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And it's time to get started. Welcome and midweek has fallen upon us, friend. Let's see how we're going to fare in the weather. I think you already know, but we'll share it anyway. It's going to be warm today. A little bit hot this week, as we've told you. High of 88 with ample sunshine. Pretty much the same thing tomorrow.

And Friday, Saturday, now calling for a chance frame. Huh? A little bit cooler. High of about 78 degrees and a few showers expected on Sunday as well. With the highs starting to level off again with about 74 where we're going to top out at. So things are changing, but it's going to be warm over the next couple of days. And now, Kristen and Steve's news update.

Today is Wednesday. It is June 4th. Beginning with this story. Good morning, by the way. People in the Philadelphia area who are sensitive to poor quality air should take precautions today. Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada will help raise levels of ozone over the region. It is a code orange day for ozone in Bucks County, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, according to Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection.

Warning means air quality will be unhealthy for sensitive groups, including young children, older adults, and people with lung conditions such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and chronic pulmonary disease. Ozone can inflame airways and aggravate respiratory issues, causing coughing,

wheezing and shortness of breath and it can also cause more frequent asthma attacks so i haven't i don't have any sensitivities like that no but this morning and uh day before yesterday i had like a couple of coughing fits that are very um out of character for me i don't know if it's that or not but it has happened a couple times i did notice

Last night and the night before, more specifically, I saw that kind of bronze hue around sunset. So I knew where it was coming from. Is the Canadian fire thing now the new normal? We're going to get wildfires every season? Well, it's been two years since the last one happened.

You could see that. And you could smell it. You could smell it. It smelled like a barbecue going on all the time. People in sensitive groups should limit their activity outside. Two years ago, wildfire smoke blanketed the Philadelphia region, temporarily sending the city's air quality index into the hazardous range. The elevated levels of particle pollution in 2023 likely drove a drop in the city's air quality rating from a lung health organization this spring.

Last night, a police chase ended in a deadly crash in Limerick, Montgomery County. It happened a little after 9 p.m. along the 300 block of Ridge Pike. Investigators say officers were chasing three people inside a vehicle following a theft at a nearby Target.

At some point during the pursuit, the suspect lost control of the car and crashed just outside of a home. Police reported that at least one person in the car is dead, but there was no word on the conditions of the other two people that were inside. No officers were hurt in that incident.

And then finally, Lincoln National, which is based in Radnor and is also known as Lincoln Financial Group, rose 126 spots on the Fortune 500 rankings in 2025 to 2028, the third largest jump on the entire national list.

Lincoln National had a nearly 60% increase in revenue to $18.4 billion. The annual Fortune 500 list ranks America's largest public companies by revenue. In 2025, nine Philadelphia-area companies made the list. Lincoln Financial, which is also the namesake of the Eagle Stadium, is the third highest-ranked greater Philadelphia company on the list, and that is behind Comcast, by the way.

which ranked 35th, and Sankora in Conchahonkin, which is 10th on the list. Philadelphia-based Rite Aid is off the Fortune 500 list after ranking number 171 last year. I didn't know that Rite Aid was Philadelphia-based. Me neither. Neither did I. Yeah.

Apparently a lot of business home offices are located in Conchahokan. I didn't realize how many were like national companies. For some reason, Conchahokan is a big draw. Yeah, Maddox is down there.

And so Sencora is number 10 on the list. I'm not familiar with Sencora. No, I don't. But it's in Conchie and it's ranked number 10. It's a health care company. All right, in sports this morning. Ball sacks are yelping. Ball sacks are yelping. Ball sacks are yelping.

What the f*** is that? It's a healthcare company and a pharmaceutical company. The Phillies got back in the winning column last night after an 8-3 win over the Blue Jays in Toronto. They did it! Bryce Harper homered in his first at-bat following a five-game absence. Trey Turner hit two home runs, and the Phillies scored six runs in the first inning on their way to the win. Harper was back in action after being sidelined with a bruised right elbow after being hit by a pitch last week against the Braves.

Christopher Sanchez allowed only one run over six innings and improved to 5-1 on the season. The series in Toronto continues tonight. Mick Abel will get the start, and the first pitch is scheduled for 7-0-7. The Flyers have signed forward Noah Cates to a four-year contract extension

worth $16 million. Flyers general manager Danny Breer announced the extension yesterday. Cates scored 16 goals and had 37 points in 78 games last season. He was drafted by the Flyers in the fifth round in 2017 and has played 235 career NHL games with 40 career goals, 62 assists, and 102 points.

The 26-year-old forward made his NHL debut on March 29, 2022, in his home state of Minnesota. Scored his first NHL goal on April 5 of that year against the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Stanley Cup Finals will begin tonight with Game 1 in Edmonton as the Oilers and the Florida Panthers will face each other for the second year in a row. The football drop at 8 o'clock in Game 1 of the NBA Finals begins tomorrow night between the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City. Tip-off in OKC will be at 8.30. 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. Bye. Bye. Bye.

Welcome to Wednesday, everybody. We are working our way towards No Sad Bro, and we're getting there. We are getting there. We have Fox Good Day to do today, so we'll check in with those guys around 7.55 or so. We're also going to be revealing the look of our, I believe for presidency, 2025 t-shirt today. Very exciting. I think the most often seen in public television.

Preston and Steve shirts tend to be the blood drive shirts. Yeah, people hang on to them. We have unique designs every year. And this one, listener generated. So we'll tell you more about that later on this morning. We'll do that after 7 o'clock. And guest-wise, we have Matt McCusker who is going to be joining us. He is going to be performing at the Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City on August 16th.

And that's a Saturday. And tickets are on sale now for that. So it's called the American Teenist Tour. And so Matt is going to be checking in with us around 9 o'clock this morning. So we'll talk to him. Outside of that, we got a cool teacher to announce. So yesterday we put the word out to Gwinnett Mercy students to text in and let us know who they thought the coolest teacher of the past year has been. And we've got that person right here.

And I'm going to make this announcement. We only have two more schools to draw and then we're done for the year. So congratulations to Katrina Koffel. So Katrina Koffel at Gwinnett Mercy teaches social studies and history. And then I haven't had a chance to read this yet. Marissa just handed me...

Her bio from the school itself. And she has a Master's of Education at Gwinnett Mercy University. And she went to Eastern University as well. And she has a Bachelor of Arts there. I was always a social studies fan. She said, my ideal work is anything involving working with education. I've worked with infants to high schoolers in varying areas of babysitting after school. Homework helps substitute teaching and coaching volleyball. Okay.

So she's doing great. I imagine she's going to be pretty happy with this acknowledgement. So if you know Ms. Koffel, tell her to give us a call this morning. And we'll have a little chat with her and see what's going on. And obviously give her the prize. Yes. Give her a $50 Dunkin' gift card. And the coolest teacher there, Coffee Mug from the Preston and Steve show. All right. Now Steve is going to draw.

A new name for us for tomorrow. Just the way Casey does Preston, making sure I stir everything up. Giving everybody a solid chance at this. And the school I have selected is Shawnee High School in Medford. Shawnee High School in Medford, New Jersey. All right, Shawnee High School.

Here's what you got to do. It's very, very simple. You have to text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. We send you a voting link and then you fill that out with the teacher's name. And then we will compile the votes. And tomorrow morning we'll make an announcement. We'll let you know who the winner is and they'll get the prizes on top of that. So if you go to Shawnee High School in Medford.

Make sure you let the gang know. Let the staff know about this. Get the word out and vote because you only get 24 hours and that is it. And hopefully we'll have a chance to chat with whomever you choose tomorrow. So Shawnee High School, text the word teacher to 610-660-9333 and we'll find out tomorrow who's the winner.

Two things about that high school. Calista Flockhart went there. And I believe back in the 80s when MMR had a contest for a band to play at a high school and the band was the Hooters, you had to send in a bajillion postcards. I think Shawnee won that. Okay. We'll have to check on that. Go ahead. Did Jackie Bam Bam go there or did he go to Lenape? Don't know. Yeah. I'm going to go find out.

I know that I've broken my streak of picking schools that don't exist. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Nice job. All right. So welcome. And we're going to get ourselves set for the stupid question and entertainment report, which is on the way. And we'll just dive through this toasty warm summer day, which, by the way, later in the day yesterday, as the sun was going down, it was so pleasant. It was so wonderful. Wonderful outside. And that's kind of what we're getting. So we've got.

on Monday and my youngest is like, oh my God, it's going to be 80 something degrees. You know, it's going to be so hot in that gown. Yeah. As we were saying, we went to the senior awards last night and as we were stepping outside, I'm like, well, this is what it's going to be like graduation. It's going to be really, really nice out. So we do have beautiful weather that we can all enjoy over the next couple of days. We'll come back in a second. The entertainment report, like I said, that's up next. Stupid question. We'll get some stuff away. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, we're going to give away for these stupid questions this morning a pair of tickets for Matt McCusker, who we're going to have on later this morning, the American Teenist Tour, which is going to be taking place in Atlantic City, Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort, and that is on August 16th. So the question is,

I've been a Beatles fan my entire life and have never known the answer to this question. What Beatles song repeats the title in the lyrics 41 times? All right, 610-660-9333. Let's see if you know the answer. I took a guess. I was wrong. I'm going to take a guess. What Beatles song repeats the title in the lyrics 41 times?

610-6609-333. Let's see if you know the answer. Call now. No, Casey. God damn it! One second. I can tell it's wrong because it's not that long. Nope. Wow. We'll go through some birthdays today being the fourth day of June. Actor Keith David

Turns a year older. He's great. In Something About Mary, he plays the dad. Yes. He's in Platoon. He's in The Thing. He was in Men at Work. He's the guy that talks about the french fries. You never take, steal a man's fries. That is a guilty pleasure, that movie. Is it Men at Work? Piece of crap. It is. But a lot of fun. But I agree. There's some moments in it. Bruce Dern. The great Bruce Dern.

Turns 89 years old today. Wow. Brewster plays one of the, well, he sort of just intrinsically comes across as a psycho. Yeah. In the movie Black Sunday. Yeah. He's a top level psycho. Okay. You know what movie I watched a couple of years ago and it holds up? And if you get a moment to watch it, The Burbs.

It's a really terrific, it's a really fun movie. Corey Feldman's finest, one of his finest moments. He's also, Steve, in a couple of Quentin Tarantino films, Django Unchained. Yes. Once upon a time in Hollywood, he's great in those. And one of my favorite, I've told you my favorite Western is Cowboys. Yes, he's a bastard. He's just a jerk, he's evil. He is great in that, he's 89 today. Do you remember a movie called Silent Running?

I know the... They have these big domes in space. No. And he's kind of tending to these gardens in space. And there are these little drones, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, that help him. Oh. It's a cult movie. I love it. Yeah, but he was great in it. Bruce Dern. He played a non-psycho. Oh, he was also nominated, Nick. Pulled up that movie, Nebraska, remember? Yes, with Will Forte. Yeah. We also have Angelina Jolie. It's a big birthday for her today. She turns 50 years old.

So happy birthday to her. Yeah, and she was in the Eternals. And I'll tell you this, she's looking really good these days. Beautiful woman. Happy 50th to her. From Sons of Anarchy, it's Theo Rossi's birthday today. Oh, yeah. He turns 50 as well. That guy's in The Penguin, too. He is. Yeah.

I like that guy. Good character actor. Happy 50th to him. Not that long ago, we had Sean Cassidy on the program. His partner in crime on TV. Well, partner in detective work is Parker Stevenson, and he turns a year older today. He was on the Hardy Boys.

Sean Cassidy. That was a great interview, man. It was awesome. It was terrific. Sean frigging Cassidy. And Parker Stevenson was one of the inspirations for the name for my son, Parker. Oh, really? Yeah. We were like, are there any famous Parkers? Oh, yeah. Parker Stevenson. He was married to Kirstie Alley for a long time. He's 73. Noah Wiley has his birthday. I'm watching The Pit. I had the last episode I need to watch. It's a good show. I finished it. Yeah, you did. Okay. Yeah. I mean-

Listen, it's unbelievable that that amount of stuff would happen during one show. But it's really, really compelling. If you realize that they really sort of accordioned a lot of stuff into a time frame. But all that stuff seems like it's pretty true to form. Like you'd encounter that across a longer period of time. Yeah, no doubt. And who's the blonde in that show? The blonde woman. She is.

Just really, really cute. You go back to ER and know he's got a baby face. He looks like a kid. Absolutely. TJ Miller's birthday is today. Oh, wait. Sorry. Okay, it's all right. You went out of order, Preston. God damn it. All right, well, let me go. No, no, no, no. It's TJ Miller's birthday. Six intrepid friends led by Fred, their leader, Fred.

I'll just leave it at that. Okay. So that was from Big Hero 6. And obviously he was great in the Deadpool series, the first two movies. I love the scene where he's about to be interrogated by Cable. And he just gives up all the information immediately. So he's 44 today. He's been by the show a lot of times. He's a great guest. All right. I'll go back to this one. I put a question mark by there. I wasn't sure if I had enough time. But since you have the music, it's El DeBarge's. Ah.

I thought you were going to play Who is Johnny from Short Circuit. Short Circuit 2, actually, I think is where that song came from. L. DeBarge is 64 years old. This is my Shavin' Pubes music. Do you have more to go, Preston? Yes. I have one at the end.

All right. Yeah. In fact, Nick, this one is targeted towards you. It's Stefan Lessard's birthday. Stefan, Dave Matthews' band, is 51 years old today. He was like 18 when he joined that band. 16. 16! Yeah, he couldn't stay in the bars because he wasn't even 18 yet. So they play bars in Virginia and Charlottesville. And yeah, he was like a jazz prodigy. Yeah. That played an upright bass and then learned how to play bass guitar in

Enjoying the band. The origins of that band always fascinate me. And then the last birthday we'll mention is Bar Raphael, the mom. She turns 39 years old today. So happy birthday. Yes, Nick. And it's my dad's birthday. Happy birthday, Tom. And I'm going to tell a quick story about my dad. Tonight, my son graduates from high school and I'm super excited and really proud of him. And when I was born, my dad's dad, Ed McElwain, said that he really hoped he would make it to see me graduate from high school.

Ed died in 1983, years before, 10 years before I graduated from high school. My dad is thrilled that he lived long enough to see his grandson graduate tonight. So happy birthday, Dad. I love you so much. Your dad is also responsible for some of my favorite audio, which was the butt dialing of him using a chainsaw.

That was awesome. That was a good one. I agree. Was your grandfather ill? Yeah, he had a bad ticker. He had three different heart attacks over the years. So, yeah, he only lived until 1983. But my dad's alive and doing great. He's had some health scares over the last few years, but he's doing pretty well today, so I'm happy for him. Happy birthday, Mr. McElwain. All right, let's see if somebody knows the answer to this question. What Beatles song repeats the title in the lyrics?

41 times. We will go to Josh to see if we can get an answer. Hey, Josh. Morning, bud. Good morning. Good morning. All right. Do you know the title? What song is repeated in the title 41 times? Let it be. Let it be. The man nailed it. And managed to sing it. That is correct. Let it be. Hang on a second there, Josh. We are going to give you...

A pair of tickets is MMR Rock's Matt McCusker's The American Teenist Tour. It's Saturday, August 16th, Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City. Tickets are on sale now at theoceanac.com. And Matt is going to join us on the program today around 9 o'clock, so we'll chat with him later on. All right, I have some stories to pass along. Here's a follow-up. Jonathan Joss, voice actor from King of the Hill. We told you yesterday he was fatally shot outside his hotel.

Former home in San Antonio this weekend. According to the police report, suspect Sigfredo Queja Alvarez confessed at the scene telling officers, I shot him. The incident occurred after Joss visited their burned down house with his husband and another woman to check for mail. Police say Alvarez arrived, confronted Joss, and during a heated argument,

threatened, and then fatally shot him. So this guy was a neighbor. Yeah. Joss was pronounced dead at the scene and Alvarez was arrested and charged with murder. Bail set at $200,000. The San Antonio police have also shared in a statement, despite online claims,

Of this being a hate crime, currently the investigation has found no evidence to indicate that Mr. Joss's murder was related to his sexual orientation. This contradicts a post by Joss's husband who claimed that their neighbor had made prior threats and used a homophobic slur that day. The investigation is ongoing. Did you read the letter that his husband wrote?

This is absolutely, positively, 100% a hate crime. They were targeted. The house was burned down. They murdered their dog. Wow. Yeah. The dog's skull was left in... So my friend, who is gay, posted the letter that...

that this gentleman's husband had written. And it was just, you know, in detail. It's like, oh my God, this is like absolutely psychotic. So they've been facing harassment. Yes. And that's why their house was burned down? Their house was burned down. It was arson. When I read the story, I assumed they were part of like the Palisades fires or something like that. No, it was in Texas. Yeah, it was in Texas. Oh, I didn't even pick up on that. They had reported the harassment to local authorities and the local authorities ignored it.

The claims, yeah. Oh, and so now the authorities are saying there was never, this is not a hate crime. But there's evidence of those reports happening. Wow. All right, well, obviously there's going to be follow-ups to this and we'll let you know what's going on. Here's another follow-up story. Haley Joel Osment has been ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for six months following his arrest.

Republican intoxication drug possession back in April. The Sixth Sense actor appeared in court on Monday and was granted a one-year diversion program, which includes weekly AA meetings and twice-weekly therapy sessions. Osment issued an apology shortly after the incident, saying, I'm absolutely horrified by my behavior.

I apologize. And apologizing for his disgraceful language. He referenced the loss and displacement he experienced as a result of the Eaton fires in January, but recognized, quote, this is no excuse for using this disgusting word. During the incident back in April, he reportedly tried to board a ski lift helmet backward and without a snowboard, despite pushback from staff and skiers.

Witnesses said he smelled of alcohol and fumbled around before being taken into custody. If he successfully completes the one-year program, his charges will be dismissed.

After years of being on and off, Kendall Jenner and Devin Booker have reportedly ended their romance once again. The couple called it quits over a month ago, according to an insider. But it seems that there was no major reason for the split, with the source saying it always comes down to them both being busy, navigating schedules, and just not being on the same page.

That seems to be it. Sometimes you get back together and you find out why you broke up in the first place. That absolutely happens, man. You just need clarification. Yes, you do. You're like, oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. This was bad.

Yeah. And now I realize that. You don't like me, I don't like you. Excellent. Did you guys ever have that where you circle back to somebody and they're like, oh, yeah. Yeah. This is why. I call it the decaying orbit. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. I absolutely had that happen. And it's actually, it's a good thing. It is. Yes. You find that out and you go, oh, yeah, just needed, I needed, you know. Finality. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Reconfirmed.

So a fan of Kylie Jenner is learning that sometimes all you have to do is ask after begging the reality star to reveal an intimate beauty question. Creator Rachel Leary posted a TikTok video asking her to share, quote, what is it that you asked for when you had your boobs done?

And she goes on to say that they're exactly what she's looking for and calls it the most perfect, natural-looking boob job ever. It's kind of true. You take a look at her and you wonder, there's not the telltale signs of a boob job. So, Leary was probably shocked when Kylie responded in the comments section with all the details, including the name of her plastic surgeon, revealing 445cc, moderate plasticity,

profile, half under the muscle, silicone, Garth Fisher. What? Hope this helps, LOL. Is Garth Fisher the...

Must be the plastic surgeon. Okay. It's not capitalized. Both of the words are not capitalized. It's Garth Fisher. I thought that was kind of a fish or something like that. Or something that opens up during surgery. Oh, F-I-S-H-U-R-E. No, it's F-I-S-H-E-R. Oh my God, there's a Garth Fisher.

He's a high profile plastic surgeon He was married to a celebrity Oh he's the Brooke Burke dude He did all her work Oh man he did good work Are they still together? No they're not So that's apparently who did Kylie's boobies So she's passing along the information Which is cool

Saw this last night in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future, the film's cast, and Gibson Guitars has launched a global search for the iconic ES-345 guitar that Michael J. Fox played during the Johnny B. Goode scene.

Cast members, including Leah Thompson, Christopher Lloyd and Huey Lewis, joined a call to action video released this week to help and locate that guitar. Thompson shares, I have no idea how the guitar slipped through the people's hands. I mean, the first thing I thought was maybe one of the prop masters had it. But then I knew that it was super expensive, so it had to go somewhere.

Gibson has also announced a documentary called Lost to the Future. Yeah. I think I want to see it. They're going to chronicle the surge featuring interviews with cast, creators, and musicians as well. Directed by Doc...

The film promises to explore vintage shops, auction houses, and more. And tips can be submitted at losttothefuture.com. Or you can actually have a number set up. You can call 855-345-195 at 1955. Oh, that's great. Very cool. I just picked up on that.

You have to imagine that somewhere somebody knows that this is the back to the future guitar, right? Well, it's weird, man, because guitars have a way of passing hands and stories get kind of lost in them sometimes. And they're sometimes given to somebody who doesn't really...

Right. Right. Yeah.

That the importance level can, you know, to us, it's a really iconic, you know, signature instrument, but some people may not really know it. It gets lost in the sauce. Yeah, or somebody's hiding it for whatever reason. Are they suggesting what it might be worth? No, nothing that I've seen so far. But no, it's an iconic piece of, you know, cinematic history. And, you know, it's a Gibson. It's a, you know, it's an ES-345. They're really cool guitars.

All right, I loved seeing this. And we might have a clip, Casey. Can you see if this is there? All right, so we'll start with this first. But Ferris Bueller's Day Off star Mia Sara made her return to the red carpet yesterday to promote her first film in almost 15 years. And before that, she hadn't worked in a long time either. The 57-year-old actor, best known for playing the female lead Sloane Peterson opposite Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller's Day Off...

She was 17 when the film was released and makes her return to the screen in The Life of Chuck, Mike Flanagan's new film based on a novella by Stephen King. I've already told you guys I adore this story and can't wait to see this film. It tells the story of a Chuck...

Charles Krantz's life in reverse chronicological order. The adult Chuck is played by Tom Hiddleston with a younger version played by Benjamin Pajak and Jacob Tremblay. Sarah is going to play his grandmother, Sarah Krantz, alongside Mark Hamill as her husband, Albie. So does this have the...

uh the the reverses the the the like benjamin uh button sort of feel to it no it's he's not aging backwards okay these are just happening at all going back through his life the story is telling yes is going backwards like that so in in the novel it's it's actually a um uh it's a series of of novellas uh it's called if it bleeds uh by stephen king uh it's three different

Three complete stories that are linked together. And you don't realize it while you're reading the book. Like, you get through one story, it's like, okay, that was, wow, that was interesting. And then you get to the next one, and you're like...

Oh, these are connected. Oh, that's cool. These have threads to them. So he's written a few books like that, like Hearts in Atlantis was that way as well. And I just absolutely loved it. So you're seeing praise pop up on the, we're looking at the trailer here, the best Stephen King movie ever made. Wow. Wow. Maybe, I mean, it's not, there's a little bit of supernatural, but not much in it.

It's mainly, you know how Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption and even The Green Mile. The Green Mile has a little bit. The Green Mile has some, it's kind of like that. It has just a little bit of that in it. But for the most part, it's just someone's story. And it's so well done. Mike Flanagan is a tremendous director. Yeah. He did Dr. Sleep. And Casey will like it because dancing is a big part of it.

I know you like to dance. I am going to see this. Once they mentioned anything about Stand By Me, which is my favorite movie of all time, I was like, okay, I'm on board. So I hope they do it justice. Is it out this weekend? It is coming out, I think, on the 13th. So next week. So Sarah, back to her, Mia Sarah. Sloan. Yeah, Sloan. Come along, darling. Come along, darling. That's almost a Bill West. I know. It really is, yeah. So she was last seen on the big screen in 2011's Dorothy and the Witches of Oz, which is

So 2011 was the last time she was in something. Yeah, yeah. And she appeared in a short film titled Pretty Pretty in 2013. She recently explained her decision to come out with a retirement for the new role, saying that she met filmmaker Flanagan and his wife, actor Kate Siegel.

uh, and had been a big fan of their 2021 Netflix horror miniseries, Midnight Mass, which is great. She called one of my favorite things I've ever seen. Uh, she told people magazine we've been, uh, we've been such fans and we met socially. Uh, he and the magnificent Kate Siegel. Uh, and he just said, well, don't you ever really want to work again? And I said, I don't know. And he said, what if I offered you something? I said, well, okay, if you offer me something, I'll do it. So he did. And she is. And, uh, asked if she plans to continue acting. Uh,

She said, honestly, it really was all about Mike. If Mike needs me, I'll be there. So the life of Chuck opens, yes, Casey, on the 13th. Now, Tom Hiddleston, who plays the lead character, was on Jimmy Kimmel. And he talks about the character in this clip. So here we go. I play Chuck. And you meet Chuck. And he seems, for all the world, like a mild-mannered accountant guy.

Mr. Businessman dressed in a business suit with the business briefcase on his way to the business conference, staying at the business hotel. And in that moment, it's a great surprise because you think you know who this guy is. And he sets down his briefcase to the beat of the drums by this busking drummer. And he finds himself just spontaneously dancing. And she doesn't expect it. And he doesn't expect it.

And it's this explosion of joy and freedom and spontaneity. Yeah, there's some really sweet tones to this story. It's great. And you know, another cool thing for drummers is I've watched the scene where the drummer's playing and she's somebody I follow on social media. Oh, is that right? Oh, that's cool. It's a drummer called Pocket Queen and she's awesome.

I'm looking forward to it, man. Yeah, it should be good. Is there a little bit of Maximum Overdrive in it as well? Yeah, a little bit. A lot of 18-wheelers operating autonomously? You'll love that part. Okay, yeah. All right, now here's another movie that kind of has this tone that I saw the trailer for this morning. Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell are teaming up for a dreamy new film. It's called A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey.

And Sony just dropped the first trailer. It's directed by Kaganada, who I'm not familiar with. The movie is described as an imaginative tale of two strangers and features a stellar supporting cast, including Jodie Turner-Smith, Lily Rabe, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and

And Farrell previously said the story is kind of a love story, but it's not a very typical one, adding it's definitely magical realism. And this will be Robbie's first on-screen role since Barbie. Yes. She's been busy with behind-the-scenes stuff, producing films like Salt Burn and Borderline. And Farrell's been racking up nominations for his role in The Penguin. So I'm catching a little bit of Maximum Overdrive in this. No, no, you're not. No, no, no. I love stuff like this. I love, like...

I don't know. When I watched the full trailer, there was almost the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, sort of dreamy quality to it. I hope they deliver on that. It's a tough thing to do, but when they pull it off, it can be great. I agree. The trailer for Wicked, for good, drops today, and fans just got a sneak peek via a new teaser clip.

shared on film social media. The Post promises that there's only one short day left until the full preview arrives. The movie got me. I watched it twice. I really enjoyed it. Yeah, I did. I never saw the Broadway version. The 20-second teaser shows familiar faces like Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, of course, Ariana Grande as Glinda, and Jonathan Bailey as Fiero. And Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard, with some characters rocking fresh new looks.

The trailer will premiere in theaters at the end of the first film's Defying Gravity scene during a special one-night-only re-release of Wicked. And then Wicked for Good is going to be in theaters November 21st. Now, I also saw this. Netflix just dropped the premiere date for The Wrong Paris. It's a new rom-com, and it stars Miranda Cosgrove and Pearson Flanagan.

Fode along with a first look photo from the film. I was hoping to see, I like Miranda Cosgrove. I do too, yeah. And she's talented and she hasn't really, I haven't seen anything surface that has really popped for her. So they did the reboot of the series that she was on and then she also played a hot teacher on the Goldbergs a couple years ago. So those are the last things I saw her in. But nothing's really taken. Yeah, they did that iCarly thing. Right, right.

The movie follows a woman who signs up for a dating show thinking it's in Paris, France, but it ends up in Paris, Texas instead.

And the chaos and the schemes get kicked off only to catch feelings for The Bachelor. Get ready for The Wrong Paris to bring romance, drama, and country charm September 12th. I love country charm. I know, isn't country charm just the best? Old country charm Steve, they call me. All right, and then one last story, and then we'll get to the clips. Rachel Sennett's upcoming comedy for HBO, still untitled, is rounding out his cast. And Elijah Wood...

and Josh Brenner have joined as guest stars, in addition to Leighton Meester and Quinlan Blackwell.

Lauren Holt and Moses Ingram have joined on for recurring roles. You're a big Moses Ingram fan. I don't know. I do like the name Moses. In addition to Senate, they join previously announced cast members Odessa Azayan, Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, and Josh Hutcherson. I know who Josh Hutcherson is. Clump Pudsucker? No.

I know Moses. She was in Obi-Wan. She played like a Sith Lord, kind of a Jedi wielding, I mean a lightsaber wielding bad guy who dabbles with the good side of the force. She was good on that show. The show is going to follow a group of codependent friends who reunite to deal with their time apart as well as new relationships and how they have changed them. We can do the clips now, everyone. So the new comedy adults...

Follows a group of friends in their 20s experiencing adulthood in Queens, New York. And here, series co-creator Rebecca Shaw shares how the show is a love letter to her friends. We are madly in love with our friends and unfortunately have been writing down details and embarrassing stories about them for years. So the fact that it's going to be out in the world and that, you know, these people and especially these characters that we've just grown to adore forever.

are going to become part of a much larger, hopefully, friend group means so much to us. I don't think I want to see it. You know, I never get tired of that Michael Jackson clip. New episodes of Adults air tonight. That's on FX. Is anybody watching that? It kind of caught my eye and I was wondering if I should dive in. I think Nick Kroll is one of the directors, Steve, on one of the episodes. So it's got that...

Yeah, he is. So, you know, if you like Nick Kroll style comedy, I'm sure you'll enjoy one of these episodes. This seems like a Marissa show and she's got her finger up. Oh, hold on. I think you guys would hate it. Yeah, no, I think it's really cute. I think it is a transition for like a younger generation to watch sitcoms. It's the 20 minutes, 23 minutes, perfect little thing. I liked it. I think it was good. It might

Give it a shot. All right. All right. But you're saying don't hope for too much. I enjoyed it. You know what? Listen, I can take a shot. If episodes are only 22 minutes, I can take a shot. All right. You know what I mean? Shoot your shot, Keith. Yeah, yeah. Go for it. All right. Here's our next clip from the world of John Wick Ballerina.

A young sets out to seek revenge. A young one, huh? Yes, it's not even a young one. A young. Well, you're young. Sets out to seek revenge after her father's death. You're young. And here, Anade Armas talks about the being pitched the intense movie. I read these verbatim, folks. Okay? They hand it to me hot off the presses. Yes, well, you can't keep on...

rehearsing everything. Here, Ana de Armas talks about the being pitched the intense movie.

And here we go. When they came to me with the idea, I was like, come again? What are you talking about? Everything sounded so extreme. Everything was extreme, yeah. Yeah, but, you know, it's the kind of fights that the John Wick movies have. And this world is like that. They're very creative and very, you know, things that you've never seen before. What the f***? From the world of John Wick, ballerina.

The hits theaters this weekend. Oh, that's the full title from the world of John Wick. Yes. Ballerina. So it has all the John Wick look to it. I'm a massive fan of the John Wick series. The one thing that they've avoided for a long time is having a hundred and eleven pound woman throw. Right.

you know, five pound guys around. Yeah. I hope they stick to that. Yeah. Let her do, you know, shoes, the guns, cars and all that stuff. But the, a lot of times when there's hand to hand combat and clearly there's a huge weight difference and they're doing things as like, Oh, that's stretching it just a bit far for you, you know, to, I mean, look, it's hard to take it all in. It's real, but nonetheless, you got to kind of keep it somewhat.

in the ballpark. I don't want to be taken out of a world where you can fire a gun 15 times into a thin suit jacket and not have the bullets go through.

That's the entertainment report for today. If you are just tuning in, we want to congratulate again Ms. Katrina Koffel of Gwinnett Mercy High School because she was our winner of coolest teacher of the year from the voting that took place over the last 24 hours. Social studies and history teacher. Hopefully we'll hear from her at some point. We can give her the official award that we hand out. And we chose another school. Steve picked

Shawnee High School in Medford, New Jersey. And Nick, you are correct. It is the school where the Hooters ended up playing after that very famous WMMR competition to send in postcards. It was Shawnee High School that won that. 1985. God almighty. And no, Jackie Bam Bam went to Lenape. There we go. He did not go to Shawnee. I didn't go there. No. But nonetheless, we need Shawnee High School to place votes. And you do it by texting your teacher. Oh, no. Shawnee!

So text word teacher to 610-660-9333. We will send you that voting link and you will get until about 6 o'clock tomorrow morning until we tally those up and we'll find out who the winner is. And then we just choose one more tomorrow and then we're done for the year. So good luck to you guys. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. Make sure you stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. We are, yeah, let's do this now. We are going to debut the new t-shirt for the Preston and Steve Blood Drive. The I Believe for Preston and Steve Blood Drive is coming up next Thursday. Two days, Thursday and Friday, June 12th and 13th. Thursday will be at Live Casino Hotel Philadelphia, live broadcast from Pierre Robert. And Friday at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks, a live broadcast from us that morning.

And everyone who donates blood will receive the I Believe for Presidency blood drive. And I'm just going to have to describe this to you, essentially, is what it is. Unless you're on YouTube. We actually got the design by listener Kristen Kimball, who we met in Clearwater with Philly Sports Trips. She showed up with these shirts.

And we're like showing it to each other going, have you seen this? How cool is this? So she's a graphic designer and she came up with it herself. It is a blue shirt and

with a golden word art design of the philly skyline and she used it she created it by using the names of the members of the show so you may have seen things before uh where they use words to create portraits uh and the words you know are shaped in such that they look like you know human being or whatever or the eagles logo or whatever it might be this is the philly skyline and it's

you can tell if you back away a little bit that it's the Philadelphia skyline. Yeah, it's great. But it's got all of our names and this is when we were in Clearwater. So Kathy's name is represented all over this thing. And we love that. It is a really cool looking shirt at the bottom. It says, good morning, it good morning to see you. And then it's got our names as the buildings with little Easter eggs. If you look throughout the design, you'll find some very Philly recognizable visuals of

They're just bringing the whole thing home. So thank you, Chris. And it was so cool of you to allow us to use this design for the Blood Drive t-shirt. So that is now available. Marissa, are there pictures posted of these yet? Yeah. In fact, if you go to PrestonAndSteve.com right now, it is the top link. You can see it. And I also put together a gallery of all 19 years of t-shirts. That's awesome.

all the ones. We had some really cool ones. And there's some really great Easter egg photos from those blood drives as well. I love it. I've saved all of the shirts. I have a bin at home that I keep them all in because they're my favorite designs of all the shirts that we've done. We've done everything from like

the classic Godfather logo to a Batman and Robin thing to Walking Dead to Game of Thrones. Ted Lasso. Ted Lasso. Or just the Red Cross. There's just a load of really, really cool shirts throughout the years that we've been able to bring together. So this adds to the list. And if you've been collecting, I have talked to people who have collected all of them. And the pint glasses when we were doing those for the book.

blood drive as well because remember you're donating a pint of blood uh and so we had pint glasses that we used to give away and we have sponsors that that do those so sometimes we have them sometimes we don't but uh the t-shirt is a perennial so we're hoping that you're going to get one and all you have to do is sign up for the blood drive and there's some slots available from what i understand uh if you go to prestonandsteve.com not only can you see the shirts but

But you can get signed up. It's next Thursday and Friday. And we're hoping the two days as well. It's a scheduling thing. But who knows? It may lead to doing it that way from here on out if it becomes more convenient for people. So get on board and let's have you donate and get that exclusive shirt for this event. Yes, Marissa, are we good to go? All right. We have our coolest teacher. Oh, my God. There we go. I made the announcement just a little while ago. And it was Quented Mercy.com.

high school that was chosen randomly and the kids voted and they have let us know that the coolest teacher of the last year is katrina koffel and she's joining us right now katrina good morning good morning congratulations to you you happy about this uh yeah i mean i have some pretty cool students so i guess it makes sense to be the coolest teacher nice all right how long have you been teaching uh gwenna mercy

I've been teaching there for five years now. Five years, and you already have this auspicious award. That's quite an achievement. I believe so. I'd like to thank the Academy. Now, you went to... Did you go to Gwinnett Mercy? Yes.

I didn't. I went to one of their rival schools, unfortunately. But my sister went to Gwinnett and I've always loved Gwinnett. So it just made sense when they had a job opening that I just I had to take it. All right, cool. How's the year been for you? This one in particular?

The year has been pretty great. I absolutely adore my students, and I work with some incredible people. I'm a part of the social studies department, so I teach U.S. history. My kids took the AP exam a couple weeks ago, and I'm sure they crushed it. So, yeah, no, it's been a great year. Do you do other things as well? Are you coaching any teams? Do you run the AV squad? Yeah, any of the clubs? Anything like that?

I'm one of the teachers that runs an organization that does an annual character breakfast where we raise money for mercy charities around the world. And next year, I'm going to be one of the student council moderators. So...

You know, looking out for that. There you go. No, it seems that the teachers that are selected to be the coolest teachers always have a number of irons and proverbial fires. So that's cool. And social studies was always one of my favorite subjects. Do you find that the kids gravitate to it easily or, you know, is it sometimes an uphill battle?

No, I mean, I always say that the reason they write down historical stories is because they were super awesome and interesting. And so, you know, I always make the joke that if you don't like history, it's probably because you had a boring storyteller. Yes. I can't see myself a pretty good storyteller. No, that's a good point. Excellent. And what are your plans for the summer, Katrina? I have two young kids, so we're going to go to Disney World next week. Oh, wow.

And now, have you taken the kids to Disney yet? Yes. We've been a couple of times. My sister works down there, so we're down there a fair bit. Okay, good. So you probably know the hacks. You know the secrets of getting around the park and where to go and what to do and when to do all that stuff.

Oh, of course. Nice. Good, good. You should have someone on the inside, Preston. Yeah, it'll be a solid summer for you then. Well, Katrina, the students love you. And so we are giving you this award on their behalf. We have a $50 gift card from our sponsor, Dunkin'. And you can use that for whatever you like. There's tons of great things, obviously, here. And we are very, very happy to give you...

It is the Preston and Steve Cools Teacher of the Year coffee mug to do with what you will. Made by Fabergé. Yes. All right. Not exactly, but yeah. Yeah, but lure that over the other teachers when you get a chance is what it's for.

Absolutely. All right. All right. Excellent. Well, thank you very much, Katrina. And have a great summer. We appreciate it. Katrina Koppel, guys. Of Gwinnett Mercy. You got it. And the next school that's been chosen is Shawnee High School. And that's in Medford, New Jersey. So you can vote now. Text the word teacher to 39333. Notice how she didn't say which rival high school she went to? She's smart. She's diplomatic. Yes. Yeah.

Did I say text the word teacher to 39333? No, you don't do that. You text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. By the way, Duncan, thank you again. You can order Duncan's $6 meal deal for a whole vibe, bacon, egg, and cheese, hash browns, and a medium coffee. Exclusions and terms apply. All right, you know what, folks? What, what, what? Time for the city, bitch. Yeah. City, bitch. Let's do this. I'm trying to get to the page. Come on, man. The city.

Goobly wow wow, he's the man behind the beat. With the pavement pounding feet, he's also a fan of the word replete. I do like replete. You do like replete. It's the PL in there. It all works. I saw some stories in and around our great city that I thought you might find kind of interesting. And we're going to start with this one. It has to do with the Wanamaker building above Wichita.

New York developer TF Cornerstone won complete control of the historic Wanamaker building at a foreclosure auction, which took place yesterday.

The company, which is known for adapting historic structures, purchased the three-floor retail section of the building in 2019. It has housed Macy's until earlier this year. At the auction, they won control of the sparsely populated eight floors of office space above the retail space, along with a 660-car underground parking garage. That's a lot. Yeah.

TF Cornerstone plans six, and here's what they're going to do with it. 600 loft style apartments for floors six to 12, and then they'll keep the fourth and fifth floors as office space. And the story crystal tea room on the ninth floor will continue to be used as an event space. That's awesome. I'm glad that anything's going in there. I root for that building and I'm glad that it's not going to sit empty. Um, Preston, a week or two ago, there was a story in news about, uh, SEPTA moving some of their offices in there. Do you remember that? Uh,

Yeah, for training purposes. Yeah, so I don't know if this plan will affect SEPTA's plans. Well, they aren't going to have office space, so perhaps. Yeah, they're going to keep two floors. The fourth and fifth floors is office space, so maybe that'll be a part of it. If you were a young up-and-comer and you were moving into the city...

Would having a loft apartment in that building appeal to you? Especially if you had guaranteed parking? Absolutely. Yeah, it might. I mean, the loft, you know, because you get like 18, 20 foot ceilings and there's a cool vibe. I lived one of my first apartments. That wasn't my first. It was like my third apartment. I did a city loft apartment. You loved it, didn't you? No.

No, I hated it. Really? Actually, yeah, because the walls were paper thin. Oh, man. It sucked. You mentioned you could hear everyone getting it on around you and all that. Well, they heard me. There was one night. Oh, man, I don't need to go into detail. Anyway, this gal started pounding on the wall. Okay. From the other apartment. Oh, really? Not the gal that was with me. I knew the girl who lived next door, but all of a sudden, I just hear, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and I'm like, uh-oh. Uh-oh.

But, yeah, I didn't, and now listen. I'm having sex too! St. Louis' city experience is way different than Philadelphia's. It's not a walking city. There wasn't a lot going on there. The area that I lived in didn't, it wasn't convenient to anything. It was just a

bad spot. I just thought the apartment was so cool. Did it have that vibe like Wayne's World 2? You know what I mean? He has a loft apartment. Kind of like industrial looking on the inside. Exposed vents. Did you have one of those big industrial size elevators? Yeah. Big windows? Huge windows. Would you do your dancing like in Flashdance? Did you have like a...

I didn't have a hardwood floor, so Steve, I couldn't really do the dancing. You couldn't be a maniac? But what I did do is I had a cat that was my pet, and I bought a fishing pole, and I put a little cat toy on the end of it, and I had enough room where I could cast that thing. It was a huge apartment. That's cool. It was one big, gigantic room. It's cool. With a bathroom off to the side and a small bedroom.

A kitchenette? Yeah. No, it was a full kitchen. But anyway, the whole thing was wide open, so I could just cast that thing all the way across the room and reel it, and he would chase it. It was so fun. Was it Madison or Bumper? It was Bumper. Aw. Yeah, he was a kitten back then. So cute. Yeah. So TF Cornerstone...

they're going to open up 600 loft-style apartments. The former Macy's space will include two floors of well-curated retail, according to the company's news release. The Grand Court will continue to be open to the public, and the Wanamaker organ will remain in use. Yes, I think that's essential. You can't get rid of that. And the remaining floor, former retail space, will host what they said was one or more cultural uses online.

on the third floor of the building, which enjoys 24-foot-tall ceilings. 24-foot-tall ceilings. Construction will begin in the first quarter of 2026. It's expected to take two years to complete some of the office space, and potentially the Crystal Tea Room will still be accessible.

during the redevelopment. I love that, that room, the crystal tea room. I've been to a bunch of events there. So if you're really cool spot in that area, if you're living there and you're going to assume that you're going to, you know, you're not, even though you probably will have a, um, uh,

The garage, access to the garage. You're probably going to do a lot of city stuff. Yeah, if you have work nearby, you're probably not going to be driving much. Because that area can get... It's very, very, very... It's nightmarish. I mean, that's the one downside. Anytime I have to...

Encounter City Hall. I hate it. To drive through there because I used to regularly go essentially like Fifth and Walnut. There was a recording studio there that I would, Center City Film and Video, that I would go do voiceover stuff at. Yeah. I would just hate. Hate.

I hate driving in there, man. Once you get locked in, it just sucks. Yeah, when you have to go down Market Street and then try and merge in, like at certain times of the day, you're like, how? How do cars even...

Move in this city. Well, everyone's so generous. They let you right in. Oh, yeah. I walked the other day from City Hall all the way to 33 Station after the Phillies game. And for the first time, I saw the portal. I'd not been near it. It's in the courtyard in City Hall. I'd forgotten how pretty that courtyard within City Hall really is. So I agree with everything you guys are saying about driving around there. It can often just suck ass. But the walk? Yeah. Super pleasant. Sure.

TF Cornerstone, by the way, has deep roots in New York City's hyper-competitive real estate industry, and they own and operate 12,000 residential units there. The redevelopment of almost 1.4 million square foot Wanamaker building is the company's first project in Philadelphia, though. So we will see how they do. All right, let's see what else we got. The debate...

Saw this day before yesterday, I believe. In honor of Pride Month, Visit Philadelphia unveiled a sculpture called In Plain Sight. It's a bold sculpture.

and honoring the transgender, intersex, and asexual identity people from the LGBTQ plus community. So it was unveiled. It is on the Cherry Street Pier. And it's going to be on display through Pride Month. So just this June. And then I'm not sure what they're going to do with it.

The installation serves as a bold celebration of just the TQ plus community. So it's a large QT and a plus symbol. QT, QT. A group facing increased scrutiny as LGBTQ plus rights remain at the center of national debate. The sculpture underscores Philadelphia's longstanding commitment to being a welcoming and affirming destination for LGBTQ plus residents and travelers.

To bring in plain sight to life, Visit Philadelphia consulted with local artists and creatives, including Philadelphia-based Bill Adair, an independent arts and culture consultant and former director of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. The concept was developed in partnership with local agency A&G, and the final piece was fabricated by OutShaped, a family-owned 3D design and manufacturing studio. Pew!

It's 10 feet tall, weighs 250 pounds. The sculpture design... It only weighs 250 pounds? I know, it looks like it would be way more. The design incorporates colors from the different LGBTQ plus pride flags and represents a segment of the community. So transgender is the T, which is the light blue, white and pink stripes from the transgender pride flag.

Queer, which is the Q, elements from the traditional rainbow pride flag featuring red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. And then the plus is yellow and purple from the intersex pride flag symbolizing autonomy and visibility. Black and white from the asexual pride flag. So they incorporated all this stuff. And Visit Philadelphia reached out to me to be there for the unveiling of it, but we were still, it was like 10%.

10, 30, 11 o'clock. I couldn't make it, but I thought it was cool that they did that. And we've been doing some stuff with Visit Philadelphia. So great group of people and really cool that they've put this up. So that can now be seen. Here's another thing from the City Beat.

Thank you to Marissa for sending this to me. This summer, you can show your love for SEPTA and jump into the water thanks to the SEPTA rail map swim trunks that are now available. Wait, what? It's the map. Not trail map, rail map. Swim trunks. I just bought. They're swim trunks and they look like a SEPTA map. Son of a bitch. I just bought a new bathing suit. I would have bought that. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

Yeah, I just bought two new bathing suits. I went to Costco. I got myself some Hurley bathing suits. But they weren't. The problem is that they weren't like loud enough. You know what I mean? It was kind of like one or two maybe. So I don't like white.

Yeah. Bathing suits. Bathing suits, yeah. I don't like white. So if they had it inverse with the, like a darker color and this on the print, I would go for that. I can't go for that. No can do. It's all white and it's essentially like a subway map or a train map that you would see. But yeah, Steve, they could do black with, you know, the rails in white and yeah, do the...

Inverse of this. Just a quick, what's the stop over the penis there? Can you see it? I can't see it. Okay. I would put that maybe on the back of the bathing suit. I don't want people staring at my junk. No, you don't. No, I don't. Okay.

I do not. But I would prefer, like, I need my bathing suits have to have jammer liners. So, like, basically like a spandex liner. I need that. I can't have it any other way now. I don't know. This might have it. I don't know, guys. I used to have all of those stops in Pennsylvania memorized when I was a kid. Every single one of the rail stops.

Were you on it regularly? Or was it just a thing that you wanted? We would take the R5 from Paoli into Center City. My mom went to Booth Memorial Hospital, which is where my brothers were born. And so we would take the Paoli, now the Paoli-Thorndale line to get there. And I just am a nerd and stared at maps and I memorized every single one on that line. I ran off what you remember. Come on, man. Paoli, Dalesford, Berwyn, Devon,

Stratford, Wayne, St. David's, Radnor, Villanova, Rosemont, Bryn Mawr, Ardmore, Wynwood, Narberth, Marion, Overbrook, 30th Street Station. Hmm.

Oh, I'm sorry, Nick. That was so close. What'd I miss? No, I don't know. I gave you a round of applause. That was impressive. I was ready to give you one of these. I said, give him the buzzer. Give him the buzzer. Make him feel bad. That was under pressure. No, that was... You probably nailed it. I'm going to go with... I missed one. So you... Well, but that was... That was... Not SEPTA. That was... Was it SEPTA? All right. Then you need to get these. Yeah. Yeah.

You sit there and stare at your junk all day and memorize it. Yeah, look at what's over my penis. Yeah, it's like you being able to recite the Tron. Yeah, the entire film.

All the dialogue. Oh, I didn't know they had a female bathing suit, too. They do. That actually looks cool. They have a one-piece. Yeah. That makes more sense than the guy. What's over the vagina? I don't know. Because, honestly, if you're stopping me to think about bathing suits with stuff like this, this is what, that is what people are going to look at. Nick, since you know all these stops, what spot wouldn't be good right over the vagina?

Over Brook. This is Brook, and that's right over Brook. Yeah. Intercourse. Not only can you swim in a SEPTA rail map, but you can sleep as well. There's a rail map bed duvet with a SEPTA pillow, and you can wear the rail map on your shorts poolside or on a trip to the Jersey Shore since you have these bathing suits. Posting on SEPTA's store page is,

Get ready for a one-of-a-kind beach experience with our RRD Map Beach Shorts. These men's shorts feature the authentic SEPTA rail map design, making them both stylish and functional. Don't just wear a map, be a map. And the shorts are selling for $32.95 on pre-order on SEPTA's online store site. People can see the...

that they are selling quickly because I think they've already sold out in medium and small sizes. They don't have any t-shirt version of this, do they? I don't know, but that would be great. I might do that. So lately I've been wanting to have shirts that just have...

iconic brands or images on them and this would be one of them. You guys saw that I had that butter shirt, right? Right, right. Everybody's got a stick of butter in their fridge. So I just thought that was kind of cool. You know what? The septum app would go right in line with that. There's a t-shirt that I've seen that I love and the design on it, Preston, it's just a white t-shirt and I don't know how else to describe it, but it's like this blue floral design that was on like...

uh, China, uh, you know, like, I know exactly what you're talking about. Exactly. All right. The design you're talking about. And please, that would be cool. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, uh, yeah. If you've ever had a, uh, a white, um, um, almost like, uh, uh, a pot that you cook in, or they're, they're pretty classic from the, the, the 1950s and 1960s. Like every household had them. Yes. Uh, and it was, uh, like a Dutch oven or something along those lines. And it had this kind of swirly, uh,

flower emblem on it. I know what you're talking about. And that's what Casey's talking about. That would be pretty cool. So, yeah, you can order these now. You can still grab shorts in small XL, 2XL, and 3XL sizes if you want to get that. Alright, another City Beat story. We've got time for a couple more, maybe. This was out of

Our friend Victor Fiorello wrote this article. If you've ever heard of a longtime Philly scribe by the name of A.D. Amorosi, he's written for things like the Enquirer, City Paper, Metro, and even Philly Mag.

His full name is Angelo Amorosi. Been around for years. Just pleaded guilty to his role in a massive fraud scheme surrounding South Philadelphia's Broad Street Family Pharmacy, which has been shuttered ever since law enforcement agents raided it in 2021. And we're gonna do it!

PA Attorney General Michelle Henry announced charges against Amorosi and eight other Pennsylvania residents last December. The others charged included pharmacy owner Elizabeth Thompson, her husband Peter Della Buono, and pharmacist Frank Benjermino.

Uh, Germano. Uh, so according to the AG's office, uh, the scheme amounted to $20 million in fraud against Medicaid and Medicare. It involved fraudulent claims to those government programs for pricey medications and prescriptions for those medications that were never actually filled and cash kickbacks to customers for bringing their prescriptions to the pharmacy.

The pharmacy was also paying customers with cash and other pills to sell back expensive medications that they did receive.

The AG said in a statement, the owner and operator of this pharmacy were essentially pretending to fill prescriptions for expensive medications while defrauding the Medicaid and Medicare programs of millions of dollars with a sophisticated scheme involving nearly a dozen co-conspirators. The alleged crimes involved here diverted funding from Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is in need into the pockets of the defendants. So it's amazing to me about this is that, you know, getting involved with... I mean, again...

I get nervous if my inspection is due on the car. To get involved in something this elaborate, you have to assume that the clock is ticking upon you being discovered at some point. There are so many checks and balances. Or just even, look at the Bernie Madoff, that whole thing. Oh my God. It's eventually going to burn you. Eventually, it's got to get you. Yep.

So one of the co-conspirators was A.D. Amorosi. Police arrested him on December 13th. He was released one day later on $100,000 unsecured bail. Original charges against him included seven felony counts, including dealing in the process,

of unlawful activities and conspiracy. And on this past Wednesday, as part of negotiated deal, he pleaded guilty to one count each of those crimes. Do you think, Steve, you go in knowing that it's a scam? Like your mindset is like, well, maybe I'm just going to get away with it for a little while and then I'm going to get out? I've wondered about that. I've wondered if it's like it comes to people sometimes maybe with...

EDM or OC about this. It's like, hey, there's an opportunity to make some money. Or it comes in more benignly. And before you know it, you're like, you know, it's hard to be brought into something associated with Medicaid. Oh, my God. Medicare and not go, what's going on here? Well, some people might look at it from a distance and go, it's no harm, no foul. Right.

Yeah. He's getting a little taste here and so on. Yeah. Meanwhile, you know, my mom's on Medicaid. Right. I don't know if you guys have ever had to try to navigate that. Right. Oh, my God.

I mean, you know, it's crazy. So, yeah, you're stealing money from people who really, really need these services. It's crazy. So, anyhow, I was surprised as hell to see that story. Yeah. All right, we have time for one more City Beat story talking on the beat of the music. All right, so if you are a Philly area luxury car owner...

a lady with bottle service experience or a white man with red hair there's a chance you could be landing a gig as an extra on Kevin Hart's latest Netflix flick so on the last two

You're a redhead male and also a lady with bottle service experience? Yes, both. Okay. And you have a luxury car. Yes. So you hit all three of these. I got all three. So 72 Hours is scheduled to shoot in an unspecified location in New Jersey from June 24th to the 26th.

starring Hart as a 40-year-old business executive trying to save his career by befriending a group of 20-somethings. After he is added to their group chat, he joins the partygoers on a three-day bachelor party, which, of course, will be filled with all kinds of craziness. Right, right. So it's directed by Tim Story, and he worked with Kevin on Ride Along and Think Like a Man. Grant Wilfie Casting is calling for attractive entertainment

18 to 35-year-olds to chill on a yacht at a posh party. They're also looking for luxury car owners. And they said like Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches,

Yeah, that's me. Bentleys to pose with their glossy wheels on. Super Outback spinny? Maybe. With your batteries? Yeah. What about Jeff Walton and the Filafrunk? Oh, he could set them up, absolutely. They're also looking for white men with red hair between 6'2 and 6'5". They're going to be a photo double for one of a principal role.

And the production is seeking bottle server extras. And according to the Post on Project Casting, women must be 21 to 35 years old, have real bottle server experience, bring high energy and common body language to a feature party scene, height, weight, and bust measurements are...

are mentioned on the application. That's why I always fall short. I never make the bus measurement. And compensation is between $220,000 and $250,000 for eight hours, depending on the role, by the way. So there's a number of people who kind of

Hit these things and we'll go work in crowd scenes and pick up work. And you can pick up some extra loot that's fairly substantial. Yep. All right. You're going to have to do a search to find out about that. But the movie is called 72 Hours. We have to take a break. We have to go live on Fox Tuesday. Oh, that's right. So we're wrapping up the City Beat. We're taking a break. We're coming back in a second. We'll get to that and the B-File when we return. So stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. We got a little bit of time. We got about two minutes before we're going to go live on Fox. Good day. So, Casey, today is going to be part of a live broadcast.

because the Bend to the Shore event is coming up, and he and Brent Porsche from 3 to 7 today are going to be at Plum Street Mall during Dining Under the Stars in Media. That's great. Yeah, it's basically like smack dab center of the middle of State Street Media. Cool. And yeah, so Brent's going to be broadcasting live from 3 to 7.

Uh, I'm going to be popping by for a couple of hours. I'm probably going to be there from like four 30 to six 30 or five to seven or something like that. Yeah. All right. And, uh, the event to the bend of the shore, a bend of the shore, a bike tour is going to be Sunday, July 20th. It benefits families behind the badge children's foundation. Go to WMMR.com. Uh, get the information, sign up and, be on Casey's team and be a part of this whole thing. Uh, speaking of, uh, charity events, we had mentioned the, I believe for presidency blood drive is next week. We're having people sign up, uh,

and we revealed the details of the new shirt that you can get. It's an awesome shirt that was designed by a listener, Kristen Kimball, uh, who we met at Clearwater. She had these shirts made up and brought them down. We're like, we need to do something with that. So that's our official shirt. Uh,

for the blood drive. And Kristen had reached out to Nick and said that it's her son Mason's birthday today. So happy birthday to Mason. Did she mention how old he is? She maybe did. No, she just says happy birthday to Mason. Okay. All right. So happy birthday, Mason. And thank you, Kristen. And you can see this shirt is...

And all the other shirts from past blood drives that Marissa has compiled at PrestonAndSteve.com. And you can add to your collection if you already have one. All right, we got about 10 seconds and we will go live on Fox Good Day. And then we've got some B-File stories, which I think you might dig. And we've also got guests joining us later today. Matt McCusker will be on around 9 o'clock. We'll tell you more about that in a bit.

Here we go. Hey, President Steve, I have questions for the whole group there. Steve, we'll start with you. Sure. Have you ever had to have you ever been asked to loan money to a friend? Yes. And what I do is I simply give the money if I have it to give with the understanding if you want to pay it back.

That's your prerogative. But I will give it because it sets up a horrible dynamic. Neither a borrower nor a lender be thing is true. It will make things uncomfortable. If you can help someone out financially and you have the wherewithal to do that, that's always great. So I always consider it.

that way because I don't want to set up that uncomfortable. Every time you see them, it can kill friendships. It's so uncomfortable. It is very. Well, we found a survey, Preston, that says that 74% of people who've lent money to a friend never got it back. Yeah, makes sense. And Steve is better than I am because the idea of just here, just take it because otherwise it sets up an uncomfortable dynamic. Well, the person that asked you started that uncomfortable dynamic right off the bat. Yeah.

So unless it's like you're in dire need and I'm going to end up on the street, then that's a tough position to be in. Even with family members, I have found out personally that it can be a tad bit difficult and ruin things that way, too. But it's just it's a tough spot, man. I have always gotten it back from family members, but I've probably loaned money to friends.

friends, acquaintances maybe six or seven times in my whole life. And majority never paid it back. You know, the thing is that if someone is... If you're in someone's entire straight, so they're sweating out something, it's not like they say, hey, I need some money for meth. You know, it's like, okay, that's a little more frivolous. But if it's something that really... Well, you can...

take that load off someone's mind and help them out financially. But again, if you set yourself up and say, okay, I'm expecting this back, it's not going to end well. So you just, I state that up front. A lot of times it will get paid back. And if it doesn't, that's okay as well. But I'm not setting up a dynamic that's going to make things extra uncomfortable. I assume if someone's coming to me, it took a lot to get them to do it in the first place. You know what I'm saying? Well, yeah. Yeah.

That's true. If they cry, I give the money. If they cry at the drop of a hat, absolutely. I'm going to have to ask you to cry. I'll give it to you, Grandma, but I want a lap dance. All right, guys. Thank you. We'll see you later, guys. I guess they're not going to go around the room.

Well, I didn't have anything to say anyway. I've never lent anybody money. Really? I've never been asked to lend anybody money. So, Steve, you know what I was thinking of as well when they brought that topic up is a Bronx tale. Yes. Because the main character tells, Sonny tells C, you know, because there's a guy that owned him like, or he had lent 10 bucks or 20 bucks to her or whatever. And this is, you know, the 1950s, early 60s. So it was a lot of money. Yeah.

And he's like, hey, you just actually, this is a good thing. That guy's no good. You don't ever have to deal with him again. He's going to avoid you at every cost. And you just bought him being away and not having to deal with him anymore. Right. You kind of put a little interesting twist on it. I'm going to buy you being away. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I do have bizarre file stories, and we're going to share those right now. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre.

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is suing his ex-girlfriend after she allegedly took their joint $3.6 million winning lottery ticket and ghosted him. See, problems over money. Lawrence Campbell of Winnipeg, Canada, filed a lawsuit against his ex-partner, Crystal Ann McKay. I thought you wanted me to take it. As well as Western Canada Lottery Corporation and Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries in May. And it's an interesting dynamic, this story. So Campbell claimed that he purchased the lotto

649 ticket on January 19, 2024. At the time, Campbell and McKay were in a loyal, committed, and promising relationship according to the documents. Love you. The lawsuit claimed Campbell handed McKay the ticket for safekeeping because he had lost his wallet.

So he forgot about the purchase until he found the ticket on the floor at a friend's house days later. He scanned the ticket's barcode on his phone, and that's when he found out that he won. He couldn't believe it. He won the lotto jackpot. So the couple called friends and family to share their news before heading to a nearby, it's called Shopper's Drug Mart, where a video was recorded verifying their win of $5 million.

According to the lawsuit, someone at the Western Canada Lottery Corporation told the couple that Campbell would not be eligible to collect the winnings because he didn't have a valid government-issued ID. They were advised to have McKay collect the jackpot on the couple's behalf. So at a news conference...

The couple claimed the prize money in a giant check written out to McKay. And so it was certified by the administering organization. Yeah, so McKay said at the time it was really overwhelming and exciting and noted that the ticket was a birthday gift from the guy. That's what she said. It's called a gift? So he said she had been asking me for three weeks to get a ticket, but I never went and got one.

Then we drove by one and I was like, okay, I might as well go get you one right now. McKay then deposited the winnings into her account because Campbell didn't have one. And in the days after the win, the lawsuit alleged that McKay didn't return to the hotel room that she and Campbell were sharing. Campbell states that that day he set out to visit a few of her known spots where she would party, it says, and

And sure enough, after some investigation, he found her in bed with another guy. Uh-huh. Hey, do you have that money? McKay allegedly told Campbell that she wanted to end the relationship so she could be with the new guy. She then stopped taking his calls and answering his messages, blocked him from social media, and took out an order of protection against him. So there's aspects of this that are sketchy right from the get-go. The place that she likes to party and he's got no ID and no bank account? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, they were living in a hotel. They're low income. Oh, okay. So, yeah. But the fact was he didn't have an ID and all this, so he couldn't claim it himself. So he was like, no, you do it. Obviously, we'll split the money or whatever, but she just took off with it. We can even include the guy you're humping. Campbell says that he was given bad advice by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, which failed to warn him of the risks of having McKay sign the winning ticket. Yeah. McKay's attorney said that Ms. McKay's...

disputes the allegations made against her in the statement of claim and will be filing a statement of defense. Do they think he's... I don't know. It sounds like he might have a case. I think he does. Who knows?

Deputies in Volusia County, Florida, arrested one of their own after she was busted riding her personal motorcycle with a fake license plate that said, chase me on it. What would be good for my career? Deputy Erica Muzzy, 26 years old, stands accused of possessing a counterfeit license plate. The incident unfolded around 9 p.m. on Saturday. A deputy spotted a motorcycle at a Wawa who had earlier fled a traffic stop, and that rider was with a group of motorcyclists at the Wawa that included Muzzy.

As deputies were trying to arrest the motorcyclist, he called over, excuse me, called over to Muzzy who became argumentative with them. Deputies noted the fictitious plate on the motorcycle and instead of having it towed, she chose to drive it away with fake tag flipped up. Deputies later pulled her over on Interstate 4. Body camera footage showed Muzzy step off her bike and again become argumentative with the deputies. She said, I was just told I was good to go. She said she was trying to go home. She said, why would they tell me I was good to go if I wasn't?

Cops took her into custody. After receiving her Miranda warning, she told deputies that she knew it was illegal to ride a vehicle with fake tags. She said that she often switches out a real license plate with a prop tag for photographs and forgot to put the legal one back on the bike. Sometimes it's fun to break the law. After her arrest, the sheriff's office became aware of a social media account associated with her that showed her reckless stunt riding on public roads. And she's a deputy. She resigned from the agency rather than being fired. So, yeah. Mm-hmm.

Boy, this is messed up. A lion killed a man at a luxury lodge in the remote northwest of Namibia. The victim, identified as a well-known businessman named Bernard Keble, was camping with other tourists at a tented resort when the early morning tragedy unfolded. Keble was camping with his wife and friends. He was attacked by the animal. It happened when he stepped out of his tent to use the bathroom. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Other campers managed to... That's why I always crap in the tent. Scare off the lion, but Kebbel was already dead by then. Kebbel became Kebbel. Totally. Kebbel was a philanthropist who supported wildlife conservation in Namibia and once owned...

off-road center which sold accessories for safari vehicles. I bet he regretted those checks. Desert adapted lions roam the remote northwest of the country where mountains and sand dunes meet and in 2023 they're estimated to be around 60 adults and more than a dozen cubs in that area. Are there lions all over Africa? Where does the lion line end? The lion line? That's a good question. There's a

I mean, fairly accessible. You know, my wife went on a safari and saw them. Where did she go? What country? Norway? No. No, it's a big continent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would think that... I don't know exactly where she was, Case. But like Namibia, my niece was just in South Africa and she saw lions in South Africa. In Serengeti? Yeah. And so Namibia is like nowhere near South Africa. They're right next to each other. They are? Yeah. I was just looking. I'm looking at that map and I just saw Botswana. Okay. Okay.

Your definition of near. Yeah, next to is also near. Above. Yeah. Sorry, I didn't see that. Also, there's probably not a ton in the Sahara, but like, you know, and a lot of the game preserves, a lot of the countries have national parks. So, you know, especially south of the Sahara, Casey, there's a lot of lines. But, you know, lines are going to line. Yeah. Yeah, that's part of the deal. That's the risky take. All right, one more story, and then... The line line. I like that, though, Casey. We will wrap up.

Let's see. How about this one? A man who admitted sexually gratifying himself with pool floats has pleaded guilty to a months-long burglary spree that netted him dozens of inflatable partners. Okay, if you were to pick a pool float, you have a pool. What pool float would you pleasure yourself with? The vagina. Oh, you have a pool vagina? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about the noodle? I was thinking the noodle. In a deal with Florida prosecutors, Christopher Monin copped to theft and burglary charges. He, it's,

A judge sent him to two years of community control and an intensive form of probation that compares to house arrest. He'll be placed on standard probation in eight years. So, Monin's case has dragged on for years. It began following his 1.30 a.m. suspicious person arrest by an officer. The cop

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

And during the police questioning, Monin reportedly admitted burglarizing several residents and swiping many floats. He directed investigators to a vacant house across the street from his residence where he stored the floats. And cops found about 75 pool floats in his house. A search warrant inventory lists some of the seized items as unguarded.

A lounge chair with cup holders, a duck float, a lobster float, a french fry float, a pizza float, a turtle float, a whale float, a banana float, an elephant float, a watermelon float, and a float shaped like a piece of bacon. Well, this guy has a type. He also stole a Shaquille O'Neal branded Shaq inflatable lounger. And his home did not have a pool, by the way.

who reportedly told police that he, quote, sexually gratifies himself with the floats and does this instead of raping women. Yes. Oh, my God. Well, okay. We'll go with the former. Yeah, right. So prior... Well, there you go, son. To the pool float plea, he had been convicted of burglary theft, loitering and prowling, and violating probation as well. And there you go. Thought you guys would want to hear that one. That's right.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks so much, Marissa. Real quick shout out. I got this from Gina. She says, hey, sorry for the last minute. I wanted to wish my husband a happy birthday on June 4th. That's today, right? Yeah. And I want to thank him for giving me the best name ever. She says, I am Gina.

However, my given name is Regina. And when I married my husband, Andrew Cagle, 15 years ago, I didn't realize what my name became. So thank you, Andrew Cagle, for making me Regina Cagle. I don't get it. I don't get it either. Is it like a vagina Cagle? Maybe it's pronounced Regina. Yeah. But it says Gina, so... Gina Cagle? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, maybe. I think that's probably what the drug is. Kegel exercise. It's Kegel, right? That's how you say that, right? That's the exercise of the pelvic floor? Yes. I mastered them when I was preparing for my prostate surgery. Oh, okay. Well, you had to do, essentially, tighten up your butt cheek or your butt hole. It's described as like suppressing a fart. The way you tighten up to suppress a fart, that's basically what it is. So I guess that's what that is.

She says, we are daily podcasters, so whenever you can give him a shout out, that would be great. Love you guys. I miss you, Kathy, you stupid bitch. Yes, absolutely. Here you go. Gina Regina Cagle.

I mentioned that. So, Steve, there was something you experienced you wanted to share with the class. Yeah, it was interesting because my license was coming due. It'll be, it would have lapsed next Friday. My birthday's next Thursday. So it would be, you know, wrapping up then. And I figured, okay, let me, let me,

kill two birds and I'll do the real ID license and do the deal. Though I'd heard that there were some wait times if you go to the DMV and you go through the process. It's like, okay, I'm going to prepare. I'm going to bring my laptop. I was psychologically in the zone. I'm like, if I go there and it's a long wait, I'm prepped. I'm ready. I'll do work. I'll sit down. They have the free Wi-Fi there. I went to the KOP DMV, which is actually run really well. And so I get there

And it is packed like a mofo. So there is a huge line out front, which I get on, but they're processing people through.

And so I'm like, okay, I've made the mental commitment. You know, one of those things where like, Preston, you know, I'm going to go to this thing. I know it's going to be this. I won't beat myself up. I won't have any, you know, fits of rage because I'm jumping into the lines. Then I'm good. I'm good to go. Yeah. And Steve, I know exactly what you're saying because I had to take my mom and I'm not. No, no, no.

Jumping in on your story. But I had to take her to like a social security office for something. And I was prepared. Yeah. To sit there for one to two hours. Right. And you just kind of have to mentally, you know, just get yourself there. Let's do this. But by the end of it all, I'll have it complete. And I figured, all right, I'll have my real license, my real ID license. And I'll...

And I'll be set. So I get the clipboard and the paperwork. And again, it is packed. Thankfully, the AC is running. But I mean, a lot of people, a lot of people, the most packed I've ever seen it. So I'm processing through and things are moving and they keep the numbers, you know, what windows to go to. They're announcing them consistently. So I'm like, OK, let me let me let this breathe. And it's it's fluctuating a bit.

And so I fill out my forms and I'm sitting there and I get 331 was the number I had, I331.

And a listener comes over to me. Great guy. In fact, he was talking about the blood drive. He'd been to a blood drive a couple of years ago. Had a picture that he took with us, Preston. And so he says, yeah. Yeah, it's kind of packed today. And I said, yeah. And I said, what time did you get here? And he said, 8 a.m. What time was it at this time? 1245. Wow. He was coming up on five hours. Wow.

Five hours. Let me ask you this question. How many people were in the waiting room at this point? So there was not an available seat and people were around. So I'm like, mother of God. So they close at four. I don't know. By my reckoning and by our thumbnail math that we did right there.

I wasn't going to be anywhere near to getting processed through, especially since the number up on the readout was 101. Oh, my. And you were 303. It's like in Beetlejuice. Yeah, right. So, Preston, I'm like, mother of Christ, that's ludicrous. And I was psychologically in the I'm prepared to wait zone. But I'm like, that's like...

Six o'clock, you know, that I'm going to be getting out of there. And so I'm like. Well, the mall's right across the street. I know. Well, but I said, like, I don't want to leave. I don't want to. I don't know. I don't want to be reminded of how good life is outside of the building at that point. I want to just commit and do it. And then I got the notion. Well, listen, I have my passport and my passport's good to 2033.

And you can use the passport. I travel with the passport anyway all the time. So I go back up and I say, listen, I'm just going to get my regular license. I'll just get the regular license renewed.

She gives me the clipboard. Bing! I go right up to the thing. Bing! Over, get my picture done, and I'm out in about a half hour. I mean, it was... But I mean, like, that room felt like a tinderbox. They had to get up... Like, I was like, everyone would start to look. You start to... In the corner of the room, and it's like...

this crowd's ready to go. I think, I've been to that one, Steve, and I think you and I were chatting about it earlier in the week, and the one in King of Prussia is like kind of hidden behind that Plaza Azteca, which is a great restaurant, terrific margaritas. Oh, that's where it is? Yeah, right around the corner from there. So you go to Plaza Azteca, Casey, and then you go behind it and you get to that DMV. And I've been there, Steve, in the past where it's been...

No line. And so when you were telling us this story, I was thinking, man, it's a Tuesday. Right. It's middle of the day. It's in the pocket. You're going to be fine. There's, I think, four or five separate lines within that DMV. And I'm curious as to if your number was...

Not the same as the other guy. Not the same as the guy that had the 101 number. He was doing the same thing I was. He had the I designation, whatever that means. Yeah, I've seen that too. And then there's the F designation, which is when you are lining up to get your picture taken. Right, right, right. So I knew I was a dead man. I was dead man walking. I went to that same one to get my real ID. It took about 30 minutes. Yeah. But that was five years ago. I mean, that was in COVID. Yeah.

We had to wait outside. It was cold, too, because they did it in January. You can do some of these services at AAA. And so I've been to AAA. There's one right over by where Worldwide Stereo is in Ardmore. But you can only get some of the services done there. Only some. I don't think you can get real ID there. You're right, because I signed up. I wasn't going to say AAA is my secret spot to get information.

an ID renewed. I think people know it now because I went years ago and I got in and out in less than three minutes. I went a few months ago and it was like half an hour. So people are on to the AAA thing. But the website says real ID, but in person you cannot get a real ID there. Yeah, there's some caveats. Now they gave me paperwork and my documentation was checked and apparently I can apply. I don't know if this is the truth.

But now that I have this process taken care of, I can apply online for the real ID and be processed that way. We'll see if that comes off without a hitch. Often it's a time you'll get a notification back saying you have to go in person. And I figured I'll just cut right to the chase and go in person. So I decided also not to wait five and a half, six hours. Hang on. I'm going to go to Megan. She went to the same place. Hi, Megan. You're on the air. Good morning. Good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you, Megan. What's up?

We were just at that same DMV in King of Prussia. Okay. My, my husband was getting a motorcycle permit and there were two teenagers in front of him. No kidding. It was, we were third in line and we got there an hour earlier, an hour before they opened line is out to the, the, the road, but we are third in line for permits.

And we get in at 830 and we sit there and we sit there and we cannot understand what is going on. And then my husband catches a glimpse of the break time chart. And it turns out that the person doing permits took her break at nine o'clock for an hour. A half hour into her work day? That's correct.

And there was no one else who could step in? Like, I was watching people swap in and out yesterday. No, and the worst part about the permit thing is that it's literally sign your name and go to a computer.

Jeez. So, but the truth is, have you, you've been to that location before, I assume? Because I've always had pretty good experiences, but I'd never seen, I'd never seen anything like this. And I know it's the mad rush for the real ID. I got it. But yeah, it was wild. We got,

We got our real IDs last year, and they had said that the gentleman who was, you know, corralling the line said, hey, anyone who's here for anything else, you're cool. If you want your real ID, you can come back on Monday. We only do real IDs on Monday. Okay.

Maybe I should have gone on Monday. Exclusively, if you're here for a real ID, that's all we process on Monday. Oh, that's all they do on Monday. Interesting. So they take up all the time. That's a good piece of information. Okay. Thanks, Megan. Thanks, Megan. I mean, listen, if they're mandating this for all travelers and all U.S. citizens or Pennsylvanians,

The process needs to be easier. You need to be able to set up appointments. I got a text from Joe Holden from CBS News. He says, people call us every day about this Real ID process. One woman we profiled went three times to attempt to get it right. She's still trying. Oh, man. Uh-huh. It is weird. I don't know. And I was talking to this gentleman who had been there since 8. He'd come up on us five hours. And he...

He said, and he's right, they're pretty efficient at this location, but the rollout, the COVID stop, or the slowing down, or maybe the handling of the way it was instituted could have been a bit better. I don't know. I mean, we've known for years that you needed to do this, and a lot of people just didn't do it. I jumped on it right away. I'm like, because I kind of saw...

that something like this was going to happen. I'm like, I'm going to do this now. I'm going to do this now and get this out of the way. And I did the go early in the morning on the weekend thing. What's that like? It was, well, it was, like I said, it was cold and you had to wait outside. You were only letting in two, three people at a time because it was COVID. So it sucked. But there was a line around the building. But I got there at a time where it wasn't crazy. And I was in and out, like I said, like 30, 40 minutes, something like that.

Or at least I got inside in that amount of time. Preston! We're going to go to Bob next. Hey, Bob, you're on the air. Morning, bud.

Morning, guys. It's Bob from Valley Forge. Preston, I'm the one that gave you the phone. Oh, it's right behind me. Thank you, brother. Appreciate it. What's your story, bud? I'm in my office here in Valley Forge at like 5.30 in the morning. So the one Monday I'm like, I'm going to beat everybody over there to get my real ID. I left here at 6.15, got over in King and Prussia at 6.30. The line was from the door

through the parking lot all the way around the corner. Wow. The first guy in line had a pillow and blanket. So he could have been there all night. Dude, it's like you're in line for concert tickets. Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah. So I just rolled right through and I'm like, forget it. I'm not even going to get it now. You know, but to that point, Bob, like I like I'd psychologically, you know, I'd said I was prepared. I was in the zone. That's what pissed me off so much as like I was prepared. I would have done three hours, but five, six hours. That's like, no, I couldn't handle it. No. All right. So, Bob, you don't have it yet.

I, no, I didn't get, I'm just going to use my passport when I go to, to universal. Okay. All right, cool. Thanks man. Yeah. Steve, I think that's probably the right call. So if your passport's good till 2033. Yeah. If you get your license renewed, uh,

now, is that automatic? No. Steve just got a regular renewal. That's what I thought. What if you're a kid getting your license for the first time? Is that a real ID? I think you can get

That's a good question. I think you can get either or. Okay. I think so. So obviously the real idea is for travel. Why would you opt for the non-real idea? Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. That doesn't make any sense. Well, it might cost a little bit more, Nick. Does it? I don't know. Okay. And if so, if that's the case for some people, that might be a deciding factor. If it does, I can't imagine it's much. But yeah, why not just make it the standard price?

I know. Driver's license ID is a real ID. Look at my license picture. It's the exact same picture almost. They took a new picture. It just looks like they used a flash with one and didn't on the other. But I mean, that's how little I change. It's ridiculous. I will go next to Justin. Hi, Justin. Morning, bud. Good morning to you. Good morning, Ed. What's up?

Last year, I went to renew my license. And I used to work out in Lancaster. So that DMV out there is always empty for some reason. Just, you know, tumbleweed rolling through. Right. Okay. So hang on a second. We could go anywhere in the state of Pennsylvania. We absolutely could. Yes. That's an idea. Going to a less populated town. Yeah. How did that work out for you? I went to just Lancaster. Okay.

Well, normally it's really good. I get in and I get out in less than, like, I'd say 10 minutes. This time, though, I went and I sat for, the whole process was about three hours. Oh, never mind. An hour and a half of it, though, was spent because the lady who was going to take my picture forgot I was there. So it was just a human error. That's not how long the wait was. You just got forgotten about.

Yeah, but the crazy thing is I'm sitting there looking her right in the face. It's me and five other people all doing the pictures. So the five people in front of me take their pictures and go. And, like, you know, I'd say probably about half an hour. Like, all five of them just all go on half an hour. So I'm sitting there now, and I'm just on my phone. I'm looking around. New batch of people shows up. And then it's just like someone who showed up after me went and got their picture. And then I get up, and I go to her, and I say...

you know, what gives? Why are you skipping me? And she kind of gives me an irate answer like, sir, go sit down. I'll call you when, you know, whenever. And yeah, I said, you know, I've been sitting here for an hour and she's like, well, that's not possible. So I say, all right, I'll go and sit back down. That's not possible. There's no way that could happen.

Yeah. I see her conversing with other workers, and then her eyes just go, like, kind of, you know, big as dinner plates, and she realizes she did, in fact, forget me, and I've been sitting there just, you know...

tootling my thumbs. Justin, a word of advice. I do this periodically. I'll go and I'll wear like a bulky shirt and I will take road flares and I'll tape them together around my chest. And something that looks like a timer. And then you go and you can usually cut the line a lot quicker if you expose that. Did she apologize? She did not apologize. Come on. And then like the whole time she was kind of like pissy with me and like

I was just like, she said, sir, I forgot you can't wear head coverings too. So when I sit down, she just goes, sir, you got to take your head covering off. And that also led to a really funny driver's license picture where I kind of look like Al Sharpton. But... Write this, Ray Mr. Sharpton. You know, I was thinking about what Justin's talking about and the people there working at the DMV. I mean, listen, I know the...

The perception is that they're always in a perpetual state of being pissed off. But they're also dealing with a lot of people who are pissed off. They were really trying to manage it well yesterday. So my heart goes out to a lot of them. There were a couple of pleasant people. There was one woman who handled my situation at the beginning. It was snippy. But I don't know. I don't know how I would weather the storm if I had a lot of people...

pissed off at me all day so you know you try to understand it as much as you can of course the default should always be each new person is a new person so try to be pleasant with everyone yeah some people listen because they do they do the job they're doing it day in day out all the time they know exactly what is supposed to be done we as the people that come in and have to do this

Only once every five years or so may not know the minutiae involved in all the steps. And you should not get mad at us if we don't know this process. In fact, we need your help to walk us through some of this stuff. And if we make a mistake, sorry about that. But I hate people who are presumptuous and that...

You ought to know absolutely everything about this process. No, I'm sorry. And how dare you don't? You're wasting my time. There was the form for the real license had a whole bunch of things to check off. And I'm like, none of these, they vaguely might have pertinence to what I'm doing here, but I'm not sure, so I didn't fill them out. And I'm like, I'll wait. If you want to get pissed off at me, I don't know what this means. You know, this is not my thing. Once you get this real ID, are you...

Are you just going to have to go through the same process every four years? No, no, no, no. You can remember my license was expired when we were down in Florida and they wouldn't let me drive. Yeah. It was a real ID. Okay. So my renewal process was just like, you know, I filled out a form online and then I went and got the picture taken. And that was it. And that was it. The real ID requires a proof of your social security number.

Two proofs of your address and what is the other? Yeah, you need a piece of mail. Yeah. Believe it or not. Yeah, I had two pieces of mail. I was good to go. So all my stuff was...

was passed and uh i just didn't want to wait five and a half hours right so casey yeah renewal was like standard renewal uh for me and i already had the uh so once you go through this lengthy proving who you are uh to get this then then it's like a standard uh renewal every time at least that's from my experience that's what it was right this way mr sharpton uh i'm gonna go to jennifer hi jennifer good morning good morning guys what's happening

I'm here to report that New Jersey was surprisingly painless. I'm sorry to hear these poor PA people having a horrible time because it was shocking. You walk in, you get a slip of paper from the first guy that checks your info. And I got in a line with like eight to ten people and I'm standing there listening to a woman kind of about to get into an argument with somebody. She's like, I've been married 25 years. You really need my marriage license still?

and I did not have my marriage license. I'm like, oh no. So I go back to the guy at the desk. I'm like, I live 10 minutes away. Can I come? He's like, as long as you're back by two. And I'm like, okay. Ran out. It was like one. Came back. Got the line was shorter. Went up. I don't

I don't think I needed my marriage. I don't know what that poor woman was dealing with, but I didn't need my marriage license for the real ID. And I was out of there in like half an hour. Yeah. That seems weird that you'd be asked for your marriage license for the real ID makes no sense at all. Yeah. I don't think, yeah, it's, it's ridiculous that you'd still need it after two decades. I mean, they've known, I'm sure. Do you know what's weird is that, so in the United States, um,

Is every state a Real ID state? I don't think it is. Don't know. Yeah. So Jersey is clearly. Yeah, it's a good question. We would have to look that one up. Nick, is this something you wanted me to read here? Yeah, just because it's where Steve was yesterday. It says my sister went to the KOP DMV yesterday for my niece's junior license and was there for six hours. Six? That's a junior license.

I don't know if that's a real ID involved in that or not either. So, Steve, according to the Department of Homeland Security, all states, including the District of Columbia, all five U.S. territories are now in full compliance with the Real ID Act and issue real ID compliant driver's license and ID cards. So, yeah, everywhere in the U.S. and territories in D.C. I got a second here. Is this Helene? She works for a state rep. Helene, good morning. Good morning. Hey, what's happening?

So I work for a state rep's office. And so we help people every single day talking about Real ID. We can help people if they bring in their documents.

We can help verify to make sure that those documents are valid and that will be accepted to the DMV. Most times people have their birth certificates are old or that they have the hospital record and those things aren't acceptable. So you can either use the long form or the short form of the birth certificate. Your parents' names have to be on them.

Okay. Or you can use a passport. You don't need your birth certificate. If you have a passport, you can use that as your identifying document. Okay.

Because the last thing you want to do is go and wait six hours and then they go, oh, by the way, you don't have this or this isn't valid and so on. So you can reach out to a state rep. Is it is it just you guys that are doing that or is this all state representatives that are helping out like this? No, no, it's all it's all state representatives and most most most government offices, you know, can help with that.

All right, so basically you can hedge your bets if you want to make sure the documentation you're bringing over there is valid. But if you go to the website, they kind of pretty comprehensively spell out what you need and what they would accept. So it's also good to check that out as well. Yes, I will tell you too, marriage licenses, it is a pain for especially women who their name has changed. You have to prove yourself.

the trail of your name change. So obviously your birth certificate is going to say you're made a name and then you need your birth certificate, I mean your marriage license to prove your name change. But what we're given when we get married, say if you get married in the church, you get this certificate, you think that's your marriage certificate? It is not. You need to get a certified copy from City Hall. And then what happens if you get divorced and you change your name back?

If you change your name back, you don't need your divorce decree. Because you just have your birth certificate, which has that name on it. So if you're married, you need to bring in your marriage license and not the church marriage license, but the official marriage license from the county or the state or whatever. But if you're divorced, you don't need the divorce decree? So if you're divorced, the only time you need the divorce decree is if you get...

If the person legally returned to their formal legal name, that's the only time you need the divorce decree. So I think what they should do is allow you to retroactively amend your birth certificate so they can go back and add your married name and your adult size footprints. You actually put your foot, it covers the entire certificate.

Just to update it. All those certificates that have the footprints on the back and all that, they don't count. No kidding. Okay. All right. Thank you, Helene. I will tell you, President, too, that social security numbers, like people, they either lost their social security card. Some people haven't changed their name on it yet. So that's another problem. Here in Philly,

There's a Social Security office directly up the street from our office, and you cannot get a replacement there. You have to go down to JFK Boulevard. Okay. I was curious about that because my official Social Security card is just tattered. Yeah. It is just absolutely frayed, like only half of it exists. I'm like, at some point, I might need this. So what do I need? How do I do that? Yeah.

So you can try online to the official social security website. Sometimes you can get them sent directly to you. If you answer the questions directly, correctly as to what they have on file, you know, all those security questions they go through. I was able to get mine, but that was six years ago before the mad rush of real ID. So some things have changed, but if you were, if you're in live in Philly,

you can go down the JFK Boulevard. Other Social Security offices outside of Philadelphia, you may be able to get them. Okay. You know what's kind of weird? Directly in Philly, you can. What's kind of weird concerning the Social Security card, talking about it being tattered, you can't seal it in plastic. Right. You can't. It has to remain in its paper state, which leads to it getting tattered. Since I was...

How old? What? Yeah. 13, 14 years old or whatever? Yeah. You can't like put contact paper over it, right? But yeah, you could get like a sleeve like for a baseball card. Right. You can take it in and out of it. Yeah. You could do that. Yeah. That's a good idea. I wish I would have thought of that. I mean, it's just absolutely falling apart. So eventually I have to deal with that. Well, listen, dude, sucks. Yeah.

And a lot of people are going through this right now. Yeah, I'm fine. I got my passport. Yeah, you're going to be good to go with your passport. For people who don't have their passports, though, this is kind of do or die time. We got an insane amount of texts and people commiserating, Steve, people going through similar problems and people struggling with the idea or with the passport.

or whatever version of it is. So this is a problem and you're not alone in it because we're getting a lot of people texting in. Last text, and some of these are technicalities like this, it says I went for my real ID, had all my documents, including passport, because I used my middle initial on my driver's license and social security card, but I didn't on my passport. I could not get a real ID. Wow. Imagine you've waited like five hours and you find that out. Yeah.

Wow. That's when those road flares strapped to your chest come in handy. Yeah, I've got an idea. All right. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in a moment. Matt McCusker will be joining us. He's got a gig show coming up in August in ACs. We'll talk to him when we return. Stay with us. Just when you thought you had WMMR's number, we've changed it on you.

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We have our guest. Oh, yes. Okay. Joining us via Zoom this morning. He's from our area, which is fantastic. And he's got a gig that is coming up in Atlantic City. It's going to be August 16th. And it will be at Ocean's Casino Resort. It is called the American Teenist Tour. Love that. Which I love. And he's good buddies with Shane Gillis. They do a podcast together. And he doesn't like me. Ladies and gentlemen, Matt McCusker. Yay!

He's joining us this morning. Hey, Matt. We can squash our beef. Our beef has been going on since like 1998. Yeah, 1998. I remember my wife was the volleyball coach for the Garnet Valley High School girls volleyball team.

And apparently Matt was over at our apartment one time. And what'd you do? I don't know, man. I'm not really sure. What did I do? Kicked all the boys out, dude. Kicked all the boys out. I kicked all... Oh, because it was a girls' event, right? Dude, that's where boys want to be. We're all the 10th grade boys. We were like, we finally made it. We're in the den. We're at the volleyball team secretly.

This has cracked us up forever that this dynamic existed. So he was giving the bums rush to the guys at the party, and we'd crack up and we'd hear about it periodically. It was just hilarious. I mean, he totally did the right thing. I just want to make sense of it. Well, listen, you're...

I do owe you a bag of Reese's. I think one of us took a big bag of Reese's. Dude, listen, and somebody stole a bag of weed from my apartment. I clearly remember that. I don't think it was that particular day, but I lost like a quarter ounce of weed somewhere, and I never found it again when we moved. Get out. Maybe somebody lifted it. I don't know. So long story short...

I would have known that. I wish I knew that. I would have taken that. You're getting the Reese's Pieces back is what he's saying. Yeah, we had the girls over. Rochelle had the girls over for an event. She used to do things like have them over for a sleepover or something like that. And I don't know. I guess I kicked the guys out at some point. But...

I'm trying to remember. Yeah, I only recall like one or two gatherings and that was pretty much it. But then listen, Matt, to in my defense, that was before we had kids. I didn't know how to talk to kids back then. I had no idea, man. So, you know, I

I mean, you would have been even probably meaner if you had kids. I'd be even worse if I had kids now. I'd be like, get out of here, you guys. It is kind of funny, though. It was funny looking back on it and being like, literally being in seventh grade and being like, dude, what is that guy's problem? I can't be in his house all night with the volleyball. It is kind of funny because you can hold on to these –

I don't even... Like, resentments for a long time. And I had this with, like, a college professor of mine. I'm like, she was such a bitch, right? And then I was going through old college notebooks, and then I just...

And at this point, I became an adult. And then I realized, no, I was the problem. I was the child. And the adult was the one that was right the entire time. Yeah, but you're a horny seventh grader trying to hang around the girls' volleyball team. Nothing's going to make sense there. There were some cute girls on that team, too. Oh, yeah, yeah. Volleyball girls, absolutely. So, Matt, real quick, can you give us just a quick trajectory of...

your comedy career, like, so Garnet Valley, Garnet Valley High School, what college, like, and then what ultimately brought you to the stage? Um, you know what? So, I'm trying to think. So, I went to college, I went to Drexel University, so I was in Philly. Yeah. So, I, you know, I was just like, I was doing school, I was kind of like in and out of it. I wasn't really, after like two years of college, I was like, you know, this is not for me. Yeah. I finished, but I was like, I don't think I'm going to do anything with this.

But I started doing stand-up just because I used to like, I would watch like, you know, a comic remix on Comedy Central when I was a kid. And it was never like this thing, like, I'm going to do this one day. I just kind of would watch it and be like, these guys are okay. As a little kid, I'd be like, I think I could do this. And then, yeah, I just tried it one night at Helium and then it went okay. And then I just kept doing it and doing it. And then from there, I...

I think in 2014, I won Philly's Funniest. I think I was judging. I remember... Yes, I'm almost positive. And I saw this pop up that you won Philly's Funniest. And I've been called on to do that a number of times. And I've always contended that this area generates some top-level comedic talent. And when we first started this show, Matt...

They were not really comedy clubs. And, you know, it took a while for the heliums and, you know, stuff like that to kind of permeate the area. And then there's this big, you know, obviously, as proven by you and Shane and others who have gone on, you know, and Tommy Pope and all these other guys who have shown that they've got the chops.

And so that, yeah, I'm almost positive, at least at some point, I was one of the judges for that. So I'm basically saying I need a bag of Reese's too. True. I think you did the year – I think you did both. But I know the year before I made it to the finals and got knocked out, and the next year I won. But you probably were at one or the other. But actually, I do remember that. So you did that. Yeah, that was it. I just won that, and then I met Shane, and then like –

Just literally that year, I met Shane. We started a podcast. Then like seven years later, you know. I think, though, though, your degree was international business. Was that correct, Drexel? It started as psychology. Then I switched to international business. Yeah. But now you also have a degree. Is this true from Bryn Mawr Social Work?

Masters? Yeah, I'm a master's in social work too. Dude, that's a huge undertaking. So doing research on you and this stuff, I knew you at one level. And we're going to talk obviously about the show. You're hilarious and everything as well. But the stuff you're doing with the PsychNaw website, with the...

mental health and I was watching you on Rogan's show and man you have a very storied past and a whole bunch of stuff so we're going to hit some of this at one point you had a food truck right? It was my brother's I worked for my brother in his food truck I helped him start it and now it says confirm or deny you prepared food for Gordon Ramsay at one point

No. Oh, no, he did. So there was two versions of that. The one was he actually did Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmare because there was a Mexican restaurant down the street from where he had his truck that was going under. And they brought my brother's truck in and my brother to be kind of like, why can this guy in a truck make better food than your restaurant? My brother was like, it was really brutal. He's like, I didn't really feel great about it. But we...

We gave food to Steven star one time. He came by the lunch truck and we, I didn't, my brother knew who he was. I didn't know who he was. And he tried to give us like a $20 bill as like a tip at like a lunch truck festival.

And I was like, dude, keep your money. I was, I just, I thought it was just like an older guy. Keep your money. Like 20 bucks. Thanks, man. Man. I want to ask you about like the connections in and around Philadelphia that have, you know, tend to hold out to your career. You know, Shane's an obvious one, but, um,

Sean Gardini used to intern here at the radio station with us a long, long time ago. And guys like Tom Ryan that float in your world, that float in Shane's world, McKeever's world. When you guys all end up in a place like Austin or L.A. or wherever, do you gravitate towards one another because of the Philly PA connections? Or is that just happenstance? Do you know what I'm saying when I ask that question? Yeah, kind of. I mean, it was really...

Austin, it was really kind of intentional. We all a lot of us just moved down here. So we all hang out for sure. I knew a lot of Philly comics. I moved to New York and they same thing. They all kind of gravitated towards each other and still kind of kept hanging out in New York. So are you petting a dog right now by any chance?

I am, yeah. Okay. Or he's jerking it. Hey, listen, we have a friend of the show. His name's Kyle, Cast Iron Kyle, and he is a huge fan of yours, and he listens to your podcast all the time. And he wanted me to ask you two specific questions. One, how did your podcast listeners get the name Dogs?

Honestly, that was just I thought it was funny to add like, you know, they take, you know, just make like acronyms out of words. And I said do it unnecessarily all the time early on in the episode descriptions. I would do like I would just put D period, a period, W period, G period, S period. It's just like it was just a fake acronym. It didn't stand for anything. But I don't know. I just did that. That became a thing. And that's how that became a cool reason. And then he also wanted to know why people call you the shaman.

Honestly, I don't know. It was just a – early on, a lot – I mean, you know, I just would talk about, I guess, kind of like far out kind of metaphysical –

slash spiritual, psychological concepts a lot early on. And then I was also pretty involved with psychedelics and doing slash distributing all this stuff. Doing slash distributing. In fact, on that Rogan interview, you were revealing things got kind of dicey earlier on when you, I guess, were doing a little bit of dealing. And were you ever...

in a quasi-scarface sort of situation where guns were drawn or anything of that nature? Oh, yeah. I've been robbed at gunpoint a couple times, and I got, like... There was this whole... I mean, it's, like, too even long to get into, but I did end up one time in, like, this weird...

like construction supply warehouse with like, you know, an ex police officer with guns in the sky threatening me. And, you know, big, this turned into this big thing, you know, classic Italian be like, I'm in the mafia, blah, blah, blah. That was like the height of it. And then I was like, all right, that's enough of this. So you, you, you very casually are telling that story, but at the time, how terrified were you? Honestly, when people pull guns on you, it really is a,

It's like you're not scared in the moment. You're so scared that literally things freeze down. You dissociate from your body. It's that scary. Where it's like things slow down and everything goes in slow motion and then once it's over, you're just like petrified. It's like slightly PTSD. I was having night terrors and stuff for months. It really messes you up. You dealt with panic attacks for the longest time, right? Big time. I think I'm

I just have them now, but I don't really care. You know what I mean? That's like the best way out of it, honestly. You know, because my brother had them for a while and he just learned how to process them. And in a way, he said that they kind of help them a little bit, if that makes any sense. Like being that hyper aware of where your mind is at sort of serves him better, if that makes any sense. Yeah.

No, I totally agree. First, I think they're like for me, I got them when I was in my early 20s and I was like just an absolute maniac. So for me, it was like my a different part of my body was just telling me like, dude, something's horribly wrong and at least like.

flagged my like flagged me to do a little bit of self-review and i'll you know i i think yeah it's like the worst thing that happens to you when it happens to you but if you can like make it through it it's like yeah it kind of is the best thing on a on another note entirely make some changes yes yeah yeah and you have in your life and that and now um how many years married now uh five okay two kids

Two kids, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And so as all of this work that you've done and, you know, with learning how to interact with people, and I was reading a lot of your stuff, it's very insightful and it's very empathetic. Does that serve you in fatherhood? Does that serve you in parenthood? Or is that a whole other skill set that no one's prepared for?

Yeah, I don't see like I read a lot of books. I didn't read any books on parenthood. Just I don't know. I just never got around to it. But I don't think it would even really help. Honestly, like it's you kind of just got to do it. But that's a whole for me. It's been a.

You know, with the extra set of eyes on you that are just developing and developing, that's like the ultimate kind of life review where you're like, I would just catch myself doing things that like I used to do that I thought were totally cool, totally normal. Just like, you know, like you argue with your wife or the way you talk and then you're just kind of like,

This is horrible. You have to slow chip away at that because you have little kids being like, I don't want to do this. That one really gets you, man. That's a big one. Matt, I want to go back to the thing with the gun because you mentioned freezing. People forget that there's fight or flight or freeze. There's a third F in that response.

And I'm wondering if that ever happened to you on stage, especially when you're starting your comedy career. Was there ever this fight or flight thing or freezing up on stage because of you dealing with panic attacks or things that have hampered you or affected you over time? Yeah, dude. When I first auditioned for Helium, I was so nervous that I started one joke, didn't do the punchline.

started another joke realized i had forgotten to do the punchline then went back and did the punchline for the other joke jump and then i just stopped and was like uh i remember vividly it felt like 10 seconds it was probably like two seconds but yeah i've gotten panic attacks while performing on stage and just you just kind of just like eat it and champ them yeah i've just been like all right well and you know you just kind of

I have a kind of a tell. I don't do it as much anymore, but if I would start to spin out, what would happen is the big thing is I'll be like, I'm forgetting my material. I'm blanking. This is it. You know, the gig's up. Everyone knows now. And then all of a sudden it's like I would start going like, yeah, man, my wife's a good girl. And the crowd would laugh because I'd have like a 10 second thing where I'd be like, yeah, she's all right. Yeah.

Anyway, I feel on the verge of breaking down. And then I would like, okay, this is what I have to do. We'll come back. But I've teetered on the edge many times. Well, kudos to you, man, for doing that. It's stuff that, you know, I was checking out the website and you talk about these are things that you have to deal with life and that you have to

They're going to come at you anyway, so you might as well get accomplished or at least learn the tools to get through it. It's funny because your material is so intrinsically you, and it's hilarious, and you have this casual vibe, and it really relates to the podcast very well because it's the most loungiest...

you guys are usually sprawled as if you're you know half dead and it's it's so funny because you know you see so many others that are these you know that they're high tech and they've got the lighting and then this and then that and you guys are more often than not just sprawled you know i think it's hilarious yeah yeah man i mean it's yeah we just it's funny we just kind of uh

People, we've had guests who have come and have been like genuinely shocked. They're like, well, this, this is seriously what you guys. Hey, so a season two of tires comes out tomorrow. I was actually talking with McKeever about having him on this week, but I think we're going to have him on next week. He's in Austin right now. Are you guys hanging out? And are you in season two?

Yeah, I have my I've I'll be in it. I have a role in there. And yeah, I think they're doing the premiere tonight in Austin. So there's a lot of people here. OK, so that's what he's doing. Will you be at the premiere?

Yeah, either or not. All right, so how do you do that with a series? Do you screen a couple of episodes? You don't screen the whole series. No, I kind of remember they did it last year, and I remember they did like two or three episodes, and then you just kind of go hang out. I don't think they do the whole thing.

They're only like 20 minutes, 25 minutes. I mean, they're short. Yeah, they're short. And I love that. I love that. Because commercial-free, that plays like a regular sitcom episode, and you're just cutting to the chase. So when you were starting all this years ago in college, I mean, and going where you were going to go, this series...

This scenario, this turnout could not have been in the plan, right? I mean, do you marvel? Do you get to allow yourself to marvel at where you are right now?

No, I mean, you know, it's one of those things that like every now and again it'll hit me. I've talked to Shane about this a lot where we'll just kind of laugh every now and again because it'll be like, what? Like, you know, but you really honestly like you get so used when you do stand up for so long or pretty much anything, you know, that like you're doing for a long time without getting paid. And, you know, especially like stand ups like humiliating because you bomb, you're not getting paid, you have nothing.

I had hit a lot of my 30s. I hit a decent chunk of my 30s doing it where it wasn't really going well. You're getting grilled by your family and like,

You're just used to being looked at kind of poorly by a lot of people. And then when it works, you're just kind of like, well, this isn't going to last. I just never let myself take a breath and be like, oh, nice. I did it. It's just like, yeah, this could go away. I think that can serve you well, too, if you kind of take sort of a modest –

approach to it you don't you don't go to extremes and you can you can handle it better if that if that resonates you know because you're not it doesn't seem like you were like you were just the the classic stardom baby you know to the to the stars and and when you do that you kind of are more appreciative of each step along the way yeah no it's true and i i really just didn't want to be like

My whole goal was just not to have a job. I had so many jobs that it really felt like I was being cooked alive while I was at them. And it was like, if I could just avoid that, I'll be happy. You'll win. Well, it looks like you're being smart, too, because you remain frugal and you're repurposing your mason jars as drinking glasses. That's...

That's smart. I'm so cheap. I don't need your money like that. Steven mentioned your kids. You have two. What are their ages? Are they boys or girls? What do you got?

I have two girls, three and five. We just had a third birthday. Wow. You can start your own volleyball team with those girls. No, but you got young ones, man. That's a handful. And how do you and your wife handle, you know, handling the kids stuff? Is it divide and conquer? And because you're away, you know, for stretches.

Yeah. Yeah. So no, we, you know, again, like, yeah, when I have to travel for stand up, obviously she kind of holds it down. And then, yeah, we've just we didn't do a lot of like shift work, which is I say that's like the most important thing. We have kids like really shift off because we would just both always be there. And then like.

get stir crazy so we've gotten good at being like all right you sleep in today i'll get them in the morning but usually what to give you an example like i usually i'm more of a morning person so i'll wake up get them all situated and then she'll come down you know a little later and like do the brushing the teeth hair and all that stuff and i'll like drink my coffee and relax so we do kind of shift it up a good amount let me ask you because i don't have kids but i you know um having at one point been a kid myself if you're raising you at the girls at that age

And is there a casual competition between parents to be the favorite? For sure. And sometimes you feel, oh, I'm losing ground on this. Even though if it's not stated, it is implied. Oh, no. Both my daughters, when they were babies, wanted nothing to do with me for the most part. And then once they both did this, once they became like one and a half, they were like, we don't want anything to do with mom. They were like all about me.

And around at four, the oldest one was like back to kind of more mom. And then I still have the three-year-old. It's kind of just all about like won't let my wife take her out of the car seat. Wow. Wow. Yeah. It's tough to not get butthurt. Like especially like here's a situation like this where you're going somewhere. Yeah. You have to take two cars. Yeah. And the kids choose to drive with the other. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, that's true. Dude, it's like a prison transfer. Yeah.

I don't know though, I can get into it because if they're like we want to go with mommy, I'm like alright I don't have to listen to that Gabby's Dollhouse nonsense By the way if you're just tuning in Matt McCusker is joining us, he's going to be playing Saturday August 16th at Ocean Casino Resort and you can get tickets at theoceanac.com Do you watch any of the shows the kids watch and are there any of them that you like at all?

Yeah, I like it. I mean, Bluey's good. I think Bluey's great. I like Bluey a lot. And we've been watching, I've been like introducing him to old shows from my childhood. Like we started watching Pokemon, which I was actually kind of old for, to be honest. But like, I'm like taking them through like Ninja Turtles, all this stuff. So that's kind of fun to let them like watch that stuff. But it's like, yeah, I'll kind of watch. What else do they like?

They honestly will watch anything. But right now, Gabby's Dollhouse is huge. I'm not a huge fan of that. Yeah, you know what? We found that kids, if it's animated, they'll watch pretty much anything. So my wife at the time, this is like right when DVDs became available in cars. And so she would put on, unbeknownst to me, the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, which was like even stupid for me growing up. It's like bad animation. I didn't like it at all.

But the next thing I know, my kids all became Beatles fans. And I was like, this is the greatest thing ever. That's right. I tried it the same thing. I tried to show them Yellow Submarine. They were like, what the F is this? What kind of acid trip are we on? You say when you raise kids, employ the methods of a North Korean prison. Yeah. And you'll be fine. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Lots of re-education. Yeah. Yeah.

So what do you hope your daughters get into? What are you secretly hoping, Matt, that you can corral, gingerly corral your daughters into getting to, be it music or pop culture or whatever? Oh, what I can get them into? Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Honestly, I don't know. Playing music, I'd be happy if they picked up instruments and kind of played music, but I'm really trying to just see what they naturally gravitate towards. Right. Just being like, kind of pushing them in that direction. But yeah, if they like anything they do, like they're into dance, music, like anything they do that's kind of like... I don't know, honestly, anything...

Yeah, what I want them to get into is like hiking and kind of camping so we could all do that. Yeah. Are there good spots in Austin? Huh? Are there good spots in Austin to go hiking and stuff?

I don't know. I'm sure there are. I think there are. I haven't done it. I think if you go out west towards like the hills, there's nice spots. But I took my daughter hiking when she was two thinking it would be like our thing. And she just like five feet into the woods, bent over and started like picking up rocks. I guess we're done.

You know what though, Matt? We literally got nowhere. They'll be into different things with you at different times and different things with your wife at different times. And I'm sure you've been told this a million times, but my son graduates from high school tonight. It seems like a blink of an eye when he was five. Preston's youngest is graduating from high school this week. Casey's middle is graduating from high school. And so like...

It is just, I miss every age that he was as he was growing up. I miss the three-year-old Ben. I miss the five-year-old Ben. So whatever they're into for whatever advice and whatever means coming from somebody you don't know in me, just enjoy it, man. Because it just absolutely flies by. Yep.

Well, thank you, man. That's awesome. And congrats. That's amazing, man. That's crazy. They're both graduating. Hey, so you're playing Ovation Hall, which is a big room in Atlantic City. When did you graduate from clubs to theaters and stuff?

I mean, it's not like a sealed deal. I've been kind of like scratching the surface of that right now. So it's always kind of a mystery and surprise. But I started doing theaters this year, just like a couple, just because I really wanted to do them where I could be away less. In theaters, you can do a city in one night rather than three days. Yeah. So that's kind of my plan is like, let me see if I can do theaters in whatever markets I can do them in. I'll at least do that.

I like clubs too. I like them both, but theaters are nice to get it done in one night and be out. Do you like Atlantic City at all? Not really. It's a different comedy. Oceans is awesome. It is great. I didn't know if you used to make runs to AC for whatever reason. No, I didn't sell crack and heroin. No, you just sold acid. I used to do it.

Two years ago, he had a giant billboard for just nitrous. And I was like, this is really what this is? Dude, we were talking about that billboards for weed and everything. Yeah, it's pretty wild. Well, let me tell you, I watched Speed of Light, your YouTube, the comedy special, last night in preparation. This stuff is great. Thank you.

Yeah, and I think, honestly, you're going to have a good show out there in AC, regardless of what you might be able to purchase off the street. So...

Yeah, buy yourself a rose at the gas station and come. I'm actually recording a new hour. At the end of June, I'm going to record a new hour and put it out. Excellent. All right, well, get your tickets now. The show is August 16th, Saturday night, Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City. Of course, you can get tickets at theoceanac.com. And hopefully you'll have, you know, if you swing back into town, you come by and pay a visit to the studio. That would be great, man.

That'd be awesome. Thank you, guys. And I won't kick you out of the studio. I promise you. Unless there's girls around. Unless there's girls. True. Hey, that's fair. Good talking to you, man. Thanks for checking in with us. We appreciate it. Hey, it was a pleasure. Thank you, guys. You got it. Matt McCusker, guys. And all right, there. Our beef is over. Yay! I'm sloshed. Buried. You buried the hatchet. I could totally see me being a jerk back then. How old were you in 98? Uh,

You were 33. I was 30? Yeah, because you were born in 68. Casey, how old was your brother? I was 30. I didn't know how to talk to kids. Yeah. Rochelle would have been pregnant with Parker at that point in time, so we didn't have kids at that point.

Yeah, if you're not skilled in it, it's hard to do. And I'm sure Rochelle told me, okay, the guy's got to go. And I was just like, all right, let's go. I didn't sugarcoat it. I'm like, you guys got to get out of here. But teenage boys can be such obnoxious little idiots. And so I don't blame you for reacting the way that you did. Do you know what's funny? Because when you talk about the, and you guys having, you know, through all the stages from baby to your toddlers to...

There's a certain point, at least by my reckoning, where there's no communication. They're just living entities and there's no communication.

cognizant sort of thing going on where you're able to exchange communication at any level. No, it comes in stages. The language develops, obviously, over time, but you figure it out. You figure it out, yeah. And then at that point when you realize, oh my God, I'm getting feedback. That must be exhilarating. It is. Until they ask you questions. Yes, and won't stop either. Carter was a nonstop chemist.

talk or used to drive our show crazy and we'd play the quiet game. Oh, dude. Love the quiet game. Whoever stays quiet the longest wins. Let's play the get daddy a beer game. Oh, we did that one too.

Yeah, we did the quiet game and then also pick a number between 1 and 10. And the number was always 4. But I would say, all right, pick a number between 1 and 10. They didn't know what the winner got, right? So sometimes the winner had to take the laundry upstairs. And then other times the winner got like a candy bar. But so they always knew that the number was 4. So they were like...

Three? Did DeLandry ever read to them, though, as a win? Or did they realize they'd been played? No, they realized that they'd been played, but they just don't know. So they were like, okay, do I answer four or do I not answer four? Is this going to be a good thing or is this going to suck for me?

I do remember one of the first times I asked my kid to grab me a beer. I'm like, this is great. I don't even have to get up anymore. This is fantastic. When I was a teenager, my dad and I drove across the country. And I was 13 at the time. And I realized that my job, and this was a different time, folks. Even though it was highly illegal. As my dad was driving, I was the beer jockey for the cooler in the backseat. While he was driving. While he was driving. Press to give me another beer? Different time. Sure, dad. Yeah.

There you go. Not even caring about her driving hundreds of miles. I know that that's illegal, but I've done it. And there is something exhilarating of having an open beer bottle in the car. Wow. And this was years ago, Preston. So the statute of limitations has totally expired and I can't be arrested. But no, I remember driving up the Pacific Coast Highway and drinking a Pacifico beer and

and thinking, man, life is okay. Oh, hang on a second. I wonder if I could set the stage for you. Oh, okay. Hang on. I mean, would you equate it to beer in the shower? Yes. Which is a wonderful thing as well. Yeah, and more legal. More legal. But yeah, I got a six-pack at a gas station just outside of Pacific Palisades, and I didn't drink the entire six-pack that I tried. That was going to be the next question. Yeah, can I get a suitcase? Yeah.

I'm taking a short run to San Luis Obispo. I don't have the right music. I was going for Ventura Highway from America. Tell the story. He's driving up the coast. Pacific Coast Highway. And people say, give him thumbs up. He's that guy with the big head. Give me that thing right now. Because I feel like you're in Ventura Highway right now.

The Californians. This is a great song. Mick's head's hanging out the window. He's yelling. It was an open-air Jeep rental. And, yeah, I remember visiting the gas station on the right side of the PCH before you get to Malibu.

And picking up the six pack of Pacifico and cracking one open and feeling like, you know what? Weather's great. The ocean was off to my left. I'm driving north. It's gorgeous. I'm doing all right. Yeah. Let's take your favorite drinking and driving calls right now. 610-660-9333. Actually, no, we won't. It's one of those moments where you're like, I know. I am fully aware of how illegal and wrong this is. Yeah. And I don't care.

And believe it or not, it was an MMR trip. We did this thing. I probably could have gotten fired. Yeah. There was this thing where we did these home and away contests. And it was Metallica played Philly. They played the Vets.

And then they played some stadium in Los Angeles, maybe where USC plays it, it doesn't matter. And so we flew a plane load of listeners who got to go see Metallica play the vet here in Philly, probably like 2003, 2004. And then I went with Frank Lario and we flew to LA and took all these listeners with us and they got to go see Metallica perform in LA as well. It was a great contest. It was a really great time. And Frank and I drove up to BCH.

And had a couple beers on the way. All right. I got another song for you that goes directly in line with this song. Okay. I feel that blast. What is this? Hang on. It says, I drive the speed limit because there's drugs in the car. Oh, you said that to me. It's an Instagram video. Okay.

Are there any other blatantly illegal activities that you guys have engaged in? Well, I used to enjoy huffing paint while driving a dump truck. And I knew that was wrong. Then you left the bed up one time. That's absolutely... And then tore off on a bridge. It is just as illegal to be a passenger in a car with an open container. So Frank was breaking the law too. Yeah, that son of a bitch. He set you up. You know, so I don't drink, but that notion of driving along...

If you've never done the Pacific Coast Highway, make that a vacation. You'll never forget it. It's amazing. Nick, I killed a guy just to see what it felt like. With the Trident. Yeah, with the Trident. Now, there is a stretch of the PCH right now that is closed because of the rock slide. It should be opening soon. And I wanted to try and get out there because you could actually ride your bike on it.

oh yeah because they have it closed not just where the the rock slide was but you know um before and after it okay so there is like a stretch miles and miles of the pch that you can ride your bike years ago my team mile drive yeah it was amazing yeah my dad did um he for a long time he was doing these bike tours you know a case and he would get he did the pacific coast highway and did up to san francisco and all that stuff and he was with this touring group and uh

And he loved it. Because, I mean, again, scenery-wise, it is the stuff of legends. That's a bike tour I'd like to do. Then there's another one, I believe, Glacier is in what? Montana? Yeah. Okay, so it's near Glacier. Going to the Sun Highway? Going to the Sun Highway. That's exactly it. And you go into Alberta. You start in Kalispell and you ride up and over the Continental Divide in Glacier and then can go north into Canada from there. There's...

Actually, two conjoining national parks is one on the Canadian side of the border and one on the American side of the border. And that's Glacier. And then I think it's Waterton National Park in Canada. Anyway, well worth a case. Some of you said just made me think of a band name, Casey. I'm going to write it down. Fat Alberta. Fat Alberta. I like that. Fat Alberta. It's Fat Alberta. That's the Canadian equivalent. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. And I'm going to sing a song for you, eh? Yeah.

My buddy, Super Dave in college, he would go, Haiti, hi-ho, it's obese Alfred. So he did the white version of... Okay, I got you.

We have really departed where we were, so I'm going to reel us back in. What was it? Obese Bertha? Was that what it was? It was Fat Alberta. That is good. And obese what? Alfred. Alfred. Okay. We'll end on that note, and we'll take a break, and we'll come back in a second. We'll get to some bizarre file stories. I think that'll get us back on track. So hang out. We'll be back in a moment, friends.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you, Marissa. What do you want to mention, Nick? I'll try to keep this concise. Evanescence is one of those bands that I've always really liked but not done a deep dive on. And Bring Me to Life is a great song. It's a huge hit for them. It came out 15 years ago.

The TV show that I'm watching right now that I can't stop thinking about is called The Rehearsal. Nathan Fielder is the creator of it. It's got two seasons. And season two is essentially all about him becoming a pilot, a 737 pilot. And he goes...

It's the weirdest show I've ever seen. It's the most unique show I've ever seen. It's very different. Preston, I sort of compared it to that show Jury Duty that you and I really liked because it's just different than anything I've seen before. And Nathan Fielder, in my mind, is a genius.

He takes that song, Bring Me to Life, and completely shines a different light on it. It made me think about it differently. It made me listen to it differently. And in season two, and this is no spoilers or anything like that, you should watch season one before you watch season two.

He spends an entire episode pretending to be taking over the life of Captain Sully Sullenberg, the guy that landed the plane on the Hudson. And what that song meant to Sully is something that I never knew about before. And so now, anytime I ever hear Evanescence, especially if I ever hear Bring Me to Life, I will never not think of...

Wait a minute. Sullenberger likes, in real life, loves that song by Evan Essence. I didn't know that. He wrote an autobiography, wrote a memoir, and his father, Sully's father, passed away in the 90s, and he never really listened to music before then. And then after that happens, after his father passed away, he spent a lot of time with an iPod. He listened to a lot of different music, and for whatever reason, he connected to Evan Essence, specifically that song, Bring Me to Life. And the way that Nathan Fielder

Sully Sullenberger is weird and bizarre. You really just have to watch the show to understand what I'm talking about. I cannot recommend the show more highly. It's the rehearsal. It's on Max and it's excellent television, but that episode...

episode in particular and what he does with Evanescence is just so weird and cool and genius. Have they commented about it? I'm sure it's gotten to Amy Lee's ears. I would love to hear what she has to say about it. Writing that down, I'm intrigued. Yeah. Just

Watch it for yourself and let me know what you think. And if any listeners have watched the rehearsal or know what I'm talking about, message me, email me, or whatever, because I'd like to hear what other people's opinions are. Nice. All right. Well, thanks for the heads up, man. I appreciate it. All right. Beep file time. Let's do it. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. All right. It's brought to you by me. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. All right. I'm going to start with this story, and I saw the video for this.

Technology and AI is progressing at a rapid pace to a point where people are struggling to tell the difference between real and fake online. AI videos have been doing the rounds in recent times with millions of users shocked by how realistic they seemed. And a street video that eerily mirrors the Hawk Tua video has caught the eye of many, though they were shocked to find out that it was all created with Google's state-of-the-art video generation model called VO3.

But it looks like the confusion is only beginning with other videos, including one with a woman whispering into the camera, also shocking users. Now, scammers are also catching on with one woman falling victim to a fake Brad Pitt. We've talked about this, who scammed her out of like a million bucks earlier this year. Now, one woman is taking a Reddit to explain that her mom is about to fall for something similar, writing in the scams group.

She listed a plethora of red flags and asked for help to convince her mom that she's about to be scammed. The user's mother believes that she has been talking to actor Owen Wilson.

Now, spoiler alert, it's not him. And the video that was sent as proof is obviously AI. But she said, my sister and I have been telling her it's a scam, but she's just not hearing us. She said she met him on Yahtzee with friends, which I assume is an app. Yeah. He claims that he'd mistaken her for a person he knows in real life. He only talks to her on WhatsApp voice calls. She says FaceTime too, but I have doubts.

She added that photos of Wilson that were sent to her were easy to find on the Internet and on fan accounts. And her mom claims that he hasn't asked for money or bank details, but that he got her a job at Warner Brothers where she can make $5,000 a month by liking social media posts.

And the job sent her a couple of $10 payments through Cash App. That's so generous. For her first trainings. Yeah, I'm sure that's Owen Wilson. That they'll send her $1,000 through Cash App when she finishes training. The user said that Owen Wilson told her mom that he'd be buying a house in their small coastal town and wants both her parents to live there and be caretakers while he's away. And she added he had an actual realtor.

from this gated community call her to discuss the options.

Now, this part was believed to to to argue was believable to her. As a realtor mentioned, quote, my sister in law's mother's uncommon name, even though they aren't connected on social media. So she sent a video that was supposed to be proof that he was real. And he's he's talking and he's saying her name and he's like, hi, this is me. And I'm here to tell you that I that I really am interested and I really love spending time with you and all this.

And to maybe somebody who's not savvy with videos, they might fall for it. I mean, you can see in some of the shading and stuff. It looks weird. It just looks like a poorly videoed segment. All the AI signs are there. Yep. And so she's asked for advice on how to convince her mom that it's all fake because her mom is all in on this. So stuff like this is...

just getting started. And the tech is only going to get better. And start, especially like with the VO stuff, this is actually substandard compared to what that stuff can do. But I'd say this, just have a talk to, if you have somebody in your life who you think might be susceptible to this, and just...

Have them contact you first. Anything that comes across, have them contact you. Have one step before they do anything that's going to involve the transfer of money or buying things or meeting somebody somewhere because it's getting really dangerous. Wow. Wow. Really dangerous.

Two men are in jail after a wild 130-mile-per-hour police car chase spanning two counties. And it started with some head-scratching items getting stolen before the chase even began. Investigators say that the two men, first of all, they went to the Dollar Tree. Yes. Yes.

to rip it off. Deprived of the century. And each stole a Put some of those votive candles in a bag. They stole a backpack and a laundry basket and filled them with merchandise. Roughly 20 minutes later detectives say the same men went into Walgreens and they stole antacids, memory supplements and women's Rogaine. Okay.

So they're obviously robbing for a bald woman with a bad memory. And horrible stomach problems. So the haul was about $1,400. A deputy spotted their car and that's where the chase started. Video shows squads following the car on I-94. Investigators say the driver nearly hit several other cars, a motorcycle, and even avoided stop sticks.

Speeds on a residential street were more than 100 miles per hour. So in total, deputies were after these guys for 24 and a half miles. Man. Well into Milwaukee County. On I-41, they called off the chase because it was getting too dangerous. The guy was doing 130 miles an hour. Wow.

With the hole from the Dollar Tree. A Milwaukee County Sheriff's deputy found the suspect's vehicle. Investigators say 33-year-old Gindele Lyons and 31-year-old Sylvester McCurry ran away. I want to fence this. How much can I get for this? A dollar. Nearly a dozen officers swarmed the on-ramp to take the man into custody. Lyons told police that he, quote, needed the stuff from Dollar Tree.

During a police interview, he denied taking anything from Walgreens and denied flashing a gun at a clerk as he left the store. Both men are going to be in court on Friday morning.

Police in Osaka, Japan, have arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of attempting to steal women's underwear from a laundromat. According to police, Mitsuru Toyonaga, who is self-employed, was arrested on suspicion of attempting to steal four pieces of women's underwear from a dryer at a laundromat. Now, if I'm misstating this, I'm sorry, but it's my understanding that there are actual vending machines in Japan that dispense...

Women's underwear. Well, I've heard that in the past, and maybe that's in Tokyo, but I don't know about in Osaka. But this gets, the plot thickens here. A passerby became suspicious of Toyonaga's behavior and detained him on the spot. Police said that he admitted to the allegation and confessed to having stolen women's underwear about 100 times. Wow. Since September last year. And at his home, they found about 450 items. Jeez.

of women's underwear stored by color in a chest of drawers. He should be introduced to the guy who steals the pool floats. He had them organized. Yeah, those two guys really hit it off. All right, and the one last story, and we'll end here. Seattle police are investigating after a man was shot in the leg. It was over an argument over a phone cord on Monday morning.

Police responded to a shooting around 2 a.m. When they arrived, they found a man who had been shot in the leg. Officers treated him at the scene and applied a tourniquet. Like a charging cord? Yep. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. Police learned that the suspect had the victim's phone cord and wouldn't give it back.

back during a confrontation over it the victim was shot where'd you get it the dollar store police searched for the suspect but they could not find him so they are trying to locate that guy and there you go that's why we'll end the bizarre file for you this morning all right let's take a break we'll get back we'll test your knowledge of the program today with a lesson question we'll get trash music news too so make sure you stay put we'll be right back

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All right, about 13 minutes to have 10 o'clock on this Wednesday morning with the President's Eve show, 93.3 WNMR. Some third-eye blind to bring us into this portion of the day. We have our blood drive coming up next week.

Can you believe it? A week from tomorrow is when it starts. It's going to be over two days this time around. Scheduling has dictated that that's how we handle it this year. So Thursday, because we like to do it in two locations, Thursday we'll be at Live Casino Hotel in Philadelphia.

Pierre Robert is broadcasting live. Is Brent Porsche broadcasting live too? I believe he is. He is. So that's great. So you'll be able to hang out with Brent in the afternoon as well. And I believe we are stopping by to donate our blood there because Friday is a little bit more problematic. Yep. And that's when we'll be at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks. And you can be at either one of these locations. And if you do show up and...

save a life, which you most likely will if you donate blood. You'll also get a really cool t-shirt this year designed by a listener. Her name is Kristen Kimmel. She's a graphic designer and she made these shirts on her own for no other reason than she just wanted a design of a cool shirt for herself and she wore it to

Our live broadcast of Coco's in Clearwater. And we all fell in love with it. Yes, yeah. So this is the new design for the shirt this year. It's this Philadelphia skyline made out of the Preston and Steve Show member names. And Kathy is well represented in there too, which is great. I love that. There's some little Easter egg things that you'll notice as you look closely at the design. But everybody's going to get one of these who donates. And also a Preston and Steve Show tote bag.

from Window Nation, which you can use if you're doing your shopping and taking your bags with it. You'll have one of those too. So,

No walk-ups, so you need to sign up for this. And you can go to PrestonAndSteve.com and see the new shirt, as well as a gallery of the last 19 years of t-shirts, and you can make your appointment while you're there, too. Marissa? I may have misspoke. Jackie Bam Bam is Thursday at Live Casino, and that one is 8 to 2. And then at Oaks, it's us, Pierre, and Brent.

Oh, okay. Wait a minute. Okay, hold on. So the hours are a little shorter on Thursday. It's 8 to 2 p.m.

8 a.m. to 2 p.m., okay. Yeah, and then Jackie Bam Bam will be there in the morning, and he'll be checking back with us. Oh, I messed that up. I apologize. I thought Pierre was broadcasting. Are we sure? Yeah, Jackie Bam Bam will do call-ins from like a few Thursday, and members of the Press of Steve show will stop by. Okay. That would be us. All right, then that's me. So... I apologize.

So Friday, us and then Pierre and then Brent broadcasting live. Okay. At Oaks. So cool. Make sure you sign up. We need your help. With some also really cool surprises. I was talking to Eric yesterday. We were plotting. He was sharing a few little details that are coming together. Oh, for Friday? For Friday and for Thursday. Oh, I love surprises. Yeah.

Yes. All right. Excellent. All right. It's lesson question time. We can give away a pair of tickets for The Revivalist. This show is going to be September 26th, Parks Casino Excite Center. And the question that I will pose to you is this. The Wrong Paris, starring Miranda Cosgrove, features what kind of charm that is also Steve's favorite kind of charm? Mm-hmm.

It was mentioned close to 7 o'clock this morning. And if you were listening and you know, you need to call us now. 610-660-9333. The Wrong Paris, starring Miranda Cosgrove, features what kind of charm that is also Steve's favorite kind of charm? If you heard that this morning, you know the answer to it. Call right now. We'll see if you can get through. While you're doing that, we'll do this. The trash business is a goldmine. 93.3 WMMR.

With Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. Step right up, everybody. It is trash time. Steve, what's going on this morning? Well, get this. It turns out both Sean Diddy Combs and Harvey Weinstein are being sued for sexual assault by the same model named Crystal McKinney. Lawyers are hoping this revelation will exonerate both men, freeing them and allowing them to open up a school for wayward young women looking to become movie stars. Oh, my God.

Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen. Miley Cyrus sharing some insight, saying her rift with her father, Billy Ray, came about after he split from her mom, Tish Cyrus. Miley says something just snapped and her voice suddenly started sounding like a long, wet fart. We all know that. And finally, George and Amal Clooney and Bono grabbed dinner together in New York City on Friday night.

Bono later called the meal a delight, saying that it's true what they say, and he actually did end up feeling good in the neighborhood.

It is Happebeest. It is, man. All right. We will see if we got a taker. If anybody happens to know The Wrong Paris starring Miranda Cosgrove features what kind of charm that is also Steve's favorite kind of charm. And so we are going to go to let's see. We have Carmen online. Hi, Carmen. Good morning.

Yeah, is it Southern Charm? Is it Southern Charm? It is not Southern Charm. I knew it. Damn it. That was pretty good, though. I'll give you a second chance. Is there another word you want to do besides Southern? Oh.

No, man, you got me. All right, thanks, Carmen. We still love you. Yeah, all right. Well, if anybody knows, you need to give us a call, 610-660-9333. What kind of charm was it from The Wrong Paris starring Miranda Cosgrove? And it's also Steve's favorite kind of charm. We'll start the music news while we're waiting for that. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Yeah! Oh, wow.

I have two things, unless there's something else here, Casey. Okay, all right. I have two things to pass along to you. Cedar and Daughtry are teaming up for a 2025 co-headlining tour starting October 1st in Virginia Beach and ending November 15th in Fort Lauderdale. So they're already coming to town on...

July 12th at the Freedom Orange Pavilion. They'll be with Creed and Mammoth. That's going to be a great bill. But they've expanded. They're doing a 24-city tour produced by Live Nation. Stops in Atlanta, Dallas, and Boston with P.O.D. and Kami Keough as opening acts. They recently released their ninth album, The Surface Seems So Far, in September 2024, while Daughtry dropped last.

There's his single, The Day I Die in April, and the EP Shock to the System Part 1, September 2024. Tickets go on sale Friday with early bird pricing at select venues already underway. Tour offers VIP packages for fans wanting a special concert experience as well. And then, like I said, I only had two stories. This other one, but I didn't see this coming. Randy Bachman is...

planning to release new music with his band, Bachman Turner Overdrive. BTO? BTO. In an interview, he shared the BTO, which he brought back in 2023, had already released a song 60 years ago in March. This was such a standard. Yep. This, my band, we used to close with this all the time. Oh, did you? Yeah, yeah. Because people were drunk. Yeah. Dang it, Gavin!

So this song featuring his son Tal and guest vocals from Neil Young is about their hometown music scene in the 1960s. And Bachman is now working on three or four new songs of BTO's original singer Fred Turner and a couple with Tal as well. He also mentioned possibly

making a new album if these songs do well. Additionally, Bachman and his old bandmate Burton Cummings plan to perform together in 2026 with their other band, The Guess Who, after gaining control of the band's name in September of 2024. Those are both bands I like. Absolutely. I thought they really cranked out some good tunes.

All right, and there you go. That's what I have in music news for you this morning. All right, we still need to get an answer of what kind of charm is in The Wrong Paris starring Miranda Cosgrove and also Steve's favorite kind of charm. So we're going to go to Maureen, see if we can get an answer. Hey, Maureen, good morning. Good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you, Maureen. All right, so let's see. Do you know what kind of charm we're talking about here? It is country charm. Country charm.

You got it correct. So, dude was off just by a little bit. I just, goddammit, I hung up on her. I'm sorry. It's a new system. Yeah, Maureen, call back. Still getting used to this. But we are going to set Maureen up with...

A pair of tickets as MMR rocks. The Revivalist is going to be September 26th at Parks and Rec. Excite Center. Tickets for all upcoming events at Parks and Rec. are at parkstocino.com. Must be 21 and older. Parks and Rec. This is how you win. All right, we have one more break to take before we wrap up things on the program today. You'll need that letter of the day for the Word of the Week prize, so hang tight. We'll have it when we get back.

Some things never change, but WMMR's phone and text number has. Now you can hit us up or call us at one number, 610-660-9333. Now back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast.

Sometimes you gotta hear every little bit of that song. Yeah, man. Bring out the sponge. Yeah, man. It's Lil' Lil' Young for you this morning. 10.32 on a Wednesday morning. And a warming at that. And of course, we've been reiterating that information throughout the morning. Because it's hot, hot. Hot in a good way. It's not crazy. It's not like, you know, mid-90s and humid. Yesterday was excellent. Are you enjoying your shorts vibe? I'm loving the shorts vibe. Welcome to short city, baby. You know what's been wonderful?

And I know it's early in the season, but it hasn't become an ice cube here in the studio when it's super hot outside, which for some reason that happens from time to time. But yeah, today's high about 88 degrees. Pretty much the same thing today, tomorrow, Friday, you know, sun and high 80s. And then Saturday, we're going to get back to normal high 70s. But we do have a chance for some rain over the weekend. Don't like that.

I bet we won't have it. I bet it'll be a glorious, sunny, 70-degree day. Mark my words and then forget them if I'm wrong. Okay. Mission accomplished. We'll do that. Hey, I wanted to mention something. Casey pointed something out to me. I did not know this. I would have put it in the birthdays earlier this morning. This guy works in our engineering slash IT department. He's great and it's his birthday today. Mike Vito. Mike is awesome. He's one of those guys who's just...

kind of like in a perpetual good mood. Seems like it, yeah. And narcotics. That's got to be it. Very helpful. But if you want to wish him a happy birthday in person, why don't you come down to Dining Under the Stars tonight? I will be there. Brent Porsche is broadcasting live from 3 to 7. We'll be at the Plum Street Mall right along State Street and Media. And this is all for the Ben Franklin to Atlantic City bike ride. Ben to the shore bike ride is what I'm trying to say. Benjamin

Hey, Franklin. Yes. And, you know, so, you know, this all benefits the families behind the badge. Children's Foundation. So Brent's going to be there from 3 to 7. I'm probably going to pop by somewhere between like 4.30 to 6.30, maybe 5 to 7, something along those lines. But Mike Vito will be there. He'll be there the whole time. Yes, he will. I'm sure. So stop by and wish him a happy birthday. So that is tonight. What is Benjamin Franklin's middle name? You know, as soon as Steve said that, I looked it up. I don't think that he has one. Yeah.

It just goes by... It's a Lincoln. Like you did. Right, Benjamin Lincoln Franklin. Does he have kids? Yeah. He had 15 kids. The Franklin bunch. Out of wedlock, right, Nick? Banged a bunch of whores. Yeah, he did. He was happy with the French whores. Uh-huh. I just wonder if there's any... I like French whores! If there's any living lineage? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I...

That's an interesting thing. An actual descendant. So he was married and then his wife died and then he was way into the French Wars and then he has three legitimate children, Casey. William, Francis, and Sarah.

Are there any living heirs? There's got to be, right? You would imagine. Yeah. I'll look that up, too. Okay. I think there was one. You mentioned Lincoln. Yeah. I thought Lincoln. There was like one remaining Lincoln. I think there is. Ancestor. I thought so. Ronnie Lincoln. Yeah. Ronnie.

All right. Anyway. Oh, G.J. Calls is a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin. This has been history. Fake history. Fake history. Why not? Take this into school if you're still going. I would like to thank our sole guest today, Matt McCusker, who is on the show. We forgot to ask him about the name of the show, the American Teenist Tour.

Well, he's playing Saturday, August 16th at Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City. We bore witness to something akin to the Treaty of Versailles today, where a peace was made. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. His beef with me has been settled and buried, and everything's good. He admitted that I was probably right for kicking him out of my...

apartment when he was a teenager and we had other teenage girls there. It's an old story. We're not going to go into it right now. But anyway, let me see. Oh, and thank you to Katrina Cuffell who checked in. She was a coolest teacher at Gwinnett Mercy. We now have Shawnee High School in Medford that are up and voting right now for coolest teacher. So text we're a teacher to 610-660-9333 if you are indeed a student there. All right, Casey, we're going to need to get a letter. You got it? I got you. All right.

Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. All right, Preston and Steve's show is brought to you today by the letter. I, as in Ipecacacacac. Ipecacacac. Wow. What is that from? Well, it was me singing the Billy Joel song. Ipecacacacacacac. You ought to know by now. Thank you. I couldn't place the...

The melody there. All right, so we're going to give away a pair of paddock pass tickets for the NASCAR Cup Series Great American Gateway 400 Sunday, June 22nd, Pocono Raceway. By the way, it would be to get into the paddock area. It's very cool. Including access to the Media Party Plaza and Chalet Village. Chalet Village.

Now that's family time. I knew that. All right. It's time to start your summer as NASCAR returns on June 20th through the 22nd to the tricky triangle at Pocono. It is a great, if you've never been, it is definitely something you need to get to. For more information, get your tickets at PoconoRaceway.com, by the way. Sha la la. All right. I'm going to thank our sponsors. The President's Chiefs are brought to you today.

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John Heater and Efren Ramirez will be in our studio. Excellent. I love it. Napoleon Dynamite. We have had both of them by. We have. On separate occasions, I think, right? Yes, we've had a number of the cast members. Yes. So, uh.

They're going to be in tomorrow morning. Our makeup influencer, Sarah Wren, is going to bring by the red light masks for us to wear. And see what it does. It's going to be a magical transformation. We know at least whoever wears it will look stupid. I am sure. And we will have the triumphant return of our former intern, The Pituation. Hey! Tomorrow morning. Yeah, he'll be joining us. So we have a lot going on. That's it. We're done. Rage on. Have yourself a fantastic day. We'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye.

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