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Good morning, it, and good morning to see you, dear friend. It is wonderful to have you back after the weekend. We welcome you, and we dive right in Monday morning. Weather-wise for today, we're making a turn, folks, big time. So today is going to be nice and pleasant, 75 degrees, sunshine tomorrow.

Sunny in 84. Wednesday, sunny in 89. Thursday, sunny in 91 degrees. Well, what do you know? Summertime has arrived. So, just a heads up, it's going to be warming up quite a bit, but no rain in the forecast. We've got that out of our system for now. And now, Kristen and Steve's News Update.

Today is Monday. It is June 2nd. Good morning. We'll begin with this story. Eight people marching in support of Israeli hostages held in Gaza were burned by a man wielding what authorities called a makeshift flamethrower and a Molotov cocktail. The attack happened at 1.26 p.m. at Boulder's Pearl Street Mall during a weekly walk organized by the city's chapter of Run for Their Lives, which calls for the release of hostages held by Hamas.

Mark Michalak, special agent in charge of the FBI's Denver field office, called the incident a targeted act of violence.

and said at a news briefing that it's under investigation as terrorism. Police arrested Mohammed Sabri Salman of El Paso County after bystanders pointed him out to police officers outside the Boulder County Courthouse. Salman used a makeshift flamethrower and threw an incendiary device into the crowd gathered outside of the courthouse to harm them. And according to witnesses, the suspect yelled free Palestine during the attack.

Videos showed people rushing to pour water on one of the victims while others lay collapsed nearby. Lynn Siegel, who witnessed the attack, said, quote, it's almost like it was a gun of fire, like a line of fire. Police and the FBI initially said six people were injured in the attack. Law enforcement officials increased that tally to eight late last night. The victims include four women and four men between the ages of 52 and 88.

Authorities initially said four people were taken to the Boulder Community Health Hospital and two others airlifted to UC Health University of Colorado's burn unit in Aurora with more severe injuries. Police arrested a shirtless man at the scene who was shown in videos posted to social media holding a glass bottle and shouting free Palestine and calling to quote end Palestine.

Zionists. My brother and girlfriend, his girlfriend, were supposed to be in Boulder yesterday. She lives there. She lives in Boulder and he lives a little bit closer to Denver. And so they were headed there to go back to her place yesterday afternoon when this news broke. And so obviously they just had to completely turn around and go back to where he was staying. But, you know, there was a terrible attack in Boulder a couple of years ago and it's

Awful. It's just a terrifying feeling to experience this in your hometown. Obviously, the investigation continues and we'll have more news on this as it surfaces. PennDOT has announced the closure of 95 South from the ramp at the Vine Street Expressway through the southbound on-ramp from Columbus Boulevard at Water Street. And this is in order to install deck beams as part of the CAP project.

PennDOT is getting ready to install deck beams for the new concrete covering that will go over 95 at Penn's Landing. And beginning tomorrow at 11 p.m. and going through 5 a.m. on Wednesday, southbound 95 and the ramp from 676 to 95 south will close between the Vine Street Expressway and the southbound on-ramp from Columbus Boulevard for prep work and equipment setup. After this stage, 95 south will be shut down in the overnight hours from Sundays through Thursdays.

beginning on June 8th and extending to Friday, July 18th. The only exception will be over the 4th of July weekend. The 95 cap project is expected to cost more than $300 million. It's intended to create a 12-acre park at Penn's Landing covering the highway. Demolition in and around 95 at Penn's Landing began in February, and crews have been working on sections in stages in order to create the smallest amount of commuter disruption as possible.

If everything goes according to plan, the park and improvements will open in the spring of 2028. That's pretty amazing. I'm very intrigued and excited about this thing in particular. Because I think judging by the artist's rendering of what it's going to end up as, it's going to be phenomenal. Yeah, I mean, there's just that gap that is too difficult to get to Penn's Landing for...

from the edge of Old City and walking over there and really taking in the waterfront. I mean, we've got it. It's going to be... I think this could finally be the thing that makes that an area that people congregate in. They could have

Cool events there all the time. Agreed, agreed, yeah. I think that's exactly what the city needs. All right, and the one last story. Thousands of people showed off their pride at 6 and Walnut Street yesterday morning for the 2025 Philadelphia Pride March and Festival. Attendees proudly sported the colors of the LGBTQ plus flag and also carried the 600-foot pride flags as they marched up Walnut Street. Or it was one flag, I'm sorry. Is that the longest flag of...

I'm not sure. I think it's the longest one in the country. I want to say that I have seen that written, Steve, that that might be the case. The theme for this year's event was Love, L-U-V, or Legacy, Unity, and Visibility. Philadelphia Pride March and Festival publicist Corey Aversa said that we have a theme every year.

And that really resonated with the organizers this year. We hope everyone is coming out to spread that love, to come together with unity, and we want to be out there and visible, out and proud. Did you see that friend of the show, Bruce Valanche, received an award? Awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's great.

The event ended with a festival in Philadelphia's Gaperhood at 11th and Locust Street. And this is the largest one-day festival in Philadelphia and the largest Pride and LGBTQ plus event in the state. All right, in sports this morning. Ball sacks are jumping. What the f*** is that?

The Phillies lost again yesterday afternoon. What the f*** is this? They fell 5-2 to the Brewers in as Milwaukee completed the three-game sweep. Some costly defensive mistakes by the Phillies fueled a three-run seventh inning for the Brewers. Weston Wilson misplayed a line drive to left field, which turned to win a double. And then with two on and two outs, Orion Kirkering got William Contreras to hit a ground ball that could have turned into a double play, but Trey Turner committed an error that allowed one run to score. What the f***?

What the f*** is that?

We'll be right back.

Tip-off will be at 8.30. In the NHL, for the second year in a row, the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers will face each other in the Stanley Cup Finals. The Oilers will look to be the first Canadian team to hoist the cup since the Montreal Canadiens did it in 1993. Game one is on Wednesday night in Edmonton, and the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs.

And that's what I have for you in sports this morning. All right, thank you very much, Nick. Thank you very much, Nick, is what I'm trying to say. And we welcome you back from the weekend, friend. It was an interesting one. We had some moments of rain and whatnot. And the Roots picnic got all funkified. We'll probably talk about that at some point. But we're happy that you're on board. We have a new Word of the Week prize this week. We have a pair of paddock passes.

Pass tickets for the NASCAR Cup Series Great American Gateway 400. This is going to be Sunday, June 22nd at Pocono Raceway. And that'll include access to the Media Party Plaza and Chalet Village.

You ever been to a chalet village before? No. You win if you win these. You will if you win these tickets. So we're going to give that away on Friday. You'll need the letter, of course, each day at the end of the program. And that will build up a word. And then we will give that away on Friday. Looking forward to it. We have a lot to recap to. A lot of us were very, very busy over the weekend. Had some stuff going on, some charity events, things like that. So we'll get to all that stuff.

But how about we find out who the coolest teacher was? We're in the wind down for this this week, right? This is it. Yeah, we're done this week. So Interboro High School was the latest school that was chosen randomly to vote for their coolest teacher. And the results are in. So we are happy to make this announcement now and award this coolest teacher at Interboro High School.

Mr. Bill Lavery. So Mr. Lavery is an allied health physical science teacher. Yeah. And so Marissa found out what that was all about. So allied health introduces, well, there's two, there's two sections of the class. Allied health one introduced students to the healthcare industry and its science content. And

And then Allied Health 2 encompasses medical terminology and anatomy. So if people want to get into the healthcare industry, this is a leg up on heading in that direction. I guarantee I'd fail that course in fine fashion. Most definitely.

A connection to the Preston and Steve show? What? Casey graduated high school with Bill Lavery. As a matter of fact, I almost said something on Friday, but I didn't want to... Influence? Influence anybody's votes or anything like that. But Bill's the reason that we knew that...

Ferrari. Oh, the kid. He was the one who texted me and told me that that was one of his students or whatever. He was the kid who videotaped the Delco Booper. Was it Mike Ferrari? Is it Mike his name?

I don't remember. Don't trust me on that. But anyway, he's the guy who kind of got you in his direction. Yes, sir. Okay, nice. Were you guys in the same grade? Yeah, same grade. Yeah, 1993, Cornell Hire. Okay. I'm very happy for you, Bill. All right, so Bill, if you're hearing this or if you could let Bill know, that'd be wonderful. Maybe we'll hear from him later on. Maybe he has some Casey stories to tell us. You have any other pooper videos? Send it over. Yeah, please. Absolutely. I'm sure Intero is filled with them.

Greg Ferrari. Uh, Greg Ferrari. Thank you, Nick. All right. So we are going to set up a Mr. Lavery with, uh, number one, the $50 gift card from our sponsor, Duncan. Thank you to Duncan for being the sponsor and keep in mind, they have their $6 meal deal. Uh,

Bacon, egg, and cheese hash browns and medium coffee exclusions in terms of supply, which is cool. Thank you guys so much for that. And we will give Bill the ceremonial presidency official coolest teacher of the year coffee mug to hold on to, to have and hold. You're in an elite society when you get one of those. There's not a whole lot of them. We can only do so many each year. And yeah, so we continue to hand those out. So congratulations, Bill. Maybe we'll hear from you. All right. Is it my turn? I got the job.

Over here. Hang on a second here. Bring down the timpani. Now, we keep this thing sealed. Absolutely. So listen when I pop it open. Ooh. There you go. We don't want any tampering with it. No, sir. All right, I'm going straight into the bottom, and I have one. Let's see who it's going to be next. You'll get 24 hours. All right. Up next. Ah, one that's right around from where I live.

Perky Omen Valley High School in Collegeville, PA. So Perk Valley, you guys get to vote. And what you need to do is text the word teacher to 610-660-9333.

We will send you the voting link, and then you send the teacher's information to us. That is how it works. So if you go to PERC, make sure you let them know that we have chosen the school and that you guys get to vote. Maybe they'll spread the word and let the student body, you know, in on the whole deal. Yes. And want as many students to vote as possible. I know you guys are on the...

You're on fumes right now. The end is near. But we need you to text the word teacher to 610-660-9333 for the voting link. It's real simple. You can also go to presidency.com and that information is right there.

Funny note about Perky Elman Valley. Yes. When years and years ago, when Kathy had told us her gynecologist basically said that she had the perfect vagina. Yes. So Perk Valley is PV, and they have shirts that just say PV on them. Oh, my God. And I forgot who was an alum there.

But they either got her or were going to get her a sweatshirt that had just PV on it. Perfect vagina. To acknowledge that. But it actually stands for Perky Omen Valley. And that is the school. I don't want to...

No. We're going to sidetrack. No, no, no. Yeah, that's the crux of this. We need you to vote. So we'll give you 24 hours and tomorrow morning we are going to find out who our next winner is. And listen, teachers, you're all winners. So thank you for doing what you do. All right, we're going to take a quick break. Come back in a second. The Entertainment Report is up next along with A Stupid Question. So we'll start giving some stuff away right away when we get back. Stay with us.

WMMR loves new toys with cool blinking lights and stuff. However, our phone system was last state-of-the-art in 1983.

But now, we can say we've joined the 21st century with one number for voice calls and texts. What is that number anyway, huh? 610-660-9333. Hey, welcome to the Preston and Steve podcast, which is brought to you by Acme Markets. Hungry and in a hurry? Acme's flash grocery delivery or pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. Acme, fresh foods, local flavors, and the official grocery partner of the Preston and Steve show. Thanks for listening to our podcast, and thanks to Steven Singer for...

being the official jeweler of the Preston and Steve show. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. Stupid question time. We're going to give away a pair of tickets as MMR rocks. Matt McCusker's The American Teenus Tour.

The American Teenest Tour? That's what it says. Saturday, August 16th at Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City. You remember who Matt is? That's the guy that had the beef with you a long time ago? Yes. Yeah, okay. I still want to get him on to chat with him about that whole situation. It wasn't really a beef, but it was a funny story. No, he was a kid and my wife was coaching a volleyball team and he was, I guess, one of the...

I related to one of the girls or whatever, and I was kind of rude or something like that. Or I put the smack down. And yeah, he talked about it on a podcast. Something along those lines. Yeah, he has a podcast with Shane Gillis. All right, so we're going to give away tickets. If you can answer this question. I listened to a song this morning that motivated me to ask this. In what year...

Did Brenda and Eddie get married? All right, let's see if we know. 610-660-9333. And I've always loved that pronunciation, Brenda. In what year did Brenda and Eddie get married?

Get married. All right. 610-660-9333. Call if you know the answer to that. We got a bunch of birthdays. I had to trim some of them off. There were so many this morning. Today being the second day of June, we'll start with Dana Carvey turning 70 years old today. Super talent has been refolded back into SNLs, doing a lot of cameo appearances, which is really cool. It was a big part of the 50th. Last time we talked to him, great conversation. Just a nice...

The guy you want Dana Carvey to be. Super talent. Happy birthday to him. Do you remember actress Nikki Cox? Yeah, absolutely. Redhead. She kind of stormed onto the scene when she was like 16, 17 years old. She was with Bobcat Goldthwait. Yeah. And also Jay Moore. Yeah, she was on Baywatch and the show Las Vegas. And she was in Mac and Me, guys.

I saw her. I looked up her credits this morning and for you and Steve, Nick, I thought I would mention Mac and me. And there was this really weird, they were trying to be, oh man, Married with Children. Yeah, unhappily ever after. It was a direct rip off of it.

But she's 47 years old today, man. I was looking up some pictures of her not that long ago. She did the balloon lip thing. She looks like the Geico gecko. Don't need to do that. Dennis Haysbert has his birthday. Yeah, 24. He's the president in 24. Those first few seasons of 24? Riveting. Amazing. Love that series. And, of course, he was Serrano in Major League Joe Boo.

So he turned 71 today. The great Stacey Keech turned a year older, Steve. He's 84 years old today. We talked to him. And of course, up in smoke. He's also, I think, one of the great police movies of all time called The New Centurions. Yeah. Yeah, just a great actor. Yeah. Happy 84th to him. Justin Long turns a year older. So great in Galaxy Quest. You knew his star was going to rise. Yeah. I was talking to Kevin Smith recently and I, what?

that movie Walrus again. Oh, Tusk. I should say Tusk, yeah. Where he's turned into a walrus. It is freaky, but I really appreciated Justin Long's performance in that. That's a tough role to take on. He's great. He's 47. Steve, it's the Beavs' birthday today. Jerry Madden. I watch...

I watch Leave it to Beaver. I'll catch one or two episodes virtually every weekend because it's on MeTV. Still? Yeah. Oh, that's great. Well, I'm working out sometimes. I'll put it on. That show, I contend, was one of the first shows to really nail how kids actually talk to each other, how brothers talk to each other, and the little games they play and stuff like that, and the ways they try to fool their parents. So that's what made it such a long-running hit. He's 77.

Yeah, 77 years old. He took out a whole camp in Vietnam, right? He was a sniper. Yeah, he used a flamethrower. Yeah, it was amazing. No, he didn't. Zachary Quinto turns a year older. Great as Spock in the Star Trek series. I'd love to see him do another one. I hope they do. It doesn't look like they are, though. Yeah, he turns 48 years old today.

One of the sexiest women, Marina Baccarin, has her birthday today. Yeah, Deadpool, obviously. And was she, Steve, was she on V, right? She was on V. She was the alien commander. Yeah. The head muckety-muck. She had to have been really young when that came out.

Well, she was on the second or third iteration of it. So this one was later. We talked to her then. She had really close cropped hair. She's on a movie that you might catch now. It's making the rounds. It's called Elevation. It's with Anthony Mackie. And it's about these aliens, these creatures that can't go above...

8,000 feet or something like that and they wiped out humanity. It's not bad. It's okay. She's great in Greenland. That was a good movie. Oh, I love that movie. Yeah. So she's 46 today. It's Awkwafina's birthday and she's in the MCU as well. Sean Sheehan, the Legend of the Ten Rings. I think she's great in Crazy Rich Asians. I love her in Crazy Rich Asians. The thing about Awkwafina is though, I've seen her in a few things now.

And she's kind of a one-note... She plays Awkwafina. You know what I mean? Yeah, Awkwafina is playing Awkwafina. But she's adorable and fun and really easy to like. Now, if she could step out and do something like playing Dwight Eisenhower, that would be... Wow, yeah. To me, that would break the mold. She'd probably have a lot more latitude. And starring as Dwight Eisenhower. Awkwafina. That's great. She's 37 today. She's in one of the current...

episodes of Black Mirror as well, which I saw her in. All right, and then the last birthday, Bravo host Andy Cohen. He turns 57 years old today. So happy birthday, everybody, on the second day of June. We'll see if someone knows the answer to this question. In what year did

Did Brenda and Eddie get married? All right, 610-660-9333 is the number. And we have Debbie, who we are going to go to. Hi, Debbie, good morning. Good morning, guys. How are you? Awesome, Deb. All right, do you know what year Brenda and Eddie got married? The summer of 75. You got it.

Got it. Yes. They were the popular state. Yeah, and the king and the queen of the prom. Hang on a second, Debbie. We're going to give you a pair of tickets as MMR rocks Matt McCusker's The American Teenist Tour.

It's going to be Saturday, August 16th at the Ovation Hall and Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City. Tickets are on sale now at TheOceanAC.com. Do you think a part of the show will deal with your rude encounter at the volleyball game? It'll probably kick right off with it and do the first 10, 15 minutes or so, I would think. It affected him so strongly.

All right, so Lino and Stitch won the North American box office this weekend. The live-action Disney movie pulled in $63 million in its second week out and has passed $610 million globally. Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning managed to hang on in second place. It's good in $27.3 million in North America.

passing the $353 million globally that it's taken. Karate Kid Legends debuted in third place with a take of $21 million in the box office. That's considered by some to be a disappointment as the streaming numbers of the Cobra Kai Netflix series seemingly didn't translate to a higher opening. They say that that movie has, there is a B plot line that is not indicated in the trailers.

You think it is sort of a return to the Karate Kid mythos and that there is some sort of like almost like what Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee 2 did with the there's a criminal that they're having a fight. Oh, OK. And it's this weird thing that's added and it kind of mucks up the storyline. Rounding out the top five, we have horror film Final Destination Bloodlines and fourth with 10.8 mil and horror film Purgatory.

Bring Her Back, debuting in fifth place at 7.1 mil. Over the weekend, HBO ran all the final destinations in a row. And I took this away from all that, Preston. When death wants you, it's going to get you. Yeah. Is that what you get from it? You learn from the final destination. Well, we won't talk about death now. That will come a little bit later. We're going to talk about marriage.

Haley Steinfeld is now a married woman after saying I do to Josh Allen over the weekend. Man, was she a stunning looking bride. Did you see the picture of the wedding? Yeah, she's beautiful. The actress and the athlete tied the knot in a ceremony at a California resort on Saturday. Not many details about the private wedding have been revealed yet, but it seems that there was at least one celebrity, Larry David, who was at the celebration.

The newlyweds were first linked in mid-2023, and things were official two months later after they were caught on camera making out in a hot tub in Mexico. Oh, boy. So now it's led to marriage. So they've become a happy couple. I liked them as a couple. Yeah.

What the hell was Larry David doing there? I don't know. I'm not sure what the connection is with that. He's her father. Okay. No, he is. Wow. Larry has weird celebrity friends all over the place. And I wouldn't be surprised if he and Bailey Steinfeld developed a friendship along the way. That's an odd name to hear. My guess is Nicky made the wrong turn down the street. Turned into a curb episode. What am I doing here?

So she got married and also it may have taken them six years to walk down the aisle, but Robin Thicke and April Love Geary are now officially husband and wife. There they go.

And the couple tied the knot in Cabo San Lucas on Friday. The bride shared a video of their beachside wedding on her Instagram showing her in a white lace dress and her husband in a classic tux. Apparently the weather was tumultuous and they were off and on for most of the day. They had been engaged since 2018, but the singer also got down on one knee again to pop the question just days before the wedding in Cannes.

They shared three kids, two-year-old son, Luca Patrick, and daughter, Lola Elaine, who is four, and Mia Love, who is six. Wait a minute. The wedding in Cannes, it said they got married in Cabo San Lucas. He proposed in Cannes.

Yeah, but it says before the wedding. Okay, okay, I gotcha. I thought it meant the wedding in condo. It means he proposed just days before the wedding. Did he knock it down on one knee? He did get down on one knee. That part, we are clear. This just in. Clarify. We have a confirmation on that story concerning Robert's name. Hello?

Though it was not Cabo Saluga where he proposed, it was, in fact, Khan. He did get down on one knee. We go down to Jim and look at the chest because the confirmation is to exactly which knee it was, Jim. What's it looking like? I think it's his left knee. Thank you, Jim. We get to the bottom of the stories around here is what we do. Yeah, right.

All right, so Taylor Swift has bought back the master recordings of her first six albums. The singer announced the news on social media along with a letter on her website calling the achievement, quote, a flashback sequence of all time that I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to tell this news. She confirmed that all of her work, music, videos, art, and more now belongs to her.

She thanked fans, crediting their support of her re-recording albums and the success of the Heiress Tour for making the deal possible. And her purchase follows producer Scooter Braun acquiring her catalog six years earlier, apparently without her approval. The music catalog was later sold to Shamrock Capital.

who now sold it to Swift for around $360 million. So we were presented with a similar thing when we were at Y100. We had all these CDs, Casey, as you well remember. Yeah. And when, you know, obviously everything blew up with that and we were, you know, coming to MMR, we wanted to make sure we had them. And at one point we talked about re-recording all of our Y100 shows. All of them. Yeah. Yeah. Eight years. It's going to take a long time.

Just to make sure that we had full ownership. Booking the guests we had had would have been an issue, but we tried. The artist also revealed that she hasn't recorded a Taylor's version of Reputation yet, calling it the one album that she felt couldn't be improved upon. That's a little pompous. But confirmed... No, she just...

Thinks she did the best she did. Oh, okay. She could do. I can't do any better. But confirmed that she has re-recorded her album, Taylor Swift, and loves how it sounds. Tay-Tay ended the announcement by quoting her song, Mine, saying, The best thing that have ever been mine finally actually are. The best things that have ever been mine. Which albums would you say most speaks to you or encapsulates who you are? Oh, 22. Yeah. Because I still...

Feel 22 to this day. Absolutely. Are you kidding me? Absolutely. It had to be me as well. I mean, I think that's an album. I know it's the name of a song. 1989, that's my jam record. Oh, is that it? Yeah. Is the song 22 on 1989? I don't know. Or is there an album called 22? Well, there's an album called 1989. I know. I'm asking if there's an album called 22. I don't know. Okay, thank you.

I don't know either.

It's just a song. It's just a song. Son of a bitch. He's on the album Red, which came out in 2012. That's my favorite album. There you go. That's the one. All right, so this was sad news, and it occurred on Friday after we got off the show. We didn't get a chance to touch on it, but Loretta Swit...

who played Margaret Houlihan on the show MASH, the TV show MASH, passed away. She was 87 years old. She died Friday at her home in New York City, likely from natural causes. Swit and Alan Alda were the longest serving cast members on MASH, which was, of course, based on Robert Altman's 1970 film, which was itself based on a novel by Richard Hooker.

The CBS show aired for 11 years, from 1972 to 1983, revolving around life at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Her character during that series, I'm sorry, Preston. Yeah, it's all right. Because they were paying tribute to her on MeTV. They run MASH all the time. Yeah.

had a big shift from the Frank days early on and she became a much more serious player. And then there was that one episode, if you remember, where the other nurses aren't including her on things and a dog gets hit by a car, hit by a Jeep. And that's when that character took a massive shift. It was an amazing episode. And if you're of a certain age, like you could not escape how Big Mash was. It was just the biggest show on television. It was appointment TV.

And especially when it was winding down, it was really, really a big deal. So in Altman's 1970 film, Houlihan was pretty much a one-dimensional character, a prickly, rules-bound head nurse who was regularly tormented by male colleagues. She was played by Sally Kellerman in the movie. And then Swit took over for TV, eventually deepening and creating her into a more fuller character. Like Steve was saying, her sexuality was played down. She wasn't even called Hot Lips in later years.

Around the second or third year, she said, I decided to try to play her as a real person in an intelligent fashion, even if it meant hurting the jokes. I thought that one of the most impressive episodes is when the Army Corps of Teeth Whitening came into the 407th.

Everyone got a massive glow up after re-signing their contracts. Alda praised Swit as a supremely talented actor and said she worked hard in showing the writing staff how they could turn the character from a one-joke sexist stereotype into a real person with real feelings and ambitions.

We celebrated the day the script came out listing her character not as Hot Lips but as Margaret. Loretta made the most of her time here. MASH was not an instant hit. It actually finished its first season in 46th place out of 75 network TV series.

but it nabbed nine Emmy nominations. It was rewarded with a better time slot for its sophomore season, paired on Saturday nights with All in the Family, which was the highest rated show on TV. And at the 1974 Emmys, it was crowned the best comedy, and Alan Alda won for best comedic actor.

Swit had appeared in all but 11 episodes of the series, nearly four times longer than the Korean War itself. Exploring issues like PTSD, sexism and racism, Swit pushed for a better representation for women as well.

The series ended on a happy note for the character Houlihan, who spent much of the finale debating whether she wanted to head to Tokyo or Belgium for her next overseas post. And ultimately, she opted to return to America and work at a hospital, citing her father, a career army man. And after the series wrapped up, Swit became a vocal animal welfare activist.

selling Sweetheart Perfume and her memoir through her official website with proceeds benefiting various animal-related non-profit groups. But that was such a great show. Yeah. And I've gone back and watched a couple of episodes in recent years. I still like it. It holds up. What I love is that the funny thing is that that song, Suicide is Painless, which is the theme song, which is from the movie,

Because it's a sitcom, the way they end it, you know, suicide is... They had to up it at the end because it's a sitcom, yeah. Well, yeah, they dropped the lyrics for the TV show. That was just in the movie. Wouldn't have been really appropriate for a sitcom every week. Yep. Netflix's massive celebration of fandom and culture-defining storytelling called Tootum...

I'm not sure how you pronounce it. It's Tadum. Oh. Like the Netflix sound. Get out of here. That's what it is. All right, Tadum. Yeah. Just wrapped up in Los Angeles. And the show was jam-packed with a wild lineup of performances with Lady Gaga gracing the stage and Tony, Tony Chopper making his debut in One Piece. What's Tony, Tony Chopper? So One Piece is a, it's an anime, right? No, it's a live action show based on an anime. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

So good news for Stranger Things. Diehards, the final season is dropping in a three-part release.

The first four-episode volume will launch on November 26th, and then three episodes on Christmas Day, and their grand finale will premiere on New Year's Eve. That gives us something to watch, man. Yeah. And the trailer looks fantastic. There's not a lot of new stuff revealed. A lot of it is flashback stuff, but it's pretty amazing. Here we have a short clip from that trailer. This is it. I think about that night all the time.

The night it came for you. I hate all of this started. Yes. All right. The iconic pink guards flooded the stage to reveal the cast of Squid Game in attendance to give fans the official trailer for season three. The one piece cast delighted everyone by introducing the first look at the Straw Hat Crews.

cutest new addition, which is Tony, Tony Chopper. For those who love a good scare, an official teaser for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein was unveiled in the film stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi. Netflix shared the first six minutes of season two for Wednesday. Yes. And it was packed with a bunch of horror hijinks. Haley Joel Osment,

was also introduced as a seriously creepy serial killer to add to the Wednesday Mirament Lady Gaga put on a killer gothic medley of her hits like Bloody Mary, Zombie Boy, and Abracadabra. And she's going to be in the show, right? I believe she is, yeah. Mother Monster has a guest spot in the second season as well.

A fresh, full-length trailer for Happy Gilmore was announced by Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, and Christopher McDonald showing Happy stepping onto the green once more. This time, it's to win some cash to support his daughter, played by his real daughter, Sunny Sandler, as she chases her ballet dreams.

And Ben Affleck and Matt Damon plug their new Miami drama, The Rip, by storming a dressing room in full cop garb only to find a cookie monster chilling with piles of cookies. The Rip got a premiere date of January 16th, 2027, while Sesame Street is set to stream live this year. So they put the two of them together in that bit. We might have a clip of that over of them going in and busting Cookie Monster. All right, here we go.

Put your hands in the air. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Me only got cookies here. Oh, sorry, Cookie Monster. Cookie Monster, love your work. We're big fans. Oh, well, thank you. Me a big fan of you too. Yeah, you know, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, you like the cookies and milk of actors.

And then finally, Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out mystery, which snagged a December 12th premiere date and a teaser that promises the impossible crime was also revealed for that too. So a lot of big stuff for Netflix. Two takeaways. Stranger Things over its years has managed to be, you know, besides just the great storytelling, what it does visually, how it matches the time period,

Uh, that it will focus in on and all the little things you don't realize, you know, when you're in the moment and you look back at it, you say, wow, man, they really, they were nailing the look, the tone, the music, and then, uh, phenomenal. But the, uh, the happy Gilmore trailer, the extended version, uh, uh,

It popped for me a lot more. It did? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There are a lot more things that make sense and the jokes were hitting a little bit more, so I'm excited for it. Cool. Excellent. You'll probably be excited for this, Steve, too. David Fincher has been working on a sequel to Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. There's some casting updates and it appears they're gearing up to start production in the summer and Scott Kahn and Elizabeth Debicki are...

are set to join Brad Pitt for a follow-up to the 2019 film. I'd be curious to see what they... You know, you have someone who's a singular talent, like Quentin Tarantino. This is his vision. So I assume that he's doing script or something. He obviously has a hand in it, but it was so perfect. I hope they do a good job. Not a ton of details about the movie are known at this time, but what is known is that the movie is centered around Cliff Booth, again, played by Pitt, and set after the events of the movie.

Tarantino apparently previously wrote a script for himself to direct, but he put it aside and then Pitt convinced Fincher to try his hand at directing it instead. But it's so...

Quentin Tarantino. It is going to be hard to, you know, unless they do just a completely different vibe on it, but who knows? You know, they recreated entire blocks, real blocks with storefronts and things from the time. I mean, it was an amazing undertaking. It's not known who Conor or Debicki will be playing at this time.

And then let me see. We'll do one more story and then we'll wrap it up. Ariana Grande will be meeting the parents. She is joining the cast of Meet the Parents sequel. Sources told Deadline that she is part of the next installment of the franchise, which is set to come out in November of 2026. Don't know too many details just yet, but Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Terry...

Terry Polo and Blythe Danner are set to return. John Hamburg, who co-wrote the three previous movies, will be directing and also writing the script. The first one was great. The second one was okay. The third one stunk. So we'll see what they do with this one. You blew it! You blew it! We're ready for clips.

Each episode of Relative Secrets investigates the mysteries of an everyday American family. And in this clip, Jane Seymour talks about uncovering these dark secrets. Here we go. This is four stories of people in families who have secrets they don't really know and they want us to solve it. And for example, one of them, a woman who's

whose father was a serial killer. She just wants to know that somebody in her family wasn't a bad person. I want to see you naked. Relative Secrets debuts today. That seems wild. On AMC+. Yeah. We've had the pleasure of meeting her on a few occasions. She's great. She is lovely. Remember the time we were doing, was it a Zoom call with her? Or was she with her chickens? Her chickens, yeah. Yeah. In Malibu? We had her in the studio. We had her at Camp Time for Hunger. She's just wonderful. All right, next clip. Here we go.

Wes Anderson's on-set tactics for building a bond with the cast are unlike other directors. And in this clip, Riz Ahmed explains his experience on the Phoenician scheme. It was my first experience working with Wes, but everyone told me as soon as we got here. I think there's a great point of pride, actually, for the whole ensemble and for everyone on the team that there isn't that hierarchy and that everyone's kind of in it together. I don't give a f***.

The Phoenician scheme is now playing in theaters. And they say that's classically Wes Anderson. If you love Wes Anderson, you're going to love it. But if you don't get Wes Anderson, stay away. Yeah, I'll probably stay away. Yeah. All right, and there you go. That's what I have in the Entertainment Report for you this morning. Happy you're on board with us. It's Monday. We're warming up.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you, Marissa. Dude, our coolest teacher has called in. We put out the word on Friday for students at Interboro High School to reach out and let us know who this coolest teacher of the past year has been, and they did it. And we've got that teacher on the line. We made the announcement earlier this morning. We want to welcome to our airwaves Mr. Bill Lavery. Hey!

From Inderboro. Hey, Bill, how you doing, man? Good. Gadzooks. Gadzooks. Gadzooks to you, bud. All right, let's get this out of the way. You graduated high school with Casey, boy. Yes, I did. Here's the thing. Bill was a smart kid in high school, so we didn't have many classes together. I was the third tracker. My buddies took...

My boys took great yearbook pictures of you. Yeah, so that picture... So Bill's friend took that picture of you in your skimpy little bathing suit? Which I made even skimpier with Photoshop. The part that sucks the most is the people that put that picture in the yearbook were my friends. And that was...

something they thought was funny. All right, Bill, before we get to you and your achievements, Casey, tell the story about in the lunchroom. Oh, yeah. So it was yearbook day. It was yearbook day. And this photo is very embarrassing of Casey. It's not flattering at all. It's not. It's my senior year. It's yearbook day. We all get our yearbooks. I haven't made it into the sport part of the yearbook yet. But I see my buddy Scott and

And there was a picture of him. He was like, you know, it was just it wasn't even that goofy of a picture. But I said to Scott, I go, hey, I'm like, nice picture of the yearbook. And he's like, yeah, same to you. Nice picture in the yearbook. And I was like, wait, what are you talking about? Yeah. And and he's like, you know, page I forget what page. Let's just say page 75. I open. I'm like, oh, my God.

There's a picture of me, prepubescent, mid-air, in my Speedo at a diving meet. There's no hair under my armpits. I'm chubby and small. While you're telling your story, I have the picture in my office. I'm going to grab that. And...

So that, I didn't realize that my picture was going to be in the yearbook. But then... And you're mid-dive, right? I'm mid-dive. Well, I'm starting a dive. I am mid-air. And then so fast forward like an hour or two later, we're at lunch.

And there's a kid at my lunch table who he gets the attention of everybody in the cafeteria. We're talking a thousand people. Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, have your attention, please. I would like for you all to open your yearbooks and go to page 175. I was like, you mother. Oh.

All right. So now listen, I'm going to show this to our YouTube viewing audience. And now this picture was Photoshopped by Steve to make it look like Casey's wearing like a G string or something. And also it's a fake article that says in town talk, local overweight diver makes a rich ass.

So I'm going to show this to our YouTube audience. I've had this sitting on my desk for years. It's one of my favorite things. And yeah, not a flattering picture. I'm sorry to eat up your time with that, Bill, but that is just such a great story. All right. So real quick, we did find out you teach allied health physical science. Can you tell us what that is?

So right now I'm just teaching allied health. Allied health is introduction to health care. It's a catch-all course. Anybody can take it. We introduce them to the health care industry by going through first aid and CPR and also the anatomy behind it and then teaching them to be an assistant and a good person and that anybody can work in health care.

So you're not teaching him ways to game the system, right? That's the advanced class. That's the advanced class. Bill, how long have you been teaching at Interboro? Since 2001. All right. Wow. Yeah, very cool. Honestly, for something that's as unique a class as you are teaching, to be a student favorite is kind of an uphill battle. So what else do you think it is about you that makes you such a popular teacher?

I host and advise the blood drives. In fact, that's how I know Greg, our student Greg, who called in a couple weeks ago. He's a blood donor. So that just puts me in contact with a lot more students. Is there a more popular kid in your high school right now than Greg Ferrari? I don't think there was before or after. I didn't know.

For those who don't know, Greg Ferrari is the guy who actually filmed the Delco pooper as she was doing her thing on the hood of that car. And we had him on. He was great. That must have been the talk of the school when that happened, Bill.

Yeah, it was. And then it quickly changed over to the Delco Pope. So that was it. Yeah, Delco Pope or Delco Pope, and now you're back to Casey's diving picture. Yeah, full circle. Well, that's cool. Well, Bill, I mean, you know, being in this business for as long as you have, this industry for as long as you have,

it's got to be really gratifying to see that the students are returning the thank you. I'm sure you thank them because they fill your life with joy. It's a job you like doing, but it's got to feel pretty good knowing that they've acknowledged you as a person that they trust and admire.

Yeah, I really appreciate it. You know, it keeps me going to see any alumni support over the weekend on Facebook, you know, the old person, social media, um, that, that, that was great. That's awesome, man. You deserve it. It's a good way to, good way to finish up the year. Do you have any plans for the summer?

Driving the kids around. I have a 17-year-old. We'll be looking at colleges, going on vacation, driving kids around. Cool. Excellent, Mark. We'll enjoy. Bill, on behalf of the students, we're going to give you a $50 Dunkin' gift card. They're our sponsor. And, of course, you get the piece de resistance, the Preston and Steve official teacher, coolest teacher of the year coffee mug. So that is yours, my man. That's great. Can I give a shout-out to our softball team? Yes. They're playing the state playoffs today. Oh, they are? They're playing the state playoffs today? Yeah.

Yes, they are. Nice. All right. Home game. All right. Pergioman Valley is the home of the fighting what? No, no, no. He's at Interborough. Oh, I'm sorry. That's the next. I'm sorry. Interborough is home of the fighting what? Buccaneers. Buccaneers. All right. Go Bucs. Yeah. All right. Bill, congratulations. Have a great summer, and thanks for doing what you do, my man. All right? Thank you. You too. All right. Bill Lavery. Yay!

He's like a nice guy, Chase. Yeah. Really, really great guy. And so, yes, at Interboro, and I apologize, Perkyoma Valley High School is our next school. And they're also home of the fighting books. That people are voting for. And make sure that you, if you go to Perk, make sure that you text word teacher to 610-660-9333 and we will send you the voting link. I think they're the... Vikings. Vikings, yeah. So who would win in a fight? A Viking or a Buccaneer? The Vikings. Vikings. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ruthless warriors. But, I mean...

Buccaneers probably have access to more modern weapons. Yeah, maybe cannons and things like that. Yeah, but their psychotic will to dominate would work in the Vikings. And they eat their straw men. Are they fighting from their boats or are they fighting on land? From their aircraft. What if one of them had a gorilla? Yeah, and the Vikings were known for sending gorillas into battle. Yep, yep, yep. We can't...

We can't ignore that historical fact. Prove it didn't happen. Prove we're lying. They both had pretty awesome boats. Like a pirate ship versus a Viking ship. But the Vikings didn't know how to sail against the wind, so that would have been a downfall for them. I see. That's what the Bob Seger song against the wind is about. Yeah, about the Vikings. I didn't know that. Wow, man. You learned stuff. All right. You know what we're going to do? We're going to go shopping. It's time to open up a store. It's been a while. Cheers.

Time to go to the general store. While it might seem small on the outside, it actually sits on the edge of a wormhole, making it the largest thing in the universe. That's how we explain all the departments. Exactly. And we have everything in the store. We actually, Steve, we will start with something that is right up next to a wormhole. We'll start with our aerospace department. It's right near the tires. Yeah. Actually, it's about the cosmos. So, no, this is pretty cool. Saw this story and...

I didn't hear any reports of viewings last night or appearances last night. But the northern lights, there's been some solar activity and possible activity last night, maybe even tonight. We went looking for it last night because my wife is obsessed. And we were lucky enough, all of us were, to see them a few months ago. Did not see any last night. And it was gorgeous out last night. It was so nice and comfortable. It wasn't cloudy? No.

Not where we were. No, no. And so we had some clear skies and yeah, but no spottings last night. By the way, it was light to like 835 or something. Yeah. I love that. That was excellent. So NASA posted what it called a rare severe geomatic...

watch on Saturday, the day after a powerful coronal mass ejection erupted from the sun. Same time I was having a mass ejection. The storm in question, possibly a G4 on a one to five scale, has the potential to disrupt power and satellite navigation systems and to ignite spectacular shows in the night sky. NASA's space weather prediction said that the

As a result of the disturbance, the aurora may be visible over much of the northern half of the country and maybe as far south as Alabama or North Carolina. Which is wild. So if tonight, the sky is a little hazy now, but this evening, you know, it may be well worth your while to take a step out and see if you see something. Yeah. But you're waiting when the lights go down in the city, Preston. So solar storms, commonly called sunspots, can eject massive clouds.

quantities of charged particles magnetic fields that stream towards earth at ultra high speeds and then the interaction of the solar material and the earth's magnetosphere creates the colorful undulating curtains of light that can vary in color from green to pink to reddish to

purple which is what we saw last time which was so incredibly cool so when I saw it years ago it was green and you did have the ribbon effect the undulating ribbon effect which was amazing yeah I really want to see that

The polar regions are the most frequent venue. However, the stronger storms can drive them toward mid-latitudes, which we might get. We'll have to see tonight. So if you get a chance, pop out. And it doesn't give any particular time. Last time, it was fairly early in the evening. Yeah, it was.

And then we stayed out for a while, and they never really reappeared. When we saw them early, we were like, oh, this is going to be a great sky show for a long period of time. Turns out it was just the early version, and we didn't get much later. And by the way, if you're a peeping Tom, this gives you great license to walk around the neighborhood with binoculars. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, nobody's going to ask you any questions. Just look at the dark lights. Exactly. Aurora Borealis, at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen. Yes.

Man, shit. No. What? From the Simpsons? Yeah, it's Principal Skinner in Super Nintendo Tromelish. All right, we're going somewhere else in the Stowa. Huge memory. It's huge. Yeah, in fact, we have an entire baby section. Yes, where you actually sell babies. Yep, we're going to go into that section. We're going to talk about baby names. And this subject comes up multiple times throughout the years, but this is Google's most searched baby names of the year so far. Do you know why this is...

This topic, you'll hear this topic organically pop up at just about any gathering where there's a lot of people. Someone's having a baby. I mean, it's a common topic. Yep. So baby named Caneroa Borealis. Baby named Consultant Sherry Suzanne. Wow, that's an occupation, right? That's a job.

Apparently, it says most searched names don't always become the most popular names. Many times, the searches are triggered by names in popular culture. For example, Athena likely became more interesting when Princess Beatrice of England named her daughter Athena this year.

And an instant name in the news or entertainment can peak some interest. So according to this expert, the list is loaded with vintage names that have become popular again this year. We've touched on this a little bit. Yeah, a lot of retro. This list showed some different ones I thought was kind of cool.

So Google's top 10 trending baby names of 2025. We'll start with number 10. Lincoln. Lincoln. That's my middle name. That's Nick's middle name. I looked at you, Casey. Your middle name is Cavanaugh. I had the wrong person. But yeah, Nick's middle name is Lincoln. Named after my great uncle. Okay. So that's up for first name, I guess, or people are searching. Yeah, my middle name is I'm named after my pretty good grandmom. What?

What is that supposed to mean? He said it was his great uncle. And I was named after my pretty good grandmom. I didn't get that at all. So dumb. No, it's Monday, man. You need to ease into it. I enjoyed it very much. Is anyone here? Number nine is Milo. Milo? Yep.

Or would it be Milo? No, it's Milo, right? It depends. What was the movie? Milo and Stitch? Yeah, that's what I was trying to think of. Milo and Stitch. My Little Scrotum. That's what we called it, yeah. But you also have Milo Ventimiglia. That's true. You're better than that! You're not Stitch! You're better than that! You're an alien! That's not you! You're an alien!

That ain't you! You're from another planet! So Milo or Milo is number nine. Number eight is Zion. Zion? Yeah. Interesting. That's biblical, right? Yes. There's a basketball player named Zion Williamson. He plays for the New Orleans Pelicans. I wonder if that...

Has popularized it. Is that the guy who eats fish whole? I mean, he eats a lot of stuff whole, Steve. He's a big boy. Was there just an allegation about him? Oh, I don't know. So Zion is number eight. Number seven is Violet.

Violet's a pretty name. I like that name. Yeah. I just always think of Willy Wonka, though. Yeah, I was thinking that, too. Willy Wonka kind of killed that. Number six is Aria. That's a great name. Aria. It's a musical movement, right? Yeah.

It's better than Fugue. Number five is Athena. Number four is Amelia. Haven't heard that name in a little while. Amelia Bedelia is what I think of when I hear that. Yes. Remember that series? Amelia and Arya both have Game of Thrones ties. Amelia Clark and Arya Stark. Oh, yeah. But, you know, that show's been off the air for quite some time at this point, so I don't think there's a Game of Thrones connection. Right. Number three is Sadie. I just thought that was a nice name. I like that name. Sadie, um...

Sink? Yes. Stacey Sink, yeah, from Stranger Things. She's amazing. That is correct. And the whale. Number two is Theodore. And I think of the chipmunks. Yeah. Theodore. And number one on this list. Oh, hey, Dave. Number one on this list, cool name, Sutton. Who just had... Sutton Foster? Sutton Foster.

Sutton Foster is the Hugh Jackman squeeze, right? Yeah. Who is the guy who was in the... I was just watching the documentary, and I know I'm misremembering the name, about the trip down to see the Titanic, the implosion of the... Oh, yeah.

Was his name Sutton as well? Oh, I don't remember. Okay. He was a multi-multi-millionaire, if not billionaire. Right. And the documentary was fascinating. It was so impactful on me that I can't remember the guy's name. So even though these are the most Googled names, it doesn't necessarily mean that people are, like, they're not part of the name registration. No. But it's the ones that people are kind of...

taking interest in. So Stockton Rush? Stockton, that's it. Stockton Rush and then also to answer your question, Casey, yes, Zion Williamson had allegations of rape levied against him over the weekend. Well, I'm leaning towards Stockton then. We're going to go with Harvey Weinstein.

All right, let's go to another section of the store. We're shopping around today. And we are headed to the therapeutic section. It's not your conventional general store. No, there's a lot here. It looks old and small on the outside, but on the inside, it's voluminous. As Steve said, it's sitting next to our wormhole, so we can pretty much pull anything out. That's true. There's something called C-therapy or blue space therapy. I've...

I've heard this mentioned. Yeah, and I believe in this. It is about the healing properties of coastal environments and the water and what it can do for you as a human being. Yeah. The second I get... So, listen, you both now are able to enjoy the beach and the shore often. It is regenerative. It is restorative. There is something about it. I think it's because it's so...

I mean, we came out of the ocean, you know? And if you're lucky on a Friday night, you go back, you come into the ocean. No, no. You know what I'm saying? It's just in our DNA. There is something about that. Steve, and what it,

It made me think of a scene in the movie. We were just talking about the one with Nicolas Cage where he's an angel. City of Angels. City of Angels. And you know how the angels would all gather at the sunset and they would just be gazing out into it in a trance. It's almost like that when you go, when you're in front of a beautiful water view. You just, whatever it is, you just take it in. There's an ineluctable...

constant to it like when no matter what you just left a few blocks in yeah that waves are going to keep coming in and they have and they always have and they always will and there's something i find reassuring about that just the sound just just the the audio quality of what you're picking up is enough to soothe you but then also when you're breathing that salt air uh

it actually is beneficial for you for respiratory health, immune function, and just overall well-being. I had to look this up because I thought there were like,

therapeutic physical therapy stuff. Yeah. No, but the salty air contains minerals like iodine and magnesium. Yeah. It can help clear the lungs and sinuses. A lot of times there's just actual medicine and syringes strewn about the beach. That might help you. There are so many medicinal properties. Those are free. You just pick them up. Hey, look, someone just loves some medicine. They wash up on the shore. And then hypodermic, I can use that.

Dr. Thea Gallagher says that sea therapy is a real concept. She is an associate professor of psychiatry at NYU Langone Health. She said the beach allows for mindfulness because it facilitates being more present when you are watching the ocean as it's repetitive and allows for greater connection to the present moment while keeping us engaged. Do you know who's one of the best at describing the...

the ocean. In fact, if you read the book Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway, or listen to the song, he describes what it is that draws people, what draws them to the ocean. And the passages are beautiful. Gallagher points out that spending time at the beach can have profound effects on mental well-being. This includes benefits like reducing stress, boosting mood, improving sleep, and even helping with cognitive restoration.

Spending time in the sun also helps the body produce vitamin D. We talked about that last week, too. By the way, it need not be the ocean, a creek, a river, a lake, a damp sponge, a puddle. What are you doing? I'm just looking at the sponge. Oh, a brook? We'll leave you alone. A brook of some sort? A brook. An eddy in an estuary? A babbling brook?

I read at some point that like 90% of humanity lived within 10 miles of some major body of water, you know, and I don't know what defines major body of water, but look, it's human nature. We grew up around it. You know, our civilization wouldn't exist if not for living near water. That's why major cities are usually, there's some sort of water access to it. A few years ago, I took that Talc River cruise and all, and you, I mean, there's no reason

You take those river cruises, people say, is that really something that's worthwhile? Yeah. All the great civilizations, you know, in Europe, they're all formed along the river for obvious reasons. A stream. A stream of estuary at Babbling Brook. A creek. A creek, if you will.

Now I'm trying to think of all the different names of body sources. You know what I did? So, okay. Bay. Bay, sound. Not that long ago, I tried to... Queen Bay. I looked up the definitions of things like you hear sound and cape and all these nautical terms. And I'm like, I don't know exactly what all of those things are. So I started looking them up. And some of them are...

Roughly. They could be one way or another. They could be interpreted as one way or another. So my life was spent, I had either the Atlantic Ocean on one side of Long Island or the Long Island Sound. Never quite really learned what a sound is, but I'm assuming because you would end up bumping up into Manhattan, the further you would head towards the city, with a large opening at the end.

So I'm assuming it is a large body of water not contained on all sides. I have forgotten. Yeah. I looked it up. A sound. Yeah. We are forgetting fjord. Yeah. And also bite. B-I-G-H-D. Now, I know what a fjord is. Yeah. That's completely...

It's surrounded and only has one. It's usually a body of water. I think it's salt water. It has to be deep and steep sides as well. Yes, steep sides and only one entrance and exit point to it. But yeah, there's bays and... Oh my God, now we have a... Okay, we have a full list. And an arroyo. Yes. A bay, a bayou, down on the bayou. A bite, a bourne. These are in alphabetical order, as you can tell. A bourne.

A canal, a channel, a cove, a creek, a delta, the distributary, a firth, a fjord, a gulf, harbor.

A kettle lake. Never heard of that. Lagoon, lake, marsh, moat, ocean, pond, puddle. Puddle? Well, it's still a body of water. This is true. Sometimes I just like to sit on the edge of a puddle and think about things. Reservoir. We got tons of reservoirs around here.

Swamp, stream, spring, sea, and river. I love my reservoir that I live near. And I've been watching it because we were having big time drought issues. Is it back up? It is. And so, Steve, when you drive past the springtime lake reservoir, there's a tower in the middle of it. And you can see water lines on it. And when we were having...

I just kept watching the water level go down and down and down. And then like on the other part of the reservoir, it was like you could just basically see land. I was getting nervous, right? So now my family's making fun of me because I'm such a dad about these things. I'm like, oh, look at that.

water level's going up guys no i'm 100 with you i did this all the time when i was a kid we would drive past it a lot my grandmother and grandfather lived in wally ford media and we lived in pale acacia so it would be on 252 when we drive over that dam my dad got arrested for swimming in the springton lake when he was a kid remember that um so that lake has a connection with my family as well and i always watched the levels growing up wasn't there a celebrity connection to that too what was it davidson

William Davison. Davison? Davison? Damn! Bruce. Bruce Davison. Yes. The actor who is in X-Men. Yes.

He knew about that story and there was a connection between Bruce Davis and he grew up in our area. He was the senator, Bruce. Yeah, and he grew up in this area and so he knew about Springton Lake and so we connected over that. Senator Kelly, that's right. All right, here's the sound, by the way, for a body of water. It's a smaller body of water, often a narrow sea channel or ocean channel.

between land masses or a lagoon, and examples include Puget Sound in Chesapeake Bay. Okay, all right. Hey, can you pull that graphic up again that had all the water things? Okay, so channel is in there. So sound, and then it has a couple of other sound definitions. Sound signals in navigation are short or long blasts from a horn that can be used to communicate in tensions between boats.

And sounding, as a verb, I don't think I'll get into that. What about docking? It's similar. It's similar. Only something goes into your ephra. You just know each other better. With sounding. The Long Island sound was always very cool. One of the most wild experiences I had, we were out in about a 20-foot runabout. Just kind of cut the engine and we're just kind of floating halfway between Connecticut, between Long Island and Connecticut.

The water starts to bubble about 70, 80 yards away from us. And like more than bubbling, like big bubbles. The conning tower of a submarine comes up. Because there was a submarine base. That's pretty cool. It was a military submarine? It was a Navy submarine. Awesome. Coming up. And I go, wow! Did it kind of scare you a little bit? It scared the F out of us. Yeah. But once we knew what it was, it was amazing. Wow. Yeah. That's pretty cool. All right.

But essentially, being around the water is healthy for you. It's good for you mentally. It's good for you physically as well. Simply being near the ocean, walking, listening to waves, or breathing in the air can promote relaxation, of course. And as Casey said, some of the stuff that you take in, breathing as well, is good. If you don't make it a habit, or at least if you find that the stresses of life get you down or whatever...

Try that. Try going, just go sit lakeside or sit. Yeah. It is really, it is such a release. Yeah, especially larger bodies. It's a great place to throw your garbage. Larger bodies of water. There's something about that expanse. Yes, yeah. That flat open area that gives you an unobscured view. It's pretty awesome. Real quick before we move on to the next section of the store. Erin grew up in Cape Cod. She wants to tell us what a kettle lake is. Yes. Because I mentioned that in that group of bodies of water. Hi, Erin. Good morning.

Good morning, guys. How are you? Awesome. Yep. So I grew up, obviously, near a lot of water and something I retained from seventh grade earth science growing up in Cape Cod. We have kettle ponds everywhere. We call them ponds. They're not usually as big a lake, but they're formed from glaciers that form the landmasses and chunks of glacier fall off and create these craters. And then they melted over the ice age and created ponds and lakes. And that's what they're called. I don't know why they're called kettle ponds or lakes, but...

Okay. Maybe they're like, cause they're self-contained. They're, I don't know. Yeah. They're very self-contained. Like you could be walking down the road and you know, and there'll be one on one side of the road and one on the other and they, the two shall never meet, but they're two separate parts with their own separate feet. Then Aaron, I encountered one. We took a, we were in Vancouver. This is many vacations ago with my wife and we went up to a glacier beach.

It was a lake, or I assume it would be like a kettle situation formed by a glacier. This was, Preston, it was one of the quietest places I've ever been with the cleanest, clearest water of any body of water I've ever seen. It was amazing. Love that. Yeah. Nice. All right, Aaron, thank you so much.

You're welcome, guys. All right, we'll see it. But one of the cleanest bodies of water that I've ever seen, Steve, was Jackson Hole. And Nick, you've seen those lakes up there at the base of the mountains. Yeah, they're incredible. And it's just...

it's as clear as you can get. It's like drinking water. It's like a lake full of Dasami. I was there in the fall and I so wanted to jump in the water. It was freezing. There's something about jumping into a mountain lake though. Even if it's freezing, if you've done a hike and you get to the top of someplace and there's a mountain lake there, it's the best feeling in the world. We swam in Alpine Lake and the Alpine Lake is just because of how high up it is, I guess. I don't know at what level. But we were in a

just outside of Bryce. It was freezing, Nick. Yeah. Yeah, it was a little rope swing. We jumped in. You were doing the ice baths for a while, right? I tried it for a little bit. And then I didn't. All right, can I do one more? Yeah. One more. All right. All right.

We're going to the collegiate section of our store now. So colleges are starting to teach adulting classes to help young people learn life skills. We've talked about this before. We did just recently, as a matter of fact. And...

I probably would have fought tooth and nail to have a class like this when I was in school. But now I'm like, man, I could have really benefited from it. Yeah, so in high school, I definitely wouldn't have cared. But since they're now offering these in collegiate classes, that might be a little bit more real. You're on the precipice. According to a psychology professor at San Diego State University, kids are growing up less independent. Her name is Jean Twenge.

And, um, they're less likely to learn how to adult things as high school students. They get into the university and they still don't know how. Uh, so the thing is Gen Z wants to know this stuff. So they're happily signing up for courses to learn it. So colleges like Michigan State University are stepping up to teach it, uh,

They offer an adulting 101 class. I know, Casey, your daughter goes to school there. I'm wearing the shirt. I know. Adulting, well, she can look into the adulting 101 class that they have to help learn to navigate the complexities of everyday life as an independent adult. Do they also teach wizarding? It focuses on practical life skills as well as financial literacy, credit, banking, and budgeting as well. I wanted to see if any...

Community colleges might have elective classes like this because my sister needs this big time. I need to send her to this school. For the basics, right? For the basics. I would love to have that available. University of California Riverside's adulting program focuses on three areas. Basic needs, career development, and financial wellness.

Similar programs are being offered at other colleges to fill in those gaps as well. So it's a very practical look at it. Here's what you're going to have to do. You can expect these types of bills. Here's how you handle those. These are some roadblocks that might come along the way. Here's how you handle that. You know, it's just everyday stuff. There are things that occur in the regular calendar year or over the course of a couple years, like renewing your license. Yeah.

Yeah. All these things that you don't... Taxes. Taxes. Yeah. That you do infrequently. So you may do them on a schedule, but when that's... I'm like, okay, what do I do again? How do I... And so it is one of those things where the earlier you can get a grasp of it, the better off you're going to be throughout life. Yeah, most definitely. So look, and if that sounds interesting, maybe some colleges around here offer up those programs. Or just leave the country. You can do that too. Yeah.

Although, do you have to do that stuff in other countries as well? Yeah, you probably do. It depends on where you go. Yeah. All right, we've got to close up shop, gang. It's all time we have. Bye-bye. Say goodbye to Preston Alley and his, their proprietor.

Babe, goodbye. Way harder. Bye-bye. Sorry. Try harder. All right. We do need to take a break because I collected some bizarre file stories for you over the weekend. I will present them to you. And keep in mind, we have a new Word of the Week prize this week. If you're a fan of auto racing, we've got this cool hookup with our friends at Pocono Raceway. And we want to make sure you don't miss out on that. It's the letter of the day coming up at the end of the program. Take a quick break. Come back in a moment. Stay with us.

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Brought to you this morning by Pro Team Collision. If you find yourself in an accident, you got to trust the pros at Pro Team Collision. Your trusted auto body repair shop located in King of Prussia. You can go to proteamcollision.com. All right, this is scary. And Nick, you've been in an accident out hiking. Listen to this. All right. An Alaska man who was pinned face down in an icy creek by a 700-pound boulder for three hours.

Survived the ordeal with only minor injuries thanks in part to his wife's quick thinking and lots of luck. Kel Morris' wife held his head above water to prevent him from drowning while waiting for rescuers to arrive after Morris was pinned by the boulder, which crashed onto him during a hike near a remote glacier south of Anchorage. His second stroke of luck came when a sled dog tourism company that operates on the glacier overheard the 911 dispatch.

and offered up a helicopter to ferry rescuers to the scene, which was inaccessible to all terrain vehicles. Once rescuers arrived, it took seven men and inflatable airbags to lift the boulder off as he drifted in and out of consciousness. Morris, who is 61 years old, said he realizes he's probably the luckiest man alive and luckier that I have such a great wife, he said.

His wife, Jo Roop, is a retired Alaska state trooper. Last Saturday, they decided to hike near Godwin Glacier on an isolated and underdeveloped trail. The trail was actually a rocky creek bed lined with large boulders deposited by the glacier. Now, Moore said that he noticed dangerous boulders some weighing up to 1,000 pounds along the banks of the creek and avoided them the best he could until he ran into an area where he couldn't pass.

And he said, I was coming back and everything, the whole side slid out from underneath me. And he said things became a blur as he tumbled down the embankment about 20 feet, landing face down in the water. And he immediately felt the boulder hit his back in what was described as basically an avalanche of boulders.

The way Morris landed, there were rocks under him, in between his legs, and around him that caught the weight of the boulder, preventing him from being crushed. That's a miracle. But the massive rock still had him pinned, and Morris felt intense pain in his left leg and waited for his femur to snap. His wife tried to free him for about 30 minutes, putting rocks under the boulder and trying to roll it off of him before she left to find cell signal.

And amazingly, she only had to walk about 300 yards to connect with 911 and relied on her law enforcement experience to send exact GPS coordinates to dispatch. A volunteer at the neighboring fire department heard the call while working at a sled dog tourism operation and diverted the helicopter used to ferry tourists to the scene. And by this time, Morris was hypothermic from the cold water running off of the glacier.

and his wife was holding his head out of the water. Firefighters had to use two airbags that are normally reserved to extract people from wrecked vehicles to slightly lift the boulder, and then eventually seven guys were able to lift it just enough to pull him out.

That's amazing. Morris, who is now reflecting on his ordeal at home, acknowledged that it might have been a little wake-up call to stop doing things like this at his age. When he and his wife go hiking this weekend, they're going to stick to the established trails. He said, we're going to stop trailblazing. They're saying he could have died if after his wife didn't finish her lunch at Applebee's, hadn't immediately called 911. Right, right. Yeah. Yeah, but it was miraculous, of course.

So a Louisiana woman allegedly used sugar and chocolate syrup to wreck a vehicle in what was believed to be a feud regarding a shared romantic partner. Shreveport Police Department wrote on Facebook, Mel Ridney Robinson turned a car into a dessert buffet and demolition site all in one go.

Robinson faces felony property damages for allegedly slashing all four tires of the vehicle, breaking both side mirrors, shattering the windshield, pouring chocolate syrup everywhere, and dumping sugar in the gas tank. You could have stopped at the tire slashing. Whole thing was caught on camera, by the way. On May 15th, Robinson had pulled up in her own car, parked next to the vehicle, destroyed it, and then drove away, and she was later arrested.

Depending on the value of the car and its damages, if convicted, Robinson can face prison time and a fine up to $1,000 or more. She also may be ordered to make full restitution to the owner of the property. It's unclear whether the romantic partner to whom police allude in their post was the owner of the vandalized vehicle or whether it was someone else.

A German cathedral chapter apologized this week for hosting a performance featuring semi-clad dancers waving plucked chickens wrapped in diapers. All right. And they did this at the cathedral. Yeah, the chapter...

of Peterborn Cathedral expressed sincere regret that the performance by the dance ensemble Body Talk offended religious feelings. Earlier this week we had a performance in which semi-naked chickens wearing diapers were flung around the church. Sorry about that one. We're not going to do that again.

Such an effect was never intended, they said, and does not correspond to our expectations of this place with its special religious, historical, and cultural significance. We're watching a clip from the show. It's actually kind of very David Mamet-like. The chapter insisted that it had been unaware of the specific content of the performance, which

which marked the opening of an exhibit entitled 775 Westphalia, celebrating the 1250th anniversary of Germany's historic Westphalia region. During the performance, two shirtless men and a woman wearing a form-fitting sleeveless white top lifted ready-to-cook chickens out of the metal bowl in front of the cathedral's altar. The altar was set with a cross and six candles, but the performance did not take place during a liturgy.

One performer sang an acapella version of Live Is Life, a 1984 song by the Austrian pop group Opus, while cradling a chicken like a baby.

And then they're making the chickens in their diapers, a la a marionette, walk around the stage. So the singer adapted the lyrics replacing the words live his life with fleisch ist fleisch, which is meat is meat. And meanwhile, the two performers, the other performers dangled the chickens on their heads, knees and chests.

The three dancers then whirled the chickens around vigorously in circles in the sanctuary of the 13th century cathedral and threw them in the air before catching them while an instrumental version of Live His Life played on the background. All right, hear me out on this. Next year, RBQ side stage?

I love it. According to Body Talk's website, their performance was an excerpt from a project called Westfallen Side Story, a play on the German word for Westphalia and the musical West Side Story. The project's themes include animal welfare, sustainability, and the meat industry.

A spokesperson for the ensemble reportedly explained the performance by noting that Westphalia was a traditionally agricultural region. There were many chickens in Westphalia, the spokesman commented. I got to admit, it's a pretty good show. I'm enjoying watching it. You can't take your eyes away. I would pay money. I don't know if it's a church show.

But I'd watch it. I liked it. It was better than Cats. Steve, I would watch this on the side stage. Absolutely. A petition against the desecration of Peterborn Cathedral addressed to Bence was launched on the CitizenGo platform. And the petition, which had more than 21,500 signatures...

said whatever the performers wanted to say, it was in any case a desecration of the sacred space and a blasphemy against Christian truths. Do something with bar chops. Yeah, maybe. All right, and there you go. That's all we have time for. Sorry, it was a long story, but it was worth it. They just panned out from the stage.

The place was packed. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people. A standing room only. And that is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back in just a moment. So make sure you stay right where you are, Fred.

WMMR.com. Your one stop for everything you need to know about WMMR, including our new phone number. So you can copy and paste it into your phone. No pen required. Because we care. Well, that and Jackie Chews all our pens. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Marissa. For me personally, this past weekend was one of the busier weekends on record for

In quite some time. There was just something every day. A couple things on some days that I was involved in. And it was all good stuff. I'm wiped out today, man. Between charity and graduation and all that stuff. Yeah, it was... And then a little golf outing. A little excursion. I'll tell you about that, too. But there were...

Couple of graduation events. My youngest, Caleb, we had a graduation party on Friday night. And so leading up to that, because we were doing it at our house. Right. Leading up to that is getting all the preparations ready. Buying new coolers. They had to do that.

And just getting all the food ready and the drinks and having a battle plan and finding out who's going to be there and who's not and all that. So leading up to it, that was a big part of it. And then Casey's son, Seamus, had graduation and a graduation party. Yep.

uh yesterday uh so really busy with that yeah and and charity events and all that stuff so um we'll just kind of recap a little bit of our weekends because there were some good stuff that took place so you had the walk a mile which i unfortunately was not able to make on saturday morning but uh but you said it was a great turnout it was awesome man it was uh so yeah well you know what let's start with that and then we'll get to graduation party so there were two uh charity events uh

over the weekend that we're involved in, Nick had his before mine, which was the big climb. Yeah. Subaru Park. Yeah, Subaru Park. I got up early. I was there a little before 8 o'clock, and on the drive there, I was like, oh, man, is the weather going to hold? Is it going to be rainy or whatever? This was kind of crummy out early on Saturday morning, and then, man, it stopped raining. Like, the moment I got there, the clouds parted. It could not have been a better day, and the climb itself went really, really well.

Big group of people joined for Team Luke, which is fantastic. I want to shout out Bob Havens, who's a longtime supporter of the show and of the station. Bob is just one of the best people I know. He's just a kind, decent, giving person. He's always been a part of Team Luke. But for the first time, he actually got to meet Luke. Luke came up, and it was his first climb since he was diagnosed with leukemia back in 2017. And so the first time he did it, he was really young and not nearly able to do very much physically.

He went up one flight of stairs. And this time around, Luke crushed it. He did it beginning to end. He was sweaty and tired at the end of it. But he did all of it. My brother Adam also did all of it. And so it was cool to see them. Lauren Henwood and everybody from Leukemia and Lymphoma Society that was there to support it as well. My friend Barry came. He brought his family. Barry's daughter was recently diagnosed with leukemia within the last five months. So Barry is going through it.

what my brother and his wife went through seven years ago. Uh, and that's why LLS is there. They're there to help families, people, uh, anybody that's affected by leukemia or lymphoma. Um, yeah, my friend, my, uh, my friend Barry, uh, and your buddy Preston Damien. Yeah. Uh, and we'll get to what your adventure was, but Damien joined my team last week, uh,

And that was my first time really hanging out with him for an extended period of time. So he just came to be a part of Team Luke. And I just, I can't say enough good things about Subaru Park, about the union. The Sons of Ben were on hand. And you guys know, like, when there's a union match going on, they never stop. You know, they're playing drums at the end behind the goal the whole time. For this entire big climb Philly, Sons of Ben just playing the drums. Oh, wow. And hooting and hollering and cheering people on. They're the best, man. It's just, it's awesome. Terrific.

And Steve, I got down one set of steps where the Sons of Ben were set up and they're doing the drums and dancing and having a great time and they're like, hey, what's up, Nick? Hey, tell Preston and Steve we say hi. And so they love the station, they love the show and so it was cool to see them. Is this going to be the...

new home, you think? Well, so what I didn't realize was a couple of things. First of all, it's a little more affordable to do it at Subaru Park than it is at the Link, but there's also some soccer matches, speaking of the Union, some soccer matches that are happening at the Link this year and next. There's FIFA World Cup 2025 and

the big world cup next year, 2026. So that's why we couldn't do big climb Philly, um, at the link this year and we won't be able to do it there next year. Um, so it'll be back at Subaru park again next year and all likelihood. And, uh, I ain't mad at that. It was, it was really a great location. Um, it's just, it's the perfect size for something like this. Uh, and yeah, it just, it was a really fun event. And so we'll get totals as to how much money we raised, uh,

later today or later this week, but, uh, thanks to everybody who came out and participated. Excellent. And then later on, uh, was my event, which is the, uh, walk a mile in her shoes event. I say my event, but I'm, I was hosting the event for, uh, Laurel house. Uh, and it's where men, uh, put on high heel shoes and walk a mile. And so we're on the beautiful or sinus college campus. Have you ever been on that campus? I have. Okay. Yeah. A couple of times, but I haven't, I haven't done like the whole campus area, Casey, but it's gorgeous. Um,

We were getting rain, so they decided to move it inside. Dude, it was great. See, Steve, so you've been there in the past when we had rain. We had to do it in a parking garage. This was an indoor track. It was so much better. What I would not have given to the, yeah. That track didn't exist when I went to school there. So is that like a whole new athletic facility past your time there? Yeah, Helmock Hall, which is where the track is located. They expanded upon that, and they just made that whole athletic complex so nice. Oh, wow.

even nice to have that when I was there. So this was the 10th anniversary of the event of the walk a mile and it was the biggest yet and it was an amazing turnout and I got to mention a couple things I want to thank Brad and Melissa who came by here on the show to promote the event there you know there's a whole group of people that organize everything but but they're kind of ringleaders and

And the turnout was incredible. It was over 450 people. That's a lot, man. Registered to walk. Yeah, it was huge. Raised, I think, somewhere close to $80,000, which was huge. But the big standout story was the family of Alyssa Rose Weist. So Alyssa Rose, just on May 18th, was murdered in West Conchahokan by her boyfriend, Nick.

It was just this horrible story. So Brad and Melissa had come by to promote the event just a few days after Alyssa was taken. And there was a gal, and you guys know how bad I am with names. I can't remember her name. I think it was Marianne or Mary Ellen. I can't remember. But she's just a resident in West Conchahokan. And she heard Brad and Melissa on the air with us talking about it. And so she put word out in a West Conchahokan Facebook post that,

And they had over 100 people sign up and were a part of the team. Wow. And the family came out. I mean, this wound is fresh. I mean, I can't believe that they came out and did this. And I met a bunch of Alyssa's friends.

and family members, and it was just a big, big showing, and, you know, they obviously, they're a community that's hurting, so they want to do something, and they got out, and this was kind of healing for them. Yeah. So it was really special. I'm getting a little choked up thinking about it right now, and I was when I spoke to the crowd, too. It was just very difficult. But...

I want to thank everybody who was a part of it because it was so successful. It went really well. Our buddy Charles Sassy was there as well, and he was the sign holder for Team WMMR. And a few of our regulars or part of the team member all came out. This guy Mike who desperately wanted to win the...

top fundraiser event but he was up against his 17 year old kid and like he could have contributed more money and beat the kid and I think he held back on purpose so this guy this kid could win it who was awesome but next year the gloves are off he's going to kick some ass but it was great it was a huge event and I want to thank everybody who came out for it you think it'll be back there again?

Yeah, I think it'll be under sinus again next year. I mean, that sounds great. It was a perfect location for it. It looks like everything was set up within the track parameters. Yeah, everything was inside there. So we ended up doing it entirely indoors, and I thought it was a great way to go. So wonderful event. Real quick, let's go. Bob Havens is on the phone so we can talk to him. Yo, Bob, what's up, buddy?

Hey, guys. Good morning. Good morning to see you. Yeah, you wanted to give us a little bit of your perspective on the big climb.

Yeah, it's a great event. I really enjoy being part of Team Luke every year. And like Nick said, I was ecstatic that I was able to meet Luke and Adam for the first time this year. And on Friday, you guys asked Luke if he had any embarrassing stories that he wanted to share about his Uncle Nick. So I'm going to give Nick a little bit of juice here because he had a cute little sack of potatoes

potatoes that he was carrying for most of the walk, which was his niece. And she was walking through the stands, and then a lot of times when I turned around, he was carrying her. So his legs might be a little more tired than ours.

Yeah, but in fairness, Bob, because I was carrying Janie for a lot of Big Climb, I didn't go up and down the steps quite as much as everybody else did because she just wanted to look at spider webs, which I found to be fascinating as well. So we counted as many spider webs as we can. So we didn't go up and down nearly as much as you did and everybody else that was doing Big Climb. But thanks for the excuse. I appreciate it. I was just trying to give you a little bit of cheese. Thank you.

Love it. All right, Bob. I can tell you that. She did have a great big smile on her face the whole time. Yeah, she's adorable. Very cool of you to support this and be out there. You're the best, Bob. All right, guys. Have a good day. All right, take care, Bob. We'll see you later. Yeah, Bob supports everything that we do. It's awesome. Terrific.

So, and by the way, a follow-up on Luke, and when we asked him about embarrassing things about Nick, he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. When we go to Phillies games, if the Phils are losing, he, like, curses really loud. And then you went to that game on Saturday. Yeah, tell us about that, Nick. So, that, you know, Preston, I didn't even have time to be angry. So, that was perhaps the worst Phillies experience of my life. They were down 10.

17-1 at one point. Wow. Reese Hoskins had two three-run home runs against his former team. I believe every Brewer in the lineup got a hit. Jesus Lozardo, who's been really great for us this year, just...

crap the bed and it was a miserable Philly experience. We did Big Climb Philly in the morning. Everybody rested up for a little bit and then met at the ballpark. It was a great time. It was cool being there with friends and family. I saw our buddy Andrew, the beer guy. He said to say hi to everyone. Man, 17-1. It was funny because the Phillies scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth, which was mildly exciting, but it only made it 17-7 at that point. Wow.

But I turned to Luke and I was like, buddy, there's going to be some cursing that happens for me. And he was like, I understand. You're allowed to. Well, I give you credit. If you were there until the ninth inning, they gave you no reason to stay that whole time. They sure didn't. But Janie, my niece, she stayed the whole time, which is a really impressive feat for a four-year-old. Yeah, despite the score, it was a...

It was a fun time being there with the family. All right, on to the graduation parties over the weekend. So Friday night, we have one, like I said, for my youngest, Caleb, who's graduating. Graduation is a week from today, by the way. Jeez. And so we had a great time. A lot of great people. The weather held out for us. It didn't rain till late that night. Yeah. It was a beautiful night. It was very comfortable. And when it rained later, it rained a lot.

So you guys really dodged a bullet. Yeah, so I don't want to ask about that, Preston. Were there still a lot of people there when the rains came down? No, it was kind of fizzling out at that point. Yeah, because I was at your party. I had to leave that party to go to another party. And then we left that party. So I got home at like 10, 1030. And I sat in my back room and...

the skies just opened up and I loved it. I didn't turn the TV on. I just sat there and I listened to it. Yeah, it was awesome. So we had about, I don't know, like 50 people all together over at the house and all the kids ended up jumping in the pool, which was cold, by the way, but with their clothes on. Oh, you got to do that. And our buddy Brian Miller was there to take pictures of that happening, which was fantastic. So thank you, Brian, for all that. And I got to meet

a few of Caleb's teachers and stuff. There were some really cool people that were invited to the graduation party. Oh, wow. And one of the teachers, his name is Tracy, and I've forgotten his last name. I wish I would have had it now, but he got this really cool journal for Caleb with this super nice note written in it. And Steve, it was like, it looked ancient.

Like calligraphy? No, not the written, but just the book itself. The book itself was like papyrus and all frayed and leather-bound, beat-up thing. It was this really cool thing. Which subject was this teacher from? He's a sub. Oh, wow. And so he subs pretty much everything and was one of Caleb's favorite teachers. So that was a really nice gift. It was cool to meet those people. But I ended up...

As is always, even if it's for my kids. What'd you do? I just ended up getting bombed, man. And then you had to walk a mile the next day? Yeah. So here's the deal, and here's why I got bombed. As you know, we have...

I got plenty of alcohol because I knew there were going to be adults there. Yeah, yeah. And then I laid out like a bar and it was going to be kind of do-it-yourself bar. And one of the first guests that wanted a mixed drink, Rochelle was like, hey, can you make them a margarita? I'm like, yeah, sure, I'll do that. I make a margarita. I'm shaking it up and everything. And then...

So now I'm the bartender for the whole night. Yeah, you got locked. Which actually is fun for me. But I didn't get to talk to you much because I was mixing drinks the whole time. Yeah, but you're also the master of the ceremonies there. But here's what kept happening. So I was mixing up these drinks and I would pour them out into the glasses. And at the end of the shaker, there was a little bit left over. You were knocking them back. So I started drinking. So how many different types of drinks did you have? Well, I was only making like three or four different types of mixed drinks.

But I mean, I was drinking tequila and vodka and bourbon. And I was just... I'm like, I'm not going to let this go to waste. I'm going to have to mix up another drink. And in the meantime, I'm cracking beers in between those. And I was...

I was pretty lit up. How out? How out were you? Well, not falling down drunk and not throwing up drunk, but pretty banged up. And next morning I had a nasty headache, but I managed to get it together for the walk a mile event. But again, I turned this special moment for my children into daddy's going to get bombed tonight. Yeah.

Well, listen, I think you had a little bit of a license there. If you are the bartender, I mean... I was earning my key. You were doing that. Definitely. But it was a lot of fun. We had a great time, so I was happy everybody enjoyed it. Did you embarrass yourself at all or just got... No. Okay. There you go. You dodged a bullet. At least I didn't do that. But no, it was fun mixing up drinks, and Marissa and Casey made it out, so it was nice, and we...

lit a fire and had music on and it was just a really, really good time. Your sound system in your house is amazing. Oh, thank you. It's a Sonos. It is a Sonos system. Yes, you can link or unlink and put different music in different rooms at the same time and do all kinds of... Go to Bob and Ron's Worldwide Stereo. Yeah. We're not kidding when we say that is our place. Worldwide Stereo. They did that hookup. It is completely customizable. So that...

On that night, while you talk about the rain, that was night one of, well, it was the roots, the flood. Right. The rains of Rancho Por. Yeah. And so I started to hear reports about that. I knew your event was going on. I mean, I should say Saturday night. Right. But man, it came down hard.

And I was like, holy crap. That must have been a nightmare if you were out for that thing. Yeah. And when it was coming down, it was like these heavy, real intense... Like a roar inside the house. Short but intense storms is what it was. So I walked back. I took the subway from the ballpark to...

What is that? Suburban Station got off. And it was a nice night at that point, Steve. So I walked from Suburban Station over to 30th Street Station, took the train home. This was after the Philz game on Saturday evening. It was really pleasant in that stretch. The sun was coming out. But as I crossed the Schuylkill River from Center City to where 30th Street Station is, I looked down at the river. And it was just poop brown.

brown. And it was high and it was rushing pretty fast and it was just because of all of the rain that we've had really over the last month but certainly prior to Saturday afternoon and evening for the last 48 hours. I mean it was noticeable how high it was. I want to double back for a second because on the phone lines Melissa from Laurel House is calling in and she wants to give us a little bit of an update. Hey Melissa, good morning. Hi, good morning guys. Hey, what's happening?

Yeah. First of all, Preston, thank you so much, as always, for emceeing. You did a fantastic job. Thank you. Also, to the entire show for showing your support, talking about us a lot on the radio. I think that really helps bring awareness to the event. So many...

returning supporters of Walk a Mile, as well as a lot of new supporters as well. So as you had mentioned, Preston, biggest event we've had so far, I think I heard, and don't quote me on these numbers, they're not final, but there was, I thought I heard over 450, right?

And registrants for the event, I mean, typically I think we get 200 as a great event outcome. And then, you know, our goal initially started out, I think, around $50,000 and increased from there. And I want to say that the last time I checked, we were close to $80,000 raised for that event. And that number...

maybe going up so i just want to again thank thank you all thank our supporters i want to thank brad smith he really was the one that led the effort on getting this organized and so many others um at laurel house staff there and and board members as well and as well as volunteers so it just was incredible and as you mentioned alyssa's family and friends were just wonderful um very supportive and you know

They're really doing a lot to try to keep her legacy alive. And they do have a GoFundMe page, I believe, that they're collecting money for a scholarship, for a STEM scholarship. Oh, okay. For a young girl. Yes. To really carry on her passion and her work. Yeah, she was a scientist. It's pretty amazing. Yes.

Yeah. Thank you again. Of course. And thank you guys for what you do. It's a law house is such a great organization, but we'll, we'll, we'll get ready again down the road for next year. Uh, Melissa. So thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thank you. Looking forward to it. Take care guys. Bye. Bye. Yeah. It was great. And then, um,

Casey had Seamus graduate on Sunday. Yeah. There's so much going on this weekend. There was a lot going on. So, yeah, we had all those graduation parties on Friday. You could just see it in my neighborhood. You could see a lot of stuff going on. Yeah. We're in the throes of it right now. So graduation was yesterday, but we had a baccalaureate mass on Saturday night. We had to do that. And then afterwards, we went to...

La Colina? Yeah. It's a little restaurant right around the corner there. I love that. Yeah, I had a really, really nice dinner. Did you have the rosino? I didn't, but somebody else did. I always get the Dover sole. No, I ended up just getting Biscuities. Is that how you ordered them? Yeah, Biscuities. I was on Biscuities, please, with the clams. But yeah, so we did that. It was us and a few other families and stuff like that. People that we've gotten close with over the years.

You know, the past four years. But the graduation ceremony was at the Leah Cora Center. Yes. On Sunday morning. What? I'm thinking about the story you told. Oh. At Baccalaureate. What the hell did I do at Baccalaureate? Well, you're just going to have to. You're going to have to tell it real quick. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

And maybe this will lead to a discussion down the road. I was off air talking to Steve, to you and Casey about something that happened with me and Rochelle. Rochelle and I were getting ready to go somewhere. We had just taken a shower. We're naked. I'm walking through the bathroom and I'm still just a little bit, you know, my body's still a little bit moist. And so as I'm walking by,

I grabbed my junk, my boy, and I kind of shook it a little bit because, you know, just airing myself out. And so it was kind of like, you know, like that type of thing. And she kind of looks at me like, what the hell was that for? And I'm just like, I'm a guy. We do this every now and then. And so I told you guys that story off air.

Casey is at Baccalaureate. Oh, my God. The Mass. And they're blessing the body and blood of Christ. And when they do that, you know, the priest will hold his hands over the wine and he'll go, take this, all of you, and eat it. This is my body. We'll be giving it for you. And then somebody is supposed to ring a bell. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So he does this, but there's no bell. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

And I just think of Preston going, ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling. And I actually laughed out loud. At the most solemn part of the show. The most solemn part of the entire mess. I forgot about that. I was so happy to hear that when he told me that. Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling. Ding.

Yeah, so thank you for that. That was a good laugh. It made it more special. It made it more special. But yeah, so the graduation ceremony was yesterday. It was great. They usually have it at St. Joe's at the Hagen Arena, but I think that's under construction. So they did it at the Lear Corps Center. The pictures look frigging awesome. It was awesome. And, you know, they go through...

But each one of these and the way they do it, it makes me realize how badly rooked I was at my graduation. It was horrible. So they don't necessarily, they don't have a valedictorian, but the person who spoke at the graduation ceremony is the class president's guy. His name is Will Volkalos.

This is the guy. He's like all American, you know, like, uh, you know, plays on the football team. He's the class president, uh, had the lead in the play. He's the nicest person to everybody, you know, just like, that's like, this is what you want your kid to be. And his speech was, he just knocked it out of the park. It was really, really good. And then when they did the, um, you know, the handing out the diplomas, Julie Jerkoff, forgive me, Jerkoff, uh,

No, it was really, really funny because there are a couple, I guess, faculty or staff members whose children were graduating. And so normally what they would make, they announce a kid's name and it was a principal and the president of the school would hand a diploma off. But when it was when they had a parent, they would have the parent give the diploma. Oh, that's cool. Which is really cool. But yeah.

every time the parent would hand a diploma, they would hug their son and the entire student body would go, aww. And it just got funnier and funnier every single time. So the crowd started amping it up a little bit? The kids were doing it and the crowds were just getting such a big kick out of it. I love it. But I want to give a shout out, St. Joe's Prep, we had such a positive experience.

these last four years. It was such a bittersweet thing to experience yesterday because I loved my son's experience there. He loved his experience there. I want to give a shout out to a couple of the coaches from Seamus' rugby team. Tom Dugan, he's stepping down after this year.

what a great my son's favorite coach yeah and i've coached him i've coached him in baseball and basketball and he's like no dude it's my favorite coach and then also uh brian mccloskey uh who was also a rugby coach and he works admissions at st joe's prep you talk about somebody who's dialed in with the student body that guy is absolutely locked in with the student body and i just i had such a positive experience

But, yeah, so it was great. That's awesome. I was surprised that I didn't really cry all that much. I got a little bit of watery eyes, but I was able to keep it together for a little bit. I don't cry. For the most part. And then the graduation party last night. We had a graduation party. Well, I mean, it was like a dinner. Blue Turks, right? Next year. The Fabios in media. But, Press, there was an Italian-American festival at Rose Tree Park yesterday. Yeah.

The traffic on 252 was horrendous. And I was like, oh, no. Like, I have people coming. You know what I mean? But thankfully, it was over at that point. But, yeah. And so, thank you for coming to the... No problem. ...to the dinner last night. I got there a little bit late. Yeah. Because I was off doing something else. Can I tell that story? Yes. Oh, baby. Moving on to something else? Yeah. My...

I had the esteemed honor of playing the greatest golf course in the country. Maybe one of the greatest and definitely one of the greatest golf courses in the world. I got to play Pine Valley. So I got to thank Bill Jeremiah, the member and friend of mine who invited me and the other two guys I played with, John Hudson and John Pellett. It was a beautiful day, man. And you didn't do any video recording? No, I did a little bit. I just can't. I can't.

Okay, all right. I'm not allowed to post anything like that. I got a little talking to over that. It was pretty funny though because when you got the invite, I just came in and I just hear you,

I need to ask you for some permission. I was on the phone with Rochelle, yeah. I'm like, um, honey, I have to ask you for permission for something. Because we were going to the graduation party afterwards. And it would have timed out where I would have been a little bit late. And I had to make sure it was okay with it. I got the phone call. Casey was like, dude, you don't have to come. If you're going to go play Pine Valley, go play Pine Valley. Just make sure your wife comes with a check. That's all. Didn't we? I don't know. I have no idea. Um,

And I got to thank my caddy, Damien, who's a great, great guy. He's my regular caddy. He's your regular guy at Pine Valley. Was he your caddy yesterday? He was, yeah. Oh, that's great. I reach out to him. I'm like, hey, I'm playing. Can you come? It's just so funny because he was at Big Climb Philly on Saturday morning, and then he's Preston's caddy yesterday. And then I was thinking about our listeners, Preston, because Bob... No, who was it? Steve Wilson posted a really great thing on Instagram. And Steve Wilson was at...

Marcus's bike ride, which was on Saturday. No, no, it was yesterday. Yesterday, okay. So Steve Wilson was there. Damon was with me at Big Climb Philly. Then Damon was with you at Pine Valley. Bob Havens was at the thing with me. And then... Sassy was with me at Walk a Mile. And Peanut, Charles Lance. And Peanut was there too. Yeah, and it was just like... Pretty amazing. These are our listeners, but there are friends who support these incredible charity organizations. And they help you play golf at Pine Valley. Like, it's just... What...

an amazing relationship. All we needed was Chris and Shelly and Tom and everybody and smiling Chris and all the other all-star fans. Who's the guy that yells, Casey? Is that Mike? No, not Gary Lauer. I forget his name. We're rocking, man! We're rocking! That guy. We're rocking! That guy.

But listen, it's such a privilege to play this, and it's right in, I mean, it's right here. A lot of people don't know, if you don't know the world of golf, you're not familiar with Pine Valley, but it really is super incredibly special. And I actually played well. I was really happy. Wow. Almost more than anything, I was happy that I played halfway. Because the guys I was playing with, especially my buddy Bill and this guy John Pellett, were just like,

Watching people do that really well is so impressive and cool and pisses you off as well at the same time because you can't do it. But it was a beautiful day and it was just amazing. That's awesome. What did you end up? What, a shoot? Yeah. I shot and Bill gave me a mulligan on one of the holes. I did take one mulling and I apologize to all the golf purists out there, but I shot an 86. And so it's very...

It's one of the hardest golf courses in the world. So to shoot that, I normally shoot low 80s, high 70s. So in 86, I was thrilled with that yesterday. That's awesome. Let's talk about this mulligan. What happened? Oh, man. The alligator bit his head. I can't.

It was on a tee shot. I came over the top and I yanked it to the left. And it went into no man's land. There's a lot of no man's land at that course. It's all no man's land. It's unreal. Do they have PGA events there? They do not. Why is that? Because it is exclusive and they have this one event, one big tournament of the year. It's called the Crump Cup.

And it's for amateurs. Okay. And that's the only thing they do there. And plus, the terrain of it would not lend itself to TV coverage. Okay. Or big, you know, when they do those big events, there needs to be TV coverage and sponsorships and everything that helps pay for all that. And there is just not enough room for all the people that would come out there. And, yeah, we're watching a video of it right now on...

on our monitors here. But it's, yeah, it's tight quarters and it wouldn't lend itself to a gallery or anything like that. It's gigantic sand trap. Oh my God, it's massive. So it was really cool, man. It was a hell of a weekend. I was super, super busy and I'm really dead ass tired. And Marissa was out and about. Marissa, you went to Roots Picnic last night? Yeah,

I did. So Lenny Kravitz was playing and I was talking to our friend Sarah Parker and she has never seen him live. I was like, we have to go. It's right at the man. He's playing the Roots Picnic. He was playing earlier. I had an internal debate who would be the headliner, whether it be Lenny Kravitz or Meek Mill. I was very wrong. It was Meek Mill. He's much bigger than Lenny Kravitz at this point.

But it was amazing. And all the news started coming out about Saturday and the weather because of all that rain. And the man is all mud. So when they set up the Roots Picnic, it's not necessarily just in the man's center as we know it. They take all of the parking lot area and turn that into other stages.

The best I could compare it to is like Warped Tour when it used to be in the parking lot of like the Tweeter Center or whatever it is. That's what the Roots Picnic is. It's all over that full campus of the Mann Center. So they had to take hours to really like cover up all the mud and put wood chips down and make it safe. It was a disaster from what they were saying. And then there were a lot of people waiting to get in like – Yeah. Yeah.

Listen, they issued apologies. The people running it seemed to really jump on it. But there was just no way they could get the word to everyone who was waiting, not quite sure what was going on. Yeah, I think it was supposed to be doors at 1, and then they said, we'll do it by 2. But then they didn't really open up until about 3 or 4. What I felt bad was a lot of my friends, they turned it also into like a food festival this year. So they had like 40 or 50 food trucks. So a lot of those guys had food prepped.

that they didn't have their first customer until hours after was expected. But I talked to a lot of people on site and they said Saturday was disastrous, but

Anybody who hung out and came on Sunday, it was a beautiful day. Did Lenny mention anything about that at all when he was on stage or did he just stay away from it? I heard during his sound check that as he was playing, he looked up and he's like, what's a festival without mud? You got to have mud at a festival. Wait, we're looking at a picture. I have not seen Lenny Kravitz in years and he's gotten the dreads are in full form. Yeah. Oh, my God. He is a great follow on Instagram. Okay. He's a beautiful specimen.

He is a good looking man. That dude is definitely a styling individual. And awesome. His whole band, the drummer, it's the same band he's had for years. And just so fun. And he was having some technical difficulties and he just kind of kept

owing it up to he's like I'm such a purist and I love the music so much but I will put that aside just to enjoy the moment with you guys right here and we're just going to keep playing Marissa I've seen him a few times over the years and more than once he came out into the crowd kind of like Gavin Rossdale did at MMRBQ did Lenny come out

So unfortunately not this time. The stage itself doesn't really lend it. It was just a stage in the middle of the field. But I'd seen him at the Man before and he walked along that like there's like these boxes in between and the outside. And then the last time he played the Met, he climbed up into one of those boxes and performed from one of those and kind of ran around that area.

So he still does hold that up, but this one, unfortunately, didn't lend it to itself. Didn't lend it to that. It's cool, though. So they came back. They pulled it back. Yeah. No, it was amazing. And just like the vibe of the Roots Picnic is great. The fashion is awesome. People look incredible. I saw...

our friend Alex Holly. She says hello to all of you guys. I saw Big Dom there. I think probably some Eagles players were heading out to the show. Speaking of the fashion, I saw a video of a gal who was going to the Roots Pick me and she had this really cool denim outfit and it was

I know this is an odd little fashion trend, but one long leg pants and one short. And yeah, it was really cool. Yeah, like cutouts and all. I'm really in now with denim. Wow. But more things going on. My niece got baptized. I never told you guys. I had a niece and she was born on my birthday. Wow. So.

Coincidence? Yes. So you had the baptism this weekend too? Yeah, the baptism was this weekend, was yesterday. Oh man, I wish I would have told you that. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding story so you would have laughed at that too. During this...

It sounds like we all had a bunch going on this week. Did you get in anything, Steve? Well, there's Vampire Weekend. So my wife went to that. And then we had a dinner thing, which was nice. But it was low-key. And then my wife had about five migraines.

So, yeah. Not fun. Yeah, it was a little less wonderful, but yeah. Yeah. All right, well, hopefully, hopefully, everybody had a halfway decent weekend. We're headed into, I know we had the nasty rain, which caused some problems for a lot of people's plans over the weekend, but it is going to turn warmer and sunnier this week, like getting up by Thursday, like 90 degrees. So we had

We dive straight into summer. Yeah. Listen, I do like a little bit of the chill now and then. So it made this weekend so nice. Besides the crappy rainy weather. So hopefully, you know, we go back and forth a little bit and don't, you know, lock into the 90s. I hope so. Yeah. As well. Yeah.

Nice transition would be nice, but we'll see what we get. Listen, just to have, I was saying in the commercial break, to have a week of sun is going to be such a wonderful departure because I'm done. I'm done with it. It will be revitalizing for sure. All right, why don't we take a quick break, come back in a moment. A reminder that Perk Hillman Valley High School is up next for coolest teacher of the year. So if you go to school at Perk, then you need to text word teacher to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the voting link. Coming back in a moment. Stay with us, please.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. I saw this interesting story. It's a woman who posted a video on TikTok. And I would like for people to contribute to this conversation if you have something that maybe might fall into this realm. So a woman named Molly Brant, his mother of a two-year-old, recently asked parents to admit their most unhinged white lie ever.

that you have told your two and a half year old. And we'll just take any toddler that you have to, you know, fudge some facts about something over. She said, but she wants, she's running out of ideas. And so she wants some better white lies that she can tell. There's some examples here. And of course we can, you know, share some of our own that either we have told our kids or our parents ended up telling us.

And our number is 610-660-9333 if you have some of your favorites. It's funny you should mention this because I was just watching. I think you should leave now, Tim Robinson. And there's a whole segment with Bob Odenkirk where he's in a restaurant and Tim is with his daughter. And come on, finish up. We got to go home now. Can we stop for ice cream? Can we stop for ice cream?

And he goes, Odenkirk is sitting at a table adjacent to him, and he kind of winks at Odenkirk and goes, no, when it gets really cold, the ice cream machines freeze up. Yeah. And so the guy goes, like he winks back and goes, yeah. And then he starts going into this elaborate thing, your dad and I are really good friends. Yeah.

And he keeps winking back and Robinson is looking at him like, you know, they've gone down this slippery slope. And I think this can lend itself to that. So the first one on here is about ice cream. And this parent would tell their child, when the ice cream truck plays music,

it means they're out of ice cream. Yes. Oh, my God. I think we've used that. I don't know if it was us, but I've heard that or used it or both. So the conceit is when you hear the music, they've run out of ice cream. Oh, too bad. Yeah, sorry. Oh, man.

Here's another one that says, I told my daughter that spinach tortellini is green cheese and now she loves it. Spinach tortellini is green cheese. Any lie to get your kid to eat anything, especially when they're a fussy eater, say in between two and five or whatever, you'll just, yeah, you'll come up with anything. Yep. There's another one that says, I let my daughter try black coffee.

And of course she hated it. And now if I don't want to share my food, I tell her it's coffee flavored. My dad, I've said, told this story before that the big thing was I was never a sloppy Joe guy, but my dad loves sloppy Joe's. And so I was a hamburger man or a kid. And he tried to, it's just, it's just hamburgers with the ketchup mushed in. Like, no, it isn't.

So they used to lie to you to try to get you to eat it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Now, I told you guys, this is not telling a kid this, but my buddy Ben and I, we got really high. One time we were like teenagers, and I was sitting there, I was eating these, it was like club crackers or something like that. And I was just, you know, had the munchies, just digging on it. And Ben's like, give me one of those. And I knew that he hated anything with nuts in it. Right, right, right. And I went, no, man, these are nut flavored. You don't want to eat this.

And we sat there in silence as I'm eating for about three minutes. And then he just turns to me. He's like, no, they're not. I'm like, give me one of those, man. I'm serious. Nut flayer, man. You're not going to like them. Hang on. I'm going to go to some calls already. I have John who's joining us. Hey, John, morning.

Good morning, fellows. How are we? Good, buddy. All right, we're talking about a really unhinged or awesome white lie that you would tell the kids. Yeah, so this wasn't mine, but a friend of mine and their kids would go to the boardwalk when they're down the shore, and the kids loved it so much they wanted to go every single day. So they came up with...

Sorry, the boardwalk's closed today. We can't go. The entire boardwalk is closed. Yes, we can't go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I can see something like that taking for a little bit. Yeah, something that's a simple. Until you realize. That's a simple one, but can be quite effective. Yep. That reminds me actually of my friend Dennis and his son in the car. I might have told this on air. Kid frigging love Chuck E. Cheese. Love Chuck E. Cheese. And there was one in particular episode.

And where we were, if we'd go out and do stuff and the kid would come along, it would always be in the vicinity of this goddamn Chuck E. Cheese. So finally, driving along, I want to go to Chuck E. Cheese. And he goes, we can't. I didn't want to tell you this, but it blew up. It blew up. And you could hear like this.

Like the processing coming from the back seat. Like how? No one knows. It just, it blew up. I'm like, how long before you're going to be driving by? Yeah. Because it's right in the neighborhood. Yeah. Good luck with that one. That was a commitment. And you remember the classic one that Kathy used to tell us.

Which was her mom would tell her if they would go by the gumball machine or whatever. And Candy, you know, she would tell them that there were bugs in it. There were bugs in it. You don't want that because there are bugs in it.

I mean, that scars a kid. It does. I mean, but there probably are bugs in there. At some point, perhaps. Yeah. It's usually born of you're in the moment and you don't want to deal with it, correct? Yep. Marissa? What's the ruling on helping somebody you catch in a white lie? Because I did this the other day. I'll tell you what. Okay. I was at the dollar store and a woman had a kid in the cart and...

And she's like, can we go to the toy aisle? And the person who was pushing her said, oh, they don't have a toy aisle here. And the little kid was like, no, I bought slime here. And I kind of turned. I was like, you were here the day they were selling toys. You are so lucky. I jumped in and helped.

All right, and what kind of reaction did you get from the parents? It was too quick. I didn't want to turn around and find out. I just kind of did that and let it slide. I think that's a... Who's this hooker? I think that's a very neighborly thing to do. I'd say that's thumbs up. But now you're part of this web now. Yeah, I did pass him in other aisles. I passed him in the candy aisle, so I felt terrible. The web of lies. Chuck D'Amico, our program director is...

Sauntering into the studio. Good morning, everybody. We have a theme music playing. Is this one that you used or was used on you? It's one that I used that I'm pretty proud of, actually. You know the ASPCA commercials with Sarah McLachlan music? Oh, yes. Yeah. My kids are watching one. They're nine minutes long. My kids are watching one. Yeah.

It's very, very sad. So I told them that the animals in those commercials are just actors. Very good. It just came from nowhere. I'm like, wow, I'm pretty proud of that. You're trying to save them the pain. Yeah. I did that. If you would see a dead animal on the side of the road, I would say that they're sleeping. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, Chuck, free cat. Get well soon. Oh, my God. That's terrible. They're just actors. Here is a text from somebody. It says, the Tooth Fairy didn't stop by because it was raining last night and didn't want to get their wings wet. Yeah. Okay. That's pretty good. That's, yeah. They're just covering their asses at that point. That's exactly what they're doing. Tooth Fairy blew up. It blew up. She blew up. Let me go to...

hang on I need to find out what this one is all about we have is this Christy what line is she on I'm going to try this hi is this Christy yeah hi what's up Christy morning

Huge fan. Oh. Love you guys so much. Thank you. Yeah. So me and my husband are volunteer firefighters in the county out here in Feasterville. And I have a two-year-old and a five-year-old.

And we go to the firehouse all the time. They love playing on the trucks. They want to be firemen when they grow up. And when I don't feel like stopping, I tell them that the fire trucks are sleeping. They need their rest in order to go out and save people the next day. I mean, you don't want people to die, right? So you got to let them sleep. Right. Yeah. And they're in college. Yeah.

No. See, that's a sweet thing. That's like telling that the ASPCA animals are actors. It's a gentle way. You'll outgrow that. I like that. They're just sleeping. Thank you, Christy. Appreciate it. When we wanted a fire truck, that's what we were told. We can't because they're sleeping. I mean, there's also the cover-up.

Yeah. Lie, which is the classic, we took the dog to a farm and to play with other dogs. Shot it there. Shot it there. We hung it. Actually. Yeah, it was a big clothesline. No, that was pulled on me.

Yeah. It was totally pulled on me with our dog that my dad took the dog or it was our cat. I don't remember. We had so many pets throughout the years. But yeah, I remember hearing that they took him to a place where he would be happy. Yeah. And runs around and plays with other animals. At the end of the day, they strangle him. Like we weren't consulting him.

this? Yeah, I know. You know, I mean, it should have been a family decision, right? Yeah, but it's traumatic. God, that episode of Friends when Ross...

Oh, I know that's what parents tell their kids, but mine actually did it. There was a farm. No, they really did. Upstate. That was great. Here are a few more via this article. This one says they told their child we can't watch Baby Shark at bedtime or night because of child labor laws. Laughter

Sure. It's complex enough that they don't understand, but it seems legit. Another one said, every person has their own swear word. So if you hear a grown-up say one, it's theirs, and you can't use it. You have to make up your own words, and then they would make up a nonsensical word as opposed to saying a real curse word. What the F is that? They were thinking that it is exclusive to that particular person. Here's another person that would tell their child,

You can only watch cartoons in cars. That's why they're called car-toons. So to keep it from being on TV all the time. Yeah, that's inventive. Let me go to Rachel next. Hi, Rachel. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you guys for my morning laughter. We're doing what we can. All right, Rachel, is this something you've told one of your kids?

Yeah, my oldest, when he was probably four or five, he didn't like spicy foods. So he would see my husband drinking soda and he would ask for some and we would tell him it was spicy so that he wouldn't want to drink it. That seems like a good deflection. Find out what they don't like and then apply that to whatever food you don't want them to eat. It worked for a while. I assume that was eventually discovered not to be the case, correct? Yeah.

Yeah, eventually, unfortunately. Now, do you have to explain your way out of that or do you just chalk it up to, hey, I was trying to keep you away from soda? No, we told him the truth that we just didn't want him drinking it. He was like, okay. All right, yeah. Maybe you just stick to it. Thanks, Rachel. Appreciate it, yeah. That's spicy. You must have some sort of condition. All right, this one is Mike that we're going to go to next. Let's get him on the line. Hey, Mike, good morning, bud.

Hey, guys. How are you? Good, man. What's up? So, it's not even about me. It's about my uncle. And the lie is just a normal lie that you would tell. So, this is probably 60-something years ago. My uncle's 70 now, right? So...

They were going to go family dinner at, you know, one of the aunts or uncles houses. And he didn't want to go flipping out, throwing a tantrum. Is Uncle Joe going to be there? And his mom, my grandmom, she says, yeah, of course. OK, so they go. Uncle Joe's not there. Right. So he's all annoyed. Well, he's telling us this story like last year.

And he holds a grudge. And he's like, Grandma's a liar. Everything she told me is a lie. And then he starts telling these other stories. And we're like, dude, these are normal things you tell kids to get them to go places or do whatever. But it's bizarre, right? It's like we can't figure it out. So he took it as a sign of a major character flaw.

Yeah, the fact that he remembers that 60-something years later and that, yeah, he's calling her a liar. She died, like, five years ago. And he's, like, always bringing these things up.

That woman lied. She's a freaking liar. Lied all the time. Just came from pissing on her grave. I swear to you, I swear to you, that's how it goes. Wow. All right, so he was burned and never, ever got over it. Thanks, Mike. Oh, my God. The reaction when you find out about this stuff, if you happen to run the...

the duration and not know that what they were telling you was inaccurate. I think when you're an adult, you chuckle or you say, oh, or, you know, when you finally find out, oh, I get it. I understand. To hold a grudge...

Because you went to an event and an uncle who was promised wasn't there over decades is a little weird. All right, here's one via text. It says, we had a hamster that died and it was during COVID. So we told the kids the hamster had COVID and had to be quarantined back at the pet store. That was about five years ago. My nine-year-old asked about it like three weeks ago. She said, does our hamster still have COVID? He's still older.

Yeah, it's long COVID. It's long hamster COVID. It's the worst kind. Hamster COVID. Wow. Let's go next to Lisa. Hi, Lisa. Good morning. Hi, good morning. We're talking about little white lies you may have told kids or have been told to you. I know these stories are cracking me up. I'm over here laughing. I forgot my story. Oh.

It's about my mom. When I was about eight years old, I asked my mom where do babies come from? And she told me

You have to sleep with someone. And I didn't know what that meant. And I immediately thought, oh, my God, I'm having a baby with my cousin, Teresa. My God. You have to sleep with someone. Well, that's still pretty candid. Do you think that she figured you wouldn't know what was meant by that? And so she could kind of slip it on through there?

I don't know what she thought, but I honestly thought that you physically sleep with them. They just sleep in the same bed. And I'm knocked up. Yeah. I'm knocked up. I got to drop out of the third grade. Lisa, do you remember the moment it dawned on you when you realized that they weren't the same thing?

Probably like the following summer when I started telling my friends this, who had older brothers and sisters, and were like, no. Yep, yep, I know what you mean. And so they told me. Thank you. That's pretty funny. Appreciate it, Lisa. Yeah, if you were told one of these things, and I can't remember specifics, but I know it's happened in my life, where I would repeat that to a friend, and they'd be like,

What are you talking about? And then you feel like an a-hole. My good friend growing up, his mother, and this isn't like she was lied to, but she was the old belief that the animals would genuflect on Christmas Eve in the manger. She'd had two kids at that point, suburban housewife.

And she believed the animals were going to genuflect. You know, that all the animals would kneel in the barns all around the world. I was like, nah. I will go next to Joe, who's joining us on the phone. Hi, Joe. You're on the air. Good morning, bud. Hey, good morning, guys. So you got a white lie that you would tell? Yeah, so I took my son to his first Phillies game when he was probably three or four years old.

And I was hoping to get him through, I don't know, maybe four innings of the game. And I also knew that as soon as I got him ice cream and a little helmet, that he'd be done and stop paying attention to the game. So the game was to see how long I could prevent buying him ice cream and helmet. So we went up to get a hot dog and pretzel or whatever, and he saw ice cream, one ice cream immediately. So I told him, I looked at the...

the light, the power light on the front of it. I said, well, the ice cream's not ready until that red light goes out. How long does that light stay on?

I asked the manager and they said they were going to text me as soon as the light goes out. Otherwise, he'd be asking every five minutes if the light was out yet. Meanwhile, the kid sees the guy over there pulling the handle, pouring the ice cream on it. What about that, Dad?

Oh, we lost him. Yeah. Sorry about that. Yeah. And it's funny because, you know, you have this you have this moment that you can you can try to explain it to your children.

Exactly. Truthfully. Be honest with them. But it's pretty, it's kind of hard to do that sometimes. They won't understand. And I have not, I've dealt with this peripherally, but it seems the plight of every parent, the constant interrogation when they're at a certain age, you know, the question and the repeating of the question. And I think even the best parent at a certain point has to say, it blew up. Yeah, it just exploded. Yeah.

They all died. They're not anymore. Your hamster has COVID. Shut up. That's my favorite one. Here's another text that says just a couple of weeks ago, my four-year-old grandson wanted to go to McDonald's. I told him McDonald's was closed because...

A fat kid came in and ate all the hamburgers and McNuggets so they wouldn't be open for two days. Wow. That kid sucked away a lot. He said the funny thing was a few hours later while we're at Walmart, we see an overweight little boy about 10 years old and my grandson pointed out and asked me to pop up.

Or you asked me, I guess pop-up news, we're just trying to say, is that the fat kid that ate all the food at McDonald's? Oh, man. Some fat kid came in and ate everything. I mean, it's great for McDonald's sales-wise, but we're SOL. Sucks for the customer. Yeah. All right, this one is actually not bad. We'll go to, actually trying to pull this one off. Hi, Marissa, you're on the air. Good morning.

Good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you, Marissa. All right, what is this little white lie?

So my husband's best friend growing up, his parents told him that he was allergic to tobacco. So he wouldn't try cigarettes. And he believed them until he was, I want to say he was over 18 or 19 years old. Until he like actually believed that he was not actually. Listen, that is, that's pretty good. But it is, I mean, in a perfect world. I mean, I have a two-year-old, so I've got a long time until then. But I think I might have to use that lie when she gets older.

Well, you know, think of all the things that have been told that are similar to you'll go blind. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Those are preventative. Yeah. Those are things that are, you know. I was told my brain would cave in if I picked my nose. Thanks, Rosa. Yeah. Yeah. And like the whole swallowing gum thing that stays in your body for seven years. I was always told that it stuck to your heart. Or you'll get stuck if you're docking, you know? Oh, yeah.

Excuse me? Yeah. We need to stop this right now. Yeah, son. All right. Now you have to talk with everyone on your gym class. No, I like the allergy one. That's not bad. That is so. Yeah. Where do you stand on you're doing? It's benign. It's a well-intentioned thing to keep them from it.

But you are telling a lie. You are telling a lie, and I'm wondering what the deeper ramifications of that might be down the road. I'm sure a therapist or a psychiatrist or a psychologist would tell you, don't do that, be honest. But I don't know, man. Sometimes, Steve, it blew up. I mean, you know. That's what happened. It blew up. Stop asking me. Hamster Day. Really? Really?

No, he's not. Your hamster blew up. Here's COVID. The pet store blew up. No one saw it coming. Hang on. I'm going to go to... Well, that's the whole pet store. The hamster COVID wing. Let me go to Michelle. Good morning, Michelle.

Good morning. This is my sister. And when her boys were little, they were down the shore on the boardwalk. And the boys were all like, oh, look, free hermit crabs. Let's get one. And my sister did not want to deal with it. So, you know, deal with the hermit crabs. So she said, oh, the hermit crabs are free, but the cage costs $100. I hate it.

And the boys were like, $100? And she said, it's too much. We just can't get one. Yeah. So they gave away free hermit crabs? Was that the deal? I don't know. Were they giving them away, Michelle? Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Because you can find it right out on the sand. I think they might still do it if you buy that cage. Okay, interesting. Thank you for the $100 cage. A hermit crab cage. I've never seen... It's like a fish cage. I've never seen hermit crabs in the wild out there. Not thundering across the prairies? No. Listen. Nick, when we stay...

When we stayed in St. John, and you stayed at the same place, Gallows Resort, like at night, if you were not careful where you were walking, you would step on them, man. Really? With the shells and everything. Yeah, there's a trail north of there in the National Park President that goes down to the beach. And Steve, there are so many hermit crabs that work their way downhill towards where the beach is. This was during the day.

that you can hear them clicking. Like, it's an audible, loud thing. And that was the first time I'd ever experienced anything like that. But yeah, north of town, Cruise Bay in St. John, the most hermit crabs I've ever seen in my entire life. Where is it? Not to go off on a tangent here, but it's the place where they have those very large crabs with the... The coconut crabs. Coconut crabs. Oh, Christmas Island? And they migrate. Yeah. And they're everywhere. Yeah, I think it's Christmas Island in the...

somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Those things are huge. They had, I saw one up close and personal at Adventure Aquarium one time. We were taking a, like a behind the scenes tour. Yeah.

they're terrified well and they're coconut crabs because they can open a coconut get their claws actually crack open a coconut and that's hard to do man all right uh back to these stories uh let me see all right let me go there are no coconuts the crabs got i'm gonna go to jennifer next hi jennifer good morning

Good morning. Hey, so... This is actually my father. Oh. Him and my mom would always take their grandkids down to North Wildwood on the weekends to the beach. There would probably be about five or six of them, ranging from the ages of five to six. And my father would tell them they can't go to the beach yet because he hasn't had time to fill it up with the hose. Oh, my God.

And it was time to go to the boardwalk. He says, I have the keys. Don't worry. I'll open up the boardwalk when it's time. So he was opening the boardwalk and he was filling the ocean with water.

Yes. Wow. I haven't had time to turn the hose yet, so we can't go. That's pretty good. He just sat there patiently and believed him. They also, my one nephew also was told by my father that Stone Harbor was France. What's the intent? Stone Harbor was France. Why that lie? It was just because he was always amazed by, you know, hey, Papa, what's over there? Because...

Back then, it was a pretty good distance from First Street all the way over to Stone Harbor. You could see the lights. And it was really cute because when my father passed away, that was part of the eulogy was how the kids just believed that he filled the ocean with a hose and he had the keyhole.

I could see, though, again, when you're being constantly peppered with questions by a kid, that you would start to just reel off information just to give them something. And if Stone Harbor has to be France for a day, then it will be. I like that one. Yeah. That's hilarious. It's pretty cool. Thanks, Jennifer. I appreciate it. That's just lying. That's just lying for fun. I love your grandmother. A couple more of these, and I love your grandmother. I just said it. I don't, but I said it.

I got a couple more I read and then we're going to have to take a break. Here from this list that I had come across, this lie was, Elmo is napping, the park is napping, the pool is napping, everybody is napping. She said it works for now if you use that. Another person said, I use Google Translate English to English and type something like, the park is closed today due to a fire. And then I will play it...

And then I will play it so Siri says it out loud. Using high tech. And tell my daughter, I'm calling the park to see if it's open. And then she will play that right back. Wow, man. That is next level subterfuge. And then this last one on the list is, I told my daughter our family dog went on vacation to the beach and sent back sand as a gift. He actually died and those are his ashes. Oh, man. Wow.

That's harsh. All right, so this was, yeah, mom on TikTok needed some fresh little white lies to tell the kids in a pinch, in moments where you just, it's easier than telling them the truth about why we can't do this or why you can't have that or whatever it may be. Yeah, some of them were genuinely sweet, like with Chuck's

You know, trying to protect his kids from the notion that the animals featured in the ASPCA ad are abused or neglected. Yeah. They're actors. Because it's a lot. Listen, me as an adult, and we do, you know, my wife does so much animal charity work and we're involved with all that. I figure I've earned the right to click away for a few minutes on the goddamn never-ending commercial. Yep. Yep. Yep.

All right. Well, anyhow, thank you for the calls. Thank you for the texts. We appreciate it. We do have to take a break. So that's what we're going to do right now when we return some more bizarre file stories. I think you'll like these. Coming back in a moment. WMMR.com. Your one stop for everything you need to know about WMMR, including our new phone number. So you can copy and paste it into your phone. No pen required. Because we care. Well, that and Jackie chews all our pens.

Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Now, WMMR presents Preston and Steve's Bizarre File. All right, we're going to start with this one for you. A man was left battling for his life after a python died.

bit him in his genitals while he was using the bathroom, causing severe blood loss. Oh, my balls! The man, his name is Athaporn Boonmachue. He was ambushed by the massive snake in the bathroom of his home east of Bangkok in Thailand. Man! And reports suggest that he felt a sudden sharp pain and reached down only to discover the python's jaws clamped onto his manhood. Oh, my balls!

Man, I'm better hung than I thought. In a state of panic.

Atherporn shouted for his wife and wrestled to free himself from the 11-foot-long beast. 11 feet. Before passing out, he managed to tie a rope around the snake's head and secure it to the bathroom door to stop it from slithering away. And all the while, it's clamped onto his junk. I think he got it off of there at this point. So emergency services were quick on the scene and rushed him to the hospital where he received treatment for significant blood loss.

Video footage from the scene shows rescue teams working to remove the python from the toilet's plumbing, even resorting to hammers to dismantle parts of the system. The snake was eventually captured, bagged securely, and then later released back into the wild. Casey, they let it go. Good. That is no way to live, though. Are you going to take a leak and a snake bite your balls? Yep.

Officials think the python made its way into the house by swimming up through the pipes. Meanwhile, a woman in Thailand had her own hair-raising encounter with a 14-foot-long python that emerged from her toilet while she was using it. She wins. Narareet Srinampong managed to jump off the toilet just in time after spotting the enormous snake's narrowly... Vagina! ...avoiding injury. Yeah, no. It wasn't going for vagina.

In Florida, surveillance video showed a man assaulting two Transportation Security Administration officers in a late December incident at Miami International Airport. There's an interesting story behind this. According to authorities, and the video is wild. The dude's just going crazy at the checkpoint. According to the authorities, it happened a day after Cameron Dylan McDougal of Toronto had

had been kicked off of a flight. So the video shows a man who authorities identify as McDougal swinging at another officer before another interviews and McDougal falls backwards onto the ground. Now McDougal

Pleaded guilty in federal court on two accounts of assaulting, resisting, and impeding certain officers or employees. He faces up to a year in prison on each count. He was only in South Florida because of his actions on a flight between Panama and Canada. Authorities said he physically struck another passenger in the middle of a flight from Panama to Toronto, prompting the pilot to divert the flight to Miami. Now, he was removed from the flight. He was not arrested. He was told he could book a separate flight to Toronto.

to Toronto on another airline. That led to him buying a ticket on an Air Canada flight from Miami to Toronto the next day. And as...

He was at the airport to take that flight. Authorities say he cleared security and then, without warning, randomly hit another passenger. It's like 6.30 in the morning and it was right after he went through security. He just went nuts. It was arching the footage. There's no reason. Yeah, prosecutors said he then struck an airport security guard who tried to intervene and then...

Went back to the security screening area and threw three punches at a TSA supervisor who dodged the bows. Another officer intervened. He then fell to the ground and the second officer tried holding him down. And he hit the second officer in the face at least three times. I don't like the look of your neck pillow. Yeah, he was arrested soon after by officers and is scheduled to be sentenced in Miami Federal Court. But he just went crazy for whatever reason. Wow. A woman claims, now listen to this.

That she has been battling an infection for seven years, which was brought on because her ex-boyfriend farted in her face. So Christine McConnell is a travel influencer and shares many of her adventurous snaps with her 78,000 followers on Instagram. Going anywhere from hot sandy beaches to snowy mountains that she's climbed.

And she's battling a number of health issues. And she thinks it all goes back to a passing action that took place in a hotel room seven years ago. He falsified my face. Exactly. Is that what happened? She spoke about her ex-boyfriend and how he got the ultimate breakup revenge on her. She explained that...

She'd had a stuffy nose and facial pain since the incident, which happened after she had ankle surgery. Oh, so that happened after. He wasn't trying to help her get rid of it by farting in her face. So immobile and laying in bed, her boyfriend at the time, she said farted terribly to the point where she couldn't breathe as a result of the stink. Wow. While it was something gross to experience, she didn't see it as having a long-term effect on her life until a culture sample was taken from her nose.

She said that she was also dealing with thick green snot and a fever with her symptoms, prompting her to have a number of tests and scans in an attempt to figure it out. Is that in any way medically possible?

Possible? Numerous medical professionals couldn't work out the cause of her infection, but she finally announced the results of her culture test in a video, and she said it was E. coli. Now, E. coli is a group of bacteria that lives in the gut and doesn't cause harm, though certain strains can cause gut and urinary tract infections. Infections take place when you ingest bacteria from poop.

I can contaminate food, drink surfaces and not washing your hands thoroughly enough after going to the bathroom. In a follow up, she clarified that it happened while he was changing with her lying on the bed, her ankle elevated. She said his butt was facing me and that is when the fart happened.

Though she also said that it was not intentional and that she was just in the path of the fart. Now, she suggested that her immune system may have been focused on healing her ankle and that if she was healthy, it might not have happened. And also when...

She said, when I say it was the worst fart I've ever smelled in my life, I truly mean it. So the ankle damage led to her immune system not being able to battle the fart. This is what she thinks. And she's just off the cuff coming up with this. But she had tested. They found positive E. coli in her nasal passages. They found little pieces of corn in her brain. So I don't know, but it's...

Wow. What she's come up with. Well, it's that seems like it's remotely legit. Maybe. I'm not really sure. So just definitely worth passing along, though. All right. And then finally, one last story. This one's messed up. New York City Police Department is searching for a woman who stabbed a photographer in the back after he accidentally took a picture of her. The NYPD has released surveillance photos and video of the female suspect. These 36 year old photographer was shooting pictures in front of the restaurant and nightclub Sounds of Brazil.

And the unnamed photographer accidentally took a picture of the woman as he was shooting the images of the restaurant for social media. And when the woman notices, she approached the photographer and got into a verbal altercation with him. The disagreement escalated and the woman allegedly hit him with a closed fist. And then she pulled out a pair of scissors and stabbed him in the back. Oh, wow.

The woman fled the scene. She walked south, entering a nearby subway station. The photographer refused medical attention. I think if you're out in public and someone takes a picture of you, that's legal. So authorities are now looking for a woman with a light complexion, wearing black shoes, black jacket, and carrying a black bag. And that's kind of all they have to go on. So we'll see. I don't think there's any law that allows you to stab them with scissors. Yeah, I don't think so. But we'll have to check the statutes and make sure. But there you go. That's what I have.

in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right, we got stuff to give away with the lesson question. When we return, we'll find out what that is and we'll see if you've been paying attention this morning. Trash Music News up to. We'll be right back.

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Sydney Sweeney finally confirming that she is no longer planning to wed restaurateur Jonathan DeVino, saying the two have split up. The news had an immediate effect on the market, causing boners to skyrocket. And finally, despite saying Johnny Depp stopped her from getting a role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Corey Feldman says he would still love to work with Depp if the opportunity presented itself. Depp responded saying Feldman would be perfect for his new movie titled Captain Jack Sparrow and the Chronically Delusional Loser. Wow.

All right. We're looking for an answer to the question and we need to know what Bob, I'm sorry, the Bob Seger song Against the Wind was originally about what kind of ships. And we are going to check in with Cody and see if we can get that answer. Hi, Cody, you're on the air. Good morning.

Good chicken it. Good chicken it to you. All right. Wait, what is my response? Oh, good chicken to see you. There you go. All right, Cody, what kind of ships was against the wind about? Viking ships. Viking ships.

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All right, a couple stories pass along. We'll begin with about the Roots picnic, in case you did not hear about this. If you went, then you know. But if not, some concertgoers were not able to enter the Mann Center until the evening. Questlove cited festival ground safety conditions after Friday's heavy rains as the reason for the delay. He had posted on Instagram early Sunday morning that he's aware that Saturday wasn't ideal. I was reading an article that some people...

You know, waited till, well, the gates didn't open till 2, 2.30 and the lines sometimes didn't start moving till like 3.30. It was supposed to start way early in that 10, you know, 11 a.m. something along those lines. Oh, I'm sorry, the opening was at 1. So they pushed it back several hours and it wasn't ideal. The conditions in the man were so bad because Friday night's heavy rain that organizers considered canceling the event over safety concerns.

But instead, he said, Questlove said, we chose to take extra time to repair the site to ensure safety for all ticket holders.

and showtimes were revised to accommodate a three-hour delay. It seems they did the best they could because apparently it was an absolute mess. I think part of the frustration was that it was not being communicated very well to the crowd of what the issue was and why it was taking so long. And when you have that happen, people just get angry. Yeah. You know, so... And they admitted that, I mean, but it was...

you're in the moment it's a lot to handle yep in response to a request for comment the event organizers had directed people to a statement posted on the roots picnic instagram and said we would like to say sorry please understand safety will always be our number one priority we worked hard to make sure that every artist still got on stage and extended the festival hours so all could perform without violating city noise curfews uh and so they did gates opened

And they got people in and it was a better experience on Sunday from what I understand. And Marissa was there and said she had a great time.

Canadian rock band Finger Eleven finished their first new album in 10 years, mind you. What? 10 years? Yeah. 10 years, man! 10! Called Last Night on Earth. Guitarist James Black shared in an interview that the album is complete and will be released through their new label, Better Noise Music.

uh their latest single adrenaline uh has a lot of energy which excited lead singer scott anderson because he says it kept its spark from the demo to the final version uh the band originally from burlington ontario and now mostly based in toronto uh took their time to record the album using the long gap since uh since their last record five crooked lines in 2015 god uh

to look at their songs with fresh eyes, they said. But that is a long way. That's a long time, yeah. Yep. All right, and finally, just one more story.

Alf Clausen, the Emmy-winning composer whose music provided essential accompaniment for the animated antics of The Simpsons for 27 years, has passed away. His daughter, Karen, said that Alf died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles after struggling with Parkinson's. Clausen, who also scored TV series including Moonlighting and Alf...

No relation. Alf works on Alf. Yep. That's great. Was nominated for 30 Emmy Awards, 21 of them for The Simpsons, winning twice. Al Jean, an early Simpsons writer, who was one of the key creative figures on the show in the 1990s, said in a post Friday that Clausen was an incredibly talented man who did so much for The Simpsons.

While Denny Elfman wrote the show's theme song, Clausen joined the Fox animated series created by Matt Groening in 1990 and provided essentially all of its music until 2017, composing nearly 600 scores. Yeah. And conducting the 35-piece orchestra that played it in the studio. Yeah, Elfman just did the theme. His colleagues said his music was a key component of the show's comedy, but...

But Clausen believed the best way to back up the gags of Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa were making the music as straight as possible. He said this is a dream job for a composer back in 1998. He said, Matt Groening said to me very early on, we're not a cartoon. We're a drama where the characters are drawn. I want you to score it like a drama. I score the emotions of the characters as opposed to specific action hits on the screen.

In a 1996 interview, Groening called him one of the unacknowledged treasures of the show. Clausen was born in Minneapolis. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1966, moved to L.A. seeking a career in music in the 1970s. He was a musical director on several TV variety shows, including Donny and Marie, and worked as an orchestrator for composer Lee Holdridge in his scores for the films Splash and Beastmaster. I love Beastmaster. As well. Ah!

But he did all kinds of stuff. And so, yeah. Donny Marie. Long career. Yeah. Alf Clausen. And he was 84 years old. And there you go. That's what I have in music news for you this morning. All right. Hey. One of our interns is leaving. We got to say goodbye to somebody. And we would like to welcome intern Colin to the microphone. Oh, Colin.

You're leaving us. I know. It's a shame. I'm probably going to cry on the way home today. Or sneeze a lot. You have a cold. Yeah, just getting over a cold. It's okay. It's okay. Well, we just had you on to talk about your reaction to the Keenan's experience.

And which kind of, you know, rocked your world a bit. But now you're leaving us right after. I know. How long have you been here? When did you start? I think it was January 9th was my first day. Okay. That was like a Thursday. Came in the end of that week. Where are you going to school and what year are you? So I went to Kutztown University. I just graduated a few weeks ago. Yeah!

Magnum Collade. Really? Yeah, I think. I don't know what my GPA is. Did you say, I think? No, I think my GPA is... I think he's Magnum Collade. I think my GPA is like a 3.7, 3.8. Nice. Because I don't know if the internship went in yet for my grade. Will that help boost it? Yes, definitely. Then you could be dean of the school. This counted. I didn't have to take any classes. This counted for the whole thing. Wow.

in my book. Yeah!

That's great. Definitely. Yeah. Definitely. What was your major? Cinema, television, and media production. Oh, okay. Production side of things. Yes. So, you know, it covers everything. I got the pleasure to work on a lot of films at school and outside of school, like Dan Roebuck, who was here to promote St. Nick at Bethlehem. I was a production assistant on that. I got to work with him on that. No kidding. Yeah, and it was, I think...

the month leading up coming here, my mom told me that he was on the show. And I was like, oh, yeah.

S-H-I-T. You can't say that, young man. I am so sorry. You're in a lot of trouble. You son of a bitch. You could say that. I didn't know what the... Oh, you know. Bringing that potty mouth to this show. All right. So what's next? What's the next move? So, you know, I'm still looking for jobs. I've been applying everywhere and anywhere. Have you been cursing on those interviews? Yeah.

No, I'm not. Well, you did your own film and you've done your experience with radio and so on and so forth. Would you have any idea where you would really like to focus?

Keep the production side. Anywhere live. Broadcasting, television, sports, anything like that. Anybody that's listening. Listen, Colin's a hard worker. He's definitely a hard worker and he's been an asset to the program. We appreciate all that you've done. Have you had a good time here? Oh my god, yes. This has been the best job I've ever had. Sorry.

Yeah, I've been listening to you guys forever. My parents would throw you on when driving me and my brother to school. There you go. I know your mom and dad are big fans. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They've been listening since Y100, since they've been in college. It's a family thing. We appreciate it. Listen, we all pitched in and we got you a WMMR presidency slap koozie. Oh, thanks so much. Perfect going away again. Never forget us. Keep that forever. Is there a particular moment that stands out?

Kenan's for sure. Kenan's, okay. I mean, nothing will beat that. That was so much fun. Cardboard Classic, that was awesome. That was my first event, I believe. And I'm so glad I got to do Kathy's Cuts before she left. That was awesome. Nice.

Yeah. All right. Well, listen, man, we wish you luck. Let us know if we can help you down the road and feel free to stop in any time. All right. Yeah, of course. Thanks for all the help. All right. Thank you. Good luck. What's your last name? Lawville. Lawville. Yes. All right. Colin Lawville. He's going to do big things. I think so. All right. We're going to take a break and we're going to wrap things up when we return. We'll get that letter today for the word of the week prize. Make sure you stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Fighters of Boo on 93.3 WMMR. It's everything that rocks. The Pretender rapping is a great song to end on. It's Monday morning, 10.36 a.m. Comfy today, 75 degrees, a high temperature, just right in the zone with sunny skies. And it turns to summer.

Over the next couple of days, tomorrow, sunny in 84. Wednesday, sunny in 89. Thursday, sunny in like 91, 92 degrees. Friday is going to be close to 90 as well. So here it comes, folks. The question is the humidity. That's always the issue. Yep. What are we looking at? The multiplier. I don't know. I'm not really sure. We'll see how that plays out. But our first taste of really, really warm for the year. So maybe you like it. Some people love that type of thing.

I want to thank you for being a part of the program today. Don't have any guests to thank. It was just us hanging out, but we would like to welcome Mr. Ryan Shuttleworth. Hello, hello. Nice to see you, sir. Great to be seen. The weather is all over the place. I was up in Scranton at Montage Mountain on Saturday, and I completely forgot that it gets colder up on a mountain, and being in just a t-shirt in 40-degree weather sucks. We didn't plan, did we? No, we did not, but it's amazing what beer and good music can do for you. It warms the body right.

Where are we doing a montage? Coed in Cambria was in town, so I went up to see those guys. We like those guys, Harry. They've been on the show a few times. We love them. Wonderful, wonderful guys. Excellent. All right, well, all we need is a letter of the day and to find out what's going on with you. But do you got a letter? I can provide. Here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

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