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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, Daisy Boy. When you're the most annoying sound 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? And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Hello!

All right, let's begin. We welcome you to midweek. That is the point, folks, where we start to head towards the weekend. It's a beautiful thing. The weather, not so much. Let's go ahead and check in with that.

Slightly cooler today. And yes, we're going to have off and on rain. It's going to be picking up as we segue into lunch and then tapering off and then picking back up. It's this type of thing today. High of only about 57 degrees. Calling for showers again tomorrow with a high of 56. Friday bounces back temperatures-wise. We'll be in the mid to upper 60s with cloudy skies. And then Saturday into the weekend, looking a little bit better. Warming up slightly. By the time we get to Sunday, the high is going to be around 72. We're looking at partly cloudy.

And now, Preston and Steve's news update. And today is Wednesday, 21st day of May. Good morning. We'll begin with this story. Emergency crews rushed to a chaotic scene yesterday afternoon after a dump truck crashed into a home in South Jersey. The truck driver was traveling north on Woodbury-Glassboro Road when it left the roadway around 1.30 and struck a telephone pole at Fairview Avenue in Gloucester City. Now, in dash cam video...

You can see the truck traveling at speeds of about 50 miles per hour before crashing into a home on Stratford Avenue. Officials say the homeowner was taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. The owner of the truck company, Zeisloff Trucking, said his longtime employee suffered a medical emergency behind the wheel. The owner, Charles Zeisloff, said he had no idea what happened.

All he knows is that he was stuck in the truck. So at the video footage, you can hear the truck driver screaming for help as he's inside the house. And they had to wait like a long time. He was trapped in the truck for about three hours before he was brought out. So there was a guy in the house as well, correct? There was, but they got that person out and they were taken to the hospital. But this guy was in there for three hours and...

And the reason that he was left in there so long is because the house was unstable and they thought it was going to come down if they tried to move anything. So they had to figure out how to work in there and get it done. By the way, Zaisloff says the 73,000 pound truck was loaded with concrete sand. I mean, it shifted the house off its foundation. You could see that it was gone. So any rescue attempt, you were dealing with this crumbling house above you. It was wild. And again, it's...

I can't believe people weren't really severely hurt or killed. It's amazing because the dash cam footage alone, of all the directions that truck would have gone in, you know, and oddly enough that the house, besides the house being destroyed, no one's killed. Yeah, thankfully, whoever was in the home was in a part of the house that didn't say, hey,

truck come on in. Yeah, I mean, they were somewhere else. So the debris could be seen a few houses away followed by tire tracks in the lawns of neighboring homes leading to the crash scene. Crews removed the truck before

Larry Krasner has won Philadelphia's Democratic primary election to continue serving as district attorney after withstanding an impeachment attempt and years of criticism by President Trump and other Republicans. Krasner's win all but guarantees him a third term in office as the city's top prosecutor, with no Republicans filing to run in November's general election.

A civil rights lawyer defeated Pat Dugan, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was the head administrative judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court. The past couple of years has seen crime rates falling in Philadelphia while the city's jail population is down by almost half in the past decade.

In the suburbs, Erica DeUso beat Barry Cassidy in Downingtown's Democratic mayoral primary. DeUso will square off against Republican Richard Bryant in the general election, and if elected, she'll become the first openly transgender mayor in Pennsylvania. DeUso, who is 44, works in personnel and process quality management at Johnson & Johnson and graduated from Drexel University.

And then one final story. The FDA is recalling some cucumbers amid a multi-state salmonella outbreak. And it has sickened more than two dozen people. The cucumbers were grown by Bednar Growers and were distributed to restaurants, wholesalers, and grocery stores.

The FDA is still working to determine where exactly those were sold. The agency says at least 26 people have been sickened by the outbreak in 15 states, including in Pennsylvania. Gotta say, it still blows my mind that salmonella ends up in salad. Cucumbers.

Lettuce, stuff like that. Yeah. Businesses should not sell or serve whole cucumbers grown by bedners, growers, and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Incorporated. What if your intent is not to eat it, if you know what I'm talking about? Maybe. They are essential. I wonder if it comes from the fertilizer. Could be. From feces. Yeah, feces.

So they were distributed by Fresh Start Produce Incorporated between April 29th and May 14th. If you need more information, you can visit FDA.gov. Yeah, I got hit with something yesterday. No kidding? Yeah. Did you have any cucumbers? I'm trying to think because I- Did you have any feces? I even texted my family. I was like, hey guys, how's your stomach right now? Because this is like 8 o'clock in the morning. And I had already at that point had like a bunch of phase 5s.

I was like, you know, how are your tummies doing today? Everybody else is doing... Were you the only one? Apparently I was the only one. You were the lucky one. And when did it wrap up eventually? Last night. Yesterday evening. So not even a 24-hour bug. No. All right, good. No, but it was like...

But it was only coming out the back door. Okay. No vomit or nothing. I've had those. How many pounds did you drop? You know, none. What? None? He goes, well, you don't drop weight. That's not fair. Life, man. Yeah. Sometimes just drops a cucumber on you. Sometimes the bear gets you and sometimes you take a dump. Yep. All right. It's time for sports. Sports.

Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy! What the f*** is that? The Phillies won their fifth game in a row. They did it!

Meeting the Colorado Rockies 7-4 last night in Denver. Kyle Schwarber hit his 17th home run and Bryce Harper had three hits, including two doubles to back another strong start by Jesus Lizardo. Bryson Stott and Brandon Marsh had three hits each. Trey Turner, Max Kepler, and Alex Boehm added two hits apiece and the Phillies had 17 total hits in the game. Lizardo improved to 5-0, allowing one run on two hits in six innings.

The 10 strikeouts. The series continues tonight. Tywin Walker is going to get the start. The first pitch is set for 840. In the NBA, the Thunder cruise to an easy game one win, beating the Minnesota Timberwolves 114-88 in the opener of the Western Conference Finals last night in Oklahoma City. Game two is tomorrow night in OKC, and tip-off is at 830. In the NHL, the Florida Panthers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2 in game one of the Eastern Conference Finals. The series continues with game two tomorrow night. The puck will drop in Raleigh at 8 o'clock.

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. Hold on a second, Brad. Yes. All right. We welcome you to Wednesday morning. And I'm happy once again to be joining everyone in its Wednesday morning glory. We do have a Fox Good Day hit that we're going to do around 755. So we will check in with those guys and see what happens.

What's up in their world? And then we also have Mr. Tom Segura, who's going to be joining us. Tom's going to be checking in around 10 o'clock this morning as a new Netflix show. It's called Bad Thoughts. It is available now. And he's actually going to be in AC at the Hard Rock on June 20th. Oh, and 21st. So he's got two shows coming up.

And you were watching the night? I watched the whole thing last night, yeah. Really funny stuff. Yeah, he's great, man. So we'll check in with him around 10 o'clock this morning. Oh, and also, we have to announce who our coolest team is. Oh, that's right!

So yesterday we had put the word out for Upper Marion High School to let us know who the coolest teacher of the year was. And even though they had an in-service day, they were off, we had plenty of votes. And we are able to tell you who's going to walk away with the award at Upper Marion High School. All right. We would like to congratulate a teacher that's made a difference in people's lives this year. And that is...

Mr. Timothy Spangler. Mr. Spangler is a band teacher. Oh, wow. And so he handles, I would imagine, symphonic band. He also does marching band and jazz band, Marissa found out. And also, he's got like a rock star phase that he went through. Oh, did he? That's what Marissa thinks, so we'll have to find out for sure.

from Mr. Spangler about his rock days. I definitely want to hear about Mr. Spangler's rock days. So I got a call yesterday from a friend of mine, Brett, one of my oldest friends, known him since kindergarten, and he's a teacher in the Upper Marion School District. Unfortunately, he's in elementary school. Right. So he was at the in-service day yesterday, and he said that the assistant superintendent came up to him and started talking to him because she is a huge fan of the President Steve Show. Oh, that's awesome. So I need to give a massive shout-out to Dr. Susan Silver, assistant superintendent

superintendent of the Upper Marion Area School District. And Dr. Susan Silver, you not only get a shard out, you get this shard out. Yeah!

Now, we don't just whip that out anymore. That's a special occasion. Yes. You have to have your doctorate. Yeah. All right. So, congratulations to Mr. Timothy Spangler. Hang on. All right. Congratulations, Mr. Timothy Spangler. We'd like to hear from you. So, please let Mr. Spangler know that they are the coolest teacher and to maybe give us a buzz this morning. Yes, Nick? At one point, Dr. Silver was working on her PhD very diligently, and I'm sure she strived very hard and perhaps...

This is her crowning achievement. Maybe. Maybe. All right, it's time to choose another school. Okay. I think it's my turn to do it. Yep. All right. I got the jar. I'm going to open up the lid on this giant jar. It's a very, very big mason jar here. We keep it locked. All right. Enjoy it. And we will pull out another school, and we will get voting started right away. All right, I found one. Immediately reached in, got it from, like, midsection. And our next school is...

The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. I pass it all the time. Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. So here's what you need to do. You need to text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. And we will send you this little link that you click on. And then you can enter the name. So you don't text the name. You text the word teacher to 610-660-9333.

And once you do that, you get the link, you make the vote, and then we will find out tomorrow morning around this time who the coolest teacher of the year is. And by the way, I need to mention that Mr. Spangler is going to get a $50 Dunkin' gift card. They are the sponsor of the Coolest Teacher Initiative.

We'll also set him up with the official President's Eve coolest teacher of the year coffee mug. So, same thing goes for whomever is going to be our teacher at the Shipley School. So make sure that you let them know, the staff know, that they have been chosen for this and get the word out and let's get the voting underway. If you need any details...

You can go to WMMR.com and get them right there. So good luck. And we hope that we'll be talking to somebody tomorrow. Do you know who went to the Shipley School? No. Is our very next Superman, David Cornswet. No. No.

Kidding. I like him. I do, too. A lot of local ties. He married a lady from Wayne. And, you know, it's really cool that he got his acting career beginning here in the Philadelphia area. I think he started the People's Light in Theater. And, yeah, he's going to be Superman, or he is Superman, and the movie comes out in a month or so. I'm determined that I would like to live at the Shipley School. Yeah.

Yeah, it looks really cool. It's almost like Hogwarts. Yeah, it sure is. All right, well, let's get you on board. Let us know. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. The Entertainment Report is up, of course, with a stupid question courtesy of Nick McWade. A very interesting, and I will see if we can get a winner on this one. We'll be back in a second. Stay with us. Is your phone an Apple?

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. I'm surprised we haven't heard from Gary since Kathy. Oh, yeah, we have. That's right. Yeah. You would figure that would be a seismic shift. Yeah. Well, in his defense, we didn't have phones for a while. Oh, it's true. That's right. We have an elaborate Zoom hookup.

And when we did have phones, for some reason, we weren't able to get phone calls from certain areas or providers or whatever. Right. So... We couldn't get calls specifically from areas where the people didn't have phones. Right, right. But he has a phone. He has a rotary phone. So we...

We can get a call now. All right. All right. Well, we're kind of worried. Well, not worried. Well, we'll see. We'll see if we can hear from them. All right. I got a stupid question and we're going to give away the Mission Impossible prize pack. And it's a $50 Kenan's gift card and some mission merch, including a hooded sweatshirt, a wireless audio transmitter.

comes with Drink Cozy, you know, stuff like that. All the stuff you see in the movie. Little cool things. All right, so here is the question that Nick posed to me, and let's see if you know the answer to this. In what country...

was Fezzik unemployed when Vizzini found him? This is a tough one. You have to know these characters in order to answer this question. I'm not even going to tell you what movie. In what country was Fezzik unemployed when Vizzini found him? If you know the answer to this,

Call 610-660-9333. We'll see if you can get through and give you some goodies. All right, 610-660-9333. We're going to go through some birthdays while we await your answer. Today is the 21st day of May, and we will begin with Farooza Bach.

celebrating her birthday today? Can be scary and unnerving and sexy. And sexy. Yeah. I agree. She is 51. So, yeah, like obviously in the craft, she was a scary individual in... Waterboy. Waterboy.

It was not scary. I didn't think she was scary. No, she was sexy. No, I was saying scary. Yeah, yeah. So she was scary in that. And I thought she was also scary in American History X. Yes. As the white supremacist, psycho, skinhead girlfriend. She's also in Return to Oz. Yeah, as a kid. Yeah. And by the way, that is a solid movie. Yeah. And she's good in it. Yeah, much darker. Apparently...

The source material is much darker than you would know. Unless you read the source material. Yeah, I want to say there's like sexual assault and stuff like that. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought I heard something like that. Purple narples. Wow. Feruza is... And by the way, her first name means victory in Arabic. She is 51 years old today. Scott Leavenworth, who was one of the players on 7th Heaven.

Was he the young son? Not sure. He's 35. Could be. Young son has grown up. We also have Judge Reinhold celebrating a birthday today. That was a fun interview. Yeah, he was a nice guy. He was one of those deals where the star of a really famous movie like...

Fast Times. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. We'll go and do a Q&A about the movie and tell you behind the scenes and stuff. And he was way into it as well. And of course, he's in Beverly Hills Cop and hence the music. So he turns 68 years old today. Then we have... Oh, Mother. It's Mr. T's birthday. Mother! Mother!

Mr. T turns 73 years old today. His given name is Lawrence Tureaud. T-U-R-E-A-U-D. And we've mentioned many times before that what happened was Stallone saw him featured in a Toughest Bartender podcast.

A bouncer contest. Yeah. I actually, as a kid, I saw that. Oh, you saw when that happened and he competed? I saw that competition. It was weird. And I remember seeing the guy with the chains and I'm like, they had to go up and do this, you know, the old arcade punching machine. They had to do that and see how hard you could hit it.

Then they had to do this relay through the bar where you like jump over the bar, run across the room and grab this and do all this stuff. And I was like, I was captivated by just the look of that guy alone that had stuck with me. And then like a year or two later, he starts popping up in TV shows and movies. Clubber Lang. And then he parlays that into, I mean, he became a beloved character. Kids adored Mr. T. Yeah. Yeah. Mr. T cereal. That's right. Do

Do we have the mother song? We don't. No. There is no other. Believe me, I'd play it if we had it, but we don't have it anymore. Steve, treat her right. Treat her right. So he is 73 today. Singer Gautier turns a year older. He is celebrating his 45th birthday today.

This song is in a club hit now, a remix. I heard it, man. I can't even remember where I heard it. But you hear this refrain, you hear the hook. And I was like, oh, cool. I like this Gautier song. And then it was something completely different. I'm like, I don't know what this one is. I'm old. My absolute favorite part of the song is when the girl sings in this. Yeah. The chica chica chica.

I always crank it up on that part. Is there another song I'm unaware of that he's known for, or is this it? It's the only one I know. I get him just because of the single name thing, not because of the artist and their music, because they don't know anything. But I see Gautier, I think Hosier. Oh, yeah. I know, it's totally different, because Hosier sells out huge shows and stuff like that. I think of Dick Gautier, he played Jaime the Robot on Get Smart. Ah, okay.

So I'm a little bit older. We all have our own association. He's 45 today. Steve, you'll know this guy, Leo Sayer. Yeah. I'm a sucker for this song. It's a good song. Dancing.

So he turns 77 years old. Get another hit. What was the other hit? When I want you, I just reach out my arms and I touch you. Never knew that.

Finger blasts you. Leave then the heartbeat away. I like that song too. It's a pretty song. Put me out of my misery. Last birthday to mention is director Nick Cassavetes. Yes. He turned 66. Son of John Cassavetes. And he directed The Notebook.

As well as my sister's keeper. Man, the notebook. It'll get you. It'll get you. You can try. You can be stoic and say you're going to resist it. But that final scene, if you're not a bag of tears, then you're an inhuman robot. Yep. So, happy birthday. Everybody celebrating birthdays. All right, let's see if someone knows the answer to this question. In what country was Fezzik unemployed when Vizzini found him?

And we are going to go to, who's been on hold the longest? I will go to, yeah, it's Tommy. We're going to check in with him. Tommy, you are on the air. Good morning, sir. Hi, good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you, Tommy. All right, so in what country was Fezzik unemployed when Bazzini found him, please?

From what I know, Fezzik was unemployed in Greenland. Yes! Correct. Wonderful delivery on that, my man. Hang on just a second. I will explain. It is from the movie The Princess Bride. We should have the clip. Oh, okay. I'll play it for you. No, that's a Norm clip.

It was sent over yesterday. Can you look and see if you can find it? I just found out he sent it over yesterday. Okay, so it is from the Princess Bride.

And Fezzik is Andre the Giant. And Fezzini is Wallace Shawn. And they're bickering back and forth. And he tells them that he should have left them back in Greenland when he found them there unemployed. Here's the clip. And you, friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless, do you want me to send you back to where you were? Unemployed in Greenland?

So there you go. And since Tommy got it, we are going to set him up with a Mission Week and or the Mission Week through Mission Impossible prize pack, including a $50 Kenan's gift card and Mission merch, including a hooded sweatshirt with a secret pocket, a trucker cap, drink koozie and wireless audio transmitter plus power bank and utility tool pen.

Mission Week support for WMMR comes from Paramount Pictures, presenting Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning. And every mission has led to this. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible. Final Reckoning is only in theaters. May 23rd. There's a lot of copy there. Yes, sure is. All right, we're going to start with sad news. And I'm sure you saw it. In fact, I felt the entire country collectively go, oh, man. George Wendt passed away. Yep.

And his former co-stars are paying tribute to the actor after news of his death was announced. He died peacefully in his sleep at home. His family confirmed Tuesday he was 76 years old.

He had an incredible career as an actor. Beloved for his starring role, obviously, is Norm Peterson in all 11 seasons of Cheers. During his time playing Norm, he earned Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for six consecutive years. With the character notably also making cameos on St. Elsewhere, Wings, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Frasier, and The Wings.

I did not know that that character made it onto St. Elsewhere and Wings. St. Elsewhere, did that take place in Chicago? Who am I thinking of Chicago? To be honest, I don't know. I thought that was interesting that they managed to do that. Wentz credits on the silver screen included Dreamscape,

Gung Ho, Never Say Die. He was also in the movie Spice World with the Spice Girls. Yes, he was. I liked him in Gung Ho. Yeah, and he was kind of a jerk who turned around in that movie. In Fletch, he's one of the informants on the beach. He's a junkie. And so, you know, obviously he had a range. And Steve, I was hoping that Dreamscape would have been included. You and I are fans of that movie. Big fans, yeah. So, you know, listen, um...

I had the pleasure of seeing him in an off-Broadway theater. I believe it was called Defending the Caveman. I think that was the name of the production. And comedy. And he was terrific. But I mean, it was like me to you in the studio. That's how close I was. And watching him perform and do comedy was amazing. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Ted Danson said, I am devastated to hear that Georgie is no longer with us. I am sending all my love to Bernadette and the children.

It is going to take me a long time to get used to this. I love you, Georgie. Great comment from John Ratzenberger, by the way, who, of course, was Cliff Clavin. He said, I am heartbroken to hear about the passing of my friend, George Wendt. Said, for 11 years on Cheers...

We shared a stage, a lot of laughs, and a front row seat to one of television's most beloved friendships. George brought Norm to life with a subtle brilliance, the kind that made it look easy. That was his gift. He said he was a true craftsman, humble, hilarious, and a great man.

Kelsey Grammer, his comment was a little shorter. He said,

Melissa Joan Hart, whom went, acted alongside in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, wrote on Instagram, Heaven just got a little funnier with George Wendt. It was a thrill to work beside him on Sabrina the Teenage Witch for a handful of episodes. I was a big Cheers fan and knew I was among one of the best when he was on set. He was warm, professional, and kind, and our cast and crew were gifted with his presence every time at resting.

in peace. Cheers is my favorite show of all time. Casey, I know it ranks up there for you as well. You know, it's comfort food for me. It's been that since I was a kid. I've watched all of the episodes a bajillion times. So this one, you know, was definitely a gut punch. Over the last few years, Conan O'Brien's podcast team has had Ted Danson a part of it. And Ted has done a bunch of little mini reunions, including one with George Wendt and John Ratzenberger. Woody Harrelson's been on them. Kelsey Grammer as well. And it's really cool to see those guys relive their Cheers memories.

because their perception on it is obviously different than what ours were as consumers and as viewers. But I just, you know, I loved George Wendt. I loved Norm. I will always love them and I'll always love Cheers. And it's one of those shows, in my opinion anyway, that absolutely holds up. The writing is still unbelievably brilliant. Ah,

It was around this time in 1993 that the final episode aired. Yesterday. It was yesterday? Yesterday was the 32-year anniversary of the final episode of Cheers. Wow. We were just talking about it before this morning. I watched or we watched...

that after final episode, Drunk Fest, which was hilarious. I had my mom and dad went away because it was around their anniversary time. So I was a senior in high school and I had a party at my house.

oh to celebrate yeah yeah and we all watched the um we all watched the final episode uh somebody got sick on my couch yeah we had a watch party uh-huh i had i had the cheers board game when i was a kid my friends dave and tim and i we played it i mean we still quote cheers to this day we send you there's a a cheers shorts uh account that i follow on instagram and i'll get you know 30 40 second clips sent to me every day that are just freaking hilarious and

It's one of the greatest shows of all time, and he's one of the greatest characters of all time. Here's a couple of the Norm moments if you want to play these. Here we go. Good afternoon, everybody. No!

How's life, Norm? That's the man who's got one. Here's another one. Hang on. Yeah, thank you. How's life treating you, Norm? He caught me in bed with his wife. All right. Here's another. Hey, Norm. Hey, Norm.

How's life treating you, Nom? I just ran over its dog. All right, one more. Good afternoon, everybody. Nom!

Lay it down, Norm. What do you know? Not enough. Yeah. And one of the classics is, it's a dog-eat-dog world and I'm wearing milk bone underwear. That was the one that stuck. That was my quote in my high school yearbook. That actual quote from Norm, yeah. All right, I have a few other stories. We might expand on that a little bit later on. I have a few other stories to share with you. Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson are reportedly engaged, according to a New York Times source.

who claims that Hudson shared the news. Now, engagement rumors began swirling after Hudson was seen wearing a diamond ring in New York City and again at the NFL Honors Ceremony. Belichick has not confirmed the engagement and his rep has not commented. Meanwhile, Belichick's boat, formerly named Eight Rings, has been renamed One Plus Eight Rings, according to the engagement rumors, or adding to the engagement rumors. One Plus Eight Rings? Yes.

What is that? One more ring. One more ring. Oh, all right. So new graphics on the boat show eight rings around the letter R and one additional ring at the top, leading people to think that it symbolizes an engagement ring. Others think it may represent Hudson's National Cheerleading Championship. I don't know. You don't think it has to do with his new C ring, do you? I don't think so. Now, NFL Films, this is an interesting follow-up, was rumored to be interested in filming Hard Knocks. We heard about this for UNC Football.

However, the plans were canceled for an unknown reason until a recent report. According to a report by Catherine Rossman of the New York Times, Jordan Hudson was a major breaking point for UNC's Hard Knocks. Rossman wrote, but days before they were set to announce the series, Ms. Hudson demanded she be granted content approval and partial ownership of the show. Come on.

Come on! Hard Knocks for UNC would have covered Belichick and his efforts to build the UNC football program leading up to the 2025 college football season. But Hudson's desire for control over parts of the production ended NFL Films' plans for Hard Knocks at UNC. I think what's happening right now is I didn't have a problem with her and him. I didn't have a problem with their relationship.

But if this relationship is going to thrust her into the limelight and I'm going to have to deal with her for the rest of my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to have an issue with that. Who the F does she think she is? If this report is true, what have you done besides suck him dry? What have you done to deserve any of this? That's what she's done to deserve it. You know what? Maybe she gets away with not even doing that. Maybe just the joy of having her touch it is enough. Maybe. Yeah, it is absolutely the height of hubris.

You saw the way she was during that CBS interview. Now there are questions as to whether or not what was said ahead of time. I got it. But if you're going to take control of the aspects of his business, and if he's going to let this happen, then it's on both of them. Well, he has defended her at every turn. This new report sheds light on more the drama surrounding their relationship. Listen, she touches it. That's all I need. After NFL Films.

stopped their plans for production. They learned that Hudson was also undertaking different negotiations. Rossman wrote, Ms. Hudson was also in negotiations with another production company, Ever Wonder, to make a similar series. Not only did Hudson want control over the production, Hard Knocks, but she also was negotiating with a different production company for a similar premise. Despite HBO greenlighting the production of NFL films Hard Knocks at UNC, the involvement of Hudson put a stop

to the announcement and production according to this report. What's the nature of her schooling? What is her professional life, Ben? Is she in anything having to do with show business? Entertainment litigation? Any of that? I don't know what her degree is in, Steve, so I'm not really sure. Don't even know if she has a degree. Don't even know. Not really sure of that, yep.

All right. Ryan Reynolds is seeking monetary sanctions against Justin Baldoni and his team, calling their defamation lawsuit utterly frivolous. According to Reynolds' lawyer, the suit stems from Baldoni's anger over a movie character, which seems to reference Nicepool in the recent Deadpool and Wolverine movie.

Reynolds shared with TMZ that, quote, these are not serious claims. They are a desperate ploy for clickbait headlines, as according to his attorney. Blake Lively, also named in the suit, filed a similar sanctions motion. And Baldani's lawyer hit back, saying Reynolds and Lively sanctions motions failed.

Sanctions motions are frivolous and that Baldani's complaint is backed by a, quote, mountain of evidence. The legal battle continues, of course. Delegations are frivolous and preposterous. Don't you get away with some stuff just for parody? Like, can't you say... You absolutely can, but if they're frivolous and preposterous, we're going to... I don't know. Does the whole character of Nice Bull become even funnier if you think it was done out of revenge? Yeah.

And they don't name him. You know, it's really Ryan Reynolds making fun of himself. Yeah. I mean, it's frivolous. It's frivolous and preposterous. It's preposterous and preposterous. Okay. I just created two new legal terms and I want them copyrighted. It's begigalous. If you steal them, it'll be frivolous, preposterous, and scurrilous. Whoa. And scurrilous. Yeah. I got to throw that in there. Throw that in there too. Wow. All right. Let's see. Uh,

All right, their partnership has produced five iconic films, but it appears we may not get a sixth. Spike Lee explained to reporters at Comfilm Festival that his successful run of films with Denzel Washington may be over. He had said, this is the fifth one we've done together, and he was referencing Highest to Lowest, and he said, it's been a blessing, this body of work between us.

doing films that people love and I think this is it. He's been talking about retirement but five films together, he said, that's good. They stand up. They had seriously been working on Malcolm X and the Masters of the Universe. And I, for one, would have loved to have seen that. That would have been cool.

Could you imagine? Yeah. With him, with the power of Grayskull and all of that. The power of Grayskull didn't land on us. So the two first teamed up for Mo' Better Blues in 1990, which was then followed by the masterpiece, as we said many times, Malcolm X. He got game inside man and now highest to lowest. The trailer for season four for The Bear is out.

This season, it looks like the restaurant crew has their work cut out for them. While Carmi has successfully launched a high-end restaurant, now it actually needs to turn a profit while dealing with negative reviews. Jeremy Allen White, Ioana Berry, Eba Moss, Bacharach, and more star in the hit show for FX, of course. And the season four will hit Hulu and Disney Plus on June 25th. That's not too far off. Less than a month. Oh, I'm very excited. When you watch the trailer...

And you know that every year it's entered into the comedy. There are moments of humor, but it is a dramatic show. It is a very dramatic show. And I love it. It is fantastic. But it is not a comedy. Oh, you have an issue with the Golden Globe thing. Yeah, the whole Golden Globe thing. Just the coming attractions here, what they highlight, you know, it's so tense and it's

Well done. Some of the best TV you're going to see. There's a clip with Jamie Lee Curtis. So she's back and she says she's talking to I don't know if she's talking to Carmi or whatnot, but she says sometimes work family is closer than family family. Yeah. That's a great line. So I would love to see him get back with the with the the girl that he had, you know, broken up with her or pissed off when he was locked in the meat freezer.

I love that Oliver Platt has put down basically this financial clock that shows when that runs out, the business is done. Yeah, he's the money. He's the money dude. He's got to make a call on that. It's a great show.

The next Spider-Man film, Spider-Man Brand New Day, is more than a year away, but we may now know who Spidey will be up against. An Instagram user named Chris Higashi was at the Disney Blockbuster Consumer Production presentation in Vegas this week where not only was the web-slinger's new look unveiled...

But the villainous cast of characters he'll be taking on as well, according to this post. Okay. It's been taken down now, but footage was shown at the presentation that showed images of Spider-Man foes Scorpion, Tombstone, and Boomerang. Okay. I don't know any of those. I only know Scorpion. Yeah, Scorpion I'm most familiar with. I don't know Tombstone and Boomerang. I know Boomerang keeps coming back. For more. But I know Scorpion.

Mainly the Spider-Man foes I know from playing the video game. I don't know. I didn't dive deep into Spider-Man in the comics. I think Tombstone's a frozen pizza, if I remember correctly. What do you want on your Tombstone? If true, it's the Scorpion payoff long awaited by fans and set up in post-credits scene for Spider-Man Homecoming. No official word on any of this. Spider-Man Brand New Day hits theaters July 31st, 2026.

So are there plans to go ahead with Spider-Man Pleasant Family Gathering? I would hope so. I don't know. Hey, Preston, side note. Project Hail Mary. They had some sort of thing at one of the con fests or whatever where they showed a teaser trailer. And that still has not seen the light of day on social media. Correct. Any teaser trailer I've seen for it has been a fake. You know how they make fake trailers from time to time. They'll take clips of...

that are in other movies and make it look like they're creating this movie and that's the only thing I've seen. Yeah, so I'm curious about that because Ryan Gosling's going to star in it. We'll see, we'll see.

All right, so speaking of trailers, this one is definitely out. The first trailer for It, Welcome to Derry, has officially dropped. And Pennywise is back to ruin childhoods. It's set in 1962. The HBO Max prequel explores the early days of Derry's resident murder clown and the first kids brave enough to face him. Does the first According to Pennywise lore...

Is this the time frame during which Pennywise first becomes part of Derry's history? Because I know he is a sort of an immortal character, right? Yes, he's been around since like pre-man. Right, right. He's been around for a long, long, long time. Steve, no, I don't think so because...

In the novel, like, you can go back to the 40s. This takes place in 1962. Yeah, right. So you can go back to the 40s where there was this explosion and it was a fire of a, I forgot what industry it was locally and like, you know, a ton.

Tons of people were killed. They found body parts in trees and stuff like that. And they tie that to it, to Pennywise. And so, yeah, I don't think it's the actual origin of when the terror in Derry begins. The teaser, but this is the first time when

When kids realize what's going on and they start mounting a campaign against him. The teaser introduces an African-American family moving to town. Only to be met with cold stares and even colder mysteries as local children begin to vanish. Bill Skarsgård returns as a nightmarish clown. And IT director Andy Muschietti is back to write and direct the episode. So it should be pretty solid. Yeah, yeah. And again, I'm pretty familiar, but kids are hyper aware of...

Penny-wise on another level or just simply because they're the ones being victimized? Not all kids. I think, Steve, it almost floats with... So in a lot of Stephen King novels, you've heard of the shining before. It's this ability that people have to detect certain things or they have special abilities of some type. And I think that when a certain group of people get together, like the Lucky Seven, it...

this power surfaces amongst them. So it's that type of thing, you know, where you can't quite put your finger exactly on what it is. Is it true that it was not initially the shining, it was the gurning? The gurning. What's wrong with that kid's face? He just sucked his own lip into his face. The cloud must be near. The gurning. What the hell's happened to your face?

Touchdown pictures, the gurning. He just sucked his lip in and then the clown came. Oh my God, I love that. The hell are you doing with your face? It's not nearly as scary as a clown. You can't hide. The hell is that? Get your lip out of your nose. I mean, it's uncomfortable. It's not...

It's not scary. I'm leaving scary. I just don't like looking at that. It's scary because it's a warning. When you see the gurning, you know that the clown's coming, right? It's foreboding? The kid's face is changed as Pennywise is near. I missed that plot point. Oh no, Pennywise is near. He just inhaled his lip.

So the gurning is a harbinger of the shining. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I got it. Exactly. My apologies. All right. Let's see. Is there anything else to mention to you guys? Yeah, I'm going to mention two more quick things. The mobile game Clash of Clans is getting an animated series on Netflix. The mobile game, Cash? Wow.

It's like, remember how they made a movie out of Angry Birds? Yes, yeah. It will apparently follow a barbarian who is determined but in over his head as he tries to defend their village. And the series is said to be set in the world of the Clash of Clans and Clash Royale games. Will it use the sound effects from Angry Birds? Maybe. They first launched back in 2012 while Clash Royale came out in 2016. They've been downloaded over 4 billion times.

billion times. So these games, people who play them, the complaint I always hear is that to really play it to its fullest level, you constantly have to be purchasing upgrades. Like they're in-game purchases that they hit you up for all the time. I can't stand that. Yeah, I don't like that either. One last thing, uh,

In a move that was no surprise, it's been announced that the Showtime Paramount Plus series Yellow Jackets will be coming back for a fourth season. The hit drama's third season was the most watched season of the show to date with the finale, the most watched episode in the series' history, and has received ten Emmy nominations. I didn't know that. In its three seasons. Yeah, it's really good. So I watched the first season, and I don't know why I got distracted. I did like it. Yeah. I wasn't fanatical about it. You're saying get to...

season three? I mean, I was, yeah, by the end of season one, I'm like, oh, we're all in on this. And it gets, like, you can't believe some of the stuff that is happening and what these women are doing. It's wild. So, no word yet on when production for season four will begin. All right, we're ready for clips.

Nine Perfect Strangers will premiere with their second season. In this clip, Annie Murphy compares her character to herself.

and talks about her relationship with King Princess. Imogen is like a real know-it-all and likes you to know that immediately and thinks that that's how she's going to kind of gain friends and it never works out. King Princess, who's also in the cast, I didn't realize I had that part of me in me. It was immediately like little sister vibes. We were pushing each other's buttons and it was her first time on set. What the hell are you talking about? First two episodes of Night of Perfect Strangers air today. That's on Hulu. Here's our next clip.

Lilo and Stitch is getting a live action remake. And in this clip, Maya Kealoha.

telling audiences that they have to have an imagination when seeing Stitch in live action form. I would have to say you have to be a big imaginator to realize like, oh, maybe I should pretend that he is real so I can be like, yeah, I got this, I got this. You gotta be like, you gotta imagine it. Shut the fuck up! An imaginator. The kid is cute.

That's adorable. I have heard at the advance, and then there's an embargo, that this is the best of all the live action riffs. Get out! No kidding. They say they got it. They realized what was so endearing about the animated movie.

and parlayed that in the best of ways. Okay. And that's from a couple of different sources. All right. Again, not official reviews, but out of the theater reaction seemed to indicate they got a home run. I have not seen any renderings of this yet, of, you know, the live action take on it. It's pretty close. And I think also, again, it has that lighthearted, you know, spirit. You know what bugs me about it is...

The cartoon was great. I really liked the first one. I liked the animated version of it. But this is also animation. What I'm saying, this is a cartoon too. It's just got live action elements with real people. What you're saying is an exact fact. Is that when they call it a live action... For example, they call that one version of The Lion King the live action. It's completely CGI. Except it just looks...

photorealistic but at least those are based on like real animals this is based on an alien creature that has to be an animation because this thing doesn't exist in in reality so i i'm i'm just watching another cartoon with with people attached to it yeah you're watching the roger rabbit version of it yeah i guess it would maybe make more sense to do live action animation hybrid i guess a little wordy and it's a whiny complaint on my my part but like i don't know i just some of these remakes just don't seem necessary to me because the first one i really like the first one a lot

All right. Well, anyhow, that is your entertainment report, my friend. We got to take breaks. It's already eight minutes after seven o'clock, so we're going to do that very thing. By the way, Shipley School, the upper school in Bryn Mawr, you guys get to vote for the coolest teacher of the year, and we want to hear from you. So here's what you have to do. You got to text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. So then do the voting link. Make sure you let them know at the school that this is happening. You can go to WMMR.com or PrestonAndSteve.com to get the details. We had announced Timothy Spangler from Upper...

Marion High School was our winner. Maybe we'll hear from him today, but we're going to see who we add from Shipley School tomorrow. So David Cornswet, new Superman, went to Shipley. If the word gets to him, will we allow a guest vote or no? We have to stay safe. Ooh, one last guest vote? Yeah. Since he's Superman, I guess. Yes.

Have to entertain that or he's going to fry us with those laser-demeanors. Don't you put it past him. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. Tom Segura is joining us on the show this morning. We'll also go live on Fox Good Day. So stay put. We'll be back in a few. Thank you so much for coming. Tune in Thursday at 1 for our presentation of Pierre Presents. Let us welcome Mammoth. No matter what the distance is, I will be with you.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thanks, Bruce. Real quick shout-out before we get started. It says, hey, guys, can you give a nice, wet, juicy shout-out for my dad, Frank Buck? He will be 78 on May 21st, and he couldn't make it to Kenan's for the first time last year. He was missed by all our friends that we've made over the years. Some even asked if he died. Oh, man.

Nope. Frank, bring him back alive. Buck is back again this year. If you're at Eggs with Peg, make sure that you say hi to him. See you Friday. May the Gorski with you. That is from our friend Ann Gorski. So here's a shout out. Frank Buck is a great name. Frank Buck is a... That's like a...

That's a porn star name, to be honest. Either you're a porn star or a guy who can perform surgery on yourself. Yeah. Frank will take care of it. All right. So, Ann, we will see you and Frank at Kenan's on Friday. Day after tomorrow. Thank you very much. And, you know, listen, it's the official, unofficial opening of the show. Yeah. And I predicted, even though you put a temperature setting, which is absolutely fine in the upper 60s. Yeah.

I say we're going to get over 70. Oh, degrees? Absolutely, on Friday. I think it's going to be great. Yeah, even in the 60s, I'll be okay with that. But 70, I would love that. I'll get it done. So I've had a ton of people ask me, and I can't remember, what time do they open the doors? So they open at 6.30. Yeah, 6.30. Yeah, we're doing the entertainment report, and then people start flooding in.

Yeah. And they flood in. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. You see a legitimate flood of people come in. Once they open the doors, the line goes. I remember last year, Case, I was looking down. I was trying to get something to work right on my board. And I looked down for about two or three minutes. I looked up and the room was packed. What? Well, listen, the line, even though it goes straight.

around the block and down the street, once they open up, they can fit like 2,000 people in there. And we do. And so it moves very, very quick and you'll get in no problem. And we got great prizes. We've got cash left and right. Our friends at Stake Em Up have given us that. And Maury's Piers prizes. And we have those bikes from Zippy's Bikes in Wildwood that we're going to get. Everybody can register for that. We have his and hers beach cruisers.

and concert tickets and things like that. So we're stoked about the event. Details available at PrestonandSteve.com. This is brought to you by Coors Banquet. You can start your summer, start your legacy. Coors Banquet. So thank you for the sponsorship. I wanted to go back to the fact that George Wendt passed away. Norm from Cheers.

which was just sad to hear. He's such a lovable, awesome character. And supposedly, George was a super, super nice guy, too. You know what we forgot to mention, by the way, is that he was essential to that Da Bears bit on SNL. Yeah. You know, with Chris Farley and, you know, that whole collective. It was great. Yeah, he was...

Even though he was not an SNL cast member, right? They brought him in for that bit regularly. I forgot about that. And we should also mention that he's Jason Sudeikis' uncle. That's true, too. So I got an email from a guy named Bill Paris in Reading and he said, hey, in light of George Wendt's passing, he says, what were the

best ongoing gags in sitcoms because everyone would yell norm and then he would walk in and he would give a funny line and it was like was that every episode nick or if not every episode like at least every other it seemed like and i mean it really started in season one and and uh coach and sam and then uh diane when she ended up working there like they would all yell the name and and

Diane would always say Norman. She wouldn't say Norm. She would say Norman. I think there, and you could hear it in the clips we were playing. That was her thing. I think he always had a part of the episode where he came in. What I love, Preston, is according to the lore, and I was just thinking of this episode, the episode began with a guy who had not been to Cheers in like 25 years. And he's talking about, and it used to be Pettis,

paneling over here in green car. And they changed the wall collar behind where Norm sits. So Norm has been going there for that many years. For decades. So there was also a side conversation we were having off air of favorite secondary characters, not necessarily the stars. So Ted Danson and

Shelly Long with the stars of the show and then you had all the other players so we can dive into all this stuff but I'm going to give you a couple of the examples that Bill sent in about running gags on sitcoms and these are older like 1980s sitcoms and 70s as well

And I'll start with one from an earlier day, Steve. The Cone of Silence bit. Oh, my God. On Get Smart. Do you guys remember this at all? I didn't watch Get Smart. Get Smart was Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. They created this series, which is a parody of the, at the time, the Bond movies were, you know, huge and in their full stride. And so at a certain point, Max would say, this is very sensitive material. Maxwell Smart to the chief. We need to employ the Cone of Silence. And the chief would always roll his eyes like, no, no.

Max, no. The cone of silence, while it kept people from outside hearing what you were talking about, people inside couldn't hear what they were talking about. It was this big plastic dome that they would put over each other and they would start talking and invariably something would go wrong with it. They couldn't hear each other. And it was a bit that ran through the whole series and it was great. Here's another one on M.A.S.H.,

knowing things before they happen. Yes. This is, of course, where he got his name. And also, Steve, you'll remember this one if you guys are regular MASH viewers. Five O'Clock Charlie. Five O'Clock Charlie. So he was a North Korean bar,

Yeah. He flew this airplane and he would drop a bomb out of the aircraft and he would always miss what he was trying to hit. And they would take bets on where he was going to drop the bomb. I completely forgot about that. Yeah, I loved earlier Mesh. I loved the earlier vibe because it was closer to the movie. Now, I'm thinking of that one. I'm going to go way back to Gilligan's Island. Did they have a couple of times where...

Wrong Way Feltman. Wainwright. Was it Wainwright? I thought it was Wrong Way Wainwright. It could be, yeah. Or were you going to say Wrong Way Feltman? That's what I, yeah, but could be. Okay, but that was a recurring character on that show. Yes, it was. They had a couple different characters, yeah. All right, also, Bill had said, uh...

Larry, Daryl, and Daryl. Always introducing themselves when they entered the room on Newhart Show. That was a good gag. I like that. The Bad Coffee and Barney Miller. That was always referenced. We can relate.

Because some people don't know how to make coffee. No, they will put half a pound of coffee in the coffee machine. Another ongoing gag. Homer, he says, doing dough on Simpsons. That's more of a catchphrase. An ongoing gag that I loved was Homer's fascination with the Blue Man Group and his contention that they were a ripoff of the Smurf. And there was one... There's this one scene where...

Marge is outside Moe's Tavern and they're doing something that's really frantic and Homer goes running in and you just hear Marge go, again with the blue man! There's an ongoing gag on Family Guy that I like, which is the chicken fights. Chicken fights. Peter fights the giant chicken and it's one of those gags that the Family Guy does such a good job of, which is they milk the gag

for as long as humanly possible, and the fight goes on way longer than it absolutely should. But every time that they do it, I find it hilarious.

Let's see. What was another one they had on here? Beverly Hillbillies, Jethro looking for the crazy music when the doorbell would ring. There's that music coming out of the walls again. There was one I had in mind. I don't remember what it was. But yeah, if you get a good bit that runs, thread it through and keep it going. And it becomes expected. If Norm would come into Cheers and they not responded, it would have been cataclysmic. Yep.

So catchphrases are not running gags? It depends. It depends on how they're employed. I think it's all in the eye of the beholder, so to speak. Did I do that? Is that what you were thinking? Yeah. Yeah, because not only is it a catchphrase, but it also is a catchphrase that references something that he did wrong. Yeah. And so...

What are some of the side characters that you guys were in love? I tell you one that I think is, and I love The Office, but to me, if you take Dwight Schrute

Out of the office. Yeah. It's just not the same. A tremendous amount of my guffaws come from secondary character Dwight Schrute. When they do the 5K and he starts the 5K with a revolver, with a Colt .45 revolver instead of a Starz. I forgot about that. Oh.

And I love he so he had an ongoing thing about what beats what Preston. So, you know, bears, what kind of bear beats the other kind of bear. And then the ultimate thing would be could any of them beat Battlestar Galactica? What? Yeah, I know. Yeah. But it was a Dwight Schrute thing. OK, I yeah, that's a show I wish I would have gotten caught up in. But it just didn't it didn't take away. Some of them don't. I know it's just not for everybody.

Are we just sticking to sitcoms? Whatever. Well, Ben and I had two long drives in the car over the weekend, and so we were talking about our favorite shows of all time. And the Breaking Bad Better Call Saul universe is an incredible one. And the characters on that show beyond Walter, you know, Mr. White and Jesse are so good. And that's, in my mind anyway, what makes that universe so special.

uh worth mining who'd you put it outside of like i mean lalo yeah lalo's an incredible character obviously mike you know um uh mike ermantrout is is amazing um but uh gustavo frayne like i mean steve we talk all the time about you have to have a great villain yeah he was an incredible villain in his story arc which shows up again in better call salt he's not the star of that show but breaking bad and better call salt aren't nearly as good without um nicolo esposito he's the guy that was in the wheelchair

Gustavo... No. You were just talking about Breaking Bad. You're thinking of Stephen Hawking. No, I'm thinking of the guy who can only ring a bell. Yeah, you're thinking of the uncle. Gustavo owned Los Pollos Hermanos. Oh, so that was Giancarlo Esposito. Okay, gotcha. I'd forgotten the character's name. One that I wrote down. I did not watch...

X-Files, but, um, the smoking man was one that people always wanted. They, for some reason, fixated on. He wanted to kill him. Really? And it turns out that actor actually didn't smoke, so he, they had him smoking these, you know, non, you know, lethal cigarettes. Really? Yeah. Okay. But he was always smoking. I just always think of, like, the annoying neighbors, you know, like Kimmy Gibbler, uh,

Oh, I love Gladys Kravitz on the gang going back. I don't mean to go back to these classics, but on Bewitched.

She was a Karen before there were Karens. And there was a great episode where she gets caught up in a spell and she gets whisked back to the Pilgrims because it's a Thanksgiving episode. And Samantha convinced, you're just dreaming. And you cut to a shot of her later on like churning butter and she goes...

I don't like this jam. It's too much work. It just cracks me up. Speaking of ongoing bits and also characters, there are sometimes on TV shows characters that you never see. You will either hear their voice or they're just referenced. So I'll give you an example. Friends, the naked guy. Yep. What was it? What did they call him? Ugly naked guy. Ugly naked guy. He lived across the way. On...

uh, on Andy Griffith, there was a Clara. Yeah. Who was the operator operator. Anytime they had to make a phone call. Hang on. I got a phone. Yeah. Yeah. My candlestick phone to be like, Clara, can you get a call to Mount pilot? Can you get bear, uh, Barney on the line? Yeah. So that was another character. And then Steve, I think this might've been from Rota, uh,

Carlton the Doorman was another one. And it was Frank Musick. You only hear his voice. Yeah, yeah. But you never see him. And speaking of George Wendt and Cheers, Vera. His wife. Vera's wife, yeah. We never saw her, right? There was one episode where they threw a pie and it hit her face. And you heard her voice every now and then, but you never met Vera. And so her face was obscure. It was the Thanksgiving episode where they have the food fight. And she comes walking in and somebody launches a pie right across her. It hits her right in the face, yeah. It's literally what you're pointing at me. It's ridiculous.

literally what i was gonna say yeah vera in fact i wanted them to the final episode have her come and come to the bar come on norm come home and her just be an absolute knockout that's a good that would be a great bit a good gag uh i'm gonna go to by the way uh 610-660-9333 if you want to jump in we're going to talk to uh eve who's joining us on the phone hi eve good morning

Good morning. How are you? Awesome. All right, Eve. Gadzooks. Gadzooks to you. Who do you want to chuck in with these characters we're talking about? Well, now I got two because one triggered a memory. But first of all was Wilson from Home Improvement. They always hid his face behind something. Yeah. That was always a classic. So he was not only hidden and that was kind of a gag. He was just a great side character. He was a terrific side character. They actually paid homage.

homage to him in Last Man Standing, the other Tim Allen series. I forget how they did it, but it was the same sort of thing where you couldn't quite see him. If you talk about characters you don't see as well, Preston. Wolowitz's mother in Big Bang Theory was always an off-camera voice. Okay. And then Eve, we triggered another memory for you?

Steve just mentioned it. Oh, there you go. Yeah. It was Mrs. Lallowit. She was awesome. She was terrific. Yeah, great character actress. And then she passed away and they did a tribute to her on the show. Aw. All right. Well, thank you for your call. We appreciate it. Have a great day. You too. All right. Besides, you know, I mean, on that show, on Cheers Alone, you know, Cliff Clavin was a side character and he's...

Do you remember how they both... So there was that Cheers. There were those Cheers restaurants, bars in airports. I got stuck in one for nine hours in Detroit. I was flying home on Christmas Eve.

And they had basically those statues of those two at the bar.

because of the side characters. You know, obviously Ted Danson and Shelley Long and Kirstie Alley did great as the leads, but the rest of that supporting cast is what made that show so special. I'm going to go to Eddie joining us now. Eddie, good morning. Good morning, guys. Sorry to bother you at work. All right, man. What's up?

I was just calling in about the TV show Scrubs. I've been watching that recently, and one of the running gags on that is you never know the janitor's name. They just call him janitor. Yeah, that's right. That's right, yeah. That's the dad from the middle, that same Neil something or other. Flynn? Neil Flynn, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, terrific character actor. Nice. All right, thank you, sir. Appreciate it, bud. We got Craig Legans joining us. Craig, what's up, man?

Are you there? Craig? Wait, no, that was my fault. That was my fault. Let me try this again. Now you're on, Craig. Good morning. Good morning, Preston. Good morning, guys. I wanted to backtrack on a couple of things that you were talking about. St. Elsewhere was set in Boston. Okay, so that makes sense. Yeah, because Carla even mentioned on an episode that she had three of her kids at St. Allegiance. All right. There you go. All right.

Yeah, that's why I'm here. As far as invisible side characters, you mentioned Carl Madora Man and Norm's wife, Vera. Nick, in the Thanksgiving episode, that was actually George Wendt's real-life wife, Bernadette, that had the pie on her face. That's terrific. Yeah, you did see her legs in the final episode. I think you heard her upstairs at Melville's a couple of times, but yeah, you never saw her face face.

And as far as invisible side characters, Charlie from Charlie's Angels. Charlie's Angels. The ultimate. Well, you would see his legs like a poolside on a lounge with two or three Playboys-type playmates around him. He was always about to...

He's about to get laid. He's about to Weinstein a few people. Yeah. And that was his thing. And it was John Forsythe from Dynasty. Yeah, yeah. And the fact that they kept that invisible character through three movies as well. Yes. And John Forsythe's voiced, at least I know, in the first movie. Right. I don't know. I've forgotten the second and third. I didn't see the third movie. But yeah, you're right, Craig. That's like the ultimate never-see character. I love that. Mm-hmm.

All right. Thanks, man. Good to talk to you, bud. If you're talking about secondary characters that if extracted would topple

I think Samwise from Lord of the Rings, right? As a secondary character. Would you put him as a co-lead? Well, I wasn't thinking movies, I guess. I guess by the second movie, he'd be, he really came into co-lead, you know, co-star, co-lead, whatever, co-manager. I see the list here, Preston. Arya Stark.

Oh, my God. Yes. Do you consider a main or a secondary? Man, there are so many characters on that show. I'd say anybody in the Stark family was probably a main character. So you had her and Rob and Jon Snow, who is technically a Stark. But it just took a while for those to become main characters. They all start off as secondary. She was the youngest. And so therefore, yeah.

Let me go to a couple of calls. I'm going to get Carolyn joining us. Hey, Carolyn, good morning. Hi, good morning. Hey, good morning to see you, Carolyn. What's up? So you guys were talking about characters that they never show on TV shows. And I wanted to bring up Diane from Twin Peaks. I didn't see Twin Peaks. I did watch. Yes. I'm doing a little thing here. Yes, they eventually did reveal her, did they not?

They did, yeah. So he was like Kyle MacLachlan, who was the main character. She was his assistant, and he was always leaving her voicemails, leaving her tapes and stuff for the whole run of the show and the first two movies. And then finally, in 2017, when they released the third movie, they finally revealed her, and it was played by Laura Dern. But it was 27 years of never showing this character. Because Diane Ladd was in the series as well, her mother.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I love stuff like that. To me, that makes it, it makes it more interesting. Twin Peaks was when it first came on the scene, man, love that show. And it was clear at a certain point, they didn't know where they were going. We only got a couple of minutes, but before we need to break, but we're juggling a couple of different things because of a George went passing away, you know, either a side character from a show you loved or a recurring bit. Cause he definitely was both of those for recurring bit. I'm going to go to Jay. This is a good one. Hi Jay. Good morning.

hey how you guys doing awesome man all right so what are you thinking hey so on uh there was a show on tv it was a comedy called ed and i had tom cavanaugh and julie bowen on it every episode if i remember having they did a uh as a gag it was like a ten dollar bet yeah and you didn't you never really knew what the bet was like until you saw them like laughing and then exchanging the

$10. But it was pretty funny. It was like, I'll bet you $10 you can't get that guy to say kumquat or whatever. And they would send people over in awkward situations and make them do things. And it was this constant back and forth. I don't know if they ever paid each other or what, but yeah, the $10 bet was always pretty cool. I love that. It's a great show. Yeah. Thanks, man. Appreciate that. And that even, I think they may have kind of stolen that in...

the first Avengers movie. A bunch of 10 bucks. They take them up in the...

And the floating, you know. Helicarrier. Helicarrier, and he pays him 10 bucks. There was another ongoing gag, going back to Get Smart, because he had some of the best comedy writers in the world doing it. But Preston, do you remember? He would see, there was one where he'd see, like, it was like an, there was an Indian, like, kind of evil genius. American, Native American Indian. And he had a missile that looked like an eight-story arrow.

It was part of the deal. And Max would always go, that's the second biggest arrow I've ever seen. So it's always something, that's not the first? That's funny. That's not the biggest? I love that. I love it. Mel Brooks and company, the best. All right. Well, it was sad news about George Wendt passing. It was just like I said, I felt like the whole country go, oh,

You heard about him dying. Again, when you're talking about the whole conceit of the show, which is everyone knows your name, you're with friends, you consider those guys friends. Yep, most definitely. All right, we have to, in the interest of time, take a break right now because we're going to go live on Fox News.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Hi, thank you, Marissa. So normally Marissa tells me how much time we have to go until we go live on Fox Good Day. But Casey is playing that role now because Marissa is doing the traffic in the other room there. So I have a little programming shift that needs to be made. You said about 20 seconds now. Yeah, it was 30 seconds about 10 seconds ago. 15 now.

Now we're down to about 10 seconds now. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Okay, Preston and Steve. Do you think anybody on your staff, I'm talking about the men...

Could you land an airplane if you're like sitting in coach and all of a sudden the pilots are incapacitated? Could you land a plane? Because a survey just out says...

50% of men in the United States think they could land that plane safely. Preston, could you? Without question, I'm your man. Get me in there, put me in coach, I'm ready to go. He can do it. I've seen him do it. In fact, they'll invite him up. They say, ladies and gentlemen, we have a guest pilot today. He's primarily a DJ, but he'll be landing the 747 today. I think with the proper instruction from the tower...

I can do it. You've seen it happen in movies where I would serve best a flight attendant. That's if you are down a flight attendant handing out pillows and blankets and snacks, I'm there for you. What about you, Mike? You can pass out nuts. Not a chance.

And forget, I know there's autopilot. If they could teach me how to flip the autopilot on, I guess I could land it. But forget the autopilot. Autopilot's been disabled.

Steve, could you land the plane? So listen, I used to do that Microsoft flight simulator. And it's all wonderful when you can hit a reset. But I would freak out and start sweating bullets when that pretend computer plane would go awry. So I know I'd be a disaster. So the reason I think I could do it is I have been behind the control zone aircraft before. And I've taken it all the way into right before we touched it.

It was my wife's uncle. And it was in a Cessna. So it was a single engine, two-seater thing. And that was great. And I've also flown a Blue Angels. One time I went up with the Blue Angels and the pilot let me take control for a while. So I flew that sucker. I've flown a helicopter before, too. I'm your guy. And you flew that raid over Macho Grande. Over Macho Grande? No one's ever been over Macho Grande. No.

Okay. All right. Fly with him, not me. I'm going to fly with Preston. Yeah. I don't know if I'm going to fly with either of you. Alex clearly proves she's the smartest. I'm just saying. I'll take the bus. Good call. All right, guys. Thank you. We'll see you later, guys. Now, however, with that being said...

As much as it's cool, I don't think I would ever take flying lessons and really pursue it. No. Because it just... You like to drink too much. I like to... That's true. Um...

But it's too dangerous of a hobby for me. Even though I know that the statistics show it's way safe and the amount of people that fly versus the amount of people that die, it's very, very, very, very low. Or the crashes that happen. But I still... Let me ask you. I'd have a tough time with that. And this is something I've always flirted with. If the delineation was a glider...

No. Okay. So I know what you're saying. Like, I think of that as a little bit safer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But my brother-in-law was taking helicopter lessons, and he was enjoying it. But I think there is the law of diminishing returns. Yeah. And I don't want to be in that. Why? I didn't have to take these lessons. Why am I here? By the way, I think I can operate the basic functions of an aircraft, you know, with the rudder and the elevators and the radio, all that.

No, seriously, the radio is very complicated. Oh, is it? So that's why I was going to say this is because...

Just the flying part of it. I can do that. I can do the basic controls. But when it comes down to the mechanics of the aircraft, of which a pilot needs to know all of that stuff because anything and everything can go wrong and you have to figure out how to do it. The radio is very complicated. Like going through the different bands and the different type of access you have to have between the tower, another aircraft, an emergency aircraft, and things like that. And emergency...

It's way too complicated for me. If you've ever, and I know you have as a video gamer, you've done where, say, you're like you're in a spitfire or you're flying or you're in an air battle, you know, and you lose your perspective and you're, you know, in the mountains. And it is so disorienting. I mean, I'm pretty good.

But in the height of battle, not that you're going to be leading a commercial jet into battle. But yeah, to me, it's too disorienting. I wanted to take flying lessons for a long time. I never have. I would still like to do it. However, my loved ones do not want me to take it because I don't think that they have a ton of faith in me. Yeah, Steve, I played that 1980s flight simulator game, Microsoft version. Yeah, yeah. And of course, it's on YouTube because everything's on YouTube. And I had forgotten how even in 1982 or 1984 or whatever version this one was, it's

It was hard. Yeah. You know, down is up and left is right. I would screw things up so fast. And they put every, I mean, that game was, they kept doing more photorealistic. Right. You know, the graphics got better and better. But they put as much as they could into that. And the minutia, forget it. Dude, the 9-11 terrorists learned how to operate aircraft through that game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And look,

They were able to do what they were set out to do through that. Do you guys ever play Top Gun on Nintendo? No. The flying game? No. So the big things were, I think the first level you had to fight other flying objects, but then you had to land on an aircraft carrier.

And in the second board, your big thing was getting fueled midair. Yeah. Yeah, because that little hose would come out of the big... Yeah, and that's all I could ever do. I never got past any of the... Yeah, they're hard. We're looking at the graphics. Those games are difficult. Yeah, it's ancient. I know. Wow, 8-bit graphics. Wow. All right, listen. We're going to do the Bizarre File. At the end of the Bizarre File, mini announcement.

A little bitty, bitty, bitty announcement for you. All right, so let's do the B-File. Here we go. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. Bizarre!

It's brought to you by Barlow Auto Dealerships. For honest pricing and dedicated service, visit Barlow Chevrolet at Route 130 in Delran or BarlowChevrolet.com. Barlow Chevrolet, together, let's drive. All right, I've got a complicated story to start with, or it's an involved story, but follow along with me, if you will. A New York man who attempted to have a romantic rival killed and his body fed to pigs.

Pleaded guilty in federal court to the deranged plot. Isn't it wild how reliable pigs are for disposing bodies? Totally. They used all the, well, I want to say all the time, but it seems like a go-to. Gilles Sutherland is the guy's name. He entered a guilty plea after being charged with using an interstate commerce facility in a murder-fire scheme. Sutherland was arrested in January following an investigation by the FBI that began when a man who eventually became an informant

The agency set fire to a car in November, reportedly because Sutherland had asked him to do it. What the informant told agents after that revealed a sickening plot that involved a love triangle, a nun, and a good bottle of bourbon.

And this is what brought me into the story, those three things. So just the informant told authorities Sutherland had asked him to set fire to the car, which belonged to the mother of an incarcerated man who shared a child with Sutherland's girlfriend. The mother was scheduled to testify at a custody hearing for the child and Sutherland sought to prevent her from attending. The informant told agents that he had been used as, quote, an enforcer by Sutherland for several vengeance related tasks.

While most of those targets were said to owe Sutherland money, the informant said that there were bigger plans for the incarcerated man. Sutherland wanted the man dead upon his January release from prison. In exchange, he would forgive the informant of any debt he had, but Sutherland didn't just want the other man dead. He wanted him gone. Specifically, he intended to dispose of the body at a hog

farm in Pennsylvania. The informant began recording conversations that he had with Sutherland, during which they discussed the plans for killing the man and transporting the body. The informant told Sutherland, I have a van I can rent for like $250 from a nun. We'll take him to a farm and let the hogs eat him. This is like an HBO movie. Sutherland told the informant that his then-girlfriend had different plans for the man, saying that she wanted him, quote, strapped to a chair so she can hit him with a baseball bat.

I want you to go see the nun. However, he also noted that she would fold like an accordion if she was ever questioned. And Sutherland later expressed his desire to be less involved in the actual crime, telling the informant, I don't want to know about anything about it.

But he would still like to see proof that the target was dead. Oh, gosh, I'm just so busy. So in another conversation recorded in January, the informant told Sutherland that he was going to need to be paid $250 for the van, $1,000 for the hog farmer. He also told Sutherland that he would burn the van after transporting the target's body to the farm to destroy the evidence. And he said that he would explain to the nun, quote, what happened? I don't know what happened, sister. You know, you got insurance, don't you?

Hey, why don't you get off my back? An undercover agent also acted as a potential hog farmer who met with both the informant and Sutherland. As the hog farmer, the agent told Sutherland that he would require additional payment up front for the use of his farm, and the informant and the agent agreed upon, quote, a good bottle of bourbon. All right. Thieves!

Around the time the intended target was set to be released, Sutherland and the informant met for breakfast, and then they went together to a bowling alley where they were joined by Sutherland's then-girlfriend and her child. Uh, hog farmer, I'd like you to meet the sister. The pair left the bowling alley and, uh...

to go to the home of one of Sutherland's relatives where Sutherland gave the informant an easy pass transponder, a bottle of wild turkey bourbon for the hog farmer and $1,450 in cash. Oh, and here's a rock polishing kit. Sutherland was taken into custody without incident. During a hearing, Sutherland also admitted to leaving a dead Canadian goose on the doorstep of the home of his target's mother and in the dead

bird's beak was a threatening note. Is that the way the Canadian mafia works? Wow, I guess so, Steve. You sleep with the geese. Sutherland faces up to 10 years in prison. I told you it was a bit of an involved story. That is elaborate. That is wild, man. Alright, here's a follow-up to a story we had yesterday, or it might have been on Monday, but...

The New Orleans jail, a New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested and is being held on $1.1 million bond after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a cell wall, allowing 10 men to squeeze through the gap in one of the largest jail breaks in recent U.S. history. You first mentioned this story and I was thinking about that. I thought...

How did they turn off the water? Right? Yeah. The inmates pulled off the daring escape early Friday by yanking open a faulty cell door, moving the toilet and slithering through the hole. Graffiti on the wall included the message too easy, LOL, and too spelled T-O with an arrow pointing to the gap. Police confirmed that Corey Bord became the fifth of the escapees to be apprehended. So they have half of them by now. Authorities believe sheriff's employees helped.

And three have been suspended. On Tuesday, authorities made their first staff arrest. Maintenance worker Sterling Williams admitted that one of the escapees advised him to turn off the water in a cell, according to the Attorney General's office. Williams is charged with 10 counts of principal to simple escape and one count of maleficence in office with $100,000 bond per charge. He intends to plead not guilty. Now, Williams said that one of the escapees

had threatened to shank him if he did not turn off the water. Well, shank you. Another tried to take Williams' phone and attempted to get him to bring a book with cash app information. The Attorney General, Liz Morrell, said Williams, quote, made some bad decisions and should have brought the threat and escape plan to someone's attention. No additional charges have been filed against other employees, but the investigation continues and there could be more arrests.

Let me do one more story and we will wrap it up. Oh, this is a good one too. A Charleston, South Carolina personal injury attorney was arrested last week after police say he was downtown yelling at the top of his lungs without any clothes on. There we go. William Mullins. Are you looking for an attorney?

Call me 365 days a year. My name right on the nutsack. William Mullins McLeod Jr. was charged with public disorderly conduct and booked in the early morning. An officer was in the area when they observed McLeod walking along the battery screaming Wednesday evening. He was wearing only his underwear and shoes during the incident.

Officers said they confronted McLeod, who began... All the guys wear cowboy hats. I'm going to go in a different direction. ...began rambling incoherently. After placing McLeod in the handcuffs, officers tried to identify him, but he reportedly told them he was Superman and God.

Wow, man. That is a law firm you want. Superman, Superman, and God. Due to the fake names and not... How does Superman get top billing over God? Well, it's... He started it. He started it. Superman, Superman, and God.

So, due to the fake names and not having an identification... God, I want you to know, we made you a partner. McCloud was placed under arrest. While en route to jail, police say McCloud continued to yell about vague historic events, as well as various people in his life. Harriet Tubman! What? Huh?

On arrival, McLeod reportedly refused to exit the vehicle and said that he wanted to sleep inside the vehicle. The police noted that his eyes were extremely bloodshot and highly dilated. Can you help him? Superman can't get his belt off. Sweating profusely, and one of the officers said these symptoms were typical of someone under the influence of a stimulant and narcotic.

He was released on Friday on his personal recognizance. By the way, his website says he's a third-generation lawyer in South Carolina, a trial lawyer, and a victim's rights advocate. And he ran for governor in 2010, by the way. Didn't listen to his son of Krypton? No, and that is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right, we're getting set. We are two days away from our live broadcast. Down the shore, folks. Down the shore.

We're headed to, of course, Kenan's Irish Pub in North Wildwood. And it's brought to you by Coors Light Banquet. Or no, Coors Banquet. Coors Light and Pass has been our sponsor. Now it's Coors Banquet. And we're going to have tons of prizes. Cool things to give away. Contests where you can win cash. We've got bikes from Zippy's. We sneak them up and give them a bunch of money. We have concert tickets and things. We have a lot of stuff.

But one of the things we like to have as well is a promotional item to hand out to people for free while supplies last. And so we've given out T-shirts and other things throughout the years. Well, we have a new item this year, and Marissa has it for us. And she's going to bring it in here right now. You guys haven't seen it yet. I've seen it, and I've never seen one of these.

It is a slap koozie. Oh, nice. And it's got the Preston and Steve logo on it. And it is the Preston and Steve cream cheese logo. And what you do is you take your beverage, and I'll show those of you who are watching on YouTube, and you just slap it on there. And it keeps it nice and chilly and cool. And you don't get the wet drippiness on your hands.

I did not know about slap koozies. I love this. And I love the image. I love the artwork. I love the whole thing. Absolutely. So we've got like a couple hundred of these to give away from what I understand. Oh, nice. I don't know how we're handling this.

I don't know how we're handing these out. We'll find out how we do it. But Marissa just brought this to me and she created this. She's the one. This is her idea and the logo and all that stuff. Did you smell it? I did not. It smells new. Yeah, it does. It smells like an inner tube on a bicycle. Totally. Marissa? First 150 or so people through the front door. Okay. Where the MMRB table is. Steve, if you add a lighter to this, it'll smell like Teresa. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Girl, you're a rubber. Sorry, go ahead. Marissa, you were saying the first 150 people? Through the front door by the MM Army table. Okay, excellent. Getting high, man. Right. All right. I love this item. That's cool. I love that I brought slap koozies to you guys. These have been a big thing in my world for a couple of years. So the step up was the slap bracelet years ago was all around, right? Yeah. Marissa, I don't remember who did the design for the...

Cream cheese. But it's so cool that it says President Steve since 1996 on here. I think it was Nick Murphy. Yes, this is a Nick Murphy. It was my idea. I'm like Casey. I'm an idea guy. And then I hand it off to people who can actually do it. And Nick Murphy was the guy who does it. By the way, you can wear this as a bracelet too. You can wear it as a big ass bracelet.

badass kind of Wonder Woman deflecting Beastmaster thing. I'd use this as contraception. You could. If you really wanted to. On my big girthy unit.

Chew a little blue chew and slap that thing on there. Let's go, boys. Chew it and slap it. So the first 150 people through the door are going to get one of these. And we're very excited. Love it. And don't do that thing where you try to ask for one for somebody who's not there. No. We're not doing that. No, we're not doing it. We're not doing it. We want everyone who's there. We don't want anyone to get boned out of it because Uncle Ferd is in the clinic. Yep. All right. So that's day after tomorrow. Make sure you join us. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. Tom Segura coming up at 10 o'clock. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Prest. Our coolest teacher from Upper Merion High School is on the phone line now. Very good. We're looking forward to talk to him. The gang voted by the gang. I mean, the students. And they have named Mr. Timothy Spangler as the coolest teacher of the year. Tim, good morning.

Good morning. How are you? We're good. So I understand you're in class right now. Has it started? Do we need to make this quick? Technically, it started, but it's okay. They have stuff to do. They can work on their effort a little bit. It's just band. They'll do whatever they want to do. By the way, so you're a music teacher at Upper Merion. For how long?

So this is my 15th year in Upper Maine, and I teach concert band, music theory, and also direct the jazz band and marching band here. Yeah, okay. I know you. I know you well. That's where I lived in high school, and I even took music theory, which is really hard, by the way, especially for a dumb drummer, but I did enjoy it. So what instrument do you yourself play, Tim?

So I'm a tuba player. I started playing tuba all the way back in seventh grade, and it's been that way ever since. Despite my mother's reservations, I think she was hoping I would play a smaller instrument growing up, but it ended up being the tuba. Wow. So did you play tuba in your rock band, or what was this? Well, I was going to say, I think there was this movie and book, Tubby the Tuba. Yes. And...

For some reason, I just really latched on to that book, and that's what I wanted to play. Get out of here!

Yeah. And in fourth grade, I walked into my band director's room and said, I want to play tuba. And he said, all right, you're a little small to play to in fourth grade, but we'll get you in seventh grade. And like I said, it's been like that ever since. You know what? That's funny that you mentioned that because tuba is usually the instrument that they have to throw at somebody and go, oh, by the way, you're going to play. We need a tuba player. You're going to be the tuba player. Steve wanted to play drums.

They wanted him to play trombone. Oh, yeah. And unfortunately, that's something that happens in school music systems from time to time. Right, Tim? Yeah. And I think, you know, I guess I will say I'm guilty of that in some ways myself. In fact, one of my first years at the high school, I looked at a new student to band and I said, you look like a tuba player. And so he played tuba and he really enjoyed it. Oh, wow.

So it's nice, too, when you do get students who are kind of like a blank canvas and they don't really have an idea of what to play. And you have them try out a couple of things and say, you know, I think this is an instrument that would really fit you. Tim, would you recommend that line at a bar if you're trying to meet a woman? You look like a tuba player. I don't know if I'll try that one out at a bar.

So, Tim, obviously the students like you. That's a really cool thing to pull off as a teacher. Does that come pretty easy or do you sometimes have to work at it to connect with a group? Because you are a little bit different in the regular classroom. These people have to work together as an ensemble and it's kind of like a sports team in a different regard. But it's not the same as just teaching people a certain thing. They then have to perform together. So is it tough to make a connection with the entire group?

To be honest, I don't find it hard at all. Good. I think one of the amazing things

amazing things about music is that it kind of naturally builds that sense of community and particularly with band you know I'm around these students probably more than their parents are sometimes with hours on end you know after school and games and performances and so that really builds that sense of family and so yeah I don't find it hard at all. That's great. You guys all done with your performances or is there anything left?

We're done with all of our primary performances, our spring concerts and everything. We had a district fine arts night last week. The only thing left is we perform for graduation. Okay.

We used to do this thing because I was in a band as well, and we would play Poppin' Circumstance. And as we would play through it, we would do essentially it was like a block pool as to how many times we would play through. And the winner would everybody would pay money and the winner would end up getting some at the end. So you should you should maybe try that out with the students. It ended up being a lot of fun. You're gambling. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, actually, I might kind of do that because some years it's different. One year we had to repeat it like five times. Other years we only had to play it once. And it's always, you know, a game for me. Yeah. Well, that's cool. Any plans for the summer, Tim?

Just some simple plans of kind of just relaxing. Usually my girlfriend and I, we go down to Florida for about a week and a half just to spend some time with her mom down there. So nothing too crazy, but just some downtime. Well, Florida's known for their big tuba con. So, yeah.

He should sit in with Snack Time. They have two by and a half. Oh, my God, they do. Yeah, they're great. Nice. All right, Tim, well, this is from the kids. The students want to give you this award, and we're going to supplement that with a $50 gift card from our friends at Dunkin'. And you will also get the coolest teacher of the year, Preston and Steve, coffee mug to display or to use. It is up to you. So congratulations.

Well, thank you very much. I'm very humbled by this. Oh, it's very cool. You deserve it. Have a great summer. Keep doing the great work. It's Timothy Spangler, who is from Upper Marion High School, our coolest teacher of the year. And we now have a new school that is up and voting, and that's Shipley School. The upper school, the high school part of that, the 9 through 12 for Bryn Mawr. We go with the upper register of the, and I know there are so many great schools.

elementary school teachers and middle school teachers and all of that. But we'd like to wait till, you know, kids are getting towards the end of their school and they want to vote for, and they have easier access to phones and things like that. It just makes the most sense. But we appreciate all teachers in all forms. Real quick before we dive into anything.

I have a couple of shout-outs to do. I got this from Leanne Rigo, who said, good morning, Ed. I'm hoping to get a 22nd birthday shout-out for my daughter, Jillian Rigo, on the 23rd. We will be at Kenan, so I'm doing it today. Nice, yeah, because it's going to be pandemonium on Friday. Live broadcast on Friday for the show with her big sister, Rachel. I introduced them last year to the Kenan show, and we had a blast. Hoping this will be our new tradition. Love you all, long-time listener.

Leanne Rigo. So there you go. A little shout out for her. And I'll do another one that's on the 23rd as well, just because it's going to be too crazy for me to go through that. This is from Rob and Kirsten Smith. They said, I want to get a shout out to our daughter,

Riley Smith, who's turning eight on May 23rd. She's been listening to the show since the day she was born. As soon as we get in the car to go to school, my daughters wait to hear Steve's yoo-hoo, which has also become the way that we call each other in our house. I'll give you one right now. Here you go. Yep. Yoo!

Can you please send an 8th birthday shout out slash you who to Riley on her birthday. Thank you for being a part of our morning commute and being part of the village that raises our kids. Oh my God. I know. Sorry. Rock on and long live fall activities, they said. That's sweet. All right. Well, thank you. We do appreciate that.

You know what? There's a lot going on in my head right now. What's happening? I think we need to share all of this. It's streaming through my mind. Yes. The stream of consciousness nerds. The first one is actually an email that I got from... An email. From a guy named Joe Blay. Blay. Blay.

And we were talking about Mariska Hargaday the other day, and her mother was Jane Mansfield, and this is something that I did not know. Did you know that there is a car part named after Jane Mansfield? I'd heard this, yes. Yeah, this is what he says. The bars on the back of a tractor trailer are called Mansfield bars.

And they were put on to stop cars from going under and killing people like what happened to Jane Mansfield. That's what happened to her, yes. So I did not know. I need to find out if that... Nick, can you look up Mansfield bars? I did not do any research on my own. To be honest, I thought that was kind of an apocryphal...

story, but is it? It's right, yeah. So it's also known as an underride guard and it's that steel bar the president's talking about that hangs down on the rear of a semi-truck or other large vehicle. I always thought that was just a stepping for people to get up into the back of the vehicle. Yeah, I forget who was a truck driver that I knew growing up or whatever the story was, but that

I knew early that that's the purpose of that because smaller cars can easily run right under the back of a truck. And decapitation, death, whatever, is certainly going to occur if you get cleaved off at that height. Was not aware of that. Another interesting name for a, this is an aviation part, but on a helicopter, there's one particular nut that essentially holds the unit of the rotors on. Okay.

And it's called the Jesus nut. The Jesus nut. I heard that years ago. There is a valve that is on when you're fueling a plane that if you pull it back fully, it opens up the full flow of gas. It's called the Peter North. Oh, my God. It's amazing. Sprays all over the place. You can't stop it. Yeah. It's almost like never ending. Really? Really? Come on. That's ridiculous. Wow. You must eat a lot of chicken.

Do you know what his nickname is, Peter North? No. The Decorator. Did you know that? No, I didn't know that. I saw a video one time.

It's just too much, right? It is. It's a lot. It becomes offensive at a certain point. And his Wikipedia page is Peter North. He's known as an actor. Oh, an actor. What an actor. What an actor. You ever do a fellow? He's Canadian. I didn't know that. Yeah, me neither. He started in gay pornography. Did he really? Yeah, he did. A lot of them did. Then he had, did a lot of them?

John Holmes. Really? Hell yeah. I didn't know that. John Holmes actually finished in gay. There you go. Yeah. So, but he, Peter North ended up in some real legal trouble, like abuse and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Towards the end there. Was that before or after his film series, better known as North Pole and or Anal Addicts? Probably after Anal Addicts. He actually went to Juilliard. No, no. Okay. All right.

Well, anyhow, I did not know that about the Mansfield bars. But I thought that was an interesting factoid. And it just streamed right out of my head. So, all right, we'll move on to something else. The stream of consciousness, sir. So, we're headed down the shore. Yes. And I thought it might be nice to pass along some information about things that are happening down that way. Just a little bit. It's a whole other character. You're the beachcomber, right? The beachcomber. The beach bomb or whatever it is. The beach bomb is a synthesis. Yes.

I thought about it. I couldn't find enough stories, Case, to fill out the beach bum, but I was hoping this music would pop up. Part of the joy of this, and I was thinking about this, what makes Keenan so good is just the getting to say hi to everyone. Because the audience is right there, and you get to socialize, and it's such a good, vibrant atmosphere. It's such a positive. It's such...

And just to say thank you to people for all the support. How many years we've been doing this? And as you would maybe think of it, Preston, you said, you know, a family tradition or a generational thing or people who've raised their kids and then they're 21 and able to imbibe and they come out to the event. To see that happen over the years, it's been an honor to be a part of it. But it's just, you know, it's just exciting that it's like.

the opening of the summer. Yes. Oh. And so like when I was walking through. It's the best. When I got to MMRBQ a couple weeks ago and walking through the parking lot towards the venue, just that vibe. It's like, oh, it's here. You know, the spring, summer is here. And so when you get down the shore, it's just even more so. By the way, can you play the music again? I know this is radio, but I want to do the twist. I feel like twist is good.

By the way, I watched the other day. Oh, we're all twisted. Nick, come on, twist. Get a twist out of it. You can't twist, Estelle. I'm twisting. I'm doing something else. You can't twist and do that at the same time. You're like Ann-Margaret. Before I get into it, and speaking of Ann-Margaret, I saw a video clip from an Elvis movie, and it was one of those where they removed the dialogue and all the sound effects, and they add in people just going, making noise. What?

The dances of the mid to late 60s were horrible. Other than, you know, the twist, which is pretty simple. But it shows these people having spasms on the dance floor. So did you see this too? I've seen... Well, I don't know if I've seen exactly what you're talking about, but I know what you're talking about. If you can call up video of... It's Adrian Barbeau doing disco dancing or...

She used to be a professional dancer in clubs, like in the 60s. And she would go and do what they call them... I don't know what the dances were, like the frug or the... Whatever the hell it was. But it looks like you're having a full-blown seizure. Yeah, shaking and doing all kinds of really weird things. That was... Yeah.

Ann-Margaret did that a lot. That was her thing. She didn't have, I guess, real dance rhythm. Or maybe that was just the way they interpreted dancing back in the day. So we're watching some video clips of Adrienne Barbeau, who, by the way, dear God...

This is a buxom woman. Yes. Is she dancing with Mr. Drummond from... She is. Oh, my God. It's from Maud. Conrad Bain. Conrad Bain, yeah. I like his ascot. I like his penis. Nice ascot. All right. Well, anyhow, back to the shore. Yes. If you don't mind, thank you.

All right. So after last year's Memorial Day weekend, the shore was marred by gangs of teens that brought violence, manilism. Several communities are ready if it happens again. So NJ Advanced Media spoke to police chiefs, mayors in three Jersey Shore communities.

communities and here's what they had to say about preparations to handle unruly crowds of teens so did you guys notice anything last year was it was a you guys story yeah but you didn't witness it or we're we don't hang out at the yeah at the the boardwalk not at night no i mean it's just like it's it's there's tons of people it's not my scene i like going there in the daytime even when it gets too crowding in the daytime i kind of phase out but

So anyhow, here's what Seaside Heights Mayor Tony Vaz said. Over 100 police officers are expected to be available for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. He said if something happens, police from neighboring communities and the Ocean County Sheriff's Office can also be called to respond. He said that the borough has plans in place should gangs of teenagers show up. Gangs. He said come down, have fun, but if you're looking for trouble, you're going to be in trouble.

In Wildwood, anyone under the age of 18 cannot be out in public past 10 p.m. unless accompanied by an adult.

The city intends to fine teens violating curfews or other laws. Are they judging adult by legal parameters, 21 and older? 18. Under the age of 18. Oh, and accompanied by an adult? Right, yeah. I think it's anybody over 18, right? Yeah, so last year my daughter was down in Wildwood for senior week and they were on the boardwalk. Now, my daughter is like an angel, right? So like they were literally just having some pizza and going on some rides.

And my daughter was over 18, but she was with somebody who was not. And they made them all leave the woodblock. So even though this girl, who was 17, was with somebody who was over 18, it didn't matter. Interesting. So the city intends to fine the teens violating curfews or other laws, and they have banned backpacking.

Thanks for watching.

Ernie Triano Jr. said, we're not playing games when it comes to the safety of our boardwalk and the families who come here to enjoy themselves. You break the rules, you deal with the consequences, plain and simple. And in Ocean City, uh,

There will be an increased police presence, particularly along the boardwalk. That's the Ocean City way. The department will have 60 full-time and part-time officers working Memorial Day weekend. Ocean City has a ban on backpacks on its boardwalk as well. And that helps stop underage drinking and shoplifting. In some cases, teens have been caught using backpacks to smuggle fireworks on the boardwalk as well. Is any back still acceptable? Don't know about that.

In case you were talking about different vibes for, uh, you know, the summer and when you get a vibe, when you head down to Kenan's and the Jersey shore and the vibe that you get when you, you know, are at the parking lot for MMRBQ, it's really funny to me. And just an interesting observation, how many different shore towns have very different vibes from one another. Like sea isle is, is vastly different than Avalon, which is a little different than stone Harbor, but those are both different than the wild woods. I've never spent a ton of time in seaside Heights. Um,

But, you know, that's the Jersey Shore town of the town of, you know, the show Jersey Shore. And it like it definitely has its own vibe. And they're just they're not that different inherently and like in geography or beach or whatever. But they are so different in vibe. Yeah.

All right. So if you're headed down, they plan on doing that for mainly for teenagers. But several bills meant to address gangs of teens and young adults coming to the shore are under consideration by New Jersey. Stop talking. They're just bringing guys named Bill. Several bills will be here today to try it. Which town is the youngest town? Which town is the youngest town?

The youngest? Yeah, like where the youngest crowds hang out. Is it Wildwood? Is it Seaside Heights? Probably. Yeah. Maybe Seaside Heights. I really don't know that. Or maybe Sea Isle City. At all? Sea Isle to me is like a 20s vibe. Or at least it was when I was in my 20s. I don't know if it still is or not. I'm 49. And so for me, like the Cape May vibe is where I like to go. I like that it's chill and it's a lot greener and whatever. But yeah, the vibe that you got in Sea Isle was always like, this is a cool party town if you're in your 20s. Right.

The bills, by the way, range from new training to help police address pop-up parties and another increases penalties for the parents of guardians of a juvenile. A bill making inciting a public brawl of fourth-degree crime. So you can't start a melee in public? That's illegal? Was conditionally voted by Governor Phil Murphy, by the way. Yeah, inciting a public brawl. So I don't know how that, you know, who's to blame for that. All right.

Marissa brought me, actually we can continue with the beach ball. Oh. All right. So, by the way, we're doing the twist every time that song plays. Just for those of you who hear a little pause in the action. We can't help it. No. So just in time for Memorial Day weekend, Airbnb is cracking down on partying at their rental homes.

This week, the company started rolling out their, quote, proprietary anti-party technology for listings nationwide. This isn't just a short. This is nationwide. Nationwide. It focuses on party hotspots, of course. Do you remember they were having within the city a big issue with party houses and Airbnbs being used for this? So they have the proprietary anti-party technology, and this sends a message that no one's getting into trouble at their properties anymore.

It is the fourth year that Airbnb has used this high-tech defense system to block certain bookings during summer holidays, including Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. The goal is to, quote, reduce the risk of disruptive parties, which are banned on the platform, and to promote responsible and safe stays. What is the high-tech component? Are they able to flood these places with nerve gas? So, I don't know if they do.

Can they haven't indicated it publicly, but the technology identifies and flags certain booking attempts based on factors like the type of listings being booked, the length of stay, uh, distance to the listing from the guest primary location and whether the reservation was made at the last minute. So when you saw, I've not done an Airbnb, uh,

When you do it, I assume there's sort of an agreement, perhaps something that you sign in documentation form, so that you're not technically under surveillance. They can't have...

Is there some sort of agreement that there are no internal cameras? Don't know. How far can security get? How much can they hold sway over what you're doing in the house? Don't know. I've only used it one time. In fact, they used Vrobo or VRBO or however you want to say it. Nick had suggested it to me. Here's my...

with what I've experienced so far. And I stayed at a nice place and everything. But they, Nick, when they have a, and you've rented from there too, Casey, when they have the dollar amount,

on there. On the app? Yeah, of how much it's going to cost you. And then you go and you say, all right, you're going to book this. And then it goes up by like $300 or whatever. Oh, I didn't know that happened. Every time I've gone in, it gives you an estimated amount. And then there are all these added fees that come on too. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. Have you, you have an experience? No, no. It's always been, you know, if it's,

$150 for the night. That's what you end up paying? What are the itemized fees, Preston? I don't remember. Yeah, I mean, to answer your question, you know, to me, when I've reserved them online, that's usually what I end up paying. Maybe I need to pay closer attention, but I've not experienced anything negative like that. By the way, indoor cameras are prohibited.

on listings globally on airbnb okay so i'm wondering what how again as you said it's in the in the booking process there are things that trigger them that let them know this is more than likely going to be a party situation so like trying to book a one to two night stay in an entire home could be considered high risk for a disruptive party uh anyone who is blocked

from booking an entire home will have the option to book alternative accommodations on Airbnb. Last year, the anti-party defenses stopped around... And they won't stand for it. Stopped around 51,000 people in the U.S. from booking a home on the platform. Do they, in fact, again, I'm sorry, I'm such a newbie on this stuff, do they offer...

that are for home parties, for house parties. Don't know. I guess that would be up to the owner. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, listen, when you're renting a house that has...

pools and hot tubs and all that sort of stuff. A dungeon? Yeah, a dungeon maybe. But that sort of lends itself to... So if you're cool with it and you can position, okay, this is for... For example, if you're doing something on July... a property on July 3rd and July 4th, you can assume it's going to be...

A party. I would, yeah. So they're trying to use their anti-party technology, anti-party defenses. Anti-party? If you're renting something down the shore just to have a big bash, you may want to think twice about that. So Airbnb does a better job, Steve, of sort of ruling those out. So if you want to rent a party house, you're not going to do it through Airbnb. However, Vrbo is a little bit more party friendly. So if you're just looking to rent a home for a party specifically...

go to Vrbo instead. Hey, do you remember we were talking about the people, thanks for that link, by the way, where somebody has a pool and they will rent it for a couple hours. You can lease it out. You can rent the pool out. Haven't heard about that in a long time. But that was all the rage for a while. Yeah.

Yeah, so people who own pools could rent out the use of their pool for a few hours to people who maybe don't have access to a pool. Hold on, Marissa. My sister-in-law has done this, and she loves it. She says it's great. She avails herself or rents her pool out? No, they have rented a pool from somebody. It's great. You hit or miss. Sometimes there have been some times where somebody's just not home, and you do it. There's other times where people stay.

stay and hang out with you, which is a little weird. I don't think I like that. They're being gracious because they have this big cool pool that nobody's using. When you get out of the water, help me look at this blister. Does that smell like gangrene? Growing up, there were two houses that I can think of off the top of my head that old people lived there that had an in-ground pool and they would let us go swim in the pool. It was essentially that.

Just take your trunks off in front of us. Oh, my God. There's all the things that run through your mind, though. If somebody's hanging out, I think it's going to be creepy. If I were to rent my pool out, I would want to be at the house. Now, I would stay inside and say, look, if you need anything, come on in. But the pool area, that's yours. Help yourself. Would you be like Judge Reinhold in the bathroom? Oh, my God.

But just in case, because something can go wrong, somebody could hurt themselves. And insurance-wise, I assume that there's a point at which you are culpable. And you want to be there in case something does occur. So, interesting. All right, let's go back to the beach.

All right. Wonderland Pier is going to reopen this summer with arcade, pizza shop, and on the Ocean City Boardwalk, according to the Philly Voice. Icona Resorts plans to open the former Gillian's Wonderland Pier building on Ocean City's Boardwalk as an arcade and pizza shop starting this weekend. Okay. So they have that. Yeah. So they've done a lot of renovation, correct? Yes.

I don't know. But CEO Eustace Meada, he's our friend, he's a great guy, who hopes to replace the shuttered amusement park. He's the CEO of Icona. With a 250-room hotel set Friday, he plans to debut the new look over the Memorial Day weekend. He said, we want to do what's right for this city. We don't want a dead zone on the boardwalk. That's great. None of the old rides from Wonderland Pier will be running at the new venue this summer, but Meada

Brought new arcade games and pizza ovens for a shop that would be called Ocean Pizza, Ocean City Pizza Company. So they did away with the Harry Truman? I don't know how big it is, but Playlands, Castaway Cove, the only remaining amusement park on the Ocean City boardwalk, and then the article runs out. I think they don't have the rest of it.

But they're doing something. And that war in Iraq is taking... Sorry. It got stuck in the printer, but there's a lot of people who are dead. It says, yeah, the only remaining amusement park on the Ocean City boardwalk, and then there's going to be something more. But that's wild. The government screamed, I'm not coming out till... I don't know. He was upset. I know that. Well, Castaway Cove is the only one that's left after Wonderland. And there is a water park...

That was in between Wonderland and Castaway Cove. And that's still there. Yeah, that's still there. It's a small water park. There's only like two big water slides, a lazy river, and then one of those jump slides. Does it say in the article, Preston, how many Icona properties there are now? Because there's several. I like the one in...

Avalon, I've stayed at the one in Wildwood, Diamond Beach or whatever. Cape May. They're really nice. Is there one in Cape May? There's one in Cape May. Where's that? It's right on Beach Avenue. It's a smaller one. The one that we stay at for the Kenans. Diamond Beach. I'm telling you right now, I'm looking forward to the hamburger I'm going to get from Rooms. Dude, it's great. Is it the Star Bar? Is that what they call it that goes out to the beach? Yeah, really nice. That's a great spot. I got seven.

So Avalon, Diamond Beach, Windrift, Cape May,

Oh, Windrift is North Wildwood. No, no, no. Windrift is Avalon. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's where basically Avalon and Stone Harbor meet. Oh, they're right next to each other. Yeah. Okay. The corner of Avalon and the Windrifter are right next to each other. I was thinking of North Winds, which is where we used to stay. Which is now like a condo. Now it's like a condo, right? Yeah. Condo-tel. They redid it? Yeah. They're nice people that work there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then they also, Nick, you have up there the Mahalo Resorts. Yeah.

There's that one Mahalo. It's basically right next to where the Icona is. Yeah, so I guess they're interconnected. Across the Peter North. Yeah, right next to that. Can't miss that one. The fountain's always running. Yeah, you'll see the fountains are running all the time. So stupid. All right, let's go. Come on. Hey, everybody. All right, so as we head into Memorial Day weekend...

An article from the Enquirer, our friend Michael Klein, wrote that Cheeky's and Pete's continues their tradition. They will pay the Atlantic City Expressway tolls, cash and easy pass for motorists headed east through the Egg Harbor Toll Plaza between 4 and 5 on Friday.

So one hour, they'll pay for everybody who's going through. Enough time for four or five cars to get through. I don't know, man. One hour in the rush hour on that Friday? Oh, true. Yeah, it's going to be stacked, of course. I'll tell you what. I heard this story about a guy who spent 38 bucks for a bucket of

of those crab fries. Well, you'll be happy to know that they're going to host a festival, Steve, on Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Farley Service Plaza with free crab fries, a car show, and exhibitors including the Funny Farm Rescue Sanctuary, New Jersey State Police K-9 Dog Team, and Atlantic City International Airport's Fire and Rescue Equipment. I love that. They did that last year, did they not? No.

That I don't know about. I mean, the tolls, but I don't know about this little party at the Farley Service Plaza. So, and this year, by the way, we know that a number of the bridges, a number of the toll booths are now not there, and you have those gantries, right, in place? Not in Jersey.

No, it's still the booths. Okay, all right. Yeah, I mean, there's E-ZPass lanes. Yeah. But yeah, they still have the booths all set up there. All right. One more thing. Did you want to answer? I had a question about E-ZPass because I rented a car and drove my daughter home from Michigan. And when we got to the Pennsylvania Turnpike...

there was no option. It was pay by plate. And I was like, I don't know what the freak to do here. I'm going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Am I just going to get a bill in the mail or something? Probably. I mean, if you rented it through enterprise or whatever, they'll, they'll just bill you eventually. It's, it is annoying when you're driving, especially that stretch cases like Michigan or, or any of the Midwest states back to PA because it is,

often different E-ZPass systems from state to state. So sometimes your E-ZPass from Pennsylvania won't work in E-ZPass in Indiana or Illinois or whatever. No kidding. Ohio, I just went through the booth and I got a ticket and I paid cash. But when I got to Pennsylvania, I didn't even have that option. It was pay by plate or nothing. I drove from PA to Colorado last summer with my son and it was, you know, my dad, we took my parents' car out there and that was the intent of the trip. And my dad has E-ZPass in his car, but sometimes he would get a bill. Sometimes the E-ZPass would work.

New York uses E-ZPass, don't they? It does, yes. It's the same as us? It is, because I just drove from here to Boston and back. So that, and that, by the way, GW Bridge is $18 now? $22? Wow. Something insane? Wow! It's preposterous, these friggin' bridges. $22? I remember when the word on the street was, oh, the tolls are going to come down on the Verrazano. Yeah. Nope.

Nick is pulling up. It was 16 for easy pass, yeah. And then 18 if you don't have easy pass. I mean, come on. I know. That's half a bucket of crab fries.

By the way, how was your trip to Boston? It was fantastic. I'd forgotten how much I love that city. I got to go see a game at Fenway. The Braves lost. The Sox came back to win that, which was great. Just real quick. The vibe at Fenway Park, and I'm a lifelong Phillies fan. I will always be a Phillies fan. But being at Fenway and being in that vibe and hearing them sing Sweet Caroline and when they win a game, they sing Dirty Water. It was a Saturday game in May and it was so much fun. It was so joyous. It was this collective vibe of just

People having a great time. You know why I think part of that is, Nick? Because I've been there too, is because it's smaller. Yes. There's 37,000 or something like that that it seats. And they had to get up to 37,000. Like they added those green monster seats. There's some in right field up above.

And it's just, there's no rhyme or reason to that park. I think it opened a week before the Titanic crash in 1912. There's no straight lines anywhere. They've had to add bathrooms. Like, any place that they can find to put in something, they have over the years. So it's a very, very different experience than Citizens Bank Park, which is also a great ballpark. But there's something so charming and wonderful and great about Fenway. You know, a disaster that has not been immortalized in film, the week after the Titanic, they had a...

tickets to go on the Titanic. What are we going to do? Never got to go. That was the big promotion. What are we going to do? Ben's going to Northeastern next year. We have some great news, folks. Next week we'll be giving away Titanic tickets.

uh ben's going to northeastern next year and he can walk from northeastern's campus to fenway wow you know and like we just walked all over town it and i went to the north end which is that italian part of the city and uh it just it was it was a great place to visit i've been to boston many times over the years but i hadn't been in a long time and i'm really psyched to be able to go up a bunch when he's in school there did you get on one of those uh free rickshaws they have

Now, we got on the T, but we didn't get on a rickshaw. No, they have, like, from Boylston Street, we took all the way up the Fenway. A dude dragged us up there in a rickshaw, and it's free. That's cool. Absolutely free. Now, you tip, you know, just to say thanks, but I didn't know... This is how I pay for my medication. I didn't know if they still had that running or not. Thanks for the ride, old-timer. I thought that was pretty cool. Isn't it a very, almost implausible-looking... Because you're there. It's right in the city. You know, the Fenway is right there. It's just...

But I love that. It is a very charming venue. Yeah. Wrigley's like that, too. Yeah. You're driving through a neighborhood and you're like, oh, my God, there's a ballpark right there. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Anyhow, well, I'm glad you guys had a good time. Yeah. That was cool. Let's go back to the beach one more time. Hey. Hey.

All right. So this is good. This is according to USA Today. We have something at the shore that was ranked number one. Oh, yeah. And this is what it is. Yeah. Medical waste. No. Favorite roadside attraction. What would you say? It's at the shore. It's number one.

What would you think, Case? I already saw the answer. Favorite roadside attraction? I wouldn't consider, like, Maury's. No. At the Jersey Shore? Yeah. Come on, guys. Oh, oh. Is it Lucy, the elephant? It is. Yeah, it's Lucy. So, well, nice, Casey. So, yes. It's about an elephant that you can rent as an Airbnb. Yeah.

You come in through the elephant's rectum and you leave out its nose a chunk as you yank say. Listen, it was built, it was crafted in 1881, so it could have been an inspiration for John Lennon to write Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, for all we know. Listen, Paul, I saw the goddamnedest thing in New Jersey. What'd you see? It's an elephant you can get into by crawling through its ass. Ha ha!

You know what I'm saying? There's so many stories that the Beatles have still surfaced to this day that we do not know about these songs that we've known forever. So I got this concert. Fish was playing in Atlantic City and I got a concert poster. It is awesome. It is a Lucy the Elephant, but like a post-apocalyptic. It's really, really wild. Like falling apart, crumbling.

Crumbling. Crumbling. Like, you know, something cataclysmic happened. But the elephant is still there. And I have this thing. And, like, I got it. And it's immediately worth, like, $500. Like, great poster. I love it. I love the look of it. It is such a classic. I didn't know why I'd immediately think of it, Preston. What happened? What? You were about to say there was something bad. It was worth $500 and then. So I brought it to this frame shop to get framed.

And it's been there for a few years now. Oh, is this the one in Conchie? No, no, no. They're in Berwyn. Okay, yeah. The frame shop on the train station? Yeah. Yeah, they listen to the show too. I hope they still have it. Well, they probably do because I had a poster at Kohl's in Conchie Hocken for like four years. And he finally called me. He's like, Nick, you ever going to come pick this up? Listen, they do amazing work there. But it was amazing work that I wasn't at that time. I didn't realize how expensive it was.

Framington. I want you to take five years to do this. Do it right. So I was like, okay. And I gave him a couple of different things. And then I was like, but just hang on to that real quick. You know? And then I never got around to like going back there and saying. So you're taking ownership for now. This is on you. This is on me. Okay. This is not on them. Well, go get it. I know.

Are you saying it's worth $500 because you had it framed? Is that why? It hasn't been framed yet. It is worth $500 without the frame. Wait, oh. Yeah. Okay. All right, I'm sorry. So just to clarify, the poster's there with the intent of being framed? With the intent of being framed. Okay. I just didn't have the money at that time. Hold on to this for a decade. I'll be back. I was too embarrassed to say, oh, you know what? I can't pay for this right now. I can't pay for this right now. So I was like, hang on.

on to this for a second. I'll be right back. That's the saddest thing I've ever heard, son, that you can't afford to get your fish posted. I wonder if there's a statute of limitations. If you leave it there for seven years, it automatically becomes their property. Possibly. For example, take a pawn shop, or if you don't come to reclaim it, right? You usually have an agreement, like if you hawk something, and eventually they own it. But I mean, what would be legal?

If you've paid to... Or you haven't really paid yet. I haven't paid. When do they take ownership of it? I hope not ever. Okay. Marissa? Well, back to the Lucy, the elephant. I heard a great story. And I can't confirm if it's true or not. Because I've done a little digging. But I heard that during Prohibition...

They would change the color of Lucy's eyes to let the bootleggers know whether or not they could come on the shore. It was a signal. With liquor. So the eyes would be like red. And if they were beaming red, it meant like there's cops around. Don't come down. But if the eyes are green, you could come on the shore and you could bring the booze. Interesting. I don't doubt that. There were all sorts of clever little ways. It's, you know, yeah. Yeah. Check into that. Yeah.

and get validation, that'd be cool. I heard it from a friend who grew up in Atlantic City who swears it because she does face the ocean. Like when you're driving by, you just see her butt. Yeah. Which kind of stinks, but I thought that was kind of cool. All right, real quick. I know we have to take a break, Casey. We're way over time, but Lucy is number one. These are the best roadside attractions in America. Number two is Wheat.

Jesus in Kansas. I don't know. I'm not familiar. Dalmatian Fire Hydrant in Texas. The Easel Project in Kansas. Wall Drug Store. We've heard of that before. Dinosaur Gardens. That's in Michigan. Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum in Louisiana. Okay, I've actually seen that. Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox in Minnesota. And...

And then the Paul A. Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum in Ohio. And of course, the world's largest ball of twine. And you'll find that in Cawker City, Kansas. What about Cadillac Ranch? Cadillac Ranch. You would think. Yeah. And what about Clyde Peeling's World of Reptiles? Yeah, don't know. All right. Anyhow, we got to stop. We got to go back from the beach, baby. It's time to wrap up. Let's twist one more time. And listen, we'll be doing this live. Yeah.

Let's get the whole Kenans to twist with us. We could do that. We could play the beach bum music and everybody twists. Let's plan on that. We'll twist again like we did last summer. How about that? We'll get some guest twisters. And in honor of Chubby Checker being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All right, we do have to take a break. We're going to do that very thing. We'll come back in a moment. A little bit later on 10 o'clock. Tom Segura joining us. We'll be right back. Stay put.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Hi, thanks, Bruce. The story that we kicked off the news with this morning, it was an incident that took place in South Jersey. I think it was Woodbury, New Jersey, and a dump truck. They're not 100% sure, but the gentleman driving this dump truck may have had a medical emergency. Yeah, they said it might have been a grand mal seizure, Preston. Lost control, and then with this 73,000-pound vehicle was filled with concrete dust. That's unbelievable.

So it weighed a ridiculous amount and it plowed into this house, just destroyed this home. The guy gets stuck in the vehicle in the house for three hours. They couldn't get him out because the house was crumbling around this truck while he's inside of it. So I have found out there was a guy in the house who was trapped and the truck driver was trapped as well.

So the one neighbor was calling to his friend who he knew lived in the house. So that was going on. You look at this precedent, as we said earlier this morning, the fact that no one died and that they're relatively in good shape, both of the people, is amazing. There is another bit of footage that I haven't seen repeated. I was watching the news yesterday evening. It was from someone's ring camera. And you see the point of the collision when the truck hits the house. You see it literally shift off its foundation. The whole house. The whole house. What?

Man, oh man. So now they had to eventually get everybody out of there. And now the aftermath happens as far as what the hell do you do after this? And so we were going to throw it out to those listening who may have had not necessarily a dump truck come running through your living room. Right.

But some kind of cataclysmic event that has happened to your house, a fire or some type of destruction where, okay, now what do we do? Where do you go from there? We had to, I'm sorry, piggyback on this. Some neighbors of ours, they live just a mile away from where we are. So they're very close to us. On their street, there was a house two homes down that caught on fire, burned down.

Over two years ago, they are just now rebuilding the house because they had to go through all the insurance loopholes, all the jump through all the hoops to figure out how to get the money and have it start construction. So they've been living in this rental place for like two years. So it is a nightmare. My friend Eric, who's, you know, who's done stuff for the sprinkler system for my house, he had his house, his house demolished.

set on fire. It was a washer-dryer, I believe a lint thing might have been in the basement. By the way, our number is 610-660-9333. Just only now is he getting close to the point where they can take full occupancy of the home. The nightmare of paperwork and stuff that has to take place. He knows. He's savvy to this stuff. My question is, in this collapsed house or in a fire or whatever, they said it was a structural... It was too dangerous. It couldn't go anywhere.

How do you...

How do you go about getting some of your stuff? Yeah, get right out of there. I mean, can you get some of your stuff in a fire? I don't know. I don't want to know from personal experience. But for those who have gone through it, I heard somebody one time say sometimes toxins are released in fires. Yeah. And that your stuff may not be... What can be taken out? What can you get your hands on? And I wonder about this house that's falling apart. Yes. Clearly that...

before you get your stuff out of there, they have to knock it all the way down. And destroy more stuff. And that's going to destroy more of your stuff. You just have to go through the rubble. Yeah, maybe that's what it is. For this one, didn't they demo it last night? I guess they did. They had to, Nick. It was structurally nowhere near sound. Same thing goes for these tornadoes that have been popping up.

Yeah. You know, in St. Louis, there were houses that were taken out and some of them just structurally damaged. And, you know, you have to, I guess, leave it for a while before they determine if it's safe. And then if it isn't, then they just tear it down with all your stuff in there. And then you go in and pick through the scraps. Yeah. I don't know, man. I think...

You know, when you're looking at your stuff and there's, you know, and I know it's just stuff, but there's important stuff or memory stuff. And I know my inclination would be like, I don't give a rat's ass. I want to get in there and get some of this. Yeah. So I actually, there was a house not too far from where I live now that was just completely demolished. Right. But, yeah.

Right.

come crumbling in. No, no, no. Luckily, nothing cataclysmic happened, but it happened so quickly that they all had to get out of the house. And I don't remember exactly how it all shook out with those guys because all of their belongings were still in the home. By the way, we have a few callers who have had

trucks crash into their home. So let's go to these calls. I'm going to first start with Cindy, who I believe is on the line. Hi, Cindy. Good morning. Good morning. Hey, sorry about you guys at work. That's all right. So you had what crash into your home?

I didn't, actually. A trash truck blew up in front of my house two years ago. On Juneteenth, it'll be two years. A trash truck? So, green energy, clean energy is propane tanks, which make them bombs, basically. Oh, okay. All right. So, a trash truck blew up outside of your house? That's a...

That's correct. At the bottom of my driveway, two years ago, June 19th, my son ran out. The kids had just gotten done school for the summer and were home and we were supposed to go to the pool and they were waiting for me to be ready to leave. And as we went to leave, my son said, Mom, there's a trash truck smoking out front. Should I take a fire extinguisher? I said, sure, go ahead. Oh, my God. Get back. Get.

Get back in the house. This thing is a bomb. If it overheats, it'll explode. And so my son came back in and we watched from our window as this thing caught on fire and then literally exploded and ruined our siding and our roof and our trees and our landscaping. Let me just jump in here.

You know a truck is going to blow up in front of your house and you're watching it from the other side of glass? Yeah, so right. So that's kind of right. So it was far enough away where we were safe. But we couldn't go outside because the trash truck had these fumes. I mean, it was toxic. You couldn't go outside even if we went out.

to try and get out the back door, you still have a trash can in front of your house. So we were stuck inside. What about, so damage to the house, you mentioned some stuff occurred. How much, I mean, obviously you have insurance, but how much damage was done when everything was all figured together? Well, the crazy part is, guys, that you're talking about this. My husband and I had for two years waste management. The director came and said, this isn't entirely our fault. We'll take care of this. Go

go through your insurance company and then you know we'll we'll pay for it we know this is our fault he reassured me we had just had our landscaping done our uh driveway report our walkway done we spent tens of thousands of dollars and maybe a month later this happened and i cried in my driveway and i said listen i don't know if this is a devastating he said we'll take care of it we'll take care of it here we are

Two years later, we just are now possibly getting approval to get this fixed. Two years later. When you hear stuff like that, it just drives you crazy. We've tried everything. We had to go through our insurance company. Our insurance company said they were the holdup. It's been back and forth for two years, and now we're coming up on statute of limitations. So I called the other day and made my feelings known about the situation and said I'd go to the media if I had to.

Yeah. What town is this, Cindy? This is Bristol Township. This is Waste Management in Bristol Township. So it's Tully Town is technically where Waste Management is, but it's Bristol Township. I hope it works out for you. Yes. Because you're definitely owed that. Yeah. And thank God you weren't hurt. It's been an extremely frustrating process. Yeah. We have video of this. I mean, the whole thing, I'll have to send it to you guys. It's insane. Yeah. If you saw it, you'd never believe that it was just the siding and the roof. Yeah.

So you have video of the explosion? Yeah, I'd like to see it. Yeah, we have tires blowing up off of the trash truck directly at our house. Wow. Yeah, we got to see that. All right. Sorry about that, Cindy, but thanks for sharing. Good luck. All right. Have a great day. You too. All right. Next up, I'm going to go to Kim because she had something happen as well that involved a big truck. Hi, Kim, you're on the air. Good morning.

Hi, guys. Good morning. So this is probably going back a good 35 years. I'm the same age as, like, Casey and Nick. And middle school, my parents' house, one house in from a major intersection. The one road comes down off of a highway, so lots of tractor trailers coming down, cutting through a highly residential area. And there was a...

Just like a blinking light. No stop lights there. And accidents all the time. You'd get waking up one morning, a bunch of kids going to high school down the street from my house.

Tractor trailer comes down. A guy has a seizure, hits the car with the kids, turns and ends up the house on the corner was on a like a diagonal facing intersection, goes through two trees and ends up hitting the front of the house. The kids have to get taken out of by the jaws of life. And the guy is, you know, passed out in the front of the tractor trailer.

So, of course, like, we didn't see this, but you hear this because you're, like, literally about to leave the door to go to school. Yeah. And I couldn't even end up going to school that day, and the high school was down the street from us because all the emergency vehicles and everything. Needless to say, there is no traffic light there, but it took this accident for them to...

finally put a traffic light in. Tim, did you have, like, was there a history of cars going through and skating and sliding? Because I know there's an area on Stanton Avenue near where I live where there is a sharp turn and I see these people have this old-style wooden fence and that thing is forever getting ripped up on the corner and clearly it's because cars are overshooting and running into it. Was this the only incident that occurred or did other things occur?

Oh, there were accidents when I was growing up, like weekly at this intersection because it was such a major intersection that went through our hometown. And this is up in Northern New Jersey where I grew up. And it was just a blinking light. So people just didn't pay attention or they were like, oh, I'm going to scoot through it real quick. And especially with the one, you know, the main drag coming down off, you know, the major 287 interstate in our Jersey. Yeah.

People were flying down there all the time and just didn't stop. Yeah. And like cars up on, you know, the grass, huge accidents all the time. But this was the one that was so bad because, you know, the high school kids got really injured. Sure, yeah. And this guy, it was a medical emergency, but it's...

It's not really great walking out your front door and seeing a Dr. Taylor on the lawn. You'd be scared crap... Well, in this case here with this story, Preston... Thank you, Kim. There were... Thanks, guys. People in the neighborhood said that there were people like one house over barbecuing right in the backyard. There were kids playing out around. I mean, again...

thank God nobody was hurt. He went through a bunch of front yard. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it wasn't just a street, street, street house. No, it was street. Yeah. There was a story I had, uh, I was going to put in the bizarre file and never made it up, but, uh, it was, I forgot where this was, but there's a, um, roundabout in front of, uh,

in a neighborhood where there are homes. And apparently this happened like three times. They have video footage of it. Somebody just not paying attention, thinking that the road goes straight. They go... And the roundabout was all... The middle part was all covered with grass. Right. And they hit the roundabout and they just...

catapult off of this. Oh, wow. And crash into the house. And apparently it was like the second or third time that the house has been hit by somebody flying through there. Do you remember you had the stories in the bizarre file about this house? I think two or three times people had launched and landed in the second story. Yeah. Yes.

How is that possible? I don't know. It happens. I mean, I move. I move after the second time. Here's not a home, but an interesting story from Joanna, who we're going to find out about. Hi, Joanna. Good morning. Hello. Hi, Joanna. So you had an interesting story, but it was not at home, right? Right. It was when I worked at Warrington Panera. Okay. What happened?

Oh, my God.

And I had to get everyone out of the back. My two cashiers got the guy out of the car and the rest of the customers out of the store. My one co-worker took down our hand sanitizer thing.

Joanna, was anyone hurt? Was anyone hurt in this? No, no one was really hurt. One of the customers, she got some glass on her face. She was sitting by the front door. Quick, get the hand sanitizer. There may be germs. Exactly.

There may be germs. No, I know. It's so weird. There are certain stories that have had this happen. And I don't mean to laugh, but the notion, the classic notion of the person getting a new car and not being able to figure out something. Oh, yeah. And that terrifying moment. Wow. So, but, I mean, yeah. So, how long was the restaurant shut down, Joanna?

For about 12 hours. We closed at like 3, cleaned up everything, and then we opened at 6 o'clock the next morning. So I'm going to go off on a side note here. Thank you, Joanna. Panera offers these new... Oh, do you want to talk to her about Panera? No, no, no. She says it doesn't work there. So, President, it is a croissant. It's croissant.

bread grilled cheese type sandwich with caramelized onions you digging on it? oh my god Panera you're back baby you're back baby that's gotta be their new slogan I'm back baby you're back baby alright let's go to yeah we have a bunch of calls coming in home destruction it's Deb who is on next hey Deb good morning

Hi. Hey, what's up, Deb? Hey, not much. I just wanted to share my story. Yeah, please. Go ahead. We had... It's Deb. Can you hear me? Yeah. Sorry, I keep interrupting. We have a delay here. So, Deb, tell your story to the ears that are waiting to hear them. Years ago, we were in the house. We got a tornado warning. And I was working. And so, we went in the basement. We never get tornadoes in Delaware. And so...

What?

Wow. Wow.

It was a nightmare, and it took quite a while to get it all taken care of. So I wonder for, let me ask you this, and maybe you know, for purposes of insurance, so you have massive water damage from a tornado, right?

Do you have to declare everything totaled, all your possessions totaled for the insurance to go through properly? I mean, because like with a car, if a car is flooded to a certain point of water gets up to a certain level, that car is considered totaled. Like you couldn't reclaim it. Does anything like that exist with your home insurance concerning your possessions? No, we had a service place come out and help, you know, stop everything.

you know, take care of some of the issues. But we had an adjuster come out and he just looked at what was truly damaged and gave an estimate for that. And now the estimate was low. Yeah. So we had to go back to them and say, we need more money. But did you get it? Yeah. Did you get the money? Yeah. Okay, good. Because you need a roof. Yeah, I know. I'm not in construction, but I know that's part of a house.

Yeah, and windows crashed. God, man. Sorry to hear you went through that, Deb, but we appreciate it. Thanks for the call. Let me see. We're going to go to, yeah, let me go to another car crashing in some place. I have Kelsey joining us. Hi, Kelsey. Good morning. Good morning. Hey, what's up, Kelsey? Good morning.

I worked at Sharky's Bagels in Blackwood, New Jersey. And we had a car completely come through our store. And our owners happened to be there that day, like, randomly. Okay. And the lady hit the brake instead of the gas. Yeah. And...

People still came in and wanted their sandwiches as a card. So people had placed orders or they wanted to place an order and come in and continue to order.

Oh, my God. Well, that's your sales point. Our sandwiches are so good, a car just ran through our business, and people still want their sandwiches. You know, we got another text from a different listener who says, my family owns a bagel shop. We've had two cars come through the front window into the store, and four, including other stores in the strip mall, and that wasn't even Sharky's. That was Bordentown Bagel's.

in Bordentown, New Jersey. What is it with bagels? Yeah, bagel shops and cars coming through the front window apparently is a common thing. You get so giddy that you forget which is the gas and which is the brake. Bagels! Kelsey, were you there when it happened?

I was, and I happened to call our owner's son back into the back room real quick about something, and he was sitting at the table, and if he was still sitting there, he probably wouldn't have made it because the car went right through. Wow. Okay. Interesting. All right. Thank you, Kelsey. Appreciate it. Yeah, we got a situation here with bagels and such. Yeah, two different places near me. One was Wings to Go. Somebody ran into that one.

That was in Marple, Broomall area. And then Bocella's on Eagle Road in Havertown. Same thing, man. People just, you know, they thought it was the break. It wasn't. It was the gas. You just reminded me. And growing up, there was a Dunkin' Donuts near me. Not the one that I worked at and made famous. But somebody literally drove...

So the way it was, you had the counter and then the bathrooms were behind. Basically cleaved off that part of the building. Yeah, that's why I love they have those pylons in front of the store. Yeah. For that very reason. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of stores. Target's have those and a few others. The bollards. And yeah, it's because...

I mean, listen, they're afraid somebody might do something stupid on purpose. But yeah, anybody, anybody could have some kind of heart attack, seizure, whatever, like this guy did in the truck. Those giant bollards that they have in front of Target, to me, seem like they could be a toy at some point. I sit on them from time to time. All right. And if I were a giant, I would play marbles with those. Let me ask you, are they...

Is the weight of them alone keeping them in place? I don't think so. I think part of them is buried into the ground. Didn't one of them not that long ago in our area started rolling? It was hit by a vehicle and started rolling. I didn't hear that story. Wow. Okay. I don't know. Maybe we can find that out. A little deep dive. I don't know if this is the case. I don't mean to go off on this. But finding out with the Coalbrookdale Railroad and going out for the Polar Express run and all that stuff, they told me

locomotives, the cars essentially are just sitting on the carriage underneath. And that is for, because of a rollover

It makes it safer, I guess, somehow. It's just resting on it. I don't know if that is still the case these days. I don't know. But they're merely talking about antique trains. But I thought I got the impression that that's how they do it. It's basically just the weight of it is resting on it and keeping it in place. Okay, so Nick pulled up a video of one of the balls rolling away in front of Target. Casey, looking at this, you see this pole that's bent? Yes. So a pole goes into the hole in the bottom of the ball. Basic biology. Yeah.

holds it in place, but it is not essentially buried or attached into the ground, but it does have a support there. There's a ball hole. Yeah, there's a ball hole and a shaft that goes into the hole that holds it in place. That's how babies are made. It's funny, that's not the only one, Preston. There's one that happened in Chicago, too. There's more than one video of a giant ball in front of a target rolling away. Wow.

All right. Well, anyhow, it's a very interesting story. And like Steve was saying, it is it's very lucky that no one was killed in this incident in South Jersey where this dump truck went through a house. But thank you for your calls, guys. I apologize if you've been on hold for a while. Apologize.

But we'll chat again some other time. But thank you for checking in. We do need to take a break. We have a few things we're trying to stay on time with. We have the Bizarre File on the way next. After that, we're going to talk Tom Segura this morning. He's got a new special out on Netflix. We will return in just a moment. So stay with us.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so have you ever had a moment where you knew, you know, the wrong words were coming out of your mouth at the exact moment you're saying, and then there's no turning back? We've all had that happen before. It's exactly what happened to this gentleman, Gordon Lyons. He is the Minister of Communities for Northern Ireland, and he was speaking at the Impact Players Conference, a sports-related female empowerment event in Belfast.

And in his remarks, Lyons said that they had all of the good-looking people down front. I just want to say I appreciate that you didn't put any uggles up front here. It's much more pleasant to see attractive people up front instead of the knuckle-dragging people.

filth that I often see at these events and I mean it in the best of ways. I think he's talking about the women. It was a women's empowerment thing as well and there were groans from the crowd that made it clear that it was a bad move with some in the audience wondering if they really just heard what they thought they heard. So it was a case of he was just nervous or just a history of this? I guess he was just

saying, hey, you all look great. Hey, raise your hand if you're having your period. But instead of saying in the entire event, you just said they were down front. Everybody else is ugly. They put all the hotties down front. I don't really know. You all look lovely today. Would have gotten it done. He quickly issued a heartfelt apology, which was well received, fortunately, for him. I'm doing the

The Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event on the 31st where we men walk in high heel shoes for women and, you know, in honor of the ladies who have gone through domestic abuse for the Laurel House shelter. But I did not know this as far as high heels go. In Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Beautiful town. You need a permit to wear high heels over two inches tall with a base smaller than one inch square. Was that Clint Eastwood's doing when he was mayor? It's a good question. I don't know if it was his idea or not, but the law started in 1963. I don't like high heels. To protect the city from lawsuits if people tripped on uneven sidewalks, cobblestone paths, and tree roots.

And you can get a permit. It's free. It's at City Hall. Where's your license? You have to go and get that. And so apparently they have bumpy streets and it's part of the charm. I think it's like cobblestone and stuff like that. They're tired of breaking from broken ankles. Yeah, was not aware of that. All right, here's an interesting one. You got to see the picture of this. An acrophobia-inducing attraction in China is taking relaxing to new heights by allowing daredevils to lounge in a bed

which is situated on the edge of an over 320 foot tall cliff. And there's, they do this, uh, Victoria falls is, uh, uh, is one of these things where they have this little pond. So it's sort of like a retention pond and you are right at the edge of a, of a precipitous drop. It sounds like this. It looks insane. Yeah. So yeah, the located in, uh, Mengchen national forest, the cliff bed experience was launched to somewhat paradoxically relax and forget about the world. Yeah. Uh,

in accordance to the veranda-like platform. Get a sleep number bed. Which was debuted as part of the Scenic Spot's outdoor adventure package. Features wooden slats, small double air mattress, a duvet, and a pillow. And there's viral footage. A shockingly serene woman can be seen stretching her arms as the camera pans to the panoramic alpine surrounding the background. She was actually screaming for help and they just caught her in the moment. Despite having a

bed in the title. The accommodation is not meant for sleeping, but rather to chill out and you can take selfies while you're there and make it look like you were sleeping there. But there is a safety harness that is clipped to somebody who's on it. It better be. But it is insane looking. It reminds me of there's somewhere in Asia where they

They bury, quote unquote, bury people up on these cliffs. Yes. Have you seen that? I've seen it. It's insane. They have these ledges like hundreds of feet up in the air and they take people in boxes and they leave them up there. Dead people. Oh, dead people. Yeah, it's really, really weird. They kind of, yeah, it's like I said, it's like an open air thing.

High Cemetery. Really, really weird. Anyhow, I see our guest is online. So I'm going to wrap up Bizarre Fowl right there. We'll dig deeper tomorrow. But excited to have him on because he's always great to talk to. The best. And he has a new Netflix series.

It's called Bad Thoughts. I watched it all last night. Yes, and you were raving about the feces. My God. We have issues to talk about. There's some amazing stuff going on in this very cinematic series. He's going to be at the Hard Rock in AC on June 20th and 21st. The amazing Tom Segarra. Joining us. Hey, Tom, how you doing, man?

Hey, how are you? Thank you for having me. Good to see you. Absolutely. Great to see you once again. So, yeah, Steve was going on and on about the technical abilities of your prop group to create very realistic human feces. Yeah, that was they're an amazing team. And I was also curious as to how that would go. Yeah.

And it turns out there was oatmeal and peanut butter and some chocolate mixed together. And it sticks to you. That's a delightful dessert, actually. It is. That's crazy. On screen, it reads like the real deal. Of course, we're talking about Bad Thoughts, which is your Netflix series. How many, six, seven episodes, Dave?

and some are 17 minutes and some are longer and I literally I was going to get up to speed on this because I'm a huge fan anyway but it became just let it roll into the next just let it roll into the next so a couple things off the top here very cinematic this is it has a very film look to it was this at any point a collection of vignettes that might have been collected for an actual theatrical release

No, I appreciate you watching it and noticing that. It was just a big emphasis for me was that I feel like a lot of times comedy is shot, like just filmed a certain way. It's usually filmed where even in theaters, if you watch a feature release, it's very bright. Yeah, yeah. It's very...

kind of flat. They don't really put a lot into thought into like the depth of field and, and the look, Oh, this is a comedy. So as long as we write something funny, it really doesn't matter what any of this looks like. Agreed. Yeah. And to me, that's a real bummer. So I, I just, when we were talking to, I was interviewing DPs, like directors of photography who had done like big movies, Oscar nominee, like all these people, uh,

I kept saying, you know, the whole thing is, yeah, we're writing these ridiculous stories and there are some of them are totally absurd. But I want it to look cinematic. Like I want these to look like like feature films in different genres. So Nicholas Wiesnett was the guy we hired and he did the whole series. And I mean, I thought.

Regardless of if the content is for someone, you go like, oh, it looks amazing. Well, there is content for everyone. And you're hitting different types of, now listen, this is wrong in every right way. So if you are squeamish or you're not, this isn't your deal, then, you know, that may not be for you. But you're going to find something. And there's a difference between we're just going to go nuts and

And you're just going to respond to the hubris of going this crazy. And then there's, we're going to write funny stuff. And that's, I mean, I'm going to ask you right now to do a feature length Steven Seagal maximum kickage movie. Because...

I was howling. And it's about time. I'm sure it'll never come across his local Moscow theater, wherever he's. But it was so brilliantly done. It is current Steven Seagal, who is virtually immobile. And you've been talking. This has been a part of your routine for a long time. And this is figured prominently. Was that a catharsis to get that out on screen? Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, there's like there's nobody more deserving of ridicule, I feel like, in Hollywood than this guy. I mean, the funny thing is, you know, I have talked about him a long time. I kind of I kind of got semi obsessed like 10 over 10 years ago, and I even had him in my act for a while. Yeah.

But there's this funny thing that like in those years, you know, I've had like bit parts on shows and like had a couple of roles in some like smaller roles in movies. Anytime there's a stunt coordinator on set, which is like people don't realize that even if like two people bump into each other on a set in a movie or in a show, like you have to have a stunt coordinator there for that.

Anytime one of those guys was there at any of these places, I would bring up Steven Seagal.

And these guys right away be like, oh, man, they're like he he is the worst person I've ever met. Universe. I've never. No, you're speaking the truth. We had John Leguizamo on the show. He was in that movie with him. He has he despises him. He like he really making contact, really bitch slapping actors and other stuntmen. And yeah, you're exactly right.

Yeah, he's... And, you know, he's also this, like, delusional guy where he's like, you know, the CIA hit me up and asked me to, like, weigh in on some of these geopolitical situations. You're like, what are you talking about, dude? Well, yeah, you have the sequence where you're doing this, and this is the truth. If anyone's seen any of the recent-ish movies, he'll conduct fights from an office chair. And so you have him sitting on the edge of a desk...

slightly raising his leg and people are flying around and it was just perfect. Oh, thanks, man. Thank you. Yeah, it was fun. It was very fun to play. Although I will say that day, man, I remember, I remember trying on the fat suit. I was like, yeah, this isn't that bad. And then that day we were in this warehouse and it was hot and there was no AC. They had to like pump some in and I've met, I was so,

so depleted and then I was like well it's worth it and then like two days before the show comes out this viral clip of Seagal walking at some like square in Moscow yeah

And I hit up all the guys. I was like, I don't think we exaggerated at all. No, you actually were flattering to him in his current status. And Preston and I will joke, there are a couple of websites that mock these faux... Now, he is a legitimate Aikido expert, but in this state...

He can barely walk to the mailbox. But he'll do these finger things and this website or this Instagram account, he ends up popping up on it a lot because this is absurd. People might pretend to be masters and they just barely touch you and you fall down in spasms. Is that like the McDojo? Yes, like McDojo. Exactly. It was just hilarious. I wanted to ask you, so this is obviously from stand-up and you've written comedy and you've acted before.

There is sort of a latency thing that occurs when you're out and you're shooting stuff and you're going for the timing and you're seeing it. And this is probably the most comprehensive thing of this nature that you've done or at least this level. Were you kind of sweating bullets to see what would land and what wouldn't land? Was that kind of virgin territory for you? Yeah.

I mean, you know, some of that for sure is happening, right? Because, you know, the one thing about stand up as far as, you know, it's so efficient. You stand and in the moment, you're like, people are responding to this or they're not. Like, this is funny. This is not.

I think, you know, surrounding yourself with like really talented people who are not there just to be like, yay, everything you do is great. Like they're not there for that. It really gives you like your confidence boost.

you start to trust they're like, this is great or that we need to figure out something else. So you're not doing enough here. So you just really start to trust people around you. That's why it's like, it's so important. I think it's, you know, it's such the opposite end of the spectrum from standup. Standup is just you alone. You write it, you perform it. Like there's just, it's just you. And, and,

Shows and movies are like the ultimate collaborative experience. I mean, you literally have...

50 other people doing things to make it all come together. So a big part of it is like, yeah, you have your doubts, but you start to just kind of trust people around you. Speaking of really talented people and working with others, there was a really nice clip, Tom, of you last week on Your Mom's House with you and Christina, and you had Mike Birbiglia on, and you guys were just talking about moving tickets and how there are some radio shows that still do that, and you mentioned this one, which was really nice. Yeah. And

I just want to ask you about like that world because there's so much content out there, right? And there's just being there's content being created incessantly. How how do you decide? You know what? This week, I want to focus on the stuff with Bert. This week, I'm going to do the YMH stuff. And with Christina, like where does how do you divide your attention and your time and your energy into all of the things that you do?

Well, first of all, I meant it that like it's also your show is like an enjoyable show to do. I've always had fun doing your guys show. But the I mean, I wish I had a better answer on how to balance things. I feel like I'm I'm

I'm overwhelmed a lot, you know, with like just so many things like, you know, I had a recording yesterday. I'm in Chicago right now for a Porosos event. So I'm meeting Bert here and then I go to Springfield and then I have to record something on the road. And then I go to Albany and then Rochester. And then I fly back and I go to L.A. to do a roundtable talk for Netflix. Then I fly back to Austin and I fly back to L.A. again. Yeah.

Like it is stuff like that. I do feel like the one thing that may be like one of the reasons I embrace the production stuff so much is that, you know, I have like another thing I'm shooting in the summer is that once you get close to it, you go, hey, I'm out on all the other stuff. Yeah, I can't like I can't tour. I can't record like that.

These productions, when you're shooting, you can't divvy up your time, your focus. You have to be fully focused on it. That's attractive to me so that I can tell everybody else, I don't have any time to do anything. It gives you an out.

It gets you out. It's like when you have kids and your friends are like, can you come over? You're like, I'd love to, but I have kids. That's enough said. But I would imagine as busy as you are occasionally, double booking stuff, accidentally missing things, that's still going to happen as well. So have you gotten to...

a level of success in celebrity where if you do miss something, if you do double book something, it's not as big a deal. You know how Bill Murray can just stroll onto a set if he wants to? You're probably not quite there because you haven't done it as long as him, but can you get away with some things if you mess up?

Maybe if I mess up, it's fun that I can also... I am at the point where I have a fair number of people that work for me. So what I'll do if I mess up is I'll put the blame on them. Yes. To have underlings you can blame is the key. But let me ask you because you call out your crappy assistant, Reed, in the beginning of your series, which I love. I'm like, wasn't that the name of Bert's assistant? Did you inherit Bert's crappy...

No, Bert's assistant is Pete. Pete, Peter, and I have read similar letters. And you know, that really is my assistant. The guy in there, that's really him. And I would only be able to do that if he was good, right? Because if he sucks, I couldn't do it.

Hey, you suck. Right, right. You would just be confirming something that you actually don't. And I was wondering, like, because... And listen, I knew... I know that you wouldn't call him out, especially on a TV show like that, if you didn't actually like the guy and he actually wasn't capable. But I was thinking about...

How do you get to become an assistant? And then how do you get to become an assistant for somebody like Tom Segura or Tom Cruise? I mean, there's not a college major for that, right? A lot of them come from the same place, actually. Really? A lot of them do. So a lot of them end up working at agencies and management companies in LA, like Hollywood agencies, and they're assistants on a desk to...

to an executive or an agent or a manager. So they are in the practice of that world. They know how general meetings work, auditions. They know the world and they know how to interact. And then when clients go, I need someone, a lot of times the agency will be like, oh, here are some of our best assistants and you can...

I assume, listen, at a certain level, then I guess you can be confident that they're vetted a bit and they're not writing a manifesto in their downtime. Oh, my God. Yeah. I've hired assistants that didn't work out. Yeah.

Yeah, where they're like, man, there's a lot of emails coming in. I'm like, yeah. It's kind of the job. I wanted to ask you, because I think this is something that impressed me as I was watching the series. You make out with a couple of model-esque women, I would say. Your lovely wife is in the series as well. Was that something you had to broker, or was it just another day at the job, hon?

I mean, I didn't ask her if I could do it. You just kind of wrote these things. I'm like, well, I guess because the funny thing is you write stuff that is really like making you laugh or you feel like others are great. And you do feel like

Oh, yeah. It's not real. Right. It's a document. And then, like, you're going through casting and then you're hiring. And then you're like, oh, my. Like, you know, a love scene is you don't realize you always hear these stories. Yeah. Yeah. What it's like. But nothing really prepares you for, like, being in a room naked. And there's.

eight people in this tight little room and they're trying to clear it. So there's not too many people. Right. And then just like, Oh, I guess we're going to pretend to do it right now. Like you're not, you're not really prepared for that. You know, you just kind of like, and thank God I can only imagine how bad that could go. If like you have bad energy with the person. Yeah. I mean, I got lucky that everyone, we were all like,

very like open and supportive. And you have conversations before like, hey, you know, just want to make sure you're comfortable and everyone's like very nice. And then you start to relax. But you are like, you're nervous before it, for sure. No, I can certainly understand. And by the way, so people can get an understanding, you have kind of like, for bad thoughts, there's sort of a Rod Serling-esque feeling

narration which you provide and there are these sort of in and out things some segments are connected through to other episodes so there's Rex Henley who's a faltering country star by the way there's a hilarious little joke and I'm going to give it away because I thought it was funny there's a scene where he's I don't want to give too much away

Suffice to say, a cyber truck pulls onto the scene and you hear a rumbling combustion engine as it's pulling in. So there's a lot of stuff like that. It's rich with that. Where did you shoot that, by the way? Because it looked like it was out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, that was like about 40 miles out west, northwest from Austin. Okay. Ghost town type of ranch. And then we...

We shot the, you know, the first one with the spy that was at troublemaker studios, which is Robert Rodriguez's studios in Austin. And then we dressed it to look like Havana. And then the black and white one is the same lot. And they dressed it to look like a, like a French town. So like, you know,

It looks great. It looks great, man. It really does. And listen, Tom, I'm a huge fan of yours. You know, I love your stand up. I've seen you live many times. And I'm kind of like when I see, oh, there's a new Netflix special coming on. I'm like, OK, I'm going to watch the day it comes out. And so when Bad Thoughts was coming, I was like, all right, I'm going to watch this. The day comes out. And I did.

But then also, you're coming to town soon. You're going to be here in Atlantic City in... June 20th and 21st. Yeah, like a month from today. So that's got me excited about your next Netflix stand-up special. So is this in support of that? And when can we expect to see a new stand-up special? Yeah. Yes, it is. And I'm supposed to announce it.

Like very, very soon. I don't understand why they haven't given me a green light. It must be that assistant. I know. There's an email somewhere. There's an email. I should be like yelling at somebody. But I am shooting the special later this year. So yeah, this tour that I'm on right now, including the Atlantic City dates is like that material that I'll shoot in the fall. So I'm so excited to do it. Like this tour has been...

The most fun tour of my life.

career just because I figured out that you don't have to do nine shows a week to have a good time on tour. And so I'm never like burnt out from the hour and I'm not burnt out from the touring. I'm just like enjoying it. And I actually really love doing that hard rock venue. But yeah, this hour will shoot in the fall. Cool. You're saying you're in Chicago and it's in support of your vodka, correct? Is that part of it? Is that the whole reason you're there?

That's the whole reason I'm here right now. And it seems to be doing well. It's been growing, which is great. You know, we're in Illinois now. We're in South Carolina. We're in Texas, Florida. Jersey. Jersey. Yeah. So it's every month we kind of break into a new place. But today is like a big day here. We have a big bottle signing and then we have a bar takeover where we go and we just kind of like...

Throw a party at a bar. Excellent. Excellent. All right. Well, listen, we're putting the word out for both the show Bad Thoughts. It's out on Netflix. You can watch this as we speak. The series got episodes. And then the and by the way, I love the name of it, the Come Together Tour.

at the Hard Rock in Atlantic City, June 20th and 21st. There are tickets available. You can check with the Hard Rock or you can go to TomSegura.com and follow Tom on social media, on Instagram. You'll have a blast, guaranteed. Brother, we got to take a break, but it is great to hear from you. Thanks for checking in. Thank you guys for having me, man. It's really good to see you guys. Anytime, you too. Tom Segura, guys!

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Yeah. All right, brought to you by Sequoia Outback. Score major savings with their annual Memorial Day sale. Route 309 in Hatfield. You can check them out at Decksupplies.com. Well, we'll start with this. A follow-up on John Freeze, Foo Fighters drummer. Since 2023, suddenly fired last week. And he's obviously taking a lighthearted approach to getting canned. He shared 10...

The list of 10 possible reasons why he was fired on Instagram, drawing a lot of admiration from fans. That's pretty funny. In the comment section. So I'll read off some of these. So these are the reasons he was possibly booted. He said, number 10, once whistled my hero for a week solid on tour. Nine, couldn't only name one Fugazi song. Or could only name one Fugazi song. Eight, two words.

polyrhythms uh number seven metronome like metronome like precision behind the kit deemed quote soulless uh number six demanded starting every rehearsal with a 20-minute cowbell sound bath uh number five never once tried growing a beard uh number four didn't show up to the studio because mercury was in retrograde number three promised noodles that he could be fourth guitarist

Number three, refused to perform unless he was guaranteed a Ouija board and nunchucks after every show. And finally, he said the whole poodle thing was getting to be a bit much. So he's just joking around, obviously. He still doesn't know exactly why they let him go. Which sucks, but as you pointed out, he's...

He's kind of a gun for hire, so he'll land on his feet. Yeah, Freeze, who's played with bands like Guns N' Roses and Weezer, says he's disappointed, but he wishes the band well. Now, speaking of Guns N' Roses, at a recent Guns N' Roses concert in Mumbai, Axl Rose got upset with the band's new drummer, Brian Tichy. Now, Brian Tichy is...

A great drummer. I follow him on social media. He also seems like the most likable guy. He's also a great guitar player, too. But he made a huge mistake. He played the wrong song during the show. And Axl, being the pro that he is, stopped the performance, walked off stage, and refused to continue until the set list was fixed. You know, in general, though, the people of Mumbai don't appreciate a drummer where, say, like the people of Abu Dhabi do. They do. So fans were confused, confused.

As the band took a short break. And then Titchy, who recently replaced longtime drummer Frank Ferrer, had apologized to the crowd saying he misread the set list. After a quick huddle, Axl returned. The band finished the concert with their classic hits, of course. Sir Rod Stewart will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's American Music Awards. That guy really melts my butter. That's got to melt somebody's butter.

And he will also be performing during the show. And his first performance on the AMAs, it will be, since he first covered Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World in 2004. Stewart has a long and storied history, filled with awards and honors, including being inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame and being inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo and also with The Faces. So when you're knighted and you do receive, I know, for example, Ben Kingsley, the actor,

on being introduced or, you know, in credits as Sir Ben Kingsley. But I guess you can demur from that if you don't want it. Yeah, I would think so. Other performers this year include Benson Boone, Rene Rapp, Lainey Wilson, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, and Gloria Estefan. Big Night will be hosted by Jennifer Lopez, who will be performing as well. The AMAs kick off on May 26th at 8 o'clock Eastern on CBS and Paramount.

And the final will end with this. A long-lost memorial bust of Jim Morrison has been recovered 37 years after it was stolen, according to French police. Crafted in 1981, the Croatian artist Malvin Mikulin, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Morrison's death, the bust was defaced with graffiti and messages by fans at gravesite in Perlishez Cemetery, which is also the final resting place of people like

Author and playwright Oscar Wilde and Chopin. Yes. Seven years later, someone took it from the cemetery, which has become a pilgrimage for fans of Morrison. I've been there. Are they still hanging out these days? Well, I don't know about nowadays because I went there in 19...

90? They were? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. There were like... When I was there, it was like three or four people. Okay. But smoking cigarettes, drinking beer, hanging by. And so the bust was already gone by the time I went there. It was just the graves and all the...

The graffiti all over. It's a very unflattering bust. It doesn't look like Jim Morrison. No, no. So, a representative... Oh, by the way, the sculpture was found during an unrelated search. So, I don't know the nature of the circumstances. They were looking for a Josh Groban bust. Oh, wow. And they came across that. That's too bad.

Poor guy. We were talking about recurring bits earlier this morning. That's all we do. A representative for Morrison's estate told Rolling Stone that it were happy to hear the news. We'd like to say that it were happy to hear the news and we want to pet it. Of the statue's recovery. Obviously, it's a piece of history and one of Jim's family wanted it there on his grave. So it's gratifying to see that it's been recovered. Have they ever tried to...

protect the area because it is so marked up with graffiti. I don't know. Or is the consensus he's the people so they should be able to... It's just open to the public. And so there's only so much you can do. There is security there. At least there was when I visited. But yeah, I guess, Steve, it's just like any other city park. I mean, I remember, I thought it's been so long. I thought they may have had chains up and things like that, but people just step over them, you know?

Marissa just, she had to step out, so she added via text message that going back to the Foo Fighters story, rumor is that he was possibly let go because Shane Hawkins could be the new drummer. That's possible. He played at the Tribune and everything, and people would love to see that. It would kind of make sense. That's possible. All right, that's it in music news for you this morning. We have one more thing, and it's sad that we have to do this. Yes.

Another one of our interns is flying, is leaving the nest and heading out into the great wild wide world out there. We would like to welcome to the microphone, Kaylee Dockery. Hi.

Hi, Kaylee. Hi, guys. How you doing? I'm great. How are you? We're good. So you've been here since the beginning of the year, right? Yeah. Wow. And you go to Newman University? Correct. Are you done completely? Have you graduated or what? In December, I will. In December, you'll graduate. Okay. Wow. And you know what? I have to admit, between Kaylee and Grace and Sam, our support staff here off air, it is the quietest group that we've ever had. And I'm not saying that is a bad thing. You guys do great work, but there's just...

It's very quiet. Yes. There is that. We don't have the noise. We wouldn't even know, for example, that Grace will emcee wrestling matches. Wow. She gets them hyped up. She gets hyped up. You'd never guess from looking at her. So you go to Newman University. What is your major? Communications and digital media with a minor in sign language. Oh, sign language. And how far along are you with that? Because there's different...

Different types of the language. Yes. American Sign Language, I assume? Yeah. So I only started, this is, I've done it for a full year now. Okay. It's impossible to get into because the teacher is so popular. Really? Yeah. So my freshman year, I wasn't sure if it was something that I fully wanted to commit to. And then sophomore year, I tried and I couldn't get into the class because it was that popular. So then I had to wait until junior year to start it.

And I had to email the teacher and be like, this is my minor, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to finish it if I graduate in December. Yeah. Because I started so late. And she's like, well, here's what we'll do. And she worked with me and she's been great. So... That's very cool. I'm going to be able to have a minor in it and graduate in December. Preston always says he wants to. And I think I would like... I just, you know, I wouldn't get the time to really practice it. It's so much fun to learn. And I try and teach...

my family and my sister and when my sister and I are at work we like she knows some signs so I try and communicate with her and she'll respond back and sign. Cool question about that because when you take a foreign language sometimes there will be you know days or sometimes it's the rule of the class where there you speak only that language at some point I would imagine that an advancement you do that do they ever have classes where a portion of it is zero speaking whatsoever? So we'll do like work

like by ourselves or with a partner or something and she'll say it has to be silent but you'll always hear someone talking because we don't know everything. So someone's always like...

So it's not fully quiet, but when we are doing work like that, it is. But she does a lot of talking and storytelling because she has a deaf sister. So that's where she learned sign. So she not only wants us to learn the language, but she wants us to learn deaf culture as well. I love going to a concert and seeing somebody signing on the stage. Is that something you would aspire to do? I would love to do that. Can you do any of that now? Like, is that a good party trick? I can't like interpret sign.

Because I'm not fluent, but I can say some basic phrases. Okay. So you're going to continue pursuing? Yes. All right. Very cool. So since it's your last day, I'd be remiss because I got to meet your dad. Yeah. He works at Conestoga High School, which is where I went to high school. And he is so incredibly proud of you. He loves the fact that you've been interning on our show. He was raving about you and about your sister. Thank you. So what's your dad's name? My dad is Drew Docherty. Yeah. And Drew's a super nice guy. And so I just wanted to say that publicly because...

he loves you so much and he's so proud of you. And so I wanted to echo his sentiment because you're a great intern. Thank you both. Sign that you love, sign I love you, daddy. I love you, dad. That's sweet. We're going to end on that. Super duper sweet. By the way, I'm sorry, we're actually not going to end on that. First time at M&M Barbecue, what did you think? It was awesome. I took my dad for his birthday actually and his friend, his name is Cal Strolley, by the way. I know he listens as well.

And before I even started interning here and before I even went to school at Newman, my dad went on a tour with me at Newman. And they have this super cool radio station. Yeah, they're great. Yeah, and he was like, oh, maybe one day you'll be able to get me tickets to the Preston and Steve show. So I surprised him for his birthday by taking him and his friend. Because he was like, maybe you'll get me and Cale tickets to this show. So that was...

That was his birthday present. And they both loved it. They had a great time. Oh, that's awesome. And it was awesome for me. He was like, I don't know if that was your type of thing, but it was awesome. And I don't personally listen to rock music, but being here and listening to it and immersing myself in it, it was awesome. So it was just cool to hear something different. What was your favorite moment of your, if you can nail down a favorite moment or something that stands out in your mind since January? When you guys first let me talk on the air. I was like on cloud nine for like a whole week. It was awesome.

Oh, that's great. You can add this to the list. Yeah, and now I'll be on Cloud9 for another week. Definitely. By the way, in five months, this is the most I've ever heard you speak. And you're very natural on the mic. Thank you. That's not even told. People, when I talked about Italian Delight, they called and were like, oh, can I speak to the intern? And they told me how many times I sounded like a natural and everything. Oh, there you go. If you want to do this, you can do this. Okay. All right, excellent. Good luck to you, Kaylee. Thanks for helping us out. We appreciate it. Thank you, guys. Kaylee Docherty, guys.

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Lincoln Park on 93.3 WNMOR. It's up from the bottom at 10.58 a.m. on this Wednesday morning with Preston and Steve Schultz. A little bit on the rainy side today.

And cooler, high of only about 57 degrees. We get a similar situation tomorrow. And then on Friday, as the Jersey Shore opens for official business, it's going to be partly cloudy and mid-60s. And Steve says it's going to go up in the 70s. I do. Obviously, it's been many years since I was working as a weatherman. But I will tell you this. My gut instinct says it's going to be much cooler.

More sunny than cloudy and more degrees on the thermometer than we're anticipating right now. I like it. Which is not bad right now. No, it's good enough. We're all set for that whole thing. And in fact, well, real quick, let me thank Tom Segura for being on the show. Tom was excellent and he's a friend of the show. Yeah. And he's got a Netflix show, speaking of, a series that's out. It is called Bad Thoughts and he's going to be at Atlantic City June 20th, about a month from now, and 21st.

He'll be playing at the Hard Rock. So awesome to speak to him this morning. And speaking of Atlantic City, Pierre, you're going to be there on Friday, right? Correct. So you guys do Kenan's until 10 o'clock. Then Ryan and I will take over from the boardwalk in front of the Tropicana this year, which will be great fun. NAC from 10 to 3, give or take.

And I believe we're right out on the boardwalk. You do a great job out there. It's fun. You're in your element. You mentioned 10 o'clock, and we are indeed planning on ending the show at 10. We have found, after years of experience, that...

we quote, this is how we call it, we lose the room. We lose any form of control by 10 a.m. and we need to be done because it's just futile to carry on. There was a point, Preston. It gets out of hand. Where the people of Pompeii said, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? Uh,

No, it does. You come up with some of the greatest games and things that you put, machinations, if you will, that you put listeners through. Right. And they willingly do it. But if there are people that are there right from 6 a.m. and are starting imbibing at that time, you know, you can just see the meter ticking down, so to speak. And it ticks. Yeah. And our games are usually, they usually...

It comes from stuff that the Delaware Valley gives us throughout the year. And some of the things that we've received over the last, I don't know, six months or so will be reflected in the games on Friday morning. Exactly, exactly. News of our region will make it into a contest or two. I was hosting something somewhere, and my recollection, this was some time ago, in the first year or two you guys were here. Preston, you said to me, I got a great idea for a contest at your event today.

Now, this could be inaccurate, so tell me if it is. Does it involve quarters? Quarters in the butt? Yeah. And you said you could have listeners come and put quarters in their butt and then try to waddle across the room or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go, what? I think it might have been a Pierre's workforce salute. Yeah. And you may have been like...

I forgot. It had to do with change. It had to do with money. People who work in retail or something like that. Or banks or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was trying to think of something to do with that. And I'm going, I think you were still a new... So I said, just be nice to him. You were like, I'm not doing that. What a great idea. We did it. It's like a cherry or something. It's very funny. There have been so many different games

at Kenan's. There was one where two guys had to do something and if they didn't do it right, they had to kiss each other or something. Or it was a girl and a guy or two guys and a girl or two girls and a guy. I can't remember how it worked. But, and...

it worked out that none of the guys had to kiss each other, but, but had they done it wrong, they would have had to. Yes. Every permutation of that. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but your creativity with the games, uh, which will be on display, uh, even if you can't make it to Keenan's in an audio fashion on Friday, uh, is second to none. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Looking forward to it. And, uh, I did gift the baptism of beer to you. Yes. Yes. That's all solely by your, um,

generosity they were able to carry on that legend. You wouldn't need my generosity to do it. Anyone can get a bar and pour beer on people. It is, as the person who does it, as you know, it's something very satisfying about it. I did it with a broken leg or a broken... I broke these things in my foot one year and we had a day off on the slopes up in the Poconos and people said, how are you going to do the baptism? I said...

I don't know. Help me up here. And I got up there on one crutch and a microphone and poured. And Paula Decker, who was our salesperson with that account, was freaked. Pierre, watch out. I go, we can do this. And I did a whole lap of...

And it was quite spectacular. But then Bill Weston said, they don't want you to do that anymore. And I go, what's the matter? You're spilling beer into the cash registers? Because when I would get up there, they'd start putting all this plastic over the cash register. And I would go through 10, 15, maybe 20 full pitchers of beer. And then a giant barge.

bucket at the end of the whole thing. Yes, because all the beer taps have what I call beer sludge that comes, you know, stuff that didn't quite work in the tap and it's sort of been fermenting there. And so my final thing would be, who wants to sludge? And invariably some drunkard would go, yes, I do. And on it goes from there.

We're watching a little video of you now. Yeah, I had to. I officially asked permission for Pierre for this because it was perfect for our event as well. So we carry it on. I think it's a good thing. We carry it on. Someday, I'm going to come down and join you in the baptism. I would hand that off to you for that morning. You would absolutely do that. That would be an honor. We could do it in stereo. We could do that for sure.

All right, well, let's get the letter of the day, if you're ready. Yes, please. All right, here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. All right, the Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by The Letter. O as in the offspring. All right, we got two more to go, and then we give away our prize, a Rivers Casino overnight prize pack, including a $100 gift card to go to the new Sapore restaurant and one night stay free.

for two at the River Suites at the Battery. You have to be at least 21 years of age in order to enter. What's happening on the show today? We got the Live Nation ticket to summer this week, so I have an option. We're going to give away a pair of tickets, and the winner will choose either Creed in July on the 12th, Summer of Loud on the 23rd of July, or The Offspring on the 29th of July. That'll be fun. Workforce blocks of all over the map musically, as they often are, Peter Gabriel, Hailstorm, and...

Iron Maiden. Ah! Iron. It's iron. Say it after me. Iron. Iron. Iron. Iron. I say it so much and it confuses even me. Jackie.

He's the best. He is the best. All right. Thank you, Pierre. Chisholm. All right. Thank you, our sponsors. The President's Eve Show is brought to you today by Acme Markets and its fresh foods, local flavors. Also brought to you by Dunkin'. The President's Eve Show runs on Dunkin'. And by Pella Windows and Doors. Right now, save $250 off Windows, $700 off Doors. 48-month, 0% APR.

Visit PellaPhilly.com. Tomorrow on our program, a couple of guests joining us. We're going to talk to Kelsey Grammer tomorrow. She'll be joining us via Zoom. And then in the studio, I love it when he comes by here, Robert Kelly is in town. He's just hilarious. So we'll spend a fair amount of time chatting with him. That is it. We are done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day. We'll see you tomorrow.

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