that end up in the ER as well, right? Yes. Yes. Very weird people. And you know what's funny? We get a lot of the stories from the audience members these days because I put a QR code on my show and they'll submit some stories. They'll send you stuff, yeah. They'll submit stories. And it's all the weird people with like pica who eat inanimate objects. Eat their cushions. Yeah, just eat objects with no nutritional value, right? Like plastics and they'll stick...

anything they could find in every hole in their body. All right, I'm going to jump here because Preston does, we do a segment called Bizarre File and there have been a couple things. A rash of people committing crimes just stripping naked and I'm assuming that's got to be drug related, that people just feel like, you know, it seems they're coming off a lot, the clothes are coming off a lot and then about the stuff in orifices,

And people trying to claim they didn't know that... They sat on it. What was the most bizarre thing? I'm going to go for the home run. What's the most bizarre thing you found in someone's ass that they professed to not knowing how it got in there? You know, we once found...

I don't even know if I can say this on the radio with you guys. Paraphrase it somehow or another. It was a very phallic object. A dildo? It was a dildo. It was a dildo shape, but it was a kid who made it out of candle wax because he didn't know how to buy one, but he wanted to put something up there.

Yeah, it's homemade. Homemade. Always the best. He was taking homemade candle wax and he was making this dildo and stuck it up there, got it lost. Mom had to bring him in. Oh my God. And doctor was like, listen...

He's not going to stop doing this. You have to buy him a real dildo. It's honestly not bad advice. If you're going to do that, the candle wax approach is probably not the best way to do it. It's brittle. It's going to fall apart. It's going to melt. Play-Doh. It's crazy what people...

Listen, whatever your deal is in the privacy of your own home, if it's you, but there's that certain point where this kid had to say, Mom, I've made a candle wax dildo, and I need some medical... And then the doctor has to come out and say, well, there's maybe a better way to do this. But I mean, you also probably get a lot of people who are...

who are lying, or lying about, you know, they're there. Yeah. Right? I mean, in the height of why they're brought in with a wound or whatever, because it is, we understand the law to be someone comes in with a stab wound or a gun thing or anything that looks like it was

born out of violence, you have to report that to the police, correct? Yes. Yeah. You know, if you suspect there's been some sort of violence, domestic dispute or anything like that, yeah, of course. So after these videos took off and you decide to make a career out of it, did you leave that world in the medical field? Oh, so fast. Yeah. So happy to get out of that. What were you the happiest about leaving behind? What was the most...

What was the most repugnant part of the job that you were so glad immediately to get rid of? Oh, man. The work was fine. It was just a day job. I just didn't want to be there. The 9 to 5, it's like, get me out of here. Was it 9 to 5 or was it 12-hour shifts? It was 12-hour shifts. That's a lot. It's hard. It's tough. It varies, too. Sometimes you're 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. because I was new in L.A., so they put me anywhere they wanted. Sometimes it was overnight. Sometimes it was during the day.

Yeah, 12 hours. Did anybody ever hit on you? Did you ever get people to try to get with you? Because you get some people that are inebriated and feel a little weird and they're out of their element and maybe start feeling a little frisky. Turned out by the scrubs? Dude, only the grandmas. Only the grandmas. Only the grandmas.

Only the drunk grandmas. You were saying that women, you got a lot of women at your shows that are, they think you're adorable. Yeah. They sure do. Duh. Yeah, man. The meet and greet lines get a little touchy-feely. So you're single?

Uh, no. Married or just with someone? Not married. Okay. Long-term relationship? It's new. Oh, okay. All right, good for you. Does it count in Philadelphia? Yes, it does. It does, baby. How long were you balancing, because obviously you get into comedy and you got to keep two things going, how long were you balancing...

the ER with the stand-up. You know, I didn't start the stand-up when I was working in the ER. Right out of the TikTok into the stand-up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I left the ER when the social media videos were happening. And then I think a year after I left

The ER was when I actually started doing stand-up comedy. I took the class while I was in. That's crazy. While I was working at the ER. But the touring thing never started until after the ER. Do you think that TikTok is, because everything at some point becomes a little predictable. And like TikTok, it's a huge open playground in social medias. But now I think people are used to certain things. And to break away now...

harder. You mean like to break away, like to blow up? Yeah. I was just thinking about this this morning too. If you consume too much social media, you're never going to have an original thought. Because all the thoughts are now coming from TikTok and all the inspiration is now coming from someone else's ideas. But the other thing too is now TikTok, there's so many people creating now.

that it's very hard to actually come up with something original too, right? So it's all there. You're exactly right. That's when I kind of bailed on, I don't engage in social media anymore. I started seeing people that were presenting things. I was like, oh, I was going to do that. Somebody else did it. Now I'm not going to do it. You know what I mean? Yeah, and sometimes it's just the thought that you have, like, oh, this would be a great idea if I did this. And you see it and like, oh, man, this person did it, and it's really good. Damn.

I know. From a stand-up's point of view, is that something that you need to stay away from, too, for fear of influencing your material? You don't want any... Oh, my God. Yeah.

You know, sometimes it has happened. Sometimes it has happened where I have a story that something happened at a restaurant. I'm like, oh, this would be really great to try in front of an audience. And you see someone do it, make it into a meme or a skit online, and you're like, god damn it. Yeah, but can't you reach a point where you just kind of have to trust yourself? And all comedy is derivative anyway, right? So there's...

originality is all but non-existent at this point there are eight billion people on the planet so somebody is doing something similar to you or the same as you but you're going to put your spin the steven spin on it that nobody else can do so you have to sort of trust that at least it's mine well you have to yeah i mean you have no choice right you have to and and the best thing you could do for yourself is use every little detail that happened to you right because that's what's going to set you personalize it yes yeah yeah

So you're from the Bay Area. Have you spent much time out east, out this way? Have you ever been to Philadelphia? This is my second time coming to Philadelphia, but I was only here for a one-nighter about a year and a half ago. So I really got to see some stuff in Philadelphia this time. Are you first-generation Vietnamese? Yes. Okay. I want to bring this up to you. I saw one of those international house...

um hunter shows and they were doing some homes in vietnam and i'm looking at them oh man it's freaking beautiful some of the areas there yeah yeah yeah especially now yeah and i'm like i didn't realize you know i'm coming from full metal jacket time i'm like it's like yeah a couple it's a couple decades have passed but it's like have you been or any you know uh yeah and what uh

Am I correct in assuming it's a lovely place now? Oh, my God. Yes, everybody loves Vietnam. It's become such a tourist trap. Not tourist trap, but it's a tourist area. The only thing I know visually of Vietnam is my wife has an exercise bike, and it's one of those. It's not a Peloton, but it's another brand. But no, no, it's not made in Vietnam. It's made in Vietnam. But you can take a bike tour.

uh, through Saigon and, and, and ride through there. And it was cool, you know, cause you can pick these different, you know, uh, exotic locations you've never been to and take a virtual bike ride through it. And so I did that. And one of the things that seemed very prevalent were, uh, the little scooters and motorcycles all over the place. Yeah. Little Vespas. Yeah. They're like, Oh,

over the place. Yeah. Now, when you're there or when you have been there, did you get around that way? Yes. Oh, yeah. That's like the main way of, you know, transportation. Okay. It looks scary. It's so scary. Okay. If you're not used to it, because they are. They're used to being really close to each other on those things. And when you're there for the first time, it's like, dude, we're all going to die. And like the lines on the road and all that stuff, pfft.

There's no lines. Yeah, no, there's, there's holes, there's potholes, there's rocks. And you go. And you were a, uh, an interpreter at some point. I was, where are you guys finding this information? Yeah. Um, what, in, in what capacity? Uh, like, was this at the hospitals you worked at? So it was my, it was my first experience in the ER. I was, uh,

my friend recommended to me, "Oh, you should do this program."

And you can sign up. And I was a medical interpreter in the ER. That's how I started in the ER. It was a volunteer job. Oh, okay. Wow. Yeah, it was a volunteer job. And I did that for like a year. And I was so bad. Really? Yeah, I was not good. You were fluent? Well, my Vietnamese was decent. But when I got there, it was so technical. Oh, right. So they wanted me to say all these words. I remember there was one time this little old lady came in.

And she was so happy to see me. She's like, oh my God, you speak Vietnamese. Everything's going to be great. I'm like, yeah, sure. Doctor asked what's going on. And patients in the ER, they love, not they love, but they tend to say a lot of things that are a little unnecessary. They start from the way beginning. They're like, oh, when I was born in 1965, that's when I first had this headache. And so she goes on and on about this story for a minute. And the doctor's waiting for me to say what she says. And she goes on, and I'm like,

I think she has a headache. All right.

He's like, that's it? That's all you need to know. If you weren't that good, how many patients do you think you lost because you misinterpreted them? No, I would never let it get to that. That job did not last long for me. Wow. Well, this one looks like it's holding. And you're doing great. You've got how many, like 14 million TikTok followers? Somewhere in that neighborhood. Yeah, we're around 11 million on TikTok. Wow.

Well, this stuff is really funny. I mean, your stuff's really great. 1.2 million on Instagram. So obviously you're doing great and your shows are selling out. So we want to remind everybody that Stephen Ho is at Helium Comedy Club tonight and tomorrow. Only the 10 o'clock shows. The other ones are sold out. So you can go to heliumcomedy.com and go check out the man from Tips from the ER live as he is in town. Cool, man. Hey, listen. Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming by. Yeah, thank you. And continue success and have a great time in Philly. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much for having me. All right, Stephen Ho, guys. Yeah!

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Yeah, Matt. Just snarled, right? Did you guys buy that helicopter yet that you were talking about? Not yet, but it's about time to do it. So that's westbound and eastbound. Yeah, Schuylkill's a mess in all directions. Vine Street Expressway's closed because of this tractor-trailer issue on the Schuylkill westbound. So yeah, it's bad out there. You know, I never asked you to worry about that.

Prisoners. What about the train line right here, the Ballard train line? Doesn't that go straight to... Yeah, you know what, though? It doesn't run that as often as some of the other train lines, which is annoying. But, I mean, that's an option. And right now, it's a better option than driving. We have a train line here? Yeah, Ballard. Where? Right next to Taco Bell. God, I had no idea. Marissa, you were going to say something? You're better off going to Narberth case. Oh, okay. And taking that one. There's a Narberth train station, too. I don't know my train stations. I just don't know. Or just go out and...

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Brought to you by Coors Banquet. You can join the Preston and Steve show live from Kenan's in North Wildwood. It is Friday, May 23rd, one week from today. It's the official opening of the Jersey Shore from Coors Banquet. Start your summer and you can start your legacy. Here's a weird little story. Three Montana Army National Guard members face criminal trespassing charges from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

After a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that they were flying in allegedly landed on private property in the Crazy Mountain foothills. And while on the ground, the helicopter crew allegedly took elk antlers from the private ranch land. You're in the helicopter. All right. Helicopter first. You're in that helicopter. Rantlers. Rantlers. Thank you. You're in that helicopter. Rantlers. You're in that helicopter. Rantlers. You're in that helicopter. Rantlers.

We got it. Okay. So... We're losing. Sorry. Charges of criminal trespass to property were filed against the three defendants. These are the helicopter pilots? Yeah. You're in that helicopter. We're losing. The three guardsmen are Michael Bray, Perry Woodland, and Denny Draper, and they are accused of entering...

posted private property for the purchase of elk antler retrieval. That's a tongue twister. The incident raises questions about military accountability and private property rights. The defendants are also ordered to appear in court on May 28th. Neighboring ranchers David and Sandy Holman noticed a conspicuous black helicopter

of the Montana Army National Guard landing in their vicinity. So this is according to rancher Linda McMullen. She said, they called me pretty alarmed, referencing the incident. And they said, do you know where that there's an army helicopter on your land picking up elk antlers? It is tough enough to pull a profit, said McMullen, who estimated desirable early brown elk antlers shoddy.

sheds can be worth thousands of dollars. Oh, wow. And they were just taking them. Yeah. So she said, I started making calls. I called the game warden to hold these people accountable for what they had done. McMullen, the landowner, confirmed a conservation with a high-level National Guard official had taken place. You were in that helicopter?

A lieutenant colonel said they'd meet in person and bring back the antlers. They used the excuse that these are good guys, that I don't want to ruin their careers. And they should have thought of that before they thought of doing this. And I think people need to know that this is happening. I just automatically assume that if you were in a helicopter and landed anywhere, you could take what was there. Whatever's there. Yeah. I mean, you know. It's kind of the rule that I always. It's a free country, right? Yeah.

These guys are lemon-headed, though. Yeah, lemon-headed. You're in that helicopter, and you're nothing but a chameleon, lemon-headed, coward, terrorist, and I'm after you, buddy. And why a chameleon? Yeah. He found that the most reprehensible of the lizards.

If you go back and you watch the video of that guy, he's easy to find on YouTube. It's a viral video. There's a part where he's reenacting the helicopter flying over his house. Oh, really? And he's holding onto the podium, and he starts shaking, and he's swinging his head around. He's like, and this thing came in, it's flying over, and it starts shaking, and it's shaking, and it's shaking. I mean, he's just unhinged.

You owe it to yourself to go watch that. He's been waiting for his moment. All right. An investigation is underway after a Pennsylvania school district said a kindergarten student gave Jell-O shots to classmates. The Greater Johnstown School District said a kindergarten student at the elementary school gave out alcohol in the form of small Jell-O cups to three other students. Does Sammy Vile have a younger brother? Ah.

The superintendent said once staff learned about the situation, immediate action was taken. The students were taken to the nurse's office for evaluation and out of an abundance of caution, EMS was called and the fire department was there. Oh, no. And the local hospital. Parents were notified and met first responders at the hospital. It's unclear how the student got the alcoholic Jell-O cups, but the district says it's looking into it and cooperating with authorities. Yes!

The superintendent said the district is committed to transparency, though it is limited in what it can share because of student privacy laws. The district called it an isolated incident, and they thanked staff and administration, school nurses, and school police officers for their, quote, swift response to the situation.

In Charlotte, North Carolina, one man takes biscuit quality pretty damn seriously. Guy named Rodney Wood, the 22-year-old manager at a Popeye's restaurant, has been arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder. A witness to the altercation told police that it all stemmed from Wood's assertion that another employee overcooked and burnt biscuits.

The biscuits. Biscuits. Reportedly, one of the two workers challenged the other and they took it outside. Once outside, Wood allegedly whipped out a pistol and fired twice, hitting the co-worker in the chest and groin. Over biscuits. At point blank range.

The victim is also said to be a manager and was in critical condition at the last report. Once apprehended, Wood reportedly told police that he had been, quote, punched in the face three times. And that he fired two warning shots that weren't intended to kill. Oh, you only hit him in the nuts and heart. Yeah. Wow. You didn't kill him. All right. And then one final story. A man was then fighting for his life after a vicious attack by a rabid bobcat in southeast Georgia. What?

Hunter Hudson, that's the guy's name, said that he was out camping last week when the bobcat struck without warning. He said it was on me or him. Or no, he said it was me or him. It was me or him. He said this twice. And I got two little boys, 12 and 5, and daddy's coming home. Hudson said that he was enjoying a quiet campfire when a sound in the dark shattered the night. He said, I heard a crazy noise, you know, and never heard before. Who's that?

Hudson said the bobcat then struck without warning. A video shot by a friend captured the chaos the moments after. He said, I just walked out of my camper and got attacked by a bobcat. I wasn't looking for the bobcat. The bobcat found me and came out and jumped on my shoulder. Hudson said his gun was out of reach and he had to rely on pure instinct to survive. He said I reached around and grabbed him, pulled him as hard as I could back out in front of me. I took my thumbs and put it right in his right there.

Okay. And I made it so he couldn't breathe. I quickly built a gun out of twigs. That's exactly what he said. I put it right in his right there. Badly hurt. Hudson knew that he had to act fast. He said, I had blood running off the end of my fingertips. Yeah, he was sliced up. I had to call the ambulance and get them to help me clot it.

And he said, and up here and on my back wouldn't stop bleeding. However, the danger wasn't over just then. The bobcat tested positive for rabies. Oh, man. So you had to get the whole array of shots. He said, I got about... Shots, shots. Yeah. He said, I got about 40 shots.

Shot, shot, shot, shot, shot. At about half an inch to an inch needles. He said it was a lot and almost passed out twice. Wow. Yeah. Health officials said rabies can make animals unpredictable and deadly. As Hudson recovered and underwent treatment for rabies, he said that he is just grateful to be alive. He said, I've seen a lot. You know what I mean?

I saw a gorilla once. But for me, this one is up one of the craziest. I don't know, man. You can't make this up. Experts said not to take it. The way I see it, you can be over here or over there.

I got him right in his right there. He said, experts say to not take any chances if wildlife is behaving unusually and authorities should be immediately contacted. My grandbop said, bobcat once, bobcat twice. That is what it is. All right, and there you go. That is your Bizarre File this morning.

We will take another break. We'll get back and give something away with our lesson question. We've also got Trash and Music News coming up, so you stay where you are. R.com

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WMMR.com and it's always available like right now on your computer or phone or whatever. And we even made a catchy little jingle so you remember it. Okay, I didn't know Casey had hit the button so I was out of the studio but

It's okay. 10-22. The president even said I hit it. I heard the song hadn't ended yet. No, he said I want you to hit this. Hit this, baby. I'm not ready for lessons. No, you're not. And it's wrong to force you. You have to want it as much as he wants it. And I can't find the music news. Where are those pictures I was supposed to see? What color paper clip? I'll look for it. It's a red paper clip. A red felt pen. It won't be over there. Black man.

Black magic marker! Where's that f***ing sound coming from? Maybe I didn't even do music. There's nothing on here! Maybe I didn't even do music yesterday. You hadn't? Really? Well... What the f***?

You had music news in Connoisseur with that chili pepper. That was separate. I got that a couple of days ago. Is it possible in all the maelstrom of all the stuff going on that music news eluded you? Yeah, maybe we're done doing music news now. Maybe that was yesterday was the last music news over here. We would have done a celebration. No, I know what it is. I didn't even prepare it.

I don't even have it ready to go. I'll figure it out here in a second. Well, I'll talk extra slow during the trash. You don't need to. There's really not much to pass along now that I'm going to... This just said nothing. Yeah. It could be that. Yeah. Barn door, Emmer.

Barn door isn't officially until after Keenan's is over. That's true. I'll really hit the barn door. Breaking news. Nothing. Is there a mini barn door on Fridays? Because sometimes I feel that way. Mini barn door. Yeah. There's a little bitty, itty bitty barn door. Little bitty, tiny bitty barn door. Sounds like a song. Little bitty, tiny bitty barn door. Little bitty, tiny bitty barn door. Little bitty, tiny bitty barn door.

I like that we clapped anyway. We have to. All right. Now we can do the lesson question. How about that? All right. And we are going to give away a $50 Rita's gift card. If you can answer this question correctly, Rocky is both a licker and a biter, but who's a nibbler? If you know the answer to this, it was around 730 this morning.

You need to call 610-660-9333. 610-660-9333. Our phone lines work now. We can actually take phone calls. How good to give a phone number. It's great to answer the question. So Rocky is both a licker and a biter. But who's a nibbler? If you heard me, no call now. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

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Archaeologists believe this could finally be the discovery of the legendary Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend burial grounds. Oh my God. Hulk Hogan is apparently on the mend and doing well after undergoing neck surgery. What many don't realize is that for years...

If Hogan had have removed his do-rag, his head would have fallen off. Oh, my God. And finally, former teen mom and current OnlyFans porn star Farrah Abraham seen wearing a barely-there bikini in the pool at the Virgin Hotel Las Vegas. Out of health concerns, once Abraham left the pool, it was immediately filled in with cement. That's your Hollywood clip.

All righty. We shall see if we can find somebody who knows the answer to today's lesson question, which is as follows. Rocky is both a licker and a biter, but who is a nibbler? And we are going to go to Tyler and see if we can get an answer. Tyler, good morning. I miss you, Kathy. That was sweet. Likewise. Tyler, who is the nibbler, please? Nick. Yeah, Nicky.

You got it. Hang on, bud. We're going to get your info. And we, of course, are going to set you up with a $50 Rita's gift card. New Cola Ice is now at Rita's. And you can try the Twisted Cola Blender with Cocoa Lime Cream. Get to Rita's quick because cola treats are here for just a limited time only. Now, Preston and Steve's Music View on 93.3 WMMR. Yeah! Who? Who?

Brought to you by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. You can join Nick McElwain and Team Luke at the LLS Big Climb Filling on Saturday, May 31st. Subaru Park. To register or donate, go to PrestonAndSteve.com. Guys, remember, remind me there's a butt plug I need to do when we're done with this. It's for Brent Forrest. Oh, yes. I'm going to make sure that gets out there. All right. So, I do have a couple of things that are interesting that I just, that I worked all morning on. Okay.

You've been slaving. I tell you. So much goes behind the scenes. A criminal investigation has been opened regarding the sexual assault allegations from four former employees against Smokey Robinson. We talked about this a couple days ago. Yeah, this was kind of jarring when we saw this. He faces claims of sexual battery assault, false imprisonment, or...

Also, gender violence and creating a hostile work environment. The four women, all Jane Doe's, are seeking no less than $50 million in a lawsuit against the artist. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department Special Victims Bureau is actively investigating criminal allegations involving William Robinson, a.k.a. Smokey Robinson. The investigation is in the early stages. The County Sheriff's Department said...

We have no further comment at this time. Robinson's attorney responded to the news of an investigation, sharing, we welcome that investigation. We feel confident that a determination will be made that Mr. Robinson did nothing wrong. So we will see. So I think we pointed out when these allegations originally surfaced, again, we don't know. We'll see what happens in court. But that they seem to have all occurred at one particular time.

like fairly recently, right? Yeah, like 2016, 17, something like that. There's one that happened over a course of years, but no other, nothing that goes back to the 1970s or anything like that. So we'll see. All right, the rock band I Prevail announced yesterday that they are parting ways with their co-vocalist Brian Berkheiser.

The band shared a statement saying that it was a tough choice, but they believe that it's the right one and that it's a mutual decision. They thank Brian for the amazing 10 years they spent together, wish him well in his future plans. Brian also posted a message saying that he was grateful for his time with the band and excited for what's next. He'll be dying a car wreck. The band didn't say why the split, but promised fans that I Prevail will keep making music. I'm not that familiar with the band. I don't know. Yeah.

But I have heard the name. I've heard those words. All right. And then, finally, the American Music Awards have announced who's set to perform during the big show. Benson Boone, Rene Rapp, Lainey Wilson, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, and Gloria Estefan are all set to take the stage. Rock very well represented. They join Jennifer Lopez, who will be both hosting the event and performing. Boone will perform an unreleased track from his upcoming album, American Heart.

Rap will also show off music from her upcoming studio album, and Shelton will perform music from his new album for recreational use only. Gwen Stefani will perform a medley of tracks, and Goya Stefan will honor, quote, five decades of her career in music. She's honoring her own career. Yeah, sometimes I guess they're honoring her and they're having her perform. I'm pretty incredible. And Wilson has not confirmed that she will perform at this time. The AMAs kick off May 26. Wilson!

Eastern on CBS and on Paramount+. All right. There you go. How about that music? Good stuff. How about that? All righty. Let's take one last break. That means we will wrap up our program when we return. So make sure that you stay close. You just might win a prize. And we'll be back in a second.

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And I'm all right. You heard 30 seconds? I did hear 30, but... Did you hear two after I said three? No, I just heard 30. I was here zoning out in case it's like 30 seconds left. I thought he meant three seconds left or said three and then two. I said three, but it sounded very 30-ish, which is why I followed up by saying two. Gotcha. All right. Well, anyhow...

1040 as we are coming to the end of the program. In fact, it is the end of the program. It is. And today was a lot of fun. We had Ian Fidance on the show. Great guy. Who is awesome. He is local. Not anymore, but he's from the area. And he's just a lot of fun. And like we said right when he got here, his energy is...

is just fantastic. So he is going to be at Punchline tonight and tomorrow. Tickets at punchlinephilly.com. And then we met a new friend, Stephen Ho. And Stephen Ho is at Helium Comedy Club tonight. Great guy. Only the late shows have tickets available. 10 p.m. You go to heliumcomedy.com. And we had a guest appearance this morning. Bill Weston came by. The man about town. He visited us. It was on this day,

20 years ago that we had our first show. Wow. WMMR. Yep. I didn't know that. Yep. Happy New Year. May 16th and it was 2005 and it was our very, very first show.

And Bill came by to commemorate that. And he brought us some food, which was really cool. I remember that show. Yeah. You ended right before 10. For the last time ever. The one and only time. But it was nice. And you kept over apologizing. Of course, I was ever so slightly. And you kept apologizing. I'm sorry, we ran a little late. It's okay.

It's okay. It's okay. Next day, about five after 10. Oh, my God. We're so sorry. Dudes, it's fine. Next.

Next day, 10 after 10, 10, 15, 10, etc. And we realized after a while that there was a new precedent. But happy anniversary to you guys. Thank you for all you've done for us. Of course. Thank you. And likewise, you were named by Bill, who said, of course, it pales in comparison. Yes, hardly. Pierre legacy, which goes on and on.

Are you at 43 years now? 44? 43. Okay. As of November. Do you have an anniversary date? I never remember. I don't have a date per se. I mean, it was somewhere around fall. So I just call it Thanksgiving. And it kind of started like part-time, right? Yeah.

Well, I applied and they had no openings and I applied and I got into the music library as like an assistant music person to Joe Bonadonna. I made $3.50 an hour, which was a step down from $4.50 an hour I made in San Francisco. But then by the weekend, they didn't have anyone to do the overnight. So I worked seven days a week. But yeah.

Is that where the Nighthawk was born? No, the Nighthawk preceded me. Bubba John, our evening DJ for many years, had been the Nighthawk. And prior to him, a guy named Tom Robinson, I think, created that character or that persona. And it just became the Overnighters, the Nighthawk. Whoever was on Overnights did Nighthawk. You were the Morning Sparrow. I was the Morning Sparrow.

I was a canary in a coal mine. So that's a little bit of our history. Yes. There was a point I was going to make, but it's eluded me. I interrupted. No, no. It flew out like the canary it is. Let the canaries loose. I'm a hummingbird today. Yeah, you are. I can tell. Zipping around. Zumballa. Zumballa. Zumballa. All right.

Welcome to a con. Yeah, how about we get the letter of the day? Ready? Oh, sure. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. The Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter. A is in Arizona. All right, fair enough. That means we have a word now, and you can actually call. So we'll take caller number... I haven't done this in months. Caller number four.

At 610-660-9333. And we will let you dazzle us with the word of the week. So call on them. Yeah, 4. 610-660-9333. All right, it's Friday. What are you going to do today? Well, we'll have our sweat set coming up. And you had mentioned to me the other day was Trini Lopez's birthday. I have secured a Trini song for the sweat set, among many other fun things.

I will do the workforce blocks, which will be cool because I have a request for a block of Deep Purple, which will be a nice air guitar for Friday. And then a giant block of the Hooters. I'll have one more pair of tickets for the Hooters to give away tomorrow evening. They play at the Met. A few tickets remain at Ticketmaster. Willie Nile opens the show at 8 o'clock. Jackie Bam Bam is spinning in the little pop-up street thing they've got going right in front.

of the Met, which will be cool. And so I'll do a giant block of the Hooters. How many songs from Deep Purple are you going to play?

Oh, 17, 18. Yeah. If you can fit Perfect Strangers in there. I love that song. Okay. All right. All right. Cool. Don't worry about it. No. If you want it, you got it. I got it. I hope I'm listening. What Presbo wants. Yeah. Presbo gets. Dude. You do your own production. Yeah. Presbo wants. Presbo gets. Thank you very much.

I love it. All right. Let me take a caller and see if we can get a winner. And we were looking for caller number four. It is Eileen that we're going to talk to. Eileen, you are on the air. Good morning, it. Good morning, it to you. You look so nice today. Oh, you're so sweet. Eileen, could you please tell us what the word of the week is?

Carla. Great day in the morning. Carla. Excellent. So, Eileen, you get this really cool hookup, and it is for tomorrow night, a pair of box seats as MMR rocks the Hooters, and this is the first time they've ever played the Met, and this is their 45 Alive 45th Anniversary Tour. So, congratulations to you.

Thank you. Enjoy that show. We're going to put you on hold. We'll get your information and we will take care of you. I meant to do K for the first letter of the week because they have a song called Carla with a K. So we'll play that on our block later on, but I have

up and I put C. And so it's Carlo with a C, but the song is Carlo with a K, but there was an intent which went south like many things do. He still got it out phonetically. Yeah, it sounded great. Back to you, Presbo. All right, thank you, bud. The Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by...

uh, by, uh, Duncan and Preston Steve show runs on Duncan. Also brought to you by Acme markets, fresh foods, local flavors, and Adam home services, heating, cooling, plumbing, and electrical Adam home services.com next week on the program. Uh, as we said yesterday, um,

Monday morning, Frank Caliendo is stopping by the studio just for a hang. His show is on Sunday night, but he's coming in on Monday. He's going to stick around and spend some time with us. And as he teases, he's got one or two stories he wants to tell us in person. Yes. And another favorite comedian of ours, Robert Kelly, is stopping by. Love having him. And

next Friday, one week from today, Eggs with Peg, the official opening of the Jersey Shore at Keenan's Irish Pub in North Wildwood, sponsored by Coors Banquet. We are excited to make that whole thing happen, and hopefully you make plans to come and join us. This is going to be an S show, as it always is. It is. So that's it. We're done. Ray John, have yourself a great weekend, friend, and we'll see you later. Bye-bye. ... ...

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