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And we get started. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Tuesday morning, that's where we are, dear friend. Welcome, and let's get on board and take a look at the weather forecast. What a crappy looking morning. Yeah. I mean, it's soupy and thick and...

Humid and all that stuff as we look out the windows here in Ballackinwood. Calling for a high temperature of around 81, 83 degrees. And yes, a passing shower, maybe thunderstorm, maybe in our future, depending on where you are. So take a look around. Things will change tomorrow. Wednesday is looking good. Sunshine, high of 86 degrees. And Thursday shooting all the way up to 93 for our high. And mostly sunny skies. We only get one day out of that because Friday, partly cloudy. High of about 84, maybe some cooler temperatures tomorrow.

And rain returning on Saturday, so heads up on that. And now, Kristen and Steve's News Update.

Good morning. Today is Tuesday, the 10th day of June, and Amazon has announced yesterday that it will spend $20 billion on two data centers complexes in Pennsylvania. Kevin Miller, vice president of global data centers at Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary, told the Associated Press that the company will build one data center complex just north of Philadelphia, and the other data center is being built next to northeast Pennsylvania's

Susquehanna nuclear power plant where that intends to get its power from. The other will be in Fairless Hills at a logistics campus and the Keystone Tray Center is where that will be on what was once a U.S. steel mill. Amazon said the data center will get its power through the electricity grid and at a news conference in Berwick, Governor Josh Shapiro called it the largest private sector investment in the state's history. Shapiro!

Yesterday's announcement is just the beginning. Because his administration is working with Amazon on additional data center projects in Pennsylvania, the work will help to keep construction trade members busy building Amazon's data centers. A variety of new tech jobs will be waiting for graduates of area colleges, and the millions of dollars in property will flow to schools and local governments. At the news conference, Governor Shapiro said...

For a long... That's okay. We don't have to have it every time. For too long, we've watched as talents across Pennsylvania got hollowed out and left behind. No more. Now is our time to rebuild those communities and invest in them. This investment in Pennsylvania starts reversing that trend.

Since the beginning of 2024, Amazon has committed to about $10 billion apiece to data center projects in Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina as it ramps up its infrastructure to compete with other tech giants to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence products. That's pretty amazing. So you said your son, Parker, was...

the distribution center that he was picking up from for Amazon is moving or shutting down? Closing. Okay. Yeah, so it's going to be, yeah, he's going to move to another one. But I'm sure they're building one somewhere else. Yeah, no doubt. We'll see where that ends up.

Tensions remain high in downtown Los Angeles for a fourth straight day as protests against ICE took place in the city, with demonstrators continuing to clash with law enforcement. Yesterday, hundreds, if not thousands, of people gathered for a rally at Gloria Molina Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles, where civil rights and labor leaders demanded the release of union leader David Huerta from federal detention after he was arrested during an immigration enforcement action.

It was later released on a $50,000 bond. After the rally, hundreds of protesters converged near the federal building. California Governor Gavin Newsom said that he had been informed that an additional 2,000 National Guard troops are being sent to Los Angeles. In addition, U.S. officials said 700 Marines from 29 Palms, California, have also been ordered to assist in Los Angeles and should be in the city within 24 hours.

The Sixers and Comcast Spectacore have selected an architect firm to design their new South Philadelphia stadium and the first public steps for the project since the team's center city proposal was withdrawn earlier this year. The partners have chosen Populous, a global arena design firm, to craft the plans for the new South Philadelphia arena and will be partnering with the architecture firm Moody Nolan, which has an office on Market Street.

Sixers previously selected those two firms to design their abandoned Center City Arena plans. And Populous has more than 1,500 employees in four continents and is responsible for stadiums and venues ranging from the Sphere in Las Vegas to the forthcoming Aramco Stadium in Saudi Arabia, which will host soccer matches. The

The firm also designed the Baltimore Orioles' Camden Yards. Populous has extensive experience designing NBA arenas and also has master-planned several mixed-use sports and entertainment zones and locales like Seattle and Oklahoma City. Comcast Spectacore has also announced plans to fill the vast ocean of surface parking lots around the South Philadelphia Stadium District with apartments, hotels, restaurants, and bars. In sports this morning... Whoo!

Ball's actually jumping. What the f*** is that? All right, we got Nick for sports this morning. The Phillies won a game. The Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 in 11 innings last night at the ballpark. Brandon Marsh singled home the winning run in the bottom of the 11th after the Phillies used two bunt hits to load the bases and eventually get the win. Baby!

JT Real Muto made it three all when he drove in the automatic runner with a single off of Daniel Palencia. The Phil then got two straight bunt singles. The first from Bryson Stott and then one from rookie third baseman and division two prospect Otto Kemp who was never drafted. That's

He had the third of his three first big league hits in this game last night. The Phils have been 1-9 over the last 10 games, so they needed this win pretty badly. The series continues tonight. Nick Abel will get the start, and the first pitch is scheduled for 645. In the Stanley Cup Finals, the Panthers beat up on the Edmonton Oilers, winning Game 3 6-1 last night in South Florida. Brad Marchand became the oldest player to score in each of the first three games of the Finals.

and Sam Bennett added his playoff-leading 14th goal. Marchand and Bennett have combined to score eight goals for Florida. Game four is on Thursday night in Florida, and the puck will drop at 8 o'clock. Game three of the NBA Finals is tomorrow night in Indianapolis. The Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder are tied at one game apiece. Tip-off 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. Thank you very much, Nick. I appreciate it. We welcome you to Tuesday morning. Guess what we got? We got Tattoo's Day today. So if you're interested in winning a President Steve Show themed tattoo, just go to contest page WMMR.com. You have until basically the show ends. I wouldn't go past like 10, 15 or something like that to try and enter. But you can do it. We have a $350 gift certificate for floating world tattoo and piercing products.

That we will give away, and they're located at 1729 South Street in Philly. Check them out online as well, or on Instagram, Floating World Tattoos. As far as guests on the program today, we have something special concerning Casey Boyd. Yes, we do. Casey Boyd is going to receive an award this morning. We'll get to the details later on, but it's very fitting, I think. Completely appropriate. Yeah, you excited about that? I'm excited.

He's been very humble, but I think it is so you and so appropriate and so right, and we're honored to be able to witness it. Yep, so we will get to that around Bizarre File time. We are also going to have on this program, and I'm excited, the lead singer of the Doobie Brothers, Mr. Tom Johnston will be on. We're massive fans. Oh, man. And I was in preparation. They just did a performance recently on Colbert. Listen to the music.

Oh my God, they sound phenomenal. I was just tuning in. Not that long ago, and I'll tell Tom this, since I read Michael McDonald's book, right after that, I went and I listened to every single Doobie Brothers album. Because I realized I hadn't done that before. I know all the hits, but I hadn't dove into deep cuts and stuff like that. It was such a great time to spend listening to what I think

are some of the greatest vocals. I put them up there and I'm going to tell him as well. I put them up there with CSNY, with the Eagles, with the Beatles. I think their voices blend so wonderfully. And their styles blend. And he alone, you could take a band and just center it around him, but you have a band full of heavy hitters. So Tom will be checking in around 9 o'clock. They have a new album

album out. It's amazing. So we'll, uh, we'll spend a little bit of time with him, uh, this morning as well. And we have some other people that we're going to talk to and things to get into. We will also have Hershey park tickets for the live broadcast, which is coming up on Thursday, the 26th of this very month. And so we will be giving away some tickets and your chance to join us. They are four packs and you'll be able to get into the park early. Um, you'll get free parking, uh,

And you'll be able to come and hang while we do the live broadcast. That's what I get to do. We haven't done it in a long time, and we're very much looking forward to getting back to the sweetest place on earth. It sure is, man. Hershey Pennsylvania. We had a blast every time we did it, and it has loomed large in the lore, that's a number of L words, of the President's Tea Show. Yeah. You know what? I can give away a four-pack right now. What? No. Let's do this. Hershey. Hershey. Hershey.

All right, we're going to take caller number 8, 610-660-9333, and you will get a family four-pack. Now, remember, that's on a Thursday, so take the day off. Come and join us, and we'll be working. You won't. We'll have a great time. That's all there is to it, and we'll give away more passes throughout the course of today's program. We'll take a break. Come back in a second. Huge story in the Blake Lively-Baldoni lawsuit, which we'll bring up to speed on. Stupid questions, stuff to give away, too. Back in a moment.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks so much, Marissa. All right, let's ask you a stupid question. If you know the answer, we're going to give away a pair of tickets to see Gary Clark Jr. That show is July 3rd at Clark. Oh, Gary!

Parks Casino, the Excite Center. All right, so the question is, in electronics, what does LED stand for? You probably know this. 610-660-9333 is the number. So in electronics, what does LED stand for? Give us a call if you know that answer. 610-660-9333. Birthdays today being the 10th day of...

of June. We will start, you know what, let's start with, Casey, is it okay if we start with our friend here? Oh, of course, yeah. Yeah, I don't necessarily, Casey takes a look at the birthdays ahead of time and sometimes I go out of order and he's got some pieces of music or sound clips to play along with him, but I want to start with our good friend, Kate Flannery, celebrating her birthday today.

Meredith on The Office. The best. Number one in our hearts. We love her to death. She is so much fun. And she's literally in the DNA of our studio because our dump button is the Kate Flannery switch. Yep. She alone above all others.

Has cursed the most on air. Without question. And it's part of her appeal. But she is going to be in town later on this year, right, Nick? Yeah, around the holidays. She's doing that show with Jane Lynch. And I believe it's December 3rd, something like that. Anyway, you got a case? Yeah, Jane Lynch and they're doing a holiday show at the Keswick Theater. Oh. Yeah, Jane Lynch is swinging Christmas. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll give away tickets eventually to that, which is pretty cool. So, are we giving away tickets this week? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, wow. Tickets go on sale day after tomorrow. Or on the 13th, on Friday. I'm so glad they're coming into town because it's been years since they brought this show into the area. Yeah. So we'll talk to them. All right. A guy we've had in the studio before, actor and comedian Frankie Faison.

Uh, in silence of the lambs. That's why Casey's playing this. Uh, he plays, um, at the mental institution. He's Barney. Yeah. The guy that kind of is an orderly. He keeps an eye on Hannibal. Hannibal actually in the books likes Barney. He gets a, he treats him well. Okay. Uh, so they get along well, but also in coming to America, he's the landlord when they, uh, try to find a dumpy place to stay in. Yeah. He's great. Yeah. It's real. Uh,

And I love his line, you may enter when he's sitting in the hot tub. He's 76 today. The beautiful Gina Gershon has a birthday. She stopped by here too one time. She's in something new. What is the... You know what I don't know, Steve? She was out on a press tour and I'm having a brain fart. Maybe that's the name of the movie. I'm having a brain fart. She turns 63 years old today. It's the third one down. Elizabeth? Elizabeth.

Oh. Elspeth. Yes, that show on CBS. All right. So happy birthday to Gina Gershon. Elizabeth Hurley has her birthday today.

And it's a big one for her. She turns 60 years old. I wonder where Billy Ray Cyrus is taking it for a birthday. That's right. They are apparently dating right now, which is pretty wild. Man, not that long ago, it just popped up randomly, but it was at an award show and Billy Connolly was hosting it. Yeah. And Elizabeth Hurley comes out and she was running like a couple of seconds behind on her timing. And so she comes like jogging, like, you know, kind of running out. Yeah.

And she is not wearing a bra and she's just bouncing all over the place. And it was so obvious, like the audience was all going, oh, my God. Oh, my God. And Billy couldn't get it together. She turns 60 years old today, Elizabeth Hurley. Actor DJ Qualls is a year older. I like that guy. Yeah. He turns 47 today.

And he certainly has a unique look about him. Like a bird of prey. Yeah. The Big Bang Theory, Road Trip. Supernatural. Supernatural as well. He's also in Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad. Yes. And our favorite movie, Preston. Oh, the new guy. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. With Eliza Dushku. Yes. We were just talking about her the other day. She got a master's degree.

So he turns 47 years old. Lili Sobieski is a year older at 42. Deep Impact was just on. Oh, yeah, that's right. She is the love interest of Elijah Wood. Yeah. What the hell has she done besides that stuff? She was in Eyes Wide Shut. She was also in...

What was the movie with Drew Barrymore where she was never been kissed? Never been kissed and never really saw that. Yeah, pretty good movie. I think she's... We talk about people who you wouldn't naturally classically think of as attractive. Or I don't know. I like her kind of look. I think she's really pretty. But what I'm trying to say is like...

You want more. No, no, no, no. I've only seen her in one thing, yet I know her name and I know her face. You know what I mean? She's a real deal bonafide A-list celebrity, but based on what she's done in life. Yeah, she's not a huge star, but she has been in some successful movies. She's 42 today. Jean Triplehorn turned 62. Waterworld.

Waterworld. Yeah. She was in that. Basic Instinct. She's the wife in that. Yes, she is. Was she in the firm? She was. She's the wife in the firm as well? Yeah. And she was a long time, everyone thought they were going to get married, a girlfriend for Ben Stiller. Oh, wow. Yeah. She turns 62 years old today. From the Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Chamberlain. Jimmy! Jesus Christ.

Pacino was in the band. I like being a pumpkin. Jimmy Tamerlin turned 61. That's all we're getting? Two little drum rolls from him? He's the drummer for Smash the Pumpkins. You're right. One and a two. Now you get none. He's 61. Our buddy Bill Burr is a year older. He turns 57 years old today. I did not see his most recent... Was his most recent special on Hulu? I don't know.

I don't know. It totally fell off my radar. We flew him in a helicopter one time. We were broadcasting live at J.P. Mascaro's, right? And we had him fly out in a helicopter just because we wanted to use it. We knew somebody who had a helicopter. I think he got his helicopter license after that.

Shut up. I'm fairly certain, Nick, if you want to look up on his Wikipedia, if he got a helicopter. I'd be curious, Case, because he loves, that's his thing now. He is a bonafide helicopter pilot. Tara Lipinski, the Olympic gold medalist in TV personality, is 43 years old today. Yep.

talented and has a great personality as well. Happy birthday to her. And then the last birthday I saw that I'm going to pass along is model Kate Upton. And she is wife to Houston Astros pitcher Jason Verlander. She's also in that, she's a hot nun in that Three Stooges movie that the Zucker Brothers did. So funny. And what was that one she did with, yeah, but she does. The other girl or the other, the other,

There's one guy cheating with three different women. Is it a show or a movie? It's a movie, yeah. It's a rom-com. She's one of the girls. All right, let's see if someone knows the answer to this question in electronics. What does LED stand for? 610-660-9333 is our number. And we have Christy, who we are going to go to. Hi, Christy. Good morning. Good morning. All right, Christy. LED, what does that stand for?

Light emitting diode. You are correct. Light emitting diode. So hang on just a second, Christy. Got yourself some tickets to go see the amazing, by the way, Gary Clark Jr. July 3rd at Parks Casino Excite Center. Tickets for all upcoming events at parkscasino.com. And you must be 21 or older in order to attend. So I teased this before we got into the entertainment report. Justin Baldoni's first...

$400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds has been dismissed along with his separate suit against the New York Times. Judge Louis J. Lyman granted the dismissal but allowed Baldoni to amend some of his claims by June 23rd. I have some more details here. Blake is opening up about the pain that she was caused by the countersuit, which she declares it has been defeated with the judge's dismissal.

She issued in a statement on Instagram, like so many others, I felt the pain of a retaliatory lawsuit, including the manufactured shame that tries to break us. While the suit against me was defeated, so many don't have the resources to fight back.

She added that she is now more resolved than ever to continue the stand for every woman's right to have a voice in protecting themselves, including their safety, their integrity, their dignity and their story. And she said, with love and gratitude for the many who stood by me, many of you I know, many of you I don't, but I will never stop appreciating or advocating for you.

As part of the post, Lively shared a list of organizations for relevant resources and information. And among these organizations were groups and experts that recently filed amicus briefs in the ongoing case surrounding the alarm on what they called Baldoni's attempt to dismantle a law designed to protect women who speak up.

The judge granted motions to dismiss the $400 million lawsuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, which alleged extortion and defamation plus Baldoni's $250 million defamation suit against the New York Times. Could you imagine bringing so much money? Yeah, that'd be wild. It's interesting here because

It's such a morass of legal crap that I don't really fully have a grasp of what's going on here, right, at this point. And I think that is, as a couple of lawyers have said, assessing all of this, that it's actually part of the practice. Well, I'll tell you. To muddy the waters. I was pre-law. Yes. I took, you know, I was for about a semester and a half. So what happened here is they both wasted a ton of time.

Ton of money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So that's what happened. Okay. That's what happened. Well, it's not over. I mean, her suit is still going forward. It's still going forward. Yeah. It is. It's been dropped. And he still has options as well. Yeah. So he countersued. Yeah. So that's what's being dropped. This is not over by any way, shape, or form. Nothing is over is what you're trying to say? Nothing is over. Where is that at? Nothing is over!

Nothing is over! Your Honor! Her lawyers hailed the decision as a total victory and a complete vindication for the actress. In their statement after the dismissal news, Lively's attorneys, Ezra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb noted, as we have said from day one, this $400 million lawsuit was a sham. A mockery of a sham. And the court saw right through it. It was scurrilous. They added that they look forward to the next round, which is seeking attorney's fees, tax

treble damages. Yes, and bass as well. And punitive damages. We want both treble and bass. It's all about the bass. It's all about the bass. If law you learn, it's all about the bass. You can trust me, I wear a cowboy hat. Also against Baldoni and the Wayfarer parties who, quote, perpetrated this abusive litigation. The duplicitous perpetration of the prerogative remains intact and exculpatory.

To quote Bobby Brown, it's my problem. That's right. Judge Lyman noted in his June 9 filing that Baldoni's legal team can still amend the claims for breach of implied covenant of a torturous interference with contract if they choose to move forward with a deadline of June 23rd, by the way. So it is their prerogative to get through that. Absolutely their prerogative. Yes.

So anyhow, yeah, we're not done with that. But that portion of it for now, that step has been dismissed, but they can refile. And I'm sure they will. That's probably what will happen. That's what you do. You just keep it going forever, right? Yeah, probably.

Taylor Swift has been granted a temporary restraining order against a man she claims has repeatedly shown up at her Los Angeles home making disturbing and false claims. The 45-year-old Colorado man named Brian Jason Wagner must now stay at least 100 yards away from Swift and her residence.

After allegedly showing up with a glass bottle and insisting that she's the mother of his child, all of which are untrue and... It's completely true, man. Disconnected from reality. Because the play is going to play. That's what had been written in her court filing.

She added, the fact that Mr. Wagner is determined where I reside and visited the property several times, refusing to leave and claiming to need access, makes me fear for my safety. Wagner has also... He's out front on the lawn, singing to her. Come on, baby, sing.

Baby, sing it with me. I mean, go parents. Wagner has also allegedly sent lengthy communications from prison.

tried to steal her mail and attempted to obtain a driver's license with her address as his own. That's a problem. Yeah. The restraining order lasts through June 30th when a hearing will determine if it will be extended. And this marks yet another troubling chapter in Swift's long history with stalkers. In 2019... Bang, bang, bang, bang. Yeah.

A Florida man broke into Taylor's New York home and napped in her bed as well. Yeah, got into the house. Took a little snoozy poop. I didn't get that far. I just dropped a dookie in your head. That guy, the other guy's crazy. That guy's good. Yeah, I was wondering, how did you do that? That's kind of funny. Hey, you talk just like me.

Then in 2020, a Texas man... It's a cooperative among stalkers. Then in 2020, a Texas man was imprisoned for sending violent letters... Yeehaw! ...to her parents. He's from Texas.

No, you have to think that she's probably got more stalkers than anybody. I would imagine... So there were pictures of her at that wedding that you went to at Travis Kelsey's cousin. And though you couldn't see them...

She had security. Absolutely. All around there. She should. Multiple people should be hanging out, keeping an eye on things for her. Listen, man, we had a guy show up here last week looking for me. Yeah. And a voice has told him to be here. Casey's the mother.

of my child. Listen, I have walked, every single time I walk in this parking lot now, I'm like, where is that? Oh, listen, I was talking to a friend of mine who's in television and I was talking to him about people that kind of cross the line. He said there are some people

that believe that we are talking to them or that we are sending messages to them. It's a mental illness. Coded messages. And then if you get somebody who's mentally ill and then they're motivated, that is a recipe for disaster. Right. Something bad can happen. I always hearken back to David Letterman's stalker who eventually laid down on railroad tracks and had a train run over her head. Yep. Yep. Exactly. He's crazy. But I...

Some people, right? Where did he get this stuff? But I bet you, pound for pound, Taylor's got more than anybody. I just have that feeling because she's...

She's in the public eye constantly. She's a beautiful woman. She's incredibly successful. She's got music all over the radio. She's just so in front of everybody. High profile. Yeah. I would liken it to presidential detail level. Yeah. Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans were on the Today Show yesterday promoting their film Materialist.

When the question inevitably arose that if they ever used a matchmaker, which is central to the movie's plot, what would they consider non-negotiable in potential matches? Evans was quick with an answer, must love dogs. And Johnson recently split from, of course, Chris Martin, and she was even quicker and said, like, not an a-hole.

So that caused the set to erupt in laughter, but they were just kind of playing around and having some fun with that. But yeah, must love dogs. Evans is a big dog fan. He's married now, yeah? I believe so, yeah. Yeah, he married that Brazilian...

Entertainer? Model? Oh, yeah. An Anadarmus type? Coochie Coochie? That lady? Charo. Yeah, Charo. So, Patti LuPone, the Broadway star, may not have been at the Tony Awards, but she was never far away, a point driven home by Oprah Winfrey, as Winfrey took the stage to announce the best actress and musical winner.

Now, she alluded to the controversy sparked by the category. And she said this outstanding year in live theater turns to women whose work sparked lively conversations among theater fans. She said before pausing and looking around the room for effect, causing the audience to break out in laughter. Now, for those who are not up on their Broadway controversies.

lapone made headlines last month when a new yorker interview saw her insulting fellow broadway stars uh kecia lewis i think that's how you say her name i think so yeah and audra mcdonald she had since apologized but apparently she crossed the line like a lot of people got up in arms about it on the community that kind of reveres her went after her and then oprah post a very awkward question to the audience preston if your child said they had their salad tossed would you know what the

they meant? Out of nowhere. She did, honestly though, she played around with the whole Oprah's favorite thing. There was something under her seat. And then she played off the you get a car, you get a car, you get a car thing, which I thought was kind of fun. Cynthia Erivo did that to her, right? Yeah, exactly.

So, Sydney Sweeney is stepping into the ring for her next big role as boxing legend Christy Martin. What was that? I'm sorry. No problem. No problem.

In a new W Magazine cover story, she revealed, my body was completely different after months of intense prep. The actress said that she trained up to four hours a day and gained over 30 pounds for the role. Yeah, I saw pictures of her from the set and she put in the work clearly. Yeah, so she noted that her body size, the changes in her body size, she said it was crazy.

And she said that she was all in on it, adding, I was so strong, like crazy strong. She killed a bear. Directed by David Mickid.

We'll follow Martin's rise as trailblazing female boxer in the 90s and the battles that she fought outside the ring, too. I'm not familiar with Christy Martin. No, neither was I. Maybe if I saw her, I might be. You might, because I watched like a, it might have been like a 30 for 30 on her or something along those lines. Okay. And I became familiar. Okay. Re-familiar, I should say. Yeah, we're looking at pictures of Sydney. She definitely put on quite a bit of weight for the role. Yeah. So she's definitely going all in on that. Would you, would you...

Because I forget who I was listening to another actor who packed on a lot of weight for a role and then found it incredibly hard to take it off. You know, for a role like a De Niro, 50, 60 pounds. Would you put your body through that?

For $20 million, yes. Absolutely. For the kind of money they work for, absolutely, without question, I would do that. How about you? I'm not sure. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Well, listen, speaking to when Rob McElhenney put on the role for Mac on Always Sunny, he said putting on the weight was harder than taking it off and getting in shape. He was literally guzzling milkshakes. Now, he really fattened up. He put on...

He put on like 40 pounds, didn't he? Oh, I would say maybe even more. Maybe even more. There's one episode where he's sitting there and they're sitting around the table and he's eating potato chips and they're just looking at him as he's breathing and he's like, what?

And then it became Jacked. The live-action Legend of Zelda movie has moved its release date to May 7th of 2027. It was originally set to come out in March that year. But the series creator Shigeru Miyamoto says the small shift in dates...

has had to happen for production reasons. In a statement released online, he said it will be some weeks later than the release timing that we originally announced, and we will take the extra time to make the film as good as it can be. Thank you for your patience. And Wes Ball, known for the Maze Runner trilogy and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, is going to be directing the movie. It seems like everything is in place, and it seems pretty good.

I just, it's such a beloved, such a cherished video game. I know you and I are huge fans. Just please get it right. Yeah, I think they now have the ability with CGI to really do it right. And I hope that they can. And yeah, dude, I'll be all in on that. I should dive back into that world again. It's so fun. Yeah.

The Harry Potter TV series for HBO has announced the actors joining on to play characters from the Malfoys, the Weasleys, the Dursleys, and more. So they're really stacking up that cast. Lox Pratt.

We'll play Draco Malfoy with Johnny Flynn playing his father, Lucius. Bell Powley will play Petunia Dursley while Daniel Rigby has joined on to play Vernon Dursley. Katherine Parkinson is set to play Molly Weasley. Leo Early, Alicia Leone, Sienna Musa, and Bertie Carvell join as Seamus Finnegan, Provencal.

uh, Pravati, uh, Patil, Lavender Brown, and Cornelius Fudge, respectively. So, the movies, the, um, which, obviously, you were talking about ten movies, um, uh, they covered, obviously, a lot of the material in the books, but percentage-wise, Nick, what would you say, how many characters were left out, percentage-wise? Say, a hundred percent? I have no idea what percentage-wise, but a lot. I mean, you know, the books, five and six, Order of Phoenix, and, um, um,

Half-Blood Prince, there's just so much left out because the volume of material is massive. Those books are really long. They did a better job in Deathly Hallows because they made two movies out of it. So there were eight total movies in the original franchise. But for example, Petunia Dursley's relationship with her sister, who's Harry's mom,

They go into much, J.K. Rowling goes into much more detail in that relationship. And it's fascinating why there was so much division between the two, why she feared witches, etc. And so if they're able to explore this in ways that they really didn't in the original movies, obviously.

I'll be interested to see how they do it. And one of the things, Steve, that was for fans of the books that they were not happy about with the movies was they left out this character called Peeves, who is a poltergeist that lives in the castle or in the school. And they're going to have to have that, Nick. There's going to have to be a Peeves. So akin to like the ghost in the bathroom? Yeah, but he's a bit of a troublemaker and becomes important to some of the plot lines.

So anyhow, they've already found Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, and Rebus Hagrid, as well as Ron Harry, Hermione. Filming is expected to begin on the series this summer. You'll be able to watch it on HBO. I miss that guy. I do. He was the best. All right, two generations of Saturday Night Live talent come together in one movie in the upcoming The Pickup. It's Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson.

They will be armored truck drivers who are ambushed by ruthless criminals led by Kiki Palmer. The heist pick also stars Eva Longoria, Marshawn Lynch, Joe Roman... Yeah, I know. Joe Roman Reigns and Andrew Dice Clay. Interesting little group. I really like Marshawn Lynch. I don't know if he's an actor, but he's hilarious. Did you watch the trailer, Preston? Mm-mm. Okay, so...

it was actually better than I thought it would be. I mean, that's just a trailer. Yeah. Uh, but the dynamic between Eddie Murphy and P Davison seems to be pretty good. Uh, Marshawn Lynch was in that movie with, um, um, Oh God. He, he, he, he, he Kwan. He was. Yeah. Uh,

Yeah, I don't know how big of a character he was in that, but I know that they threw down. Love Hurts, Casey, the one that came out? That was the most recent. Early this year, yeah. Yeah, that's it. All right. Well, anyhow, the movie premieres on Prime Video, and you can catch that August 6th. National Geographic Channel's Shark Island.

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And we all began going off the deep end, literally. So if you watch the anniversary collection that they released on 4K and Blu-ray, there is a ton of making of stuff. And no CGI available. All, you know, physical effects, you know, a mechanical shark. And it is an amazing thing that they accomplished.

Jaws at 50 premieres on July 10th. Other shark-related programming includes Sharks Up Close with Bertie Gregory, Investigation Shark Attack, and Super Shark Highway on July 5th. Sharks of the North on July 12th and Shark Quest Hunt

Hunt for the Apex Predator coming out on July 13th. So, you know, a funny thing about that shark, the mechanical shark that they built for Jaws, it malfunctioned so often that Spielberg and his editor made the decision to keep the shark hidden and just suggested at...

For a lot of the movie, and that really made the movie that much more suspenseful. And when the shark was seen, it looked pretty good. So, you know, it did what it was supposed to do, but that mysterious thing leading up to it was what built the suspense. All right, I couldn't get out of this entertainment report without reporting on the drama and how it's heating up on Love Island Beyond the Villa. Oh, yeah, what's going on? And the trailer is giving fans a bit of tea on this, Steve.

The new spinoff brings back fan faves from season six of Love Island USA. Oh, my God. And now this is Love Island Beyond the Villa. This was as they navigate love, exes, and chaos in Los Angeles. Kayla Martin is already in tears, shouting, I'm not having fun. I'm having a miserable time. Damn. I'm not having fun.

When John McGreg and Kenny Rodriguez are clearly not vibing with Kenny admitting, I want separation from you. Come on, baby. Catch the premiere on July 13th on Peacock with new episodes rolling out every week.

Starting on July 17th. I can't. I can't take it. So violent. Although the cast is always of these things. Stellar. Stellar. Stunning. Beyond the Villa, huh? Yeah, Beyond the Villa. Okay. We want to get deep. Right, yeah. I'm afraid. I actually... What goes on Beyond the Villa? I actually watched a reality show. I don't like reality programming, but Rochelle does. And so she started watching this. Now it was a game show of sorts.

where people were competing for a million dollars. And the host of it was, he was in Guardians of the Galaxy. He's also, and you guys know me, I always forget the name of this movie, with Vince Vaughn, where they go to the island to work on the couple's retreat. Is it couple's retreat? Is that what it's called? Well, he was the main, he called the leader Merce. You remember? You guys know this. He's an English guy.

I know who you're talking about. But anyway, he's the host of this show. And so I started watching a little bit of it. They're trying to win a million dollars. And it wasn't until about 15 minutes that I'm like,

Oh, these are all really good-looking people in this. Of course. Million Dollar Secret. That was it. It actually was really good, believe it or not. Yeah. All right. And it's a scheming back and forth a la Survivor where people are hiding things from each other. But they acted civil with each other. Didn't get...

They weren't getting mean and petty with each other. They had to hide secrets from each other. But they were all really hot. I'm not beyond being seduced into watching these occasions. Nikki Glaser had one, and I don't know if it's still on, but it was called F-Boy Island. Really? Yeah, yeah. I remember the name of that, but yeah. And she was able to add her...

you know, editorializing to the show, which made it funnier. You know? Yeah, this one there in this mansion, which is somewhere in these mountains on this lake, and it's just stunningly gorgeous. There's a lot to look at. When you think back in the history of reality shows, I know so much, I've been out of the loop. To me, one of the pivotal moments

benchmark moments in reality TV was that show with Flavor Flav where one of the contestants took a dump on the staircase. Do you remember that? I do. Flavor of love. Flavor of love. By the way, the actor's name is Peter Serfanovich. And you would recognize him if you saw him. It's actually a pretty good show. It's on Netflix. Alright, we're ready for clips. Mia...

Thrippleton? Yeah. Makes her Wes Anderson debut in the Phoenician scheme, playing a nun who is also the daughter of a business tycoon. And here she and Michael Cera discuss their unique audition process. I got the email and it was pages from a completely different project. There was no character description. All I had was young girl and I knew that it was for him.

Really? Yeah, but that's not uncommon. Interesting. I didn't know this. Did you know? No, I didn't know that that was... Well, then yes, there you go. It did actually say on the bottom of the email, do not try and recreate previous performance. What was it from? It was from Isle of Dogs. Okay. I don't think I want to see it. Casey, looking at her name, maybe it's a three-appleton.

Mia Freiapleton. The Phoenician scheme is in theaters now. Is it wild to think of Michael Cera as, and I was watching an interview with him, he's a family man, he's got kids. I perpetually think of him from Superbad. Yeah, yeah. Alright, here's our next clip.

The Snake, cold-blooded reality series with alliances, deception, and romance. And in this clip, host Jim Jefferies describes the manipulation it takes to survive. The masterclass in watching people making friends and faking friends, and there's a lot of bluffing in this game. Every act you do in the game has a consequence. You have to screw people over. It's just like life. It's kind of like the show I was...

you know, just discussing it where they're hiding things from each other. But anyhow, the it's the snake and it premieres tonight on Fox. If you want to check that out. And there you go. Those are your clips for you this morning. All right. We have joining us on the program later around nine o'clock. Mr.

Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers. Yes. That guy himself will be on. They have a new album. It's called Walk This Road. Man, these guys have been together forever. Yeah. It's amazing. They're still putting out music. So we're going to talk to him around 9 o'clock. We also have a couple other things going on charity-wise and an award that will be given to Casey Boy this morning. So we're going to have Al Zafiri and Chris Harkin.

Hollywood Holbrook. I'll tell you about them and what they do in a little while as you present an award to them. If you pay attention to the Nobel Prize, then you might want to tune in. Yeah, absolutely. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in just a moment on this Tuesday. Hanging out together. Stay put.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right. Thank you very much, Marissa. Real quick, I want to do a shout out. I know it. I'm about to plug. I got this one. It says, hey, my name is Abby. I'm reaching out because my amazing brother's birthday is tomorrow. He's turning 33. He's a huge fan of your show. Tunes into the radio whenever he can. We both grew up in Philly, but he recently moved out to Washington for work with his girlfriend.

Luckily, he's back home right now and we're all together for his birthday, which feels really special. Just wanted to share how much he loves what you do.

and maybe see if there's any chance of a birthday shout-out from him. Thank you so much for reading this and for all the laughs and good energy you bring. Warmly, that is from Abby Hagstotz. So here's a shout-out to your brother, and happy birthday to you, sir, and thank you for listening and sticking with us. Here's another one that says, hey, can I get a huge Tom Jones? Oh, it's from our buddy Charles Lance. Oh, Charles, yeah. Huge Tom Jones shout-out from my brother, from another mother, Dale Habowski.

Now that he is not highly respected in his field, come to think of it, he's kind of a jackass. But I have grown to love him as a brother. Dale is coming up on one year being sober. And I'm so effing proud of this guy. If you could be so kind as to blast one in his face, I would be in your debt. Love you guys. Charles Sassy. So we'll do a shout out for you, please. Thank you. Thank you.

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That's how you do that. And then a butt plug. This is from Emily who emailed in and there's an event that's coming up tomorrow. She says, long time listener, first time email I'm reaching out for a special event that's happening on June 11th in Havertown. I'll be incredibly grateful if you give it a quick mention on the air. It is called Anne's Purple for a Purpose Race Against Pancreatic Cancer. Community walk, run in the memory of my mom and my

Camerado, who dedicated her life to science and medicine before passing away from pancreatic cancer. Organized by the Haverford Township Parks and Recreation, the event takes place annually on the beautiful Haverford Reserve Trails. It's open to all ages and experience levels, low pressure and high purpose, with proceeds going to PANCAN, which is a Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to support pancreatic cancer research,

and patient advocacy. So whether you're walking in memory and support or just maybe part of something bigger, we'd love to have you join us. The event kicks off at the CERN. I'm sorry, not CERN. The CERC, C-E-R-C in Havertown. Yeah, so there's a Haverford Reserve is this whole like complex with like sports fields and playgrounds and dog parks. And then they have the CERC, which is this building that is right around these walking and mountain biking trails. Nice. Okay.

Nice. Cirque is an acronym. Wanted to give that a plug. Do we have that information on the website, Nick? I don't think I got that one. Oh, I thought you had this as well. No. Can you send it to me? I'll send it to you. Thank you. Yeah, you were the one who gave it. Yeah. All right. So anyway, wanted to pass those along. But you know what? What? We didn't get to this last week, so I want to do it now. It's time to expand our minds. Let's go to school. The Just Addicts.

The Just Sayin' Institute, home of the Preston Elliott Public Speaking While Eating Cashews Research Center. Dude, I can't help but snack on those things. I see you go over every time. And I will sit here and like little pieces of cashew end up on my microphone and I have to pick them off while we're talking. Cashews and nuts are very...

counterproductive to public speaking. Yeah, the little bits stay in your mouth for a while. Little bits of nuts are in your mouth. Little nuts in your mouth. All the time. Anyhow, I do have some scientific studies and advances that I want to share with you. This is interesting. In the heart of Manhattan, four stories below ground, the iconic 11 Madison skyscraper is being air conditioned by using ice. So this is according to

To the president of an organization called Train Technologies Commercial, HVAC Americas. So there's about 500,000 pounds of ice created every night. And to put that into context, he said, think about three city buses full of ice cubes.

So the ICE battery system freezes water at night when the cost of electricity is low. And then during the day when the price is high, the building is cooled with the previous night's ICE instead of using expensive electricity. So this is fascinating because on a vacation that my wife and I took a couple of years ago, we went to the Opera House in Budapest.

And they would now it was all candlelit in the beginning years of the opera house, which, of course, created a lot of heat when. Right. And also when attendees were there. But they use the same system, Preston. They had ice in the basement and they had a system of vents and doors and windows.

um, quasi fans that would cool the entire, uh, building with that, that alone. But here's, what's interesting. This system can lower cooling costs by up to 40%. It's pretty amazing. It's a massive amount. How much does it cost to produce the ice? Uh,

Well, overall, I think that that's a good question, Steve, but I think it's considered economical to do this. Seems like it is. So maybe, I mean, it's cheaper for them to keep the ice frozen than it would be to run a system on free. I don't know. Like maybe you only have to freeze the ice once and keep it frozen? Yeah. No, no, no. They have to do it every night. They have to. So the ice just falls and melts and then they have to refreeze it? Well, I would assume so. Yeah. But the

So to freeze it, did you hear the beginning part? No, I was doing something else. Okay, so the cost of electricity at night is cheaper than it is in the day. So they freeze it overnight, the cheaper electricity, and then they just let it thaw out and use it to cool it. So the cool air is being used throughout the day when they need it the most. Yeah, when electricity is more expensive. So it says when everyone else is using their electricity in the middle of July to cool their building or to cool their homes...

It's a big draw on the grid, and this building won't draw from that because it made ice last night. Air conditioning makes up about 20% of energy used in homes and businesses worldwide. But on the hottest days, it can account for more than 70% of electricity used during peak hours. The president said we've done installations at about 4,000 sites globally. There are 6 million commercial buildings in the U.S. alone, and a very small fraction of them have installations like this.

So instead of building more power plants, the focus is on storing energy with a system such as ice batteries. But because the process of freezing water uses a lot of energy itself, they're testing new materials that don't need to get as cold as ice but can still keep buildings cool.

It's interesting. I do like that, yeah. I was fascinated to learn how they used to handle air conditioning, quote unquote, you know, 100 and 150 years ago. By the way, he also said we take water. There's other ways that they can make water cool but not use the electricity. He said we take water and we add some other...

elements and molecules to it. And based on the composition, we can control that temperature basically anywhere we want it in the zero to six to 20 degrees Celsius range. And that's important because what might work great in Texas, maybe it's not the right temperature to store your heat at if you're in Nevada or Wisconsin, say. So I thought that was interesting. There was a guy one time I was at a, I was actually, I was at a worldwide stereo. I was doing an appearance and this guy showed up and he had this

classic VW that he had modded out. And there was this device hanging on the window. And I was like, what is that thing? It's this cylindrical looking thing hanging off the side. It was an air conditioner. You literally put ice in it

And as it moves along, the air from outside becomes a fan of sorts and blows the cold air into the car. And he's like, it gets crazy cold on the inside when you use that thing. And you guys ever have an icebox growing up?

No, not a literal icebox. We did, and now it's just sort of a pretty piece of antique furniture, and so my parents have it in their dining room. But when my mom was a kid, they used it as an actual icebox. And Preston, this is what it looks like. There's a screen that Preston and I share. And so down here on the bottom right compartment...

They just would fill that up with ice, and it would really, and it was like a metal lining on the inside of it, and it would keep the rest of the, you know, the inside of that cold. Yeah. And, you know, anything you wanted to keep cold. Anything you wanted to keep cold. Anything. Anything. Orange juice. Six packs of food. Family pets. Soda. Soda. Yeah. No, those things are awesome looking. I think they're really cool. So, they're really cool. You get it? Yeah. Your brain has the shell on it at the top.

All right, let's move on to another story at the Just Dance Institute. This one is a tad bit scary. Researchers at one of the world's leading AI labs are warning that humans may soon be little more than meat robots for near-future artificial intelligence systems. A dream come true. Yeah. During a recent interview with AI podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, anthropic researchers...

Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken were surprisingly casual when fretting that the technology they're working to build may soon render us into AI-controlled androids or, at the very least, further grim job loss to the technology. Douglas had said, one such future involves a drop in white-collar workers over the next two to five years.

one that he thinks will come to pass even if algorithmic progress stalls out. Brickin, meanwhile, had more grandiose prognostications about the future. He said, the really scary future is one in which AIs can do everything except for the physical robotic tasks, in which case,

You'll have humans with AirPods and glasses, and there'll be some robot overlord controlling the human through cameras by just telling it what to do. And he just called a human it, by the way, telling it what to do. Basically, he said you're having human meat robots.

Douglas quickly jumped in at that point to, it seems, defend the technology, though. He said, not necessarily saying. Tell me, we're trying to sell this stuff. That that's what the AIs would want to do or anything like that. Regardless of AI intent, if such a thing could exist, Douglas reasoned that we humans are in for a pretty terrible decade as the technology takes over. So I've heard people talk about this and talk in another way, which is that, wow, AI will free us.

Yeah. To explore the more artistic side, the classic utopian vision. Ah. So that's a potential as well. Yeah, but why do I think it's going to go the Skynet way? But here's the thing. If it does open us up to the utopian side of things, the more bohemian, you know. Yep.

How do you make money from that? How do you make money? Because we need to survive. Right, right, right. If jobs are going to be taken away by AI. You will not leave your pod. Yeah, right. With the hoses in the back of your head. No, you'll never have to. You get food directly into your system through slops. Yeah. God. Yeah. It is pretty scary.

Human labor will, Douglas predicted, primarily be valued upon how well we can do physical work that AI cannot. Like so many task rabbits for the algorithmic powers that be. But luckily we make fantastic robots to that end, they said.

They said it's a shocking, shocking world. There are some, and you know, listen, this has been part of speculative fiction forever that this would happen. But it seems that there's some of these dudes that are, can't wait for that to happen. Well, slow your roll, buddy. Listen, it excites them.

That technology can advance like that, and I understand that, but it's the whole Jeff Goldblum thing. You've thought about whether or not you could rather than whether or not you should, and we'll have to see where this goes. And they're talking about we do the physical work. Not everybody can do the physical work. There are some people who don't have that ability.

And they're going to be in danger. It freaks me out a little bit. Now, I don't sit here and worry about it like crazy, but it is a concern. Well, if you stop and think about it, we've taken massive leaps forward, technologically speaking, when the Internet presented...

Oh, what's going to happen? What's going to happen? And now you go online and social media and it's wonderful. Well, listen, you know, industries have taken huge hits. And listen, jobs are created. Jobs are lost. Jobs are created. Things shift. I do get that. But it seems like AI is the trimming down of humanity.

human usage to some extent. We'll see how it plays out. Thankfully, nothing has ever been able to replicate the morning show. Well, let's move on now to nuclear explosions. How about that? That'll calm you down a little bit. Well, that's how AI will take care of those pesky humans. In the 1960s, Project Plowshare studied the effects of a nuclear explosion on geological materials on the ocean floor.

And now a researcher named Andy Haverly envisions taking it a step further as he looks for a way to save the planet. Lobster man. Oh, that's right. Was that from a nuclear explosion? Yeah, maybe. Lobster man.

So by pulverizing the basalt that makes up the seabed, such an explosion could accelerate carbon sequestration, which captures and stores carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reduce climate change through a process known to scientists as enhanced rock weathering or ERW. What could go wrong? I know.

So all we have to do is detonate a few nuclear bombs on the ocean floor and we can fight climate change. Dude, some of this is out of Project Hail Mary. If you remember part of that plot line, Casey, was to slow things down that were happening. Yes, no, you're right. Or to explode...

nuclear weapons around Antarctica. That's why they... I mean, things as absurd as blocking out the sunlight. Yeah. I mean, like Mr. Burns level. Yeah. So Project Plowshare was a U.S. program initiated in 1957 to explore the use of nuclear explosives for peaceful construction projects.

Oh, these are peaceful. The idea was to use nuclear detonations for large-scale Earth-moving projects, such as creating ports, canals, and highways. They literally consider this because when you're building things, you have to blast sometimes. They're like, well, we got these giant bombs. Of course, they didn't know at the time. You have to save those to fight the kaiju. So...

One notable test was the 1962 sedan shot, which created a massive crater. The mission was to put the first sedan into space. However, the project faced significant public opposition due to the environmental and health risks associated with radioactive fallout. This opposition, along with the limited practical success of the test, led to the program's termination in 1977. Well, we dug the hole. We just can't use it for 200,000 years. Yeah.

Yeah, we got to wait for the half-life on this stuff to die out. I mean, how long, if just one went off, like how long would that... I forget what the average half-life on, say, a nuclear bomb is, you know, of a decent level. Yeah. But it's thousands and thousands of years. So one of the questions is, where would the nuclear bomb be detonated? Well, now, according to Haverly's calculations, he wants to bury a nuclear device, a classic hydrogen bomb, under the...

A Kyrgyz plateau in the Southern Ocean at a depth of 2 to 3 miles in the basalt-rich seabed and about 4 to 5 miles below the water surface. I think Aquaman's going to have something to say about this. The explosion would be contained within the water and the basalt should absorb and trap most of the radiation locally. So you're talking about the basalt in the ocean? Yes, that's the one, yes. The negative effect of a nuclear explosion in the ocean...

according to research, they predict few or no loss of life due to the immediate effects of radiation. Asterix, few or no loss of life. The word few means three, right? Few, right? It always has to me. But in the context of the entire world population, three million.

However, there's a caveat. In the long term, he acknowledges that the explosion will impact people and cause losses. Oh. Yeah. Sorry about that. That's general. It's going to impact people eventually. That's something every Bond villain has ever said. It might...

There might be some issues. He says, nevertheless, this increase... Oh, Bluefield, thanks for the lecture. This increase in radiation would be just a drop in the ocean. Yes. Considering, he said, that each year we emit more radiation from coal-fired power plants and have already detonated over 2,000 nuclear devices...

One more, would it make a huge difference? Especially as climate change is expected to threaten 30 million lives by the year of 2100. So sometimes on a smaller scale, have you guys ever been to a party where-

Someone set something up for nuclear bomb? Somebody... I'm scaling this down quite a bit. But if you've ever been in a party where somebody decides that they want to do something that actually is going to be dangerous for everybody, right? Like, oh, we're going to light off a firework in the basement or something. And most of the people at the party are like, no, I don't want this. That's what this world... There's, I don't know, 8 billion of us who are like, can you not do that? You know what I mean? And they're like,

Tough cookies. You know, we're going to do this. Well, the problem is getting the email out to everyone. Yeah. I don't think it's going to happen. No, no. But the guy is just saying, if it came to extremes and we needed to do something drastically to change... I just want to remind you, I still have that bomb. ...the composition of our atmosphere and everything, that this might be an option. So, I don't know. Yeah.

All right. Well, we're going to move away and get in something a little lighter. Japanese researchers have created a new artificial eye that works like a human eye, using solar cells to see colors and movement with 82% accuracy. Hello.

I like your eyes. I like your eye. The device called... I like your Japanese eye. An optoelectronic artificial synapse uses two dye-sensitized solar cells, one for blue light and one for red light, to detect light wavelengths as small as 10 nanometers apart. So the outcome would be allowing people without sight to finally see? No. No.

So this, I'll explain a little further. It doesn't need external power, making it energy efficient and mimics the human retina by sending positive or negative signals based on light input. Now, this allows it to recognize patterns and perform basic computing tasks like logic operations without extra hardware. Unlike traditional cameras that capture every detail and use lots of power, this eye filters information like a human eye, which could help

self-driving cars, or wearable devices see better. So they, okay, so they were giving a demonstration. A gentleman who had ALS was using a computer, using a modified system of Apple's goggles, which they

retailed for $3,500 that people weren't buying, oddly enough. But they've done a modified version of it that was allowing him to interact, to send emails very quickly using implants in his brain. So this might be, this seems like a step in that direction, if I'm misunderstanding you? I don't know. It

Maybe. Yeah, if it's going to help out things like self-driving cars and wearable devices. He was able to detonate a nuclear bomb on the ocean floor. Wow. That's pretty, yeah. I don't know. The technology tested with light pulses could lead to more efficient vision systems in the future. Okay, maybe it's something different. But they've made it more like a real human, what a human sees as opposed to a camera. This is a great leap forward in finally appreciating pornography.

It all comes back to that. The machines can finally see what we see. Now the machines can get off too. All right, here is another story. A professor has warned of the risks of using the bathroom and taking a dump in particular, including having a heart attack.

Professor Speer, writing in The Conversation, cites examples of Elvis Presley and King George II. They were buds. She said Presley, aged just 42, was found collapsed on the bathroom floor of Graceland on August 16, 1977, though fans speculated about drug overdose.

And it's worth noting that the full report is withheld until 2027. The post-mortem narrative reveals a more complex and tragic medical picture. She said Presley had suffered from chronic constipation, possibly exacerbated by a high-fat, low-fiber diet, prolonged opiate use, and a megacolon infection.

which is a pathologically enlarged colon. Megacolon is one of the transformers, correct? On the morning of his death, he was reportedly straining forcefully. The Valsalva maneuver may have triggered a fatal arrhythmia in a heart already compromised by years of prescription drug abuse and poor health. So I think we've all had those times. He crapped himself to death. Yeah, basically, where you're like...

If you're constipated and have been in that situation and you're trying to force it... Do it. And you feel the pressure within your body as you're trying to... Yeah. I could see that triggering something, especially if you're in the kind of horrendous shape Elvis was in. There have been times... I actually don't, man. Where I have strained so hard... Yeah.

that it's on the verge of passing out. You ever burst a blood vessel? No. You got a little bit of blood in your boop. Well, yeah, I've had that happen. Do you have any pictures? I don't think it was restraining. But I have had those moments where I'm like,

You feel it in there. It's right there. It's on the goddamn doorstep. You can see it. It's standing at the door with copies of the watchtower. And you just... Come on. I'll let you in. It's like a vampire. You gotta give it permission. It sucks. So, again, we've said this many times, and I think this is news you can use, Preston. Much rather be...

rampant diarrhea than severe constipation. Yeah, I think so. I think it's more painful. Everybody always complains about diarrhea, but every now and then it's a nice little cleanse. Oh my God. It's pause that refreshes. By the way, a more aristocratic death occurred in 1760 when King George II of Great Britain died suddenly after visiting his privy.

I'm going to take a dump. I shan't be more than five minutes. His physician, Dr. Frank Nichols, performed a rare royal autopsy. The king's doctor was Frank Nichols? Yeah. Okay. And found that the king had suffered a ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm, a ballooning of the body's main artery. Jesus, what happened? What?

The event probably occurred as George stood up from the toilet at a moment when the blood pressure fluctuated dramatically. Historians and physicians now believe that the effort of defecation...

or the sudden change in posture may have been the trigger. I can see all of this stuff. We talk about gut health, and we talk about this. Remember the squatty potty was all the rage for a while? Yeah. A proper form when you're going to the bathroom. I had one for a while. I eventually got rid of it because I felt like I was an Olympic skier every time I went to take a dump. Right.

I don't like the idea of sitting lower when going to the bathroom. I like sitting higher. I do, yeah. You guys are tall, so for me... You're adorable. I am so cute. So they said that the king's heart attack was also notably... His heart was also notably diseased with significant calcification of the aortic valve, further compounding the risks posed by even minor circulatory strain. So the fact that he was...

trying to poop so hard. Yeah. Killed him. That's what killed. So again, I think in both cases, if both these guys had been in better shape, they were clearly like Elvis was abusing the crap out of his body. Oh yeah. No pun intended. His colon was like totally impacted. Yes. Compacted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He had, he had lots of, it was white fecal matter. They said. Yep.

uh so texas tea uh and they also said that people can fall into pit latrines it's another way to die is that tangential yeah i guess so believe it or not is saying deaths around the bathroom so oh oh i listen that's why when i go into one of those port-a-pots i bring a hand grenade with me because i if i you were to fall into one of those you don't want to go on living kill me uh and

Modern technology also poses a risk. Professor Spears said bringing your smartphone to the toilet often means longer sitting times. This increased pressure on the rectal venous plexus, which is the network of veins around the rectum.

Raises the risk of hemorrhoids and anal fissures. Okay, do you bring in a phone when you're on the... And do you find yourself losing a little track of time while you're scrolling? No. I'm in there to get my business done and I get out. And whatever I'm in the middle of on my phone, I move along. Once you hear the splash, you disconnect. Yeah, I don't like to just linger on the toilet any more than necessary. Hang on a second. Let me go...

we have a cardiac monitor tech who is on the line. So we will go to Pete and talk to him for just a moment. Hey, Pete, morning, bud. Good morning. It's Keith. Oh, Keith. Sorry about that. What's up, Keith?

Wow. Wow.

My dad actually passed away on the toilet. Wow. He was constipated. He sent my mom out to get him Gatorade, and she came back, and he was still in the bathroom. He was gone. Oh, my goodness. So let me ask you, and this may not be your area of expertise, but you might know. So let's say if someone is, in this case, let me ask this question first. Was your dad...

in particularly bad shape. Was he out of shape? What was his physical status when this happened? He was 88 years old. He was in great shape until the pandemic hit. Okay. And that's when he had to stop all his activities and he got winded and that kind of thing. But incidentally, the last day I spent with my dad was the day before Thanksgiving. We were listening to WMMR. Mm-hmm.

And Pierre came on and my dad said, hey, Pierre's still on the air. And I said, how do you know Pierre? He said, I used to be a limo driver and they hired me one time to take them around Long Island to find Tom Selleck and to trick him into an interview. I've heard that story. Wow. Oh, my goodness. Oh, that is so cool.

After my dad passed, I got in touch with Pierre and I said, hey, do you remember this? He said, oh my God, I remember that. We were sending your dad into different hotels saying, oh, Mr. Schiller is here. Will he come down? And they

And after two or three hotels, they actually nailed him down and drove around and did an interview. Oh, that's great. Oh, man. That is so great. Wow. Well, so, but on the whole, though, you mentioned also about when you hunker down and you're throwing up. So the exact same body reaction to constipation and throwing up, you see the same results? Yes. I think it's called a vasovagal reaction. That's what I had. Yeah. I passed out on the air because of that.

Yeah. All right. All right. Well, it's kind of scary. Yeah. Keith, thanks for sharing the story, man. We appreciate it. That's sad and interesting to hear about your dad as well. We appreciate it, buddy. Let me go to this quick call as well. We have Joe who's joining us. Hey, Joe. Morning, bud. Morning, guys. How are you? Good, man. All right. You had an interesting bathroom situation. Yeah. I'm a diabetic, so I'm on a bunch of diabetic medicine. And one of the side effects is they get very constipated.

About a couple weeks ago, I was very, very constipated. And going to the bathroom, I was straining real hard. I popped a blood vessel in my eye. You popped a blood vessel in your eye? I didn't know it at the time. You know, straining real hard. Your face turns red. It's this, that, and the other. And next thing you know, my wife's like, what the hell's wrong with your eye?

And there it is, blood vessels out of my eye. So your eye went full red, bloodshot, all the way around? Just the outside of the left eye. Wow. I can see that, man. I can totally see that. Let me ask you, if you're dealing with that a lot, what do you do for constipation? What do you do to alleviate it? Now I just, you know, I take, I drink, you know,

Sorry, cranberry juice. I drink whatever I can. But I haven't had an issue like that since that day. All right. Well, take care of yourself. Thanks, Joe. Appreciate it. Tell you what it worked to when I actually had to go to the emergency room because I thought I had something wrong with me. Bad. It was some of the most pain I've ever experienced.

They're like, nope, you just got a lot of poop in there. You got to get it out. And enema. Yes. That's what did it. And it was...

Oh, God, did I feel better after that. There's nothing like that. Enjoy your breakfast, by the way. But there's nothing like that release, you know? And if you can do it in public in front of a paying crowd, it's so good. Make some bucks. Or at least get on OnlyFans. Or do it on the hood of a car. Get something productive. Go to Delco. Grab on somebody's car. Case, I assume we've got to wrap this up, right?

Yeah. Okay. Man, I have lots of stuff. Oh, man. The Just Saying Institute, there have been a lot of studies that have come out lately. We'll revisit it. If we have to, we'll maybe revisit it later this week because there's just too much good stuff in there. But hopefully we've expanded your mind a little bit this morning by taking a stroll on the campus of the Just Saying Institute. We do have to take a break because we've got some stuff coming up. We are going to have Mr. Tom Johnston.

of the Doobie Brothers joining us this morning. They've got some new music coming out, which is really, really cool. I bet he's regular. We are going to take a break. We'll come back in a moment. Oh, you know what? Let's do this now, too. We're going back to Hershey. We're going to broadcast live on the 26th. It is a Thursday. And I have a family for pack-up tickets to join as you get into the park early. You get free parking and you get to watch us come out and hang and watch us do the broadcast and all of that.

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Brought to you by Sequoia Outback. Celebrate freedom from your aging deck and get serious savings during Sequoia's 4th of July sale. Route 309 in Hatfield and online at decksupplies.com. So, you may have seen a little bit of this, but there was a follow-up to it. A runaway pet zebra that was on the loose for more than a week in Tennessee and became an internet sensation in the process was just captured on Sunday. Ed the Zebra.

was captured safely after being located in a pasture in central Tennessee. The sheriff's office said the aviation crews captured the zebra. They said in a statement, Ed was airlifted and flown by helicopter back to a waiting animal shelter. And there's video of Ed wrapped in a net with his head sticking out. It is pretty cool. As they're flying him through the sky and taking him to the trailer. Ed had arrived in Christiana, Tennessee on May 30th.

The sheriff's office said his owner reported him missing the next day. The zebra was spotted and filmed running along Interstate 24, forcing deputies to shut down the roadway. But Ed escaped into a wooded area. There were several sightings posted to social media. He was filmed trotting through a neighborhood. The zebra quickly became the subject of Internet memes. One fake posting showed Ed dining at a Waffle House.

Others had him visiting other Tennessee cities or panhandling on the side of the road. By the way, the zebra, they showed him running at a full gallop pretty fast. Yeah, the pursuit of Ed. They're almost like horses with stripes, Preston. Came a month after a runaway kangaroo had shut down a section of an Alabama interstate.

A now former DoorDash driver is facing multiple charges after police said that he went to a DoorDash customer's house armed with a gun and demanded a cash tip.

According to Vancouver police, 59-year-old Robert Deland came back to an area home the following day after an order demanding a bigger tip in cash. See, when I make a DoorDash order, I do not check the box that allows them to do that. A police report revealed the homeowner, Anthony Valino, told officers that his daughter ordered about $100 in groceries and tipped through the app. But Deland...

Jesus.

He said he stepped to the right, I stepped to the left, and I reached behind him, and I felt the steel in his waistband. And as soon as I felt the gun in his waistband, my heart just sank. The only thing on my mind was that I had to get that gun away from him. I was in a struggle for my life, and I was thinking it's me or him. Valino ended up disarming DeLand, and both men called 911. Police arrived soon after and arrested DeLand. No one was hurt in the incident. A DoorDash spokesperson said that they have a zero-tolerance policy for harassment of any kind.

And said what happened was unacceptable and the Dasher involved was immediately deactivated. So there's no sort of gray area for threatening a customer at gunpoint? I don't think so. And Valina added, this is a job, this is for a job that they're already paid for. This is the customer's decision whether to tip or not. He can't make that decision that I'm going to go to somebody's house and...

To get a cash tip, he just can't make that choice. I love in the footage, too, when he gets knocked to the ground, he's like, can I have my gun back? No. I don't think so. Douchebag. So two miniature Highland cows tied the knot in Oxford County, Ontario on Friday evening in a moving first of its kind ceremony. Dressed in a white gown and adorned with a flower crown, Muriel made her way down the aisle to her beloved bovine, Rhett.

Yeah. Cheryl Haskett, the co-founder of Utterly Ridiculous Farm Life. I get it. Said Muriel came to the farm and then we needed to get her friend and then we needed to get her a future boyfriend. You heard the story, right? The shade slept with the best man? No. Yeah. So she said we went on a search for Rhett to find the most beautiful, handsome boy for her. Both cows came to the farm as calves and grew up in neighboring pastures.

As Haskett and staff shared their stories with visitors, the idea of a bovine marriage was born. She said, we kept having guests saying, you really need to have a wedding for these cows. It's wonderful. I've made love to that cow myself. Months of planning brought Muriel's dream wedding to life, complete with a traditional highland kilt for the groom, as well as personalized vows. You know what? This looks more fun than a lot of the weddings I've been to. Other animals were also included in the ceremony, including a goat named Queen Victoria, along with her kids.

The bovine's big day drew a big crowd with dozens of guests milking the moment. I just saw this video last week that I got to try out for myself. It says that, and this is not a dad joke, that cows are attracted to jazz music. And so this person goes over to this pasture and starts playing Green Onions. I saw that. And sure enough, like, dude, I'm talking dozens of cows just run over to the fence. Like immediately. Immediately. Yeah, it was really cool. Like, oh, this is my jam. Yeah. All right. Interesting. Interesting.

So a team of physicists from a British university used nanotechnology to create what they dubbed the world's smallest violin.

An instrument that can't be seen without a microscope. This is great. The Laurelboro University team said the platinum violin measured 35 microns, a measurement unit equal to one millionth of a meter long and 13 microns wide. The violin is smaller than the diameter of a human hair, which ranges from 17 to 180 microns.

Tardigrades, eight-legged micro-animals that measure between 50 to 1,200 microns long. The researchers created the minute musical instrument to demonstrate the abilities of their new nanolithography system. It's technology that allows scientists to build and study nanoscale objects and structures. The instrument was chosen as a play on the phrase,

Can you hear the world's smallest violin playing just for you? And it does actually play? I don't know about that. Professor Kelly Morrison said, though creating the world's smallest violin may seem like fun and games, a lot of what we've learned in the process has actually laid the groundwork for research that we've now undertaken. And the head of the university's physics department said,

had called a success in the news release. This means one day they will be able to put a full orchestra on a human rectum. Wow. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty amazing. I will stand up and applaud on that particular day. All right, and that's all we have time for in the Bizarre File for you this morning. All right, it's time to meet a couple of people that we have in the studio. And they have a very cool thing that they're going to...

give, they're going to mention and give, they're going to award this morning. So we would like to welcome the host of the Delco Live podcast and the organizers of Delco Day, which by the way, officially, Delco Day is today because it's June 10th, it's 610. Yep. Delco! The area code. So we want to welcome Al Zafiri and Hollywood Holden. Yeah!

Gentlemen, nice to see you today. Gentlemen, I don't know about. All right. Thanks for being here. We appreciate it. So the official Delco Day celebrations was this past weekend, correct? Yeah, we always run it on the Saturday closest to the

you know, the 10th. So we're not out there going all day on a Tuesday. How many years for this? This is the 10th one. 10th year. 10th official one. Good for you, man. How many different locations? Because I know that you guys were at JT Brewski's and then, okay. Five. It was a different place the first two years and it was Marty McGee's for a long time. JT Brewski's two years and then,

And in true Delco fashion, they're like, we don't want you back here next year. And so Dolan's was like, yeah, we'll take it. A lot of drama. We were quoting each other's high school football stats at each other. Is it wild to see this? This is a thing now. Absolutely. I mean, you have to stick with something to get it, you know, on in people's mental health.

catalog there, but here you have it and it's proven to be something that has traction. It was true grassroots too. The first time we did it in 2016, we did it at a bar that has changed names five times and it's closed. And it was only five bands, mostly like punk bands. Right. You know, 50 people showed up. We raised a little over $1,000 for one charity. Next year, two stages became the whole 12-hour thing. A couple hundred people showed up. Nice. And then the three is when we got involved with Headstrong and all that. Yeah.

And we'd rebranded and kind of had a really good year in 2018. And, you know, we're talking thousands of people showing up. Excellent. Excellent. And we charged $6.10 at the door. There you go. Inflation proof since 2016. Yeah. And since then, we've raised about, it's close to $200,000 from local charities. So if you ever want to change or if you ever want to charge more, will you have to change the area code? We would probably have to. Just to keep things. What's the new one? $8.

Something now, there's a new area code coming out in Delco. Is that what they're talking about? Yeah, we'll just change it to 8-whatever. Yeah, whatever's higher. Yeah. Can't go 215, that's less money. Right. Yeah, so it wouldn't make any sense. Even 484 wouldn't work in this case. Right. No, no, no. Exactly. How long have you guys been doing your podcast?

Al started it in 2012. I jumped in in 2014, and then we rebranded right around 2018. And for the Delco Day event, when you guys do that, what are the types of activities besides bands and stuff like that? Do you guys have contests or anything along those lines or giveaways? Live music. There's a dunk tank going on this year. We do it at 6 o'clock into 610. We do a thing where we hand out little flags,

um that my amazing girlfriend danielle custom makes and hands out to people who are not native to delco that just want to be part of the culture whatnot we do a little swearing-in ceremony yeah get some speeches about the charity and everything else and just you know let everyone remind them to just go full delco do you know the swearing-in pledge offhand no there's no way

We actually didn't even get a chance to do that this year because we had to skip it because there was a little rain delay at one point. So it's reverential by tongue in cheek as well. Yeah. I'm surprised he has a girlfriend too. There we go. The swearing is a lot less cult-like than it sounds when I say it out loud. It's really. No bloodletting? Yeah.

All right, well, listen. So you guys have brought something this morning. Yes. A presentation to make. When we realized it's the 10th one, it's full of clout, all the things we did and all that. We were like, we're going to hand out an award this year. And it's going to be for a legend. And we're going to call it, obviously, the Delco Legend Award. Okay. And we figured who's the most Delco person we possibly know or have even heard of. And it is Casey Boyd. How about that? Yes!

From his humble upbringing in Rutledge, PA, named after Abe Lincoln's side piece, his journey through Granite Run, out here to Bella Kimwood, and all the way to every radio in the tri-state area and across the world. Casey Boyd's been spreading just what Delco is, doing it right, doing it with justice, and he is by far worthy of the Delco legend. How about that? Wow.

And he has. You will find no bigger Jelko advocate.

No. Then Casey, he is, he is never suffers any defamatory comments about Delco. And as a true Delco resident, only a Delco resident can impugn Delco. Oh yeah, true. And by the way, he'll never leave Delaware County. Never. As a resident. You're goddamn right. And it's, it's fitting that he gets it in a year and especially a time where Delaware County is just taking over. Whether it's a Pope.

Or poop. Yeah. You know. Or potentially a saint. A saint? Yeah. Are we talking about Father Atkinson? Yeah, we're talking about Father Atkinson, who was at Bonner, Monsignor Bonner High School. How about that? No, Casey's saying he's going to be a saint. That was what he was trying to tell you. No, no.

seriously, they're talking about canonizing this guy. I'm going to hand the trophy over to Casey. Wow. It's the most, it's the most Delco trophy we can make, you know, obviously ordered off Amazon and then I printed out the base and the nameplate. We use from T-Mobile. You didn't go to Kelly's trophies? No, we wish we did, but we didn't. We forgot Kelly's is great. By the way, that,

The nameplate is scotch taped on it. And if it makes it even better, I didn't know I didn't have a color printer at work. So it's in monochrome. And I love that it's a little off-center too, which is awesome. This is the most Delco trophy you could ever award somebody. Thank you so much. There's beer in there. There's a flag sticking out of the top of it that, once again, Danielle made that says...

unofficial mayor of Delco with the uncrossed out. What I love also is that, yes, I think you were the first recipient of this legend award. Will it in fact allow the Cecil B. DeMille award? Will it carry that moniker or is it one and done? Like when it's awarded next year, will it be the KC award?

Casey Boy Legend Award. Oh, at some point, I believe it's going to become that. You're asking a Delco guy to think ahead. That wasn't happening. At 12.01 a.m. tonight, I'm not thinking about that today until January. Did you guys even consider anyone else? Did anyone float across the radar? Because Casey's the obvious and best choice. Actually, we thought about ourselves. Yeah.

But then we're like, eh, I guess it wouldn't be. You know what really sucks? That would seem self-serving. A little bit. A little bit. Jason Kelsey is now starting to steal my Delco Thunder. Really? Yeah, he's a Delco resident. But he's not a native. And he's not. So we unofficially swore him in. Okay. So Casey, boy, that came into play and I came up with a metaphor.

From 2009, where the Hurt Locker won Best Movie over Jarhead. Sorry, Jarhead won over Avatar. Because one's about a Marine that got disabled and the other one's a fictional story about a Marine that got disabled. We wanted to go with the realest of them. Okay. That makes sense. And Casey being the realest. Well, listen, thank you for this award. You know, I started working with Preston and Steve back in 1998. Like, I had immediately become a champion of...

for Delaware County on the air. And I feel like since 1998, for the past 27 years, there's just been this swelling of Delco pride. And I think it started on the Preston and Steve show. Preston, you tell the story. You were cleaning clothes by the riverside and a wicker basket floated by. And there he was. It just spoke to me and I'm like, this is my destiny to raise this show. I will raise him as my producer. Yep. Yep.

Thank you, guys. Thank you. Good for you, man. And listen, big shout out and thank you goes to PJ Dolan as well. Yes. For hosting your event and for hosting us in the podcast a couple weeks ago. That guy is a – I should probably have him in my cabinet. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Oh, definitely. My cabinet would be PJ Dolan, Brent Porsche, Mike Vito. Those guys are all Delco fans.

legends as well. Sure. Absolutely. As well as you guys are as well. No, no, no. You guys are carrying the flag. We appreciate it. Well, it's only when I get out of my house at 42 years old. The Delco Live podcast. How often are you guys putting out episodes? It must be every other Tuesday. Sometimes we get a little loose with that schedule. Okay. Which is a perfectly Delco way to do it. Yeah. And you jump on and get it, what, like Spotify or where you guys...

Where do you find it? Social media, Facebook, YouTube. Okay. Yeah, all over the place. Delco Live podcast. Cool. Delcolive.com. Do you do any other events besides the Delco Day? Once we'll pop up here and there, but this is our Super Bowl, our WrestleMania, our World Series. What's the next in the queue? Do you have one? Are you still having to plan that?

The golf tournament? We don't normally do the Delco Masters, which is at a putt-putt. Yes. And you have to dress like you are at the Masters. And it's usually for charity. I love that. And we always pick, it's like, you try to pick the hottest day of the year just so it's miserable. Right, right. Yeah.

Nothing like some hot felt on a nice little Saturday. With a guy dressed like a happy Gilmore. Yes. Like full on. Spend $300 on a golf club. I love that you guys call it putt-putt too. That's what I grew up calling it, putt-putt. Well, are you doing it at putt-putt or are you doing it at the Delco land? Oh, it's always a putt-putt. We got a nice little relationship with them. Yeah.

All right, well, listen, thank you guys. No, thank you. We're so proud of you. Got shirts and stuff for you guys. Thank you. So we appreciate you guys and Casey. Thank you. Because Casey always supported us. Yeah. Even before, he always would like our stuff, mention us, talk to us. So we appreciate you guys. Keep up the good work. Oh, thank you. I love this. And he was very sort of humble about this. We said, no, we have to have this on the air. Yeah. All right.

Thank you, guys. Thank you to Alan Hollywood for being here this morning. Thank you. Thank you. Happy Delco Day, everyone. Check out the Delco Live podcast, my friends. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers joining us in just a little while, so we return in a few. Stay with us, please.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you, Marissa. Steve, you want to mention something? Yeah, can I just give a quick shout out to people who get stuck in traffic every morning and choose to listen to us because listening to Marissa's traffic report, I'm going to do it right now. That's for you. Yeah, most definitely. That's one of the perks of getting up at 345 in the morning and going to work is that you don't have to sit in that garbage that you guys collect.

called Life Every Day. My apologies that you have to sit through that, but we do what we can to kind of ease the sting if we have the possibility. I would like to send congratulations out to the graduating class of 2025 for Southerton Area High School. Yay!

I was at these ceremonies last night. My youngest child, Caleb, has graduated. This is our last one from high school. We are done with that world. I was chuckling at you gave a couple of text updates about, you know, obviously it is Christmas.

But you explain. Yeah, so I texted these guys last night. And by the way, it was a beautiful night for a ceremony. I'm glad. It was cloudy, yet we had peaks of sun coming through, and it was cool and comfortable. There was no real threat of rain. It looked like it might have been, but it made it... I mean, when it's hot, it's a nightmare when you go to those things and you got to sit out there forever. So I texted you guys last night to say that the graduating class had 598 students. Whoa.

And my real last name starts with the letter W. So therefore, my child was student number 586 of the names to go through. I want to see how long you guys think it took because I started a timer. Right. Very first name to the end. How long? Just guesstimating. It's been a while since I've seen the average speed of processing on these things. And it began when? Oh.

I don't know. I just started a timer. Okay. So how many, you know, however long do you think, what length of time do you think it took to go through? 598 names. Okay. All right. Wild guess. Two hours and 10 minutes. All right. What do you think, Nick? 72 minutes. All right. Casey is calculating. I was going to calculate, but I just don't have enough time. I'm thinking one name every five seconds. God!

God, I don't... Go to Marissa first, so I can do a little math in my head. Nine hours and 42 minutes is probably what it felt like. I'm going to say an hour. It was, and I started a timer, exactly...

20 minutes and 30 seconds long. Holy hell. We could not believe how fast they were tearing through this. So they had two separate presenters. They had kids lining up on either side of the stage. And they were just doing name, name, name, name. And if you wanted to yell or applaud, it was like, hey!

And then you had to stop because we wanted everybody to hear the names. No, absolutely. But it was, and I think the students appreciated it. Oh, sure. Because it was just right. As they got like a quarter of the way through, we're all kind of looking at each other going, dude, this is like flying. But my favorite part of the evening was I looked down at my phone as they're going through name after name after name. Carter had texted me two words. Uh-huh.

Julie Jerkoff. And I was cracking up. Julie Jerkoff. It was perfect. Forgive me, Jerkoff. Forgive me. That's almost unbelievable. That is a distortion of time. Yeah. That you can probably...

500 kids plus? And even the speeches leading up to it. So you had the principal, you had the school board, you had the class president, the salutatorian, the valedictorian. There was a little music that the senior choir sang. That only took like 35 minutes. Get out. The whole thing was done real quick. So the general consensus...

of the crowd in favor of this? Because I know sometimes people want their moment. They want to be... Well, I mean, according to the ones, the kids that I spoke to, they were like... Loved it. The last thing they want to do is just sit there for like two and a half hours. We had...

In my graduating class, this is 300 years ago, it was like a thousand plus. And it seemed to take forever. And it was just one at a time. It was a freaking nightmare. And it was on a hot, sunny day out on the football field. It was horrible. I mean, the funny thing is, it's like nobody...

He really wants to be there. You know what I mean? Like, you're proud of your child and you want to celebrate your child, but you're like, man, I'm going to sit here for two hours. Like, who in their right mind actually wants to do that? Now, listen, at my son's graduation this past year, you know, the speeches were really, really great. It took a while. They definitely let it breathe. And this is why I have a question for you, Preston, because they would announce a kid's name. The kid would go get their diploma, pose for a picture with the principal, and then...

or the president, and then they would go off onto the side of the station and have another picture taken. So did they take pictures as they were getting their diplomas? I don't know. If they did, I didn't notice. I mean, we're talking about a lot of people. It's a big class. Yeah. I assume as they were being handed the diploma that, yes, it was probably a picture that was being taken. I'm fairly certain that my background

Because I went to Catholic high school, so you have a mass, you know, baccalaureate. And I'm fairly certain my baccalaureate and graduation ceremony were at the same time. Like, so it was baccalaureate first and then graduation. There were two people talking simultaneously? No, no, no. Well, I mean, back to back. And so at my kids, their baccalaureate was the day before. And then the ceremony, the graduation was the next day. And that way it wasn't, you know, four hours long.

At my graduation, they didn't announce our names. And I think it's because they did the baccalaureate and the graduation ceremony. The only reason I went to our baccalaureate ceremony was because I was in the band and we had to perform a song while we were there. And I was like, this is stupid. What is the point of this event? And so we got done playing our song and I turned to my teacher. I'm like, are we doing anything else? He goes, no, I'm out of here. I left. I said,

Yes, I didn't want to be around for that. It's stuffy. I was ready for school to be over. Are you ready for the summer? Oh, my God. But, Casey, one thing I did note, per your, you asked me to make an observation, and this is on the school grounds, public school grounds website.

A lot of people were lighting up cigars at the end of it on the football field, which is an artificial turf. I couldn't believe they were letting them do that. They probably weren't technically, but they were just like, eh, whatever. How are we going to stop 500 kids from smoking a cigar? I'm assuming that that had to have been a social media trend that picked up

somewhere and that everybody's doing it. And the students were lining up? Smoking cigars. Smoking cigars. Yeah, girls, boys, the whole time. Wow. Yeah. That is something that never occurred. Yeah, that would not have happened when I was going to school. But cigars had not been invented at that point. But I was taking everything in and it was funny because I was just being...

typical me and i was like wow this is the last time i'll be in these stands up here probably and then we're down on the field afterwards i'm like wow it's the last time i'll probably stand on this field again uh-huh you're walking by the school i'm like wow it's probably the last time i'll be in this school building again i was doing all this stuff no but i was just like well i mean a little bit i wasn't getting like teared up or anything like that but i was taking in uh

all of the stimuli to go, okay, don't forget this. This is going to be... The next time you come here will be an anomaly for whatever reason. You won't be as a parent of a student. You'll be a visitor for whatever reason it may be. Or an AG loaner. I was just kind of taking that all in, that whole thing. And I wasn't really sad about it, but I was looking at a hopeful future. But I did look at the group of kids, Caleb's friends. I took a picture of all of them together. I'm like...

this is special, this is cool, this is the moment in time frozen. It's great. That they'll look back and go, wow. We set that field on fire. I think you get more emotional if you yourself had a decent high school experience and then your children then had a decent high school experience because then you can kind of project...

your own sort of, oh man, I miss that time. It was funny leading up to that. So my other kids went too and I was talking to Carter as we were walking up to the stadium. I'm like, what do you remember about that day when you graduated? He's like, I just couldn't wait to get the hell out of here. He's like, I just hated, I hate these types of things. I was like, whoa, okay.

I thought you would tell me about hanging out with your buddies for the last time or something. No, not at all. So I was like, okay. Yeah. I mean, I think my high school experience that the moments that I kind of take in and relive the most are like the smaller ones. Like me and my buddy Muffo just going to like Pizza Hut by ourselves and just

cracking up. But you know what I mean? Like little things like that. It wasn't always the big things. It wasn't the prom and your junior senior prom. Sucking on a chili dog. It wasn't. Sometimes it was sucking on a chili dog. I was a big fan of that. Sucking on a chili dog. Sucking on a chili dog. Ah, the memories. No, but I remember leaving at lunch, go over to Danny's house and do bongs and, you know, come back to the last half of the school. Fun things.

You weren't allowed to leave campus, man. In high school? Yeah, we could. We could as juniors and seniors. When I was in grade school as an altar boy, so we had a new church and an old church, but the morning masses were at the old church, which was...

three blocks away from the school. So you could leave campus to go be an altar boy for 9 o'clock masses, which was kind of cool. Awesome. I'm getting a walk to be an altar boy. Well, you know, listen, I wasn't in school, so that was definitely a bonus. By the way, I want to thank whoever Alyssa and Addison are, because we've been invited to their graduation party. Oh, that's wonderful. I got this in the mail.

These two girls go to school. They're in West Deptford, and they're holding a little logo that says WD, so I'm assuming they went to West Deptford High School. That sounds about right. But their graduation party is July 26th, Steve, from 1 to 5 p.m. It just doesn't say what their last name is, how they know us, or where they're having this event. It also says asterisk, please don't come. But they've invited us, and they sent this nice little card. So thank you to Alyssa and Addison. That's a hell of a nice card.

That's like wedding announcement level. Made on Shutterfield. Real nice stock. I know for a fact that Haverford High School is graduating today, so I want to give a big shout out and congratulations to all the students at Haverford High. I knew that because Finn Murray, who I see at the gym from time to time, he told me that they're graduating today.

Who is this? This kid. So this kid who went to nursery school with my son. I see him at the gym. And I love it. Like, listen, if you're 16, 17 years old and an adult comes up and says hi to you and you know this person, they're not creepy. Just engage them in conversation for 30 seconds. Leave me alone. And Finn does that. Yeah, yeah. I am a legend in Delco. Leave me alone.

Casey, are we having, just in the interest of time, Tom Johnson is at 9 o'clock? He's at 9 o'clock, so we should probably take a break. We've only got about five minutes or so. Yeah, so let's not burn this topic that we were thinking about. No, no, no. We'll talk about some other, we'll continue on this conversation. There's something else we're going to bring up, but I want to go to Carl. Carl! We have a couple of Carls that we can throw in. Carl! Good to see you! Hey, Carl, what's up, man?

Carl! Carl! Carl! I had a buddy in high school, and as a senior prank, he joined the photo op for every single club at the high school. He got his picture in with every group?

Yeah, he would just sneak in and like he joined like the chess club. He joined the bike club, the art club. He was not African-American, but he somehow got into the African-American society club. That is hilarious. Hold on, Carl. Did he actually join the clubs or did he just show up on photo day and do it? No, he just showed up...

He just showed up for photos. He would just sneak in. That's wonderful. That's thinking way ahead. Yeah, that's planning. You got to do that through the year. He got suspended. They had to retake all the photos. Oh, man. Wow. They had to retake all the photos. Oh, dude. I thought they should have left him in for the year. Yes. Absolutely. If you want to talk about commitment. Was this a Catholic high school by any chance?

It was a Catholic high school. A little more persnickety about that. Wow. All right. Thanks, Carl. Appreciate it. We had Miss Prince. You pick your nickname in school. I picked Yahweh.

which was God, you know, no one picked up on it, but it was not my nickname. Is Yahweh... Hebrew. Oh, he's Hebrew, okay. And so... There's a U2 song called Yahweh, did you know that? Oh, no, I did not. Yeah, it's on how to dismantle an atomic bomb. So, but... Yeah, so they...

There were tons of mistakes in my yearbooks. There were kids editing the yearbook. So my buddy John almost didn't graduate on graduation day. And I cannot believe this actually happened. But as we're like processing in, and you're talking like we have almost 500 kids in our class. And we're at the pavilion where Nick's son just graduated. And there's thousands of people in the audience.

And John notices his older brother in the crowd and kind of gives him like a little middle finger. Not like a, you know, big old, you know, like above the head, but like, you know, kind of on the slide, on the side, like a little middle finger. Our head disciplinarian just so happened to be looking at John as he did that.

And after the graduation ceremony was over, he was like, you're not getting a diploma. Oh, man. Okay, so I got that talking too. You did? I did. At graduation? At graduation. It was the last day of school. So all the cars had to come out of the same area when you leave the school. Oh. So I, and it was always jam-packed as people are waiting. You know, the buses go out and then the cars go out. And so I pull up, I stopped right in the center. I get out of my car.

And I just go like, I double flip off the school. I was just like, I am out of here, mother effers. I'm gone. I did not know that the assistant principal, Mr. Stauffer, was standing right there. And so I got in my car. I didn't even notice if he saw me or not. And so we go through graduation, and then we get done, and he comes over. He found me, and he comes over, and he goes...

I'm going to tell you what, because we had a senior party that night at the school. So you would stay all night at the school. Overnight, they had casino games and all kinds of stuff. So we wouldn't go out and party, essentially. They had more control. It ended up being a lot of fun. But he's like, you can stay tonight. He goes...

but you can't ever come back here again. Wow. Yeah. Wow. He gave me a talking to. I don't think I've ever told anybody that. He figured that he could hold sway over what you do in perpetuity, that you could never return to the school. To be honest, he was being nice by letting me stay. Okay. He could have said, I don't need you to go. You're out of here, dude. Have you ever been back?

Yeah, but I mean... Does he know? Because I went one time and I stole stuff. Yeah, what, who me? Or you did for me on my behalf. I stole stuff when I was there. But yeah, no, I was threatened to not take away my diploma, which they did hold that over our heads because they just hand you the folder. Yes. And then you get the diploma later on. You want to make sure you don't show your ass at the graduation ceremony. Right.

So he could have easily... That's for the teacher's lounge. Yeah, he could have easily held the diploma for me. Not my proudest moment. I was doing it as less of an F you to the school to more of I am out of here, mother effers. I'm done. You were Judd Nelson. That's what I was going to say. That's what you were doing. Was that your vendor? That was your defiant arm raise. What about you, Dad? No. Forget you. Forget you, Dad. Anyway.

So anyway, listen, we do have to take a break, but congratulations again. All seniors, everybody who's going through graduation. Senior citizens, too. And parents who have their kids that are graduating. So it's a special time of year. We are going to take a break. We're going to have a special interview when we get back. Tom Johnson of the Doobie Brothers on the show. We'll be back in just a moment. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right. Thank you very much, Marissa. We have our guest on the line, ready to go. We've been very excited to talk to this gentleman who's been a huge, huge fan for, well, pretty much my entire life. So, likewise. Uh,

I'm going to play a couple of clips before we go to them because the band, the Doobie Brothers, has a new album out. This is amazing. These guys have been together. This is the first new album to feature not only Tom Johnson, who we're going to talk to, Patrick Simmons, John McPhee, and Michael McDonald in over 40 years. Yeah. Since they've been having new music together. And so this is, I'm going to play a little bit of a new song. It's called Learn to Let It Go. When you lose that love.

This world may keep on turning, but it's just gonna keep on hurting. Till you let go, baby. Let go, baby. Use your head till your heart can fall. Let go, baby.

There's some soul, there's some R&B, there's gospel, there's all this kind of flavor in the tracks that I've heard from this new album. Straight up rock. But I can't bring them on without playing something from the older days, just because the harmonies in this band are some of the greatest I've ever heard. And just a reminder, here we go. And the killin' always ends up, and the blood and sins are great. I keep on pushin' my mouth, and you know they're late. But I love.

This is when I sing really loud in the car right here. Just amazing, right? Ladies and gentlemen, we are so happy to welcome to the show this morning Mr. Tom Johnston. Tom, good morning to you. Good morning.

How you guys doing?

Wow. Geez. You haven't missed... Yeah. Yeah. Well,

You haven't missed a beat or a step at all. And what I'm amazed at, and I've watched a few interviews and you guys were all together for one you did with CBS. The one thing that cuts through, Tom, and it's the reason why I think you guys have always been so good at what you do, is there seems to have never been a diminishing of your joy for creating music and having the audience enjoy it as well. Would you say that's true?

I've got to say, the crowds are a huge wealth. The crowds, the general populace that likes this band is a huge part of our success because without them, we wouldn't be anywhere, number one. Number two, we tour a lot. So when we're on the road and people show up, especially what you just described, which is, you know, happiness, joy, dancing, singing, having a great time, that's basically...

You can't ask for a better job than that. I'm going to read a review from Classic Rock Magazine talking about the new album. It says, it is an album as full of joy as it is of craft. 16 albums in and they're still not letting themselves down. And so you as a songwriter and you...

I don't know if I ever got the yips.

But I have, I mean, we've done albums where I go, oh man, that's not a very good song. Or at home, when you're writing at home, for instance, and you're starting something, if you're writing on your own. There are times when you're just not going to get there, and you just kind of have to accept that. Some songs write themselves, I'm sure you've probably heard that a lot.

And those are the magic ones. Those are the ones, like things you're playing and other things. It's just, you know, they take care of themselves. And these are the ones where you labor and labor and labor. And the more you labor, the worse the song gets. That's probably the best idea. Tom, you know what? We spoke to a lot of musicians over the years, and I found that most of them have a story of they started writing this song as this little kind of throwaway thing. And it's just like, eh, you know, I don't know about this. But one of the other members goes, no, wait, man. Hang on. I hear something there.

And then it turns out to be either a beloved track or actually a bona fide huge hit, but it just needed someone, another set of ears to come in and say, wait a minute, you're onto something, don't give up on this. I'm sure that's probably happened to you or more of you guys in the band throughout the years. Yeah, I'd say that's an accurate statement. The song you were just playing, Long Train Runnin', which is a while ago, but...

we had been playing that for two years before we recorded it. I mean, playing it live. We weren't trying to record it. And then Teddy heard us play it live, Teddy Templeman. And he's the one who suggested that we cut it. And I thought, hmm, really? And he said, yeah. He said,

So, geez, got to write some lyrics for it because I was making up different with everything that we played it. So, that's one of those songs you're talking about. You know, it's interesting because there's, I mean, I can, I feel I owe you something through the years of joy your music has been associated with moments in my life.

And and it's just such a wonderful gift to be able to give to people that you have. But I'm curious about the process and how you're able to finally settle on. OK, this is it. And you described something in an interview called Demo Lock, which is this is it. And this is what it's going to be. And then having to learn how to let other people say, well, maybe we can do more.

Yeah, you do have to do that. As a writer, in the old days, I used to come in with a guitar set of chords and I'd play it on the guitar. Like, oh yeah, we could do this, do that. And a lot of guys would come up with their own parts. That developed over the years. So you get to work on a digital audio workstation and you can pretty much create every instrument you want to hear on the track by yourself.

So you bring that in, and demo basically describes something where you've got a song where you think it just can't get any better, which doesn't happen that often, but it happens more than you would think. And then you bring it in and go, oh, what if you did this? And you're going, wait a minute, this is what I was thinking. And you do have to learn to adapt. And a lot of times when you do that, you find out, wow, it got a lot better because I let that happen or I wanted it to happen.

So hundreds of songs written, and yet it's my understanding that the only song that you thought right from the completion, when you had it done, that would be a hit, was Listen to the Music. Is that correct? Yeah, that is correct. That's the only one I'll ever recall. And when you realize that, do you start going, everybody, do you say, this is it, this is the one, and do they want to hear that?

I don't think I presented it that way. I did call Ted after like 2.30 in the morning or something and tell him that, but I didn't tell the band that. I just brought it in as a song. Okay. And we cut it the way I did it and it came out really great and it was popular. So, it was a happy thing all the way around. I was the band's first signal. Oh,

Tom, how do you guys work as a collaboration now on this current album, Walk This Road, which, by the way, is available now? As far as presenting ideas to the group, fleshing them out, working on them, is there a jam session? How does it work nowadays? This album and the one that preceded it, actually, both, were done with John Shanks, and it's a totally different way of doing things. He co-wrote every song with us.

We would bring it in and sit down. We didn't even have one sometimes. You come in and just create a song right there in his, we'll call it studio. You'd write it upstairs. You'd send what you had downstairs to the studio itself. Then you'd start tracking on it. And that's a totally different way of writing. We did the last album like this as well. And it's interesting. It's fast.

But their songs came out really well. So I think everybody's pretty pleased with it. No, it's great. And it is, if you're, I think the best way to say it is if you're a Doobie Brothers fan, then you're going to love this album because it's capturing at least everything, you know, all the boxes are checked and then some. And I wanted to ask you because you have people like Mavis Staples and Mick Fleetwood listed in the credits as well. And when you set out on an album, obviously you guys are all incredibly accomplished musicians.

But do you sort of have a shopping list of people that you'd like to bring on as well? I think in the case of Mavis Staples, that didn't occur until the song was tracked and we knew what was going on with it. I think Michael brought that up. He thought it would be a great idea to have Mavis sing on it. We all agreed. Yeah.

So the management reached out and got in touch with him. She was gracious enough to say, yeah, I'll do it. And I think that came out really well. That was a great track and a great idea. As far as Mick Fleetwood, Pat lives in Maui. So Mick does, too. I believe he's over there a lot anyways. And they got him to come in because of the track Lahaina, which was about the town, which burned down over there. Right.

Much to our dismay. Everybody's really fond of that place. And so that's basically what that was about. He brought it in to play drums on it. And he was all about it. So that's a good thing. Nice. So you guys are going to be in town. The tour is happening. You'll be at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on August 13th. And Coral Reefer Band is going to be playing on that bill as well. That's perfect. Which is a wonderful synergy of vibe. You guys and your vocals. I mentioned at the top, Tom, that I...

I came to a realization a few years ago because you have bands that are hallowed for their vocals. And you hear a lot of the same names.

And they're great and deserving names, which are like the Eagles and the Beatles. And they're known for having these wonderful harmonies. I have always put you guys right up there with them in that the voices that blend in the Doobie Brothers just to bring this wonderful vibe. Was that...

pretty apparent early on that you guys were going to be a a vocal based band i mean you not only have multiple people who can sing lead but you have um a variety of pitches that blend well together was it pretty obvious straight on you guys had something special um i think harmonies were always in the picture because a lot of the bands that influenced us at that time i mean we came from a lot of different places before we got together but um

We were pretty high on the idea of having harmonies. A lot of groups were doing that, Crosby, Stills, and Nash had just, well, they were actually in the midst of it when we got together. And I'm trying to think of some others. Just a slew of people that, you know, had really great vocal harmonies. And we were also big fans of Moby Grape, which is, I say this, but that's the way it goes. So we just decided to bring that into whatever songwriting we did.

And everything from that point just happened. I mean, yeah, we would write, we would come up with harmonies, but a lot of the stuff just happened kind of, I hate to say this, but organically. Well, doing research on you for this interview and for the band as well, and obviously you had that period of time where you had severe injuries

ulcer issues and medical conditions that had you having to leave the band for a while and then obviously reincorporate and the band has never sounded better so walk this road seems to have an overarching um context for you individually as well as the album itself do you do you carry a little bit more into this do you believe because of what you've been through i don't really know if that has any effect on it at all to be honest we've been on the road god

Constantly, for like decades. And yeah, I took a little break and then I had to. But we started up again. I went out on the next year. I went on the tour in '76 with everybody. And with Memphis Horns were touring with us. And then we just kept doing it until I kind of left the band for a while and went off and did a couple of solo albums. And then we got back together essentially in '87 and we've been going since.

I don't really know if that had a great effect on it other than it changed the sound of the band for a while. Right. Tom, I wanted to ask you about your early days in the band because you guys got a reputation for being a biker bar band in the earlier days. And I always thought the things you guys must have seen in those days were there. I'm not going to ask you how many fights you saw, but did any of those spill onto the stage while you were actually performing?

Wow. A lot of fun. A lot of fun. I have to ask you, because Michael McDonald's become associated with the term yacht rock and...

Overall, maybe maybe there's a I don't I don't ever really hear that the Doobie Brothers incorporate into Yacht Rock. But Michael has presence there. How do you take that that term, that classification? Donald Fagan of Steely Dan, clearly not a fan of it. Are you OK if you end up being considered Yacht Rock now and then?

I kind of don't really care. It's just something for somebody to make money off of or whatever. I don't know, man. They've got some really high-class people they've lumped into. They're really good musicians. Yeah, that's for sure. I think in a court, it's about style. It's more like soft rock, I guess. You know, if anything, it has a little jazz influence. Yeah. But,

But they've got people in there like Toto who don't fit that caliber. So it's really kind of a loose title. You guys were writing music of the time. It doesn't affect the band. Right, right. You guys were writing... At the time, you were writing music of the time. And then, you know, I'm a little bit younger than these guys. So I found it in high school.

in the early to mid-90s. What I find interesting is my son, who just graduated high school, him and his friends have now discovered this kind of on their own. Maybe they was on TikTok or Instagram or whatever, but here you are writing music 40 years ago that today's youth is also still consuming and loving. How does that make you feel? I think that's fabulous. The idea that we wrote music that has stood the test of time is just...

I don't think you plan. I don't think you can plan that. It just happens. And if you've got something that resonates with listeners and with crowds...

And it brings them up. I think that's the biggest thing of all. They associate it with a good time in their life or whatever they're doing at the time now. I don't know. You couldn't ask for a better ending to a song. Or not ending, but you couldn't ask for a better life for a song than something like that. Speaking of, can I ask you a quick question? Because this might be one of my favorite guitar riffs to ever start a song. Who wrote this? Uh-huh.

I did. You wrote that. Well, thank you for that, man. I love it. Listen, this stuff is so good, and it just gets embedded in our DNA. And sometimes you can fumble all over yourself, you know, again, in adoration of what you provide. Again, it's a soundtrack to people's lives. And interview after interview with you and with the rest of the band, that is not lost on you guys. And I think that's collectively why we love the Doobie Brothers so much.

Well, we're just grateful, extremely so. We're happy to be doing what we're doing, and that licky just played still resonates today, and I've got to say, it came from a joyful place at the time, so it still is, and that really helps. Nice, and congratulations on the way, because this week on the 12th,

You guys are going to be, and by that I mean you and Pat and Michael are going to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in the performing songwriters category, which I think is, I think that that's a top notch category.

Now, listen, there are people that write tons of great hit songs and they're wonderful and they have an immense talent. The people who can actually write and perform those, I find a more depth in their talent. And this has got to be something that I assume because you seem like a really humble guy that you never really saw in your future. But now here it is. And how does that make you feel?

That's a very accurate statement. I never even thought about it. I am extremely grateful to be in this position. We all are. Myself, Pat, and Michael very much so. It just popped up, I guess you could say, a year ago that we might be

Not inducted, but we were getting looked at. And then the induction came and we were all kind of blown away for a while. Because you think about all the people you grew up listening to and the people that affected your style of music. And they're all in there. It's just amazing. Well, I think, though you may not feel you're owed this, I think you have every right to lord it over the people who can only write songs.

That would be a real popular item. Well, listen, Tom, we're huge fans. Thank you for the years of music and entertainment. And that entertainment continues because you guys are going to be performing in our area. And this will be at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on August 13th. Should be an awesome summertime show for the people of Philadelphia and surrounding area to check out. And of course, I want to remind everyone that the new album, Walk

this road is still available. These guys are still banging it out and bringing it as strong as they ever have. So thanks, Tom, and congratulations. And we appreciate your time this morning.

Thanks, you guys. We're looking forward to it. Excellent. You guys have a great day. You too. We'll see you. All right. Tom Johnson. No, I wanted it from the beginning. That's what I was trying to tell you. That's all right. Anyway, I absolutely love this band, man. Yeah, and you have different stages. You know, there was that...

Michael McDonald aspect to it, which is great. And the delineation was always Tom Johnson was more of the rock edge. But they synthesized so well together. And I agree with you, Preston. If you're talking about soaring harmonies, I mean, every one of these, every one of the band members that you reeled off, all was responsible for writing hits and

And it's amazing. Yeah, by the way, I had a couple of people ask me to ask him which doobie you be. I was not going to do that. Right. From what's happening. I was going to ask him, and we wanted to make sure we didn't get too off of the beaten path. But I was going to ask him if he remembers when in Romancing the Stone...

Michael Douglas' character, who had been off in the jungle for years, they found an old plane wreckage and he found an old Rolling Stone. He's reading and he's like, oh man, the Doobie Brothers broke up. He's like, how long have you been down here? They did break up for a little while. They hung it up and then a few years later they got back together. When they first came back, they had a song called The Doctor. I'm like,

I'm like, oh man, the doobies are trying to do this again. I listen to the song. I'm like, damn, they are still good. Yeah. You know, and that was back in the nineties, maybe early nineties. I don't think I knew what a bootlegging or recording was until what's happening. So, uh, just on a legal perspective, uh, that episode, uh, actually two part episode made a serious impact on me. Yeah. It's always pretty awesome to talk to him. All right. What are we doing now? We got another guest coming up, right? Uh,

Yeah. That would be in the next breakdown. In the next. I actually just announced Preston, our guest, is coming up and said he is joining the Doobie Brothers. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God. How great is that? It's amazing. I've never seen them. I need to go to this show. I saw them a few years ago, and it was awesome. And it was without Michael McDonald. I saw them in Camden. I forget who else was on the bill. There was a few different acts. Maybe that was, I think maybe they opened for Journey. And I think it was Hall & Oates, Doobie Brothers, and Journey. Oh, wow.

That's awesome. Yeah. Journey, I didn't need to see again. But I would definitely go see the Doobie Brothers again. Tom Johnston brought it. And I want to see them with Michael McDonald in the lineup. Yeah. I read his book. And then I was telling Steve, or maybe I was telling you guys on air. After I read that, I'm like, okay.

I'm going to go and I'm going to listen to every single Doobie Brothers album. And they've had 16 albums. So I just, I went through and every day I would listen to a new record. And just because there were so many deep cuts, I know all the hits. Were you like Howard Hughes with Jars Full of Piss? I just didn't move. No, but it was on the way into work each morning. I'd pop the album on and I could listen to it. And, uh,

And there were some songs I didn't know about that I was like, this is a great tune. Oh, that's a great tune. Never heard of that one before. And I sent Casey one that's become my favorite, which is Another Park, Another Sunday. Yeah, never heard that before. I listened to it this morning. Aren't the harmonies just amazing? I'm like, yeah, this is the Doobie Brothers right here. Yep, absolutely. You know what I used to do? And I'm going to do it again this summer, is when I drive down the shore, pick up a guitar.

Take your pants off. Take my pants off. No, but listen to an album that I haven't listened to before. Like, I listened to the entire Grateful Dead catalog one year. Not live music, but all studio stuff. I did it with Bruce Springsteen. For me, if I'm driving, it has to be curated. Like, all right, I'm going to pull out this album.

Okay. So you're very adventurous. Yeah. Because I consider driving time a revered listening time. Yeah. Yeah. There are a few bands like the Doobie Brothers, like Steely Dan, where I learned the Eagles. I learned about them through their greatest hits catalog. Yeah. Which is a fine way to learn about a band. Right.

but I didn't take the time to go back and listen to the original records. And so when I listened to Steely Dan growing up, it was a decade of Steely Dan. When I listened to the Eagles, it was Eagles Greatest Hits Part 2, Doobie Brothers, same thing. And so I'd like to go back and listen to the individual records because I think it makes you appreciate the songs a little bit differently. Is that what your son's doing, Casey? Are they going through the Greatest Hits? Are they going through the albums? No, probably like Greatest Hits. I think they're actually going from song by song, right? And it isn't until they find a few songs

that they'll actually then go to the album. So a good indicator of a band that you should go back and listen to all of their music is a band that has a Greatest Hits collection. Because that's telling you that there's enough material that you can definitely spend some time on it. They seldom released a Greatest Hit album. The Red Hot Chili Peppers had this release. It was called What Hits? And it was their quote-unquote Greatest Hits album. Essentially, they're saying we haven't had any hits, but here's some of our songs that are most well-known.

and that kind of opened up the door to me to go back and listen to Uplift Mobile Party Plan and all these early albums and I'm like, oh my God, this band's got depth, you know? So, it's a good indicator when you come across a greatest hits. Has there been like a greatest hits album? Like, Foo Fighters don't have a greatest hits, right? They actually had, Pearl Jam put one out a few years ago. Um,

They recreated the cover of 10 on the inside, and they did a modern version of it. But I don't need that because I have all of the records, and I listen to all the records beginning to end. I don't know about the first, though. Nick said he didn't need this. We figured we'd do it anyway, but we love Nick. Oh, I still bought it. Don't get me wrong. Thank you, Nick. Yeah, I'm going to support the band. Actually, the first... Sound it out. The first...

The first greatest hits collection I ever listened to, and there were only two songs on it. It was by Dolly Parton. It was called Two of Her Biggest Hits. Come on. Come on. I never give a joke. It's a dad joke. With a punchline, ever. That was a dirty dad joke. It was, wasn't it?

You want to tease what we're doing on Friday? Speaking of dad jokes? What are we doing on Friday? We're going to have a dad joke off. Oh! With Casey and Fit Dad CEO, who, by the way, is dropping some dad jokes in the YouTube chat this morning. Oh, is he now? Yeah. Oh! So he's throwing a gauntlet, Case. Yeah. I mean, I...

I don't have a bank of dad jokes. Just get a book. Get your ass to work. He's not writing them. He's regaling us in his own dad way, which is terrific. I'm a lot more selective when it comes to my dad jokes.

So I might see one and I'll go, okay, let's see if I can drop that on the show at some point. And then I won't have another one for a couple of weeks. Okay. So it's not like I have a whole bank of them right now. All right. I already used the one that I thought was good. Steal from the best, right? That's what they say. Yeah. Yeah.

I used the zoo one last week. The zoo one? Yeah. What was it? Well, it was the zoo that only had one animal. It was a dog. It was a shit zoo. Oh, yeah. Shit zoo. I like that one. That was pretty good. All right. Well, listen. I think we're going to take a break. All right. I think that's what we're going to do because we do have a guest we're going to chat with real brief and we do have the bizarre file coming up. Yes. If there's anything else we need to cover, we will do it then too. You know what? Let's give away another. I don't know how many more of these. I haven't been checking these boxes, Casey. I think I gave away two more, but I think I've got a few more.

Hershey Park four packs to give away. This is an amazing thing. We didn't know if this would ever return. And it is back. So we're headed to the sweetest place on earth, Hershey, Pennsylvania, in Hershey Park. And we'll be broadcasting live on Thursday, the 26th.

We'll take caller number nine at 610-660-9333. We'll give you a four-pack of tickets. You'll get to get in the park early. You'll get to access some of the rides before anybody else does. Free parking, and you'll hang out with us as we do the live broadcast. We'll come back in just a moment. We'll get to the B-File and another quick guest. So stay with us. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. Before we get to the B-file, a couple of things I want to mention. We have a new big friggin' deal this week, and you can get 80...

Steel Pier ride tickets for just $42.50. That's half of the price. That's pretty amazing. That's fantastic. So normally $85 to get 80 Steel Pier ride tickets. And Steel Pier, in case you did not know, it's Atlantic City's boardwalk. It's their really awesome amusement park pier, the big...

Ferris wheel, all kinds of stuff there. The diving horse used to be at the Steel Pier back in the day. And you know what I need to do is go back and see if there's any video on YouTube of the diving horse. Is there? Yeah.

It's pretty amazing to see that, and you always wondered how they were able to pull that off. Apparently the horse liked doing it, from what I read. Yeah, they picked one that was sort of depressed and suicidal. Oh, and they just had to jump? No, no, I mean, to convince a horse at that height to jump is pretty amazing. Yeah, absolutely. We're looking at video footage and still pictures from back in the black and white photos.

Which I assume this would have been the 1950s, 40s and 50s. Everyone loves watching the horse dive. Yes. Watch the horse dive. After a cataclysmic turnout for the elephant jump, the horse was the next best way to go. Wow. We're looking at pictures. That's way the hell up there. The horse's body is pointed directly down. Damn. It's diving. I mean, it's not jumping. Yeah. No.

And Casey, who used to open for the diving horse? That was Thornton Mellon, man. Thornton Mellon, yeah. Did the most amazing dive I've ever seen. Triple Lindy almost killed him, man. Yeah, that's right. So anyhow, this is Wild Supplies. Last, you can go to WMMR.com slash deals and take advantage of the huge summer savings for Steel Pier, the Atlantic City Board Box premier amusement destination. Somewhere, somebody was sitting in the back of the... I have an idea. How about a diving horse? Yeah.

What? Why they'll come from miles around. Why they'll come from miles around just to see the equestrian show involving a diving horse. Trust me. And later on, I'll have a hamster that plays the maracas. Oh, they'll come from everywhere. Didn't they? Wasn't that also where the chicken played tic-tac-toe? Oh, I said it wasn't. In Atlantic City? I think that was in Atlanta. Have you ever seen a jellyfish play Jeopardy? I've been...

I think that's where the chicken playing tic-tac-toe act came from. Steve, did you see the crab riding on top of the chili fish?

There is a video of this. No, somebody was talking about that. And sure enough, there's a crab on top of it. How about a crab riding on top of a jellyfish? Let's put a mule's head in a horse's ass. Bye, people who come for miles around. Now, we know because I had the...

The city beat not that long ago that the ski ball game has its origins in Atlantic City. Yes, from this very area. We're looking at the video now. We're looking at the video of the crab riding jellyfish. That's fantastic. Crab riding jellyfish. Crab riding. Yeah, you would think that the jellyfish would be stinging the crab, but I guess. No, he's getting a ride. Yeah, it's like their version of an Uber. Yeah, or, you know, like one of those, um, uh.

at the Atlantic City. They push in the thing. No, the rickshaws. The rickshaws. That's what it's like. Anyway, we have that deal that's available. I also want to remind you there's another thing through WMMR.com and that is, well, actually, we send this to you. If you're a newsletter member of WMMR, we check out the latest Do It For You Dad contest. It's a chance to win a $200 Lowe's gift card. Nice. So if you're already getting our emails, just look for the latest one in your inbox.

click on the link and register. If you are not signed up, it's a great time to go to WMMR.com. Look for the link, subscribe under the more tab. As Steve has said, we don't send you a lot of stuff all the time. It's just on occasion. Uh, and a lot of times it's a great deal like this, or it's like, you know, a chance to get tickets. We'll, we'll send you information about ticket giveaways. You may not be aware of that. Aren't just on air. They're off air too. Or one of my new recipes that uses curry. Okay. Yeah. I'll include that occasion. Curry recipes from Steve. Uh,

And then the last thing is, obviously, we have the blood drive. It's on Thursday and Friday. First time we've ever done a two-day blood drive Thursday. We couldn't do them because they have an event at Live Casino and Hotel on Friday when we're doing the live broadcast. So we split it up. We'd better to get more blood than worry about the fact that it's in one day. So June 12th, Thursday, Live Casino Hotel Philadelphia.

Jackie Bam Bam will be there. We'll be checking in with him. And then the next day, Friday, we, the show, will be broadcasting from the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks. So you can go to WMMR.com, make an appointment. Donation times on Thursday are 8 to 2. And then Friday is the long day, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. And Pierre is going to be there and Brent Porsche as well. Yes, which is great. Broadcasting. And it says here appointments are preferred. You know what that means? What?

What? If you show up. If everything goes your way and you weren't planning on going but something happens and you are available and you'd like to give a shot to come down. Yeah. If you meet the requirements, you're still going to be held to the same requirements. You can find those on the website. Then you can donate blood. Maybe you saw a crab riding on a jellyfish and it motivated you to donate blood for whatever reason. That's amazing. I've got to give blood.

And you get the newest Preston and Steve t-shirt designed by listener Kristen Kimball. And you also get a Preston and Steve show tote bag from Window Nation. So that's coming up this week. As far as I can tell, the chicken playing tic-tac-toe did not originate in Atlantic City. Oh, my God. But it did happen there. I think that the origins were in New York City. However, if you ever go to Ginny's Little Longhorn in Austin, Texas, you can also play. Oh, man.

Oh, man. Chicken crap bingo. Chicken S bingo. Where they crap on the card. You pay for a numbered ticket. The chicken walks around on a numbered board. The chicken, if it picks your number, if it craps on it, you win cash. I was to a place in Austin where they had a guinea pig that prepared your taxes. Wow. And that was pretty amazing. Was it amazing to see that? Because it was aware of certain deductions that my regular accountant did not know about. How was your return that year? It was pretty good. Okay. Nice.

We can now do the Bizarre File. Here we go. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Files.

Brought to you by A.D. Moyer, trusted expert since 1939. A.D. Moyer Lumber is your professional source for decks, windows, doors, kitchens, millwork, and more. You can visit them on the web at admoyer.com. A guest is suing the St. Regis Bell Harbor in Miami, claiming an employee used his master key to access her room while she was naked in the shower and stood there watching for several minutes.

The incident occurred at the Marriott managed... Do you want mint for a pillow? ...property on April 22nd when she noticed the bathroom door open and a man staring at her through the glass. How would I kiss you? It was Joe Namath. She screamed and he fled. She says she then reported the incident to hotel security in the front desk. Could you imagine? And then she waited for hours for a response. She said there was no immediate apology.

After multiple follow-ups, she said the staff confirmed the man was an employee claiming that he had entered the wrong room. However, security footage shows the staffer lingering outside her room for nearly a minute before entering and remaining inside for nearly three minutes. Sounds like he waited for her to get into the shower. And apparently, the hotel offered her...

A bottle of wine. There you go. To comp her room. Maybe share it with the guy who came into your room. She declined, left the hotel that night, filed a police report the next morning. A lawsuit argues that Marriott failed to properly screen, train, and supervise employees and put guests at risk by having them unrestricted, giving them unrestricted access to guest rooms. She wants $7 million.

Reporting on the incident. Okay. Yeah. Reporting on the property. How about a million in a cool video of a crab riding a jellyfish? It has the property saying that they take guest safety seriously, but refusing to say whether the employee is still working at the property. So we'll see if this goes anywhere. You would assume that the employees would just know that they're not supposed to go in and visit the guests as they're taking a shower. It is an assumption. Yes.

In Michigan, police are looking for a man who allegedly pointed a gun at a group of kids. Michigan State Police said that the odd encounter with a strangely dressed man occurred near the Lake Billings Dam on Wednesday. Three juveniles saw the man standing on the north side of the dam. After a brief conversation, he allegedly pulled out what is believed to be a handgun, spun it around on his finger, and then pointed it at the juveniles.

So he's a real rootin' tootin' guy. That's what I was thinking too, yeah. The male is described as a teenager with a deep voice. His attire was unique and included a red shirt, gray sweatpants, a cowboy style hat with blue Crocs. He also had a side pouch which was hung over his right shoulder. Sounds like the worst cowboy ever. Sat on his left hip. So anyone with information is asked to call police.

Years after a SWAT team in Texas destroyed an innocent woman's home while trying to apprehend a fugitive, local government will have to pay her $60,000 in damages, plus interest, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. Was the house demolished or is this just for some damage? It was beaten up bad. So here's the story. That decision may sound like common sense, but...

The ending was far from guaranteed in a legal odyssey that saw Vicki Baker of McKinney, Texas, left with a dilapidated house and the bill for the damages, even though she was never suspected of wrongdoing. She said, I lost everything. I lost my chance to sell my house. I lost my chance to retire without fear of how I'm going to make my regular bills. In July 2020, law enforcement detonated about 4,000

30 tear gas grenades inside her home, blew off the garage entryway with explosives, and careened a Bearcat armored vehicle through her backyard fence. Oh no, that's a six. You thought it was a nine. They smashed the windows and drove through her front door. Baker's daughter, Deanna Cook, had

giving them the garage door opener and the code to enter the home. Wow, they just wanted to use some of that stuff. I know. Police were in... We just bought this thing. They were in search of Wesley Little, who was on the run after kidnapping a teenage girl. Upon arriving at Baker's home, Little, who had formerly worked for Baker, is a handyman and countercook who called law enforcement. Little released the girl unharmed but refused to exit himself.

prompting swap teams to destroy the home. He was ultimately found dead from suicide. She said the tear gas was everywhere. It was on the walls, it was on the floors, it was on the furniture, everywhere. Her daughter's dog was rendered deaf and blind from the flashbangs and the tear gas. Baker said she has very high regard for the police

And that she did not challenge that they acted in the best interest of the community that day. But not long after they ravaged her home, things began to fall apart even more. Metaphorically speaking, her home insurance would not cover the damages. Signing a clause that protects them from having to reimburse people for damages caused by the government. But the government would not help either, telling her that she did not meet its definition of victim. And then the bigger question is, what kind of animal do you get for a blind dog? The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment promises the government cannot take private property...

Yeah.

Sue ultimately calling that interpretation of the law unattainable. In June 2022, a jury awarded her $60,000 in damages, yet that victory was short-lived. The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed that judgment in 2023, ruling that she was foreclosed from relief under federal law because police acted inactionally.

out of a necessity during an act of emergency. Why didn't they just give this woman? They destroyed her home. Also, by the way, was her representation pro bono or was she having to pay legal costs to get this? Yeah, that too. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case last year, so Baker pivoted back to the Texas Constitution. And then this article goes on and on about

all the loopholes and everything that she had to jump through to try and get the money back. And they finally said it's way too late that they're going to be able to eventually compensate her for it. But that's ridiculous. I mean, when it's obvious that something like that has occurred,

Buck up, baby. Yeah. All right, and there you go. That's what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. Speaking of bucking up, our next guest is involved in a charity event that is going to raise a lot of money for a very cool cause. Casey has been a part of this event for years now. How long have you been doing this? I think this is going to be my fourth year, and then Marissa's been a part of this for a few years longer than I have. All right, so this is the 10th event for it. It is NRG's annual flag festival.

football game and they get local notables to be a part of this. It looks awesome. Yeah. And from NRG, we have the senior manager communications gentleman, Dan McCutty is joining us. Nice to see you, Dan. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. We've seen you at our Camp Out for Hunger. NRG is a wonderful contributor to Camp Out for Hunger.

Fantastic. You guys, you do a lot of great charity work, so congratulations on that. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. I mean, charity is a big part of what we do here in this community, so it's nice to be able to give back, certainly with this event. So, 10th year for the flag football game? 10 years, yeah. Do you play in it? I do not. No, thankfully, you know, I've got all my bones and ankles and things still intact. But, no, I do not play, but we've got a really fantastic slate.

of players this year, including Casey and Marissa. So we're just super excited to have this event for the 10th year and really support these wonderful causes. Yeah, watching the footage, we see some of the... And Casey's mentioned some of the local sports people that we know and love who come out and support the camp out for hunger as well. And just, as you said, a lot of local notables. Casey, you...

you and Marissa get into this. Oh yeah. You're not folding this in. No, no, no, no. It's a real competition. You go out there to compete, no doubt. And listen, it's all fun and friendly and all that. But the bottom line is, is you want to win. And last year, my kryptonite was Kyle Pagan and his long ass arms, dude. That freaking guy needs to stay away from defensive line because I, you know, I was a quarterback two years in a row. Uh,

And Jervis was the MVP, my MVP receiver the first year. Pat Gallen was my MVP receiver the second year. And then last year, I just couldn't get the ball through Kyle Pagan's arms. And it was really, really frustrating. He's a towering dude. Yeah, he is. And not a bad athlete as well. Dan, tell us about the charities that you guys are going to be contributing to. Yeah, so this event is in support of Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Nemours, and Philabundance. So they're four of our Choose to Give partners and four local organizations that people know really, really well. Yeah, those are all great ones. Yeah. That's excellent. So the Choose to Give program is one of our home energy plans. So you sign up for a Choose to Give plan with NRG and you can contribute...

a portion of your energy bill each month to one of these four organizations. So every time you're turning on a light switch, plugging in your EV, you're contributing to one of these four organizations. So what you're saying is if you are on this program, leave your lights and air conditioner and everything on. Exactly. Just power your house. Because it's for charity. Dan, do you get to choose which one of those specific charities it goes to? Yeah, when you sign up for the NRG Choose to Give plan, you can choose one of these four charities. I love that. That's excellent.

And how much will be donated this week? Do you have any idea? So we're giving $36,000 at this event. Wow. Nice. And it'll go to all four of these organizations. So the question is, in case I don't even know, I'll ask it to both of you. Are spectators allowed or would that hamper the situation? Yeah, so we're playing in the Novocare complex. It's a limited space. So it's not open to the public.

But they can follow along at hashtag NRG Charity Game. Is it being streamed? Yes. Okay, well, there you go. Yeah, so you can follow along the hashtag and follow our Pick NRG social media channels. You can find all the action there. We're going to see you at Camp Out for Hunger this year? Yeah, we'll be back for Camp Out. We're super excited about that. It's one of our biggest events that we participate in every year and super excited to come back for another year. Nice. We're working on locking in a date for that. We're like very, very close. We were just telling Dan, it's like...

99.5%. But before we give you the save the date thing,

on air. We'll make sure that all the T's are crossed and the I's are dotted and all that stuff. But that's coming up soon. I can't believe we're talking about Camp Out for Hunger already. You have to, though. Any of these things are huge. And we really appreciate the relationship because it means over these many years the people that you can rely on to deliver, and you guys do all the time. So thank you so much. I am, and thank you, by the way, for putting me on Team Philabundance. Because if we do win tomorrow, we get to donate more to Philabundance than everybody else. Exactly.

Case, do you know who you're playing with yet? I do. I know Breeland Moore is going to be back on with us. A couple of years ago, she tore her ACL while we were playing. So she's going to be playing with us. I believe it's a weather person from CBS. Greg Gilmore. There you go. I know that Amy from Phil Abundance is going to be on our team and a few other people. But the other cool thing is each team, each of the four teams gets a coach. And our coach is a former Philadelphia Eagles. So Thomas, Jason Avant.

This year we've got Todd Harriman, Hollis Thomas, William Thomas, and we're still waiting on the fourth coach. But the Eagles legends are just diehards. They, in a lot of cases, left the field decades ago, but they've still got that competitive spirit that they bring to the game. Yeah, you cannot take that out of a professional athlete. No, and I got to tell you, man, it is such a cool experience to play football.

in the bubble at the NovaCare complex. It's really cool. A pristine condition. Well, awesome, awesome, awesome. Yeah. So you can follow, it says adpick underscore NRG and then you can tag NRG Charity Game for all the game day updates and behind the scenes moments and that's taking place tomorrow. Any idea what time this is going on? Yeah, so we'll get started around 11 o'clock a.m. and then run until about 1 o'clock. And then the winner's parade through the city takes place when? You gotta wait a couple days. Yeah, yeah.

Let those bones heal. All right. Dan, thank you so much for what you guys do. We appreciate it. Thank you guys for having me. Dan McCunney. Yeah! NRG Energy. We are going to take one more break, come back in a second. We actually have a couple of breaks still coming up because we have Less in Question Trash Music News on the way when we return. So stay with us, please.

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We'll be right back.

Tomorrow, though, Sunshine Hive 86, so not too bad. We're going to ask a lesson question, and we are going to give away... I don't know what I'm doing with all the questions.

There he is. I got it right there. Thank you. We are going to give away for the lesson question a pair of tickets for the NASCAR Cup Series Great American Gateway 400. That's going to be on Sunday, June 22nd at Pocono Raceway. So here's the question for you. Where is the basalt? If you heard that earlier this morning. And you got to say it correctly. Yeah. Okay. There's a little...

thing that we're looking for that was said earlier on the air this morning. Where is the basalt? Where would you find that? All right, 610-660-9333 is our number. And if you call and you get through and you give us the right answer, you win the prize. You get those tickets. We'll do this while you're calling. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

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15, meaning June 15th. Right. I'm going to change that right now. Must be a Primo Perks member, by the way. Steve, what's going on this morning? Well, Preston, I know this is going to rock your world. Ex-NFL star Pac-Man Jones in the slammer again after getting arrested for public intoxication and assaulting a police officer. Jones says the worst part of it all was having to tell his wife, Ms. Pac-Man Jones. Ah.

Oh, my God. Blake Lively's legal team, you mentioned this earlier, Preston scoring a huge victory against Justin Baldoni with the judge throwing out his countersuit because her case was also based on a civil claim. Now, don't worry if you don't understand this. Just know that everyone hates both of them. Woo!

And finally, Taylor Swift asking the law to intercede after an ex-con started claiming she's the mother of his child. 45-year-old drifter Brian Jason Wagner says he holds no ill will towards Swift, saying it was one night of passion and she left town without ever knowing he was pregnant. And that's how they were pregnant. All right, we will indeed try to find an answer to the question. And today it is as follows. Where is the basalt?

Where will you find the basalt? I'm going to go to, let's see, we got Dave who we're going to check in with. Hi, Dave, you're on the air, buddy. Hey, Preston, how in the hell are you? I'm good, buddy. How the hell are you? Great, man. Thank you. All right. Where is the basalt?

In the ocean. Yeah, that's right. Yes. You'll find the basalt in the ocean. And hang on the line, buddy. We're going to give you a pair of tickets for the NASCAR Cup Series Great American Gateway 400. Sunday, June 22nd at Pocono Raceway. It's time to start your summer as NASCAR returns on June 20th through the 22nd to the Triangle of Pocono. For more information and to get your tickets now, you can head to PoconoRaceway.com.

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But Sly Stone, one-time San Francisco DJ turned pop and funk music innovator, has died. He was 82 years old. Great song. I love this song. And I love that it's a long song. Yeah.

The family released a statement saying after a prolonged battle with a COPD and other underlying health issues, Sly passed away peacefully, surrounded by his three children, his closest friend, and his extended family. While we mourn his absence, we take solace in knowing that his extraordinary musical legacy

will continue to resonate and inspire for generations to come. After huge chart-topping success in the 1960s and 70s, Stone had become an enigmatic and largely reclusive figure plagued by homelessness,

and health issues as well. That's sad. Yeah. Especially since his daughter Sharon Stone was doing so well. That's not his daughter. That's not his daughter? Actually, when I saw the headline on the news this morning, I thought it said Sly Stallone had died, but it was Sly Stone. No, no, no, no. I'm okay. Yeah. Different folks for different folks. I'm not good at that. Sly sings Stone. Yeah.

What do you expect to pay for this amazing record package? Sliced loans, things fly and the families don't. So he also endured financial problems amid management disputes at one point winning a $5 million judgment for unpaid royalties that was later overturned. In one dire period, a report indicated that the Woodstock icon was living in a van in Los Angeles.

It's very sad because and he was ripped off quite a lot. There was a lot of sampling done of his music. But despite such misfortunes, the music created by the Texas born California transplant and is trendsetting, multiracial, multigendered Bay Area band. The family stone had never stopped being a touchstone for generations of musicians.

Among Stone's oft-covered but never-matched hits were I Want to Take You Higher, Hot Fun in the Summertime. I love that song. Another great song. Stan and the infectious and phonetically titled funk anthem Thank You. We played a little bit of Everyday People. And another great song is Dance to the Music. Another one. Dance to the music.

Great stuff. And they were, man, they had pageantry. That band, they were one of the first kind of glam funk bands to really put on costumes. And, of course, they influenced P-Funk, you know. Would it be safe to say without them there would be no Lisa Loeb?

I don't know. Maybe she was influenced by them. I have no idea. Maybe they influenced her. No, you're right. I mean, there was so much going up on the stage that you were always looking at different things. Stone's family noted that...

The musician had recently completed a screenplay for his life story. So we may see that. Yeah, we may yet get more info on that down the road. But yeah, they were they were a big deal when that band showed up. It was like the circus came to town, man. You know, if you were to who would you get? Who would you get to play him?

Wow, that's a really good question. Somebody who could do the singing on their own, I think. And you wouldn't use the original tracks? I don't know. I mean, because I like what Jamie Foxx was able to do with Ray. If you get somebody who's really talented, I think it's cool when they can do that. And obviously, Val Kilmer did that with The Doors. I think if they could get somebody who was just a really legit, great musician, you know...

I don't know. I wonder if like a Lenny Kravitz could pull off something like that. But he's a little old. But he's a little old for it as well. But, you know, who knows. But we'll have to see how that ends up rolling out. Good Morning America has announced the lineup for this year's summer concert series. New Kids on the Block. Now, go easy on me because I don't know some of the current artists. But Bia and G-Eazy. Nope. Okay. Okay.

Manuel Torezo. Nope. Good Charlotte. Yep. Is this the menu at Applebee's? Uh...

Could I get a Manuel Torezo, please? Medium rare. Loffy, Gloria Estefan, Dierks Bentley. Yeah, yeah. And Teyana Taylor are all set to, or Teyana, yeah, Teyana Taylor, that's what I said. That's what you said. Oh, thank you. Are all set. I have a conversation with my personality. Does he? Yeah, he does. To take the stage over the coming weeks. The new kids on the block kick things off.

This Thursday. And Teyana Taylor wraps up the series on August 29th. All the performances will broadcast live during Good Morning America, which airs from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on ABC. So they have their concert series. The Today Show has their concert series. I mean, they have these battling things out on outside, you know. Should we start a concert series? Remember, didn't we call leading up to the Super Bowl?

Our concert series. What were we doing? I don't remember. We were just having people drink and sing the Eagles fight song. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got some good ones. It was a concert series. We had G-Love and Lizzy Hale. We sure did. Who else did we have? Anybody else? The Hooters. The Hooters. Yep, that's correct. So, yeah. I forgot. Yeah, Wofat came in. I forgot we did our concert series. We had our own concert series. That was cool.

All right, and then one last story. Prince fans, get ready because new music is on the way. The artist's estate has announced that they are cracking open the vault of the artist's unreleased music. Wow. What if he is in there alive and it was a robot that passed away? Whoa. Then that would be awesome, right? I'm not saying that's a fact, but it's pretty damn near a fact. A boxed set edition of 1985's Around the World in a Day is reportedly set to come out.

Vinyl editions of 2015's Hit and Run Phase 1 and Hit and Run Phase 2 are also said to be in the works. Well, how influenced was he by...

Good question. I don't know. Prince would tell you what his influences were or not. You know what I mean? But I mean, again, no one would contest the fact that he is a singular musical talent. Prince was. But I mean, he had to have influences. Absolutely.

It says, you don't have to wait for brand new music from Prince as his estate has released a new acoustic version of his 1982 track Free, which is available to stream now if you would like to check that out.

All right, and there you go. That's what I have in the music news for you. What if he was a Doobie Brothers fan? That would be pretty cool. Probably. Maybe he watched What's Happening. Maybe he did. I don't really know. Which Doobie you be? All right, that is what I have in the entertainment, or I'm not in the entertainment. We're in the music news. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second when we return. We wrap up the program for the day, so stay with us. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.

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The police on 93.3 WNMR. It's everything that rocks. Roxanne. 1029. Actually, hold on. Wait. What? What? It's now 1030. Hey, hey.

There we go. I just wanted to go ahead and move right to that moment. You know, it's like one thing is just a little bit off, and it's like three or four seconds. It's like the odometer in your car. Yeah. Like you've got to drive around the block a couple times and see that roll over. Well, you don't really get that satisfaction that much anymore. No. Remember the actual tumblers, the rolling things? I just love that. The roll over. Yeah. Something like that. If you could catch it mid. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm just going to stop here. I'm going to stop the car on the highway. I would like to thank a few people who were a part of today's program. Number one, I want to congratulate actually

Our own Casey Boyd, because he won the Delco Legend Award. So people, to put this in context, you know, Cecil B. DeMille, the Cecil B. DeMille Award. He is the first Carol Burnett Award that is now given. He is the first legend in this series. Can we call it the Casey B. DeMille Award? Yeah. Casey Boyd DeMille Award. Yeah, Casey Boyd DeMille Award. I love that.

But this is really, really cool. And the fact that my buddy saw this, Peg DeGrasse, she's a writer for the Daily Times, wrote an article about the Delco Day Party, included the Delco legend thing. And my friends saw it and they screen captured it and then sent it to a group text. I think they get a kick out of this because they know what a piece of crap I really am in real life. So I think they're actually celebrating you because you really have been as successful.

fervent an advocate for Delco as anyone. Love it. So thank you to Al Zafiri and Hollywood Holbrook for stopping by this morning. The hosts of the Delco Live podcast and they are the organizers of Delco Day which technically is today. It's 610. Yeah. But they hold the party like the weekend as close to that date as possible. It makes sense. This past weekend.

Then we had, wow, Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers on the show this morning. We've been waiting to talk to that guy for a long, long time. They have a new album out. It's called Walk This Road. And Michael McDonald is back with everybody.

Pat and John and Tom from, you know, our earlier days of lineup. And then... Mickey, Bobby... And Michael from, you know, his time in the band. So they're all in the band together. And they're going to be performing Freedom Orchard Pavilion on August 13th with the Choral Reefer Band. That's awesome. Cool to have them by. And then thank you from NRG Energy, Dan McCutty, who's stuck on this morning. Woo-hoo!

Casey Marissa playing in NRG's 10th annual flag football game tomorrow afternoon. And it's not a public event, but it raises funds. And they're going to donate a lot of great money to places like CHOP and Big Brothers Big Sisters and Phil Abundance and all that. And we'll find out who the victor is. Have you ever won MVP? No. No. Wow. Yeah. Honestly, I thought that first year I should have. I threw, I think, nine touchdown passes in two games. But they gave it to Jervis because he caught three of them, I guess. So...

Okay. No, I'm not. Come on. I'm not sour. Not at all. You should have won that. We love Jervis, but come on. Yeah. Let's be real here. And then the next one they gave to Pat Gallen. The Delco legend. Yeah. They gave to Pat Gallen, which I'm happy for him because of what he was unable to do at the Papa Shot Challenge. So I'm happy for Pat Gallen. Come on. Come on.

Today has been Tattoo's Day. We got to give away our prize. And this prize, the $350 gift certificate, goes to Stephanie Thimodo. Yeah. From Glenside, Pennsylvania. Woo, woo.

Stephanie's going to get a $350 gift certificate for Floating World Tattoo and Piercing, which you can find at 1729 South Street in Philadelphia. Go and check out the artwork samples. Go to floatingworldtattoos.com or you can check them out on Instagram at floatingworldtattoos as well. So we'll need to do the letter of the day and I guess we can ask Casey to give that to us. You ready? I got you. All right. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

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