Daily Podcast (05.19.25)
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You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. With Preston Elliott. I'm just getting warmed up. And Steve Morrison. And it absolutely will not stop, ever. Plus Casey Boy. When you're the most annoying Sam in the world. Nick McElwain. That last one goes out to Nick. And Marissa Magnata. Care to join me for a glass of breakfast wine? No.

And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. All right, we get this thing underway. Good morning, friend. Monday has arrived. We're happy to be with you once again. Let's dive into our weather forecast first and foremost.

See what we're dealing with today. We're dealing with a beautiful day today. Sunshine and high about 75. So very, very nice. Tomorrow, sunny, little cooler. High 72. We head into a chilly phase for a few days. Wednesday's high.

57 degrees with rain is going to feel quite cool. That continues into Thursday as well. We're keeping our eye on the weekend. We'll see how things are going to be shaping up as we head into Memorial Day and the live broadcast from Kenan's Irish Pub and the official opening of the Jersey Shore. So stay along with us for the information. We're going to take a look at traffic. Marissa is going to get us there today. Marissa, what's going on so far this morning? Vine Street, expressed by Wes Brown, between 8th and Broad Street. We have some slowing also between the Parkway and 76th.

There's an accident that has the shoulder blocked. It's in the New Jersey Turnpike. Right before exit two, a vehicle ran off the road there, so please be careful. And there's a planned bridge opening. Should be happening in less than 10 minutes. The Burlington-Bristol Bridge opening.

So it will be shut down at the Toll Plaza to across the river there. This traffic report is brought to you by Whole Foods Market. Cool down at Whole Foods Market. Ben & Jerry's and Talenteni frozen pints and novelties are two for $8 with Prime through May 27th. While supplies last, shop in-store or online. Terms apply and enter traffic on 93.3 WMMR.

And now, Kristen and Steve's news update. All right, today is Monday. It's the 19th day of May. Good morning. We'll start with this story. Former President Joe Biden, who is now 82 years old, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.

Biden was diagnosed on Friday after he saw a doctor last week for urinary symptoms. And the cancer is a more aggressive form of the disease characterized by a Gleason score of nine out of 10, which means that his illness is classified as high grade and the cancer cells could spread quickly. Biden and his family are reviewing treatment options, but his office added that the cancer was hormone sensitive, meaning that it could likely be managed quickly.

And a statement from the office and the family read, last week, President Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. And on Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer with a metastasis to the bone. While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, which allows for effective management.

Now, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer-affective men behind skin cancer. And the CDC says that 13 out of every 100 men will develop prostate cancer at some point in their lives. Yeah, I was one of them. And the truth of the matter is that when you get up at a certain age...

They'll just do the management. You know, they can, as they're saying right now, hormonally, they could manage this. I doubt, I don't think they're going to do any type of surgery with it. I mean, at his age, you can sort of keep it in stasis. I don't know the full, you know, determination of what they have. But in my years of dealing with people, you know, I talked to people who are facing this surgery. This is prior to COVID. I wish they'd bring that program back for people who are facing it. But you'd see Gleason scores all over the place and people...

Got treatment and were doing fine afterwards. So, I mean, a lot of people worry themselves. And there's reason to worry when you see numbers like that. But I'm here to say I've seen them all over the spectrum in my limited, you know, experience. And people do quite well. So, you have way more knowledge on this subject than I do. But I remember my uncle had it years and years ago. And he was much older. And I know that speaking to doctors, they said at some point as a male...

If you live long enough, more than likely, you're going to have prostate cancer. You're spot on. You're spot on. A lot of times, they'll do an autopsy on somebody or somebody will pass away, and they'll discover they had prostate cancer they didn't even know. Wow. So it is, more often than not, it's slower growing. And as I said, my father, he passed at 95. So, and for the last couple of years of his life, they didn't even check. It's like, well, yeah, don't worry. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

New Jersey Transit and the Trains and Train Engineers Union have reached a tentative agreement ending the rail strike that began on Friday morning. At a news conference last night, Governor Phil Murphy didn't give any specifics of the deal but said that it was a good outcome for labor, for New Jersey Transit, and for commuters and taxpayers. He said this is a very good day for New Jersey and the sound that you probably hear is the sound of the state's commuters breathing a collective sigh of relief.

New Jersey Transit CEO. They let one squeak out. I mean, they were so happy. They're so happy. It's going to happen. New Jersey Transit CEO Chris Colori said regular rail service will not resume until tomorrow morning. I just want to point out you won't get exclusive clips like that on 6 ABC or anywhere else. And that's what distinguishes us from the real journalists.

Because train service will not be available today, New Jersey Transit Strike Contingency Plan will go into effect. The plan includes expanded bus service from four temporary park and ride lots, Hamilton Rail Station, PNC Bank Arts Center, and Holmdel, Woodbridge Center Mall, and...

And Secausas Junction. And officials said hundreds of New Jersey transit personnel will be deployed at rail stations as well as the park and ride lots to assist customers throughout the day. I remember riding the train once and we had to stop. This was in Long Island, riding from out in the Hamptons back. And then what happened was, Preston, there was something, some problem with the train track.

And I went on a journey with buses and stuff that made the Indiana Jones search for the Holy Grail look like nothing. I believe it. So it's a nightmare for people doing this stuff. Rochelle is actually headed to New York today and taking New Jersey transit. So we've been keeping an eye on this closely to make sure things came together. So fortunately, it sounds like the agreement has come through. All right. Finally, with the opening of the Jersey Shore right around the corner.

Here's what you need to know about beach tags. Most beaches along the Jersey Shore still require a badge to be on the sand, but there are still some free beaches. And the majority of beaches require beach goers to have a badge or tag to access the beaches, and most towns charge about $10 for a daily badge. The cheapest daily badge is available in Longport. You can get that for $5.00.

while most weekly badges range between $20 and $30 to cover the entire weekend. Some seasonal badges are cheaper, with many towns selling them at discounts throughout the end of May, and many towns offer a senior citizen discount for the season as well. Several towns offer free badges for veterans and active duty military and their immediate family members. And there are also a few towns that have gone digital for their badges, which you can download to your phone. So that's cool.

A different option. All right, so let me ask you, are the free beaches crappier or are they okay? Yeah. Okay. Wildwood is really nice. It's free? Okay, is that a badge beach? No, it's not a badge beach. Yeah, I'm not well-versed, so all right. Yeah, the Wildwoods are free and the beaches are huge. I know. So, yeah. Like a 10-mile walk to the water. So, you are good to go. So, beaches that don't require the tags, including Wildwood, are also Atlantic City, Islewood,

Island Beach State Park and Upper Township. So when they tag you, do they puncture like a thing behind your ear or how is it done? It's actually the cartilage. I forgot what you call this thing right here. The ear labia. Yeah, that's where they hit you with it right there, Steve. Oh, I used to know the name of that. I know, I do too. This has a name. This little thing in the front part of your ear. That holds your ear bud in.

It's not the tribulum or something. No, that's more of a... The speculum? It's the speculum. I didn't even know that they named that piece of equipment after your ear. Yeah, after your ear. The tragus? Tragus! Nick found it. You know, tragus? Tragus! I was so close. I had the TR part. Casey, you know what this part is called? Underneath the tragus, on the opposite side of the lobe? It's the anti-tragus. Anti-tragus. Oh, there's a war going on in your ear. That's right.

I guess so. All right. You guys ready for sports? Yeah! Let's do it, Nick! The Phillies won again. Oh, yeah! They showed up. They did!

Shut up, Nick. They shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 yesterday afternoon at the ballpark. They completed a three-game sweep, which is awesome. Mitch Abel. They did.

Nick Abel out-dueled Paul Skeens to win his major league debut, striking out nine Pirates over six innings to lead the Phils to the win. Brandon Marsh grounded into a run-scoring force-out in the fifth for the only offense of the day. The Phils are on the road tonight with a game in Denver against the Rockies. Christopher Sanchez will get the start. The first pitch is set for 840. Before the game, the league announced that Phils reliever Jose Alvarado has been suspended.

80 games without pay for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy. The left-hander tested positive for exogenous testosterone, which is a performance-enhancing substance. The suspension was effective immediately, and because of the league rules, Alvarado will also be ineligible for postseason this year. Coast President Dave Dombrowski said the positive test was caused by a weight-loss drug that Alvarado took in the offseason. Dombrowski also said that Alvarado accepted the suspension and did not appeal.

In the NBA, the Thunder easily beat the Nuggets. Denver Nuggets, 125-93 in Game 7 last night in Oklahoma City. Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals will be tomorrow night in OKC with the Thunder facing off against the Minnesota Timberwolves. In the NHL, the Florida Panthers beat the Maple Leafs 6-1 in Game 7 last night in Toronto. For the third straight year, the Panthers have advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals and will play the Carolina Hurricanes. In soccer, the Union won again, beating Atlanta United FC 1-0 on Saturday night.

With the victory, the Union are now tied at the top of the standings in the Eastern Conference with nine wins and 29 points. Up next for the Union is a U.S. Open Cup match against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. That's 7.30 on Wednesday night at Subaru Park. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs.

And that's what I have for you in sports this morning. Thank you very much, Nick. And we have a lot going on. Let's get into it. It's a new week, so we have a new Word of the Week prize. We have a Rivers Casino Overnight prize pack. Pretty cool. It's including a $100 gift card to the new Sapore restaurant and a one-night stay for two at the River Suites at the Battery. And you've got to be at least 21 years or older in order to win that. So we'll get the letter the day at the end of the program. We will give that sucker away for

Friday and of course we'll be live at Kenan's for the official opening of the Jersey Shore getting prepped for that live broadcast. We also have a guest on the show today, our good friend Frank Caliendo will be in the studio and he's coming by in the 8 o'clock hour and he's going to hang out for a bit. He did a gig at Helium Comedy Club last night and he'll spend a little time with us today. We did a quick chat with him last week and then we'll spend a little bit more time because any

Time to hang out with Frank is the best. And that more stuff has come out on the Nicolas Cage John Madden movie. So I want to hear what he has to say about that. And we have a winner for coolest teacher to announce. So we reached out via the airwaves to North Monaco Technical School. And we asked the student body to vote for whom they felt made an impact in their life this year. And we have a coolest teacher name to announce.

Ladies and gentlemen, the coolest teacher at North Monkotech, according to the student body, is Mr. John Jacobs. I did. I was thinking the same thing, and I'm sure he's heard it his whole life. John Jacobs, Jingleheimer Smith, is a computer-integrated machining teacher. He's a robot. At Monkotech. No. Oh.

I assume that they use the computer equipment to create pieces of machinery. So we'll have to see if he gets a chance to call in and tell us about it. There's so many different things you can learn at technical schools, especially really good ones with great pieces of equipment. So, John, we want to congratulate you first and foremost, and we want to set you up with a prize. In and out.

Just as a thank you for doing what you do. And we're going to set you up with a $50 Dunkin' gift card as our friends at Dunkin' are the sponsor of the coolest teacher contest. And you get the official Preston and Steve coolest teacher of the year coffee mug. It's nice. It's bragging rights. Thank you to Dunkin', by the way, because you can order Dunkin's $6 meal deal for a whole vibe. Bacon, egg, and cheese, hash browns, and medium coffee experience.

We'll be right back.

to open up the sealed lid and then pull out of school and reveal to you who will be voting. So, Nick. I feel so official, Preston. You are official. It was locked. I opened it. The next school that we're choosing, we're heading to New Jersey, Collingswood High School in Collingswood, New Jersey. All right. Hey!

Our boss went to high school. Chuck D'Amico. Really? Chuck D'Amico went there? Yeah. Collingswood High School, all you have to do is the following step. You text the word teacher to 610-660-9333 and we send you a voting link. And then you tell us who you thought made a difference this past year and we'll put the voting up for 24 hours. Tomorrow morning at this time, we'll make the announcement, we'll reveal, and we will award the prize.

So at Collingswood High School, home of the fighting... D'Amico. Virgin. Home of the fighting D'Amico's. Panthers. The Panthers. Also, notable alumni include Chuck D'Amico and Michael Landon. Oh.

Shut up. We were just talking about Michael Lannan. Michael Lannan of Little House on the Prairie fame. Wow. Star of I Was a Teenage Werewolf. I had no idea he was in the general, grew up in the general area. I had no idea. Wow. That's how he was on the Ponderosa, Preston. A guy named Matthew Quick who wrote Silver Linings Playbook and Chuck D'Amico and William K. Dickey. Oh, the author? No, the Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly from 19...

He was class of 1938. Yeah, I should have known that. I just thought I liked his name was William Dickey. My roommate senior year of college also went to Collingswood High School. Oh, man, this is a hub. This is crazy, man. Really about that. We can trace all civilization back to this high school. All right, well, vote, gang. You got 24 hours to do it. Collingswood High School. Just text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. And as I always say, make sure you let them know at the office that we did indeed draw the name and maybe they'll get the word.

word out uh internally at the school and we'll make sure that everybody has a chance to have their voice to be heard for this little nod to a thank you of the teacher that was special to you this year all right with all that we're going to take a quick break we'll come back in a second the entertainment report is indeed up and we'll do a stupid question as well and give some stuff to you as we start the work we can stay there we'll be right back

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Hi, Big Marissa. We have, for the stupid question, a Mission Impossible prize pack. It includes a $50 Kenan's gift card and Mission merch, including a hooded sweatshirt and a bunch of stuff.

a bunch of other stuff. It's like a laundry list of things that you win here. The question that I have for you is this. In the game of chess, how many pawns does each player start with? Let's see if we know the answer to that. 610-660-9333. I forgot we can take phone calls. I'm so excited now when I realize that.

All right, 610-660-9333. Now, we haven't abandoned the Zoom. We will eventually go back to doing some Zoomadelphia stuff and more. But for now, it's just easier to do it this way. So, 610-660-9333. We'll go through some birthdays. Today being the 19th day of May. We're going to start with performance artist Grace Jones celebrating her birthday today.

Yeah, she's a bomb. A very interesting person. And I never really got the whole Grace Jones thing. Neither did I, but she stuck to her thing, her performance artist-ness. She was a longtime girlfriend of Dolph Lundgren's. Yeah.

And, yeah, not only in Bond, but she's great in the movie Boomerang. Yes. With Eddie Murphy. Stranger. That's right. That was her name. And when she's trying to, they're trying to come up with a scent for her to create a perfume.

And she just whips off her panties and throws them on the table. She's like, make them smell like that. Like, all right. She's pretty jacked if you've seen her. She's a physical specimen. I mean, how tall is she? She seems like she's nine feet, but she's probably about 5'10", 5'11". So she is 77 years old today. All right, from ACDC, Phil Rudd celebrates his birthday today. Phil is, well, he was the drummer of the band.

And when his, I don't think he's playing currently with him, but when his solo album was released, it didn't do as well as he wanted. So he fired several employees and then threatened to kill his personal assistant. Well, that's how you do it. He later pled guilty to death threat and drug charges and was sentenced to home detention. God.

Hasn't been good for him, has it? So happy 71 to Phil Rudd, ACDC. I was a little off base with that threatening to kill you thing. Yeah, sorry about that. Singer Sam Smith has his birthday today, and he turns 33 years old, so...

You're older. I don't like you. You don't like me. This is a beautiful song. It is. What song is this? Stay with me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yes, this is good. This is a good tune. I retract my original statement. No, you can still make fun of it. My original mockery. Yeah. You can make fun of a great song. But I like the part where it goes, where it kicks in. Here we go. Oh, there. No.

Now it's over. That's all we have? That's all you get. God, just the tip. Happy 33rd to Sam Smith.

The great Pete Townsend turns a year older today. And it's a big one for Pete. Pete turns 80 years old. Still touring. He is. And they're coming to town. Sadly, he did the windmill at a concert recently and his arm came off. Oh, there's a lucky souvenir for a fan out there. I'm sorry because I had my arm back.

We will have tickets to give away to the Who concert at Kenan's on Friday. Oh, wow. Yes, at Kenan's? This Friday, if you're coming to the event, there's a chance you may walk away with some tickets to go see the band. This is one of my favorite songs. And it's the balladized version of this. The slower version? Yeah.

Beautiful. Did he do it? Yeah, he did a version of it. Okay. And I'm a fan of Pete Townsend's solo work. I mean, obviously, The Who eclipsed a lot of the stuff, but there are some really, really good Pete Townsend songs that I am a fan of. This is a great one, Rough Boys. Yep. And it is... If you listen... It's funny how it got past me, but...

If you listen to the lyrics, this is clearly Pete talking about wanting to be with a man. Yeah, absolutely. And Pete has dabbled a little bit from what I understand. I think he might be bisexual. I'm not 100% sure where he lies in that, but this song is all about that. He's...

Yeah, and he said he's always been attracted to Mick Jagger. Yeah. He might have had a thing. I think maybe, yeah. So he's very fluid in that regard. So happy birthday to the great Pete Townsend who is 80 years old today. Then we have Michael Che celebrating his birthday. Saturday Night Live. He turns 42.

years old. Word on Michael Che is that he's very supportive if you are a new arrival at SNL. He is very supportive, works with you, tries to make you feel at home. That's what everyone says. I don't know, but he seems to be a nice guy. Part of the welcoming committee there. Nice. Get a little basket of fruit. And then the last birthday, a friend of ours.

Mr. Jeff Devlin has his birthday today. Stonehouse Revival, right? Yes, and Jeff is actually doing something for, we're refurbing our kitchen, doing a kitchen makeover, and he's helping with that, and he's phenomenal. He's just amazing. And he's a friend. He's great. He's got a great personality. He does great work, and I don't know how old he is, however, so that's a bit of a guess. 73. 73 years old. Hey.

If you see Jeff today, wish him a happy 73rd for the Preston and Steve show. Always go older so you look better for your age. No, he's probably listening right now. So, Jeff, just text and let us know how old you are. I'm going to guess... Can I nail this? I'm going to guess 40s? Okay, so you're saying 50. Yeah, I was saying late 40s. I feel like he and I were contemporaries. All right. Yeah.

All right, let's try and get a winner in the game of chess. How many pawns does each player start with? 610-660-9333 is the number. And our first caller in is Jeannie. So we will go to her. Hey, Jeannie. Good morning.

Good morning. All right, Jeannie, do you know in chess how many pawns each player starts with, please? I think it's eight. You are correct. You thought correctly. All right, Jeannie, hang on. We are going to give you...

Hey, so it's Mission Week and we're going to give you the Mission Impossible prize pack includes $50 Kenan's gift card and Mission merch including a hooded sweatshirt with a secret pocket. Secret pocket? A trucker cap, a drink koozie, wireless audio transmitter, power bank and utility tool pen.

Mission Week support for WMMR comes from Paramount Pictures. Presenting Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning. Every mission is led to this. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning. Only in theaters and IMAX on May 23rd. Do you know what I'd keep in my secret pocket? A dead mouse for petting.

That's sweet. Real quick about the Who. Did you guys know they fired Zach Starkey? I saw over the weekend that he was no longer in the band. I didn't know they fired him. Yeah, I didn't know any of that either. Somebody just texted in this morning to the show and said that they fired him. He says he was asked to quit. I don't know what the difference is.

Okay. Yeah, that's being fired. Yeah. All right, at the box office, Final Destination Bloodlines won with The Weeknd debuting in first place with a take of $51 million. It's the biggest horror opening of the year. Marvel's Thunderbolts slipped to second place with a take of 16.5 mil. Sinners...

kept chugging along, bringing in $15.4 million this time around, enough to secure third place and push it past $300 million worldwide. A Minecraft movie was in fourth with a haul of $5.9 million, and The Accountant 2 took up fifth place with $5 million. Now, The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow debuted in sixth place.

And it only made $3.3 million amid lackluster critical reviews. Yeah. So, the winners and the viewers have spoken and American Idol has a new winner. Oh, yay. As the season 23 finale came to a close, the fan vote, all 26 million of them, revealed 27-year-old Mississippi P.E. teacher Jamal Roberts. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Winner of American Idol. It's been such a nail-biter, so tense for me, Preston, that I've decided not to watch it for the past 20 years. John Foster and Brianna Nix were the runners-up.

with Brianna's elimination announced halfway through the finale. With his win, Roberts became the first black man to earn the title since Carrie Underwood's predecessor, season two's Ruben Studdard in 2003. For his winner song, Jamal crooned Anthony Hamilton's Her Heart as the top four contestants crowded around him in celebration. And we have a clip of him winning. Here we go. The winner is...

of American Idol is Jamal Ray!

So the big reveal came after a slate of performances that paired top 14 singers with guests from Salt-N-Pepa to Jessica Simpson to Good Charlotte. Jamal performed this season's Artist in Residence with the Artist in Residence Jelly Roll. And John took the stage with Judge Luke Bryan and Brenna sang alongside Brandon Lake.

When he arrived in Hollywood, he was plagued by doubts around his song choices, but as the weeks went by, he found the confidence that Underwood was urging him to dig deep. And throughout the season, Lionel Richie often bestowed the same praise on Jamal about having a heaven-sent talent. He particularly loved calling him divinely guided.

I had no idea that this was even going on. I didn't either. No, listen, it's fallen that much off my radar. I did see footage, though, of the crew coming out and applying tears to Lionel Richie's face because his tear ducts have sealed up. Minutes after he was named season 23's winner, getting some sleep was top of mind for Jamal. He said, that's the first thing that came to mind when I thought about going home.

after the finale wrapped up, said, I'm going to go home and see my daughter, Gianna, who is nine days old, he said. And I've got a lot of making up to do. He's all steam ahead when it comes to music, but he won't leave his teaching behind for good necessarily, he said. I wasn't really doing the teaching thing for the money.

It was really the kids who were just my inspiration. So even if I could go back every now and then, just show up and be a part of something, I plan to do that. So we'll see where this goes. See if it takes off. Some people it does and some people it does not. It's always a bit demanding to have to change the person you're idolizing every year. Are there two seasons a year for American Idol? I don't know. I don't know.

Having to idolize, like it is exhausting. It's taxing. There's a lot. There's a lot when it comes to idolizing. All right. Christy Teigen revealed in a candid Instagram post that she recently relapsed after several years on her sobriety journey. She shared the news while promoting a new episode of her podcast featuring Holly Whitaker, who is the author of Quit Like a Woman. And she said, I let it get back into my life.

I 100% know I like me better sober. She also shared that she's frustrated with herself about not being able to, quote, be normal and have a cocktail with my husband on vacay without it turning into eight and feeling terrible. Teagan also acknowledged that the thought of drinking still consumes her some days. Despite setbacks, she emphasized, all I know is my relationship with the whole process of sobriety and messing up.

has changed for the better. My brother framed it for me one time, and he's been recovering for decades now, and he said that we were out, and it was the family get-together, and there were a couple beers on the table, and he was describing it. He said, I could have one beer. He says, but I would not stop. I could have the one, and then that would be the key would turn, and there you go. And knowing that was...

sort of liberating for him. Yeah, some people, their physical makeup, or whatever it is, it gets the best of you. And you have that, and you just want more and more and more, and the next thing you know, you can't stop. And then you feel like crap afterwards. I have a little bit of that. I don't go too crazy extreme, but if I have one, I want another one. Damn right I do. Absolutely. And then you're wearing the hat with the beer cans in it? Yeah. It says number one fan on it. Woo!

All right. At the con premiere of her HBO documentary, My Mom Jane, Mariska Hargaday revealed for the first time that her biological father is Italian singer Nelson Sardelli, not Mickey Hargaday, who raised her and she still refers to as her father. This is...

really wild because I've known about her and Mickey Hargaday and Jane Mansfield for decades. It's part of Hollywood legend and lore. And you just assume, I mean, this was one you thought, well, clearly that's she's the daughter. But he was an Italian singer? Yeah. That's it.

That's not him, by the way. Well, I don't know. To be honest, I don't know who this is. It could be him. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet my daughter, Mariska Hargday. Um, so... And she's a Jane and Mary. The film explores the life of...

Live a legacy of her mother Jane Mansfield nearly 60 years after her death. So Hargaday said it tearfully at the premiere. Tonight I'm celebrating the power that film has for me to remember somebody that I didn't have the good fortune to know or grow up with.

Of course, Mansfield passed away in a car crash when Hargaday was three years old. The documentary includes an interview with Sardelli, who discusses his relationship with Mansfield during a rough time in her marriage to Mickey. And Hargaday told the audience, it's a very personal film and truly a dream come true.

So I didn't know this until just now, but Nelson Sardelli, her biological father, he was born in Brazil, grew up in Italy, but he had a fundraiser for mentally disabled children in Atlantic City on an annual basis. It was called Starshine. I'd never heard of this man before, but he spent a lot of time in AC over the years. Okay, wow. Interesting and a bit of a bombshell in that world.

Gwyneth Paltrow revealed in an interview with People that she has a budding friendship with Meghan Markle, saying that we have a text friendship so far. I've been traveling quite a bit. And she addressed online rumors of tension between them. She said, I don't like that when people try to pit women against each other. I don't like it. I don't like it.

Paltrow also shared she was open to appearing on Megan's Netflix series with Love, Megan, saying, sure, why not? You never know. I don't bake that well, but I can always try. Paltrow just found out that her brother, stepbrother, was the late Dustin Diamond. Oh, no.

The actress has dismissed any alleged feud between the two in the past as well, sharing, I genuinely do not understand this at all whatsoever during a Q&A session.

This is pretty interesting. Timothee Chalamet forgot for a moment that he is a celebrity after the New York Knicks big win against the Boston Celtics over the weekend. Chalamet decided that he couldn't pass up a little celebrating with the fans. But here's the thing. Celebratory New Yorkers are not big on personal space.

And as Chalamet stuck his head out of the car that he was riding in, they recognized him. And, dude, they start... It's like the Beatles. Yeah, it was. It was crazy. They start yanking him out of the car through the window. Like, they're grabbing onto him. And he's...

Smiling and laughing the whole time. He didn't look freaked out, but he had a hard time getting back in the car. He's an Uber fan. Yeah, so he was just excited that they won. And he's young, so he was having fun with it. It was like last night when the American Halloween occurred. I had to drive around. I had to be with the people. I only just saw a little bit of footage of the city after they won on Saturday night. But they went a little crazy. They sure did. They just were getting to the...

Eastern Conference final. First time since 2000, so it's a big celebration. But they were celebrating like they had won the championship. Or at least advanced to the finals. So take a peek at this video. We're watching it here in the studio. They're like putting their arms around his torso and trying to...

Yank him out into the crowd. He's got to have security. And he's laughing the whole time. And the people inside, you can see them. They're pulling him by his collar to get him back into the car. Timothee Chalamet was ripped in half last night. He was loving it.

Alright, this guy's a billionaire. He's married to a go-go dancer. 50 years his junior. So what could go wrong? Music mogul David Geffen and husband David Armstrong are splitting after less than two years together. This is a

50-year difference. But they had so much in common. Geffen filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. And amazingly, the couple has no prenup in place. Uh-oh. Nope. Actually, Armstrong is looking at a huge payday, but that's not going to happen. TMZ reports that Geffen has been retired for many years and has no income other than stocks and other equities, which are all separate property. And under California law, this means that Geffen's young husband looks to make very little off of the split.

So you don't reach a net worth of over $8 billion without knowing a few things about how to handle money. But imagine being able to ask your husband what it was like during the Bronze Age. Yeah, exactly. So big difference, but yeah, it looks like he's going to walk away without touching a bullet. Speaking of breakups, this one was unintentional, but Trouble in Paradise for Joe Exotic.

The imprisoned star of Tiger King was recently married to fellow prisoner Jorge Flores, but there's a rather large bump in the road to love. Flores was released from prison last week.

and immediately taken into custody by ICE and was subsequently deported to Mexico. Poor Joe Exotic. Just found love. Jorge was serving time for immigration-related issues while Joe was serving 21 years for his involvement in the murder-for-hire plot targeting Carole Baskin. But it looks like he's headed back to Mexico. How many years has he served already? Has it been about five years?

You know what? Well, it's a good question. I'm not sure when he was convicted because Tiger King came out during COVID, like right at the beginning of 2020. Right. And the whole Carole Baskin thing happened maybe a year later. Carole Baskin. Yeah. So maybe four, three and a half, four years. He was sentenced for 22 years, 220 years.

22 years, but after resentencing in 2022, this is why I'm struggling with this. He was sentenced to 2020. No, I'm done. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison, but after a resentencing in 2022, his sentence was reduced to 21 years. He is currently serving that 21 year sentence, but I don't know when it started. Wait for me. Carol Baskin killed her husband, whacked him. Okay.

Can't convince me that it didn't happen. Fed them to tigers, they snacking. He's a generational talent. Carol Baskin. All right, so there have been rumors, hints, reports, but we finally are hearing it from Tom Cruise himself in a visit with Australia's Today Show.

The actor talked about various plates that he has spinning. And he said, yeah, we're thinking and talking about many different stories and what we could do and what's possible. He said, it took me 35 years to figure out Top Gun Maverick. So all of these things we're working on, we're discussing Days of Thunder and Top Gun Maverick. So more possible sequels to both of them. So...

Days of Thunder, given the Maverick treatment. Yeah. A lot of people are talking about this F1 movie with Brad Pitt that it really took the Maverick lead and is really nuts and bolts down and dirty. Look, could... Anyway, Days of Thunder 2 could be done right. Yeah. So the Mission Impossible premiere was last night at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Our buddy, Fit Dad CEO Dave Ogleton was there and he brought as his guest our old friend...

Matt Rovine from the sales department. And so they got to go to a screening of it. And while in the screening, Tom Cruise came in, said hi to the audience. Casey was like when Brad Pitt came in and crushed a cheesesteak. He was in and out in less than a minute or whatever. And then also Christopher McQuarrie, who directed a lot of the Mission Impossible movies, was in the same room as Matt Rovine last night in New York City. That's pretty cool. Now that Matt Rovine is here, have your eyebrows wave hello. Yeah.

All right, a couple other quick things. The biopic starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen now has a premiere date. Deliver Me From Nowhere takes the stage at theaters everywhere this fall. The film, which has the blessing and involvement of both the boss and his manager, John Landau, also stars Jeremy Strong as Landau, Stephen Graham as Springsteen's dad, and Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlin. Odessa Young, Gabby Hoffman, David Krummholtz,

Mark Maron, Johnny Cannizzaro, Harrison Gilbertson, Chris James, and Matthew Anthony Pelicano also star. Did I hear you incorrectly or is Lando Calrissian in this? No, John Landau. Oh. Deliver Me From Nowhere will debut on October 24th. So looking forward to that.

I love Bruce's story and have become a fan of Jeremy Allen White and want to see him try and pull this off. Did you watch the Netflix special, which was his stage thing? It's really well done. I need to see that. All of his music is narration by nature. So he's a storyteller. Exactly.

Mark Cuban is getting out of the tank. The billionaire businessman's last episode of Shark Tank was Friday after 14 years. He first appeared on the show as a guest panelist in 2011 before he officially joined in 2012. And his departure shouldn't come as a huge shock to fans of the show. He confirmed back in 2023 that he was planning to leave Shark Tank after its 16th season. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Cuban confirmed that he loved the show.

but is excited to spend time with his family. He said, I just want to have a couple of summers with my teens before they go off on their own. We've always batted around the notion of doing shart tank, but the mechanism by which you would secure, you know, because...

With Shark Tank, they legitimately become business partners with the people. I don't know if I'd want to do that. So we'd void that bullet. No, I don't think that could happen. But maybe we'd give them like an Agami gift card or something. Yeah, I don't really know. Buy some cold cuts. This is what we have.

All right, and then finally, one last story. Ray Fiennes is stepping into the Capitol as President Cornelius Snow in The Hunger Games' Sunrise on The Reaping. Fiennes will play the icy leader in a timeline set between The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Katniss Everdeen's first foray into The Hunger Games. He joins a star-studded lineup, including Joseph Zada as Haymitch,

and McKenna Grace as Maisley Donner, and Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensby. The role was previously played by Donald Sutherland and then by Tom Blythe in this prequel, making finds the bridge between the two eras. I wonder when they're going to...

stop milking this because what was the box office like for that last one? It wasn't that good. I don't know, but the books are huge. The Hunger Games universe by, by the way, the film hits theaters November 20th next year. The Hunger Games universe by Suzanne Collins proves to be an everlasting hit maker as the new prequel book sold 1.2 million copies in its first week. Well, there you go. There are plenty of people that want to, you know, stay in that world.

By the way, those sold more than Mockingjay and Songbird's books combined. So people are excited about this particular one. All right. Yeah, we got clips. Let's do those.

So the new series Tucci in Italy guides viewers through the real Italy, through its cuisine. And here Stanley Tucci explains how he believes that there is a story in every plate. Let's hit it. Am I doing this case? Yeah. Okay. The fun food thing, that's easy. You know, you go and you eat a great dish of pasta, you go, yum, that's great. That's boring to me. I think what's interesting is where did that come from?

pasta come from what's the history of that pasta why is it made in this region why is it made with that kind of tomato um why is it that shape um why does this person make it you know what what's the history of it is it something that's always going to exist shut the f**k up

I've realized that I want to be Stanley Fischer. I watched this show. I've watched a couple episodes of that first season and I just think he's got a way about him. I think he's got a cool style about him. He loves, loves, loves food.

as well, which I'm a fan as well. And it just, he travels and enjoys this great food and the history and the origin of it. And I just think he's a smooth dude. And he's a sex symbol down. You know that. So yeah. And he's also, he's played two of my favorite gay characters in our movies. Oh man. Devil wears Prada. He's amazing. And burlesque. I didn't see burlesque. You don't have to. So the first two episodes of Tucci in Italy debuted last night on Nat Geo. Here's our next clip.

Lego Masters returns with Will Arnett hosting and Lego creative designers Amy Corbett and Jamie Berard serving as the show's judges. And here are the three Ts, what's in store for season five. This season we have some of the wildest challenges we have ever thrown at. Yeah, we get some format twists, some real strategy going into this. Star Wars, we've got Wicked, Batman. It's the 85th anniversary of Batman, so we had the builders recreate Batman.

vehicles as best they could. I don't think I want to see it. Lego Master Season 5 premieres tonight. You'll find that on Fox. There you go. That is what we have in entertainment for you this morning. Oh, this just in. Breaking news. KC, can I get out? Yeah. Can I get breaking news? Breaking news. Breaking news.

This just handed to me in a note. Jeff Devlin is 52 years old. Here we go. Now we broke that story. So 52. Casey, you were pretty damn close. Happy birthday, Jeff. Did he text you? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Nice. Happy birthday, Jeff. Happy birthday, Jeff Devlin.

We have a bunch of stuff happening today. Our friend Frank Caliendo is stopping by today. He's going to be here in the 8 o'clock hour. He's going to hang out for a bit. He had a gig last night at Helium Comedy Club. So always good to sit and chat with Frank because he is hilarious.

And we have a new high school that has been chosen, Collingswood High School in Collingswood, New Jersey, to be the coolest teacher of the year. You guys get to let us know who you think made a difference. It's real simple. If you go to Collingswood, text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the voting link. Spread the word around the school, please. I want as many people to vote as possible so we can find out, get a good representation of the students.

And congratulations again to John Jacobs of North Montcotech. He was our winner. He's a computer-integrated machining teacher. Yes. Really cool thing. I want to hear what that's about. All right, we got to take a quick break. Come back in a moment. And it's a beautiful, sunny day today, going up to like 75, nice and breezy. So we'll enjoy it together. We'll be right back with more. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. We're supposed to say Cuthbert Boulevard again, please. Cuthbert. Very good. You know who couldn't say that? It was Brett Hamilton when we worked at Y100. There was a club in, I think it was in Cherry Hill, called Sanctuary. It was like an alt-rock club, and it was on Cuthbert Boulevard. And Brett had to cut the commercials for it, and he would mess it up every time. Yeah.

So he ended up calling it Cuthbert Boulevard on the commercial, which is great. Bill Weston, your, what I always call your dad, his dad's name is Cullen. Yeah. For some reason decided that he was actually called Cuthbert. Cuthbert.

One of the ones that got me earlier was Talenti. I always call it like Talentini, the ice cream. I just add extra letters into it. Talenti? It's that fancy gelato ice cream that comes in a little plastic container that sometimes has the little cookies in it. I call it Talenti. It is. Talenti. Yeah, it is Talenti. I called it Talentini. Talentini. Because I always just added extra letters to it. You having some right now, Chris? No, I'm having mush. Nothing kicks a Monday off like a big bowl of mush. Overnight oats? No.

Oh, yeah. Did you make those yourself? Dude, this is what, like, I didn't, this is the first time I've ever had it. I'm in the kitchen thinking. Oh, it's literally called mush. Yeah. Oh, I thought you were joking about it. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I remember, yeah, I remember hearing about something called mush, like back in the 30s or, you know, in the Depression era. Everyone loves to eat mush. Yeah. Roadkill's a great follow-up. Sounds disgusting. And if you have time, try eating your own poop. Thank you.

Mush. Oh, that's a good bowl of mush. Junior loves it and says it's over the moon. It's called mush and it's overnight oats. Brought to you by Queef. Yeah, I didn't have to do anything to prepare it. That's good.

You just sit it, add water, and forget it? No, I just had to take those lid off and mush. Yeah, it's like a single serving like yogurt or something like that. Rochelle makes overnight oats sometimes in a mason jar. So we have like individual ones. Where's my mason jar? No, not James Mason jar. I'm looking for a jar. Some unexpected guests have dropped by. I'm going to serve them mush. I would have a hard time eating a product called mush.

We talked about this. We talked about the inability of people to eat. You talked about your cat box dessert. Yes. Which replicates cat turds but uses like little tootsie rolls. Yeah. Just the visual was enough that people couldn't eat it. Yeah. I think I could. I'll pass on the mush. I just eat out of the regular cat box anyway. But I do like overnight oats. They're pretty good. You should try the Talenti ice cream.

That, I'm on board. Oh, I have had that before. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know it was a brand name. Nick pulled this up and now I see the photos. And yeah, I've absolutely had that. They made a wonderful pistachio that I enjoyed. Could I just bring it up to speed again? Is it illegal for us to give free advertisement in return for getting things? Illegal? Yes. Okay. Yes. I believe so. Unethical, definitely. Yeah. I just want to make sure before I launched into a list of sponsors, I'd like to bring stuff here. Okay.

I was chatting with Caliendo over the weekend because he was seeking a... He's like, what's your favorite cheesesteak place in Philly? And he wanted to have cheesesteak before his gig at Helium this weekend. And he was coming to hang out with us later this morning. And I was like, I'm a Jim's guy, but there was not a lot of bad cheesesteaks in Philly. And it's the age-old argument. And he was asking about Angelo's, etc., etc. And he's like, what if...

We go on air on Monday morning and just list all the ones that we want to have them send us free cheesesteaks. Can we do that? And I was like, well, that's an option, I guess. I got an email from a guy a little while back, a guy named, or is this a woman? No, it's from Sherry. I'm sorry. It's from a guy or gal named Sherry. Shut up, anger!

Actually, her, oh, Sherry. No, actually, Phila Nonna is her Instagram handle. So she said, or TikTok, she said, hey, President Stephen, whole crew. And she sent me this back in April, but I never got around to it. It says, long-time listener, first-time cheesesteak troublemaker here. I posted a TikTok that was blowing up, and it got Southerners and some New Jerseyans in an uproar. And here's the question they posted.

Are green bell peppers ever acceptable on a real Philly cheesesteak? I can put in my two cents. I don't think I have the credibility of the lifelong Philadelphians in the room, but I'm going to say no. So as a non-native, someone who has lived here now for 30 years, but a not born and raised Philadelphian before I came to this city, I was under the impression because of

false propaganda out there that a Philly, quote unquote Philly cheesesteak, which I don't call it that anymore, I just call it a cheesesteak, came with sauteed onions and green peppers. And so I think it was from campaigns, advertising campaigns I saw on TV for like Steakum or whatever. And I think that they were presenting it incorrectly. And I had thought

That is the way you had it. Now, I do think it tastes pretty decent. Yeah. But I don't order it that way when I go to a cheesesteak place. Right, right. I don't even know if that's available at cheesesteaks places. No, and honestly, I feel like a real Philly cheesesteak has whatever the hell you want to have on it. So if you want green peppers, go for it. If you want onions, go for it. I actually like a cheesesteak with mushrooms on it. Yeah, I like a cheesesteak. Here's the question, though. If you were to say, someone says, I want to experience a real cheesesteak.

Philadelphia cheesesteak. It doesn't matter what you put on it. It matters where you go for it. I mean, essentially. But what would be... What would one expect to find on a classic, real, regular cheesesteak? I would say sautéed onions, grilled onions, and probably whiz. If you're going to say classic Philly-style cheesesteak, that's not going to be my choice. But if you're going to send a tourist to get a Philly cheesesteak at a Philly cheesesteak shop, that's my...

That's my go-to. Agreed. Can't do the whiz. No, me neither. But if you're going to send a tourist to get one, isn't that what it's going to be? Yeah, you're right. And I'm a heretic, though. I don't get...

I don't get the whiz. I get a chicken cheesesteak and I just get the onions and the chicken. Well, Cooper Sharp has had a major, major surge in the cheese that goes on a cheesesteak. I will tell you, around Super Bowl time, remember that cheese dip that I brought in? No. Yeah, it was my world famous queso. Oh, you made a dip? Yeah, I made a queso dip.

uh, we use that on cheesesteaks. Ooh, that sounds good. That was an absolute game changer. So back to the pepper thing. So she had, uh, written and said, and now I'm not talking Pat's or Gino's. We, we know those are for the tourist. I'm, I don't think necessarily. No, no, I got, that's still a gym. Uh, it says I'm Philly born and bred. Uh,

Angelo's is top tier in my book, she says, and you'll never catch me messing up a steak with extras that don't belong. But apparently the Internet disagrees. And then she sent me the link to the tick tock, which I didn't get a chance to check out. Unfortunately, I said I figured if anyone could help us out, this debate once for all, it's you guys would love to hear your take on air and see what your listeners think. Let's restore order to the city. One cheese steak at a time.

And so she says wit or without onions, but definitely without green peppers. I'll tell you something, judging by what I see happening, like Michael Klein and reporting on the status of cheesesteaks in Philadelphia, the gourmet, the more personalized and cultural ads and extractions that go into the current state. I think, to your point, cheesesteaks can be whatever you want them to be.

If there are certain absolute ingredients in it, but you can put whatever you want in it. So I don't know if we're ever going to get to the point now where there is a one size fits all cheesesteak. Right. People just like to debate. They do. Just to debate. You know what I mean? But I mean, I used to hate fried onions.

And now I love them. You know what I mean? So like back in the day, if I wanted to get a, how would some people say, a true real Philly cheesesteak, well, I didn't like fried onions. So I wasn't getting a real one. I think the bottom line is for a purist, the more simple you keep it, the better. And so therefore, if you don't want onions, fine. You don't like onions. But you don't go putting...

tomato and lettuce and all kinds of caviar yeah and then it starts like it starts becoming something else then you're like a mansion person well then you have a cheesesteak hoagie you know so if you're putting like you know hoagie ingredients on there so my wife prefers a cheesesteak hoagie lettuce tomatoes onions uh and the cheesesteak as well i did make over the weekend uh a steak sandwich which i find is i think is different than a cheesesteak

Well, we had some leftover. Costco, by the way, has great steak. And so we bought a beef tenderloin. It was for Mother's Day. We were making dinner for Shell, so we wanted to make something really nice. And I had a leftover chunk of the beef tenderloin that I didn't cook. And I put it in a container and I set it aside.

And it was Friday night. Had a good strong buzz on and was hungry. And so with Carter and Parker and I'm like, I'm just going to cook up this meat before it goes bad. And I cut it into slices and I didn't chop it up and finely or anything like that. These were steak slices. What kind of bread? We had potato rolls. All right. You know, so hamburger buns, essentially. Any seasoning and or cheese? Seasoning was just salt and pepper.

And cheese, definitely. It was American cheese. Kept it pretty simple. But it was tenderloin. So that made a difference. It was nice. Nicely. Thinly. Slicely thinned. That's a steak sandwich, not a cheesesteak. Yes. And it was tender as well. Because sometimes cheesesteaks can be

Not overly gristly, but a little bit more. I will vomit if I catch gristle in a, I hate it. I hate little pieces of fat. Can't take it. All right, wait, we got some calls coming in. What the hell's going on? Before we go to the cheesesteak calls, though. Uh-huh.

We got our coolest teacher. Maybe they can answer the question. So we are now going to check in with our coolest teacher of the year from North Monkotech. It's John Jacobs. Mr. Jacobs, good morning. Good morning. How are you? We're good. But the question is, how are you, man?

I am on cloud 10 right now. You went above cloud nine. That's amazing. That's excellent. Well, the students appreciate you. And what's interesting, so you work at a technical school, but it says here you're a computer integrated machining teacher. Can you tell us what that is? I'm a machine shop instructor. That's really what it boils down to. Which is what now?

Oh, manufacturing, engineering. You know, we machine parts out of metal. Yeah. And plastics. Okay, so you're creating the components for machines, you know, to put together and eventually create something that works together. No? No, we're using...

We're using machines to create components for everything from car parts to space shuttles to artificial limbs. You know, it's...

It's advanced manufacturing, really. I'm blown away by this stuff, believe it or not. And this is where my mind goes when it comes to how things are put together. And this is kind of a paradox because, you know, I think I'll think about an impressive piece of machinery and then I think about all the components of that piece of machinery. And I think about, well, they had to make a machine to make the parts for that machine machine. And then they had to make the

parts for the machine that makes the parts for that other machine and you just keep going and going. You get a massive migraine. Yeah, but it's fascinating stuff, engineering. Yeah, that drew me into machining. That's exactly what you just described. No kidding. I didn't understand how. What Preston just said. All right, so how long have you been teaching at North Monaco, John?

I'm here four years, but I've been teaching 11 years. Nice. And you got to... Prior to that, I was a machinist. Okay. There you go. So you came right from the industry into teaching. And good crop of students this year, John? Yeah.

Great. Excellent. Nice. I just want to give a shout out to everybody here at the school. I just pulled in. This is an amazing group of teachers here. There's so much good stuff happening here. I assume that they are lined up on each side of the hallway ready to receive you and cheer you on as you enter the building, correct?

No, I don't see him yet. I was hoping that wouldn't happen because they called me. They called me and told me that I need to call you. Nice. I want to thank a lady named Anne Frank who texted me your number while I was on the turnpike. Anne Frank? Anne Frank listens to us? I thought that turned out in a wholly different way. So at least she had us to listen to while she was hiding.

Right. Yeah, that's very cool. Oh, and John, your name, John Jacobs, the first thing Casey said was Jingleheimer Schmidt. And does that still exist? Do people still know that? Barely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a few more years and he'll be free. Yeah.

All right. Well, listen, John, we're happy that you connected so well with the students. The teacher-student relationship is very special when somebody makes a mark and they actually connect with these kids. And so clearly you're doing that type of job and we appreciate it. This

our society doesn't move forward without people like you. So thank you for that. And as a thank you, we have two things for you. Our fine sponsors, Dunkin', are going to give you a $50 Dunkin' gift card. And you also get the official Preston Steve Cools T-shirt of the year coffee mug, my man. So congratulations.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. You got it, buddy. Have a great day. We're going to put you on hold. We're going to get your information to make sure that you do get your prize. So the next school up is Collingswood High School. So if you go to school there, you can text the word teacher to 610-660-9333 and place your vote. You should have asked him if he could have built the ultimate cheesesteak machine. Yeah, to just crank them out. All right. So we got a couple of calls coming in concerning this question, which was awesome.

Are green peppers acceptable? Even we, a generational show in Philadelphia can be drawn back. It's like Pacino and Godfather 3. They pull us back in to the cheese steak argument. But we do get passionate about it. Let me go to Joe, who's got an opinion. Hey, Joe, you're on the air. Good morning, buddy. Hi, Grandma. Hey, Grandma. What's up, man?

You know what really grinds my gears? When you're outside of the Pennsylvania, also Philly area, and restaurants and places like to put Philly cheesesteak on their menu, and then it comes with peppers. Come on, what are you doing? There you go. So you would be firmly... It's onions and cheese. Yeah, you're firmly in the no peppers on your cheesesteak side. Okay. Yeah. And I kind of agree with you. Which ways?

With whiz. With whiz. Thank you. All right, Joe, let me ask you about this. What about, like, cherry peppers? You'll see people put those on sometimes. Why me? But then that just becomes... Like, it's the whole thing, like, with the peppers, you know? It becomes just a cheesesteak, you know? It's not... You can't call it a Philly. Yes, it's still a cheesesteak. You're getting a cheesesteak, but, I mean...

I like the fact that you're resolute about it. Yeah. Philly style. Right. Okay. I think he's right. If you're going to call it a Philly style cheesesteak to what Nick said earlier about the basic components, I think that is the whiz, the onions, and that, and the steak. Probably an Amorosa roll. Yes. Yeah. All right, Joe. Thanks for the heads up, man. We appreciate it. But I guess you can put stuff on post-credits.

Like those, you know, because you go to Pat's and they have those cherry peppers that are there and you can add those on afterwards if you want. Marissa? Do you guys remember I told you about the Bucks fan I bumped into in...

Florida at the Philly spring training game, he put mustard all over his cheesesteak. Really? Like doused it. I've never heard of that. Yeah. I mean, I know this is extreme, but I would have set him on fire. No, I actually, um, I, I, I used to put mustard on my chicken cheesesteaks. Oh, okay. I'm going to set you on fire. Yeah.

But I feel like when we bring cheesesteaks out of the area, it opens it up to whatever flavor profile you want. As the last caller just said, if you're going to call it a Philly cheese, there's a difference. You can have a cheesesteak anywhere and it can be beholding to the rules of that area. But a Philly cheesesteak, as we understand it, is that basic configuration. I think they're Delco steaks in the stadium.

Oh. Like the Philly-based or Delco-based. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm not mad at mustard on a cheesesteak. I just kind of think of it like if there was ketchup and mustard, almost like a burger. Yeah.

I think I might want to try that. Okay. Yeah. I'm not mad at it. I don't think that the, you know, like I know. You're ready to talk to it. Well, no, no. I know some people will put a little mayonnaise on their steak. Listen, the burgers for the longest time when I was, you know, mustard and ketchup were quite common, you know, for the year that I lived out in California. That was the standard of McDonald's, mustard and ketchup. Hang on. I've got John on the line next. Hey, John, you're on the air. Good morning, man.

Please don't!

So it was the same place that Pope Leo would go to to have his holy cheese steak. Well, I wonder what the... It was. What's it called? I live near Garrett Hill. I want to check this place out.

Well, it's now Zesto's Pizza, I think. So Tony Steaks was there. I'm going to email you the photo and back when it was that. And he had a wife with long fake nails, and I was always a little bit curious about those. My aunt reminded me that apparently during the winter, somehow they were able to have still ripe tomatoes. So perhaps a little divine intervention there. Must be. And...

And the other thing, I was really young. He had a double bubble for five cents, but Tony would throw me a few for free and give me a wink. Now get out of here. Now get out of here, kid. Get out of here. All right, thanks, John. I wonder if they, well, listen, take advantage of the fact that if that was in fact a place where Pope Leo would purchase his cheesesteaks, I'd put that up on the papal approval. Let me go to, this sounds interesting. I have Matt who wants to comment on this. Hey, Matt, you're on the air. Good morning, bud. What's up, Matt?

A sloppy Joe and they called it a Philly cheesesteak?

Yeah, I was horrified. It was all I could do not to call the people over and educate them on what is really important. Listen, we have a hostage situation over at the cafeteria. There's a guy in there railing against the whole system. But you definitely verified it was a sloppy Joe.

Well, it was like ground beef meat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ground beef meat. Nope, you can't do that. That's a violation. That's an abomination. It's like a loose meat sandwich. I don't like it. All right. Do a little bit of research. Come on now. Yep, exactly. All right, thanks, Matt. Goddamn school. I forgot about that. Loose meat. You said, Casey, you still in the loose sausage club? Yeah.

Well, I put that loose sausage in my queso dip that's really good on a cheesesteak. Right. Put it all in there. Yeah. Squish it around. Where else did you like loose sausage? I like it on top of my pizza. So when I get my imperial pizza, I get it well done with sausage. I'll give you this, Casey. I believe loose sausage on a pizza is better than pepperoni on a pizza. I agree with you. Pepperoni might be the most overrated topping on a pizza. And I know it's the most popular and it's probably sacrilegious to say it, but yeah. All right. So loose sausage. Yeah.

Do you mean like crumbles all over the top? I like individual little mini meatballs. You're talking almost like granulated sausage, like a sausage ground sausage. That's what I'm talking about. He's talking about basically sausage cut like pepperoni. No, no, no, not that. The one that has been formed into little balls. Anthony's cold fire pizza. No, no.

Anthony's, whatever. Anthony's Pizza has that. They have sausage balls, almost like meatballs, on their pizza. I kind of like that one. That's what Claire calls me. I like loose sausage on my pizza. Where are the sausages? I'm all over. Yeah.

I don't like pepperoni. Never have. Oh, I love it. That's my jam. But the sausage shopping I can do, especially in your little ball world, Preston. Pepperoni is my go-to, without a doubt, unless I can guarantee that the pizza is, if it's sausage...

That it's loose sausage. Because I don't like my sausage any other way. You go meat lovers ever? No. Well, I mean, I had to see what it looks like. I mean, honestly, I'm not going to do a meat lovers. It looks like a slaughterhouse. Well, I don't like the sausage the way you like it. I don't like... Yeah, so it needs to be loose. Okay. But also...

Big pepperonis. I love big pepperonis over small pepperonis. Okay. You know, like I'm talking like coaster size. Big old areolas. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Guatemala nipples. I gotcha. Hang on. I want to go to another call. Believe it or not, we have to take a break here in just a second. But I have Angela who is joining us next. Hey, Angela. Good morning. Hey, good morning. How are you guys? Good. What's up, Angela?

So we actually, I went to University of Delaware. And when we were like studying for finals and midterms, we would routinely drive to Philly for a study break to go to pass and get cheese steaks. And on the way home one day, my friend got pulled over on 95 doing 27 miles over the speed limit.

And the officer's like, where are you kids going? It's like 2 o'clock in the morning. We're like, we went to Philadelphia to get a cheese stick, sir. And he's like, Pat's for Gino's. And we're like, Pat, sir? He's like, did you get Wiz Wit? We're like, absolutely, sir. And he gave us a warning. You got off because you got the right configuration. Yeah. My friend hung it on the, I'm sorry? If you would have said Gino's, do you think he would have given you a ticket?

Probably not, because we were just like, you know, college kids not getting into trouble. Cut to a shot of them in a South American prison. Right.

Yeah, no, no. He hung it on his dorm room door and was like, behold the power of Pat. Totally. Yeah. Totally. I get it. All right. Thanks, Angela. Appreciate it. Yeah, you can use it as a bribe. Oh, in fact, my agent years ago when we were working, when I was doing colleges and doing stand-up in colleges, we were driving together. We were on the Jersey Turnpike and we had gone through Philadelphia and Lou, God bless him. God bless his soul.

He loved cheesesteaks and bought a whole bunch. It would bring like a whole bag. And so we got pulled over and he gave the cop a cheesesteak and he let us go. Nice. Worth it. It can definitely work. Well, I don't know. Sherry, we're not going to be able to figure out the answer here. No, no, no. I think, though, the standard consensus is

is that if you want it to be a real cheesesteak from Philadelphia, the green bell peppers are not part of the equation. But I also want to back up what Casey said. Eat it the way you want it. Eat it the way you want it. Just don't tell us about it. If you order traditional, it's just going to be essentially like what Nick was saying. It's going to have to be steak, onions,

And whiz if that's your thing. I think any cheese will work just fine. I didn't know, and this is what an idiot I am, that Cooper Sharp was an American cheese. When I hear sharp, I just assumed it was a sharp provolone. Me too. And that's why I stayed away from it for as long as I did. Yeah. And then I found out that it's just an American cheese, and it's not a sharp, bitter taste either. No, you don't like sharp cheddar cheese? I...

I don't, and I do. It's a complex relationship where I... But you're with friends. I am with friends. So I can eat it on like a roast pork. I understand where some sharp provolones will actually bring out the flavor in other...

Because I used to go and get Cooper Sharp. That was kind of the cheese that I chose just at home to put on burgers or sandwiches or whatever. And then eventually I did find out it was an American cheese. I'm like, oh, that's kind of a little let down. American cheese is good, but it's also kind of... I'll have some Cooper Sharp, please. It's also kind of pedestrian. Yes. You know, if you know what I mean. And some whiz. Marissa? Love Cooper Sharp. It's my favorite. Yeah, it's great. I also want to share, since we're talking cheesesteaks, there's a new cheesesteak place you guys are probably going to start hearing about.

Apparently, Rivals Angelo's, it's called Del Rossi's. Del Rossi's. And it's in, I don't know what you call that part of city, but it's near Silk City and Yards Brewery, right on 4th and Spring Garden. I heard, yeah. And there's a Hustler store there now, if you guys haven't been driving down there. Excuse me? Yeah, you know Hustler that's on Hollywood Boulevard? No, I didn't know there was a Hustler on Hollywood Boulevard. So is it mostly old issues or new stuff as well? Well, it's like a sex shop.

shop. Oh, it is? Okay. Yeah, in that little shopping center where the Rite Aid is. And affiliated with Larry Flint's Hustler? Yep. No kidding. Yeah. Wow. Marissa, you think if we mention Del Rossi's enough that they'll send us stuff? They probably should. As long as they send over some grandma pies too, please. We're looking at a video. Is that a calzone, Nick? Yeah, it looks like a cheesesteak calzone from Del Rossi's, which is a great place that I want to visit, Del Rossi's. Del Rossi's should probably visit us instead. Right.

I love it. I'm just looking right now. They're closed. Is this a chain or is this a... No, it's a single. And it's a guy that took over a pizza shop that's been there for years. He took it over a couple years ago. So right next to Hustlers. And that's the Del Rossi's at 538 North 4th Street, Marissa? That's it. Their pizza looks really good, too. They should probably have that delivered again.

here right now. Yeah, so you have one of these and you go next door to the Hustler store and rub one out. There's your evening. The FCC's already opened up a case history on it. Which direction? You going Hustler first and then Cheesesteak or Cheesesteak and then Hustler? If the Cheesesteak is good, I don't even need to go to Hustler. You know what I mean? Well,

I'm just thinking for cleanliness in your hands and everything, maybe you want to eat first. You can wash them. I know you can, but you know. Sometimes I'm hungry afterwards. That's true, too. Just thinking out loud here. Listen, do it your own way. Okay. Like the cheesesteak. Right. Have it your way. Okay.

All right. Well, listen, thank you, Sherry, for emailing that in. We do have to take a quick break and come back in a moment. We have our friend Frank Caliano is going to be stopping by a little bit after 8 o'clock. So we got to get in the bizarre file. So we'll do that very thing. And also in a little bit, we are going to find out details about the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event, the 10th annual for the Laurel House. We're just coming up on the 31st. So stick around. We'll have that when we do the B-File, too. We'll be right back.

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Crazy story that I saw the video of this morning. A New Jersey man made his 40th birthday party an event that no one will ever forget by using it to expose his wife's alleged cheating on him. Nick Galante has gone viral after his shocking confrontation was shared on social media and his wife, Samantha,

had no idea that it was coming. So a guest caught it all on camera, starting with Nick on the mic telling everyone that he had something for her, even though it was his birthday. And it seemed pretty sweet at first. He takes a ring box from his pocket and makes Samantha hand over her wedding rings. And he says, happy wife, happy life, bull S. And then he kisses her hard before pushing her away. And then he reveals...

I effing know everything. That's right out of Godfather 2. Yep. It was you. It seemed like a Jerry Springer show. The angry husband unleashed on his unsuspecting spouse. He said, I know all about the Plan B pills that you had to take. Ha!

You filthing effing whore. He screamed at her. So he wrote this. Don't act like you don't effing know. Nick tells her that he despises her for ruining their nearly four year marriage and hurting their kids. Adding, I hate the life you stole from my children. Now, people are gasping. Yes. While he's saying this stuff. What a performance. When a confused Samantha throws her arms up and says, I don't know what you're talking about.

He threatens to share the alleged evidence with everyone at the party. She walks away, and Nick then kicks out, quote, anybody who now sides with this piece of ass. Wow. Samantha and her family left the party at that point, while the birthday boy stuck around to keep partying with his pals, according to the video. It was shared on social media. It's got over 6 million views and counting. A source close to the couple reports that they're still living under the same roof right now. Things must be tense. But they won't be giving their marriage another shot.

Wow. That's hardcore. This is a sad story. A man died while running the Brooklyn Half Marathon on Saturday morning. Charles Rogers, 31 years old, made it roughly eight miles into the course when he experienced a medical incident along Ocean Parkway. He had been a football player at the University of Minnesota. So, you know, he's athletic. Yes, you would assume.

Officer said CPR was performed on the man before he was transported to a medical center. It's got to suck if you're running in the marathon and someone has keeled over and you're running past them. Three years ago, 30-year-old David Reichman died during the same race. He had just crossed the finish line at the Coney Island Boardwalk when he suffered a cardiac arrest. Might be time for a quarter marathon. Some 28,000 runners were estimated to be on the half marathon course on Saturday.

Here's another terrible one. A man was seriously hurt after a palm tree fell onto him at the Cannes Film Festival. The man, believed to have been attending the festival, was badly injured. Firemen who treated him at the scene said it was bad. A sudden gust of wind brought the tree down near the Palais des Festivals on the Croisette Esplanade.

And, Steve, it was big. Yes. It was a big-ass palm tree. You know, palm trees end up, especially with the coconuts and things that fall from them, they kill a fair amount of people throughout the world. The fronds, actually, are very big and can kill people. The accident happened as the movie Eddington, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Pedro Pascal, was being showed. The croisset was crowded with festival goers when the tree fell. Yeah, it was terrible. Jeez.

All right, how about this story? A Lufthansa flight went 10 minutes without a pilot after the first officer fell ill while he was alone in the cockpit.

The Airbus A321... What's going on up here, buddy? ...was flying from Frankfurt, Germany to Seville, Spain. I don't feel so good. More than 200 people were on board the flight, which appeared to be running smoothly before it crossed the Spanish border. With about a half hour remaining of the journey, the captain left the flight deck to visit the bathroom. He told investigators the first officer appeared to be in good condition at the time.

Oh, man. Oh, man.

Captain used the emergency access code, and before the timer for this expired, the first officer was able to recover enough to open the door. That's terrifying. The 38-year-old was described as pale, sweating, and moving strangely, so the captain called for help. Eh.

Folks, you're going to laugh when you hear this. Cabin crew and a doctor who was traveling as passenger administered first aid while the captain diverted to Madrid, which was the nearest airport. Upon landing, the first officer was taken to the hospital. His sudden and severe incapacitation was a result of a seizure disorder caused by a neurological condition investigators wrote. Should somebody be an active pilot if they have seizure disorders? So that's what I thought, too. The Spanish aviation regulator said that his condition was difficult to detect and would appear...

in a medical exam only if his symptoms had been present at the time or had occurred before. So this had never happened and they didn't know. So I assume at some point, say now those codes and everything fail over and over again. Is there an ax or something on board where you could pierce the cockpit door? There's got to be a failsafe of some type. Because I was thinking the same thing. As time is running out, I mean, like, what the hell would they do? I'd say they'd get every large person on the plane to...

Be a battering ram. We need all the big people to run towards the cockpit door now. I don't know, man, but that's pretty wild. Scary. Yeah, and that is what I have in the Bizarre File for you this morning. All right, there is an event coming up for the 10th annual, actually. And this is an event we've been behind since the very beginning, the very first one that came about. You spearheaded it, and I sort of...

Jumped on board? Yeah, because it's such a wonderful organization. So the 10th anniversary of this event is coming up on the 31st. And looking forward to it. It's going to be at Casey's Alma Mater. We'll be at Ursinus College. Right by the Casey statue. It is the Walkam Island Herschews event to benefit Laurel House. And we want to welcome both Brad Smith and Melissa Pylong to the...

Studio this morning from Laurel House. Good to see you guys. Good to see you. Thank you. Absolutely. And Melissa, we were just looking at a picture of you guys at Cardboard Classic with your giant red shoe sled that you made. And I forgot, how did it do when it went down the hill? It made it almost all the way down the hill. Almost. Almost all the way. But it's the first sled I've ever done. First Cardboard Classic. So...

I call that a success. That's a success. And it was a tough design, so not necessarily something you'd associate with a successful run down a mountain. It was a stressful few weeks, putting it together to say the least. Yeah. It looked great, so we hope you guys will make it an annual event if you want to come. Yes.

It's on the list. All right. Speaking of annual events, the Walk a Mile in Hershoes is coming up, like I said, on May 31st. And Brad, this will be our first time at our Sinus College doing this, right? Yes. Super excited for our Sinus College. It's great to be on a college campus. A little different. We're going to actually walk by Casey's statue if the weather cooperates. If there is rain, we'll stay indoors in the Floyd Bakes Lewis Center.

Oh. Which is awesome. That's great. So we have that capability. It's one of the reasons we moved. And also just the support from our scientists has been great. It used to be on the grounds of Pfizer, right? That's true. And I remember, Preston, it was one year you couldn't make it. And it was a torrential downpour. I was there with you. You were there?

I was there with you. And Nick, what did we do? We were in the parking garage. We walked in the parking garage. Yeah. But we did a mile. We did it. In the parking garage, in the heels. Yeah. And I was actually just chatting with our next guest, Frank Caliendo. And he's like, you know, talking about the men wearing the high heels and walking for a mile. And he's like, that sounds hard. It's not easy. Yeah. But that's why you do it. Exactly. It's really to create awareness, obviously. I mean, it's walking a mile in her shoes. It's, you know.

you know, started as a men's walk to for against rape, sexual assault and gender violence. And we're doing that, you know, on this day and really bringing awareness to what we do. It sounds goofy to wear the high heels, but it's really something to talk about and have people out and realize how difficult it is. Yeah. And I've always said that it's kind of a representation when I address a crowd. I'm like, you know, the discomfort that

we feel while doing this is nothing compared to what the people that reach out to Laurel House are facing in their real world every day. It is since expanded at Laurel House because now also men who are victims of domestic abuse can also get assistance there. And I actually know some who have done that. I know someone who's, we all know, a friend of ours. And he had a situation where he had an abusive brother who

and I said, you should contact Laurel House. He contacted Laurel House. He had legal advice. He had hand-holding. He had support people who got him through it. I mean, it was just so amazing to watch the mechanism in motion so anyone who finds themselves in this situation

you do have an organization you can turn to, which is why Laurel House is so great. Yeah, right on. I mean, it's exactly what we were talking about actually in the parking lot outside about the Cardboard Classic. And Melissa, just anecdotally, you know, in the community, you hear from people who come up and share their story with you. Hey, I was helped by Laurel House. This happened to me.

You know, you guys provided these services and that's what we do. I mean, when people call our hotline, come to our office, we're there for help. That's what we want to do. You know, we want to be that safety net. Make sure one, first they're safe, then also then provide services that we can and get people out of situations and get their lives back.

So this event helps raise money for these services that you provide. Can you give a few more of the specifics? Because Steve had mentioned legal advice and eventually job training. There's all kinds of things involved. Yeah, I think when people think of Laurel House first, they think of our shelter. And that's what, you know, we're in Montgomery County, the only domestic violence shelter around. But also the services we provide, counseling,

We provide a community education. Even last week, we're out in four different school districts talking about healthy relationships, which is really important for us to talk about prevention and those services we have.

Also, our medical advocacy, working with nurses, doctors, being in hospitals. So when there are signs of abuse, we can be on call as well. And also, it's our 20th anniversary of our domestic abuse response team. So that team works closely with first responders, local police departments to come out. So if there is a call...

That team will be out there 24-7 and work with someone to make sure they're safe and provide them with advocacy and what the steps they can do next. So in honor of that, we're offering to all first responders at Walk a Mile this year a 20% discount to come out and be part of this event. It's an event that we've

had in the past. Lots of fire departments, police departments. Oh, there are dudes that run with full rucksacks on. Absolutely. And they'll run it in high heels. Not me. Preston and I were crippled that one year. It was a gravel road.

How did you do that to us? It was like the second or third year of the event and we were in Norristown. We were walking on gravel and high hills. We're like, how are we doing this? It was ridiculous. I don't even do that. You've got experience. But you know what? And not to jump in here, Preston, but it's good to know that it is a fun event. And there's a lot that's going on. And one of the most amazing things is that you always have someone get up and speak about their own experience. And those are

always incredibly moving and it can be you know sort of um

you know, dour, usually in the beginning and wraps up with it, with a great supportive and uplifting angle to it. And that's the whole story of Laurel house. Yeah. One of the things that I think we're most proud at Laurel house about this event is just raising that community awareness about it. I mean, thanks to you guys, obviously for talking about it on the air raises that awareness. So we can just help one person who hears it or comes out or hears about that event that people were wearing high heels and,

That's a big bonus for us to find people help. But really proud of, if I could give a quick, is a shout out a thing or is that an old guy thing? Yeah, we do a shart out. Yes, a shart out. Either one works. I'll give you a shart out. But one of our teams, the Gorgeous Gams, they've been walking for 10 years. There's a young man on the team, Joey G this year, who's a high school student, a friend of the family.

And he is right now the leading fundraiser. Yes. But what I love about this, like I said, he's a high school student. The donations isn't like $1,000 from grandma. These are $10, $20. They got to be from classmates, friends. So every time he talks about this event, you know it's getting out there to his buddies, his colleagues, maybe on his TikTok, his Instagram. I just think that's what this event is about.

You know, it's about that awareness is to get people talking about domestic violence and what we can do differently to make this a better world. Excellent. I love it. Absolutely. So the event is coming up on the 31st. If people want to register, you can go to laurel-house.org or you can go to PrestonandSteve.com. We have a link to that and you can get signed up. You can sign up on my team on Team WMMR if you like.

just contribute to the whole thing. And I want to say this because of the amount of people that listen to this show, somebody listening right now is going through a domestic abuse situation. You can reach out. There are people that are there to help you. There are resources. If it's not Laurel house or a house can probably direct you to somewhere else. It might be geographically friendly to where you are, but there are people you can get out of this situation with the

people that are helping that are that are lending the helping hand and it's so important the reason i got started this in the first place i remember reading an article decades ago about the amount of available space for people in philadelphia alone that were going through domestic violence and it was it was ridiculous how small it was it was like less than a hundred beds for thousands of people

thousands and thousands of people who need this help. So it's very, very important that we support places like Laurel House to continue to lend that helping hand for people who desperately need it. But this event is just a way to spotlight it and also to raise some money and have a good time and to desensitize the whole thing and tell people that it's okay to reach out. When does the actual walk start?

Yep. On Saturday morning, 9 a.m. registration, 10 a.m. Preston will kick things off and we'll get things moving with, like you said, we'll hear from someone, Team Carly. Their mom is speaking this year to talk about the death of her daughter over 10 years ago. And, you know, after that, we'll begin talking.

To hurt your blisters or whatever on your feet. We'll hurt your heart a little bit and then we'll hurt your feet even more and then we'll encourage you to help out. So I'm going to try to get over this year because I made a number of them and it's a packed Saturday, but I'm going to try to get over. If I do, I'm not going to wear high heels because I whapped my knee really badly. Noted. And I'm going to use my WIMP card right now, but I will walk.

regardless, all right? We can give you bows if you prefer. Yes, sure. You don't have to wear high heels if you can't. A strap on if you've got it. That way I'll tell you, whatever you got. Steve, you should walk around with a strap on on. That would be something to see. Walk a mile in his strap on. They'll put that on the front page of the website. All right, well, thank you guys, and I will see you there on the 31st. And we'll hope for good weather, all right? Yes, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you to Melissa and Brad for being here at Warhol House.

laurel-house.org and get signed up. It is coming up on May 31st. We are going to take a break. When we return, our good Frank Caliendo is in the Acme Lounge. We'll bring him into the studio. We'll be right back. Stay with us.

Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. I told you we have a guest in the studio, and I can't believe it, ladies and gentlemen. Robert Downey Jr. is here this morning. It is truly unbelievable for me to show up. I don't normally get up before noon, and I go to bed at about 2 p.m., so it's about a two-hour window. So I had to switch it up, make sure it would work out. But I am Iron Man. Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Calhoun. No.

He joins us here. We just spoke to him last week, and you played at Helium last night? Helium last night. Super early show, like 6 o'clock. Yeah, they did move some stuff around to even get in. It was good. I was actually more interested about coming here. It's so funny. There are a few places around the country, and this is one of the shows...

I like doing stand-up. I enjoy it. I actually enjoy it more than I had a few years ago when I was just kind of doing the same stuff over and over and over. And radio is where I would always start creating more. But you make friends and you hang out in studios. And then it's just like, oh, I get to go hang out with the guys. I hang out with everyone. That's really what I look forward to in a lot of these cities. Unfortunately, it doesn't pay any.

Shows around it to make it worth it. Right, right. But yeah, you guys are one of the shows, and the audience knows this,

There's just something different about you guys than almost 99% of anything else out there. Yeah, we appreciate it. It works and it's fun and it really... You come at a little weird time, obviously, because we're down, Kathy. Right, yeah. Which is not good, but we're doing the best we can. But it is a wonderful thing. And we love the relationship with the...

the listeners and it is something it's something you connect to and it's interesting the last time we talked about you talking about being re-engaged and re-excited you know by this stuff and so as you're out does it feel like when you were first getting into it or is it something wholly other you know what

It is. It's more like when I first got into it. I'm traveling with three other guys, three other people. So a guy named Willie Griswold, who's kind of an up-and-coming young guy. Patrick Keene, who's helping me write a bunch of stuff. And Al Jackson. Is this your Memphis Mafia? I mean, it's actually four headliners doing the shows. Really? Wow. We're doing the DC Improv Tuesday and Wednesday. Yeah. So...

People come in and they go, you got four instead of three? I'm like, yeah, but everybody else does it kind of a short time and it's just pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. And then me and people after the show, they're like, that was unbelievable. I was like seeing four headliners. Like, I know, that's why I bring this show. It's great. So it's different. Because a lot of times you go to a comedy club and the first act is like somebody brand new hasn't done it. Well, I got a headliner opening the show. Awesome. So it just, it elevates the whole show. And then everybody else kind of...

cruise control in terms of effort, which always makes it more fun for the audience. Because the first guy takes the bullet and then everybody else is like, oh, let's just ride with this. So it is...

It's fun reinvigorating it. A lot of fun. I don't know if it's invigorating or re. I'm not sure of the in. But either way, let's just say it's fantastic. Like Fantastic Four, which is coming out soon. Going to make some more money. Great. And then Doctor Doom shows up, which is me. And I'm not Tony Stark anymore. So we're going to have to figure that one out. Yeah. Victor Von Doom. Ah.

But there is a comic... I'm trying to look for the word that you would know, Steve. Devigorating? No. Which is what the rest of this segment has been since I got lost trying to find the word. Kind of a bushification area. So...

I always go that and straight to Trump. But we've got all the words. We've got tremendous words. And it's not political. It's not political. It's just using library Trump and making it very quiet. Very quiet things. And we're going to use the dirty system. And it's going to be fantastic. Fantastic.

The thing I've been doing on stage, and again, it's not political stuff. I stay away from the politics. I just make fun of everybody. But Donald Trump, though, you know, he can take anything. Like McDonald's. Remember the McDonald's drive-thru? Yes, yes, yes. Very good, very good. We've got some of the best food here. Great stuff.

But there's some bad people. There's some bad people. Like the hamburger. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy. They rabble, rabble. Always trying to steal the burgers. But we've got great people on our side. We've got Mayor McCheese. Oh, God. Officer Big Mac and Elon McMuffin. We've got the best people. We've got tremendous people. So... You know, you know, which is just a comment. So, which is great about... Which makes you perpetually, you know, the absolute best. Is you will find...

The Trump really soft spoken. Because everybody's doing the big one. So I try to do what everybody isn't doing. They do that rev up kind of thing. So I thought, let's do something different. Let's do something better. Let's do something. It's better.

And I can still say tough things. I forget who I saw doing Biden, but he had had, and he could do the regular stuff, but he caught one thing and I forget exactly what it was, but it was that one little thing that just cracked me up. Was it Dana Carvey by any chance? Because he does a mean Biden. It might have

It's going to be tough now with the Biden stuff. That's what I was negotiating on stage last night trying to figure out. And I was like, yeah, I do Biden when he was president, not right now. Why does a young man grow up in Scrap, Pennsylvania? 30, 45, 600 A.D.?

It's for the Roman Empire. But I was very careful. I was like, if I can do it, if I can't do the Biden in Philly, I can't do it anywhere. Right. That was my feeling last night. And I was like and I didn't know who knew the news and stuff like that. So I'm always again, I'm not mean with this stuff and I'm going to be very careful, but I'm going to be in D.C. this week. Yeah. And they're in they're in the know on everything. Right. So that's another great test market to see. I mean, it all sounds terrible and horrifically selfish, but.

But when Chris Farley passed away, I was in Wisconsin, which is where I grew up. I did Chris Farley that night. I still feel sick to my stomach about it. Yeah, okie dokie. Yeah, I mean, it's like kind of a thing where I was like...

If I can do it tonight, and I could feel the audience going, does he know? He's passing. And I was like, yeah, I feel like I'm just a horrific... I'm Vince McMahon. You're wearing the... My name is Matt Foley, and I'm a motivational speaker. I'm wearing a Chris Farley shirt right now as you speak. Time is different for everything. But again, we'll see how it all goes. I've been doing so many different things. Nick was talking about...

I thought I'd done this for you before, but I hadn't. The voice changing thing. The transition, which I love your Instagram. They're almost tutorials. And you'll go from how you do Seth Rogen into whomever next. But there are...

Fast transitions, which amaze me because there's a little hint of comedy in each transition to the next impression. Right. The idea is, for me, when I do those types of things, is entertainment first. Right. But if somebody can learn a little something during it, that's where it's a little bit better. Or gives more value to a person. That's when they tend to go on. I use... So, definitely. I mean, all I do is...

rip off... I mean, years ago, there used to be a show called the Copycats. Frank Horsh and Rich Little. They were all impressionists. They all did skits. And they all... They were kind of the ground zero for me starting to do impressions. And mine are the worst, but I get in the ball. No, they're good. But so...

But you have an attuned ear. What was the first impression that you did that made yourself go, wow, I sound like him? Well, it was probably a character voice, and it fits in to what Nick was talking about. It's Kermit the Frog. Kermit the Frog here, reporting from the planet Coosbean, right? So Kermit the Frog is here. But what was different about me than other people was I would do Fozzie Bear, too. Ah, waka, waka, waka. Right? So I would do, which is also Bert and Ernie. Oh, Bert, Ernie. Yeah.

Right? So I would do those. Now, Kermit the Frog and Ernie are way up in here. It's a nasal kind of thing. And Fozzie Bear is in the throat. Right. So if you take Kermit the Frog and you bring it down a little bit, it becomes John C. Reilly. Did you touch my drum set? Did you touch my drum set? So then if you add some air.

It becomes Mark Ruffalo. I see this as an absolute win. I had no idea that was even going to be part of this. That's crazy. That's great, man. Look at you guys. And then you bring it down even more, and it becomes Paul Giamatti. I'm a liar.

I believe that is one of the craziest things I've ever heard on Preston and Steve. And then, if you bring it back up and tighten it again, you go back to John. That was John Madden in there. I didn't realize that. Yeah, what's he doing? John Madden's in there. Boom. Making a movie without Frank Caliendo.

And then, so if you bring it and tighten it up, it becomes Seth Rogen. I had no idea he was even doing that. Have you been watching his show? Have you been watching? No, I haven't been watching. No, it's pretty good, I guess, the studio. Now, I'm sorry to interrupt. No, goodbye, Elmer. I'm fascinated by the impression. So then Paul Giamatti can phase into Heath Ledger, right? It's very close. Isn't that it? Yes, yes. And I...

That's where sometimes they get murky for me. I could do Paul Giamatti going, do you want to know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. Now you can bring it down even more and it becomes Jack Nicholson. Yes. How did we even... That's from Joker to Joker. Three of us. And guess what? You win. So there... Yes. And if you go Seth Rogen... So Jossie Riley, Seth Rogen...

And then Joe Rogan is actually, Jamie, oh my God, pull that up. Oh, that's excellent. That is crazy. That's nuts. So they're all right in the same... Has he heard you do that? Probably. Yeah. All I can really do is, Jamie, pull that up. Oh my God. That's his line. We've had now, Steve, like he said, we'll do impressions. And I'm curious if this has ever happened to you. And it's very rare, but Steve...

There's been a couple times where your intention was to do Johnny Depp, but you're actually doing Gene Simmons. Right. Because there's similarities. Gene Simmons. Do you ever find yourself doing an impression thinking you're doing another one? Yes, and that's where you get some of it.

them, right? I mean, you're starting to do one and you're like, that's actually somebody else. You're like, oh, I do great this person. I do the person I wasn't trying to do, which I think is what you're talking about. So when I do Eddie Vedder, which is like this, kind of like that

But Johnny Depp is also... And now I have to work to get out of that to get into Johnny Depp. If I start with one, it's hard for me. The way you do it, like on a dime. Well, I practice them to get that. Because that's when I first start doing them, they all blend. When I started doing Bill Walton, who was a friend of mine, I remember being at Berkeley. Black as a beard, not collecting in my face. I could smell colors.

I can feel the sounds. Has there ever been a player better than that left shrimp? Now, see, if you take it, you bring it back in the part of the throat, that's actually just not that far off of John Madden. So when I first started doing them, they melded together. George W. Bush, Terry Bradshaw, and even Chris Rock aren't that far away. It's just different levels of tightening up the throat and stuff like that.

So it's interesting because I think of like, you think of your, from your nasal passages to your throat, to the back of your throat as a musical instrument. You have to be acutely aware of, it's almost like which, you know, on a trumpet, which valve you're going to press. It's just playing the songs. That's kind of how I describe it. Right. You're just playing the music, right? How many Christopher Walkins have you heard? Low, high, middle. They're all, it's...

But you know who it is. It's the Shatner theory. You can sound like William Shatner just by...

Pausing in the right places. You know what's a fun one? Is Barkley. And you do a great Barkley. But I think anybody can do it. Barkley sort of seems like he's in his own world. There's not anybody else that kind of sounds like Charles. You know what I mean? Muhammad Ali. People want to say, Joe Frazier? Joe? You bring it down, that's a little bit right there. Because people have told me that when I was on stage. They're like, that's kind of close.

Charles Barkley. But Barkley has the South. He has Philly. He's got a whole bunch of different, you know,

American-U.S. dialects that have melded together because of the places he's lived. Yes. But there's like that... Terrible, terrible, it's really, really bad. Everything that's really crazy. And a lot of guys... One of my favorite stories is when I met Charles Barkley. And I never told this story. Did I tell you guys this story? Well, let her rip and we'll tell you. But so...

I don't remember if it was the first time when I met Charles or if it was just a meeting, but it was for the Phoenix Suns Charities in

Charles comes up to me. First of all, he's like, Frank, you got to keep doing it. I'm like, why is that? Because every time you do it, I end up making more money. I don't even understand why. People hear you do it on the radio. Next thing you know, I'll get a new commercial for Taco Bell or Weight Watchers, which came out after Taco Bell. So he's like, you know, John Madden wanted to sue you, right? Then I said, I know. I was, you know, because I did these...

ads a long time ago. Right. And I had myself indemnified, but there was Barkley and there was Madden and stuff like that. Now, I didn't tell the story because Charles had never told the story and I didn't want to ask him about it if it was okay to tell, but then he told it on the Kelsey Brothers podcast. The only reason I tell it that it was on there is because it's related to Taylor Swift at that point and that makes my daughter happy. Yeah, yeah.

It's all connected. So, but yeah, he's like, you know, John Maynard wanted to sue you. I had to talk to him about that. And I said, anytime somebody does our voices, that's going to make us more money. It really is. So Barkley was the reason that it all went away. Wow. Because Madden called him and figured it out, you know. But it's reality. It's just parody. I mean, those things were kind of on the edge. So I think that Madden had a point.

Was he the closest you came to having real litigation based on your impression? It was the only time I took a chance. Most of the time I just do straight parody stuff. People ask me to do things as Morgan Freeman. I'm like, you're going to get sued. You can't do that. You can do it.

fun and I couldn't take money to do it. They've asked me to help teach AI. AI has probably advanced more now, but they're like, can you help us get our AI to a better thing? I go, I'll get sued. They're like, nobody will know and nobody's to sue. I'm like, they'll find out and then I will never work. No, they will. Because

They scour. They scour. So I've been doing stuff with AI, and so I don't run away from it. I want to find out how it works. Right, sure. But one thing is clear. But are you trying to sell something with it? No, no, no. That's the difference. That's the difference. One thing is clear. So I look at that. I describe AI when I'm doing it. I've done, I did Patrick Swayze. Here, I'll play it for you. This is at the Jersey Shore. They have these tram cars. They make this announcement that say, watch the tram car, please. Mm-hmm.

And the idea was that Patrick Swayze was doing the voice of it, and this was it. No, no, no. Oh, I'm sorry. Here. All right, hit it. Her mom is a whore, and even she knows to watch the tram car. So that's him from Roadhouse. Right. To do that, it's the same thing. Learning how to play the algorithm to get it to sound that way. There is something that you as a human will always be able to bring that AI can't.

Yeah, well, maybe it eventually will. But I even did a thing with Michael Bublé, who I became friends with and just recorded something for he had an AI thing for a pitch thing he was doing. And I he said, can you can you and he did it with his Canadian accent. Could you help me out here? You know, so so I did. It was one of those things where it just brings life to it when you have those Morgan Freeman voiceovers.

A lot of times it sounds like, and that's why my friend Andy said something wonderful. And you realize that's not quite the way he would have done it. Well, you're exactly right. So when I'm doing... To get things... I did the whole roadhouse, you know, is your mama's a whore? And, well, is she? And I did this whole elaborate bit. And I had...

There were certain words the AI couldn't say. And so I had to restructure and pause. You could just say it. And that is what is still at least, and I'm using some of the most advanced stuff that's out there. I like to dabble and see what's out there.

But for purely comedic purposes, it works. But it is a pain in the ass having to re-knoinker and rejigger. I wanted it to say this, and now I have to figure out another way to get it to say the same thing. Right. And AI doesn't really understand humor. No. Because humor is different for everybody, too. It doesn't have timing. Yeah. So that's the difficult part.

That's the most difficult thing with programming. That is, and I don't know if AI will ever get there because we, every, like in an audience, you can do something a certain way and it might not work and you can find it as you're going live. Right. Along the, like doing a standup show.

I find different timing each night depending on the audience and how they're going, you know, how they're receiving stuff. And I might have to start bringing them up and engage them more. And I just don't know if you can do that yet with an AI type of thing. I want to ask you about this, Frank. I don't know if I ever have before, but, and I know I follow you on Instagram and it's wonderful because you'll, you'll put,

celebrities in scenarios that are interesting like they're playing Batman or they're doing different characters in their voices, which I think is cool. One of the most brilliant things I've ever seen with a voice actor was when the great Mel Blanc in one of the Looney Tunes episodes, it was a rabbit season, duck season, where Daffy pretends to be Bugs. And Bugs pretends to be Daffy. It's

when you think about it. This is this character doing an impression of another character. Is that something you ever try to pull off? Yeah, it's happened on accident. That's gotta be so hard. I've done weird things where, like I was, this is when I first started out, the first time I recognized that happening, I was going into a Robert De Niro and then I went into, I am the key master, are you the gatekeeper? I didn't know if I was here or if I was here. I was in the middle of it and then I kind of created that somewhere in the middle, you know?

So if Robert De Niro is doing that, I am the key master, you're the gatekeeper. So it's kind of like in the meld. So I'm trying to think of something that would be good to do that would be two voices, somebody doing a different one. But it's how do you keep...

And they have to be different. They have to be different. So when you're, I don't do a great Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, but, you know, Bugs Bunny is that, watch out, duck. It's in there. And then Daffy Duck is duck season. So you're doing something. There's something. That was more, what's that? Sylvester. Sylvester, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you've got, you can combine two things. I'm trying to think of two things. It's complex.

It's really... By the way, he... Two mouth movements. Yeah. Because I always tell people, the mouth tells you how the person talks. The eyes tell you how the person thinks. So that's why I do a Donald Trump impression. It's first, it's like you're looking into an aquarium and mimicking the fish. So you can do, you can do the, just the lips. Just the lips. If you do the lips, people get the lips. But now...

If you get the egg, it brings it to life. It really does. And it's... Now I'm just trying to... Jeff Goldblum's another one. Ooh, yes. Like a... Like a what? Like a painting in a haunted house. Oh, my. I... Or Harry Potter, where they can just look around. Ooh, look at you going up the stairs. I'm going to find something...

The what? The one chooses the wizard. I love your voice impressions, and I know that this is a radio program, but when you do Bush, that's my favorite facial impression that you do. You look the most like him. It's not like you're trying to do Jim Carrey's impressions. Just solely be facial. It's just a little bit of...

That's just what happens there, man. It's trying to figure it out. Gruden is like that two sports guy. He's like, I tell you what, man. That's tremendous, man. A little spider, a pea, a wide banana. You guys want to open up some boxes on the internet? And it's funny because they got him going to the Chucky. He's the Chucky doll, right? Right, right, yeah. And I'm like...

Thank goodness it was Chucky and he embraced the Chucky because if he's out there going, I'll tell you what, people think I'm Strawberry Shortcake. That'd be pretty good, right? Strawberry Shortcake with friends like Orange Blossom, Lemon Meringue.

How about that, man? Come on. Think about this. Beware of the purple pie man, man. I'll tell you what. I might know a little too much about strawberry shortcake, raspberry tort. There's a tremendous group. I started doing this thing where you ever see a person move like an animal? Yeah, yeah. Most people tend to move just like a regular everyday person, but actors sometimes take on these animals.

And Gruden is like a rooster, whereas he just walks in and he's like cock-a-doodle-doo, man. I'll tell you what, I can hear the bacon and eggs going there in the frying pan. One of those might be something from one of my friends. I'll tell you what, man, the sun came up and so did I. It's going to be a pretty good day right here, man.

How many times have you been in the same room as him? I've hung out with him a bunch of times. He's just sitting there laughing. Yeah, he's fun. He's a good sport. The sports people can be tough.

Because they're put on pedestals their entire time and they're very serious, serious people. I mean, that's why John Madden didn't like me forever. He took himself very seriously in terms of that. You think because of that they're not used to getting the dings? Yeah, I think so. If you're in their world, I think people do, sports guys get that more.

It's locker room kind of camaraderie type of thing. Do you think you would approve of Nicolas Cage being the guy that's going to play him? Well, yeah. I mean, have I ever told you about this before? Years ago, they wanted me to do a song to film. John Madden was doing a commercial where he was singing...

you know, like chestnuts on it, roasting it open fire. And I'm like, he doesn't like me. They're not going to want me to do this. And they're like, no, just come and audition. I'm like, you know what? Why don't you pay me for the audition? Cause you're going to love it. I mean, I'm not usually an egomaniac, but I'm like, I'm not wasting my time for this. I'm the guy that everybody knows that does this. If you want to give me a thousand dollars at the time, I was like, that's what I asked for. I go, give me a thousand dollars.

This is 20 years ago. Yeah. And I will record for you. They're like, you're crazy. They couldn't find anybody. They bring me in. I'm like, chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose. And they're like, that's unbelievable. This is going to be so great. He's going to love it. I'm like, we'll see. They didn't use it. They, in the commercial, chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

Not even close. Wow. So with the Nicolas Cage, I don't know. I'd known Nicolas Cage was going to be... It was originally, I guess, going to be Will Ferrell. There was talk of that. And then Hugh Jackman, they talked about as Madden, and now Nicolas Cage, which this was what we teased the other day, was...

They called me. My agent called me and goes, the director and Nicolas Cage want to do a Zoom with you to work on the John Madden voice and stuff. And I was like, no. They're like, he's like, what do you mean? No. I'm like, I don't want to do Zoom with Nicolas Cage. I want to hang out with him.

with Nicholas Pierce. I want to ride sidecar with the ghost rider in Vegas. That's what I want to do. I want to do, we're in the mirror world. That's what I want to do, right? I want to have that Leslie Stahl walk and talk at his house type of 60 minutes dealio. Here's my monitor lizard. Have him showing me

His animals, right? He's got those exotic animals. I've named him Pat Summerall. What would John Madden say if he were here? I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence. And I think with him, I could teach Nicolas Cage. I don't know if he's got it. Maybe they watch me. Maybe they just watch it from him.

But Josh Brolin used me for the movie W. He and Oliver Stone watched a bunch of me. So you were helping give him insight into how to do the voice? They just watched me. Brolin told me he just watched me. And I told you this part, right? Didn't I tell you? Maybe years ago. I was at Ace Comic Con out in Seattle. I took my daughter there for her 13th birthday. And she was a huge Marvel fan at the time. Massive fan.

And we, the same agency as Josh Brolin, I knew he would kind of know who I was. Right. Because he talked about me in an interview. So we go through just the regular picture line. We get to skip to the front and stuff like that. I kind of use my D-list celebrity. So we go, and we go through and take a picture with Josh Brolin. My wife and me, my daughter did one separately. My wife and I are just standing there and use Josh Brolin, the look on Josh Brolin's face. I'll try and pick it up. I'll find it on my camera roll for you guys later. But,

the look on his face is like, why do I know this guy? Right. So then I come back later and I actually, they set it up for me to hang out and meet Josh Brolin for a few minutes with my daughter and my wife. And, uh,

they said here's the caveat here's the problem he's gonna be with chris evans at the time i'm like i'll deal with it yeah yeah we'll make that not try to make that work so we get in there and i'm talking to brolin for a few minutes where you know they have those pipe and drape things where you people come in and walk they're taking a little break i come in and brolin's like no i knew it was you and i can't believe he goes that is me in that movie that's me doing you he goes that whole movie is me doing you and chris evans goes wait a second what's going on here man i was like

I just stood quiet and he goes, this guy helped me with a movie role. I don't really do a Josh Brolin other than I am...

inevitable you know yeah yeah he's evans is like what what what are you who is this guy why is he here and brolin's like he helped me with the movie roy and evans like what role i'm like thanos and he goes wait wait what what you're blowing my mind man what are you talking about dude what is this here what he's like and uh he goes no he was uh w and that stuff and he goes wait a second who are you and he and then i he goes

I said, Frank Caliendo. He goes, oh my God. Wow. Frank Caliendo. Hey, do some Madden. Do some Madden. And he's got me doing, do Belichick, do Madden. He starts having me do that stuff. My 13-year-old daughter is going crazy. Yes. Because Captain America knows who I am and is a fan. Oh, wow. And she knew the difference between Captain America and Chris Evans. I didn't, but she did. So then after that, we get done and we're taking, he's like, yeah, take pictures. We got to take pictures. So we take the pictures. We get,

We get done. We walk out and my daughter's like, this is the greatest day of my life. I'm like, well, it's all downhill from here, kid. It's not going to get any better. I don't know if any other Avengers know sports that well. So because that's what a lot of people know me from the most. So so then Evan sees me after he takes another break. He's like he's talking. He's like, hey, Frank, come over here, man. And he goes, you'll be here for a while. What's going on? All this kind of stuff.

and then he had to go back they called him back because he had to do more pictures for the people who were actually there for the event and my daughter goes that was even better i go why she goes because he didn't have to talk to you right there and she's like he chose he saw you again called you over and said can we talk some more and started talking about the weekend and stuff like that she goes it did just get better and i was the coolest dad for about a year and a half that's cool

And then it was over. Hey, doesn't she do some impressions? Yeah, she can do some brewing. My kids can both. My son will do all sorts of mimicry and stuff like that.

My daughter wants to be in PR. My daughter wants to be behind. I took her to CAA, the agency, which is a giant agency. It's funny because she just texted me last night. They were watching Suits LA. And she goes, that looks like CAA. And my wife was like, what? The agency, the CAA. It looks like they're walking around in CAA in LA.

and my wife didn't know what she was talking about. They looked it up, and she was. And Stephen Amell, we saw Stephen Amell, who plays the character in that, and he's a big sports fan too. We met him and talked to him for a little bit. So it's funny how sports can do that with some of these. They just canceled that, by the way. Oh, did they really? Yeah. Because they didn't have me in it. Well, they didn't have you in it. Maybe I should have done some Robert Downey Jr. and shaved it like I shaved the earth.

With 14 million possibilities. I don't remember the exact number, which isn't very Tony Stark of me. Let me ask you. So you talk about obviously finding voices through other voices. What has proven to be the most elusive of the majors that people expect you to get that you can't get to? Because sometimes...

vocal register just won't let you get there yeah i can't do any female voices okay i could do a cartoony kind of female voice they all end up sounding like marge simpson you know that all right that type of thing which down is yoda right so those are close uh

I'm trying to think of, if you haven't heard me do it, I can't. I've been trying to figure out Jack Black recently. Ladies and gentlemen. It's somewhere in there. Dude. It's there. Legend of the Kung Fu Panda. It's in that. It gets there, but that's more the cartoony. It's not his regular everyday voice, which I'm trying to hit. And I find these weird ones that I don't know where to use yet.

So like Leonardo DiCaprio, like I can take him from Wolf of Wall Street that, you know, five years ago when I first started at Stratton Oakmont, I knew, you know, that type of thing. I have a Saul Goodman from, uh, did you know that you have rights? The constitution says you do. Hi, I'm Saul Goodman. I even have Odin Kirk's laugh. I did with him on TV one time. I was like, it's fun. Um,

You know, there's some that are just very close that I can do short things. Like if I do the rock, it's in there. Kevin Hart, let's talk about with DraftKings. So I can do little things. But bringing them to longer just takes time. And I talk like with the Morgan Freeman. If I just get consistently and constantly go, ah, yes, ah, yes. And then you play with the truth of the matter is.

Finally, you figure out a way to make your way through it. Like with the walk, they walk through 500 miles of the fifth air slap. I can't even imagine it was high heels. And maybe I just don't want to. So it's those types of things that how do you take it? And I've talked to other people. Some people call it being fluent in that voice.

How do you take from just being able to do a soundbite, like a radio producer pressing a button on a keyboard to just clean? I mean, you do that a lot. Like when you were doing the captain. Right, right, right, yeah. And you could even do more probably. But it's just when you do that thing where you just add to what somebody's talking about and it's almost a sound effect. Yeah.

I like those because growing up watching Robin Williams, it was just him going quickly into... And it's like Jack on the side going, how's that sound, man? And he didn't even do a killer Jack Nicholson. He just went into it quick and out. That's more what I wanted to be.

But I just, I got pretty good at some of these impressions, so I lengthened them out. No, you're sure. You're rapid fire tough. Let me ask you, have you ever lost a voice? Yes. Yeah, if I don't do them for a while. Like I used to do, this is a little more obscure maybe for this audience and a younger audience too, but I used to be able to do Bob Euchre really well. But then I did Rod Roddy on The Price is Right on MADtv that was, come on!

Yeah, the next contestant on the price is right. Right. So I had that, but I lost Euchre because of that, because the muscle memory to Rod Roddy took it away. Wow. I can't get back to just a bit outside. So it's still Rod Roddy. I can't even find it. That's wild. Those are the types of things that are a little bit elusive. And then there's the other thing. If I don't practice a voice for a while or if I do it too much or...

I get lazy with it. I hear people that do like some, some of the people who do the best impressions in the world, you know, everybody has like two or three when they're known that, that get you either more famous or pigeonholed or both. Yeah. But people, and you hear somebody do it and you're like, they're not doing it as well as they used to. And that same thing happens to me. It's just because you're not concentrating on, I listened to a couple of my Barclays along the way and I was like,

It's getting off. I got to start practicing. I got to listen to him really, really do it. I got to make sure. First of all, and anytime he says, first of all, next month, it's going to be a bunch of crap after. It's not going to be. First of all, Ernie. And you saw when those guys did that, when Shaq, he's been drinking the olive oil shots and it hit him and he had to run to the bathroom. Did you see that in the middle? The show's like, oh boy. Yeah.

And Barkley's like, he's got to take a shack, man. Shack's got to get rid of something. But it's, I listen to some of those voices. Even my Morgan Freeman I listen to sometimes, which is one of the ones people really know me for. Or Madden or something like that. Or Gruden. I'm like, it's getting off a little bit. I'm just, because I turn it into more of a character. It's,

Yeah. And you start getting used to the character, which is more fun than just doing the point blank impression. Yeah. Like Will Sasso doing Kenny Rogers. Hi, I'm Kenny Rogers. It was not even close to Kenny Rogers. No. But it was way funnier and way more fun. Freaking loved it. And that was the best part. Wow.

All right, well, listen, we do have to take a break. Frank Caliendo is here. You're going to hang out for a little bit, right? Yeah, absolutely. All right, so we'll come back. We'll hang. We'll chat. We'll do this thing. Do the show. We're having a damn good time with Mr. Caliendo. And by the way, follow him on Instagram, and you will get this stream regularly taken in places that go all over and are just a blast. So make sure you look up Frank Caliendo. That's exactly at his handle on Instagram. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in just a moment. So stay put. We'll return shortly, friends.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you, Marissa. By the way, just to reiterate, coolest teacher of the year, the school that we randomly chose is Collingswood High School, so you guys get to vote.

Until about 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. Let us know which teacher was your favorite or did something really cool. And you can text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. And we'll send you the voting link. And we'll find out tomorrow morning who won. We had John Jacobs from North Montco Tech.

who won this morning, which is cool. And Frank Caliendo is with us. Are you going to mention something? No, no, no. I'm just taking a sigh of joy. How are you? I thought you were going to go John Jacobs, Jingleheimer, Schmitz. Yes, we already were. Did you do that earlier? He gets that a lot, yeah. See, that's why I'm right on the same wavelength, guys. Hey, speaking of teachers, though, were you a joy or a nightmare for teachers? Oh.

I was pretty good, actually. I was real quiet when I was younger. And then when I started to break out of my shell a little bit, teachers would tell my parents that I was a leader in teacher conferences. Oh, really? Like, I could sense the room. I could read the audience. I remember being in Spanish class, and I could see around the room and just get the feeling when something wasn't sinking in. And I remember asking questions of the teacher about,

To get to try and get the the point across in a different way. Oh, so I was kind of understanding it. And I feel. Yeah, I feel. I mean, it's the one time where I felt like I was fairly smart. Did you grow up where you live now in Arizona? No, I grew up in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Oh, wow. Yeah. So I was a suburb of Milwaukee. Were you Tempe now?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My kids go to ASU. They go 15 minutes away. Wow. Two turns out of our house to the dorms for my daughter. So you two weren't classic class clown. No, I actually won second funniest person in high school senior year. Kevin Hoops won the thing. Hoops? That son of a bitch. What's he doing now? I don't know.

Who cares? He's not on Preston and Steve, I'll tell you that much. Did you have the thing, because I had it, you know, as I was, because I got, I was always moved around because they were always redistricting where I lived. So I was always, I was in multiple schools within the same area. It was annoying as hell. So I was always kind of the newer kid in school. And so what I would do is I would give lines to people to say because I didn't really, you know, I didn't know a lot of people.

And so and then then I started to come out of the of the shell a little bit and do stuff. Did you did you did that occur at all in school or did it happen? I would do like impressions of teachers and. OK, yeah. So that was a little bit as I in high school, I broke out a little bit. I was a catcher in baseball, too. So I would talk to the hitters.

That was a big thing. I would mess around with the hitters. And I worked at an indoor baseball softball place. And I would give out tokens as Robin Williams. Oh, my goodness. Who knew? How are we going to do? Get five for $4 instead of four for $4. You're making yourself a deal. I'm sorry.

help me, okay? So I would just do that type of stuff. And people are like, where are you going to go with this? I'm like, I don't know. We'll see what happens. And that's no place to be. My son used to, or my son, my brother, which in West Virginia, same thing. My brother...

uh, used to, uh, throw batting practice to this guy named Craig council, who is now the manager for the Cubs was the manager for the Brewers one, two world series. Wow. We won the 1988 AAU national championship, 14 and under baseball team, uh, baseball championships in Urbandale, Iowa. And on the 18 and under team was Craig council. Wow. So I used to do, and Craig would always look at me. He's very serious type of guy. I'd be like,

Are you being funny right now or what? I can't tell if these are jokes or what. Was that every, uh, cause everybody wants to be, you know, you want to be an athlete. I want to be a baseball player. My dad was a minor league baseball player. Oh man. That's, that's what I want to do. When did you stop playing? Uh,

I went to college. I was going to play Division II school. All right. And then I was in calculus, and I had a night class calculus with a European teacher I could barely understand. And I was like, I got to concentrate a little bit. I'm never going anywhere in baseball. Yeah, but never like a men's, like wooden bat league? No, I was just done. Because I played in one like 10 years ago. Yeah, that's pretty pathetic. It is. No, no. I had a lot of friends that did that. I just, I knew I was done. Yeah. I just, I knew, I had a torn ACL. Yeah.

Yeah, and my back was bad. I just didn't want to do it anymore. I loved it when I was playing, and I think it was a way to bond with my dad type of thing. You know, a field of dreams, let's have a catch type of thing, but no cornfield. Real quick, did you still have a relationship with Craig Council at all?

I think he would know who I am. Okay. I mean, I haven't talked to him in a long, long time. He scored the winning run in the 97 World Series. No, he's had amazing moments. I taught him that weird batting stance. No, I'm lying. I was going to say. That's amazing. No, but it's, yeah, I couldn't get away with so many lies. People do that about me. I'll have people tell my brother stuff. They won't even know. I'll be in town in Milwaukee, and my brother will be like, yeah, I heard some more rumors about you with a teacher. You ever get with a teacher? No. No.

No, well, someone says they think the teacher... I don't know. That's a great story that I wish I had. I'll tell you what. No. It just happened in my high school. No, it was like a... Oh, I'm talking like a college professor. I shouldn't have made it as creepy. Where it's legal. Yeah. I realized that halfway through and I thought we were going to gloss over it and then you brought it to... Terrible. Really, really bad. Really bad. No. So... What were we talking about? Yeah. No. It was...

making up rumors but i hear things about myself all the time and my brother will hear it and just because they don't know he's sitting there who is who he is and it'll be like man people talk about you like they know you and they have no idea that like a lot of people lie because in milwaukee like there's a few places where i am not a list famous but a high you know a high level of picture on the wall like at the diner stuff like that you know when you're when you're local and people know you it's just a it's a different thing um

But it's funny how many people claim to have grown up around me. And I'm pretty good at remembering stuff. And so is my brother. That's not a story that ever... I wish that happened, but that's not. Yeah, it's funny because we talk about... Obviously, you have a whole other degree. You're very self-deprecating, but you're well-known. And we have radio, which is really nice. A radio sort of bit of...

Notoriety, I'll say that. But, I mean, have you ever felt... Because sometimes when you're around and you see a real celebrity, somebody who's really... Like we've had Kevin Costner in here or whatever, and security has to come and check the building the day before. Have you ever been...

seen a little bit of that in your own life have you ever had someone who became too much of a fan uh because you know at the height of mad tv no i think here's the thing and i think the nfl on fox was probably bigger for me than anything it was probably i was presented in a present myself and i am just kind of a regular person i right i don't like that kind of stuff right i uh i i wouldn't want to i don't know i think i've even been detrimental my own career by not trying to be

Hollywood star-ish I think just being I get more people saying I met you and you're just kind of a regular person I'm like I'm sorry because you don't present yourself you don't need extra stuff not that I won't try and use it once in a while for something like the Avengers thing another thing this is another thing I walk myself into by being known just enough

Chris Hemsworth. My daughter, we were hanging out with Chris Hemsworth at one of those Ace Comic Cons to the point where people were coming in, taking pictures, and I've never seen anything. Women would walk in and faint when they saw me and Chris Hemsworth. And I think it had something to do with Chris Hemsworth, but I can't be sure. You can't be sure. Is it me or

you but then chris hemsworth took a picture he's like i was like man i know people think you're good looking and stuff but you are very funny and he's like oh well let's take a picture together yeah so we takes the picture of us and my daughter then i didn't even think about it she goes you're in his camera roll wow chris hemsworth's camera roll

I was like, yeah, okay. Have you, you've had to have had pitches to have, to work in reality television at some time or another, right? Yeah, they wanted me to do celebrity wife swap at one point. Yeah, they wanted us to do our family. That show? Yeah. Now, here's the thing. Because I had a manager at the time who wanted me to do it. He's like, this is a great opportunity.

and i was like no absolutely not i don't want to do that and i started thinking you know what maybe i've got i'm gonna get find way back into some tv and do some stuff okay then they started pitching it to me turns out we were the hillbilly family like we were the hillbilly family to switch out with a you know a new york city supermodel which sounded great but also sounded like it would end in divorce for me yes not because the lady would like me because my wife would just be so mad at me but i was my wife was like we should do that i'm like

Well, first of all, kids are young. Yeah. I don't like that idea. And when I found out we were the hillbilly, I'm like, I can't imagine how this is going to be edited to make us. Yeah. Because they thought I've done pretty well, especially being around NFL Hall of Famers all the time and stuff like that. I've been elevated in certain sports things and the corporate comedy world where I don't really even have to work most of the time. I'm very lucky. Right.

And my wife makes it so I have to work. And a daughter. My son some, but my wife and daughter really make it so I have to work. But it's, I'm at a point where I pick and choose what I really want to do to get motivated, which is so great about what I'm doing right now. I have been motivated.

But yeah, I don't want to go to a situation and have them make me and my family look bad, especially when the kids are like 12, 15, 14 years old. I go...

That's the tough thing I have. A lot of this world is about presenting your entire family in front of you and what's your everyday life. And I've just never been. I was talking to Billy Gardell about this in Pittsburgh the other day. He's like, I'm the kind of guy who doesn't do that sort of thing. I like to just put out, do your show, that type of thing. I'm like, yeah, I just want to do the show. Now, radio is a little different because you guys get into pieces of your life, but there's stuff you hold back.

But a lot of the people who do hugely on the podcast... Like Bert Kreischer, his whole life is out there. Right.

The biggest, he and Segura, two of the biggest comedy acts out there, Bobby Lee, but they're giving away information about themselves that I've got terrible things that have happened. I'm like, I just don't want anybody to know that. And I'm also envious of them that they can share those types of things. But for me, I just go, I don't know. My kids have had problems with anxiety as it is. I just...

I just keep it out. And it's different for everybody. It's a personal call. A couple of years ago, a number of years ago, when there was a more production, reality show production in the area, they came to us, I think, twice with doing a reality show. It was behind the scenes at the radio show. And I was like...

This is it. There's nothing inflammatory. There's nothing combative. There's nothing that's some dark secret. You end up engineering something. You have to make up stuff to make the conflict. And then it would be contests to solve things in your own office. And you're going...

Because you have to weigh things. And sometimes those things can pay off hugely. But a lot of times it can go the opposite way. And I was never willing to risk that part. I've seen too many people where they risk the...

the human side of their lives and it doesn't work out and you've just bargained, you've just gambled your whole life away. It was too important to me. If you're a professional gurner or you hunt for snapping turtles with your own tongue, then you could probably benefit from a reality show. But anything else I think is going to erode that.

And we've talked about this recently, about how social media, you know, if used where you're constantly up and putting stuff up about your life, the concept of the celebrity with the big halo glow on them has been diminished because we're seeing everybody in real world terms and going, oh, that guy goes to...

Well, you know what I wouldn't mind? Doing a reality show on a search for a cheesesteak. I was trying everything. Last night, because I was originally supposed to go to a Phillies game. I wanted to go to the Phillies game yesterday. We were trying to make that happen. But by the time you have four guys, three people on the road with me,

And we would have to leave Pittsburgh at 10. We had a show that didn't actually end up getting over until 11 that night. And then we would have tried to drive a couple hours to get a hotel. And then I have to get three other guys up to get to a noon type of thing or 1 p.m. It was never going to happen. I was like, I looked at reality and then reality looked back at me and said, not going to happen. There's just no way to do that. Right.

But we tried to get into town and we tried, am I allowed, can I say it? Yeah. We tried to get Angelo's. Yeah. Which is closed today anyways, I guess. So I was going to try and get it this morning then because we were leaving a little bit later. Because my son had been here to Philly and he's like, Angelo's is the place to go to. He goes, but there's going to be a line. Right. And I was like,

Well, we're going to try. So we get into town. I'm trying to call. It's just so busy. You can't even get through to call. Right. And you talked about gyms being another fantastic one. So we weren't even really worried about where we're trying to get, but my son had this...

you know, Angelos when he was in town. I was like, well, maybe I can, you know, pig myself out and just do a bunch of things. And that's when they realized there had never been a sub better for, you know, a Philly sandwich better than that for Frank Caliendo. Like, I could go in there and just do a whole bunch of voices. Yeah, why can't you throw some fried onion down there? It's gonna be so good. And I'm doing that right now for the next time I come into town, you can tell. Robert Kennedy Jr. for Angelos. I know you guys are doing your own thing. John Gruden, I tell you what, let's break it down, man. We could do

Barstool Pizza Review, but we're doing this with Philly cheesesteak. I tell you what, man, it doesn't get any better than this. You know who loves Angelo's the last time he was in town was Pacino. Oh, yeah. I took a bite. It tasted good. Somebody said, you done? I said, no. I just get warmed up.

It's very good. It's very good. Huh? Huh? Can you open this morning just for us? No, you don't have to. You know why? Because you're doing well. You're doing very well. So do you guys... I mean, it's personal preference, though, too, a lot of the time, right? We just had the conversation. Can you have it again so I can have some salivation? Can we Pavlov it? There is a core sandwich, a cheesesteak that is... You know, it's the whiz. It's the onions. It's the deal. And that is a classic. But I think...

We all have variations on it. So you either have a Philadelphia cheesesteak, the classic, or you have a cheesesteak. Yeah. That can be other... Oh, I didn't even realize there was a differentiation. But you know what? Like, I'm telling you because we're from here and we have eaten many cheesesteaks and we have seen many cheesesteaks that I can tell. I can tell just by looking at the video that...

that it is, that the Angelo steak is just, I haven't tried it yet. Oh, really? I did the same thing. You can tell what? You don't want temptation? I can tell just by looking at it that it's a perfect cheesesteak. I already know. Is it the creamy type of cheesesteak or is it the shredded? It's not like the... It's chopped up good. Okay. Right? So it's nice and... You're doing this all from visuals. Yeah, I know. It's chopped up good. And it still tastes good. It looks so good. The meat to cheese ratio is perfect.

It's tremendous. Yeah. Very good. A lot of people are saying it doesn't get any better. Then they said, do you want extra cheese? Somebody said, you get extra cheese? I said, no. It's already good. You can't make it any better. You can't make it any better. You can't make...

And they said, cheese steak, a philly cheese steak. I said, I didn't know there was a difference. And they said, there's definitely a difference. It's one of the biggest differences. And I said, then give me both. I'll have both. And I'll do the two-fisted slobber. I'll go from one side to the other side to the other side. And both sides of the aisle, we're working. We're going to work a deal.

We're going to make great deals. Preston and I, my content, our favorite cheesesteak doesn't have actual meat in it. It's the Wilson's. Impossible cheesesteak. Wilson's secret sauce. It's effing awesome. Really? Yeah. I feel scared to eat an impossible something. It would be better if I didn't know it. Yeah. I guarantee you wouldn't know.

You would have no idea. There's a place called Donkeys. I forgot to text you this. Donkeys is in, it's not even in Philly. It's in South Jersey in Camden. And they make theirs very different. It's a round roll. It's a little bit sweeter, but it's currently my favorite cheesesteak. I love it, but it's not, I wouldn't qualify it as like a traditional Philly cheesesteak. There was an episode of the Goldbergs. Wasn't it Anthony Bourdain who said it was the finest cheese?

sandwich in America. Oh, at Bourdain. Kaiser Roll. And it's on a Kaiser Roll. And yeah, an episode of the Goldbergs covered it. They go down to the base and he goes, I know, you know, it takes place here, the Goldbergs, you know. And he goes, I can tell you where the best cheesesteak is, but it's Sacrilege.

It's in New Jersey. That was the whole idea of the... My friend Steve Moderano, who's from Philadelphia, he has one of the greatest meatballs in the world, but also the cheesesteaks are fantastic. They're unbelievable, like melt-in-your-mouth kind of thing. I think it's a place up in

parks, doesn't he? The casino? Yeah, he has parks. He's in AC? No, it's up in Ben Salem. Okay. Anyway, yeah. Yeah, but he had a place in Vegas and Miami. That's where I learned about him. It's funny because I went to this place

Like real, a real Italian Boston place. And he's like, I got a meatball. I can't meatball. Try the meatball. I'm trying to meatball. I try the meatball. He's like, it's a little different, you know, it's a mushroom based meatball, but it's very finely shredded. So it's very good. And I'm tasting, I'm like, I don't usually like mushrooms, but I, this guy was scaring me. So I'm like, I got to try it. I'm eating it. I'm like, his name's Nicky. Yeah. Nicky, Nicky in Boston. And, uh, I'm eating. I'm like, this is unbelievably good. I don't even like, uh,

It was a mushroom meatball? It was mushroom. I might have had some meat in it too, but it didn't have that texture of mushroom. It was just, it was so good and melt in your mouth. And I said, I don't mean to cause a rift here. And I apologize if I'm offensive.

But this is one of the greatest meatballs I've ever had. Second, maybe only to my friend, Steve Matarano. He's all Stevie. I was like, thank God. Why did I say anything? Why was I telling a guy named Nicky in a hole in the wall in Boston that his meatball wasn't the best meatball I'd ever tasted? It was just at the top with somebody else. Thank God he knew Stevie.

Stevie Matarano. I was walking, I was in Boston this weekend with my son. He's going to Northeastern in the fall. And we walked around the North End, which is traditionally like an Italian neighborhood. And I hadn't been there in a long time. I had forgotten how Italian it still is. Right. There are guys who are, you know, drinking a cappuccino on the step and whatever. But you walk, there's 100 restaurants, 150 restaurants in the North End. And it smells awful.

like garlic everywhere you go. It was awesome. I'm going to Italy. We're going to Italy. That's part of this trip. Wow. Why I started, why I'm on the road so much right now. Stand up trip to Italy? Well, no, I did to pay for it. That's really what it is. Uh, but we're going to, we went to, we flew into Rome last time, did more in the South Sorrento Amalfi coast. We're doing Milan and, uh, uh,

Lake Como this time. We're doing a bunch of different... We're doing Tremetzo, the hotel. I splurged on this one. As a movie... For one year for Christmas, my wife and her sister, my sister-in-law, they went to Lake Como

It's unlike any other place, and it's been used so many times in movies, from Star Wars to Casino Royale and stuff like that. It almost seems otherworldly. I just got back from there. I didn't do Lake Como. We were in the lake, but I flew into Milan, then we went to Verona, and we went to Lake Garda, which is near Lake Como. Dude, Lake Garda is like Lake Como, but not as expensive. Yes. And gorgeous. Bill Walton's former partner...

a broadcast partner, Dave Pash. So Dave is the, was the straight man with Bill Walton. And, um, he, we're actually going to meet up with him in a place called Gubbio, which is in, um, in, uh, Umbria. So it's, it's, uh, Tuscany type stuff. We went there and it's like, it's,

It's all restored 13th century. It looks like you're walking into Harry Potter. Literally, you walk through a place and it's Diagon Alley. Wow. And it's the original stones that were done there. Some of it just cleaned up a little bit. Do you speak any Italian? I've been learning a little bit, but all I seem to be retaining is buongiorno. You're really at the starting point. Yeah, my son had a huge reaction. He's got...

He's got a peanut and tree nut reaction. And this is a tough thing because they don't have as much of that there. I think the foods are processed less. So we went to a place in Florence and

And they had ground cashews into the pecorino cheese. Uh-oh. So, yeah, he had a massive reaction. Oh. Really, really bad to the point where he was purple. So how do you... Well, we called a doctor and a doctor that looked like Dr. Mario, like literally from the video game. He's like, it's me. I can say about you. Um...

And he came and got me. I'll show you pictures out there, but my son, like literally purple, like he got hives and then all the hives connected to the point where he just looked like that. So how do you travel? It's got to be scary. Well, we just stopped for a while. We were in Florence for a few days. EpiPen, get it done? He didn't use the EpiPen because we didn't know it was happening because we didn't know what it was. Wow.

And then he was having a little bit of problems breathing, but then the doctor shot him up with everything. Mario! Yeah. And then, I mean, it was a crazy trip because just before that, when we got into Rome, I put a picture up of me in front of the Colosseum.

And not thinking about anything, I put it on Instagram. And I get a text from a guy named Jeff Leonardo. And the only reason I remember his name is because he's one of the Ninja Turtles. That's right. And I was like, you've seen him. If you're a sports fan, you've seen him some and you'll know why in a second. He's John Gruden's right-hand man. Okay.

So when John Gruden's doing these unboxing videos he's doing all over the place right now, sometimes Jeff is in the picture. He goes, did you know John is in Rome right now? I'm like, no, I don't have Grudar. So you think it's a Star Wars kind of thing? Like the force is strong with this one, man. I can feel his presence. There is another.

So I end up having dinner with John Gruden. So John Gruden, the whole family, my family and his family, which I've known him forever. So I text him and we end up having a funny thing. The funny thing is he went to the wrong restaurant. He set up the restaurant, then went to the wrong one. I said, why are you late? I'm like, because I'm at the correct restaurant. They have your reservation. Then he's doing plays. This is kind of made up, but this is what it felt like, this part. So he's doing plays. You know, he's got that spider too, why banana? That's the play he always talks about. Yeah.

He was doing spaghetti to why bruschetta on the table. He's like, you're going to eat that cannoli, man? Isn't that your name? Like, you always mess with me. Isn't that your name, Frank Cannoli? I mean, it's Caliendo. Sounds like it. Cannoliendo. Don't you have a creamy center like that, man? No, no. You're just a creep. What is it?

But that was really fun just to end up hanging out with some of them. We ran into like three different groups of people that we knew in Italy at the time. I'm like, how does that even happen? That is the weirdest thing in the world. Well, when I flew into Milan, I flew in. I get out of the airport and I'm trying to make my way to the train station. The first person I saw, it's not somebody I knew, but he was wearing a Rocky suit.

switch. That's right. Like Rocky from Philadelphia. I'm like, I just flew in from Philly and this dude is wearing, okay. Well, then weren't you, maybe he came from Philly too on the same plane?

That's probably it. You know what though? I flew from Newark. Oh, you did. So far away. When we landed in Rome, there was a guy, my father-in-law passed away 13 years ago. 10 years ago. There was a guy who looked exactly like my father-in-law and my brother-in-law and wife...

Like, they looked over. He was a native Italian guy. And he just went walking by. And he walked like him and everything. And I'm like, this is a moment. And my brother-in-law goes, oh, my God. It's like I'm seeing a ghost. Like, he was freaking out.

freaked out. Yeah. Maybe he faked his death and moved to Italy. Well, that's good. It's an Italian. You don't know what's going to happen. And we went to a church and they're like, Caliendo, is that Mexican? I'm like, no, I'm Italian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm Italian. Not that he's saying they were wrong being Mexican, but I'm Italian. And they were like, they didn't care, Caliendo. And then my wife, who's made names of Vitaly, like, oh, Vitaly, son Vitaly. And she was loving it because people usually make a big deal about me, but they're walking around, oh, son Vitaly.

darling, can we put you up? Can we help you? Can we get you anything that you need? Is your husband, he's a mongrel. Oh, he's a terrible. Look at him. He shouldn't even be here. But we're sprinkling the holy water all over you. By the way, the Italians hate it when you talk like this. So do not enjoy it any little bit. It's such a stereotypical, but it works.

People know what you're talking about. They do talk like that, though. If you go in and you talk like this, then I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. We were in Sweden taking a family trip one time, and we were in a Burger King of all places. Actually, we were in Norway. We went over to Norway, and we're standing there, and my son is standing next to me, and this guy approaches him, this Norwegian guy.

And he comes over and he heard us speaking English and he goes, I'm sorry, but is this you? And he has a picture that he's holding up on his phone of a missing person. And it was identical to my son. And we were like, we thought, oh, this guy's trying to pull a scam or something. We looked at it and we're like, oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah.

That's effed up. It was really weird. When you had these encounters, these weird encounters overseas, like you running into all those people that you knew. I think it's kind of amazing too. I never...

had any type of experience like this with my family. I mean, I couldn't even imagine. Like, I think about the things my kids get to do. Right. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I couldn't imagine my parents have taken us to Italy. We never would have come back. They'd have lost us. Yeah. We wouldn't have known, you know, not in a good kind of loss. Right, yeah. Like, it would have been a bad situation. Like, maybe they didn't even want to bring us back. Right, yeah. But I couldn't imagine. I think about that every once in a while, that my kids...

have gotten to do you know they're in such a lucky situation but we've never been to italy before i'd never been overseas my my kids had actually been overseas because they went with a school trip yeah that's a totally different thing that's like spider-man uh which one yeah far from home yeah far from home where they're you know they're in venice and the hotels flooded and right yeah we were doing it pretty well we went to step up this time we're going full-on

like the high level, maybe not George Clooney, but George Clooney relatives. Right, right. George Jefferson. Yeah, right. But we're, yeah, we're moving on up. It's a pretty good, yeah, and I just wanted to do it and, you know,

see what it would be like to do it that high-end kind of trip but i couldn't even imagine i mean we would go to the wisconsin dells when i was a kid which had like amphibious vehicles in the dirty river that's fun it's great yeah i just can't imagine we used to stay at you know the hotel that had we have color tv yes yeah those types of like we didn't air conditioning we did not stay at

Brand name hotels. We stayed at off-market kind of shady things. Yeah, yeah. That's people knocking on your door when they shouldn't be. I mean, we have the Jersey Shore, and that's what we did growing up. Oh, yeah, yeah. That was like us jet-setting or whatever. And then I'm like, oh, you guys went on cruises? You guys went to other countries? But I couldn't even imagine. I mean, it's so great that my kids... And that's probably why I do that with my kids and my family is because...

I never had anything like this. And they'll do that with their kids. You hope. My kids would rather have a trip than a present at this point. They would rather go and do something. Now, I use airline miles. Yes. That's the funny thing. You'd be insane to not. I use the airline. I use like Delta One. We're flying over in the lay down seats and it costs just like a couple fees. Yeah. It's like 50 bucks each to fly over there. And it would be $5,000.

Wow. But it's... You clock a lot of miles. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's the way to do it. If you can get those miles, I know it's kind of a game in the airport. You know, the airlines end up winning in the end because you're spending money on their credit card and all kinds of... But you might as well use it rather than not do it. And I mean, to be able to fly over there for almost nothing in first class...

Well, the system is always so weird when they're handing out, you know, you're flying into some place saying, by the way, if you sign up for our, you know, Blue Air Awards program or whatever, we'll give you 100 billion points. It's like, what in the F does that translate to? You know, everyone's got their conflicting systems. Right. But I, you know, this, we flew over there on the same kind of thing and we...

It was great. We flew into Rome last time. This time we've got to... We actually fly... I made it... To make the miles work, we actually flew a different airline. We flew American to Philly. So we'll fly into Philly next week. I got a deal on that. So like 25,000 miles for first class tickets each one. It wasn't about 100,000 miles a ticket. This is how cheap I am. But then I spent all the money in Italy, right? So it's like... So 25,000 miles...

each ticket as opposed to... So it was 100,000 miles for four tickets to fly on the red eye out here and then drive up to New York City and fly out of JFK. But if we'd have flown to JFK, it would have been 400,000 miles. So we do that. And then... So that trip is almost nothing. Then it's two trips. You got quite a system there. Yeah, I worked it out. Yeah, yeah. And it feels like...

How often do you call the airline as Trump and ask? Well, we've got some great deals. We're going to make a great deal. And the people said, can you get me a cheesesteak? And I said, I can talk to Preston and Steve. Preston and Steve, they were great deals. They were great deals. But the problem is they're open. They're on early. Nobody's open yet. Nobody's open. At Cheesesteak Blues, what do they want? They want it fresh. They want it fresh. They want it fresh.

Like sushi. You don't want all sushi. And a cheese stick. You don't want to get it. Oh, there's a very good microwave. You can microwave it or you can wrap it up specially and put it in the oven. And a lot of people are talking about that. Dude, I love the, I'm sorry, but just to break down the impression a little bit, the peas, the pop. Yeah, it's peas. It's one of my favorite words to say is people. People.

Pipa. Pipa. Pipa. Pipa. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's okay. It's like it's Joe Pesci in the... Oh, my God. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Lethal weapon. And what was the other one? But I do soft Trump. I do library Trump. Yeah, yeah. That's my favorite. We're going to use the Dewey Decimal System. A lot of people aren't using card catalog. I said, the card catalog, you can't break into it.

You can't break into the catalog. Elon. I talked to Elon. He said, you can hack. You can hack the library if it's online. But you can't hack the card catalog because you can tell. You can tell it's a different typewriter.

It's a different typewriter. Oh, my God. I just realized that would be a great bit. That would be a great bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To controversial stuff. Oh, yeah. We'll make it nothing. We do have to wrap, Mr. Caliendo. No, thank you guys for having me. No, I'm just excited you stayed another night and had some time to come in. Honestly, honestly, this is one of those things where I really do, and I said at the beginning, I look forward more to,

to being and hanging out with you guys. And there's like four or five shows around the country where I consider people friends. And again, if you didn't sell any tickets, I wouldn't be here. But

But I mean, the show's over. So it doesn't really do anything to me. But there are certain people that I just look forward to seeing. And you guys are that at the top of the list. I appreciate it, man. And it's, I really appreciate it. And your tour, on the bill with you, is the son of a

Tom Griswold. Yeah, Willie Griswold. Bob and Tom. Bob and Tom for people who know around the country. Legendary show. I don't think they're not here, but they're in a lot of different places. Yeah. But he went from being like an MC type of guy to in the last year, he's cleaned himself up a little bit. Yeah. Probably from being around me because I live a pretty squeaky life. Yes, you do. But he is...

He's gotten really, really good. And then, like I said, Patrick Keene and Al Jackson. Al Jackson was on a show. They probably had it here. They just canceled it recently called The Daily Blast Live. Daily Blast Live, which was like a daytime kind of hot topic.

Hot Topics type of show that would run after The View or something like that, a syndicated show. So he's just trying to get back into clubs and really funny. I don't want to give away his bit, but he has this hilarious bit that I always make him do that he just basically says, where does all the Girl Scout money go? And like I said, I don't want to ruin his joke, but he goes, they can do things.

They can break the law. They can sell food in front of places that sell food. So that's Al Jackson. I'm not doing it justice, but he's traveling with me. And if you're close, if you're between here and D.C., maybe you could go Tuesday or Wednesday to D.C. There you go. D.C. Improv. But, I mean, it's headline after headline. But, I mean, these guys...

And Patrick has a joke that, again, I'm not going to give away, but he goes, people see the world as awful. It's a terrible world, but the world's never been good.

Cain killed Abel. Yeah. And then he breaks it down. He breaks it down. I think I've seen this bit. And he breaks percentages down. And it's like 33% chance of dying if you were one of the first few people in the world. It's never been good. But it's really, really... When people have signature bits... I mean, for me, it was Madden and Bush and other things. So there's been stuff along the way. Gruden probably now or Barkley. But...

It's kind of interesting when you can just find somebody's bit and then, like you said, I think I've seen that. And I think I just did a Steve impression. Did you hear that? I think I've seen that. So yeah, cool. Thanks for having me. Enjoy the rest of the time on the road with those guys. And I'm glad, as always, that you made it through Philly. We appreciate it. And we'll find the cheesesteak. Like Waldo. They couldn't find Waldo. They found Waldo. And Frank found the cheesesteak.

Frank Kelly and Joe Yang. Thanks, bud. It's great to see you. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. Stay with us.

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And you'll be happy that you went there because there's always some kind of great, that's what we call the big freaking deal. There's always something good there. And, you know, hopefully we'll see if we have some, we usually have some giveaways at Keenan's. That's the plan. For Maury's. Yeah, so we do have one contest in particular that is going to have a couple of prizes including some Maury's Park stuff. All right, we're going to have some of that out, yeah. Good stuff, there's a lot of good stuff. Yes.

All right, and then I was going to mention something else. I don't remember what it is. All right, no, this is for later on. I have less in question. All right, time for Bizarre File. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. All right, the B-File is brought to you by...

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But enjoy so much more online at thejughandlein.com. So, you may have seen this news story, but ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail on Friday. Yes. In an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food. Preston, they said that they were disguising themselves as a charm bracelet. Oh, my God.

You remember that? I do. Take the money and run. Seven of the escapees, including suspects charged with murder, remain on the lam following the breakout that the local sheriff says may have been aided by members within the department. Ten people is a lot of people to get out of a prison. Surveillance footage showed the escapees sprinting out of the facility, some wearing orange clothing and others in white. They scaled the fence using blankets to avoid being cut by barbed wire.

And then some could be seen sprinting across a nearby interstate and into a neighborhood. They said one of the convicts was able to fashion a Toyota out of a bar of soap. Wow. Yeah. It's pretty amazing. There's a photograph that shows an opening behind a toilet in a cell that the men escaped through. And did you see the sign that they wrote? No, I did not see this. It's a hole and above it are scrawled messages that they wrote, too easy, LOL, with an arrow pointing at the gap. Oh, my God. That's so arrogant. And by the way, they spelled...

2-T-O. Put him back in prison just for that. The absence of the 10 men who also utilize facilities deficiencies that officials have long complained about in their escape went unnoticed for hours and it was not until a routine morning headcount

More than seven hours later that law enforcement learned of the escape. I mean, that's like right out of Shawshank Redemption when they come in for the head count. Dufresne, you better be dead in there. I'll thump your skull for you. So officials from the sheriff's office say no deputy was at the pod where the fugitives had been held.

There was a technician, a civilian there to observe the pod, but she had stepped away to get food. So Jesse, weren't there 10 more convicts in this area? Soon after the escape, one of the men, Kendall Miles, was apprehended after a brief foot chase through the French Quarter. He had previously escaped twice from juvenile detention centers. By Friday evening, two more fugitives had been captured. And the search remains active with numerous local, state, and federal agencies working together around the clock to locate and apprehend the remaining individuals. That's wild, man.

All right, a Vermont inmate is facing more than 1,100 contempt of court charges after police say he repeatedly tried to contact the victim in his case.

Todd Slade is an inmate at the Marble Valley Correctional Center. Police say that he contacted or tried to contact the victim in his case 1,146 times via phone or internet between December 2024 and March 2025. Listen, you don't seem to be getting this. Police say that he wanted the victim to tell investigators things about

the case to get him released from custody. I'm sure she was all on board for that. Hi, it's me again. Got 1,100 contempt counts. Slade remains in prison and will be arraigned. If you hit a mark, do you get an award? New charge next month. Yeah, they can send you a plaque. That's really nice. There were tense moments inside a Donair restaurant. Does anybody know what a Donair restaurant is? D-O-N-A-I-R? It's like a dig for. What's a dig for?

For being. So anyhow, in British Columbia's lower mainland, recently after a man barged behind the counter with a machete, and I believe it's maybe like a kebab place because, well, the incident happened at Paradise Donair.

where two women were preparing food for some waiting customers. And the surveillance video shows the suspect in a ski mask enter and pointing his machete over the counter. He immediately approaches the vertical spits where the meat is roasting. Yes, yes, yes. And he starts hacking out with the weapon. This is what the guy stole, by the way. He stole the meat? He stole the meat. He went and took off with what the owner, a gentleman by the name of Boraz, estimated was a few pounds of stolen meat. Hey, come back!

He said he even took a couple of sauces, like bottles, he said. He forgot to take pita bread, though. While the incident... He takes the meat, he takes the sauces. What kind of lunatic does that?

This dude's rocking a big machete, a big knife. He went for the hero. Rattled workers. Got a hero. Supported by victim services. Boiras says weeks later they now see the humor in what happened. It's actually kind of funny. He took the worst sauces and the worst meat.

A bystander helped out by calling 911 and responding officers located and arrested the suspect the same evening. There was a year, Preston, where I was just totally into gyro sandwiches and pita. I love them. The gyro meat itself is a little...

tight calorically so but uh like the mediterranean stuff and authentic greek food is amazing it just says that done air is a canadian dish by the way oh it's a canadian yeah so uh most popular canadian dish in greece particularly popular in halifax nova scotia they that's essentially a pita sandwich with spiced ground beef i am down there yeah okay hey you done there

That's it. Somebody's finished with it. You're done there? Yeah, exactly. So, all right. Thank you for cleaning that up, Case. I appreciate it. All right. Everyone makes mistakes. They're just not out there for all the masses to see, though. Vestavia Hills city officials woke up Thursday morning to find out that there was a sizable mistake in block letters on U.S. Highway 31 approaching Interstate 65's southbound ramp.

The word south was spelled sooth. Sooth? Yes. S-O-O-T-H. City manager Cinnamon McMully. Or no, McCully. Cinnamon McCully. So you travel the sooth on the turnpick. So she said she received a photo of the glitch and the city went ahead and posted the obvious on Facebook and

They said, look for this photo on the next You Had One Job reel. By the way, this is just in basic lettering. This is a horrible painting job. Yeah. McCulley said that the project was not a city job and was done by a vendor for county officials. She said that workers plan to use black paint to turn the O into a U as a temporary fix.

But you said it's not as easy to repair as one might think. They may have to cut the pavement to make the permanent repair on that. But I'm headed sooth on the turnprick. And there you go. That's what we have in the bizarre file for you. All right, let us take a break. When we come back, we're going to see if you've been paying attention. We'll have a lesson question in today's program. And we'll get trash news and news, too. Stay there.

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20-some-odd-year that we've done this. It's unbelievable. And it keeps going. It does. And we got some of your favorites planned and some other things on top of that as far as crowd participation and prizes to be given away. But nonetheless, it's a ceremonial start of the summer. Opening of the Jersey Shore. Beach season. All those things wrapped into one big party.

And all you got to do is come out and be a part of it. It starts nice and early. Doors open at like 630. And then you will not believe by 7 o'clock what the place looks like. Yep. Happens real, real quick. So be a part of it if you can. Love to have you there. Lesson question time. We are going to give away a $50 Amazon gift card courtesy of Adam Home Productions.

And the question, Nick, I went off the board today. So here's a question. Our good friend Frank Galeando was our guest this morning. We spent a couple of hours hanging out with him. But at the very beginning, who did I introduce him as when I brought him on board? So if you were listening earlier...

And you heard the introduction. When we first brought Frank on, I actually announced him as someone else. Who was that? All right, the number is 610-660-9333. Again, 610-660-9333. Make sure you call now. If you know the answer, we'll do the trash while you're doing that. The trash business is a goldmine. 93.3 WMMR.

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hanging with his boys. Jonas says hanging with his boys is his second favorite way to relax, right after rectal douching with an air hose. Yeah. Yeah!

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All right. We shall see if someone knows the answer to our lesson question, which is Frank Caliendo, our guest this morning. Who did I introduce him as? And we have Renee, who we are going to speak to. Renee, you're on the air. Good morning. Good morning. All right, Renee. Who did I introduce Frank Caliendo as this morning?

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They have parted ways with drummer Josh Freeze after roughly two years working together. This kind of blew my mind that this happened because, I mean, you know, he's been with them a relatively short amount of time. Yeah, Freeze announced that he was let go on Instagram on Friday. He said, I'm in my 40 years of drumming professionally.

I've never been let go from a band, so while I'm not angry, just a bit shocked and disappointed. There were rumors that he had stolen some meat and sauces, Preston. Oh, no, no.

Freeze, who is 52, a veteran drummer who has worked with Nine Inch Nails, Devo, and Guns N' Roses, said that he enjoyed the past two years with the band and respected its decision to go with another drummer. It's got to hurt. Although a new drummer has yet to be announced. He said, the Foo Fighters called me on Monday night to let me know that they've decided to go in a different direction with their drummer. And he said no reason was given. Yeah, he actually stated that no reason was given. You think he could do it?

Play drums for Pooh Fighters? Do it! Alright, I'll do it.

No, I could play a bunch of those songs, but... You could do what is required of a Foo Fighters drummer, I think. Go home early. Yeah. Right? I mean, at a certain point... Oh, after the show? Yeah. Practice. No, there are some things that are challenging that Taylor came up with. But the thing is the longevity. Being able to keep doing it and doing it night after night and set after set. It would work wonders on your tinnitus. That's a... Oh, my God. It'd be Jeff. Jeff.

So Freeze joined roughly a year after the sudden death of Taylor Hawkins. He had also written, as most of you know, I've always worked freelance and bounced between bands, so I'm fine. So he's taking it in stride. That's two pretty...

Hi. Was it Richard... Who was that? Zach Starkey. Zach Starkey. Oh, yeah. Richard's son. You were talking about the who. Yeah. They've let him go. So, not sure of the story behind that. What's with the drummers these days? Yeah. Falling like... Dropping like flies. All right. So, it's been 20 years since...

of hits from five finger death punch and they are marking the anniversary of the new album called best of volume one it's set to hit streets on july 18th the band re-recorded the biggest hits because their old label it was a fan of a christmas story no their old label sold the original recordings without telling them ah

They wanted to make fresh versions of songs like I Refuse, which now features Maria Brink from In This Moment. And the album will be available on vinyl with special editions for stores like Walmart and Best Buy. And fans can also buy a limited edition version through Revolver Magazine. I like that Christmas album. Yeah, the Five Finger Death Punch Christmas album. It's the best.

All right, and then one last story, and we should have audio of this to play. Barbra Streisand and Paul McCartney have released a duet version of his song, My Valentine. What's with your nose? It's a huge honker. What are you, a proboscis monkey?

The song originally came from McCartney's 2012 solo album, Kisses on the Bottom. Oh, wow. Heine kisses. Well, I guess so, right? Yeah, yeah. Heine kisses. I'm going to kiss you, Heine. Do it. It's so bright and shiny, you better hide it before I bite it. Oh, dude. You know that, right? I haven't heard that in ages. I see you, Heine. It's so bright and shiny, you better hide it before I bite it. Yeah, he's right. He will bite it. I've seen it.

You've seen it? It's disgusting. He doesn't even check if it's been wiped. While the duet version is set for Streisand's upcoming duet's album, The Secret of Life Partners Vol. 2. And Streisand shared on social media that it was a joy to record the track with the Beatles member and that spending time with him in the studio was truly special. So let's hear a little bit of this duet. That's all I do.

So I do without a care, without a care. I know that someday soon the sun is gonna shine. And he'll be there, she'll be there. This love of mine, my Valentine. Oh dude, stop it.

So Paul's voice, and you guys know he's my all-time favorite. Yes. He's older. He's wavered just a tiny bit. A bit of a tremble. It's a little, it's not quite as strong as it used to be. But Barbara's voice is spot on. I'm sorry, were you in the Beatles? I was in the Beatles! Answer me! Then shut up!

Yes, sir. And I mean, sir, as in you are a knight in the empire. I see your honey. Super is in shiny. You better hide it before I bite it. Isn't there another version of that song? There is. Steve, and I was trying to think of what it was. I see your honey, all big and shiny. Oh, Thunder Road. No.

I see your weenie. So bright and sheeny? He's so bright and sheeny. But I hide it. I don't know the weenie part. It's just your peenie. Yeah. No, I'm... There is a second verse. It sounds vaguely familiar. The original verse is, I see your hiney, so bright and shiny. You better hide it before I bite it. If anyone knows the next verse... I don't think there is one, man. It's routinely sung to longshoremen. You can call us or text...

And this number will work for either one of those, 610-660-9333. So if you can... I'm right, right? There is a second verse. I thought there was. I can't remember it at all. Nick, can you glance the text messages and see if it comes up?

By the way, Babs' upcoming album features a ton of other guests and it's duets all together. So it's her with Bob Dylan. Now when I'm not hearing. No, no. She has such a, her voice has remained strong. And beautiful and very melodic. And Bob obviously does the Bob thing. But then you have James Taylor, Mariah Carey. The name of this album is Skabignos? No, it's not Skabignos. It's called The Secret of Life Partners Volume 2.

So anyhow, James Taylor, Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, Sting, Tim McGraw. I can see all that. Hosier, Sam Smith, whose birthday is today. Yeah. Seal, Josh Groban, and Luffy, in addition to Paul McCartney. Thank you, Josh Groban.

And The Secret of Life Partners Volume 2 will drop on June 27th. So, no takers on the I See Your High Name, Albrighton Chinese. I know it's an oldie. My mother used to sing it to me when I was a wee little lad. It was kind of a little kid song, by the way. All right. Those are the Three Little Monkeys.

See little monkeys laying in bed. One rolled over and the other said. Oh, it says boom, boom, boom. I see your hiney. Boom, boom, boom. It's bright and shiny. If you don't hide it, I'll think of it. No, that's not the same one, Steve, that we grew up on. Right, right. That's a different one altogether. Maybe it's a regional thing. Maybe it is. Maybe it's more like a Sammy Hagar. You better wash it before I squash it? You better wipe it before I... Swipe it? Dipe it? Swipe it? I don't know. We're getting nothing. All right, it's all good. Hold on. Marissa's got a comment. All right.

I found a song, number one, like a disco song that exists. Really? Yes, that's in there. And it could be, I see one that says, when I see a wiggle, it makes me giggle. Yes, that's it. Boom. It makes me giggle to see it wiggle. In fact, Rochelle sings that. Oh my God, how did I forget that? All right, here's the song. I see the holidays, it's like a child dance. If you don't hide, the morning's here.

I see your heart, it's like a child. If you don't hide it, I'm gonna hide it.

All right. Was not aware of that. High knees all over the world. All right. Hey, we got to the bottom of that. Beautiful thing. All right. We need to take another break and come back and wrap up our program. So we'll do that. Thank you very much for indulging. When we return letter of the day for the word of the week prize, you need to know what that is. Tell you about what you can win when we get back.

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10.45 on a Monday morning with Preston and Steve Schultz. Four days in our studio here. One day with you, live in front of everybody else who decides to join us at Kenan's North Wildwood, Kenan's Irish Pub.

And is the site where we officially cut the ribbon on the summer, man. Open it up. Bring you on in. By the way, have you ever actually officially had the chance to cut a ribbon? I don't think so. Yeah, because it's metaphorically, we open the jersey, sure. Yeah. But, um... I mean, we... And you know what? I would say that we, like, tap a keg or something like that. Yeah, yeah. But they don't have draft there. How about wax that ass? It's all bottles. Let's wax that ass and start the summer. Yeah.

at Kenan's. But however we decide to do it, we love to have you in attendance. You know what we do? We do crowd surfing. Crowd surfing, which is, honestly, that is a tradition. I love it. I love how many people will come down and pick that event as, say, if they've just had their 21st birthday. Yeah. To indulge. Yeah.

And they do. Yep. It is an event. And there will be a ribbon cut at some point somehow. Yeah, you're right. Ribbon, toilet paper. It's all the same. Something like that. Yeah.

I would like to thank our guests. First of all, I want to thank the gang from Laurel House who stopped by earlier this morning. Melissa and Brian came in and they were wonderful. And so the event, the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is May 31st and I will be hosting this. It will be at Ursinus College 9 a.m. to 12. So it's, you know, it's

the walk itself is like 10 to 11 and then there's, you know, hanging out beforehand in a little program afterwards. So it's a great event and we're just hoping for good weather and we hope you'll be there because Laurel House is just an amazing organization. It's a, not just a shelter, but they help anybody out who's dealing with domestic violence in a bunch of different ways as far as

job opportunities and legal advice and things along those lines. So we hope you'll be there. You can go to WMMR.com or Presidency.com to find the information. And then we had a couple hours with our buddy Frank Caliendo. And Frank had a gig last night with his fellow performers at Helium Comedy Club, but

He wanted to make sure that he came by and spent time with us. He was very complimentary and he loves doing this show. We love having him. It seems like we get our annual visit and it's worth the time. He's always great. I laugh my ass off. Yeah, he's terrific, man. He's just the best, so it was great. Pierre Robert is here. Hey, man. And good day. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. We had a wonderful weekend with the Hooters Saturday night at the Met. Heard raves about it. It just was so much fun and the place was packed packed.

And Jackie was spinning out in the pop-up beer garden they had in front of the building. And then I introduced the band and we just carried on and it was quite fun. Hey, who introduced you to introduce the band? I didn't recognize that person. That's a guy, I worked with him for, I don't know, 20 or 30 years. His name is Turk.

okay he's the monitor mixer and he's with the hooters yeah okay uh but he uh introduces them in europe uh always wearing philly's outfits or philly's cap and philly's jersey of some kind so he introduced me i saw a great picture of you and i think it was rob afterwards and it just like you were there it is yeah lifelong friends it's um it's a heartwarming to see photos like that dallin took that uh dallin david's wife took that and uh

It was great. It had been Liberace's birthday a few days before, so I wore one of my glitter jackets to introduce the band. How many of those do you have? I have two.

Two or three. All right. This one, I think, is what I would call more formal. That's the more formal one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, and it was just such a great crowd, such a great vibe. Cool room, too. I love the Met. Yeah, it's a great room. And they had the single, 45 single of...

of the new song that we just started playing, Pendulum, for their 45th anniversary. They had it pressed onto a 45. That's a good song. Yeah. That is a really good song. Good song and kind of a cool little thing.

And then afterwards, I went with Ryan and a buddy of mine, Bill, and Marissa came down. No Turk. And Jackie was there. Turk did not come out with us. But we all went downtown, and there's a garage I park in downtown. And we came out of the garage and ran directly into this guy and his girlfriend, Olivia and maybe Bill.

I think his name was. And they just stopped us and were listing every single thing about the radio station, loving it. And they had been at the show. That's great. And they were staying in town for the night. And their hotel was not far away. And I said, well, we're heading to a tavern. Would you like to join us? And lo and behold, they did until closing time. And then Marissa put my hair up into a man bun.

Oh, I'd love to see that. There is a picture of it. Someone took a picture of it. That was after a couple of martinis. So it was a colorful and fun and wild evening.

Excellent. That's all I have to say about that. I'm done. Great weekend. All right. I guess we'll get the letter of the day from you. Yes, please. All right. Let me hit this button. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. And the Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter. S as in summer. All right. And we will give away a Rivers Casino overnight prize pack, including a $100 gift card to the new Sapore restaurant.

And one night stay for two at the River Suites at the Battery. And you must be at least 21 years of age to enter. So we'll give it away on Friday. Looking forward to it. What's up on your show tonight? Well, so for the Live Nation Concert Week, which is this weekend where you can get a number of shows on sale for just like 30 bucks, I think it is. They've given us three different pairs of shows. Summer of Loud, Offspring, and Creed.

So at some point each day this week, we will give away one of those shows. So we'll give away a prize, and then the listener can actually pick which it'll be. So it'll be cool. And then we've got Blocks of Shinedown and the Ramones and, of course, Pete Townsend for his birthday. Wonderful. All right, let me thank these fine sponsors. The President and Steve Show has been brought to you today by Dunkin'. And the President and Steve Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors.

As of tomorrow, it's Tattoos Day. We'll give away a fresh tattoo, a Preston Steve Show themed tattoo. We'll find out who our coolest teacher is, Collingswood High School and Collingswood, New Jersey. And then we will find out what else we can dive into as well. So that's it. We're done. Rage on and have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye.

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