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And it begins. Welcome, friend. Today is a Thursday morning. Glad to be sharing it with you once again. Let's see how we're going to do. I think we already know weather-wise. Getting that taste of summer. It's nice. Today's high. Close to 90 degrees. We'll have clouds, though. That's going to be a little bit different. So expect a little bit of a haze in the sky. Tomorrow, partly cloudy. High of about 87. Saturday, some scattered thunderstorms.

High tapering off to about 80 degrees and then some afternoon showers expected on Sunday. So a little bit of rain passing through and cooler on Sunday. I have about 72 is what we're looking at.

And now, Kristen and Steve's news update. Morning today is Thursday, the fifth day of June. We'll begin with a story out of Philadelphia later today. The city will begin installing new loading zone and no stopping anytime signs along the Spruce and Pine Streets corridor today.

in the city's 1st and 2nd district. Now, it's the first phase of a project that will add more protection for cyclists in the most used bike corridor in the city. Eventually, vertical concrete barriers will be installed according to the city's plans. Right now, flexible barriers are the only thing that celebrates cyclists from cars passing by. Any flexible post barriers

were inadequate last summer when a speeding drunk driver killed a doctor who worked at CHOP, Dr. Barbara Freeds. She was riding her bike in the bike lane on St. Bruce and 18th Street. However, not all residents in the city support the safety upgrades.

A city neighborhood group called Friends of Pine and Spruce is suing the city to stop the installation of those concrete barriers and other improvements. Now, they say the projects will reduce parking and cause congestion. The group also says accidents will increase, driveways will be blocked, and even first responders will be impacted, amounting to irreparable harm to property rights and neighborhood infrastructure. So we'll see where that goes.

A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean earlier this week. And the biggest event of its kind this year. Yeah, I've never heard of this, but apparently this is something that happens. The cloud extended more than 2,000 miles from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean.

And about 750 miles from the Turks and Caicos Islands south to Trinidad and Tobago. The hazy skies cause people all over the Caribbean to sneeze, cough and have watery eyes. Local forecasters warning that those with allergies, asthma and other conditions should remain indoors or wear face masks.

The dust concentration was the highest amount so far this year, according to the National Weather Service in Puerto Rico. The plume is expected to hit southern states later this week and into the weekend, but it's not expected to make it all the way into our area. The dry and dusty air known as the Saharan Airwaves

air layer forms over the Sahara Desert in Africa and moves west across the Atlantic Ocean starting around April until October. I was not familiar with this phenomenon. Likewise, this is the first time I heard about it and then to realize that it's something that happens fairly frequently, but that this one is just enormous. Yeah.

My ex-wife used to live in St. John and a couple of years where she was down there, Steve, it came in and you could almost feel it. Really? Yeah, there'd be granular sand in the air and it was just one of these things that would affect the sunsets, would affect storms, and it was palpable. You could notice it every time. All right, that's worse than the Canadian smoke. Yeah. I'll take the Canadian smoke. Because you also smell, you got the Canadian bacon smell with it, which is great. Hey, you'd be eating sand. You would not have known. You would never have known.

You wouldn't even realize that you're eating and breathing sand at that time. So if you didn't have food, say if there were no crawdad, if there were no frogs. And there was no meat. We ate fowl.

Yep. That's right. That's right. So that's what they're doing now, Sal. You ate sand? We ate sand. We ate sand.

All right, and one last story. The famed Budweiser Clydesdales will be arriving in Phoenixville today to parade down Bridge Street. The event will begin at 5 p.m. at Reeves Park and travel down Star Street to Bridge Street, and the festivities will conclude at Borough Hall. Closure of the Star Street and Bridge Street intersection will only be limited to a few minutes, officials said, and the intersection will not be shut down until the parade reaches

The VFW on 200 Star Street. Closures for the remainder of the parade will continue to be rolling as positions of Bridge Street will reopen as the parade passes through, allowing travel on Star and Main Streets. The 300 block of Bridge Street will be closed from Gay Street to Church Street from start of the parade until the horses are finally unhitched at the end and brought back to their trailers.

The Clydesdales, by the way, stand over six feet tall, though we have to 2,200 pounds. They've been part of American culture for more than 90 years. Since partnering with Folds of Honor in 2009, Anheuser-Busch and Budweiser have raised over $33 million, funding more than 6,600 scholarships.

for military and first responder families. Budweiser donates a portion of the proceeds from all 12 packs of Budweiser and Budweiser Zero sold to the organization all year long. If you get a chance to go, it's pretty cool to see them in person. They're beautiful. They're amazing animals. Very big, beautiful animals. And yeah, they're something else. They're treated like royalty. Yes, they are. All right, in sports this morning...

Balls actually jumping! Oh, my God!

What the f*** is that? All right, Nick, what's up this morning? The Phillies lost to the Blue Jays 2-1 last night in Toronto. What the f*** is this? Alejandro Kirk drove in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning for a walk-off win for the Blue Jays. Vladimir Guerrero hit a one-out single off of former Blue Jay and friend of the President Steve show, Jordan Romano, and then stole second base. Kirk then won it with a line drive off the wall in right field. What the f***?

is that? Former Phil's reliever Jeff Hoffman got one out for the win. Nick Castellanos scored the only run for the Phil's, hitting a solo home run off of Jose Barrios in the second. The series in Toronto wraps up this afternoon. Jesus Lozardo will get the start in the first pitch. He's scheduled for 3-0-7. In Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals, the

The Oilers won in overtime, beating the Florida Panthers 4-3 last night in Edmonton. The Oilers came back from an early 3-1 deficit, tied it in the third period, descended to overtime, and with only 31 seconds in the first overtime, Leon Dreisaitl scored a power play goal to give the Oilers the dramatic win. Game two is tomorrow night in Edmonton. The puck will drop at 8 o'clock. In game one of the NBA Finals, that's tonight between the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder. 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, Nick. All right, so we welcome you to a Thursday morning. We got a packed show today. This is going to be fun, man. We are first going to have our good friend, the Pituation, stop by. Hey! Hey! That's him doing Fonzie, by the way. Oh, my God. That's just as good as his Rocky impression, which now that I hear it...

Do you mind? I know, Case, you're very, very busy. Can you find the whole... I hope it's there. I hope so, too. We were live at the Cardboard Classic, and Pituation was on the road checking in with us, and I asked him, I just threw it to him, and I go, hey, yo, and it led him to... To attempt. To attempt to sound like Rocky, and it was so bad. Ah.

And his apology was the best. Is this it? You got it? Okay, here we go. Let's see. Hey, yo! I don't want to bring up part of my Rocky impersonation, which is really bad now that I'm hearing myself. I don't want to bring up part of my mythos. Oh, my God.

He is just the best. Rich Leaving is his name. And we named him The Pitchuation because at that time, there was still the Jersey Shore and the situation, that character. And the pitch of his voice would crack and he would go up into this falsetto thing by accident. He would just start talking like this. And so we nicknamed him The Pitchuation.

And he's one of our favorite interns of all time. So he's going to be stopping by this morning because he and a group of friends do this 24-hour game show marathon. It's a fundraiser. It's become a thing. And it is coming up this weekend. So he's going to come in and give us the pitch. The pitch. Oh, I love that. And by the way, there is the one clip where he's like, uh-oh.

I love you, Steve. Were you here? His voice go full. We don't have that clip anymore. I need you to find that clip. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Things disappeared in our digital editor here. All right. We also have a friend of the show stopping by. She is our makeup influence. Yes. You know, I get a lot of inspiration from her. Absolutely. Prepare every day and get ready to go. But Sarah Rand is stopping by because Steve was wondering out loud on the air not long ago about those red light masks.

masks that they have. They just look weird. Yeah, they do. So she's going to bring one by and we're all going to try it on. She's also going to bring us a whole bunch of summer care skin tips and some surprises including something that I don't know what it means but jelly sticks. Jelly sticks? Yeah, I asked if they're edible and they're not. They're not.

Can you bring some peanut butter sticks? All right, we'll find out what all that's about this morning. So get your skin tips this morning from the Preston and Steve show. And then, and this is really, really cool and special. We are going to have John Heater and Efren Ramirez. So that is Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro who are stopping by. They're doing an event tonight. It's at City Winery at 7 o'clock. And not only that.

John Grise is going to be there. Uncle Rico. Yeah, man. So cool. White Lotus and Real Genius and all the things that he's been in throughout the years. Man, we had him on a couple years ago. He's an awesome guy.

awesome conversation so the three of them are going to be there tonight how cool is that it's cool because they love the movie they love talking about it nick you hosted an event with them they're so friendly and they yeah they they still like watching the movie like talking about it telling stories from it which is really cool so tonight's event should be awesome yeah so john heater and ever maria's are going to be here about uh 9 10 this morning and we'll get a a

really cool chat with him. We'll give him some jelly sticks. We'll have them left over. I love you, Steve. I love you, Steve. You're

You make every morning here so much brighter. Thank you. I appreciate that. You're a writer. Love him to death. All right, let's find out who our coolest teacher of the year from yesterday was. And we dove into the jar and pulled out Shawnee High School in Medford, New Jersey. And we put the word out for the students to vote. And you know what? They did. And we did.

Have a win-off. And we would like to congratulate Miss Ashley Gerber. Teacher, teacher, who can you teach me?

Ashley Gerber is a family and consumer sciences teacher. And she also focuses on fashion and interior design. That's pretty cool. That is. That is even available as part of the curriculum. I love it. So, Ashley, congratulations. You are the coolest teacher, according to the students here.

at Shawnee High School in Medford, New Jersey. And if you know Ms. Gerber, please tell her to give us a call this morning and check in, and we'll kind of pick her brain a little bit about what she does and what she's got going on. And we will, of course, give her the prizes. Thank you very much to Dunkin' for being our sponsor. We have a $50 Dunkin' gift card for Ashley, and we're also going to give her, of course, the Preston and Steve Coolest Teacher of the Year coffee mug to have and hold. And we have only one prize.

More school to go. That's the final one for the year. 2025. So Nick McElwain gets the honor. He's digging into the giant jar. I'm going to pick you out a winner, Bobby. All right. The last high school for 2025. We're sticking to New Jersey. It is Washington Township High School in Sewell, New Jersey. Washington Township High School. Here's what you guys got to do.

You got to text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. We will then send you the voting link and you can put in the teacher's name who has, for whatever reason, been extra special to you this year in your educational journey. And also, if you wouldn't mind, if you're a student, if you're a staff member, whatever, let the crew at the school know. Tell them at the front office so that they can get the word out as well internally. So is next week pretty much...

It for most high schools? Yeah, so... Great schools, too, man. Yeah, so we... Our graduation for my youngest is on Monday. Nick's graduation for his son was last night. Yeah, yeah. And you already... You guys have graduated, so... Yeah, we're down. We're down. This is it, man. Wow. And I can feel it with my kids. Yeah. Yes.

Yeah. Oh, my God. Barn door. So Carter, who's going to Westchester, so his class has ended, you know, like a week or two ago. I mean, he was just lounging around the house yesterday, which was great. Yeah. I was happy to see that, man, because we all remember that. Yes. The time when school was over. You felt like you had crawled through a tunnel out of Shawshank. Yes. That's exactly it.

Oh, man. So, anyway, congratulations to all who are graduating, by the way. But, yeah, Washington Township High School. Get the word out. Sewell, New Jersey. Just text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. Two notable alumni from Washington Township High School. King Kong Bundy. Hey. The wrestler. I'm not.

I love that. I know, yeah. I had no idea he was from New Jersey. Maybe he took the decorating class. He graduated in 1974. And Linda Fiorentino, we were just talking about her not that long ago with Kevin Smith. She was in Dogma and Men in Black. So she was born in 1958, so class of 75. Wow. Yeah.

All right. Excellent. So some serious notables at that school. Excellent. All right. Well, let us know. Give us the votes. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in a second. Of course, the Entertainment Report. Stupid question. Got a good one this morning. This one from a listener that I think you guys will like. So we'll have it all in just a sec. Stay with us this morning. We're having a good time. Have you used Alexa as a clock radio? And we don't mean as a projectile.

Just tell her to wake you up to WMMR and let Preston and Steve rock your ass out of bed. Hey, welcome to the Preston and Steve podcast, which is brought to you by Acme Markets. Hungry and in a hurry? Acme's flash grocery delivery or pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. Acme, fresh foods, local flavors, and the official grocery partner of the Preston and Steve show. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks to Steve and Singer for being the official jeweler of the Preston and Steve show.

Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. Before we ask this stupid question, you guys want to meet a cool teacher? Yeah, I'd love to. I think we can do that thing right now. So, we had Shawnee High School in Medford, New Jersey voting all day yesterday to tell us who they thought the coolest teacher of the year was, and they did, and we have her on the line. Please welcome Ashley Gerber. Good morning, Ashley. Good morning.

morning hey congrats you sound like you have a little smile on your face right now is this true well congratulations how long have you been teaching at Shawnee so this is my ninth school year at Shawnee nice and I'm reading here your family in consumer sciences teacher can you tell us what that is

Yes. So for anybody that remembers, it's the old home ec. Okay. So it's the new language for home ec, but I specifically teach fashion and clothing and interior design. This is really cool because they never offered stuff like this. Not that I would have taken it, but this would have been an option because it's a legitimate industry that you can get to jump on getting some insight to. Do a lot of students gravitate towards this?

Yeah, we have a pretty packed program and it's actually coincidental because last night was our art show. So it was like the end of the year, everybody walked through, got to see all the art. We had a fashion show. I have three years of fashion. So my third year students, we did a runway show and it was

really awesome wow we have a pretty pretty big program it's awesome ashley what's it like you know being a teacher i i i will ask a few teachers this throughout the year you know every year you have to say goodbye to people you you make a connection with them you form relationships and then they're gone um but i would imagine some do circle back around and come back and and tell you how their life has turned out is that uh is that a pretty interesting and cool experience

Yeah, it's probably the best part of teaching. So I was actually a 2007 graduate of Shawnee. So I stayed in contact with my fashion and clothing teacher, went off to college, tried the real world, then came back and kept that close contact. And, you know, she's part of the reason why I get to teach at Shawnee every day. And, you know, I stay in close contact with a lot of my students and, you know, check in with them, see them around town. And that's...

Honestly, the most rewarding and best part of my job. Now, let me ask you something. If you crank out some top-level fashion designers, do you hope then to get invited to sample sales when they are massive hits on the industry? Oh, absolutely. I should be number one on the list. You better get some free stuff. Hey, Ashley, are there still teachers that you had that are still at the school teaching? Yes, a lot of teachers that taught me

still teach at Shawnee and I'm very close with them and shout out to my little girl gang that we have at Shawnee. But yeah, it's, it's really, it's such a cool experience to get to come back to, you know, where I grew up and get to teach in the same high school that I went to is. It's terrific. Nice. Terrific. Well, you and the girl gang, there's going to be some jealousy because only one of them gets a coffee. That's right. From us. So have you got a, you got any cool plans for the summer?

I got a couple vacations planned. I'm working my second job and just hanging out with friends, family, loved ones. Excellent. All right. Well, Ashley, you're doing a great job. The students are appreciative of you and what you do, and so are we. So we're happy to give you, on behalf of our sponsor, Dunkin', we'll give you a $50 gift card. And, of course, as I mentioned, you get the President Steve Cools Teacher of the Year coffee mug. So congratulations.

Thank you so much. This is awesome. All right. Have a great summer. Ashley Gerber, guys.

Love that. That to me is so cool that, I mean, those kind of, that level of specificity, if you could have had, if I could have had more of that in high school. I mean, we had like an A-B spot and stuff like that. But, I mean. They didn't pinpoint and narrow it down to very specific things like this when I was in high school. Like you're lighting the match on a career. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, well, so at Southerton, where Mike, this is my last kid, and we'll be done. But there, uh.

they're broadcast journalism yeah classes and studios and all the things that i that would i dude i would have been all over that in school if i was to dive in and get going with this with a little bit more of a specific approach i you know but listen we're doing okay yeah we're doing all right so all right we're moving on with stupid question oh and by the way uh the last school of the year washington township high school that was the last one nick pulled it uh

Out of the jar. So Sewell, New Jersey, you go to Washington Township. You guys get to vote. And tomorrow morning, hopefully, we'll be talking to your coolest teacher. You just text the word teacher to 610-660-9333 and we'll send you the link. Maybe King Kong Bundy. Yeah, you never know. He went to Washington Algebra High School. All right. Stupid question. I told you I got this courtesy of a listener. Evan Tagmeyer sent me this. I got it this morning. I'm like, I got to use this one. By the way, we're going to give away a pair of tickets.

For Matt McCusker, who we had on yesterday on the show, Saturday, August 16th, Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City. Here is your question. What was the first prison in the United States to offer hot water for showers? Wow. First prison to offer hot water for showers. Yeah, 610-660-9333. Interesting little fact here. What was the first prison?

prison in the united states to offer hot water for showers call if you know the answer all right i got a bunch of birthdays to mention so we're going to zip through these pretty quickly uh we'll start with actor jeff garland and you know him from not only curb your enthusiasm but the goldbergs and then he got let go yeah steve was talking about him this morning story in the in the papers this morning is i didn't see it yeah so he was playing a gig and he was he's supposed to get 800 in cash

I was telling Nick how weird the story sounded. So he showed up at the venue and he said it has to be in cash. He'll do it. It was apparently close to his house. He showed up and they had a check and he just left.

Get out. Yeah, there was an audience. But he did specify ahead of time, you know, I want in cash. But it just seemed weird. He's 63 today. We were just talking about Nick Kroll, I believe, yesterday. He is 47 years old. What was the show that we were referencing? Adults. I think that's the one. Yeah. He directed at least one episode, maybe two. Okay. So, yeah, he's involved in that new show on Hulu. We had him here in the studio way back when, before he became ultra famous. He was awesome, man. Yeah, he's a terrific man. Very, very funny. He did a little Jeff Goldblum impression for us.

Because he looks kind of like him. He does. But he's super talented, a great writer and performer. He's 47 today. Ron Livingston, who kind of broke onto the scene in office space and has gone on to do all kinds of stuff, tons of movies and shows, Sex and the City, Band of Brothers he was amazing in. He's also the patriarch of the Dickhead family in the most recent vacation movie with Ed Helms. Oh, yeah.

And they get into a brawl at the amusement park. There's a show that he's on that Chuck told me about, and I watched the first couple of episodes. What's the name of it? Loudermilk? Is it Loudermilk? Is that the one where he's a recovering alcoholic? Yes. Do you know what he's really good at, Preston? The conjuring. I didn't see the conjuring. You didn't see the conjuring? No. I won't watch that.

It's just scary for me. But dinner for schmucks. He's a jerk. I met him for that movie. He turns 58 years old today. It's Mark Wahlberg's birthday. Mark has called us and been in our studio on many occasions. He is a friend of the show. We called him during the...

Super Bowl run prior to this one. And he is an honorary Philadelphian because of Invincible. And he managed to get back and it was kind of a great moment. And last time he was here, I had just seen a story about his

and the small golf course in his backyard. And I was like, dude, he was standing next to me. I'm like, dude, I want your house. He goes, well, we're putting it on sale for sale next week if you're interested. Like, yeah, I'll get right on that. It was like 32 million or something. Oh, my God. It's raw. It's obscene. So he is 54 today. One of my favorite things is Richard Butler turns...

Psychedelic Furs. He's got such a unique voice. Massive fan of this band. And I met him a number of times through DRE in New York. And a good guy. He likes to smoke a lot. Oh, my God. You ain't kidding, dude. And his teeth show it. Show it, yeah. Because I've met him as well. Right, right, yeah. He had a band called Love Spit Love. Another great band. After Psychedelic Furs. And, yeah, I had met him on occasion when he was promoting that group. But nice guy. Yeah. Nice English dude. He turns...

69 years old, but I always loved it. But why is he saying with that accent? Yeah, I thought it was cool. Kenny G. Kenny G. Has his birthday today. Yes, his full name is Kenneth Bruce Gorlick. And he plays the saxophone and he's one of the greats. And he's kind of pigeonholed as this

you know, super light, what's the word I'm looking for? Yeah, easy listening. He's the Josh Groban of Kenny G's. But he's actually a phenomenal musician. Oh, you gotta wait for more. Yeah, man. Alright, anyway. Oh, it's Kenny G. What is he playing? Is it the alto sax? Soprano. Soprano sax. Yeah, it's the straight one without any bendies on it. Yeah.

Kenny G is 69 years old today. Now, these two need to collaborate because Nico McBrain from Iron Maiden celebrates a birthday today. Oh, yeah, and Kenny G? Kenny G. I can't breathe.

We have both Josh Groban and Iron Maiden playing at the same time. It's a mad show. Yeah. All right. Nico McBrain turns 73 years old today. All right. And then we have from Fall Out Boy, Pete Wentz turning a year older. He was an old darling for a while. Yeah, definitely.

And he turns 46 years old today. I love this song, man. Yeah, me too. He's the bassist, but he writes all the songs. Right, and is he also...

The guy who writes graphic novels, or am I thinking of somebody else? There's a couple of bands. Umbrella Academy guy? Yeah. Is that him? I don't know. We made this mistake. I mess it up. But the Umbrella Academy guy, it was his birthday a couple months ago, and we confused him with Pete Wentz. All right. Do you ever finish your note, by the way? Gerard Way. There it is. Gerard Way. That's it. Thank you, Case.

No, I didn't watch last season. I heard it was terrible. I think you might be disappointed, so skip it. Yeah. All right, and then last birthday is author Rick Rorden, who created Percy Jackson and the Olympians. That's one of his best-known works. He's written a ton of stuff, but he turned 61 today. All right, let's see if you know the answer to this question.

What was the first prison in America to offer hot water for showers? And we are going to go to Nicole and see if she can answer correctly. So, hi, Nicole. Good morning. Hi, how are you? Awesome. All right, Nicole, what was the first prison in the United States to offer hot showers for prisoners? Well, I said one thing, but can I change my answer? Sure. Listen, you're live on the air. You do what you want.

Eastern State Penitentiary. Nope, that's incorrect. You should have stuck with the first one. All right, let's go next to Erica. Hi, Erica. Good morning. Good morning. Erica, do you know the answer? Alcatraz? Yeah. Good.

Hang on just a second. We're going to give you a pair of tickets to Zim-M-R, Rocks, Matt McCusker's, the American Tina Store. Saturday, August 16th, Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlanta City. Tickets are on sale now at theoceanac.com. And the reason they gave them hot showers, they didn't want them to get used to the cold water. Mm-hmm.

Yes. They would swim away. Smart move. So that's actually why they did it. And I guess maybe other prisons eventually offered up. Because I guess they figured at that point, they're prisoners. We're not going to heat the water for them. Are you kidding me? Man, the hell with it. But then they started getting a little too crazy and every convict got a tube of Mr. Bubble. Oh.

Yeah, and it got a little weird. Oh, man, I love that. All right, so got some stories to tell you about. We're going to start with Amy Lou Wood and Walton Goggins have firmly denied rumors of a feud. Of course, they were on White Lotus together, season three.

And people thought there was some kind of feud they were having. It was a joint interview with Variety with Goggins stating, there is no feud. I adore, I love this woman madly. Goggins even became emotional while praising Wood. He compared her to Goldie Hawn and Meg Ryan and added, she can do anything and she will.

The actor emphasized their mutual affection. He said, she is love and I know that I am that to her. We care about each other very deeply and would dismiss the rumors that popped up after Goggins unfollowed her on Instagram saying, we don't give an S about Instagram.

And Walton explained the unfollow was his way of processing the end of his character arc, calling the feud rumors all so ridiculous and reassured fans that Amy and I will be friends forever. And great chemistry. She was terrific on the show. She is sexy in that scene.

you know, with the teeth and everything. But she just has that energy. Yeah. And she's just likable. Yeah, so that was good to hear. I mean, listen, there were rumors and it was just like, I don't know what this is all about. But it's nice to hear that that isn't the case. Especially because you enjoyed the show. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin reportedly ending their nearly eight-year on-and-off relationship.

I'm kind of surprised by this one. With sources confirming the breakup to people saying it feels final this time. Yeah, they had that brief split, got back together and thought that might have been it. But as we said yesterday, a lot of times you get back together and remind each other why you broke up in the first place. Yeah, the couple was last seen together in Malibu on May 16th.

In March last year, it was reported that they had been engaged for years, though they were in no rush to get married. Rumors of a split made the rounds online in August of the same year, but were denied, with the rep saying they were happily together. They were known for keeping their relationship private, despite having ups and downs. They were first linked together back in 2017. They're saying it may be over.

He was apparently the instigator in this one. She loves his kids, apparently. Yeah. So she was really destroyed by this. Mr. Beast, the YouTube personality, revealed that he is borrowing money from his mom to pay for his wedding despite being worth an estimated billion dollars. He said, ironically, I'm actually borrowing money from my mom to pay for my upcoming wedding. Yeah.

And the YouTuber posted on social media that information. Mr. Beast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, revealed that he personally has very little money because he reinvests everything into his content empire, estimating he'll spend around $250 million this year alone. So he had no sort of fluid cash available. I think that's it, yeah. Mr. Beast holds the world record.

For the most YouTube subscribers in the world, he has 401 million subscribers. I mean... That's more than the population of the United States. More than the population of our country. And I have... Staggering. Literally watched zero of his content. I like his stuff. Yeah, and I just... It's just not part of my...

I don't spend a whole lot of time on YouTube. Yeah, I do. And so I subscribe to him and I got introduced to him through my son. And I like his stunt stuff. But what I really love is his charitable work. He does a ton. So you're talking about the money that he has. I've read that almost every penny that he brings in, he finds a way to donate it to local charities, to world charities. He's a worldly known good guy is what he is. Yeah.

He has his own toy line, Amazon Prime series, various food products, including the Mr. Beast Burger franchise. But noted, quote, on paper, the businesses I own are worth a lot. And he said the YouTubers engaged, by the way, to fellow content creator Thea Boyson. Not Theo. Thea! Thea! Thea Boyson, whom he... I'll stand down. He met in 2022.

In 2022, the couple got engaged on Christmas Day last year and they are planning a private wedding with close friends and family. To understand the amount of money he has for a good cluster of his closest employees, he basically bought a small suburb. Wow. They all live in the same area? Yeah. Wow. It's crazy. So they can all just work and live and kind of cohabitate. Wow. It's almost like what Milton Hershey did. Yeah. Yeah.

At just 10 years old, Rain Disick is proving he's right at home in the TV reality world. According to a recent family outing at Nobu, the

The ex-Kardashian disick flipped off paparazzi with a smirk and stuck out his tongue for good measure. Sounds like a little prick. Known for his unfiltered commentary like shutting down Bieber baby rumors and roasting Courtney and Travis for their PDA, Rain is proving that he's inherited every ounce of his dad's cocky charm. You know what, though? While I agree with you, Steve, paparazzis are a-holes. Absolutely.

F them. You know what I mean? Like, maybe have a little more respect for your elders, but like paparazzi are scum. And here's the deal. The deal you make with the devil, because I guarantee you, Scott Disick's people, Scott is going to be at Nobu this evening.

And so they use them. It goes both ways. But, you know, listen, I shouldn't call this cow. How old is this kid? He's 10. 10. So maybe I don't call him a dickhead. A budding dickhead. Looks like Brooklyn Beckham might be trading Mama's Boy for Wifey's Guy because fans recently noticed his chest tattoo dedicated to Mom Victoria is now hidden under floral ink that resembles Nicola Peltz's wedding bouquet. God. I know.

So he's put the wedding bouquet of the new woman in his life on.

his mother. Over mom. The timing is juicy considering the long rumored rift between Brooklyn and his famous parents with Nicola reportedly clashing with the Beckham clan. So there's more on that. I remember one year my wife was, well, not my wife, my mother, there's a Freudian slip, was, this was years ago, I was dating this girl and my mother's name was, you know, Rose. Um,

And Rosalie. So, and I would always get her roses. And then an event came up and I got her something different and got my girlfriend roses. Oh, boy. And my mother was the sweetest, most even keel, but I could tell that was like... That stabbed her. It was like, and I never made that mistake again. Yeah. Yep. You can, little gestures like that. Mom, there's nobody like mom. But putting a tattoo over a former mom tattoo, yeah, that might be crossing the line a bit. I don't know.

So, Blue Mouse has announced that Octavia Spencer will reprise her role in a sequel to the 2019 horror film, Ma.

The movie was a big success for the studio, taking in over $60 million around the world on a budget of just $5 million. It's a junk food movie. She does a great job in it. She starts to befriend these kids, and she has these parties, and she's inviting them over to the house, and she's mowing down people. Did you see it? She sunk her teeth into the movie. It's a lot of fun. Is it? And she clearly enjoys playing the character. So?

So Ma has, this is according to Blumhouse founder Jason Blum, he said, Ma has proven to be a social phenomenon. So we are thrilled Octavia will join us again for a second round.

Yet another video game is getting the movie treatment. And this time around, it is a paranormal horror game called Phasmophobia. And it seems like it's early days here as even a release date has not been announced yet. Have you played that one at all? Never played it, but I know it has a good buzz. Originally released in early access in 2020, Phasmophobia quickly went viral during COVID-19.

And the multiplayer ghost hunting game became a favorite among Twitch streamers and YouTubers, propelling it to best-selling status for weeks. The game has since...

Sold over 23 million copies around the world. They even won best debut game at the 2020 Game Awards. There are a couple of games like this that are moody. I mention this to you, Preston, because there's a lot of clue gathering. It's almost like a CSI paranormal thing. I like those types of games. I'm glad they're doing this. They just need to do them right.

Speaking of Games Press, Steve, I went to an arcade yesterday. There's an arcade on State Street that is dining under the stars. Oh. It's called Game on State. I played Silent Scope. Oh.

Oh, my God. I love that game. It's a terrific game. When that game first came out, I'm like, yes. I love sniper stuff. And that one was good. Well, sniper elite. Yeah. It's my favorite video game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely. But was it the original Silent Scope? The original, yeah. So this is like an old school. You put your money in it, it goes, Silent Scope. I love that. Wow. But it's like, you know, this is like all like retro stuff, retro pinball. If I were to get a set up...

I love the Terminator 2 arcade games. I could do with that. I love those. Commando is one of the first ones. I was like that as well. Casey, was there a stinger for Konami? Which made Silent Scope. Konami. Am I misremembering that? I thought it went like Silent Scope, Konami. Or something along those lines. But I might be completely misremembering. Maybe that's what it was. That brings it all back. That's less moody.

Welcome to Shiloh Hill. Real quick, did you see the lines for the Switch 2, the Nintendo Switch 2 coming out? Yeah, yeah. It's like old school. I didn't know that was that popular. I mean, I didn't get into the Switch. My kids did. I had the Switch. I enjoyed it. I just never found myself playing it. Yeah, but apparently the...

The graphics have, like any updated video game system, they've taken a big leap forward. Do you know what I think has put a dent at least in the momentum of that side of gaming was just a lot of kids ending up with phones that had pretty competitive graphics. Yeah, but this one's apparently selling out like crazy. All right, a couple other entertainment things. We'll stick with the video game stuff. Fortnite has announced a collaboration with Squid Game.

set to launch later this month. The announcement was made on social media with an image of the show's iconic business card and the caption, You're invited. We're dying for you to join us. Squid Fort. While specific details are limited, Epic Games revealed that the event will heavily feature Fortnite's creative mode where fans can make their own games inside of the video game. Epic teases, Build your own twist on the world's most intense playground. This means that players can design and create squid game style challenges.

New creator tools will become available on June 27th to support custom content the same day that season three of Squid Games is going to hit Netflix. I know there's an expansion pack for Fortnite that focuses on White Orchid. Is that right? White Lotus. So Wicked for Good just dropped its official trailer. They had a teaser that was out.

And the follow-up to last year's smash hit sees Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as Elphaba and Glinda diving right back into the musical's second act. Picking up right where the first film ended, Wicked for Good will reveal how the witch's friendship is tested as they embrace Gwyneth Paltrow.

who they're meant to be. Fans were also treated to Ariana and Cynthia's rendition of the musical's iconic song, For Good, and even caught a glimpse of Dorothy Gale meeting the wizard. She's coming to town, Cynthia Erivo. She's got a show at The Man.

I'm trying to find the details on it, but I didn't even know about it until yesterday or the day before. She's doing a show, I think with the Philadelphia... Yeah, the Philadelphia Orchestra, June 21. I have no idea what the show is, if she's singing classical music or singing along, because she's opera trained, right? That's what her background is? But yeah, June 21 at The Man. Wow, should be pretty cool. The film...

The first film raked in $756 million and scored a whopping 10 Oscar nominations. So you'll be able to see Wicked for good starting November 21st. Snow White is officially hitting streaming next week. The live-action remake of the animated classic will debut on Disney+. That'll be June 11th.

It was released earlier this year starring Rachel Zegler, Snow White, Gal Gadot as the evil queen. And it also featured new songs written by the Oscar winning team behind La La Land. The film was something of a box office disappointment. It was brought in just $205 million around the world. It's a budget reportedly costing Disney somewhere between $240 to $270 million. And then finally, Conan O'Brien is returning to Late Night as a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers. And that will be on June 11th.

And this will be his first appearance since leaving the franchise. O'Brien previously hosted Late Night for over 16 years before a short time on The Tonight Show. This appearance completes the lineup of all three former Late Night hosts, O'Brien, Fallon, and Letterman, having appeared on Meyer's version of the show. Conan's travel series, which is just...

So good. Yeah? So funny. He is possessed with a skill set that makes him the perfect guy to go out to these different areas and interact with the locals. He's terrific at it. Nice. All right, we're ready for the clips. Screen rant is predicting that Norman Reedus' character in Ballerina could be as important as Marcus was for John Wick. Who is Marcus and John Wick?

I'm a massive fan of the series, and I'm drawing a blank. Okay, he said we won't, it says we won't know until... Oh, okay, Willem Dafoe's character in the first one, he's just in one movie. Okay, we won't know until this weekend, but in this clip, Norman talks about how much the series influenced his life. I started in the theater, and I bought a 69 Camaro, I think because of John Wick.

And then I wanted a pit bull puppy immediately. But I've seen them all so many times. It's one of those movies that it plays on every hotel, every airplane. It's just over and over and over, and you watch it every single time because it's that good. The world of John Wick is badass. Ballerina opens in theaters tomorrow, by the way. Next clip.

In Your Friends and Neighbors, Mark Tallman plays Nick, a former NBA all-star who ended up with his friend's wife. Here, Mark explains how his time as the captain of the 2002 Bucknell football team prepared him for this role. Here we go. I think back to games when

We lost, and then we're asked to go to a post-game press conference and do it with a smile on your face. I think Nick carries a lot of that through his life. And I think he's hurt a lot of the time because of what he did to one of his best friends. Yeah! Nick, what stretch of seven years were you at Buckmill University? When did you graduate? 2002? 2002. Yeah, we were there at the same time because in my fourth or fifth senior year, I went back.

in the fall of 2000 and graduated in January 2001. The guy is... I love the show. I love that show. And he played Preston. You talk about shows that develop characters where you're sure they're one way and then it's like, oh...

This guy's actually not so bad. He's actually pretty good. And that's the character of Nick. You like this guy, Steve? He's terrific. He's terrific in the series. I've not heard of him before. And it's a relatively small community at Bucknell. There's only like 900 people per class or whatever. But good for him. That's cool. Look at that picture.

a video here. He's like a super good looking dude. And that's part of the conceit in the series. And so he's getting offers like, for example, his version of the George Foreman grill is a high-tech Wi-Fi controlled toilet that he has to be the pitch man for. Wow. Yeah. And he was the captain of the Bucknell football team. They wrote him up in Bucknell magazine. Hey, how about that? You guys are brothers, so to speak. Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Get him on the show, Nick. Yeah, we'll reach out. All right. That's the entertainment report for you this morning. We got a lot happening today on our show. We will have, and I'm leading with this because we're very excited, John Heater and Efra Ramirez will be here. That's Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro here in the studio. They're going to be performing at the City Winery tonight, 7 o'clock, and they're going to be joined by John Grise.

who was Uncle Rico in the film, and they're doing a Q&A. It's so great. I still love that movie. I just watched it about three or four months ago again, and it has that kind of timeless...

You know, it's what they call locked camera comedy where the camera just stays static and they're just doing their thing. And you end up, it gets you no matter if you try to resist it, you're going to fail because you'll start laughing. So they're going to be here around nine o'clock this morning. Our makeup influencer, Sarah Ren, is going to come in and give us treatments and things. And we got to get ready for summer. Oh, my God. Going to have our skin regimes tested. Absolutely.

No, she's bringing him the red light mask. Steve was wondering about that thing. It looks like something out of a universal horror movie. It does. So she'll be stopping in today and Pitch, Pitchuation's going to be here. Our former intern and staff member at WMR. He's stopping in to tell us about his 24-hour video game marathon. Not video game marathon. It's a game show marathon. That's what it is.

All right, so let's take a quick break. Come back in just a moment or two and move forward on this Thursday. We'll be right back.

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The 20th annual I Bleed for Preston and Steve Blood Drive. Benefiting the American Red Cross. From 93.3 WMMR. Putting Philly first. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Marissa. All right. As we dive in, oh, before we dive in on things, actually, I should mention Washington Township High School in Sewell, New Jersey. You are the next school to vote for the coolest teacher. You're the last school of 2025 to get to do this.

So take advantage of this. Text the word teacher to 610-660-9333. We'll send you the voting link. And then tomorrow morning, hopefully we'll have a very happy teacher like we did this morning with Ashley Gerber, who is a family and consumer sciences teacher at Shawnee. She was lovely. Great personality. You could tell why. Yeah. The kids like her. Yeah. So I thought that was pretty cool. All right. We need to dive into the world of what people are thinking in the form of surveys. It's SurveySense.

And I did some digging, Steve, and I know we've missed...

Some of the really dumb surveys lately, and I found a few. Well, you know what? When we began this segment, because you would get a glut of these, what they call show prep surveys. Yeah. I tried this on the show, and they were terrible. Yep. And we had fun with that. And then we started to get some good ones. Yeah. And I sort of missed the terrible ones. Yeah, so I found some terrible ones. And I'm going to try to find more sources for these, because these are more fun discussions. So like this one.

5,658 U.S. adults were surveyed in this. And the question they were asked was, if there were a theme park with live dinosaurs that had been created through genetic engineering, would you want to visit it? Yes, no, or you're not sure? Anyone care to answer? Yeah. If they had put into place...

Proper protections, having watched the Jurassic Park films. Yes, of course I would love to see living dinosaurs in a safe environment. I would be 100% yes. All over that. Now, I'm...

Tired of the Jurassic Park films. I really only like the first one. But to see that in real life, oh my God, yes. So we had a hint of it with the first movie. When you were sitting there in your seat and Sam Neill and Laura Dern and he turns her head and you see, was it an allosaurus? Yeah, a brontosaurus. One of the big vegetarian ones. Walking along and you're like,

Oh my God. And those effects were groundbreaking at that time. We had never seen anything CGI wise that had looked that realistic before. And it was like, I remember being in the movie theater going, just freaking out. Just gasping. I can't believe, I'm like, almost like they're in the movie. They've done it. You know, it's crazy.

So, yes. What about the rest of you guys? Yes, no, not sure. Absolutely not. No kidding. I'm terrified of these movies. I feel like it would just be a matter of time, and with my luck, I'd be the guy where the T-Rex gets out or the Velociraptors slice my belly open. Well, do you feel uncomfortable going to drive-thru safaris and things like that, Nick? I'm just not a big fan of those in general. I'd rather go on an actual safari. I think drive-thru safaris are a little, I don't know, hokey, in my personal opinion. But you're not...

of being around dangerous wildlife as long as you're protected. No, and listen, maybe I'm hypocritical because I would definitely do a safari where elephants or lions or whatever could kill you, but something about the unhealthy nature of bringing back a dinosaur to life scares the crap out of me. I know. In the original source material, I fall somewhere between I want to set up the park and there's no reason you should do this. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Right.

But I mean, honestly, throughout my life, I've been enamored and fascinated by dinosaurs. To see them, I agree with you, Preston, to see something like that in the real world would be astonishing. I got to quote Jeff Goldblum. You're too busy thinking about whether or not you could instead of whether or not you should. And he was right. So the results are 29% said yes, they would absolutely go. 50% said no.

So they are in... Yeah, pussies. And then 21% said not sure. Marissa, if you had a chance to go see actual dinosaurs, if they could do that, would you or not? 1,000%. Absolutely, yes. Absolutely. Two things I keep thinking about. In front of the Natural Science Museum, they used to have these animatronic dinosaurs outside that would kind of like come to life every few minutes.

And I would just stand outside there for a few minutes and like, I can't play with them, but like watch them all experience. What's Marissa doing? I'm playing with the dinosaurs. Playing with the dinosaurs. And then remember the ride at Universal? That was one of the best rides. Oh my God. Yes. Dude. And that is historically accurate. Well, no, but while we were in line, it was the VelociCoaster. As you went by, they had animatronic. Yeah.

Dinosaurs, and some of them were in these holding pens where just their neck was sticking out, and their eyes would dilate, and they would growl and stuff, and it looked real, man. Those dinosaurs were real. And by the way, when you're in the coaster and you're ready to be accelerated like nobody's business, they have the paddock for the velociraptors on each side, and they're making that high squealing sound, and you're flooded, your senses are overwhelmed, and then you're out like a rocket.

Coolest roller coaster I think I've ever ridden on, maybe. I mean, there's a lot of good ones, but it's pretty... Neck-to-neck with Hagrid's. That's pretty damn close. Wow. All right, so yeah, 21% said they are not sure if they would go to a park that had actual live dinosaurs. But I know Casey would because your fascination with alligators. Yeah. And that's essentially, those are tiny dinosaurs as far as I'm concerned. Cute little dinosaurs. Would you go to Tiny Dinosaur Island? I would. I absolutely would.

Welcome to Tiny Dinosaur Island. I'd have to see the one that in the first movie that spits the stuff and as it opens up, it's, you know. It kills Newman? Yeah. Robert Kelly is the name of the dinosaur. Yeah, Wayne Knight gets killed by that guy. You know what? Did you ever hear the name Dotson? And every single time I hear it, because we have a receiver. Dotson. We got Dotson. Yeah.

Was that the guy's name? Yeah, yeah. All right. Dotson. Dotson was the guy who was buying the game. Yeah, he was saying, Dotson, nobody cares. Nobody cares. We got Dotson here. But we have a receiver on the Eagles, Johan Dotson. Yeah. And so every time I hear his name, I just think, Dotson, we got Dotson here. Well, listen, next season, if he makes some critical, awesome plays, we need to have that clip ready to go. You're right.

I wonder if he deals in dinosaur genetics as well. Listen, those guys make a lot of money. They make a lot of money. All right, so here's another survey. It says...

2,567 U.S. adults were asked, do you generally prefer first names that are more or less common in the United States? Say that again? Do you generally prefer first names that are more or less common in the United States? And your potential answers are more common, less common, or not sure. I tell you, I, as...

Here's how I'd frame it. I always like to be respectful of someone's name and get the pronunciation right. So if it's more common, I feel more comfortable. Yes. And so if it's something that's a little difficult to pronounce, I don't want to mispronounce someone's name and get it wrong. So I tend to demur from referring to someone by that name if I don't know how to say it. But I am interested. My interest is piqued when somebody has...

a unique name. Yesterday we met, we had a client event and there's a woman named Sierra. Yes. And I'm like, I've always loved that name. I think it's a great one. And I asked her the origin of it. I was like, are you named after the mountain range? Or she was like, no, it was an initial thing. It was like her grandmother or something like that. And her initials were S something. And so they decided to go with Sierra. Do you like dinosaurs? Yeah.

Excuse me? When I was a kid, I gravitated towards liking more common names because I thought those were cooler. The Steves, the Mikes of the world, the Mats. But as an adult, I like more unique names. In Preston, we were at Ben's graduation last night, and when the unique names were read, it was just like, oh, that's a cool name. Oh, there was a girl named Coco. There was a girl named Maeve. I love the name Maeve. Oh, I love the name Maeve. Maeve is great. Yeah.

Which is great, especially if you're a fan of the boys. Yeah, and so there were a bunch throughout the night, and they just are memorable. We went to the senior awards for Southerner High School the other night, and there was a presenter who was about to present this award to one of the students, and the student had a very unique name. And as the presenter is reading about this student, the kid comes up onto the stage behind him, and the person reading this couldn't see him and kept referring to this person as her.

Her. And it was a boy. Because you didn't know. And I was like, oh. Excuse me. Hand job. What? That's not that name.

Julie Handjob. Excuse me, butt sex. Julie Jerkoff. Forgive me, Kirkoff. I wonder if our YouTuber Julie Jerkoff has just changed her name to Julie Handjob. I don't know.

I do. There was a period, though, where I was totally wrapped up into old-style British names. You know, Cromwell and all of those. Yeah, yeah. They're wonderful. It's just, like you said throughout your life, if you're talking about you as the owner of the name, you didn't like it, now you like it. Now I love it. I mean, being Preston as a kid, because people would kind of, the reason I didn't like it is they would almost double-take. Yeah.

when you would say the name, they'd be like, what? And as a kid, I went by Press. It was a short for Preston.

And so therefore, people would think they wouldn't understand. They've never heard that name before. They would think I was saying Chris. And that bothered me. Right. And so I just wanted to be Dave or John or Joe or Bill or Frank or whatever. But over time, I appreciated the uniqueness of the name. And now I like it. Casey, what about you? Do you prefer names that are more commonplace?

Common or less common? I guess I don't really have a preference. Okay, so you're not sure. If I'm not naming them myself, if it's just what your name is, whatever your name is, I'm cool with. Nick, how would you answer that question? Yeah, I mean, I think I did. I'm sorry, I wasn't listening. I know. Because I said the same thing that you did. Oh, okay. Very good. I liked common names when I was a kid. He just said my opinion. Yeah. Well, I said it first, so Preston said my opinion. He said my opinion first.

Marissa, what about you? It's nice to be called and you know it's you. You're not being mistaken for somebody else. And how little I hear the name Marissa is crazy. There's very few other Marissas out there. I don't...

I'm sorry to interrupt. I don't consider it an overly unique name, but now that you mention it, there are not a lot of Marissa's that I know. Yeah, there's really not. And I mean, I'm married to a Matt, and he has a brother-in-law named Matt, a friend named Matt. I mean, there's just so many Matts. I have two Marissa's in my life. Oh, yeah. Both are massive Green Dates fans. Same age range. I'm like, what are the odds of that? Wow. Every time you tell a story, you have to say the other Marissa. Yes, the other Marissa. So, according to this survey, here are the results. Uh...

People answered, 24% of the people answered more common. 39% of the people answered less common. And then 37% said not sure. How many people like the name common? That is, yeah. We've had them here before. That's right. All right, so interesting survey about names. All right, survey set.

We're getting to the bottom of some things here, I think. I'm telling you. I really dug deep and found... Ripping the lid off. ...hard-hitting questions. So 8,771 U.S. adults answered this survey question. Do you consider it to be acceptable or unacceptable...

to break off a single banana from a larger bunch when shopping at a store. A thousand percent acceptable. Okay, Casey's all in on acceptable. I used to not, and then I would buy too many bananas every damn time. And I'm like, this is a waste. What the hell am I doing? So now it's acceptable. It's odd for me because that became less acceptable before.

But robbing the store at gunpoint is more acceptable. Well, so, you know, we've often talked about the Wednesday banana, you know, as opposed to the Friday banana. And the best way to avoid Friday bananas is to take single bananas off. You know, so what I actually prefer to do if I'm getting bananas for the week, five bananas that is, I'll get three yellow ones and two green ones. And then let me ask you, let me ask you this as a I'll just buy the bunch. Mm hmm.

Do you feel you're reducing the options for shoppers that follow you? No. Because you're poaching the best bananas, which is a great John Lennon song. It is. Jesus.

It's about poaching the bananas. I don't know. That's a good Sunday banana. I think everybody should employ my method, and if they are, then we're all doing the same thing. Well, a good grocery store will then assemble the loose bananas, and then they will put them into a pile. Okay. And then you'll have some to choose from. Marissa? Yeah, sometimes there's a little section called the single bananas. Really? There's a section? Oh, yeah. Okay. It's like a little disco ball spinning. Yeah. It's a Beyonce photo. That's where all the single bananas hang out.

It's Beyonce. All the single nannies. All the single nannies. All the single nannies. Do you guys buy bananas at Wawa ever? Because I feel a little weird doing that sometimes. To me, Wawa is great. I love it. I go every day. But bananas are a grocery store purchase. So when I buy one at Wawa, I'm like,

I'm kind of cheating a little. I used to get them at Wawa. I was a regular. I used to stop every morning at Wawa for years and years and years. And then I found out it's a little more efficient for me to shop and have the stuff at home. And I go straight home. It saves me a little bit of time. So it's not that I don't like going to Wawa. I love going to Wawa.

But, man, I was not a fan of the Wawa banana. I got a few that were... It's a hit or miss. Well, I got a few that were brews or that had a funky stringy flavor. And maybe it was just my location or whatever. So I bailed on the Wawa. There's some things that... But I'll get in every now and then. Wawa's fantastic. And I used to get my thyroid meds from there. And I'm like, I don't know. Wawa either has Sunday bananas or Friday bananas. There's not a lot of middle ground on the Wawa bananas. You're getting green or you're getting overripe. Well...

There is, so this is just a call out, it's tangential to the topic. Could the Wawa on Germantown Avenue, could they fix that cappuccino machine? How long has it been broken?

I don't know what's going on there, Preston, but I've gotten just hot water every time I've gone to it. All right. And I go to Wawa all the goddamn time. So I'm just throwing that out there. It's the one on Germantown Avenue near Mount Airy Avenue. All right. All right. Please fix your cappuccino machine. What is it? It's the cappuccino machine. The cappuccino machine. And I love their cappuccino. It's a quick grab and you're out. And I walk, listen, I boldly walk right past the bananas.

So right to the cappuccino machine. Oh, Marissa, I didn't. Oh, she walked by for a second. I didn't get her answer. Acceptable, unacceptable or not sure for picking off a banana. Yeah, I do it. Usually, though, I go like two at a time. OK, like two off for just a me. That's still bright. That's part of that. I think this is even breaking off, too. All right. So the results are in from the survey. Fifty seven percent said is it is acceptable to break off a single banana from a larger bunch.

31% said unacceptable, and 12% said not sure. So the favor goes to the acceptables. Will you do the same thing when you're shopping for chicken cutlets? Sure. Cut it open, pull one out. Look at that. That's the perfect cutlet pack. Quick little taste test to make sure it's good. Sometimes for things like that, you do have to make a choice because if you've got four people at home, and a lot of times those are sold in three different

And per package, like, am I going to buy six now? It's like Father of the Bride when he gets the eight pack of the hot dogs and the six pack of the buns. Yeah. Yeah. So you got to decide. All right. Survey says... Let's move on to another one. Now we're going to move into a little less silly ones. This one is about parents taking family trips and letting kids play.

plan the family trips. So it was a poll of 2,000 parents of school-aged kids revealed that 22% have actually let their children plan the whole vacation down to every detail. Turns out we're going to the garage. I would never do that. No. I would let them suggest activities that they want to be a part of. And then deny them that. Well, I don't know about that. Listen, you know what they...

Yes, you can make it. I just had the flashback to when you were taking the kids, Preston, we did on air. It was going to be one of those classic moments where you announce the kids and they go badass crazy. And you and Rochelle did everything by the book perfect. Get them on air. And you would have thought you told them that they had the flu. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, what? We're watching this video roll off and we are leaving for Disney right now. Like that. Oh.

That's cool. How dare you, ungrateful? You sons of bitches. You know how hard we've worked to plan this? We got the special passes and everything.

You and Rochelle got really excited. Yeah. You should have left the kids. Moms and dads have learned that when kids are involved in planning, 89% said they help with activities. 54% said they help with the restaurants. What constitutes help? And 76% said they make sure that the trip involves things that their kids like. Well, I mean, listen, if you are a parent, you should know what your kids like and don't like. You can do this

For them, not, yeah. Right. I remember, well, my, when we were kids and the parents were, you know, planning, my parents were planning the trips, they always, we always had a great time. Even if it was something that wasn't classically a, um,

you know, a kid's place to go to. There was always something that we could do. Oh, dude, just running around a hotel. Oh, it was great. As a kid, for me, playing with the ice machines, the vending machines, you know, stealing the soap off of the cart that the housekeeping has. I used to steal all that stuff, man. Little shampoo bottles. I loaded up on that stuff. I remember when my parents would go to their swingers club. In the little waiting area, they had highlights magazines. And I had a blur.

You know what other thing I always did when we would go on family trips and we would stay at hotels, and especially if you're in a tourist trap location, they have a stand in the lobby that is filled with all the pamphlets. The version. Stupid little things that you can do. You can go to the dinosaur garden or there's a pizza place. I would take one of every.

Every single one of those. All of them. And there was usually, what, like 50 of them or something like that? And I'd come back with this stack. I never did anything with them. I'd look through some of them, but we never did any of those things. Health spa. Yeah. Hey, look, we're going to the rat pit. Yeah. But I still...

To this day, I will glance at those as an adult. Whatever industry that is, whoever was ever involved with that, they're geniuses because they can take the dumpiest, crappiest looking thing and in brochure form make it so enticing. Casey and Marissa and I did a thing at Camelback not that long ago. It was in the wintertime and then in the summertime it becomes Camel Beach, right? And that place gets overrun by kids. And so I think if

like the Great Wolf Lodges of the world, you know, these camel beaches or whatever. If the kids were to plan it, that's where they would end up going because it's just free reign for kids to run around. And there's so many different things to do. There's a frigging wave pool there. Yeah. You're in that loop. It's a blast. Yearly. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You have to...

sometimes expensive. So, oh my God, yes. Marissa, Camelback, and I know you were just there. Um, do they have indoor facilities or is it all outdoor? They have both. So that's what you need. And, and when you can go, that's what we used to love doing is going in the middle, dead of winter. It's, you know, 85 degrees inside these places. And it is, it is so liberating. You feel like you're walking around naked. Camelback one has a swim up, uh,

bar indoors and so the kids are playing in the pool and the adults are just hanging at the bar. The two happiest moments, I remember with you Preston, when you found out you were playing Pine Valley and when you found out Great Wolf Lodge has a bar. Yeah.

There's a bar! There's a bar! But I gotta go to Camelback and check that out, Marissa, because you're raving about it. Yeah, it's a zip line that I'm really excited to try out. Ooh. Yeah. Okay. All right, so anyway, what would kids' dream, the dream vacation look like, according to this survey?

These are what the kids had said. 34%, if they could have it, would have a meet and greet with their favorite celebrity. That's what I'm talking about. That's why you don't let kids plan this. I want to spin around. Yeah, you know how much those things cost, those special little VIP meet and greet thingy things? 29% said sitting in the front row of their favorite artist's

concert. Front row. Yeah, front row tickets, okay. Kids and pipe dreams, come on now. And having backstage access to that show. So this is kids? Come on. Wow. So they're aiming high. Stuff has been, there's been a tectonic shift. They want the VIP treatment. In this business that we work in, especially at a rock radio station, we do get some allowances when it comes to promotional items. And so we can get preferred tickets online.

on occasion. And so we would take our kids and we'd get as close as we could and have these really good spots. And,

And it became expected after a while. When did you realize that? When we were at, I forgot what show we were at. We may have been in something like Nitro Circus or one of these events. It wasn't a concert per se, but it was a show or maybe Disney on Ice or something like that. And one of our kids was like, I want to be down there. We can go down there, right? We're like, no. No.

Yeah. Marissa? Well, if you want to meet the Nitro Circus guys, I can do that for you, Preston. No, I think it's a little bit different, though, because I think a lot of the guy or people that younger generation are going to see are like TikTok people. Oh.

So it's more of like at a smaller, like a punchline or helium or the TLA. It's not like they're expecting to go meet Mick Jagger or Meek Mill as much. It's a lot of OnlyFans. When we had Meredith in here, she was saying that her son really wanted to meet this guy. And I had to Google him. I'm like, I have no idea who this is. And he was a TikToker. So I was a TikToker. So I think the show is like 45 minutes and then there's an hour and a half meet and greet. You don't think that the toddlers are wanting to meet Mick Jagger? Do a little...

Is this your baby? What is that? It's a baby? What is that? It looks like a little person. Does he currently have a toddler? He does. Do you think Mick Jagger... Was there ever a point where Mick Jagger was changing diapers? Oh my God.

What is that in there? Poo poo. It's stinky. It's stinky. I can smell it in my nose. I don't like that. It's poo poo.

All right, another top choice for kids is riding on an amusement park parade float. 26% said they want to do that. You can do that at Universal. I believe you can do that at Disney as well. And I guess you got to pay up a lot. Also, it says a meet and greet. 24% said a meet and greet with their favorite cartoon characters. And then 20% said sitting in the front row at a professional sports game.

So, wow. These are what they want. I never... It's funny. And I guess, as you're right, Marissa, about how things change, like just the notion of going to like a baseball game or something. The seats were never...

were never paramount to me as a kid. Yeah. Just the whole experience. But then I wasn't weaned on that being a thing. Right, right. You know? Yep, yep, yep. All right. Let's just do one more survey before we wrap up. This is a GoCity poll of 2,000 U.S. travelers.

And they asked about the perfect summer vacation. Okay. So we're on that, you know, we're on the edge of that now. People are going to start heading out for their summer vacations soon. And according to the survey, 60% said that the perfect vacation can be found within the United States. And they have some very specific ideas about what that would include. Planning your summer vacation. Thank you. Oh, my God.

Planning your summer vacation. I knew I had it somewhere. So 52% said the perfect trip would focus on food. On food.

Big summer blowout. I am... I want to do a food-focused vacation with my son, Carter, because like me, he is a food fan. Yeah, yeah. And he is adventurous in food. And I was talking to... I think I was talking to Casey about it. And I'm going to do a New Orleans trip with our friends, the Chapmans and their foodies as well. Oh, then you'll have a blast. And so I think that that's a good... You know, we're not the go-party-all-night people as we were years ago. So...

New Orleans has got loads of great food and drink and music. And so I think we'll do that. But with Carter for a food destination. You want to be more adventurous? I think I was talking to Casey about it. I think Chicago might actually be the answer. And I recently took a trip with Parker to Chicago. And we went when it was too cold, unfortunately. And Parker's not an adventurous eater at all. So we missed out on a ton of great food while we were there.

But Chicago's got so much in the way of, you know, the steakhouses. Like, we went to Gibson's and all these different places. So I'm thinking about... And it's just a cool town. What about, like, Napa or the wine country? Yeah, that could be cool, too. Because all of that is, like...

farm to table and some great food in that area. But if you're looking for something really adventurous, I mean, like, you know, outside the box or just top quality. Just top quality. Oh, that's Chicago. Because I would, you know,

If I'm going to spend money on really good food, I want to spend it on someone who really appreciates it. And so I want to do a food vacation with him. So would you yourself, the notion of planning a vacation based around food, would that? Yeah. You would? Yeah. I'd love it. So a lot of people do that end up going to Tuscany, you know, a lot of times. Like the Stanley Tucci model. Right. Right, right, right. No, I'm not going to take an international trip with that kid. Yeah.

I love them, but that's too expensive. No, no, no, no. You're on your own. It would take a lot of time for that. I'm just talking about like a weekend. Weekend getaway thing. So 47% said the vacation would be focused around relaxation. I'm totally down with that.

38% said accommodations are what make a vacation a great time. So, you know, my number one thing here is if you're going to go, save up, make sure that you get the best accommodations available. If you can. If everything else goes to hell, you've got that. You've got that place to stay. Yeah. And you really feel treated. Yes. You know what I mean? You know, speaking of international travel, I'm planning a trip this summer to France. And...

What I didn't realize until recently is that big American chains like Marriott, for example, they have really nice hotels abroad and they are much cheaper. Yes. So I went to Boston with Ben a couple of weeks ago. We were checking out Northeastern. We were going to school in the fall. And Boston's a great city, but it's expensive as hell. And we stayed at a nice hotel. It was a courtyard, but it was like...

$450 a night. You can stay in Paris in a gorgeous hotel near the Champs-Élysées for like $350, $300 a night. I was blown away at what you can get on an American chain in a foreign country. Yeah, because that's a pretty good price. Yeah. We've been

Marriott rewards members for a long, long, long, long time. They have a really good option. They do, yeah. And I was surprised at how inexpensive the hotels there are. All right. And then 31% said the most important thing in a vacation movie, or at least they focus their vacation around outdoor attractions and landmarks. And obviously...

That's something you want to do while you're on vacation. Yeah. There'll be a modus operandi to my vacation. This is going to be a relaxing vacation. This is going to be a get active vacation. And the last one we did, which is the big one, which was the river tour, was the first time I took... I had my cameras...

with the lenses, and I was going to be my first photography tour. And I frigging loved it. Awesome. Yeah, it was great. As a kid, one of my favorite family vacations that we took was Washington, D.C. Oh. And that was an active vacation. Yeah, yeah. Because we're going to all the museums, we're going to all the landmarks. You walked up 500 miles. I couldn't believe it. I was like, I just, you know. Air and space, man. I loved it. Yeah. I love that museum. Blew me away. So as for the destination, 63% want to go to the beach.

53% would choose the great outdoors. Yeah. 43% prefer a major city and then 42% like historic locations best. Did you ever do, you've done, well, yes, no, for a fact, you have the amusement park vacation. Oh, yeah, yeah. So I've done, we,

Claire and I did a multiple amusement park trip, which we loved years ago. Yeah, even as an adult, it's so much fun. We did Busch Gardens and King's Dominion. Oh, nice. Back to back. All right, so that's all we have time for in Survey Says today, but thank you so much for joining us, my friend.

Yep. I'm going to wrap this thing up. We do have a lot happening on our program today, and we're playing the theme song from Family Feud, and it ties right into our next guest, who's going to be telling us about the Game Show Marathon coming up. I have this situation. Should I do it now? Yeah, go ahead. Is that okay? All right. Our friend Gina Costello, who's a salesperson here and a wonderful person at the stations here. Her daughter, Rachel, who we've known for many years, Rachel French.

Wissahickon High School. Yeah. Yeah. And then she is off to Widener and Rachel's a sweetheart and a big cat fan. So. Awesome. Congratulations. Congratulations, Rachel. Way to go. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll get to the beat file. We'll get the pitchuation on. After that, Sarah Wren, our makeup artist influencer is coming by. You're going to do some treatments on us. We're getting the mask, the light mask. Yeah.

And then after that, John Heater and Efren Ramirez of Napoleon Dynamite will both be in our studio. We'll be back in a moment. We'll be right back.

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I'm a huge fan. You can buy yours now at any home improvement store. Just $29.99. And you fill it up, they pick it up on your schedule. The Bagster Dumpster in a Bag by Phil Gaughan. This story is out of Bangkok. Saw the video this morning on the national news. A hungry wild elephant caused havoc in a grocery store in Thailand on Monday.

when he strolled in from a nearby national park and helped himself to the food on the shelves. It's hilarious. There is a full elephant in this store. Videos of the incident show the huge male elephant known as Ply Byung Lek.

briefly stopping in front of the shop. The elephant stops at the shop's counter, calmly snatching and chomping on some snacks. Wait, I remember this place. And did not flinch as the National Park workers tried to shoo him away. The elephant later backed out of the shop, still holding a bag of snacks with his trunk. Can we address the elephant in the room? Yeah! Yeah!

And he left very little damage behind except mud tracks on the floor and the ceiling of the shop. The video posted on social media, the shop owner appeared amused as she described the moment that the elephant rifled her shop. And she said that he ate about nine bags of sweet rice crackers, a sandwich, and

And some dried bananas that she had brought that morning. Wouldn't it be great if he had a little napkin with his trunk and he's just kind of dabbing up afterwards? Do I still have some on my face? She said that the elephant left without hurting anyone after his snacks. A volunteer park worker familiar with the elephant said, Bly bian lec.

who's about 30 years old, is a familiar sight in the area and has been known to enter people's houses in search of food. And this was the first time that he had seen him going into a grocery store. Why elephants in the National Park area have been coming out of the woods, ransacked people's kitchens for many years. But this year, he has started seeing them go into more random places to find food. And they say now they're dabbling with identity theft. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's an elephant. Has that happened to him? They're not a happy person.

Or elephant. In New Mexico, prosecutors, listen to this, say that they are not pursuing charges against a teen accused of urinating in a rival baseball team's water jug. The incident happened in April at a junior varsity game between Rio Rancho High School and La Cueva High School. La Cueva High School principal Darrell Garcia sent a letter to the JV baseball team families saying,

stating that a student admitted to urinating in a water jug, La Cueva players and coaches then drank from. Police investigated and sent their findings to the district attorney's office along with a recommendation that the teen face as many as 15 counts of battery. The chief deputy district attorney, Jessica Martinez, says that there are no statutes in New Mexico that make it illegal to interfere with somebody's food and battery consists... I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

There should be a comma there. So illegal to interfere with somebody's food and battery consists of unlawful touching or application in a rude or insolent manner of another person. That didn't happen here. And so unfortunately, this conduct is not considered criminal. So I assume it's state by state. But that I know that that would be that would be a crime. Someone's food or drink. Putting something an alien substance into someone's food. Yeah.

Yeah, you cannot do that. Many people in the community have been upset with the decision to not press charges and have questioned what message this sends to the students or future teens who might get the idea to do something similar. While the student is out of legal trouble, a spokesperson said that all students involved will face severe disciplinary actions. They also suspended the entire team for the remainder of the season. Yeah. Yeah, they had to take it out on them.

An Australian fitness enthusiast completed 7,079 pull-ups in 24 hours, nearly doubling the previous Guinness World Record. Is it an open coffin wake or what are they doing? Olivia Vinson, who's 34 years old, told Guinness World Records that she was looking for a challenge when her husband...

And coach suggested she attempt a record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours. She said, I was looking for a bigger challenge. And my husband and coach actually suggested 24 hours of pull-ups, which I initially quite literally laughed at because I thought there was no way. I looked up what the current record was, which is 4,081, and again thought there's no way. She said it was only after she crunched the numbers on the previous record, which was set by Polish woman Paula Gorlo in 2021, that she started to reconsider.

She trained for three months before her first attempt, which ended prematurely. She said, I got about 12 hours in and I pulled a bicep tendon in my left arm. Yeah. That meant at that point I couldn't do a single pull-up. The injury forced her to take two months off before resuming training and finally felt ready for a second attempt. On my best day, 800. Yeah, come on. So she said her second attempt had its own challenges. She said, 19 hours in, I started to feel quite nauseous.

And I think it was just from being overtired. And it was something I had to just manage as best as possible. My concern was whether my body would hold out or not. Did you have any idea as to what was making her overtired? Yeah. Possibly the 1,000 push-ups or pull-ups. Pull-ups are my kryptonite. I can do a couple, but just for some reason, I don't engage the right muscles. There is a body type, too. If you're of a different...

She is very... She's a sinewy athlete. Yeah. So she's... This is what she's made for. She managed to complete the attempt with 7,079 pull-ups. That's an average of five pull-ups every minute for 24 hours. That's astonishing. That is incredible. Wow. Her arms are now 11 feet. All right. A woman named Chris Spangian, a retired cardio anesthesiologist and critical care provider, a

at a hospital in Billings, is now in recovery after surviving a bison attack. The attack happened in January, and due to the severity of her injuries, she is still recovering. And she was attacked in a Costco? No, she has a bison ranch. Oh, okay. Spindian has 1,600 acres of prairie land, and it was on her ranch on a snowy Sunday morning in January when her life was literally flipped upside down. She said, it happened so fast, I'm not sure how it all started, but I ended up on the ground face down and looked for my phone, but

foam was gone. Basically, it's a mini Cooper with fur. The event began while Spanjian was on a daily walk with her three English setters. The bison on their pasture usually don't cross into the territory that she walks the dogs. However, this morning her dogs and bison

And the bison herd ran into another. Spanjian said that her eldest dog did not hear her call to return before bison started attacking the dog. And when she went to defend her pet, the bison started attacking her as well. Said at that point, I just laid there and I knew I better just not move at all. And I was saying, what do you do if a grizzly bear attacks you? You play dead. So I figured I just better play dead. After the initial attack, she tried crawling away to safety, but it was attacked again by two bison, a calf,

and a bull. So with basically like goring? Yeah, and maybe trampling too. So she had a split lip, three broken vertebrae, three broken ribs, a gash on her leg, and a dislocated shoulder with nerve damage.

She was flown by helicopter to a hospital. At some point you'd have to say, what's your beef? And headed. She spent three days in the ICU before returning home. She thanks her former colleagues for help repairing her injuries. But she is really lucky to survive that. They're majestic and wonderful, but they are scary as F. And that is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right, we have a returning friend, former and family member because he was with us for quite some time. Kind of our bison. And this is the 12th

time that he and his friends have engaged in this. It is a 24-hour game show marathon, and it's coming up this weekend. We would like to... Do I have something to bring? Oh, yeah, yeah. There you go. We need some music. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rich Liebig, also known as The Pitchuation. Yay! How you guys doing? He's here with us this morning. Hey, how are you, bud? Man, I'm fantastic. How are you, Preston? Good. It's great to see you, as always. Yeah, it's great to stroll back. I feel like it's high school. Like, I came back and... Come back. Oh, man, get to see, like, you know, some things...

are the same, but some things have changed a little bit, but you know, it's, you get that like weird mix of like nostalgia and like noticing like, oh yeah, that's over there. That's over there. Yeah. Yeah. That was interesting. How long were you with us? Wow. I mean, if you include my time with MMR me, I mean, yeah, it's like 10, 11 years. Wow. You hear that long? Yeah. I was, yeah. The, my first year as an intern was 2012. Wow. And,

And yeah, it was like a one in 12 year run. And when did we shoot you with the nacho cannon? That was 2013. Oh my God. Which is, again, it's a classic piece of footage. Yes. This is my claim to fame, yep. Your mom hated us forever, right? Does she still hate us? No. Okay, good.

All you needed to do was get some cookies and smooth that over and you were good. No, listen. We almost killed her beloved son. But it lives in Preston and Steve legend and lore and is in one of the higher...

I mean, it's really one of the most amazing things that has ever occurred on the show. I appreciate it. You guys gave me a shout out in your interview, I think it was Philadelphia Magazine. You guys mentioned that. I was like, I was in Philadelphia Magazine. Take that. Dude, when you got hit by that slug of nachos from that air cannon, it shot you back so far. And you saw the initial reaction like, oh, that was amazing.

That wasn't supposed to happen. You could see it in your face. Like, oh, that hurt. No. There was an audible slap. Oh, man. Yes. Is that the hardest you've ever been hit? Yes. Absolutely. That took the nachos. I was going to say the cake, but it's really nachos. I mean, listen, it almost hit you in the throat, which could have been fatal. I didn't even think about the fact we were aiming directly at your heart. Yes. As well. Yeah.

That is a bad thing. To explain, we had the nacho cannon, which we were very proud of, and they would fire nachos. And so we had had the beginning of the stunt. We were at the camp out for hunger when it was at the Plymouth Metroplex, a

And so in the interim, between part one and part two of the segment, we went and conducted an interview in the tent. It was very cold outside. And so the nachos froze, basically. And if you don't know what a nacho cannon is, essentially it's a very large gauge potato gun.

So it was air compression, and it was a mistake. It was a mistake, and I'm sorry. But it was awesome as well. All right, anyhow, forget the past. Let's talk about what's going on now, this 24-hour game show marathon. First and foremost, a charity event. Absolutely. This is an event that we love to put on every year, and it benefits a charity called Child's Play.

which is a fantastic charity that gives toys, games, video games, VR equipment to kids that are in hospitals and shelters across the country, including locally here at CHOP. This is wonderful. And this has always been your sort of the recipient and which you work for and providing information

Stuff like this for kids who are dealing with long-term illnesses and are in the hospital system. Anything that can make it fun or give them distractions is wonderful. Do you have any ideas how many systems and things you've given away over the years? I don't know in terms of systems. Yes.

But the last three years, we have hit $11,000 for this game show marathon consistently. Wow. Nice. Man, you can get a lot of toys with that. Yes. It blows me away that we are hitting those kind of numbers. I mean, this literally started off as just like... A lark? No, but like...

what's a lark? A lark? No, like a throwaway idea. Oh, throwaway idea. No, what's a lark? Yeah, you got me on that. Lark. What's a lark? Yeah. What's a lark? What was that again? Um, now, um, you are the most adorable person on the planet. Just unbelievable every time. Thank you, Nick. Um, yeah, I mean, it was, it was started off as just like a goofy idea and we, you know, we thought it'd be great to raise money for charity. Um,

But this has like taken on a life of its own now. I mean, we have our Twitch stream has like

We have our own lore. People know certain inside jokes about the Game Show Marathon now. The best thing I've heard is that there is a fan group in Thailand that is doing their own Game Show Marathon. No way! Inspired by you? Yes. Oh, that's awesome. That blows me away. I'm like, we affected someone in Thailand? Yeah. That's like the power of the internet right there. All right, Pitch, real quick. You mentioned Twitch. Where's the best place? Where should people watch the Game Show Network?

Where should they watch the game show marathon? It's the, it's game show marathon.com. Everything is there. The link to donate to link, to watch the show. Um, you can even watch it directly on our homepage. It'll be, it'll be, uh, streaming right at the front of the homepage. And so you guys for 24 hours, each hour, you will be conducting a different game show amongst your, your group that puts this on. That is correct. And so we have classic ones. Like I would imagine, uh,

Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy and some of the more popular ones. But there are some, you dive into ones I've never heard of before. I'm looking at things like Popmaster, Power of 10. I've heard of Power of 10. Even really old school ones like 21. Yes, I'm doing 21. That's great. I am resurrecting it from the grave. You should resurrect Bumper Stumpers. Do you even know what Bumper Stumpers is?

where Stumpers is. I haven't seen that in forever, but yes, I remember that. It came on reruns on Game Show Network. Here's one, Countdown. That's a UK show, right? Yes. Love Countdown. Corey's Perfect Recall. So that is a variant of a show called Perfect Recall where everything that happens in the hour is quizzed upon. So if I walk in the room and the game show starts...

I could say the first five seconds, like, hey, Preston, how you doing? How's your, I don't know if you had a watermelon collection. How's your watermelon collection going? And then 45 minutes at the end of the show, what was the first thing I asked you? And that's worth like 100 points or something. That was really tough. And we're doing that later on when we're all sleep deprived.

By the way, my watermelon collection is the best it's ever been. It's award winning. He won an award for it. I thought it was in the Philadelphia Magazine. Your production quality has gone up

dramatically. Yes. I mean, there's a lot of effort, a lot of people, a lot of moving parts that you're taking care of. It has been amazing. We've gotten so much help from volunteer help. I mean, this is literally people that are going out of their way to help us with the Twitch stream, help us with graphics, help us with sound. LaSalle University, got to give them a shout out. They're...

letting us have their TV studio for this weekend. Oh, that's great. Yeah. So it's just been amazing. The, the, the amount of support we've gotten over through the years and

Um, there's, yeah, streams right now playing. We deal, we do deal or no deal at the end of the show and people actually give money based on the outcome of that game. That is crazy. Like that. It's almost like we're actually playing this for like, Oh my gosh, we can't mess around. We need, we need to, we need to get toys to children. Uh, I know. We can't do it. Uh,

Before we brought you on, we were all sort of giggling in the background while Marissa was doing traffic. Press, do you want to tell everybody why? It was one of the funniest moments ever. We all do these live commercials during the commercial stop sets. I pride myself on being able to knock them out pretty good.

And also pride myself on not being able to be distracted because Casey will sometimes, I'll turn around, he's got his bare ass sticking to my face while I'm trying to tell you about what's going on with Xfinity or whatever it happens to be. And there was one time where I was doing, I think it was a Steven Singer commercial. We'll let you know because we have the audio. And Casey, we realized that when Casey, if he would do some kind of a dance or something like that, that pitchuation would always mimic him.

And so we go into this commercial and Casey starts doing this goofy flailing your arms around dance. And sure enough, Pituation does it right along with him. And I couldn't keep it together. So here's the audio from that. On ABC. Hey, gang. Lysio's Bakery is giving you the chance to break bread with us. MMR's Preston and Steve show. All you have to do is go to lysios.wmmr.com.

Why did you do that right before I had to do this commercial? To register and you'll be in the running for a chance to come to her studios. Hang out as we do our show. I'm a professional. Enjoy breakfast courtesy of Lysio's Bakery and win a $50 Models gift card. Good for official Phillies gear. Gotta go to Bo's. If you're from around here, you know it all starts with the bread and that's why...

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Of course, this dragged on for another long time. I just couldn't get it together. I did like a DX pose or something to you from WWE. I don't even remember doing that. Will there be any dancing during the countdown? Look, it's 24 hours. We got to fill those time slots. So yeah, there might be dancing at some point. All right, well, listen, Pitch, we got to wrap it up. I'm sorry. We have a few other guests that are going to be here momentarily. But we want to put the word out that this is happening. When does this start? What time and date? This starts this Saturday, noon Eastern.

Broadcast starts right at noon Eastern time. And you just go to gameshowmarathon.com and you hit the play button and you're ready to go. You're joining us. If you have a Twitch account, we do have a Twitch chat. So you can, if there's a prompt or something that we might ask for audience participation in, you can put your comments there. Excellent. All right. I'll make sure we hit this a few more times and that people are aware of it. It is great to see you as always, man. We love you. Great to see everybody here. It's been fantastic. Can you give us a little bit of your Rocky impersonation? Oh, no.

Preston, you know, I'm trying to raise money for the kids over here. It's uncanny. That is uncanny. It's like he's right here. Wow. It's like, you know, it's like Clubber Lang is standing right across from me. Railers!

Pituation. Great to see you. All right, listen, we need to take a break. I think we should come right back, Casey, because we have our good friend Sarah Wren, who is our makeup artist influencer. And also we're going to have John Heder and Efrem Amir is from Napoleon Dynamite here. And the last minute addition to that interview, we're going to have John Grease on as well.

Shut up! Yeah, I texted him this morning and it was on me. I should have done it a long time ago, but he is psyched. He's in New York. He's going to call us while John Heder and Efren are here. All right, excellent. Well, we're going to take a break and we'll be right back. Stay with us, Fred.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Marissa. So, we have a guest in our studio. And after this, folks, you're not even going to recognize us. Yeah. We're going to be so beautiful. It's unbelievable. Any reason to not recognize this is a good one. That's true. Absolutely. Because we're not really working with much. She is a makeup artist. And she is an influencer. And she is a friend of the Preston and Steve Show. This is Sarah Ray. Hey!

She's back. Hi there, Sarah. Hi, Fresvo. How are you? Nice to see you again. I'm doing good. If you don't follow Sarah on Instagram, you should. And listen, I don't wear makeup, but I love watching. Something captivating about watching her videos. There's an ASMR quality to it. There is. There is. And you did one recently. So there are two that stand out to me. There was one, and I had responded to you, where you were highlighting Shirley Manson's

That was a big one. Techniques. And then you just did one with Rose McGowan, which is so you. Yeah. Like you have similar facial features to her, I think. Oh, yeah. There it is. And so I was watching that and I got a kid. Do you do the celebrity ones? You know, I found a lot of traction with those. So I'm on Instagram and TikTok. And I found, I guess because like I am the millennial girl. And I've gone back to all these 90s makeup looks that inspired me like Liv Tyler and Rose McGowan and...

people that are fair skinned that resemble me and I've kind of recreated these looks and people really respond to it. Is that coming back a little bit? I hope so. That sort of porcelain complexion sort of... I mean, for my sake, I hope it is because I know we're SPF buddies. Yes, we are. I keep it very fair, but I think there's an embracing of kind of like

natural look. I will tell you what you're rocking now. You were talking and I know she's a client of the product that you endorse. You're rocking a Billie Eilish vibe big time. Thank you. Yeah. I get that pretty much every single day. Yeah. It's there. I'm almost 20 years older than herself. So you do like exclusively like fair skinned celebrities? No, no. So like

For me, when I'm imitating a look, I tend to look with somebody that looks like me, just because that's going to get the truest kind of representation of the look. But when I do makeup, I do it on a myriad of people. There's a makeup artist who also I'll follow who does, she's a theatrical, you know, she works a lot with just, you know, on movie sets and Broadway, right? And what she does, though, is her thing is to use makeup.

like thick makeup to contort her, make her face look entirely different. I forget her name. Oh, I know who you're talking about. Yeah. And she's done like Owen Wilson. She made herself look like Owen Wilson. There's some people on the internet doing like prosthetics and like crazy transitions and they are extremely talented. That's not my lane. No. But I am such a fan of it. A friend of mine works for a tear behind the walls and the prosthetic stuff that they do. I find it really fascinating. Amazing.

So I have a question for you because I'm suffering from something. I don't know what it is. But so I wear glasses all the time now. And so now for some reason, I have this like red mark on the top of my nose. And I don't know what... It's probably from the glasses. It's probably from the glasses. But I don't know what I should use to clean and...

tend to that area? I don't know what... Well, I have something in a little kit I can show you, but really the answer is your glasses are too tight. They're too tight? Yeah, they're probably a little too tight on the bridge of your nose. And you can get a little bridgey thing, right? We can put some tape on it. That'd be great. Opti-grab. And call you spaz. Steve, are you talking like a little cushion? They sell them, yeah. Like little... Like in the jerk. The opti-grab. Yeah. Wow.

I have a question that I'm going to throw out. This is a general question for him before we get started with the other stuff. Yeah. So I do sunblock all the time. I have to use water. I use water resistant sunblock from like my nose down. Yep.

I can't put it on the top of my head, though, because if I sweat and it gets in my eyes, it's a freaking nightmare. Is that the smart way to go? Yeah, I think so. You're doing a hat outside or something? Yes, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that happens a lot. The sweat can combine and it breaks it down. And then if SPF, if you've ever had it in your eyes, it breaks.

It's horrible. Yeah. So I do recommend a hat if you're suffering from that or just doing a thinner layer of it. All right. Something that is like waterproof, sport proof. I have like some of my favorite sunscreens here, but just finding one that doesn't budge. So and in preparation of the summer season, what is it for people heading out to the pool and to the beach? What are the absolute must do's from your vast knowledge? Okay. I brought a few things and I think you all have some stuff in front of you too. I figured let's start with just like basic things.

body care, staying clean, staying fresh. I was self-caring last night. Wet ones, you were self-caring solo. This is for the general public. These are wet ones. Everybody knows wet ones. I use them in my kit as a makeup artist. They clean everything. They're now making body wipes.

that I am obsessed with. I know you guys are gym guys. So after the gym, after the chore, after whatever you're doing, if you stink, take one of these, do a little bird bath on your pits, on your wherevers. I love them. I keep them in my car, in my kit. I love it.

Love, love these. They're a huge recommendation from me. I think you get like, they're like $3 and you get 28 of these. Wet ones, body wipes, eight hour moisturizer, great alternative to a shower, instant refresh, clean scent. They smell lovely. They smell really great. They just get a wet, they get rid of that like sweat, the oil, the dirt that accumulates during the day.

So a little, yeah, and especially this time of year when you're just walking around outside, might get a little perspiration. A little swap ass. Yeah, a little what? A little swap ass. Yeah, so you could just use this because I do the, you know, as they say, Steve, the whore's bath. Whore's bath.

which is in the sink. If you can't take a shower or whatever and you need to do a quick clean up and that's a little soap and water. Then you need a towel. But this, you don't need all that. You don't need that at all. This is just like a one and done. They are not flushable though. Oh, okay.

Shout out to all the plumbers here. I'm telling everybody now, just throw them in the trash. Even the flushable ones aren't really flushable. I know. We've heard from experts on plumbers who say that is an urban myth. Yeah. And one to be avoided. By the way, Sarah brought us a little care package here. And then you brought us, this is an exfoliating bath net. So this doesn't seem that exciting or sexy, but let me tell you, this has changed my skin. Nick, remember I told you I was going to make you feel my arm and tell them how soft it is? Oh, yeah. Tell them how soft my arm is. You know what it feels like?

Like butter. Butter. So I want to give a little bit of credit here to, if you're not on TikTok, there's something called Black Girl Shower Talk. I'm obsessed. And that's where I was introduced to this. Exactly. Casey's demoing it right now. So this is a net sponge. It's an alternative to a loofah. And it's antibacterial. So you can see that it's like a big net that you can unfurl almost. Oh.

So it dries very quickly. It's antibacterial. It's long. The way that this is knotted exfoliates your, you'll see skin just like come off in the shower. Well, in case he was just doing a maneuver where he was able to work his back. Yeah. I mean, because, you know, either that you have to have the, the,

brush on a handle yeah right in order to do it that's a better option i didn't know about these things until about a couple of weeks ago i had to ask my daughter came home from college and i go out of my wife i go uh why is there a fishing net in our in our shower right now she's like oh that's uh what you just said so this is and what did you find out from it so it's a black girl shower talk it's amazing i think um

I've been showering, Ron, for 39 years, and I just learned. You've been showering like a Caucasian. I have been. So I've just kind of redone my shower technique, and this is like an instant staple. I absolutely love it. How important is it to exfoliate, to remove dead skin? I think extremely important. I mean, it carries. I do none of that. You don't. No. I'm very bare bones in the shower, but I take a number of showers during the day. Wow.

But I don't do that. It's almost like, so when you're not exfoliating, you're kind of just cleaning that top layer. So you're almost just like removing the dirt and the grime, but you're not really exfoliating or hydrating or taking care of the skin. So you're clean, clean.

Yeah. But it could be cleaner and smoother and softer. Okay. That's a goal. Yes. Yeah. All right. And then the last thing you gave us, if you don't mind going through this. Casey, back to your glasses. Yes. So this is a really cool, so I work for Milk Makeup, and this is a really cool product that we've just come out with. So go ahead and open it up. Which Billie Eilish uses, by the way. Yeah, she does. She's a fan. So this is called our Cooling Water Jelly Ice. This is a serum skincare stick. You twist it up. This is the jelly you were talking about. Yes, this is the face gel.

jelly I was talking about. And you can't eat this jelly. So this is a calming serum stick you can use all over your face. It has caffeine in it. It has aloe. It has amino acids. Oh, so here, Preston, do like a sweeping motion. A sweeping motion. Am I spreading something on my face? All over, yeah. So the jelly formula goes onto the face. It feels really nice and cooling.

and refreshing. I like it. This is like a very like minimalist way to get some skincare in. Like I said, it reduces the look of puffiness. That caffeine in there acts like a cup of coffee for the eyes. I do want to take a bite out of it. I know. It looks like something you could eat. You know, Milk did have a little bit of a viral moment last year with people doing that exactly. Really? So we had to put out a PSA that our products are made for looks, not licks. Yeah.

It does look like that now. Because I just put a little bit on. It's very cool. Are there any cosmetic? You know what I see a lot, Sarah? It ends up on TikTok a lot. This sort of

cool or they take it out of the refrigerator. It is a piece, a metallic thing that they rub. This is essentially what we wanted to make was like an ice roller without the fridge. So this is why that has that really cooling sensation. So you're getting kind of that instant like, ah,

So it reduces puffiness because it is really cooling. And there's also niacinamide in the formula too, which is a great like brightener, mild anti-ager. But this is something that can go into anyone's skin routine. You ever get off the beach and you're like, I feel that sunburn coming on. This is a really good product to use at that point too. So it's something that you can use like...

throughout the day, in the morning. I like that. And works with everyone's skin care routine. What was the chemical you said? Niacinamide? Niacinamide. What's that mean? Niacinamide is an ingredient that's in a lot of skin care and it's like an anti-ager. It helps with pore size. It helps hydrate the skin. It helps brighten. All right. In a moment, we're going to get to the red light mask, which is the reason we called you in. I mean, we called you in for more than that, but Steve is...

interest has been piqued by this, but you had mentioned, you know, feeling the sunburn coming on. I wanted to ask you because we're now moving into easily sunburnable days and my son's friend got a burn yesterday and I told her, I'm like, but the

sunscreen on and she didn't do it. Besides the scare and the potential of skin cancer from being burned like that, what damage does sunburn do to your skin in general? I mean, I can get really nerdy on here talking about UVA and UV rays, but the sun is...

kind of the most detrimental thing to aging. So when you're not protecting your skin, those UVA and UVB rays, they're different wavelengths. So I remember them because UVA is the aging rays and UVB is those burning rays. So not only could you possibly get skin cancer, obviously, from not having the right sun protection, but it breaks down collagen faster. Well, we've seen people who... We know somebody in Preston who's...

who is an attractive woman but has that leathery,

aging thing that and much she looks older than she is and it's because of all the sun you know what steve are today's youth is very very well aware of all of this i was with my daughter uh two days no no it was yesterday and she was telling me that the uv index was at out of 10 i was like wow i go is that high she's like yeah i was like well what's the highest she's like i don't know i think like 14 or something but like these kids are like so dialed into this stuff now

So I think we're seeing a lot of like other cultures also like influence our SPF here because K-beauty, I brought the sunscreens I brought in are Korean beauty and Australia because their regulations are so much harder and tougher on sunscreens and SPF for the body and the face. So I think we're seeing a lot of that like we see in Korea.

kind of the korean beauty that they use spf is just part of their daily wellness routine right and here we're very much like i'm going to the beach i gotta put on my sunscreen like and it's something that should be used every day i put it on every day i thought the winter i put it on every day yeah sir let me ask you this because i like in the summertime uh getting a little bit of color getting out in the sun it like makes me feel a little bit better about myself and like literally a little bit warmer the vitamin d all that kind of stuff right

So is there a healthy, protective way to protect your skin? Because skin cancer runs in my family. It's something that I have to pay attention to. Is there something that I can do where I can still get a little bit of sun, but just be okay about it, safer about it? Yeah, so vitamin D also you're still getting even though you have sunscreen on. So don't worry. You're still getting that vitamin D. I think in terms of getting a little bit of color, you know,

You're against it. I wouldn't say I'm against it. I'm a big fan of self-tanner, which I can introduce. I mean, I can come back and give you a whole self-tan. I'm a big fan of a little bit of that, but I understand kind of like the feeling of going out, absorbing a little bit of those like infrared light and like, you know, getting a boost. So on that, for once and for all, the self-tanning, the liquids, the sprays, the whatever, what is the best solution?

results to be gotten where do you get the best results what product and um what provides the best protection there's a brand i like called isla paradise for self tanning they do these drops that i like because you can kind of turn the volume up or down on the tan that you want so if you want to add just like a drop into your moisturizer it just gives you a little bit like you went for a really long walk or you can add a bunch of drops and put it all over your body and get like a proper tan

Now, as far as SPF, my favorite one right now for the face is this brand called Ultra Violette. It's an Australian brand. They just started carrying it at Sephora. Thank goodness, because I think I was like buying it illegally and having it shipped in. It came in with your cocaine supply. All right. Well...

This is an SPF of 50 and it's broad spectrum, so it protects against UVA and UVB. It is one of the only sunscreens, and this is something I hear about a lot too. Not only does it run into the eyes, but it causes breakouts. This is one that I've never seen anybody have a reaction to. No bad reaction to. That is part of some of the sunscreens that make you break out. Interesting. I should put some on my hand. Little sample so you can feel how light it feels. It just feels like a gel moisturizer. Yeah, totally. By the way, my face still feels slimy. Is this supposed to?

I was talking to Pitch about this in the Acme Lounge, is that, you know, I think when you're not used to having... Your face feels conditioned and rich and hydrated. Oh, is that what it feels like? It doesn't feel slimy. It's not slimy. It's enriched. When you're not used to having product or anything on your face, it's going...

to feel a little strange. But I want you to embrace that feeling in the hopes of getting a benefit out of it. And this will absorb after a little while. So that's what's going to happen. Can I jump ahead? Well, I have something special for you. This is...

because I know you're a foot model. Yes, he is. And I wanted to talk about the feet that I'm seeing at the beach. Okay. Okay. It's coming. Okay. Foot season, man in sandal season is coming. And I understand that not everybody feels as comfortable as Casey and I to go get a pedicure. So I have some alternatives that you can do at home to take care of your feet before you unleash them on the general pop. Okay. So I have two. This one is my favorite.

This one is a little bit like, it's more intense. So this is called Babyfoot. This is very, very famous. Babyfoot. Babyfoot. This is a mask for your feet. It comes in little booties and the formula is in the booties. So you slip them on. This one you wear for an hour. Okay. And then five to seven days later, when I tell you all of your foot...

comes off like a snake. Get out of here. It's sick. I love it. Can I say that, Bugs? Yeah. My feet are out of shape. The prequel to Baby Driver case. So you'll see it actually in a very reptilian, snake-like way, the skin will come off. Yes, I've done it before and if you don't plan it right with your vacation, you will have like a gross...

Peely foot. So there's also an alternative that I brought for you to try today if you'd like. And this is more just like about moisture. So this is the same thing. You can put a little, your little foot in this little booty and you wear it for 10, 20 minutes. It's going to help hydrate and just help with the appearance of gross feet. I want to do the Peely thing. I will. And it takes a few days before it happens. Yeah, yeah. I'll leave that one with you because you have to wear it for an hour. Look at the back of that. So here's what one...

Only one time did this ever happen. And I looked down and my feet did that naturally. It kind of freaked me out. I was like, what in the hell did I do? I'm a foot model. What happens to my career? But I mean, Steve, it was like I was molting. Yes. I was shedding the skin. And I was like, all of this big, like huge sheets of dead skin were coming off of my feet. So there you are with half a dead deer down your throat. And you're looking down this. Steve.

I mean, that sounds like your foot just like rejecting all the old dead skin. I guess so. But no, my feet are in, I mean, I'm a performer professional, but my feet are in bad shape. I'm embarrassed to show them. So I need something. Get you back on those runways. Yeah, this is truly a life changer. But again, five to seven days after you use it, you're going to start to see them shedding. So if you're going to the shore this weekend, this is not something to try. Like give it a little space before you're going to.

show your feet off. So Sarah, a lot of people are very self-conscious about their feet. It's a big issue. Yeah. I mean, people don't like the way their feet look. I mean, have you been out there? Have you seen people's feet? The cloven hooves? Yeah. Yeah. All right. So Steve was asking about the red light mask. Yes. Okay.

Does it not look weird? To me, it looks like a Hannibal Lecter universal horror movie type contraption. And then when it's lit up, it looks even weirder. Yeah, so I've seen ones that, wow, oh my God. It's bright. How long have you been using this bad boy? So I've had this one probably about eight months. Is this the latest rage? I've been

I've been a big fan of red light for a long time. I actually have an autoimmune disease. So I go and lay in a red light bed in Fishtown. So that was my introduction to red light. I have vitiligo. Yeah. Could this do anything for vitiligo? I don't know. I don't care. I mean, it's helped me because it helps so much. Red light is really great because you're getting the benefits of the sun essentially with this red light. So it helps with...

cell turnover, wound healing, inflammation, redness, acne, and it's a very, very passive way to do skincare. I mean, you sit in it, it doesn't get warm, you wear it for 20 minutes. With no UVB, which is for burn. Yes, no UVB or UVA rays in there. So there's no risk of sun damage or light damage to your skin when you wear it.

Can I put it on? Let's put this on Steve. I definitely want to see this. Does he need to come over there? No, it's charged up. You can move this anywhere. It doesn't have to be plugged in at the time. You want to turn that mic on, Chris? Yeah. In fact, Sarah, you can get on that. It is on. Actually, you can get on that mic right there. I don't know how to do this, Sarah. Okay, so the one that I'm using is from Higher Dose. You got it. Okay. It looks like pain. Yeah, can you tighten it up in the back? I'm obsessed, yeah. All right. Oh, my God. Does it feel comfortable, though? You don't want it to be too tight. Okay.

It's a new world order. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. She just lit it up. Whoa, dude. Is that tight enough? Turn the lights off. Hang on. Turn the lights off. Steve, what does it feel like on the inside? Nick, turn that light off above you if you don't mind. And then Marissa, kill all that. I've come from the future. Dude. Oh, my God.

Oh my God, look at you. I'm here to kill your mother. When your mouth moves. Does it look scary? Do you see that, Casey? Oh, wow. Shut up. I'm looking at the screen and it's actually affecting because all this red light is popping up on my eyes. Oh my God. It's kind of like Magneto a little bit. This could easily be part of a Halloween costume. It's time to collect the X-Men. Yeah. Yeah, it's very bright. Your eyes kind of have to get used to it. Look how cool it looks. Steve, look on the monitor up there.

Look at that. You kind of have to get used to it, but once you wear it, you're... Is that not cool? I would buy this for a Halloween costume. Absolutely. How long are you supposed to keep these on? So it comes in a 10 and 20 minute interval. It's wireless. So I charge it and then I'll just pop it on. So just 10 or 20 minutes? 10, 20 minutes. And you want to use it... Here, let me... I can't see my headphones. And that's it. You just... I wear it before bed. I am a human being.

Sarah, how much does one of these guys cost? This one is $350. Oh, that's it? And this one is... I know. So let me ask you. Have you seen my face? You're very candid and you're very honest about this. Yeah. For someone who has, say, I don't have an acne condition or anything, but for those things that you reeled off... Yeah.

Is this a plus? Is this a benefit? Is this something that would be well worth the investment? If you're going to use it, I think it's worth the investment. The thing is, with any skincare practice, it's just like working out, right? You don't get, Casey, you don't get sit-ups from one day at the gym. Wait. You don't get six-pack. From sit-ups one day at the gym. Okay. So this is something that you need to do continued use to see results. So I use it probably five nights a week for 10, 20 minutes. Okay.

And I have seen a huge benefit in my skin. Steve, our YouTube audience is asking for you to do the I am the God of Hellfire. If you wouldn't mind. I am the God of Hellfire. Yes. And I bring you Red Mask. I purchased a $350 Red Mask. That is perfect. I am the God of Hellfire. And I bring you fire.

My face is not on fire. I think you naturally assume you're going to get some sort of heat, but I'm not getting that. No, no, there's no warmth to it. Again, it's a very passive way to do a kind of a higher end skincare treatment at home. And at 350, I know that that sounds crazy. I get it.

But this is a more affordable one. There's ones that are like kind of the heavier. They almost look like a helmet. Yeah, I've seen those. I do this one because I travel so much. It's silicone. It's easy to clean. I can throw it in the bag. But some of those kind of like Therabody makes one. They make the Theragun. Those can get up until like $1,000. Is the helmet one? It doesn't have the red lights in the back though, does it? No, no. But they do now make a red light cap.

Is that for hair growth? For hair growth. Steve, can I try it on? Yes. I want you to see what it looks like with somebody else on. You'll be surprised how much it blocks out

the light that you're looking at. If you've never tuned in to the Preston and Steve YouTube channel, now would be a great time to do so. Yeah, it's Preston and Steve WMMR on YouTube and Preston's about to put it on. It's weird and a little eerie in here having all the lights out too. Steve, what did it feel like on the inside? It's actually kind of cool. It's like you're in your own personal disco because you have all these red lights around. But Nick, you'd be surprised with that light coming up. You really can't see a lot.

Ready to light it up? Yeah. All right. Here we go. Light that candle. Here we go. Surprise! Hey, everybody. Isn't that wild? Oh, my God. Yeah. Can you see Casey? Not really. Yeah, right? I see a silhouette. Okay. And that's it. It affects your eye because you're getting so lit from under your eyes. If the lights were on in here, maybe I would be able to see a little bit better. Okay. Nick, I can see your silhouette and Sarah just barely. Wow. But I'm not feeling any heat. There's no heat. At all from this. Okay.

I just saw myself. You know what you look like? You're a jack-o'-lantern. Yes. That's what you are. I love this. And Sarah, you're, again. Yeah.

We break it down. If you're having any sort of issues, any sort of skin issues on your face, you'd think this is a worthy investment. Yeah. I think if you are somebody that wants to invest... Sorry, I'm laughing at Preston. I didn't like it. I didn't touch it with my tongue. If you're somebody that wants to invest in your skincare, but you don't want a ton of products on the sink, this is a really nice way. Truly, I will sit down, put on a movie, maybe an Urkel pre-roll or something, and

And put on my red light mask and that's kind of my end of night routine. 20 minutes. So if you're going to use it, I think it's a great investment because it helps with just a myriad of things. It looks wild as hell, man. So yeah, it is getting to my eyes a little bit. Yes. Do you recommend keeping your eyes closed while you have the sun? Yeah, I tend to do more of a meditative moment versus Bane voices. Oh, I was dancing around. But like, you know, live your look. Whatever feels right. You're part of a new world order.

You could incorporate that. You could exercise while I have this on. Well, I might get sweaty. On the YouTube channel, one of our YouTube commenters called you the Presbo Lantern. Yeah. I would tell you this, though, Sarah. I would say that probably the best thing to do would be keep your eyes closed.

for the majority of it because you have bright red, well, not bright red, but that light around your eyes. Yeah. And it took my eyes a little while to adjust back to the regular room. It does. It does. It is very bright. So you can close your eyes while you wear it. I'm bad. I like fully use my cell phone while I'm doing it. Preston, do you need some help? I'll help you out. No, I can't see it.

Hit the button, Casey. I can't see it. I want Casey to try it on. My new world order's a disaster. Nick, this would probably even fit your head. Oh, cool. It's that big, huh? It's got an extender belt. Adjustable. Like the airlines. This is so much fun. Yes. And like I said, there's these really cool red light beds, too. So if you're having issues like...

throughout your body. Like I said, I suffer from something called ankylosing spondylitis. Right, right. Very fancy term for like my joints just hurt all of the time. Right. And I was going to a red light bed regularly and it was really helping. How expensive are those? Oh, I had a place where it was like a drop in kind of thing. So I just had unlimited red light and cryotherapy. All right, case fired up. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. All right.

I got nothing funny to say. What do you think? You see, though, with all that red light around your eyes. Yeah, but I can see you guys good. Okay. You're definitely, you're more of a silhouette. Steve, I can see. Because I have light coming on me from this. You have light, that's probably why. This light's coming all over my face. Yep.

If you're just tuning in, Casey's wearing this red light mask. We have our makeup and skin care influencer here, Sarah Wren, with us. You can follow her on Instagram, Sarah Wren. I think that's it, right, Sarah Wren? Wren Tarr is my handle on TikTok. W-R-E-N-T-A-R. And we're trying out the... Steve was curious about the red light mask. Right. I actually use a thing called, my wife and I got it, Dr. Rosenpenis, Dr. Rosenberg, who's the hypnotherapist.

It is a beamer. It increases blood flow to your capillaries and all that stuff. Some people don't believe it. Some people do. We're finding results. So sometimes these things, do your due diligence.

But I went from zero to 60 on seeing nothing about this to having it permeate social media like crazy. And obviously the algorithm picked up on me looking at it, but I didn't realize there were so many products like this. Yeah, I think they found, you know, when they find a way to make these a little bit more affordable. Nick just had whiplash as he turned the light on. I felt like Kramer for a second. Nick, close your eyes because like right now what you're seeing is red, but when you close your eyes,

You basically see bright white. Yeah, it feels like you're looking at the sun with your eyes closed. Is that right? I never should have done that. I didn't do that. I want to express that this is pain-free. Oh, yeah. This is pain-free. There's no heat. It's just a bit of a bright light. You don't feel anything. Yeah. And in fact, it's not... I would think even someone who's a little bit claustrophobic, this would not be an issue.

No, I wouldn't. No, because your eyes and your mouth and everything is exposed. Sometimes those helmet ones get a little heavy. And like I said, this is wireless, so I charge it. I'm able to walk around while I'm doing it. I can lay in bed with it on. You're not tied to an outlet. They should put earbuds in one of these bad boys. Nick, would you like some Chianti? Do this. Go. Yeah, that's perfect. Wow, okay. A makeup artist tried to take my senses one time. Thank you.

Look, you can't see my penis when I do this. All right, I'm going to turn the lights back on. So, Sarah, that's kind of a home run. Yeah, I really love it. We're going to have a wrap-up here shortly, but Sarah's got a list of notes. Is there anything else you wanted to mention? Other than how your bowling scores are? I'm actually a terrible bowler. I'm doing it for the fashion. Oh, actually, you know what? One more thing I do. This is my last thing. This is from Megababe. It's called Thigh Rescue.

What do you guys know about side chafing? Oh, well, I know about Chub Rub. There we go. Okay. Well, I'm going to rebrand it as side chafing. Okay. And this is a really great product. This is from Mega Babe. It's almost like a little deodorant stick that is an anti-friction stick. So you can use this at any areas that are rubbing in the summer and causing a little fire moment. Yeah. Love, love, love this. We were at the beach a couple of weeks ago, and I saw this kid walking. Oh.

The beaches are incredibly huge in Wildwood and he is walking from the beach to try to get back off of it and he was doing the waddle. I know exactly what that kid is feeling right now. It hurts a lot. If you get the mesh inside your bathing suit and it chafes you. Obviously, I'm going to assume this has no carcinogens. No, it's just like grapeseed oil, pomegranate oil and a little bit of

aloe so it just creates a little bit of slip and like kind of soothing if that area is already inflamed it's called mega babe is the name of the brand and it's called thigh rescue okay it's funny so i it's a new show on cbs by the way thigh rescue it's on after chicago med you you would think that i'm that i'm grabbing my my junk all the time but i'm not what i'm doing is i'm grabbing my pants and pulling them up so that my skin is not my thighs aren't touching each other

but it looks like I'm grabbing my package all the time. When I'm working out, you'll get that chafe. Yes. Yeah. All right, well, you need some of this then. All right. Listen, our next guest just arrived. Yay! I saw them in the Acme Lounge. Sarah Wren, you're amazing. Yay! We love you, and you can follow her. Follow her on Instagram. It's their fun videos. It doesn't matter if you're into makeup or this stuff or not. I just get a kick out of watching, and you're kind of like you were saying, Steve. It's kind of ASMR-inducing. Well, and you're reachable, too, which is if people have questions, and I'm sure you get the rush. Oh, yeah, I'm reachable. I'll make a video.

about everything that I used today, but I am reachable. I'm in the Philadelphia area. All right. W-R-E-N-T-A-R is how you can find Sarah on Instagram. Thanks for coming by here. Thanks, Fresvo. It was great to see you. Oh, we have outro music. Beautiful girl, most definitely. All right. As we take a break, stick around because John Heater and Efrem Ramirez are going to be in our studio and...

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right. Thank you very much, Marissa. Our next guests are going to be appearing tonight at City Winery. And they will be doing a full screening of Napoleon Dynamite and a Q&A afterwards. And it's BYOT. Yes. Bring your own tots, by the way. Just to give you a heads up on that. But we are so excited to have our next two guests here in the studio. Please welcome John Heater and Efren Ramirez.

Hello. Hello. Who's this? And by the way, they dove into the mini-melt. They're sucking down the mini-melt. They're great, aren't they? Well, you guys are sucking on pretzels, so I wanted to put something in my mouth, too. That was just me. I don't really...

contribute during an interview. Well, I'm looking at you straight in the eye. Alright, I'm looking at you straight in the eye. Isn't this the BYOT place? Bring your own thoughts? Yes. Without question. Nick was recalling, you guys came to town with the show, the similar show, Sold Out. And it speaks to sort of the perpetuity to the fan base of Napoleon Dynamite, which

is one of the, at least in my mind, one of the great early indie film successes that just came out of left field. But let me ask you, John, it was kind of born out of your time at Brigham Young University. Yeah, nailed it. Yeah, the director is Jared, Jared Hess. And I don't know if this is true or not, but it was originally from a short film named Palooka.

And it was not, it was Seth was the character you were playing. Correct. So how did you jump from the nine minute sort of short film to the full blown Napoleon Dynamite that we know today? Well, these are all good questions, Stephen. Thank you. We, yeah, back in 2001. 2001 was when it kind of all started. We made the short film, Jared and I. Yeah.

And yeah, his name was Seth because at the time, you know, Jared was, you know, he grew up in Preston. He wanted to make everything he wanted to do was based out of Preston. Right. He just wanted to like really capture that life there. And he had this, he had already made a short film.

about, you know, it was like a silent film in Preston. I thought that was cool. So when he brought the script. Were you part of that one as well? I was not part of that one. No. And when he brought this script, I was like, okay. And when I say this, the Pei Luca, the short. Right. I was like, okay, this is funny and this totally nails. But it wasn't like laugh out loud funny. It was like, this is a character piece. I totally get this. I love it.

So we shot that. And then Jared was like, well, he had always wanted to make his first feature film in Preston based on some weird character. It was actually, yeah, Napoleon Dynamite was going to be the name of that character. This one was Seth. We were going to change it up. He was like, no, you know what? This works so well in the short.

Let's just use that character, change his name to Seth. I mean, to Napoleon. It's so funny you mentioned, though, and Preston brought this up.

On first viewing, what was your reaction, Preston? I didn't get it. I didn't get it at all. And I'd heard the buzz about it. I'm like, this is not doing it for me. Now, mind you, same thing with Anchorman for me, too, which ended up being one of my favorite movies. So I watched this. I'm like, man, this is just, why do people find this funny? And then caught it again and caught it again. And then it became Buster.

I mean, it became beyond funny to me. That was my big Lebowski. Like when I first saw that. Oh, really? Yeah. It's not up to their usual snuff. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. After repeat viewings. Yeah. That's actually how it was for Pulp Fiction for me.

I think it took me like three times. And now it's the type of movie, like if I turn the TV on, it doesn't matter what scene it is, how earlier or late it is in the movie. I'm like, yep, this is what I'm doing for the next however long. Do you know what's funny though for this though, for this and Napoleon Dynamite, and I've heard the phrase called lockdown comedy, where...

where the camera kind of just stays and it moves. And like almost Jerry Lewis used to employ this technique where we're going to get you. We're going to stay here so long that you're going to adjust the uncomfortability, the quietness, the pause. All of it works before you know it and then you're laughing. So...

With you, Ephraim, did you... When you read the script, what did you think? What were you thinking? I said, what is this? Did it read funny? Well, I got the script like a day before I flew to Preston, Idaho.

So I didn't get a chance to get a hold of the script. It still remained a mystery to me. What was your audition like? My audition was only... I only had pages from the script to audition for. Just the sides, you know, when they give you audition sides. That's all you have. Yeah, so just having to read the lines, build you a cake or something, I thought, like, this is so odd. And so...

You know, at the time, I was auditioning for a couple of movies and I booked a movie as well as Napoleon Dynamite and I made the choice to do Napoleon and then when I arrived to Preston, Idaho and I went to set...

I thought, like, okay, I'm going to be a part of this film. But then I started to meet everyone dressed up as their characters. And I thought, wow, what kind of movie is this? Is there a way to go back? So legend has it that that other movie was The Alamo with Billy Bob Thornton and I think Dennis Quaid. And so it was a pretty stellar cast. And yet you were drawn to this film. I was. Yeah.

Well, he gets to be, you know, in the single digits on the call sheet on this one instead of, you know... Part of the Mexican army, right? That's absolutely right. So, and I remember just...

that something's going to happen with this film. Yeah. You know, because right away from day one, we became a community and it was like all these guys having to come from college, having to shoot this independent film to shoot something that they believed in, you know, and we were all just like wondering, well, maybe something might come out of this. And then when it got to the Sundance Film Festival and then when the studios bought it and then when they started to release it out in theaters and it just started getting bigger and bigger and bigger and even throughout the years and the decades to us, like,

Even as we do this tour, it's such a surprise to see so many generations who really love and understand what the story is about. Yeah. I got to host a Q&A and a screening with you guys a few years ago. Actually, it's 2018 in Philly. And first of all, it's great to see you guys again. And second of all, Tina was there for that one a few years back. And the screening of it, to me, I've always loved the movie. But it really, for me, took it to another level because it was almost like this Rocky Horror vibe. Yeah. Everybody's like...

saying lines and laughing at jokes that they've heard a million times and seen a million times. And then the Q&A afterwards was fantastic. I'm curious, did you guys think a movie like this

could land in 2025? Is a cult movie possible nowadays? Because there are so many things that grab your attention and you're not watching movies on repeat like on DVD like you did with Napoleon Dynamite. I don't know. We've been asked that a lot and I don't know if with social media and people's attention spans, it could get like

quick attention like, you know, a lot of small things could nowadays with social media. But then would they be like, okay, that happened, had its weekend. And we never would have survived if we hadn't done like the slow rollout in theaters. So I don't know if you could do that today. But I think you can still find, I mean, I think the movie itself, at least Napoleon, you know, still can speak to audiences now. So you're like, you hope that...

Like you said, you got to give it a few viewings before you start to get it. And I don't know if people are given that kind of chance. It's a valid point. It's a very valid point. Listen, you guys were newcomers to us when we first saw the film. But there was a veteran and...

He is John Grise, who played Uncle Rico. We had seen him in several movies up until that point. So what about him and meeting him when you guys were... For the first time when you were getting the movie started? Well, I mean, for me, I was just like, oh, this is the first time I'm going to meet a celebrity. And I was like... I was a huge Real Genius fan. And so I was like...

Wow, this is cool. And so I was super excited. And he was super humble and easy to work with. And everybody was. Everybody was on set. We were like, I think... It was kind of like we were at first thinking if we're going to get anybody from Hollywood, it's going to be like divas, right? Isn't that what they all like? And then you're like, well, wait...

I don't think they're getting paid much because nobody's getting paid on this film. So they must be coming in here knowing what they're about to be served up. It was like a $400,000 budget. You could make a TV commercial. Yeah. Wow. Well, tonight, not only are John and Iver going to be at City Winery, but John Grise will be as well. And speaking of...

Real genius. We've got music for that. He's on the phone right now. Is there a real genius on the phone at this very moment? There is a real genius on the phone right now. No, no, no. He doesn't play the real genius. That was Val Kilmer. He played the senior real genius. He was smarter than Val's character. John, good morning.

I was the real genius. I'm the real one. That's right. That's what Patty Darbinville said anyway. I found the real one. That's right. You found the number one. She was a groupie who only slept with certain intellect levels. And do we find that with famous actors? Are there groupies that only sleep with people who have been playing real geniuses?

I don't know. I mean, there are, you know, what is that song? I can't even say the name of this. Well, I can say the name of the song. I can't repeat the song, but Star Star by the Rolling Stones. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe, but she was already a celebrity too, but she was also manifesting quite a roster of celebrities, imagine that.

So, John, what was it that had you that motivated you to become a part of this cast of this movie? Because as we were saying, it was it was a lower budget. It was very, you know, odd in its in its presentation. But what what drew you to the to the project?

I was just lucky enough when they sent the script, they sent me a whole script to read. I don't know if, like Ephraim, when he read for the part, he says he got just pages, and I would not have known what to make of the pages, because it really, it's the sum of all its parts. I was lucky enough to be able to read the screenplay and go, this is really, really well written. I guess I'd been around

you know, a decent amount of time, you know, that I knew a good one from a bad one. And it was one of the best I'd ever read. And it was kind of amazing to be, you know,

a 22-year-old student who wrote this script. It was amazing. Yeah, and you talk about it is a quintessential ensemble piece. I mean, even though Napoleon is the main focus, but everyone gets memorable screen time and quotable screen time, and you don't see that a lot in movies with this many people in the cast. You know, it's interesting. Just...

That's a really, really good point because I think there was kind of this unspoken, this kind of tacit agreement probably from way back in the studio days, in the 30s and 40s, that the leading person has to be the center point of everything. And it shows that you can still have that person be the center point but actually make everybody around them be, you know...

partial to that, you know, to whoever they are and make, you know, you find films that are more balanced with characters. I find them way, way more fascinating than films about just like, you know, I think it balances it more and it, what it elevates. Yeah. Not just the performance, but kind of what you're going for it. Napoleon, the character wouldn't have been as interesting if, if,

Without Kip, without Pedro, without Rico and all those guys. It just wouldn't have been the same. But people always talk about glowingly about the Broadway ensemble experience. And on movie sets, it might be a little bit rare because it's a little bit more disjointed. But you guys were in this town. You were on this location. And it had to foster... I mean, it's clear you guys were all friendly this many years after the fact. So this would have to be...

for all your collective film careers, a unique experience. Would it be safe to say that? Well, yeah. I didn't have a career before. It was non-existent. You had no career before. Yeah, no. This is definitely... Looking back, it's probably, I would say, you know, I imagine John and even both feel the same way. It's something that we...

It was very special to all of us, and it stands out. And not just because we're still doing these shows, but I think the reason we're doing these shows is because of how it resonated with all of us. Do you know what's interesting? I think it speaks to, you talk about, Nick, and you're talking about could it play today, and at the core is the being your unique self.

and letting your proverbial freak flag fly. And I think that speaks to everybody. So I think that's why this Napoleon Dynamite is unique among a lot of films that might age out or just seem chronologically not accurate to the time period. But this does, because it's always something that's going on. Did you base Napoleon and Seth before on any person you knew, John? When I read it, I...

Immediately, the short film, when I first read that, I really responded to my younger brothers. Okay. I was like, this is so much of how my younger brothers talk. Yeah. And kind of their sentiment of like, Napoleon to me was, or Seth, it was just the...

perpetual younger brother, even though Kip's not in the short, but it was that always just constantly acting annoyed and frustrated at the world. And bizarrely passionate. Nothing's fair. It's always whining and complaining. You're always getting picked on. I wasn't a complainer growing up, but

still like the way he talked was very much influenced by myself as well. I was like, this is me and my younger brothers. And Jared told me, he was like, yeah, dude, when I base this off of my younger brothers. That's funny. So we started talking about our stupid younger brothers. Yeah. Steve, I want to echo what you just said. This is a text from my wife and she says, I swear to God, that movie, Napoleon Dynamite, was pivotal for me in my teens. It was a way for me to see these goofy weirdos like me being their authentic selves and just having each other.

It was like a guiding light for me to be myself and eventually I would find my people, which I did in college. And then she says, I am Deb. And I think that like... Oh, fine. You got a younger wife. We get it. She's close. Make sure you build her a cake or something. By teen, she was 12. John, on the phone, what were you saying?

I said, who makes boondoggle keychains? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, listen, I'm going to go through all three of you guys and ask a similar question that Steve had said about finding this character and basing it on something. So, Ephraim, you know, your character, Pedro, is very, very flat.

Was that based off of anyone as far as your delivery goes or did you just kind of tone down your own personality? Well, something that you mentioned, you know, it's like the fact that these characters are the underdogs and something great happens to each and every one of them at the very end of the film. Yeah. You know, they're trying to find like a higher self. Yeah.

So for me, you know, I'm a big fan of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. So I kind of emulated that and put that into Pedro because there's a, you know, in every script for every character, I was taught to find a specific word that kind of defines who these characters are. And in my case for Pedro, Pedro's hope.

No matter what happens in your life, you want to lead with hope, no matter the outcome. And I thought, well, maybe this will work.

You know, and I will say there's a moment when I was doubting what I was doing. And I would create a chart and like a diagram for the character. Wow. And I went to John Grice because, of course, I'm a real genius. Yeah, yeah. I was like, hey, I'm a big fan, but can you take a look at what I'm doing here? So he was like, yeah, this is it. And he showed me his work with actions and intention. And I thought, yeah.

yeah, this is what we do. And we were in full support of each other. And I felt like I was a part of something that had substance. So for me, whether it's my life or even the character's life, there's something that rang true and honest. That's great. I love it. And John, with Uncle Rico, similar to you in planning out who this character was and where he goes and what motivates him and all? Yeah.

You know, I do, to a degree, do plan these things out. I mean, I do, I spend, you know, it's like, I guess being an actor is like being a detective, just trying to figure out the scene of the crime, you know? But I, you know,

The thing is that you have to kind of, I don't know. For me, in that experience, there was a universal truth to this guy and that is, gosh, how many people do you know that just kind of think about the past? You know what I mean? Yeah. Like even the Bruce Springsteen song. Glory Days. Glory Days, yeah. Glory Days. So I guess there's that universal truth to the character and I think that

As John Heder would say, yeah, you know, Grice is very much like Rico. Grice is very much like Rico. I'm nodding if you can't see. He loves to walk up behind young girls and button his vest on.

Yike. Wow. Have you actually ever seen him throw a football over a mountain? Yes. No, he does have an arm. He has an arm. Twice. He has two of them. But... No, you know, I played junior college baseball and I was like, I had this idea that, gosh, maybe I...

Maybe I might be the guy who can sneak around and get noticed playing this game. I've got definitely skills, but they're not honed. I started playing baseball much later than most people, but

And regardless, I mean, that just kind of gave me some insight to the guy that thinking, you know, of course, you know, I mean, even as children, people fantasize playing sports or doing something, you know, incredible. And so, you know, you can I mean, I think everybody can find that that way. The other the other flip side is, is as you're preparing to play this character, you also want to.

leave room for things to happen, for mistakes or moments to happen that actually somehow change. Obviously, the scene with Kip in the diner, I didn't plan to flex and show my arms in that scene. It was my first day of shooting. I had kind of a good idea of who Rico was, and all of a sudden, in a moment, when I was looking at Aaron Rule, thinking...

My character doesn't give a crap about what he's saying. I have no interest in what he's saying. I'm just sitting with someone and I'm hoping somebody in this room recognizes me as like a stud. It's such an interesting thing. Even you were talking about, I was reading an interview with you, you were talking about during the audition process, whatever line or lines you were reading, it's

You were told to keep making it slower and slower. And you were so convinced that... Could you recount that story? Because I think it's kind of hilarious. You know, you kind of prepare. It's like what Gwaii says. You kind of do detective work. And so... And then you go into the room to audition. And you hope that there's a good outcome. And I remember having to do my final scene where I'm doing my whole speech.

And I did it, and then the director stopped me in the middle, and he said, all right, can you slow down real quick? Just like, just slow down. Slow down real quick. That's weird. That's weird English. I know, I know. I'm getting conflicting direction here. I was like, thanks. So I slowed down, and I was like, okay, I'm going to do it again. I did it slower, and then right in the middle of it, he said, slower. And I'm like...

how slow can I go? Does Pedro have a condition? Is he okay? Is there something wrong with these guys? I was like, alright. So, I did it really slow in the room. Do you remember the line? Yeah, it was like, if you vote for me, I don't have much to say.

but I hope the people vote for me or something. And then I felt like, maybe I'm just, now I sound like I'm making fun of the character. And then they said, thank you very much. And then I just got up and I went, thank you. And then I walked away. And that's what got me the part. That's hilarious. That's amazing. That's a really, really intuitive thing I just want to say for you to say.

had thought that you just were possibly traversing the line of making fun of the character. But it's very interesting how the commitment to the character, you're not making fun of him. You know, it's very, very interesting. He's a hero. I mean, he's a hero to the movie, which is great. John, I wanted to ask you, in the assembling of Napoleon's character, were you kind of given free reign to pick...

make wardrobe choices and was the perm your idea? How much of that character was based off of your instincts? When I read it, immediately I was like, oh my gosh, I know this guy. And I kind of did my, how he would say his first line. And Jared, it was all breathy and Jared kind of talked the same way. We were just so in sync that there really wasn't much else. That was really when we created the characters, when we went to

The first thing we did after reading the short script was go to like a thrift store. And we started just finding the kind of clothes he would wear. So yeah, 100%, we started looking like, oh, he's huge to wear this. Oh yeah, look at this sweet, you know, dragon t-shirt. He would wear this. And then it was his wife who came up with the idea for the perm. Quote her words. She's like...

Apparently, she told Jared, John's too good looking. We got to ugly him up. So not that perms or curly hair is bad. What are you kidding? He's a mouth breather. She's got that going for him, the mouth breathing. But the transformation is almost there. Let's give him a perm, but give him the tightest perm. Red rods. Ladies, you know what I'm talking about. Get the red rods out. Not.

the blue or the yellow, the red rods. Did you have to do more than one perm treatment on the set? Those suck, man. For the short, I did one. My friend did it. It was perfection. It looked incredible. But then cut to a year and a half later for the film, we were like, okay, let's do it. We had some other students do it. They screwed it up and I looked like a soccer player. We ended up re-perming it like

you know, a week later on set. You can't wash your hair after you do that, though. You can't do anything to your hair after that. They were like, don't breathe, his hair might fall out. So, we shot it and I washed, he washed my hair once. Wow. Like,

He had to do it. The hair guy was like, all right, sat back. It was the first time I ever was introduced to tea tree, which was amazing. Tea tree oil. It was like I'd never felt anything like that. It was tingling in the Preston summer sun.

But yeah, yeah, no, we couldn't touch it. Yeah, wow. I have in front of me the cast listing, and Stevie had said something earlier about, you know, everybody having these moments in that film. And, you know, until you go back and look and you remind yourself, oh, yeah, Rex, Rex Quando. Yeah, yeah. Dietrich Bader played him. You know, La Fonda. Yeah, yeah.

All of these characters. Every single one. Didn't you have a pet bunny named LaFonda? We had a pet bunny and her first name was Carmella after Carmella Soprano and her middle name was LaFonda. Wow, you gave her a middle name. And I have a younger wife, John. So much to learn from this guy. And Sandy Martin who played Grandma. If you don't know her, she played Max Mom on It's Always Sunny. And she was also in Real Genius as well. And she was also in Three Billboards.

Oh, no kidding. Wow, yeah. Wait, wait. Who does she play in Real Genius? Um...

She's like a school administrator. Not a huge role. This came in an era... You guys are fit where a few other films were quoted, over-quoted to the extent of Austin Powers and Wayne's World. I was one of them. I was doing it all the time. And Real Genius as well. But with that, what's the most...

When somebody yells at you from across, you know, you're walking through the airport and they'll throw a line at you. What do you usually hear? Give me your tots. Give me your tots. Which is actually, I appreciate that now. At first, I didn't like it because I was like, that's not one of my lines. But they're playing a bit. Like they're Randy yelling out to me, give me some of your tots. Yeah. Which I think then they're hoping for a response. And normally response is like, no. Which...

You know, I truly feel I don't want to give them any of my tots. A, I either don't have tots, or B, if I did, I wouldn't give them to them. Yeah, yeah. They're not my pets, but then they love it. Or else if it's a young woman, you go, give me yours. But they aren't tots, I'm asking. It's usually a bunny.

Ephraim, do you get lines thrown at you? Yeah. Hey, I'd vote for you. Thanks. Thanks. Appreciate it. Every four years, you better. Whatever he says, I voted for you, man. I voted for you. And John, when people are quoting you, John Grise, what do you usually get?

It's usually over the mountains, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I bet you want to make a bet. We get kids. We get kid fans who are always asking, like, can you actually throw a football over the mountains? By the way, Grise. And I always tell him yes. Peter was saying earlier that there's a reason why you're in New York and not in Philadelphia yet. Do you care to expand on that? The reason that I'm in New York? And not with us right now. Yes.

Oh, well, yeah, because, well, originally we were going to be doing back-to-back shows, and then somebody forgot that his daughter was graduating from high school. No, no, no, no, no. You wanted to fly Delta One. You wanted to fly in the best...

First class of all time. Lap of luxury. You're throwing me under the bus and I'm throwing you under the bus. Wow. See what it's got to do with the dynamite family? Wow. That's what brothers do. That's what a loving family would do. No, I think it's great. I love it. I would do the same thing. Oh, no. It is. It was really... It's...

It's totally worth it. I have to ask John Grice about... We've mentioned Real Genius a number of times and Val Kilmer passed recently. Do you have any particular... I'm sure you have a whole plethora of memories that stand out, but is there one in particular that sort of encapsulates what Val Kilmer was working with you on that set? Oh my gosh. I mean, well, we did like three or... I don't know, three maybe movies together, but also...

We, you know, like I directed with him his screen test for The Doors. We had a lot of experiences together. We did road trips across the U.S. I think one of my favorite memories was I was videotaping him. We were driving through Memphis and it was probably 2 a.m. in the morning.

And, you know, what had happened was we didn't know where we were staying. We pulled into a neighborhood that literally the local 7-Eleven guy said, you guys got to get out of this neighborhood. You are in the wrong neighborhood. And so we left. And as we were driving, we decided we didn't want to leave before we went to Graceland. And back then, Graceland wasn't kind of – had almost fallen into disrepair. This was just before he did Top Gun. And –

We were standing, and we'd had a lot of beers, and I was not much the drinker, so I didn't drink that much, so I was driving, but we pulled over, and he was...

a bit lit and he literally had to relieve himself and he was doing it on the pillar of the gate of Elvis' estate. And I was videotaping him and he was looking at me crying going, the king! The king!

Wow. Val Kilmer crying while peeing on the gate of Graceland. Wow. Wow. Singing, saying, the king is dead. Yeah, yeah.

No, buddy. I'm still here, buddy. You ain't nothing but a hell of a dog. That is hilarious. I mean, that's a real tale out of school, but what the heck? It was just too funny. No, that's great. Let that one not be there.

I'm sorry, Preston. Did you have something? Yeah, just real quick. I mean, would it ever make sense? I mean, this is 20 years later that this film came out. Here we go. You guys are going to be appearing tonight at City Winery, by the way. And there's a Q&A. There's a screening and a Q&A afterwards with Heater and Grise. Which, by the way, I'm just going to insert real fast. The Q&A, like you remember last time when you moderated, but like it's a completely different show now. It's like...

It's not just a Q&A. It's like an interactive experience. We play some music. I don't want to give away too much. Trivia too as well, right? We kind of play by ear. We have the time machine. Oh, you have the time machine.

Which is wonderful. There might even be a crappy prize or two. Okay, fair enough. Thank you for saying crappy. I feel like we've let down a lot of people over the years. It's just an interactive show. Chapstick does not normally go well. So the question that you're anticipating is, would it ever make sense to go back there to this group of people again and see where they are now or anything along those lines? Heck yeah, it would.

I think so. Only even just for selfish reasons, I would love to like, you know, we were just talking about it when we first made it. Yes, it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, but it was my first film. And for me, a lot of times I'm like, since then, I've shot a lot of independent films, similar budget, similar small kind of scale films.

And had such a blast on that. And I almost wish I could go back in time and be there to truly enjoy. I enjoyed shooting it. But I was like, do I got to follow protocol? Sure. I would go home every day and just stay in that cruddy little plaza motel that they set up for the actors. And there's...

I probably would have... I didn't have a car at the time, so I guess it would have been hard to get around. I had the sledgehammer. But I probably would have...

if anything, just to go back to the town, shoot, you know, like revisit, yeah, do some kind of sequel where we could all still hang out, but really like, I don't want to say party, but really enjoy it. Enjoy it and savor it because now you can appreciate it more. You did the animated show for a while. It was a couple of years, I think, was it on Fox? Yeah, yeah. And so that was a return with the,

basically the same cast, but I think still it can't be the same as doing an actual live action. Being there in character, Efren showing up, it felt like a different world because A, when you don't know any of these people, you're like, are they actors or are they actually just real people from town? And the answer is 50-50. You don't know which one is real and which one is an actor. Yeah.

We're going to have to wrap up here in a second. Do you have another question? I just want one more question because it's such a pivotal part of the movie. The dance. The dance, which must have been...

In the moment, did you realize the gravitas that would be placed on the scene and did that make it difficult to come up with the dance? Or could you be cavalier about it and create one of the most iconic dances in movie history by happenstance? Well, I would almost say it's neither of those. Like, I knew it was...

the most important kind of moment in the film. Jared had, and it was one of the only things where I 100% contributed to the script because Jared told me, he was like, when we shot Peleuka, the short, he was like, John, I hear you can dance. I don't think it'll work in the short, but I'm going to write it into the feature. I'm like, okay, we'll see what happens. And then when I read the script, I was like, this is the climax of the film. Everything rides on this. So, I mean...

But of course, at the time when we were shooting, we didn't know it was going to become a big movie. So I was like, well, Jared, what do I do? Do you have a choreographer? He's like, well, no. We're a small film. What are you going to do? What do you normally do when I dance? Because I was like...

Yeah, I like to just kind of freestyle boogie or whatever. He's like, oh, then just do that. I was like, okay. So yeah, on the day, we just played some music and we did three takes where I would just dance until I was ready to puke. And then they just...

They show the video when the Flyers score. Yes, they do. Do you know that? Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, they do that on lots of sporting events. It's awesome, man. I love it. Excellent. And you think, you just think about that dance because it is so iconic and it was so...

fully climactic. I mean, I remember when I saw Little Miss Sunshine and the little girl was dancing at the end. I'm like, this is a straight rip-off of Napoleon Dynamite. And the dance is not nearly as good. Sorry to the little girl, but it's just like, you know, it was just, she, I guess, winged it. It was pretty horrible. But I remember kind of feeling like, what a dump. Oh my gosh. Ending on that note. I love it. I

Listen, we love that you're protective of the movie and that's why I think going to see you guys and see that you are all friends and love this movie and you know what it means to the fan base means it's going to be a great evening. Look, this movie disconnected not only our generation but the younger generation, the grandparents,

It's a movie where everyone can relate to each and every one of these characters, whether it's Napoleon or Pedro or Uncle Rico or even the llama. Wait, what was the llama's name? But also, we do hear from a lot of fans who were maybe outcasts, you know, and when they found this film, it's like they got a kind of a, you know, they got a lane. They got their own.

groove that they could, and they could be proud of that groove and they didn't feel like they had to be apologetic or they had to, you know what I mean? And, and, and so, uh, you know, it, it, it, this film resonates way, way beyond just, uh, what, what we feel in like our entertainment level. Love it. All right.

Well, John, thanks for joining us on the phone. We appreciate it. And we didn't touch on it, but kudos on White Lotus. Oh, my God. Phenomenal. Absolutely amazing. We're so happy for your success. But the gang can come and see you tonight. So we're going to let you go, sir. But thank you for joining us, John. We appreciate it. All right, you guys. Hey, guess what? Keep in touch. And I'll talk to you all later. Excellent. John Grimes, guys. Phenomenal. Excellent.

So tonight, citywinery.com slash Philadelphia if you want to get tickets, if they're available. I do not know. But it's tonight at 7 o'clock. And yeah, John Rice and John Heater and Ephraim Ramirez will be there. Am I playing something, Casey? Yeah, this is a song that's going to play us out as requested by Mr. Heater himself. Sola!

Excellent. Thank you very much, Ethan and John, for being here. Have a great time tonight. Thank you. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We have a giveaway. Oh, I got a pair of tickets for tonight. What? Yes. We'll take, I don't know, John, pick a number caller if you don't mind. Number 28. All right. 28-610-660-9333. You will be able to go to the event tonight. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in just a moment. You stay right where you are, friend. Boy, I hope you do.

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Chili Peppers, 93.3 WNMR. Can't stop pressing Steve's show. It's 10 minutes after 10 o'clock. How much fun was that? Dude, I was just about to say that very thing. Today, overall, the whole day has been so much fun, but having...

John Heder and Efron Ramirez, and then John Grise on the phone. Yeah. All at the same time. It's been super special. A chunk of time with each of them. I mean, you know, Blades of Glory, I was talking to him off air. He's talking to John Heder. Love that movie with Will Ferrell and Jenna Fisher. But, I mean, each of them really was just...

Listen, if you're looking for something to do and you're even remotely a fan of Napoleon Dynamite, you got to get in. City Winery tonight. And by the way, I'll tell you a little story after we get traffic because I kept talking to John when we took a break. But let's do that final look. What's going on, Marissa? All right. Thank you, Marissa. So, yeah, John Heder was literally about to walk out. Yeah, I was just like, oh, wait, I go. I got a quick question for you.

I said, in the post-credit sequence, you know, where the wedding happens. The wedding, yeah, yeah. I said, when you were riding up in that horse, I said, did you almost fall off? Because he's like half riding. Yeah, and so what he said was, he goes...

And not only that, he's like, let me tell you the story. He goes, they asked me if I knew how to ride a horse. And I said, yes, of course, because I had my equestrian merit badge. I didn't know how to ride a horse, you know? And so he said, yeah, he'd do it. And that happens a lot in Hollywood. People will say, sure, yeah, I know how to do that. And so the original scene, we're watching it right now.

He was supposed to be riding while towing another horse. He was going to be holding the reins of another horse along with him because he says, I tamed you a wild stallion. And he's like, I can't do that. They tried to do that. He's like, I can't do it. So we're just doing the one horse. And apparently he's riding down this really steep hill. It's hard to tell from the video. And he said the horse was running fast.

flat out, full canter. All right. And so he is, we're watching the video. He's leaning way back. And what he's trying to do is he's pulling on the reins to try to get the horse to stop. And the horse would not stop. Yeah. And he said, so he rides up to where the scene is going to conclude. And he said, finally, the horse decides to stop. And he said, when it stopped,

It was a full stop and he went flying over. He flew over the top of the horse. That's how Christopher Reeve ended up paraplegic. Landed on his back and he said, and it knocked the wind out of me. Wow. So you're lucky that's all that happened. Yeah. Yeah. And so I thought so because...

He goes, that fear on my face that you're seeing in that scene, he's like, that was legit. I was scared. And I go, I thought so. Yeah. I thought so because I've ridden on a horse that's out of control before and it's terrifying. So my niece for the longest time, upstate New York, she worked on a ranch and they had the horse rides and all that stuff and we did it a number of times. And I was on a horse going at a full gallop. Oh, wow.

I mean, that is scary. Oh, my God. You bounce all over the place. You're going fast. You're bouncing up and down. You don't know how to stop. Your thighs will never be as sore. Oh, my God. Because you're clamped on for life. Yep, without question. So that was...

A lot of fun hanging out with those guys. And they playfully were going in and out of character without us asking them to do it. And so clearly they don't mind diving back into that world at all. No, it's terrific. They will be... The video is playing right now on our monitor of...

And now knowing how terrified he is, that look is not him acting. That's great, man. All right. So anyway, tonight they'll be at City Winery. So if you need to, you got to go. I just had another tangent here. I forgot that he's...

Securitously related to Vi Sikahama. Yeah, through marriage. I meant to ask him that. Yeah, through marriage. And Vi is a Mormon. Yeah. He's from the Utah area. Right. And so is John. And there is a familiar connection there. It's pretty wild. Which is pretty cool. All right, let's do the Bizarre File. Here we go. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. Bizarre.

That's doing it all. What?

Who handles your AI? About 700 employees. Yeah, the company claimed that its tool called Natasha could create apps.

quickly using artificial intelligence. Microsoft invested $455 million in it. However, it turned out that most of the work was being done by people, not AI, with only some clerical tasks using basic software. The truth came out in May when an audit showed the company also lied about its sales, claiming $220 million but only made $50 million. That led to a lender seizing $37 million from its scouts, leaving builder.ai unable to pay its workers.

The company announced on LinkedIn that it couldn't recover from the financial problems and past decisions leading it to collapse after eight years of misleading investors about its AI. Well, you know the story that Apple recently, they had been promising their version of AI and they actually took it to the Apple release. And they're like, okay, this is what's going to happen and you're going to find it on your phone.

They never completed it. No kidding. And now they're in legal trouble for selling it as an attribute of their new tech, and they had never completed it. So now they... It's your old fake it till you make it thing. Fake it till you make it. They thought they could buy time. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah. All right. An 88-year-old woman in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

was nearly buried alive after being mistakenly declared dead. Her 87-year-old husband found her unresponsive one morning, called emergency services. Why did you think I was dead? The coroner arrived, examined her, and said that she was dead because she wasn't moving or breathing. I am not. Yes, you are. Funeral workers then took her body to prepare it for burial and place her in a coffin, which wound up being premature. This is ridiculous.

Edgar Allen Poe territory. Yep. To their shock, she opened her eyes and started showing signs of breathing while in the coffin. The workers quickly got her help and she was taken to the hospital where she is now recovering. Sometimes you hear that happening to people and then like a day later they die. Well, you know, as the old story goes, they used to connect lines to a bell. Yeah. The coroner's office.

apologized for the mistake and said that it had happened three times before. Sorry. We got to get better at this, guys. Three times. Police are investigating whether the coroner did anything wrong. The woman's husband is upset about the error, as you might imagine.

If you're going to try and boost a tire off of a vehicle, you might want to know what it belongs to or who it belongs to. A thief was arrested in Newark, New Jersey on Sunday after trying to steal a tire from an off-duty police officer's personal vehicle. Right?

Around 4.15 in the morning, and the officer spotted the man removing the tire and confronted him. They fought, and someone flagged down a nearby patrol car. Police arrested the suspect, whose charges weren't immediately shared. The off-duty officer, the suspect, and one responding officer who had a hand injury were taken to the hospital for evaluation. Nobody was seriously hurt. Do you hear about tires being... No. That seems like a retro crime, doesn't it? Yeah, mainly it's catalytic converters that you hear about being ripped off.

A 20-year-old personal trainer named Mazhar Azrabanid caused a massive crash on the A1 Highway near Newcastle, England. While on his first date, driving a BMW X5, he spent over 120 miles an hour fleeing police after they spotted him for speeding and faulty rear lights. He initially stopped and then drove off, leading to the chase. This is why he has his first date in the car with him. Driving kind of fast.

Do you know those officers? The crash wrecked five police cars and injured seven officers, with one needing stitches and another hospitalized for three days with knee and back injuries. You sure are breaking a lot of things. Azar Bonyad, who had no license or insurance, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. You need those? He was jailed for 14 months. The judge called it a miracle that no one died in the chase, and no word on whether or not he got a second date out of it or not.

All right, this is messed up, man. And this cautionary tale. If you're going to print something, if you're scanning something to use to put in a publication, read the whole thing first. Yeah. In California, parents at East Bay Elementary are having some difficult conversations with their children Monday night after a very racist expression wound up in the school's yearbook that just came out.

We're talking about students from kindergarten through the fifth grade who are exposed to this. The school's explanation for what happened to the parents and the steps they're proposing are not getting a very positive reaction from parents. So it's Oakland's Montclair Elementary. To go along with the theme of celebrating 100 years, parent volunteers on the yearbook included some articles about the school from the Montclairian newspaper. One from 1940 discussed the annual carnival, and it said, and I quote...

Boy and Girl Scouts will have charge of booths and many attractions such as the N-Word Babies. Oh, my God. It was a game. Oh, okay, because there was also candy back in the day. Nope. So this is a game, Casey. Beyond exposing their kids to the N-Word...

Parents scrambled to find out what the game was about. The Jim Crow Museum produced a video called Blacks as Targets. And the video said, there's somebody quoting saying, I usually have a little black boy who places his head in the hole and the natives throw the ball at him. I sell them for three balls for a nickel.

And then there's an authentic photograph of the game from a summer camp in the brochure. So the principal, David Cloaker, invited parents Friday to a conversation about racial equity and acknowledged the larger narrative of racial hostility felt by some families and students. He sent an email apologizing, calling the article deeply hurtful and entirely unacceptable.

And telling parents to remove that page or use a sticker provided by the school to cover it up. So the parents are like, a sticker? Yeah, handy dandy N-word cover. No, what they want is for them to retrieve all of them, destroy them, and create new ones.

But it was just messed up. So the woman who is, she's a PTA historian, sent parents an email. The woman who's responsible for this, she said that she discovered what appeared to be an interesting article. In my excitement, I made the critical error of only reading the

First paragraph before including it. So that is a word of caution. Read everything. And why would you hearken back to something that long ago? It was 100-year anniversary of the school. Without reading it, though. Yeah, exactly. So she said the four-person volunteer yearbook team made the same mistake and failed to read every word. They were offering refunds to the family. She said, we're going to do another version. If you request it, we will have it delivered to you. So that is just...

Dumb. All right. And then we only have one minute left. Let me see here. I need a short story there because we're not going to end on that one. No. We need something a little lighter than that. Life affirming. Yeah. How about this? It's summer, of course. And so anybody can use a beach day, including a black bear that was captured on video taking a swim in the Florida, in the ocean, on the shoreline. It's pretty cool. It's awesome. Yeah. Kylie Nelson and her son were on the beach when they spotted that bear swimming at a beach in Naples, Florida.

On Friday. God damn, this is the life. The mother and son duo spotted the bear while they were out for a morning walk. Yo, chuck me a beer. In the video recorded by Nelson's son, the bear is seen swimming close to the shoreline. Yeah, it's good. As Nelson calls 911 and you hear her son in the video saying, Mom, run!

Nelson later captured another video of the bear exploring part of a beach residence. And it isn't the first time that a bear was spotted by residents in that area. Little son, little surf, of course, banquet, doing good. James Paul Mayo, a nature photographer, said that he had seen a mother bear and her three cubs walking down the street near homes in Naples, about 40 miles south. There's...

in Fort Myers. There have been a couple of videos captured lately of bears going down like lakes, going in for a swim. Taking a swim, yeah. This is wild, though. It is a very crowded beach. Yeah, and I've seen them in lakes before. I don't think I've ever seen a bear swimming in the ocean. I was thinking the same thing. Yeah. Yeah, and he's got a little body surfing. Body surfing. Hey, and by the way, speaking of body surfing, um,

This is a cautionary tale as well. If you body surf, please don't do it with your hands at your sides. Have your hands over your heads. President, I was talking to your friend, Jim, who is a spinal surgeon. He was talking about how like every single summer somebody gets paralyzed from body surfing because people don't put their hands at their sides.

Guy down the hall, who his birthday was yesterday, Mike Vito. When he was 16 years old, he got paralyzed. He broke his neck. Body surfing. I've always pointed to make yourself more aquiline. Some people go like torpedo style. And that's bad, bad news. I'm like Superman. I do the one arm out thing. You'll be stronger than the other DJs.

I keep watching this bear in the ocean and the beach is crowded and then people start following the bear trying to get video of it. And it's just like, you know, let the bear be the bear on the beach and walk away. Let the bear be the bear on the beach with the boy. Thank you. Bears got a bear, man. Bears got a bear, baby. Let the bear be the bear. Let the bear on the beach be the boy with the bear. And a beer for the bear and the bear has a beer. Woo! Woo!

Does the bear have a beard? Bears like beer. I cannot lie. You know the bears can't deny it. Cannot deny. Wouldn't even try. All right. And we should take a break on that note. So we're going to do that. We'll come back in a second. Lesson question. Trash. Music news. Those things are on the way. Stay with us. Your new friend in the battle against FOMO. The free MMR app.

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The President's Tea Show, 1035 on a Thursday morning. Oh, can you feel it? Friday. Yeah. We are right there, friends. We still have a few things to do before we call Thursday, close Thursday for our broadcast day. One of the things we need to do is our lesson question. We're going to do a giveaway.

Uh, we have a pair of tickets as MMR rocks. The revivalists are going to be playing at, uh, the parks casino excite center. This isn't until, uh, September 26th, but we can get your tickets ahead of time. So here's your question. What should Julie jerk off? Change her name to six one Oh six, six Oh nine three, three, three. Let's see if you know the answer to that. Uh,

What should Julie Jerkoff change her name to? Julie Jerkoff. Yes. Forgive me, Kirkoff. All right, if you heard that earlier and you know the answer to it, 610-660-9333 is the number, and we'll do this. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

With Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. We'll get some stories, then we'll get a winner. Steve, what's going on this morning? Well, Preston Olympics swimmer Ryan Lochte taking to Instagram to announce his split from wife Kaya. The notoriously dim Lochte cited, quote, imbecile differences. Oh, my God.

Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin are calling it quits again after getting back together earlier this year. Martin said the two most painful things are falling out of love and hiccuping during a fart. Oh, my God.

And finally, Mariner star George Kirby was drilled in the face by a 102-mile line drive on Tuesday. Kirby called the incident. I'm not sure. All right. We'll see if anyone knows the answer to this question. What should Julie Jerkoff change her name to? And we are going to go to Vince on the phones. Try and get a winner here. Hey, Vince, you're on the air. Morning, bud.

Hey, guys. Guess who's touching you? Ah, yeah. Nick's favorite game. Favorite sport. All right, so what should Julie Jerkoff change her name to? Julie Handjob. Yeah, that's it. Hang on the line, Vince, with the deep pipe. Vince, uh...

We're going to set you up. You have got a pair of tickets as MMR racks. Mad, uh, mad, no. What? I was trying to say Matt McCusker, but that's not what he won. That's for the stupid question. Uh, we have tickets to see the revival of September 26th. Parks Casino Excite Center. Tickets for all upcoming events at parkscasino.com and you have to be at least 21 years or older. Parks Casino, this is how you win. Preston and Steve's Music View on

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Brought to you by Pella Windows and Doors, celebrating 100 years. Right now, you can save $250 off of Windows, $700 off of Doors, and 0% APR for 48 months. I have a few stories for you today. We'll start with this one. Oh, man, this is unfortunate news. Martin Harkett, the lead vocalist of the group AHA, has shared that he has Parkinson's disease. Oh, man.

On the band's website, the group shares the diagnosis isn't the sort of news anyone wants to deliver to the world. Harkett, meanwhile, shares and said, I've got no problem accepting the diagnosis. He said, with time, I've taken to heart my 94-year-old father's attitude to the way the organism gradually surrenders. And he said he uses this quote from his dad, which is, I use whatever works.

And he is employing some of the new, more innovative ways of taking or at least trying to mitigate the Parkinson's he has. I believe pressed in the electrodes that have been installed in his brain. Oh, that help, you know, handle the tremors and stuff like that. So he is being proactive. I just by happenstance happen to be on a big aha kick because there is a.

I guess from an unplugged thing that they did of this very song done ballad version, which is beautiful. I saw it not too long ago. He and the model who plays in the video, the girl of interest, they re-shot...

some of the scenes of this video and it was really cool to see. And he looks great. I mean, he looks, you know, he got obviously years under his belt, but he's still a good looking guy. He adds that acknowledging the diagnosis wasn't a problem for him. He said, but it's my need for peace and quiet to work.

that has been stopping me. He's been undergoing treatment and medication and says that he's been able to relieve some of the symptoms related to Parkinson's. So that's unfortunate news. Steve, you sent me that video. It's MTV, a plug from, I think, from Sweden. Okay. And it's beautiful. I love that version as well. And then the version that shows up in the season of Last of Us that Ellie sings is sort of an homage to that acoustic version. It's incredible. Oh, wow.

The Black Keys have announced their new album, No Rain, No Flowers, is set for release on August 8th via None Such Records. Yeah. None Such Records. None Such Records. I know some of you, None Such, not like Nos Nos Leader, but None Such what? Black Keys?

That's better than... I'm sorry, I lost my place. I had it all on index cards and I dropped them. Is that an order? Yeah. I should have numbered them. Adrian said you should number them, you jackass. That's my own personal private hell. This one says borscht. I don't know what that is about. It's a recipe. Oh yeah. Actually, it's my lunch order. Yeah.

You're talking about the Black Keys. By the way, that was better than Pituations. Right. Now that I hear it.

The album has 10 tracks, including their single Beautiful People Stay High, which hit number one on Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart. The band, made up of Dan Arbach and Patrick Carney, recorded it in their Easy Eye studio in Nashville. And they'll support the album with a North American tour starting September 17th in Tulsa.

Seathers lead singer Sean Morgan was furious after security removed his seven-year-old daughter, Lily, from their May 31st concert in Nashville. I hate you. During the show at Bridgestone Arena, Morgan saw Lily crying in the crowd and learned that security had separated her from her mother for being in an unsafe area near the stage. I hate you. I hate you more than anything in this damn world. Da-da-da-da-da-da.

So I'll play devil's advocate here. If it was close up to the front of the stage, you know, where the crowd can get compacted, was maybe that a concern or? I thought that they were. It said to stop. Hang on a second here. Separated her from her mother for being in an unsafe area near the state. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if it was off to the side or down front.

Morgan stopped the performance and called out the security team, saying that it was a family-friendly event and his daughter should have been safe. He later apologized to fans on social media for his outburst, but said that he would do anything to protect his child. Our friend Dorothy has announced a North American tour set to start on July 15th in Vancouver and ending October 25th in L.A.,

The tour supports her upcoming album with new music expected soon. And special guests include Highly Suspect, Hailstorm and others on select dates. She was so good at the barbecue and just, you know, some of the pictures are just dazzling up on stage. But I was curious since she is seeing Scott Stapp, is there any do we have any word of any sort of.

Collaboration. Yeah. Any collab? I haven't seen any. General sales for tickets are set to start tomorrow. So in our area...

On September 9th, she'll be in Bethlehem. And then on September 12th, she'll be playing the TLA. So, of course, Dorothy, known for hits like Rest in Peace, is excited to perform new songs and connect with fans across the U.S. and Canada. The tour will visit cities like Chicago, Nashville, New York, and, of course, Philadelphia, promising high-energy rock shows. And then one last story. Another friend of WNMR, TalkingWithGuitar.com,

Wolfgang Van Halen has revealed that he, quote, just doesn't listen to Van Halen anymore. Wolfie says he gets the connection that people have to the band, but correctly points out that his connection to the band was a little different. He also implies that it's a similar feeling that Alex Van Halen has these days to the material.

When it comes to listening to Van Halen, after the passing of his father, he said that he, quote, has the memories, but it's just not as fun, unfortunately. I think in general, when they're, you know, through your life, you have different musical stages and then you kind of just say, I'm done with that. And then you find a reason to revisit. Yeah.

And it's always wonderful when you do get... I love it. It's mostly wonderful, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I... Like, even my favorite bands. Like, I cycle out of Rush for a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I take a break from it and then...

I'll hear a song and I go, yeah, let me go back there again. Even with the Beatles, you know. Pink Floyd recently for me. I had taken a massive hiatus because I was done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can get burned out on your favorite band. Yeah. Except for Casey probably. Right, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I might go like a day listening to this. This is 22 hours. I think I've given it enough. I mean, literally, like during the week, I hear them every day because I sneak them into the show. Oh.

But, yeah, I mean, listen, I have my, you know, I have things that I listen to outside of that band. You listen to a lot of music. You're very well-rounded in your musical appreciation. Nick, have you ever had a...

Pearl Jam break? Pearl Jam pause? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I had a big Dave Matthews break for a stretch, and then I went to see him live again a few years ago, and it completely rejuvenated my love for that band. But Casey and I talk about this a lot, because Casey loves Phish, and I love Dave Matthews.

And we kind of cycle in and out of live recordings versus studio recordings. I'll go back to studio records for a bit and then go to a whole bunch of live from the archives or warehouse stuff from Dave Matthews' band. I think it's great. I think it's when you take a break from the band because the moment when you come back around, it's like reliving that original love that you had. It is. And you realize all the reasons that you...

that you enjoyed it. Or at least for the most part, you know? Yeah, you're like, oh my God, I really do love these guys. Yeah, and I want to see them again. All right, that's it in music news for you. We have a last second phone call from our YouTube community, Julie Jerkoff. Julie Jerkoff. Is indeed on the phone. Forgive me, Jerkoff.

Hi, Julie Jerkoff. How you doing? It's Julie Handjob. Oh, she renamed it. Did you change your name? I did. I changed it on YouTube. And I missed the lesson question because I was watching Otter videos during the break. Oh, my God. I love Otter videos. It's understandable. Because that's what I do. All right. Is this a temporary change? Probably.

Probably. Yeah, I think so. Just in honor of today. It's too iconic. My real last name is Hancock, though. So, handjob is closer. Either one. Yeah. Either one. Yeah. I love it. It all fits. It all works. Thank you, Julie. We love you. Love you, too. All right. We'll see you later.

Love the YouTubers. Our fans. You got to love them. And so just briefly, I just want to congratulate because it's high school graduation time. Nick, your son, Benjamin, congratulations to him and the entire class of 2025 at Harriton. Thanks, man. When's Caleb graduating? Monday. Monday. Yep. Today...

My sneakers are graduating, guys. My sneakers are graduating. The ones that I'm wearing on my feet are graduating and becoming my lawn mowing sneakers. That's a big step. That is a huge step. You got to be a proud dad. It's bittersweet because my current...

Lawn mowing sneakers are going to go to the sneaker graveyard. Do they actually have blades in them? Is that what you mean? No, no, no. I just wear them while I mow the lawn. Yeah, you got to wait until they're beat up and not worth wearing around anymore on a regular basis. But they're still good for something. I don't mow in sneakers. I have my Merrell hiking boots. Yeah? Yeah.

That works too. All right. Well, thank you. Congratulations to you. Congratulations to all the sneakers that we're trying to sell. All right. We're going to take a quick break. Come back in a second. We'll wrap up the program. Stay with us.

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93.3 WMOR. It's every day at Rocks. That song is called Broken Lover. It's spelled B-R-K-N. Love. And Pulling Leeches is the name of that tune we play. There's a couple days going. Getting used to that, man. 10.57 on this.

Thursday morning, coming to a close. And we're late into the show because we had one hell of a full day today. It was. And one hell of a fun day today. I want to congratulate again Miss Ashley Gerber from Shawnee High School. She was our coolest teacher of the year. Yeah. She was really sweet. And up next and last, actually, is Washington Township High School in Sewell, New Jersey. So we'll find out tomorrow morning who the coolest teacher from that school is.

is. And I want to thank our guests on the program. First of all, we'll go in order. Pitchuation came by. Former intern and staff member at WMMR and his 24-hour game show marathon is coming up on the 7th and that is day after tomorrow, Saturday from noon to noon. It's 24 hours and they play game shows. Yes. And his crew has put this together, one different game show an hour and

And you can actually go to gameshowmarathon.com and it will raise money for Child's Play. And they collect and give toys and games to kids who are sick and in the hospital. So it's a really cool cause. And we love the Pituation does that. They've been doing it for 12 years now, which is awesome. Good for him. And then thank you to the lovely Sarah Wren. Yay! Makeup influencer. And she is just beauty influencer and an awesome, fun person. She came by yesterday.

We now have a new Daily Rush video. Steve as the God of Hellfire in the red light face mask, which was...

Pretty wild to see. We were cracking up. But you see why I was originally, it caught my eye when I saw the commercials for this thing. Like, that looks like a universal horror movie from the 30s. Yeah. And by the way, excuse me, sorry, at the end of the interview, Sarah said she's going to do a video highlighting all the products that she brought in, and she did that. So it's up on her Instagram stories, which is Rentar, W-R-E-N-T-A-R, Rentar. And all of those products are on her Instagram stories now.

Okay. And then, and there's also a new video with, uh, uh, when Matt McCusker was on, uh, with us the other day. So that you can see. So a couple of new videos on, uh, Preston and Steve, uh, at Preston and Steve.com and on our YouTube page and all that good stuff. So, uh, and then the final thank you. Thank you to John Heater. Yeah. Ephraim Ramirez and John Grise, all three stars from Napoleon Dynamite for being on the show today. Uh, uh,

Heater and Ephraim were here in the studio, and John Grise was on the phone. They are going to be at City Winery tonight, and it is an event where they're going to screen the movie. They're doing a Q&A, but it's not just a regular Q&A. They're doing some games. They're doing interactive stuff and prizes. Apparently, the evening kicks off with a musical number. Oh, that's awesome.

It was so much fun. They were terrific. Hanging out with those guys. They love what they're doing. It was great. So thank you to everybody. Pierre Robert is here. Good day, my children. Nice to see you. Nice to see you kids. That was a great conversation with those guys. Thank you. They clearly had a lot of fun. It sounded like they didn't want to leave, actually. We kept talking afterwards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they went and hung out and walked.

around the offices and were eating mini-melts? They did. All that stuff. I love that you asked him about the horse, too, off the air. I was like, it was the last second. Oh, my God, I forgot to ask you this. And he was happy to tell the story. Very cool. Excellent. All right, letter of the day? Yes. Let's do it. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

Now, the Daily Letter. The Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter. D as in dirty dog. All right, you dirty dog. We got one more to go, and then we give away a pair of padded passes. Padded, padded, padded. At Pocono Raceway. Tickets for the NASCAR Cup Series Great American Gateway 400, and it's Sunday, June 22nd, and that includes tickets to the Media Party Plaza and the Chalet Village.

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June 20th through the 22nd at the Tricky Triangle at Pocono. More information, you can get your tickets and head to PoconoRaceway.com. What are you doing today, man? I have no idea. All right, good. No, I will have blocks of ACDC poison. I've been wanting to do a block of Van Morrison for a while, so we'll get that on. And tickets for Queens of the Stone Age in Atlantic City. All right. And someone is rocking a Star Wars-themed T-shirt. Well, it's Star Wars, but a Neil Young Star Wars T-shirt.

So it was a Neil Young solo tour. This was him at the Tower Theater. But he's talking to the young version of Han Solo in that prequel. Right, yes. And Neil likes old cars and beat up old Cadillacs and stuff like that. So in the caption it says, how much do you want for this piece of crap? As Neil is trying to negotiate to buy the Millennium Falcon. That's great. That is cool. That's...

That makes no sense if you're listening, but you'd have to see it to sort of understand it. Nice. All right. Well, let me thank our sponsors, the Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by Dunkin' and the Preston and Steve Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors.

And by United Tire. United Tire and Service. Buy two tires, get $50. Get $50 and additional service. I think it's supposed to be on additional service. Don't drive alone. Drive United, my friend. Tomorrow on our program, it's no Sad Bro Friday. And as far as guests go, we'll have comedian Corey B. stopping by. Oh, cool. We'll give away our Word of the Week prize, and we'll have some fun. Guarantee you that. All right, that's it. We're done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day, and we'll see you tomorrow, gang.

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