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What's going on, people? Welcome. Another day is here. We are too. And let's dive into the weather forecast, see how that's going to serve us today.

Much more beautiful start today. We have this gray, hazy thing yesterday. Now it's nothing but sunshine. That's going to be all day long. It's summertime. High of 85 degrees. Tomorrow, even warmer. Sunshine high 93. And then partly cloudy on Friday. We start a cooling trend after that. 86 degrees. Saturday, things change because we get some rain coming in. Scattered thunderstorms. High only 73. And then Sunday, some showers.

I have only 70. Sorry about that over the weekend and Father's Day and all that good stuff. But you know, it is what it is. And now, Kristen and Steve's News Update.

Today is June 11th, a Wednesday. Good morning. Mikey Sherrill, a four-term Democratic congresswoman and former Republican state representative Jack Cittarelli have won their party's nominations for New Jersey governor. Yesterday's results set the stage for one of this year's two competitive gubernatorial races that will serve as somewhat of a referendum on President Trump's job performance.

With New Jersey and Virginia being the only two governor races in the country this year, expect a lot of money to be spent and national attention on those states before next year's midterm elections. Sherelle, a former Navy helicopter pilot, beat five other Democratic candidates.

Chittarelli, who narrowly lost a 2021 bid for governor to Phil Murphy, won the nomination again with the help of Trump's endorsement. Turnout in both races broke records for New Jersey's gubernatorial primaries. I would like whoever wins to go about explaining to us why they're not called gubernators. Gouverneur. Honestly. The new gouverneur of New Jersey is. That's all I'm asking. Whoever wins, God bless, but explain why you're not the gouverneur. Goober.

SEPTA's Chestnut Hill line will shut down until September for bridge repairs. The temporary closures, which begin on Sunday, will stop service at nine regional rail stations and detour for bus routes. I was driving down 76 yesterday and there was a gigantic tractor trailer who had an enormous beam. I don't know what it was going through. Really? Yeah, I don't know if it was going in a building or if it was going in a bridge or whatever, but like...

That blows me away. When they transport stuff like that? How else are they going to do it? There's no other way. Casey, I saw some of those. I don't know where the one you saw was going, but I saw some of those yesterday. There was a video that was posted by some iron workers in Philadelphia. A bunch of them were going to the new cover over 95.

Oh, yes. So they're putting those iron beams all the way across 95 in order to have that park that they're going to build eventually. And I was wondering if like, you know, river is the best, you know, because listen, you got river, rail and roads, you know. At some point, you're going to, you have to take to the road for that. But I mean, obviously, yeah, anything, they're just enormous. Yeah. Depends where it's coming from. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No trains will run on the regional rail line from Sunday until Tuesday, September 2nd, because SEPTA is rehabilitating five bridges along the route between the Wayne Junction and Cresham Valley Drive, and nine stations along that line are going to lose service. To accommodate riders affected by the service loss, the Chestnut Hill West line will have expanded service while the Chestnut Hill East line is suspended. Five bridges in need of repairs cross Wayne Avenue in Germantown, Logan Street, and

at Wisterwoods Park, Chew Avenue, Mount Pleasant Avenue in East Mary, and Crescent Valley Drive in Chestnut Hill. Temporary detours and lane closures on nearby roads are likely, but shouldn't have a significant impact on traffic. Most of the bridges that are being rehabilitated were built in the late 1800s or early 1900s and are in need of modern upgrades.

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie is making a major contribution to autism research in Philadelphia, donating $50 million to create a new institute that will help change lives. A donation will establish the Lurie Autism Institute, a partnership between Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The gift from the Lurie family is the largest single donation to U.S. academic medical centers focused on autism research.

During a news conference yesterday, Laurie said, For 70 years, my family has been challenged by the presence of autism. Our brother has been an inspiration and a kind soul to all of us. And one in 31 children lives with autism spectrum disorder. The new center, which is the first of its kind, will connect scientists, clinicians, families, students, and donors, and intends to explore autism from all angles. Kevin Mahoney, who is the CEO of Penn Medicine, told reporters,

I can't say when the breakthrough will happen. Tomorrow, in a week, 20 years from now, but it is going to happen. And the goal is to understand genetics and biology surrounding the disorder, research neuroscience, explore speech and language processing, and assist in clinical trials. The Lurie family has been philanthropists in this field since 1977, and the Eagles Autism Foundation has raised $1,000.

$30 million for families with ASD, with the Autism Challenge, and leading the way for sensory-friendly rooms in NFL stadiums. Speaking of that, let's do sports this morning. ♪♪

What the f*** is that? All right, we got Nick with sports. What's up, man? The Phillies lost. What the f*** is this? They lost to the Chicago Cubs 8-4 last night at the ballpark. Ian Happ homered twice, including a two-run shot in the sixth inning to lead the Cubs to the win. Dansby Swanson, Happ, and Michael Bush each had solo shots off of rookie starter Nick Abel. What the f***?

What the f*** is that? Haps home run off of Tywon Walker, a two-out drive to right. Put the Cubs ahead to stay. The series wraps up this afternoon. Jesus Lozardo will get the start in the first pitch as scheduled for 105. Game three of the NBA Finals is tonight in Indianapolis. The Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder are tied at one game apiece and tip-off will be at 830. The Stanley Cup Finals continue tomorrow night in South Florida. The Panthers lead the series two games to one over the Edmonton Oilers. And the puck will drop at 8 o'clock. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs.

And that's what I have for you in sports this morning. All right. Thank you very much, Nick. Welcome, friend. Wednesday morning at week points. Let's see.

I was about to say it's about 18 minutes after 6. I normally don't give the time. But I did it anyway. We are right on the very edge of our, I believe, for presidency blood drive. It's tomorrow. Yes. Starts tomorrow, day one. This is the first time we've done a two-day version of this. So we are headed to Live Casino and Hotel Philadelphia tomorrow morning around this time. I don't know if we'll check in with him this early, but Jackie Bam Bam is going to be there. Yeah.

and he will be our liaison to what's happening. So hopefully you'll be a part of that. And then after the show, me and Steve are going to go make our donations there. And then Friday, the whole show is going to be at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks for day number two. And we will be broadcasting live. So will Pierre, and so will Brent Porsche. It's an all-day event, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. So we're hoping that you'll be a part of that. And you get the, I believe, for President Steve Blood Drive this year is by a listener, Kristen Kimball, who created this one. It's really cool.

And donators will also, or donors I should say, a President Steve Show tote bag from Win Donations. So that is tomorrow. Get yourself set for that. As far as today goes, we're going to be checking in with Fox Good Day. That's a Wednesday thing we do. We're also going to have this guest on, Henlo Bullfrog, who is part of the King of Drag, which is a new drag reality competition. So I looked up this person on Instagram. Casey sent their account over. Yeah.

And they do like horror drag. Like it's freaky stuff. It's like a riff on Edward Scissorhands that is really terrifying. But they're also an artist as well. And I also, and I have to be honest with you, and this is why I like to evolve as a human being. I didn't know the term drag king until this person's...

Yeah, I'm not familiar. You always hear drag queens. There's a drag king. We're looking at some of the pictures. Look at the one up to the right. That is some scary crap. Absolutely. We'll talk to Hemo Bullfrog.

In the 9 o'clock hour. And our friends from Iron Hill Brewery are stopping by today. So we're going to have good eats for not only us, but for you. Because we'll have some gift cards to give away. And they're bringing in, like, they always bring in, like, a ridiculous amount of food. Yep. So we're going to share that with the staff here at WMMR and our sister stations.

But they've got locations all over, ironhillbrewery.com. So we'll do some giveaways with them. And speaking of giveaways, we will give away some tickets for our Hershey Park live broadcast, which is coming up on Thursday the 26th. This is going to be the next thing you know we're going to be saying, hey, tomorrow we're going to be at Hershey Park. I know. It's crazy. So we will hand out tickets, and you can win them here on the air with us, but you can also win them on WMMR.com. Click on the contest page or...

Find the Hershey Park link, and it's another shot for you to win that way. So we've got a bunch going on. We'll go ahead and take a break. Come back in a second. The entertainment report is indeed on the way with a stupid question and stuff to give away there, too. So we'll come right back with that. Stay for a few.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All righty then. Thanks, Marissa. So we're going to give away for the Super Question Prize a pair of tickets as MMR rocks Gary Clark Jr. This is going to be July 3rd, Parks Casino Excite Center. And interesting question. Never knew this one. What is crossed with a blackberry and a loganberry to produce a boysenberry? Huh?

That is a good one. Berry. Just want to say that one more time. All right. 610-660-9333. Let's see if you know the answer. What is crossed with a blackberry and a loganberry, which I've never heard of, to produce a boysenberry? Call if you know. Are you sure that's correct? I thought you added a marvenberry to that. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Okay. Don't nobody go nowhere. Okay. Because we will have your chance to win.

Prize right now. Don't nobody go no way. You know Logan Berry better as Wolver Berry. Wolver Berry, yeah. All right, so I'm going to go through birthdays today, Wednesday, the 11th day of June, while we're waiting for you to call in with your answer. We'll start with Adrienne Barbeau. Oh, my God. Always loved Adrienne Barbeau. It is a big birthday for her today. She turns 80 years old. Wow.

And she goes back to Maud and Swamp Thing. Swamp Thing and the... No, not the Mist, the Fog. Escape from New York. Yeah. She's a DJ in the Fog. Yeah. And was married to John Carpenter for a while. Yes. And really, I think she started as a...

As a go-go girl. Okay. Yeah. Years ago. Very bucks on her. She was known for that and she definitely played to that. Absolutely. I remember there was a great line in Maud where Maud turns to her and she goes, I bought you your first training bra and then you broke training. Yeah. Why are we playing Feels So Good? Because she was in Cannonball Run and Chuck Mangione played, it was kind of,

The score, if you will. The theme of Cannonball Run. But we didn't have the regular one, so I just grabbed any sort of Chuck Mangione that I could find. Gotcha. All right, well, she is at 80. Like I said, it's also Peter Dinklage's birthday today. He's working on something new. Don't know.

Yeah, and somebody was just talking about being in a movie with him. Was he the one, I don't want to say solely responsible, but kind of responsible for these dwarves in Snow White? Yes. Okay. Yeah, he complained about them going with shorter, you know... With real-life people. With real-life people. There was a huge contingent of...

Yeah. Yeah.

Anything he's in, he's solid. He is 56 years old today. Casey, you could have played the Marvel theme on this one, too. I could have. When he shows up in, is it Infinity War? It is. No, yeah. He's in one of the X-Men movies because he plays Tasker. He's the giant in Infinity War. You're right. On the star where Thor has to reopen the portal.

so they can heat that thing up. That's correct. It's hard to remember all the crap. It's the dying star that they heat that up with. Yeah, so he turns 56 years old today. Joshua Jackson is a year older. Dawson's Creek. Dawson.

And he turns 47 years old today. Who was he married to? Who's the famous? No, not Gabriella Union. There was a famous actress. They were together for a while. I don't think they're together any longer. About a year and a half ago. I can't remember. He's 47. Was he on the movie The Skulls? Yeah. The Secret Society. Diane Kruger. Diane Kruger? Yeah, you'd recognize her from Inglourious Basterds. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right.

All right, also turning year older is Hugh Laurie. Now, this is wild because my youngest, my 18-year-old...

for whatever reason, has fallen in love with the show House. Oh, wow. And is watching all of it right now. Yeah. I come in and every day, House is on TV. I'm like, wow, where did you get that from? I don't know. I noticed a bumper sticker on their car and I had to ask about that. It's House bumper sticker. Yeah. So, I don't know. So, you know, Hugh Laurie comes from a long history of, uh,

comedy he was more comedic actor and so he's playing this quirky character in house which he became very famous for but if you go back he goes back generations of playing you know comedic parts he turns uh 66 today it's also shia labeouf's birthday today uh shia turns 39 years old uh transformer is part of uh yeah his uh his credits um he's uh he's a handful just

Do it! Do it! Yes, more. Please. Do it! Just do it! Just do it! He's a little tightly wound. Yes, he is. You know, he's had such a checkered sort of past. And a lot of it has to do with like mental illness and then some other things that are just, you know, unsavory. Just do it!

But he's such a good actor. He is a good actor. You know, he's really good in Fury and he is a terrific actor. The first time I saw him was on the HBO series Project Greenlight. And they were doing this movie and he was a tightly wound...

He was in that movie Holes, too, is he not? He was a kid actor. Yeah, a kid actor. He's always been sort of tightly wound. Very much so. Did you guys see Peanut Butter Falcon? No. I did. It's really good. It was good. He's excellent in that. Yeah, Casey, he's one of those guys where you kind of root for him, but man, he's got some issues. Yeah. Even in that movie, Nick, his character...

was tightly wound. He's supposed to be the good guy. I'm like, that guy's kind of a douche. By the way, Joshua Jackson, I knew he wasn't married to Diana Kruger. I think they dated for a long time, but he and Jodie Turner-Smith

recently got divorced within the last year and a half or so. Maybe that's it. Yeah. All right, so we have from the world of music, Mr. Frank Beard celebrating a birthday today. Drummer or ZZ Top, he's just doing it. Recently had a health issue. They had to cancel some shows, but I think those are back on now. How hard is it to play drums? There is percussive stuff going on right now. Yeah, he's hitting the rim of the stage. Yeah, but how hard is that? Yeah.

Do you know what I mean? When there's no beat. Do you have time for a quick lesson? Wait, what do you mean there's no beat? Meaning like... He's playing the beat. Okay. Well, that's what I mean. Like there's no... It's not your classic bass drum, snare drum, tom-tom, you know? I'll show you. I got sticks right here, but he's just going... It's easy. That's all that is? Yeah. It doesn't sound like that to me. Like when they're playing together...

Yeah, they're just going... Okay. Tomorrow, we'll do a shuffle beat. Tune in with us here on Preston and Steve's drum lesson. This song, how did they do that? But I get what you're saying. If you don't play an instrument or you don't understand...

He hears it in his head and he's playing it, correct? Yeah. That's basically it. Let's just move on. Yeah, so, and actually that particular beat is pretty cool. It's called the Texas Shuffle that he's playing. And once it gets going, he's playing the shuffle beat with his left hand. The shuffle beat is, it sounds like that, that, that, that. But he's doing it with one hand, he's doing it with his left hand. It's pretty cool. And the right hand is playing quarter notes like that. Yeah, I guess it doesn't seem as... No, no, no.

I guess it's deliberate. It just sort of sounds like it. Oh, no, he's... No, no, no. It's very specific. Yeah, beat. He's not just... I'm just going to throw my hands out there and see what happens. Hey! That sounds good. We're going to go with that. I can't believe we spent this much time on that beat. Anyway, Frank Beard is a great drummer, and he turns 76 years old. Another great musician, Donny Van Zandt, turns a year older, and he is 73. All right, let's see if we can get an answer to...

our stupid question this morning, which is, what is crossed with a blackberry and a loganberry to produce a boysenberry? And we are going to go to Mike, see if he knows the answer. Mike, good morning. Hey, how are you guys? Good, buddy. Alright, so what is crossed with a blackberry and a loganberry to produce a boysenberry?

Red raspberry. Raspberry, yes, that's correct. Hold on, dude. It's a lot of berries. We're going to set you up with a pair of tickets as MMR rocks. Gary Clark Jr., July 3rd at Parks Casino Excite Center. Tickets from all upcoming events at parkscasino.com. And you have to be 21 or older to attend. So we'll start with the Blake Lively stuff.

She recently won a major court victory when a judge dismissed Justin Baldoni's $400 million defamation suit against her. Ryan Reynolds in the New York Times talked about that yesterday, obviously. But Baldoni's lawyer, Brian Friedman.

has now responded to the recent developments, and it's as you would predict. Yes, of course. They said Ms. Lively and her team's predictable declaration of victory is false. So the lawyer didn't say, oh, we're very sorry. Friedman emphasized that the court allowed them to amend four of the seven dismissed claims to showcase additional evidence and refined allegations.

Freeman went on to say, stating, Ms. Lively's own claims are no truer today than they were yesterday. Baldoni's lawyer concluded by saying he looks forward to taking Lively's deposition as the case proceeds. He said, we march forward with the same confidence that we had when Ms. Lively and her cohorts initiated this battle.

So they're ready to... We march forward into the glowing light of exculpatory evidence. That is right. Do you want to learn about a drumbeat or anything like that, Mr. Lawyer? Quick question, and I may approach the bench. Your Honor, at the beginning of this particular ZZ Top song, there is a cadence that I can't quite get my mind around. I didn't hear a cadence. That's why I asked the question.

No, it's not you. It's him. He's asking. The judge is like, excuse me? You in the background. We're going to retire to my chambers. I'm going to explain it to this. So if I'm grasping this correctly, your question is, how did a musician who's a drummer play the drums? Yes.

All right, moving on. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's daughter, Zahara, has sparked engagement rumors after being seen wearing a large diamond ring on her left hand while out and about in Hollywood. She was photographed leaving a restaurant with Elijah Cooper, a Morehouse College student and actor who also co-founded the Tints streetwear brand.

Jolie's and Pitt's representatives did not comment on the sighting when asked by Page Six. Zahar has publicly, of course, distanced herself from her father, even going so far as to drop his last name when joining her sorority in 2023.

Zahara had attended the Golden Globes with her mother this year. Do you pay attention to wedding rings and rings on people's fingers? And if you see an actress? Yeah, sometimes. Yeah, I rarely do. It's not something I don't occasionally I'll wear my my wedding ring. It's a clatter ring. I find it gets caught on things a lot. And that sort of annoys me. Marissa? My single friends. It's the first thing they look at. Oh, really? Yeah. OK. It's just because we've been married so long. You've been married so long, too. But like some of those guys, it is.

top of mind all the time. Interesting. I notice it, and especially if a woman's wearing a football size ring, you're like, oh my God, look at that. Where'd you get that honker? So this is very interesting. Trace Cyrus

publicly slammed his father, Billy Ray Cyrus, in a harsh Instagram post calling him, quote, washed up, delusional, and so hungry for fame it's pathetic. Well, it is Father's Day. Is this the same child that, I mean, has been outspoken about him for quite a while? All right, all right.

Trace accused Billy Ray of skipping his grandmother's funeral despite his daughter paying $60,000 for a private jet for him. I think he called her gum gum breast. I'm so sorry. Trace has further insulted his dad calling him quote, listen to this, the lamest man to ever walk the planet Earth. Wow.

And saying that he's embarrassed to have ever idolized him. And Trace added, I refuse. This is great. I refuse to be a washed up, delusional, evil person when I'm old like you. So, I mean, dude is going at it. From my vantage point, it seems like there's some friction. Yeah.

Do you think so, maybe? How did you dissect that? Where did you come to that conclusion? There seems to be something. There's a subtext there. He also mocked Billy Ray's hair, describing it as, quote, a homeless hairstyle, which it looks bad. It looks bad for him at his age. Listen,

You do you, but I don't think it looks that good. Elizabeth Hurley does, clearly, though. Yeah, the feud follows years of family turmoil, though Miley has reportedly repaired her relationship with Billy Ray recently. So you're all good? We're all good. Okay. So, wow. It's not holding back at all. Yeah, yeah. He's clearly had some issues with his kids. Yep.

So remember when everybody thought Glenn Powell and Sidney Sweeney were a thing, even though both were in dedicated relationships, only for them to admit that it was a PR ploy to promote their movie, Anyone But You. If you don't, Glenn's ex, Gigi Paris, certainly does.

On yesterday's Too Much podcast, she explained that she was blindsided by the whole thing. She said, I had two options. I could either pretend like I was going to go along with everything and have everyone wonder, like, are they hooking up? Are they not hooking up? Is she okay with this?

And she recalled feeling shattered when the rumor mill cranked up. She said, like, you just don't make a fool out of someone that you've been with for over three years, talking about forever with. Just have some decency, you know. And she eventually took the situation as a cue to leave. She said, no, I'm actually not okay with this. And I'm walking away. I wonder if he actually said to her, by the way, you're going to see stuff in...

the trades. This is, this is a thing. This is a manipulation. We're trying to, you know, uh, fan the flames that we're actually having a relationship to sell this rom-com. Did he ever say that to her? Uh, I don't know. Uh, but she said that's what she decided to do. So I, I found a picture of the two of them together. She's stunningly beautiful. Yeah, of course. But they were together for a while and they decided to bail on him. He's got that new series coming out where he plays the, uh, the, the, the football player. Oh yeah. Yeah. The comedy. Uh,

Is it the one where he's a private investigative investigator or something? He uses disguises? No, he uses disguises because he's a disgraced quarterback. And so he goes and tries to walk on somewhere. I didn't know that's what that was about. Okay. And Tony Ascenda is behind that series. Right. Chad Powers. That's it. All right.

All right, listen to this. Flip or flop star Tarek El Moussa got involved in an actual physical fight in Las Vegas last week, and he got the better of his opponent. He knocked him out. Wow. Despite that, he managed to avoid arrest, though he was cited for battery over the incident. According to reports from witnesses, El Moussa delivered a knee to the man's head, which knocked him out.

though the alleged victim reportedly refused medical attention once he came to. A source said that he was apparently protecting, El Mousa was protecting his elderly father after a man allegedly got out of line with his dad. Your old dad's hot.

What'd you say? He held his own. Yeah. He stood up for him. Is that the guy you don't like, Case? No, no. I like him. I hate his ex-wife. Who's that? Elmouse or whatever her name is. The really gorgeous one that everybody went gaga over at the beginning. She's in that picture that you're looking at. Christina. Okay. Yeah, Christina Hack, right? She seems bereft of a personality. And honestly, no, no, no. She's got a big personality. Does she? And I don't like to use the word hate. Okay. Because...

Despise? Well, no, no, no. It would imply that maybe I think I'm better than her and I don't think I'm better than her. I just don't care how she carries herself. You bet you that. And I never did. But while they were married, all of that sort of stuff. Just not my vibe. And you know what, Nick? She probably wouldn't like me very much either. Well, you're being fair about it. Yeah. All right. The White Lotus star Amy Lou Wood apparently has a new bum bow.

The Daily Mail printed pics of the actor getting affectionate over the weekend with her Film Club co-star Adam Long. Is that a new movie? I don't know what Film Club is, Steve. No one talks about it. I know that. Yeah, it's in parentheses. That's rule number one and two, apparently. The two were pictured kissing and cozying up to each other in an outing in London, though reps for both actors have not commented on that. I think she's...

I think she's sexy. I think she's, you know, much was made about her grill, but I think she looks attractive. Yeah, she's got a big gap in her teeth. Yeah, it's kind of buck teeth, but she's really, really cute. Case, do we have this clip of George Takei? Steve sent this over. I have not seen it yet, but I'm sure Marissa's wearing it. All right, I'll get started on the story, and then she can pop that in if we have it. But for George Takei of Star Trek fame.

Coming out helped him feel like his complete self, even if he did so later in life. The Star Trek alum who is now 88 came out as gay two decades ago when he was 68. It's a decision that he described to USA Today when reflecting on the moment as one that helped him feel like his whole self.

He's 88. Isn't that wild? Yeah, here's the clip of him. It wasn't just protective of my acting career, but also guilt. I was protecting my career, my job opportunities, and there were guys and gals forsaking me.

All that. So you did it for them. They were doing it for me. He said, it feels liberating. He said, I don't have to be on my guard, kind of mentally fencing and saying what I want to say, but without giving myself away. I developed that skill, but now I don't need to. I can be candid and forthright. He came out in 2005...

A move he said was prompted by then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoing a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in California. Though he'd already been with his now husband, Brad Altman, for nearly two decades at the time, he said that he felt like he could never be his whole self. He said, here I am protecting my job, my career, what I want to do, while others have the same difference that I did, were sacrificing.

all that actively engaging with larger society and making progress. So, um, they got married in 2008. Um, and, uh, Nichelle Nichols was the maid of honor. Of course, she's from Star Trek. That's right. That's right. There's a great documentary about them, those two and their, um, you know, uh, Brad, uh, and, uh,

George. George. Going to the convention routes and so on and so forth. And they're doing the thing that anyone who is with their significant other in a car driving will do. And a lot of it, Preston, Brad is driving and George is in the passenger seat and there's a bag of snacks open and he's driving. He'll just go...

And open up his mouth. And he just puts the snacks in there. I love it. He had a really funny line last week, Takei did, when the Musk-Trump feud was happening. And it was next to Trump and Musk, Shatner and I look like adoring newlyweds.

Love George Takei. All right. Also love Bella Ramsey. And she was on Jimmy Kimmel. And we have a clip of her talking about plans for season three of Last of Us. Here we go. It has been a while. We just, well, we know that the show ended with a big cliffhanger. The big, like, secret cliffhanger, right? Yeah. The first season or the second?

I mean, the second season. And now you are here to tell us everything that is going to happen in the third season. Yeah, exactly. That's why they brought me here. Do you know what's going to happen in the third season? Sure. You do. OK. All right. Sorry.

All right, sort of is what they say. Love that show and great performer, by the way. All right, so let's see. James Gunn has confirmed that there's a new Wonder Woman movie in the works. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, the DC Studios co-chief shares that a movie starring the superhero is being written right now.

The movie is apparently separate from and in addition to the previously announced HBO series about Wonder Woman's home of, I don't know, how do you pronounce it? The Sheik.

What's it? Not Kashyyyk. Kashyyyk is where the Wookiees live. The Wookiees live. It's Themyscira? Themyscira. Yes, I never knew how to pronounce it right. The project is slow moving, but it is moving, according to Gunn. And one of them, of course, was last played by Gal Gadot. Who did a great job. She was great. She just got underserved by that crappy 1984. It was a lousy movie.

Rochelle Brosnahan is suiting up, but not for Superman. After playing Lois Lane in James Gunn's Super Reboot, the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star is headed to Apple TV Plus to lead Presumed Innocent Season 2. Oh, did you guys watch Season 1? No. Jake Gyllenhaal, right? Yeah. It was good. But I ain't never seen the first of the original Presumed Innocent with Harrison Ford. I love that movie. Yeah.

She will also executive produce the legal drama, which comes from heavy hitters David E. Kelly and J.J. Abrams. Well, there you go. Along with Jake Gyllenhaal. The new season is based on Dissection of a Murder by Joe Murray, but plot details are still secret. Season one, led by Gyllenhaal, remained a reimagined Scott Turow's

Classic thriller like you guys are talking about, a murder that shakes a Chicago prosecutor's office. Casey, you know who's great in that movie? It's Brian Dennehy. And the female lead that Harrison Ford falls in love with is terrific. Bonnie Bedelia is Harrison Ford's wife. It's really, it holds up. I think you'd like it. All right. Yeah, it's a really compelling movie with an excellent plot twist. Yeah, it's one of, it's sort of an underserved Harrison Ford movie. All right.

Eric Kripke has wrapped up plenty of shows, but the Boys finale has him sweating. He asked, how do you tie up the stories? How do you do it in a way that is emotional and satisfying? His gold standard for nailing the series end, he says, is breaking bad.

asking the writers themselves, Kripke revealed, they said, oh, we had a list of loose ends, just a list of loose ends on our board, and then when it came time to do the final season, we would just start checking them off. Kripke's aware of the pressure, adding, you could have the greatest show for years, but if you stiff that ending, they go, oh, well, maybe that show wasn't that good. Well, he knows about this because there was a point in time where that show, Supernatural, which I loved,

was supposed to wrap up around the fifth or sixth season, Preston. And then it came back on because it was so popular. And they melted for like another four or five years. Wow. And it kept having storylines that looped back and repeated. And I'm like, oh, this sucks. So the fact that they're staying resolute and wrapping up the series is great. And I'll say this again. I hope that they don't feel so compelled to have to go with what the F moments are.

As they did in the last season. Yeah. It was too much. Yeah. Even the season before that is where I kind of fizzled out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it was just happening every single episode. Just advance the story. Yeah, agreed. Chef and television personality Jada De Laurentiis is returning to the small screen with a new reality show. Jada in the Kitchen. And by the way, I had to look up. That is how you pronounce her name. Jada? Jada. It's not Giada or Giada. It's Jada. Jada.

It's not Kashish? Not Kashik, no. It stars her as she works with designer Eric Garcia to surprise families with their dream kitchen makeover. So you're doing a kitchen makeover. Yes, we are. Jada tells People Magazine she hopes to celebrate and empower incredible home cooks.

with the show and wants to give them a space that not only supports their talent, but also inspires them every time they walk in. You ruined our kitchen. It's less about cooking and more about transformation, she said. Why is the sink on the ceiling? She said we focus on building dream kitchens from the ground up, incorporating design, construction, and of course, every kitchen gadget you could dream of. It's been fun, so that will premiere. Day one demolition.

That will premiere on Prime Video on June 23rd. You know what? Those shows, they get me when they do the, you know... You got a makeover of this? Yeah, yeah. I agree. We did.

kitchen makeover years ago when we were in Manioc. All right, and then one last story. Simpsons creator Matt Groening has revealed the character in the show that is actually based on him.

While accepting the Honorary Crystal Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this week, Groening revealed who best represents him. He said, I'll tell you a little secret. It's Milhouse. Milhouse. Yeah. All right. And now Milhouse, of course, is the blue-haired, glasses-wearing, and somewhat hapless friend of Bart Simpson. It might surprise some people. And I didn't know this. The core of Simpson's characters are based on people in Groening's life. His own parents were named Milhouse.

Homer and Marge. And he has two sisters named Lisa and Maggie, among many other family members whose names that he has used in the show as well. His initials are in Homer's hair. Yeah, that's right. And here, right? Yeah. But isn't there a character that is Matt Groening on the show? He's like a recluse...

I don't know. I don't remember. It's only been on for 500 seasons. Well, I got to tell you, I haven't seen a new episode in probably a decade. In case we watch it every Sunday if it's a new episode. Yeah. By the way, Nick has a picture of Groening, and if you take a look at him, he's got the little round specs. Yeah. That's what he wears. So I had no idea that that was based on him, but that's what he says. There's a line in one of the episodes where Milhouse is, things are going well for me. He just goes...

everything's coming up Milhouse. When things are clicking for me every now and then, I'm like, yeah, everything's coming up Milhouse. All right, let's play some clips for you, my friend.

Real Housewives of Miami returns tonight with friendship shakeups and new bonds between the ladies. And in this clip, cast member and event planner extraordinaire Gertie Abrea talks about her breast cancer diagnosis. Here we go. I'm doing amazing. I'm thriving. I'm a year of cancer free. And I didn't want to grow my hair back ever.

Only because, first of all, I was having a hard time with some spots around here. Anyway, second of all, I sweat a lot because I'm on menopause and I get half lashes every five minutes. And then I just wanted to self-empower myself and feel beautiful and take my power back. We don't need no hair. Our man loves us just the way we are. Yeah! I assume you pronounce your name Gertie. It's G-U-E-R-D-Y. I'd go with that. So Real Housewives of Miami season seven will premiere tonight. You'll be able to check that out on Bravo. Here's our next clip.

Live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon stays true to the original series. And in this clip stars Mason Thames, or Thames, and Nico Parker.

Talk about preparing for the roles. A couple months before we even filmed anything, me and Mason watched all three movies, but back to front. So we were like, we watched the third one, and we were like, we should watch the second one. I love the second one. And then we were like, no, we should watch the first one. So we watched all of them in the wrong order. And then I remember us watching the first one at the end, and we both kind of sat in silence afterwards being like, oh my God, we have to do this. And that was kind of very scary. Shut up. Yeah.

How to Train Your Dragon will hit theaters this weekend. It actually looks really good. Well, they did some smart things. Everything looks the way it's supposed to look. So you're not getting this jarring change. And people who have seen it, the advance word is they get the spirit right. They get a lot of it right. And I loved...

The first one was sort of a revelation. I was not expecting to be as invested in it as I was. Well, and it wasn't Pixar. No. So you're like, okay, Pixar is the only one that hits a home run every single time. And then it came out, and I remember watching. I'm like, as I'm watching, I'm like, this is okay. Yeah. This is actually way better than I thought it was going to be. And then it turned out to just be one of the greats. Love it. And I think anyone who's a pet owner has, you know, you have that connection. Yep. Yep. Yep.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right. Thank you very much, Marissa. We were having a chat yesterday, actually, about this thing that we're going to bring up now. And Casey was in the middle of a conversation that sparked the whole thing. Yeah.

You were at graduation? Oh, man, I've been at so many graduation parties over the last month or so. But yeah, this one in particular, I was sitting down talking to some other parents. And these parents had kids of high school age and young college age. And the topic of fake IDs came up. And so when I was in school, friends of mine got a fake ID. This

This person came to the dorm room. Yeah. And I think it might have been like 50 bucks a head. Everyone was alerted. Everybody was alerted. Someone was on premises that could handle your fake ID. That so-and-so is going to be there. Right. So you would go, give them your 50 bucks, take your picture. And I didn't get one. And I'm not saying this like I'm, you know, like I really, I honestly didn't get one. I think it probably had more to do with me not wanting to spend 50 bucks on something. That might not work. Yeah.

But so the funny thing, so everybody, like I know probably at least 20 people that got this fake ID. And when they would go to the bar, they would have to like stagger going in because they all had the same home address. Are you serious? They were all New Jersey licenses and they were all from the same town, the same street, the same number of houses. Oh.

That was a common thing back then. There'd be some information that because they couldn't stagger the info as easily as they can say today. And so you got your template and it would apply to a multitude of people. That's hilarious. And so when my wife was in college, totally different college, her friends did the same exact thing, but they would all meet at a room at the Adam's Mark Hotel.

And it was pretty bizarre. She said... It's pretty seedy stuff. Well, they were saying... Her friends were saying that the people running this operation weren't the actual people running the operation. They were younger. They had 16-year-olds running this operation. So the people that were actually running the operation wouldn't get...

Right, so they probably hired them as intermediaries. So that should be, if you're a kid, you're going to feel more comfortable walking in and seeing another kid there than some guy who's 58 or whatever. But the real topic of conversation came with how easily accessible fake IDs are today. You don't have to leave your house. It all gets done on the internet. That apparently the IDs swipe. So when they swipe it, it comes up like...

Legit? I had no idea about this case, so I did a little deep dive. There is an article just recently in the New York Times that says a generation of unbeatable fake IDs is bedeviling bouncers. Holograms, engravings, and just the right polycarbonate make a perfect driver's license from anywhere you want. Wow, that's crazy. That is insane. That's going to that level? To that level of replication. Casey, you said like the magnetic strip and everything works? Uh-huh.

that's i mean that's that's dangerous yeah that's beyond just uh you know like fudging the uh yeah the the date of birth on there go right in mclovin wow yeah uh yeah born in hawaii yeah um it's really interesting case of that this happened at a conversation uh at a graduation party with you guys because it did for us as well and um

The advances in technology are unbelievable at this point. And so my son is 18. We've talked about this a bunch, but all of our kids are graduating from high school. And it's a thing again. It's a trend to go get fake IDs for a long time. I think kids didn't really need them or want them or whatever. And all of a sudden, they are extremely popular again. When I was 18, 19, 20 years old, we didn't really...

want them or need them. And I think we would just go to parties. If I was with friends that liked drinking alcohol, we would go to the parties where the alcohol was. And just get it there. Yeah, because Steve, we didn't...

for the most part, intend on going to bars when we were underage. And then when I went to college, I went to college in a pretty small town in central PA, and the parties weren't at bars then either. So for high school and college, it was no need. And then I only went to an underage bar, or as an underage person, I went to a bar called the Bricks Keller in D.C. A bunch of friends just walked me in with a group of people, and then there was a bar in West Philadelphia that just did not care and did not card at all.

so my friends and I could go there. But that was it. Yeah, there was a bar in Southwest Philly and West Philly and then another one on South Street. What was this West Philly one called? Do you remember? Was it Murphy's or something like that? No. Okay.

Uh, there was karaoke bar that I know of under ages. No, when I was in high school and I never went to it, but I, my friends would go to the karaoke, they called it. And that was a bar in West Philadelphia. But again, like there was a, there was a bar and, and, uh, same thing with you, Nick at college, there was no reason really to leave campus. Right. Uh, so did you, did you, so you didn't have a fake ID, but you certainly had friends. I had,

All my friends had fake IDs. I didn't drink. Yeah. So, I mean, I was seldom going to the bar in that scenario. I didn't get a fake ID until I was 20. And I didn't get it in the same way. Like, it was just somebody else's expired license. And that's all. You know, and this person kind of looked like me. Right. You know, and that's how I did it. But, like, yeah. You know, during the summers...

There was like one bar in Donko that my friends and I knew about, and we would go there. And the bartender, it was funny because when we eventually turned 21, she was like, you mother effers. She's like, you guys weren't 21? No! No! I had a whole bunch of fake IDs. I had fake, fake ones. I had ones that I'd gotten from other people, gotten the ID down. What was the most you paid for one, Marissa? Geez, Steve, I don't remember. 50 was the price I usually heard. Yeah, that's right.

They were like that. But when I was getting them, they weren't like... We weren't going to a hotel to get them. We were actually going to legit, quote-unquote, stores. In Philly? In Philly. Yeah. And getting IDs. So the first one I got when I was 18... No, I was actually 17 because we were visiting my friend's...

in Loyola and in New Orleans, they had over under bars. So we were getting IDs to say that we were 18. And moments before my friend took her photo, I looked at her and we had like, you know, we would manic panic our hair at some points. And I was like, oh my God, put your hair in a ponytail because your roots are going to be the exact same length as your photo on your ID. Like, it'll be obvious that you took this photo this week. So we did that. And then the second one, um,

I think that one we got in Chinatown somewhere. The second one, my mom took me to get a fake ID. What? Yeah. Wow. Do tell. It's deviant. I know, right? Honda. My mom is pretty awesome. Conrad there. We went to some place. I think it was on like Spring Garden Street. Like right around...

It probably doesn't exist now, right? It's been like 30 years. Not 30 years. It was right around like Philadelphia Community College. And we just went in. I picked out Michigan. There was literally a book. And I was like... Where do I want to be from? Yeah, exactly. I think it was when I was going to school in Boston. And I picked Michigan. Maybe because they didn't...

scan them yet or it didn't have a hologram but the person kind of nudged me and was like Michigan's a good one to get. And we walked home and my dad didn't find out until like five years ago. And what was his reaction when he found out? He was still shocked. He was mad a little bit. Apparently Casey you were saying that some of your friends were saying, a lot of them were saying I'm pretty sure my kid has a fake ID. Yeah. It's kind of a rite of passage. I'm wondering though if the motivation mainly is to just to be able to

purchase as opposed to going to a bar. I think that's it. I was too afraid to do the go to the bouncer, fake ID thing, get in trouble, maybe the cops are there, which they wouldn't be, but I was paranoid anyhow, so I never did it. But

we would jump at the chance for someone to buy it for us. Or who had a fake ID who could go and purchase the booze and then we would go have our own party wherever we were going to do that. So think about the ramifications of this. If you are a bouncer in this day and age, what...

What, since you know that, I believe the law is, you know, you're still culpable. The bar is culpable. What are you dealing with, you know, when you're having to encounter these fake IDs? By the way, here's a text that says, Murphy's just needed to show Penn student IDs to get in. That's where we went. It was in West Philly. You could walk there from Penn's campus. Wow. And it was super easy. And all you had to do was be with a Penn student and you got in no problem.

There was a bar that we would go to on Thursday nights because it was like one of those $5 you get in, $0.25 drinks. It was in Phoenixville. It's not there anymore. But not only did I use a student ID, I used my buddy Trey's student ID. It wasn't even my picture. And they were like, okay, you're good. Yeah.

It says here you were killed in Vietnam. No, but it wasn't even a driver's license. It was an assigned ID that wasn't my picture, but it just had somebody else's birth date on it and they let it go. So get this. It says in this article, Preston, it says, shoddy fake IDs no longer cut it and a new breed of counterfeiters is serving the underage drinking market. They're products which reap mischief.

millions for them include holograms barcodes and the laser engraving that fools the electronic scanners most used by bar owners here's a text that says i'm a bouncer they have fake ids now that will scan if you're using them uh and he said it's getting refused the id scan he said it is getting ridiculous fake ids are so realistic makes my job that much harder yeah and i i'm curious as to like

with Homeland Security and stuff like that. Are they getting fake IDs? No, no. I mean, are there larger repercussions? Yes. Yeah. Not just like, I'm going to confiscate this. Get out of here, you little scallywag. Like, no. I'm going to the nuclear bomb store. Have you guys noticed, I don't know how often you're going to bars that are doing this, but a lot of bouncers will scan an ID, see that it pops up, and they'll hold it to the camera.

And it's kind of like proof. Like, I carted this person. You can zoom in. You can look at the photo. It looks like them. There is nothing that says that this isn't them. To absolve them from the legality? Yeah. Marissa, I haven't been to a bar where they're actually asking you for identification as you walk in. Hey, kid. Hey, kid. I don't know how. That's the worst thing.

Hey, you can't come back here. Hey, listen, is it currently harder to get into a Costco than it is to a bar underage? I don't know. Because you can't even get into Costco without scanning your card first. That's right, man. That's a good question. All right. We got some calls coming in. I'm going to go to, let's see, we have Kate who's jumping in first. Hey, Kate, morning. Morning. How are you guys? Good. What's going on, Kate?

Yeah.

I understand where you're coming from, but don't get caught. That's what a concerned mother says. Make sure the heat doesn't come down on you. That's funny. That's hilarious. They look identical. Yeah. So at that point, you would be easily fooled by it, correct? Oh, absolutely. Hey, Kate, with that, since you were a mother allowing your children to have fake IDs, did you lay down any ground rules about consuming? No.

Oh, of course. Yeah. There's no falling down drunkenness and there's no driving. All right. And at least you did that. OK. Yeah, exactly. Where are they going? Who are they with? Yeah. It's not like that. But but so they're they're how old now? Now they're 20 and 23. 20 and 23. Is a 20 year old still using the fake ID? Yes. And sometimes she confuses it. Right. Do you know how they got it?

Through a friend. Through a friend, yeah, yeah. I don't think it was that expensive, maybe like $40. Okay, so it's still about the same price range. Thanks, Kate. Appreciate it. I'm just wondering where you go about...

getting this new high-tech legit will pass any test id idchief.com what is it idchief.com yeah nick he's right because in this article progresses and says a lot of this can be conducted online there's even an instagram account so uh teenagers if you're listening right now go to id id chief and um the bad idea to say that oh yeah i know man but they're gonna find it anyway

Do you remember that story? A listener texted this in back in 2008, 2009 when Kenan's got shut down. Absolutely. Yeah. They had a hard time for a good year. The serious fines that happened as a result. It's a nightmare. And if you...

Listen, there are ramifications. It's a pebble in a pond and the ripples go out to the bouncers, to the bar owners, to the people who may lose jobs. I know you're not thinking about this when you're going out with your buddies. And I agree with you, Preston. To me, the dynamic would be more you're looking to purchase liquor as opposed to going out to a bar. But what the hell do I know? I don't drink. Well, no, you're probably right because you need like more disposable income to go to the bar. Right. You know, like you're. Yeah, it's expensive. You go to the distributor.

To save money. By the way, for pot, for marijuana purchasing, this would serve that as well, would it not? If it shows you're 21, yeah. Well, do they scan it? Yes, they do. Okay. Yep, absolutely. It's the only way it scans, I guess. Yep, yep. Is this you, kid? Hang on, let me go. This one looks interesting. I'm going to go to Ben. Hi, Ben. Good morning, sir.

Good morning, Nick. Good morning to see you, Ben. What's going on, bud? Okay, a couple things. So when I was 15, I did get an ID from somebody I knew that just turned 21 that looked just like me, so that worked out really well. 15?

15, turning 16, yeah. I worked for about that year and a half. I'm from upstate New York originally, so, you know, it slid for a minute. Yeah, it was. We're on our senior trip in Manhattan, and two of my classmates went to this, you know, little underground place to get IDs, and the cops busted the place while they were in there. Oh, man. Getting their pictures taken. Ah!

How crazy is that? They actually ended up letting my buddies go and just kind of dealing with the business itself. So they got super lucky. They're like, we're on our senior trip. Please don't do anything. That would be my guess. There used to be those places that even when I was going to high school a thousand years ago,

You know, there were those places that you knew that had a thing in the back. A lot of them would be the quote unquote head shops that would have, you know, fake ID capability, you know, under the under the table. Yeah, I've talked about this one before, but there was a few people that I knew that got the fake ID and what they did because it was a more rudimentary identification card.

um literally a a poster board yes that you stood in front of that was a mock-up it was a giant mock-up of the actual id and you stood there and smiled and they took the picture and then they would uh they would crop it and then laminate it there's your fake you remember the uh vacation vegas vacation he gets it done out on the street he just hold this nicholas papa georgio nicholas papa georgio

Let me see here. Dave in the 90s used to make these things. Let me go to him. Hi, Dave. You're on the air. Morning, bud. Good morning. Sorry to bother you guys at work. It's all right, man. What's up? You used to make fake IDs? Yep. Back in the 90s, I was in New York. I actually had a responsibility in high school to make the high school IDs. So I had the ability to make high school IDs. And I turned it into a side business because I was able to write on the magnetic strip

Whatever I needed to to actually get the driver's license to pass the magnet. So you had the legit equipment. Yeah, you were using the legit equipment to make bogus IDs. He's a go-getter, Steve. Yeah.

Yeah, an ID for the template, changed all the information on it, took the picture, put it on. What a high school, what an ID like that. You couldn't go, could you go into a bar with that ID, which was, if it's a high school ID, you're not old enough to drink, right? I don't know how that gets, what use you would get out of that?

I didn't make the high school ID. I used the materials for the high school ID. He was making them for the school, so he had the equipment to make a legit fake ID. Dave, what do you do for a living now? I work in IT. Security. Of course you do. Security. Listen, it's smart. Hire the people who know how to do it. Most definitely. To bust it. Did you make a good amount of money on that, Dave, back in the 90s?

Uh, let's just say it paid for college. Good man. All right, let me ask you, Dave. So you hear this stuff about this high-tech stuff with the polycarbonate and all the stuff they're able to mimic. Is, I mean, are the bars and clubs, are they basically screwed? Is there any legitimate, reliable way to determine that these things are frauds? No, they would have to change the ID completely to give it, like, more of a, uh,

Copy restriction, kind of like what they did with the money, how they now, you know, you have the rainbow bills. Right. You have to do something with the ID, too, because I can literally make a driver's license in 20 minutes. So basically what's being said is that they're screwed. I mean, you know, there's...

Maybe that's why this real ID thing is so important. Yeah, Dave, Steve hasn't gotten a real ID yet. You want to hang on? We'll get your information. Yeah, I had to wait in line for five hours. If you could whip me up one, I'd appreciate it. And, you know, let's refresh that passport photo. Yeah. Yeah. Six hours of the DMV is not fun. All right, thanks, Dave. Appreciate it, man. Yeah, I did not know it had gotten so sophisticated at this point. I didn't know because it's...

From what we're hearing, it has basically gotten away from them. If someone who's working security and IT is saying, yeah, they have to revamp the entire system to elude this ability of replication, that's saying a lot. I wonder if...

If this continues to go in this direction, and the only thing that can identify you is your DNA, is if that will be our thing. Like Gattaca. Yeah. I don't know that movie. Yeah, so they would essentially use your genetic material to identify you or locate you. And every morning when these people go into work, they run their finger over this little scanner, and it actually pricks it and gets a little drop of blood and...

Yeah, that's you. Come on in. You had two options. You could use blood or semen. Okay. No, no, no. But then let me ask you. I'll be back in 10 minutes. Because I don't know that movie. Give me that magazine. What could go wrong? Everything. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah, yeah. They eventually lead to, you know, bioengineering and all this stuff. It's a really interesting movie. I'm going to go. Let's go to Joe. He had a cool scenario when he was underage. Hey, Joe, you're on the air. Good morning, bud.

Hey, what's going on, guys? First time caller, long time listener. Welcome, my friend. What's your story here? So when I was in high school, I joined the military when I was really young. I had to get my parents' consent. I was like 17. I did the split-up program for the military. And the actual government put my birthday as 1981. In actuality, I was born in 1991. Oh, wow. And the government gave you this?

Yes. And I didn't say nothing to no one about it. And I just kept it. And I used it to get in the bars when I was like 6, 17. I was still in high school. I used to go to liquor stores and get my friends hooked up with alcohol. It was great. So you're 17 with an ID that says you're 27 years old. Yes. Did you look anything close to 27? No.

No, this is what happened. I went to this liquor store one time and the guy was like, is this real? I was like, yeah, it's real. You know, I was born in 1981 and, you know, it's a disease that runs in our family that makes me look younger. So you have the opposite of progeria. You look younger.

Yeah. Yes. Wow. That's fantastic. All right. Let me ask you this, Joe. Did you learn the things you needed to know about that year just in case you were quizzed about something? No, I didn't. All right. Thank you for your call, by the way. Some people, the thing was, Steve, you needed to remember if you had a fake ID that just had a random birth date on it that made you a certain age, made you overage, you had to know your astrological sign. Right. You needed to know information about your...

Sure. And all these little details that you would kind of just have as a script in case you were asked about it. Stuff you wouldn't know about the year you were born. You're not obliged to as a baby. But I mean, yes, your astrological signs, I assume that's in the book.

for bouncers of questions to ask. I got a question when I was on spring break in Key West and they asked me those questions and it was an April birthday so I knew that it was Aries and there was another place that made me... Do you mean on my fake ID or my real one? They made me sign it

And the person whose idea I had, their handwriting was terrible. So all I thought to do was just use my left hand to sign their name and then actually end up... It worked. That's great. Didn't you get busted in Key West, though? No, I didn't get busted in Key West. I passed out standing up straight in Key West. That's why you had to do the community service? No, I never had to do community service. Were you on a coat hanger? No, dude, listen, I was leaning up against a post...

at Fat Tuesday. And then the bouncer was like, you got to get out of here. I was like, okay. I was born in April. He just put me out there on Duval Street. I was like... Wow. Hang on, I want to go to... Neil's been on hold for a long time, so let's go to him. Hey, Neil, you're on the air, buddy. Good morning to see you. Morning it, sir. All right, so you had an ID story. I did. So I was in college, New York City. Um...

Okay. Okay.

an actual driver's license from Cleveland, Ohio on the floor on the subway. And it was, I was 19 at the time. The dude on the ID was like 33, 5'10", black hair, blue eyes, looked kind of like me. So one night we leave the dive bar. In between the dive bar and our apartment building was a New York Jones strip club. One night we just had liquid courage. We all filed in.

No issue. We just walked right in the door. We all order beers. And the bouncer comes up behind me. He's like, hey, ID's out. Everybody. I didn't scan any of you guys in. So he scans all my friends. He's like, you need to leave. You need to leave. You need to leave. He points at me. He's like, you're cool. So all my friends are leaving. And they're like, yo, you coming with us? I was like, um...

Nice. Did you ever use that ID again? Nice. Okay.

All right. Thanks, Neil. Appreciate it. That's like a little gold mine find. So listen to this, President, explaining from an earlier point, making, selling and using. This is from the Times article on this. Making, selling and using fake IDs is illegal, but many counterfeiters dodge U.S. laws by being based overseas. They buffer themselves and their customers by allowing payments with cryptocurrency and gift cards. Wow.

Interesting. That's pretty wild. Finally, those gift cards paying off. Yeah. We used to do this little trick to go buy booze is...

I would get on my friend's shoulder and put a trench coat on and put a big handlebar fake mustache on and a bowler hat. Did you change your voice? I would say, I'd like to get some beer, please. One of my favorite fake ID scenes is American Graffiti. Yeah? Yeah. He's going through, it's like a comb and... Yeah, yeah. Some peanuts and he's buying everything in that bottle and he's giving it to me.

He's getting ready to check him in. He's like, got your ID? Yeah, I'm going to use your ID for the booze. Oh, but the best part of that scene is he gets a guy to go in and buy booze for him. So the guy goes in. He's waiting outside. All of a sudden, you hear something crash. The guy comes running out. He's holding a gun, and he just tosses him a bottle of booze and runs.

And the owner comes out shooting at him. It's awesome. All right. Well, anyhow, I had no idea that this had gotten to this sophistication. I certainly did not. I thought they had it licked with the scanning of the ID, but apparently that's not the case. You can get them. But thank you to those who are on hold, Josh and Liam and Evan. You guys, I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to get to you. We do have to take a break because...

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Hey, first and see, so I go home to my apartment yesterday afternoon and I laid out on the couch and I normally fall asleep, right? And then the Phillies game is going to start at 645. I keep thinking to myself as I'm laying there, you've got to get up from this nap and take a walk, get some exercise. But I just gave up and waited until the Phillies game came on. I wasted the whole afternoon and I felt guilty the entire time thinking I should get off the couch and

Do you ever just rest without guilt, Preston? Rest without guilt? Kind of rarely nowadays, Mike. I'm the same way. I need to be doing something. And when I don't do something, I kind of beat up on myself for you lousy, unproductive scumbag. You make me sick. You make me ill. But I know what you're saying. It's really weird. But...

We need time. We should be relaxing from time to time, you know? Yes.

Steve, can you just relax? Well, here's what I agree. Even when I go away on vacation, the first thing I do, I wake up, I have to work out, and I have to get kind of that stuff out of the way because I feel guilty if I do relax. And I savor relaxing. I savor alone time a lot of times. But, yeah, I feel I have to earn it. I don't know if that's...

Isn't that something? Preston's right. You should take that time. You should have felt the... You were absolutely right to be a worthless human for the time you spent doing that. Keep it to need to. Yeah. Uh...

Casey boy, he seems like his mind is constantly wandering or working. Yeah, no, but I'm probably pretty lazy. No, I'm very lazy. Do you feel guilty about it? Yeah, well, so I think more so now, yes. So I've been active, physically active for like the last five years. So that guilt does tend to settle in. You know, what's funny is yesterday I had a tooth extracted.

That's part of the workout. Before the extraction, I went and worked out because I knew I wouldn't want to work out afterwards. And then even afterwards, the prosthodontist told me, he goes, no physical activity. So even I got a doctor's note to say that I could just sit on the couch the rest of the day. And I still felt a little guilty. Still? You felt going through that? A little bit. What do you think it is? I don't think my parents...

You know, fretted about not doing something. They just would sit in a chair and drink iced tea. Listen, my dad was often in solitary confinement and he loved it. I think it's two things, Mike. I think it's A, being an American, and B, being an American who lives in the Northeast. I mean, if you live elsewhere in the country, and certainly live elsewhere in the world, relaxation is just a little bit more accepted and you don't feel guilty as a result. And you should relax. It's good for your brain. I think you're more productive at work

and a better contributor to society when you actually take the time to be mindful about relaxing. I think of the collective, Alex. You're probably the biggest FOMO sufferer, right? Fear of missing out on things. That's you, right?

I do, yes. I like to be a part of things. But I do think that Nick made a good point because, like, in Europe, don't they say, we're going on holiday and they'll be gone for, like, two weeks. And here, we're like, my gosh, can I get one day to just enjoy and then, you know, take a vacation day or two? In Europe, they'll be gone for a month. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, they take entire months off. And no guilt. And they won't even check their email, will they? No, I check my email every day. No, I have to, yeah.

Let's just move to Europe. What do you say? I'm in. I think it's social media too. That's part of it for sure.

I don't get it. See you next week. We will see you later. All right. We skipped a look at traffic. So why don't we get that? Marissa, you all set for that? I am. And it's jammed up out there on the Blue Route, northbound 95 southbound. I'm sorry, 95 northbound out to the media bypass on the Blue Route. We are jammed up.

I lost that one. It went away. So maybe the Blu-ray is pretty good now. Maybe it's good. According to my screen. But the Vine Street Expressway is slowing westbound from 95 to 76. Schuylkill Expressway eastbound from the Boulevard out to Vine. Westbound from Pashyunk to South Street Boulevard out to Gladwin. 95 southbound from the Betsy Ross Bridge out to Cotman. PA Turnpike westbound from Willow Grove out to Fort Washington. And over in New Jersey, we have Shore Road. This is in Summers Point. I'm going to read.

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On 93.3 WMMR. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. Before we get into the B-file, a couple of shout-outs, if you don't mind. Sometimes I nail these, and these are for today. So this is from Tater Tot Kitty, a.k.a. Trish, one of our YouTubers, who said, I want to give a, she says, good morning to see you. I want to give two juicy YouTube birthday shout-outs to Julie Jules, a.k.a. Jerkoff, a.k.a. Handjob.

And Sappy Sap Sapio. On Wednesday, June 11th. It is their birthday. So happy birthday. Julie Jerkoff. Forgive me, Kirkhoff. And they have a request for a YouTube from you, Steve. YouTube!

And there was also a request from, let me see, Common Sense and the whole YouTube family. So everybody's checking in with each other. Those ranks are growing. There's a lot more people participating in that YouTube family. We love it. Most definitely. And you never know, there might be some special things that pop up on our YouTube page from time to time on our channel. So here's another one. It says, hey, I'd love to get a shout out from my daughter, Maramea.

Mar Imea, I think is how you say this. They put it phonetically, Mar Imea, who is turning 13 on June 11th. We always listen to your show on the way to school. She is an incredibly kind, smart, creative, and beautiful young lady. Warmly, that is from Amber. So here is a shout out to you. Mar Imea. And then it says, hey, Preston and the morning crew and gang. My husband, Matt, and I are longtime listeners. He's been listening since Y100 days. He listens every day.

either live or by podcast. His birthday is July 11th. I was hoping to get a big juicy shout out for him any time the week of his birthday would be amazing. Thank you, MMR Roxanez from Leanne Frost. So here's a shout out. You're way early on that one. Happy birthday, brother. When was this? You said July 11th. Oh my God, I put it down as...

June 11th. It's June 11th. Oh, well. Hey, man. It's a lot to handle. They said whatever I could get to it. And you got to it. I got to it. So there you go. Yeah. And they can play it. And because you're so early with it, save it. Play it back for them on July 11th. Very good. All right. Let's do the Bizarre File. Now. Bizarre. WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. Oh!

Brought to you by Adam Home Services. You're covered with the next day repairs and tune-ups at adamhomeservices.com. Well, a 21-year-old Saudi Arabian man called 911 yesterday. He was in Florida to complain that he paid $300 for a private room at a strip club and

requested sex from a staff member but was denied those sex. This is outrageous. Yes. Investigators say that Sultan Al-Nafoye... I spent $300. ...called police around 1 a.m. Sunday with his tale of woe regarding his evening at the Oz Gentleman's Club in Clearwater, Florida. He said to police...

...that the club's security took $300 from him. El-Nafai said that he was still on the line when police made contact with the perturbed patron. He told Deputy Chase Fales that he had paid an employee at the location $300 for sex... ...however did not receive said services, which prompted him to dial 911 to seek redress. The strip club personnel told police...

that the man had obtained a private room and requested text from a staff member. When that request was rebuffed, he called 911. Now, Alnafe was intoxicated.

smelled a booze, and was slurring his words when questioned by police. Al Nafi. And was apparently unfamiliar with Chris Rock's champagne room reflections. Right, right. But that's pretty wild, because in Saudi Arabia, we just found out alcohol was illegal, right? It is illegal. And here's this dude from Saudi Arabia. Right, and he figures it's an open buffet. And he's hammered. Yeah. Well, he figured...

Hey, you can get booze here. Yep. When in Rome. Sex is also on the menu. Arrested for misuse of the 911 system, a misdemeanor. He was booked into the county jail and was released from custody after his $500 cash bail was posted. By the way, he just turned 21 a week before he went to the magical land of Oz. There you go. He was very much looking forward to it. Where's the tin man? A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports that it has captured and humanely killed 20 tons of the snakes since 2013. 20 tons of snakes. Including a record 6,300 pounds of pythons killed this past breeding season. Now...

Ronaldo, the snake. Donnie, the snake. To put that in perspective, 20 tons or 40,000 pounds is a mound of snakes the size of a fire truck or fully loaded city bus. So they were all on a fire truck? What's...

Startling is those 1,400 snakes didn't come from statewide culling. They came from a 2,200 square mile area in southwestern Florida. So do they have any guesstimate as to how much of a dent they put in the population? It's estimated tens of thousands of pythons are roaming the region. Wildlife biologist Ian Bartosik said pythons have...

indeterminate growth and the more they eat, the larger they become. On this project, they have captured the largest female by weight at just under 18 feet but weighing in a massive 215 pounds and

And the largest male at 16 feet and 140 pounds. Do you remember that shot that somebody took? It was in one of the Everglades. And it was one of these suckers just cruising along. Enormous. Their size is a reflection of the availability prey base.

available prey base. And he said, we probably grow them larger in Southwest Florida because we still have deer and medium-sized mammals for them to prey upon. Yeah. And portions of the eastern Everglades, it is likely the reverse. Not that you guys would know this, but when you're talking about pythons or boa constrictors, how big...

Does one need to get in order for it to be considered like deadly for an adult male human? Not to. You'd be surprised how, I mean, a moderate sized snake, if it gets you in the right, if it gets you in the right position, can take you out. Yep.

Police initiated a traffic stop in early... This is a follow-up. In early May, after learning the driver, Victoria Page Vidal, had an outstanding warrant. While placing her on arrest, the officers were told there was a raccoon in the car. You guys remember this? Yes. At first, they thought it was a bit of a joke, but the officer, Austin Branham, saw the raccoon, lifted its head over the driver's side window, and noticed the animal had something unusual in its paws.

He said the raccoon Chewie popped its head up and that's when I noticed it was holding a glass methamphetamine pipe. He took the pipe away and immediately noticed the raccoon had a second one in his hands. The story garnered international attention with the image of a raccoon holding a meth pipe. And now...

A news station was able to catch up with Paige Fidel days after the arrest, living out in a car outside of a condemned house in Akron. She admitted that she did not have a permit to keep the animals a pet and vowed to never surrender Chewy to official wildlife officials.

One month later, they caught up with her again. She's now living in a tent with several dogs and Chewy. The state allows raccoons to be kept as pets if they are bought from an approved breeder and the owner has a permit. Listen, if you'd pay to see Twiggy the water skiing squirrel, what would you pay to see Chewy the meth smoking raccoon? More, probably. And on Monday, Paige Vidal said that she bought Chewy online but that she could not find her bill of sale.

Yeah, where did I put that raccoon who smokes meth receipt? She continues to vow that she will not surrender the animal fearing Chewy will be euthanized. But the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife has yet to say what may become of Chewy if they get a hold of him. Does the actual pet supply online company Chewy provide meth? I don't know if they do or not. I'm not sure. All right, one last story. A man armed with a large double-edged spear...

Yeah.

They said the police, the man moved towards officers who ordered him to drop the weapon. Oh, boy. And as the incident evolved, officers were forced to shoot the armed man who died on the scene. He hasn't been identified as of yet. Meth raccoons looking a lot better now. No officers were injured. As of late Monday, the stabbing victim remained in critical condition at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. You would think most people would know that a gun is going to beat a spear.

The Attorney General's Independent Investigations Division said it is investigating the police-involved shooting. But, yeah, a double-edged spear he had and used that as a weapon. Wow, it's crazy. All right, and there you go. That's what I have in the bizarre file for you. Our friends from Iron Hill are here. We're eating wonderful food. We're going to do some more giveaways with them in a little bit. But right now, I want to do a different one. Hershey Park 4. Oh!

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I did not have any of the poke. It's delicious. I'm not a morning seafood person. Yeah, I am. And I love poke bowls. We make them at home all the time, but good stuff. Yeah, crispy wontons go with it as well. And Chef Brendan was just telling me about the ingredients, and it's fresh and delicious. And yeah, I love poke. IronHillBrewing.com. Like I said, we'll do some more giveaways in a little while. We'll also have more of the Hershey Park passes to give to you. But right now, it's time for Totally Presbyterian. Whoa! Hi, Presbyterian. Yeah.

Totally Presbyterian. It is. And I have a few things that I saw that I thought were worth passing along. And this morning I noticed a story about Walmart. Oh, I turned into the noticer there for a second. You did? Oh, my God. You don't have to do it. It's okay. That's okay. There we go. Totally Presbyterian, sir. All right.

Walmart is going full Jetsons. They are expanding their drone delivery service to 100 more locations. So where they've done it up until now must be working out pretty decently. It has to. You know, I have yet to see, and I don't, are they doing it in this area? No. I have yet to see any sort of drone delivery of any kind. Yeah, me either. I mean, every now and then if I do happen to encounter a drone, it's like,

You hear that noise and you're like, what is that? Yeah, yeah. What is it? There it is. I will say, Press, you've been to golf outings where they'll do a ball drop from a helicopter. The last one I was at did a drone ball drop. So it can carry some weight. And it's a bigger drone. Yeah. They're very sizable. I mean, you look at the ones that were flying in Jersey for a while. You're talking one sort of size of small automobiles.

So they have a fairly decent payload. I just, with all this talk and apparently Amazon and Walmart adopting this stuff, I haven't seen it. Yeah. Now, Case, how many golf balls did they drop? Any idea? Like just the ballpark number? Yeah, like 100. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah, that's like a large bucket of golf balls from the driving range, man. So, yeah, major cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, right?

are getting those. Those are all down south. Interesting. Orlando! I wonder, and these are things that we hope that they've considered. There's so much delivery going on. Your son delivers for Amazon, Preston. So the amount of stuff they're delivering on a daily basis. In my neighborhood, I see Amazon trucks constantly. Let's say a percentage of that ends up being drone deliveries. What's it going to sound like?

Yeah, exactly. So in the movie Ready Player One, these drones are like crazy. They're just flying all over the place, dropping off pizzas and stuff like that. That's a good question. How active and how busy will the skies be with these things flying in if this takes off and they realize that...

If businesses realize that they can save some money by doing it, then you guarantee that they will do it. So, yeah, Steve, there could be a lot. Who knows? And then you're going to have, who knows, there's going to be collisions and there's going to be missed deliveries and all kinds of things. But I guess they'll work on it. In partnership with Wing...

This futuristic service promises groceries at your door in as little as 30 minutes. So think ice cream, eggs, or that ingredient you forgot for tonight's dinner. Who doesn't want eggs dropped from a drone? Members get the service for free, while non-members pay $19.99, and you can even choose delivery straight to your fridge. Kids, we just ordered a pet.

With drones zipping around at 65 miles an hour, Walmart is officially making sky-high shopping the new normal. Wait, how does it get right to your fridge? I would imagine, Nick... It blows the door off with a small meter. I would imagine you're going to have to have a special setup for that. You know, like a...

Like a ramp from the door into your fridge? No, no, no, no, no. Like a different refrigerator outside of your house. That makes sense. That's my guess. I'd like to have a ramp from maybe from the chimney where they could drop it down and then slide right into the fridge. Santa would love that. So they're expanding to 100 more locations. That's a lot. So technically speaking, and Nick, I may have to call upon your research abilities for this, retail-wise is...

Is Walmart a tick ahead of Amazon? They kind of jockey back and forth. I think globally Walmart still is, Steve, but I'll look. Yeah.

Ahead of Amazon? Yes. That's wild. Marissa seems to have a knowledge on this. No, I actually saw something so cool. I saw a real or a TikTok video the other day that Walmart is starting to open podcast studios. Oh. You know if you walk into Walmart- We need more podcasts. Yeah. Well, if you guys shop at Walmart, they do have this Walmart radio station, which I think is kind of cool that it's not just playing the normal Muzak music.

There's actual DJs talking to you and things like that. Me as a radio geek, I appreciate it that they are keeping the sanctity of radio. Stop. Think about this though, Marissa. You get that woman in the leopard stretch pants, topless, walking around Walmart. What if she had a half hour podcast? Or what if somebody just opens the door and invites people in? People of Walmart. I don't know. I thought it was pretty cool and I thought it was pretty innovative for a company like that. So they have studios in...

At physical studios at some Walmart locations and I guess you can rent them out and you can come in and do your... Exactly. Just in that space where there's like, you know, a subway or whatever the glasses area is. I saw Claire's once. Okay. Claire's? Yeah. You know, the place where you can get your ears pierced and you can get like little barrettes. Oh, wow. Okay. You know what it's becoming? It's becoming a mini mall.

Yeah, I guess so. Podcast studio at Walmart? No. Jesus Christ. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm in a mood today. Why? What's going on? How was the golf course yesterday? It was terrible. There's another thing that happened, but I'm not going to get into it. I am going to get into another story, though. I have something else to share. Was it me?

I'm ready to go. Is it me? Did I do something? No. What are you doing? Someone is paranoid. Always, dude. I internalize everything. I'm like, oh, well, I must have said something. No. I probably did something. All right. Steve sent me this article. It was pretty interesting. I'm actually missing a small detail in it, but this is a mystery that some people that are fans of The Shining have been wondering about for a long time.

So the final scene where they show the camera zoom in on an old black and white photo from the 1920s of party goers at the hotel, at the Overlook. And, of course, you see that Jack is a... Sorry, spoiler alert. If you haven't seen it now. He's 45 years old. Yeah. But anyhow, it's a picture of Jack as they zoom in and...

Yeah, Jack Torrance. But the question isn't why did that happen in the movie? The question is that actual photograph is a real photograph from the 1920s. And what was the scenario? Who were the people in that? And where was that photo taken and all of that? Because it's been a bit of a mystery. A picture of young Jack Nicholson was added to that photo after. Yes.

So it was once suggested that the picture showed a secret gathering of the U.S. elite, former President Woodrow Wilson among them. Others thought that they were a group of devil worshippers. But thanks to a British researcher, Alasdair Spark, who spent months pouring through archives, it's been revealed the picture was actually taken in a hotel next to Kensington Palace in

And it captured a Valentine's dance held on February 14th, 1921 at the Empress Ballroom in the Royal Palace Hotel in West London. So the year is 21, as in the movie, the picture in the movie, right? It was a Valentine's event in 1921. In the movie, it's New Year's Eve, 1921. That's correct. But it's pretty wild. A moment in time. Wait, hang on a second.

Did you ever notice Stephen King in this picture? Wait, I think somebody doctored this even further, Casey. Okay, all right. Well, now I got to see the movie. There he is. I don't know. I'd have to see the original movie scene. I would be stunned if Kubrick would have allowed that or if Stephen King would have wanted that. He was not a fan of the movie. Kubrick, who died in 1999, had planned to use extras for the shot but found the image in an old photo library and thought it more authentic than...

And then people were curious about the man who was airbrushed out that they put in Jack because that was a real person. And obviously they put Jack's face over that. It was a pilot during the First World War and he was shot down and suffered terrible burns. He left the hospital with an artificial nose and the determination to become the world's greatest exponent of the fashionable new dances, according to this. So his last name was Kasani. I don't know.

Anything about him other than that, I think I missed a page in this article. I don't have a nose, but I sure can cut a rug. He died in 1983. He was 85 years old. That's wild. And wrote regularly on dance for the Daily Mail and broadcast dance lessons for the BBC from his Mayfair nightclub. Tonight, we learn the two-step.

The Royal Palace Hotel was demolished in 1961 to make way for the Royal Garden Hotel where England's World Cup winners celebrated in 1966. Mr. Sparks said his discovery had put an end to all of the, quote, nonsense theories about the photo. Have you ever been to like a banquet that large, like a full room?

Like a gala, like a ball. I mean, we've been to events, but that particular event depicted in that photo is huge. I don't know. Maybe, but they're like charity events or something like that. But I was, when I went to Chicago with my son a year or so ago, we were in a very famous, it was a Hilton Hotel, but it was a famous building. It's right there.

by Lake Michigan and it was...

It's got a storied history to it. And inside of that, there's a ballroom that's like that, Steve. Like a grand ballroom. Yeah, yeah, and checked it out. And then they had old photos there of people gathering in it. And I love looking at stuff like that. I do, too. Especially when you're in the room where those photos were taken. And it was clearly around this time, 1920s, maybe in the 1910s. And it was, yeah, Nick found it. It's...

It's the Hilton Chicago, but it was the Stevens Hotel. It was opened as that in 19... Anyway, I don't know the full history. But it was so cool and a little haunting to look at those pictures of the room you're in and see what was taking place at that time. Great question. Is that sense of that haunting or that sort of otherworldly thing, is that a natural inclination to be that way? Or is that as a result of the shining... I don't know.

sort of training us to be that way. Do you know what I'm saying? I have two questions. The first is, which I just answered, that's where they shot some of the fugitive in that Chicago film. The end scene where Harrison Ford, Richard Kimball confronts Dr. Charles Nichols.

Provassic. Yeah. Devlin McGregor. That company's a monster. They shot some of that there. They also shot the sequel, U.S. Marshals. And then the Stanley Hotel where The Shining was set, which is in Estes, Colorado. I've been there a couple of times. Actually, Casey, at the beginning, there are scenes of Dumb and Dumber at the Stanley Hotel too. When they go to the really fancy hotel. That's the Stanley. That's the Stanley. Oh, shit.

That hotel has a real haunted sense, Steve. So like when you walk up, like it's these old wooden steps and you walk up those steps and you go into this place and you're like, man, there's something about this place that feel, and maybe it's because of the shining was up there or whatever, but there's a

feeling about the place. I dig that. I mean, and you know, you go back to the Salem slot, you talk about, you know, Stephen King writes about an edifice, about a building, retaining a malevolence or something. I'm not saying that this is malevolent, but yeah, the Marston house. Yeah, the Marston house. Yeah.

So it's an interesting little peek into that world. But that photo was legit. They didn't create it for the film. It was an actual photo from 1921. Did you get chills when that photo pops up at the end? Oh, yeah. I thought that was so cool. That was one of the best parts of that movie, I think. Did you read that book, Tupras? I did. And do you have a preference when it comes to the book or the movie? Okay, this is...

This is Stephen King's Sacrilege. Yeah. But I didn't get much out of The Shining. No kidding. I know people herald it as one of his greatest works, but for whatever reason, I thought there was some cool stuff in it. But maybe it was because I had seen the movie for years before I read the book.

I thought the story was a little more interesting in the book because obviously in a book you get more time to flesh out what's happening. And there were some things I didn't know that had taken place. Like that real quick moment in The Shining where they just show a man...

in a room with a person that's dressed like a dog, well, that's a story out of the book. There's a reference to this mobster who would treat people like crap, and he made this guy dress up like a dog and beg and do all this weird stuff. All these stories that happen in the hotel. I never read it. The movie, to me, is brilliant. And Steve, I know obviously you're a cinephile, and that seems to me an example of... I know they're very different, but perhaps...

the movie's actually better than the book. So the movie of The Dead Zone, Stephen King, who wrote The Dead Zone, thinks the movie is better than the book. Oh, wow. Because of the Cronenberg way that he framed putting the protagonist, the Christopher Walken character...

In his vision, he was in the vision. He was seeing around, and that was a conceit that was not in the book from my understanding. But yeah, Preston, they did the miniseries with Stephen Webber that was good and had the moving topiary and all that stuff taking place. And I thought it was good, but there was a concise...

to the shining of the movie itself. And now, you're right. Are we so jaded by seeing that that way that we can't really judge the source material? Yeah, but in going to the movie, I mean, Stanley Kubrick's style is so, you know, it just sucks you in. He can make things very creepy. There was also a sub-story about a meth-smoking raccoon. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, but spoiler alert. I'm not going to spoil it for you. You got to read it yourself.

All right. Raccoon smoking meth. Let's dive into something else. Hi, Presbo. You guys ever heard of a thing called office chair butt?

No. I'm sure I've had it. No, because you stand all day long, Steve. Okay. So it turns out being on your butt for hours at a time during the workday can actually flatten your once round ass. So that's what's happened to me? That's what's happened. Office butt chair. That's right. Office chair butt. How many modeling gigs have you lost because of your flat ass? All of them lately. No, listen. I used to have a kind of a bubbly butt. Yeah. And I noticed...

Sometimes it bubbles up. Then I'm starting to get old man saggy butt. Really? Yeah. So it's a legitimate thing caused by chronic sitting. Lack of conditioning in your gluteus maximus and surrounding tissue leads to weakness, making it build up.

up fat tissue and appear flatter or saggier. Have you ever noticed sometimes people have essentially four butt cheeks? They have two big butt cheeks and then down where the legs and ass meet. At the top of the thigh? Yeah, there's another little butt cheek there. I've seen that. Do you consider that extra butt cheek or...

Extra thigh. Huh. I would go more extra butt cheek because it kind of gets... There's a split in it. I don't know. Could we call it the butt butt? We could call it the butt butt. Yeah. The chair itself is not to blame, according to Michael Malika with the Cleveland Clinic, a occupational therapist. The problem...

Comes from not moving more throughout the workday. So without breaks for movement, all the sitting can cause the booty to get flabby, flat, and saggy. Fortunately, getting up, walking around, doing exercise breaks every half hour or so while you're on the job apparently can help you avoid the office chair butt.

I wonder if the notion of a chair that sort of is like a toilet, not an ashtray, you know what I'm saying? If your ass was allowed- Some room? Almost like an assless chair. Well, they have pads like that. Right. So essentially, well, I mean, yeah, it's a donut. So if you've ever had like ass surgery or something like that. I hope to. Yeah. I used to have one in my car like that. I thought it was kind of comfortable. Yeah.

And a lumbar thing as well. I wonder if a chair that employed both those things would be the, because they've had all these office chairs where you sort of sit. There's no back foundation. Your knees are bent. No.

Now, as far as the toilet bowl type of seat, Steve, I know that if you sit on the toilet too long, it can promote things like hemorrhoids. Yes. So maybe that's a trade-off. Maybe you want that. You got a nice looking butt, but you got hemorrhoids hanging out. What a hemorrhoid-ridden ass you have. So here are some things that you can do. Stand during a phone call. Invite coworkers to do walking meetings. Could you imagine if we did our meetings just walking around the hallway? We should do that. We should do a West Wing meeting. Yes. Totally. Well.

Walk with me. Let's see if Chuck's into that. We are already so damn distracted anyway. We would accomplish even less. Chuck would turn around and some of us would be in the stairwell. Hey, keep me from falling asleep. So it says take the stairs instead of the elevator. Go to a restroom that's a little farther away.

I do those things. Switch to a sit-standing desk. That's what Steve does. Try a walking pad under your desk. Well, yes. So it's basically a very relaxed treadmill. Yep. Okay. And you can sit there and just walk while you're... Yeah, and it moves at a slow clip, so you can do things like type. It says also do butt clenches. Clenches, not clenches. Yeah. Clench. Clench.

No, your own, right? Not other people's. Right. Wait, Mark. What's the difference between a clench and a clench? Well, I guess a clench is you squeeze. Well, no, it's a good question. And a clench is you defecate. It says C-L-E-N-C-H. Is that just a typo? No. No? I don't think clench is a word. You don't?

You can clinch a playoff series. But you can't tune a fish. But you can't tune a fish. Well, there are also clinches in like, you know, wrestling and MMA and stuff like that. There's Danny Clinch, the photographer. Okay, well, he's not that guy. Yeah. What's his ass look like? Or have I been spelling clinch wrong the whole time? It's actually clench. Well, clenching butt, yeah, and clinching a playoff spot. So those are two different things? Yes. Okay. All right, then we just solved it. Congratulations. Can you clinch a butt? No, there's a clinch river.

Marching in place is another thing you can do. Heel lifts. Imagine someone walks by your office and you're like, John Philip Sousa playing his... Full knees up all the way to your waist every single time. What are you doing? A dad entry. I'm putting facts and figures in the computer.

All right, Nick, you looked up clinch fighting. Yeah, I mean, this is an exercise that could help your ass. It's kind of like a wrestling thing. So there are similarities between...

Because I would say that this guy is clenching this guy's arm, but it's called clinch fighting. Okay. And it's like stand-up fighting where combatants are grappling in a clinch, not a clench. Yeah. So clinch holds. Okay. All right. Toe lifts and ankle circles, too, if you're interested about your butt still. And a one and two. This will round off your butt if you do those, apparently, according to the experts. Have you seen some... Obviously, Yannick Garcia is known as having one of the...

She's the Mexican weather girl who became very famous. And so her entire fortune is based on the contour. So the amount of glute stuff, there was a...

There was some featurette on the news talking about newscasters around the world. And, I mean, basically, she spends all day doing ass exercises. Wow. Yeah. And why wouldn't you? Yeah, why not, right? If your bread and butter was your ass. Yep. Is that her, Nick? What's her name, Steven? Yannette Garcia. Yeah. Yannette Garcia. She's attractive. Yeah, she is. All right, let's see what else we got here. Hi, Presbo. Totally Presbo.

All right, so some car brands have better reputations when it comes to longer-lasting vehicles that break down less often, and that's where Consumer Reports comes in. They have done the research to find out which brands are the most reliable. So these are the most reliable car brands for 2025. Okay. They analyze hundreds of thousands of surveys from Consumer Reports members to find out about any issues that people have had with their cars, their trucks, and their SUVs. The survey asks...

Way to go. Yeah.

He's like the Japanese. They've got the edge on whatever the technology is for reliability, for things that last. They work really hard at it. And they've got whatever formula it takes to make it come true. Currently, what car do you have that has the most amount of miles on it?

We have a Jeep. Okay. It's got 80,000 plus miles on it. Okay. My wife's Tahoe has 137,000 miles on it, which that is a car. That's the most amount of miles I've ever put on a car. And our Subaru Outback is approaching 100, which is really, really cool. Okay. I don't.

I mean, it's absurdly low, the amount of mileage, because I'm always close to work. Yeah. And I don't drive long distances. You go down the shore all summer long. Yeah, you guys are doing that. Yeah. So, I mean, it's quite common. I've had cars that never crossed 50,000 miles. I look to get another car when I'm approaching 100,000. Okay. That's my marker. But for whatever reason, I've chosen that. I don't know.

There was a time where that, okay, you're really pushing the limits, but now the way the cars are built, you're good. Casey, you and I both drive Subarus. I have an Outback and a Forester, and you use my Subaru app from time to time? I have it. I don't use it now. It updates the exact amount of miles that you have on your car. Yeah. Yeah, so it's a good way to keep track of exactly how many miles you have. Also, apparently, one of my tires is low.

Yeah. I just found that out. Yeah, I use the app on mine. Yeah, 18,129 miles on my forest. How many? 18,129. That's the newer of the two. I think the Outback is like approaching 70. Okay. The number one most reliable car brand, according to Consumer Reports, Subaru. There we go. Number one, followed by Lexus, Toyota, Honda, Acura, Mazda, Audi, BMW, Kia, and Hyundai. Okay.

So those are the ones that are considered you're going to have the least amount of trouble. What's the closest American? It doesn't give me anything outside of the top 10. I have no idea. The Pinto, I know, is very reliable for a long time. We had one when I was growing up. We did have a Pinto as well? Yeah. White Pinto. According to the research out of the seven Subaru models in the survey, the Forester and the Impreza...

have well above average reliability scores, while the Crosstrek, Legacy, Outback, and Ascent all rate above average and average as well. That's pretty amazing. I just thought those Imprezas were pretty cool. Yeah. Kind of sporty. What is the Subaru, the

the sporty, the little WRX. That's a slick looking car. People like souping those up. Yep, most definitely. How are we doing on time? We're doing okay. We're doing well. We're doing well. So let's do one more. All right, we'll do one more. Nick, you got me. Now I'm like, oh, I wonder how many miles are on my Super. And now I'm on my SuperRap. How was your conversation over the last five minutes or so, guys? It was solid. Okay, good. All right, here's the next one. Totally oblivious.

Siesta Beach in Siesta Key, Florida just snagged the title of best beach in the U.S.

It's not hard to see why. It's powdery white sand and it's 99% pure quartz, by the way, the sand is. Meaning that it stays cool underfoot and the calm, clear water is perfect for wading in. Unlike many built-up coastal spots, this beach keeps things chill and pristine with stunning sunsets and even dolphin sightings. It's the most beautiful beach that you've ever been on.

Wow. Oh, Hawaii. We were, there were two of them. There was one on the, on the western shore of Oahu. And then there was one on Kauai. And they were, they were both, you know, just beautiful.

It was stunningly beautiful at sunset. Yeah. The one on Kauai also had cliffs and, you know, everything you're looking for. And we just didn't want to leave. It was just so inviting. Yeah. In Bermuda, there's Elbow Beach, which is legendary for the... I mean, the sand is literally the consistency of flour. Yeah. You know, and has that cool attribute to it, Preston. But clear water, and it's just gorgeous. Yeah. Yeah. So...

In Tortola, it was probably the favorite beach I've ever been on. But in Acadia, there's just this one tiny little beach. Oh.

I mean, it's small, but it's cliffside. You know what I'm talking about. Casey, it's the only actual shell sand beach, I think. In Maine, right? In Maine. Yeah. And it's just out of nowhere. The standard beach that you go to, the beach that you know that sand is made from shells. Those are all things. And for some reason in Maine, they don't have those except in this one spot in Acadia National Park.

which I know exactly what you're talking about. It's gorgeous. I mean, it's really nice, like flowery sand with cliffs on the side, and the water is crystal clear. Did you try swimming in it? And the water is 50 degrees. Yeah. We did too. I was there with Ben, and we tried to go swimming in it, Casey, and it was gorgeous. Everything you're describing is accurate and impossible to go swimming. Yep.

It's like a lot of what people encounter when they go out to like Malibu or they go out and they don't realize that that water is effing cold. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the first time I went to California to visit my sister, I like could not wait to get out in the ocean, body surf, and do all the awesome stuff that you do that you see these people doing. It was freezing cold. I mean, I came out with purple lips.

I did it anyway. And my kids were the same way. Nick, when we stayed at your aunt's place in Manhattan Beach, I'm like, we go to the beach. I'm like, we're probably just going to sit out here and enjoy the way it looks. I'm like, guys, the water's cold. They went straight in it. It has to be dead of summer in California to do any swimming in the ocean. It's because of the currents. The currents come from the north and not the south. And in New Jersey, the Gulf Stream brings...

The current's up from the Caribbean and Southern Atlantic. Preston, when you went to St. John, I know you didn't wander out of the hotel that much. Did you go to Trunk Bay? No. Okay. Dude, we didn't leave the resort. All right, yeah. It was just too great. Trunk Bay is a postcard beach, and there's a little island right in the middle of it. And Steve, to answer your question, it's the most beautiful beach I've ever been to.

I'm going to show you guys a picture. Obviously, this won't work on radio, but this is Parker and Carter hanging out on that beach in Hawaii. Oh, God. Look at the cliffs. It's amazing. It was just stunning. It's what you wanted to be. It's like if you ever ride the Pacific Coast Highway, if you are out there, this legendary coastline that you've seen and

Countless movies and TV shows. And you're there looking at its breathtaking enormity. It's otherworldly. Press, we should totally do our show from there. I think we should totally do that. That's a good idea. Can we stake them up to... But listen, the Keys are a different type of beach. They are. Generally, there's no surf. It's flat.

There's all the mangroves and things like that. Or are there spots where there is? No, but that key that you're talking about, it's Siesta Key, right? Yeah. That's not in the Florida Keys. It's closer to Tampa. It's in the Gulf of Mexico. It's much further north. I know. Yeah. It's a different...

beach vibe because, and I don't know why they call it a key because the keys of the Florida Keys are different type of geology that make up those islands. This is just a beach on the Gulf of Mexico side. That's right. I forgot about that. You've been taken for a ride. It's considered the best spot in the U.S., the best beach in the U.S. And this was according to...

I don't even know who this is according to. Did I say it? To Ed. All right, Eddie. Way to go, Ed. Appreciate it, brother. You know what I think is the best, Rich?

All right, we got to wrap it up, man. Bye, Presbo. All right. Totally Presbo. Here's what I would like to do as we're about to take a break. I would like to give away an Iron Hill Brewery gift card worth $50. We'll take call number 7 at 610-660-9333. Iron Hill's Midweek Munchies may be the best deal in the industry. Every Wednesday from 6 to close, loyalty members get all shareables for half price. No limits.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. Our next guest is going to be on a new reality competition series. It's coming out on the 22nd. You'll find it on the streaming service Reverie, which is an American LGBTQ plus service.

And the show is called King of Drag. And like Casey, not familiar with the term drag king. So we're going to find out about this local resident who is going to be on this competition. Please welcome to our studio, Henlo Bullfrog.

What's up, Henlo? What's up, Preston, Steve, Nick? And Casey. Oh my God, and Casey, I'm so sorry. Let me get you in my line of sight. We have some broken lines of sight, so yeah. So Henlo, yeah, tell us about drag kings, for those who aren't familiar with that term and that lifestyle. Absolutely. So drag queens tend to be a little more mainstream culture these days. I mean, we can think back to

Bugs Bunny on Looney Tunes, right? Like dressing up. And it's incredible because we have these queer cultural art forms that now have become so major that they're becoming in some ways the voice of the mainstream. The thing that really interests me about Drag Kings where often it is a more masculine take

Not always, though. There's also drag things, drag clowns, drag aliens, drag monsters. You can really be anything that you want. I mean, arguably, dressing up for work is drag, you know? Does it always reflect who you are? So for a drag king, I at least perform in more masculine forms, and I find it

really interesting because now that drag queens are so often the voice of mainstream culture, who fills in to be the voice of the counterculture? I'd argue that it's the drag kings, it's the burlesque artists, it's cabaret. These are all classic forms of entertainment and art that go back a long time. I have to tell you, just to jump in here quickly, we were talking about this earlier, Henlo, is that the...

you clearly embrace a lot of the macabre. And I dig that because there's a lot of horror imagery, but in a grand style that works its way into what you do. Is that something you would naturally...

Do you have to work up to or has that always been a fascination for you? A little of both. I also am one of the FX artists that makes the monsters at Eastern States Penitentiary's haunt, formerly Tear Behind the Walls, now Halloween Nights. I've worked at both. So I'm one of the people that's putting the prosthetics on, throwing the blood on. So horror is deep, deep.

In my bones, in my blood, in my marrow. However, I think you bring something really interesting up because there's also something about gender and horror where it fascinates me. Because if you think about the horror monsters that are female, their gender matters. Annabelle, the nun, the alien from Aliens. The ring.

Right, so their femininity is an inherent part of their monstrousness. But if you think about male monsters, think about Godzilla. It doesn't matter that Godzilla is a man. Although, canonically, the first Godzilla in the first movie, actually non-binary. Pennywise, does it matter that he's a man? In some ways, masculinity in horror monsters, you can kind of throw gender away.

And so I find that really interesting because then I can just get into the monstrousness. And I'll tell you, there's nothing that feels better than being covered in blood. Let me ask you this, too. And it occurs to me with the art, all this stuff that you have on you all this time.

And removing it. And we know a number of makeup artists and movie makeup artists. Does that wreak havoc with your skin? I mean, how do you not have that destroy your skin when you're constantly taking the stuff on and off? Well, so I actually used to teach makeup at UArts before it closed, RIP.

And I would always harass my students about there are a couple things that you can always do to take care of your skin and make sure because when your skin is the canvas, you want to make sure you always have a good canvas no matter how many layers you're putting on. So for instance, moisturizing and hydrating literally skin makeup artists can tell if you are dehydrated based on how your skin takes the makeup. Okay. It actually uses more projects.

product, it uses more product when you're dehydrated. Because it's sucking it in. Yes, exactly. So literally drinking more water every day can help your makeup as well as there's certain oil-based removers that don't harm the skin when you're removing your makeup as much. The

These are things that we use even at The Haunt as well. Actors who've been in prosthetics, full-face prosthetics for 12 hours. And we're giving them, instead of alcohol-based removers, oil-based removers, which break down all of the different products on the skin a lot more gently. And then you have to moisturize afterwards. So I'm always...

I also teach the Be a King Drag King class series alongside one of my best friends, Cyrus K. Stratton. And we are always yelling at our students like, take care of your skin. If you want to make a good painting, take care of the canvas first. I'm yelling at them. Cyrus isn't yelling at them. You're the bad cop, the tough cop. We like to say good king, bad king. I'm the bad king.

So, well, that's cool. I mean, and we're going to talk about some other stuff. I want to find out about the competition itself because apparently you have some heavy hitter guest judges including Lisa Renna and Paul Feig, the director, is that how it's pronounced, who did Bridesmaids and Spy and, you know, and worked on a number of classic TV shows with Judd Apatow. So, what...

Is it all shot? Is it all in the can? What's the story with it right now? Yes, it's all in the can. Of course, I can't tell you how I did. Who wins? Well, like a lot of reality competitions, there were multiple endings. So even we don't know. We're all going to find out together. Really? Yeah. So they manipulated like false endings to keep even you guessing? I wouldn't.

call it manipulated, but there's a certain... Okay, so if you've seen my work, you know that I've also done costuming for a lot of these other reality competitions. Yes, a ton of them. And we take our NDAs very seriously. So there's ways to prevent leaks. This is industry standard. Everybody kind of knows that some of the ways to prevent leaks, aside from NDAs that threaten you with six-figure fines, is things like shooting multiple endings. How often... To that point, again...

bunch of interesting stuff here. How, A, how often are they enforced? Are you familiar with anyone who's violated an NDA because this is the industry that you work in and never seen them get the repercussions of this? Is it a common thing or is just a threat alone enough to keep everything in check? I'd say six of one, half dozen of the other. The threats are definitely part of the fear. But it's also our careers and you don't want to even be touched by that brush. However,

There was recent news of one of these competitions where somebody got too loud about breaking their NDA, telling everyone they were on. Their city got too loud talking about it. And they actually were taken off the competition before it could film.

Wow. Yeah. As a maker, as someone, I mean, when I work on other people's reality competition packages, you're not even guaranteed that your work is going to make it onto the runway or the screen. It's kind of, it depends on how well they do. They may not even tell you when they get back. I'm having a lot of fun with my own team being like, you'll find out. Yeah. But, um,

So not only there's that chance aspect of whether it even makes onto the stage of the screen, but then knowing that like, even if the rumors get too loud, depending on how serious production is about enforcing it, it really could happen because we had it happen somewhat recently. I mean, you're talking about a six figure lawsuit. I mean, if you're an up and comer, that's going to kill you. Yeah. Yeah.

Henlo, I wanted to ask you about your name, Henlo Bullfrog, because sometimes in the world of drag, you can get into kind of these punny names, and it sounds like you're going to a roller derby or something. Carlotta Tandon? Yeah, we love Carlotta. She's great. But Henlo Bullfrog just sounds cool and random. Where did this come from? Thank you. So...

My father was a West Philly folk musician in the 70s, and he came very close to changing his full name to just the word bullfrog in the style of Madonna, the one word. I'm so sorry. No problem. That's okay. Instead of calling him bullfrog, everybody called him bull-ass. Bullcrap is also acceptable. I will make a note of that.

It's still funny though. So then I started, I actually contour my face based on my father's bone structure because we already have similar bone structure. It really makes that translation into masculinizing my face a little easier. Even though I know now I don't necessarily look even like a human man, but that's where I started. No, dude, I will tell you this. I love the...

The very theatrical stuff. And since I'm such a horror fanatic, that's where I'm going to lean in. Because that stuff is so... Oh. It's so... Go ahead. No, no, no. Well, speaking of which, one video I watched of you last night, you're... It kind of looks like you're almost like Edward Scissorhands meets like a demon. But like you had those crazy...

that are just nothing. It's like a thousand daggers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a thousand needles in your mouth. Like how do you not chop your tongue off? Like I'll bite my own lip eating a piece of pizza sometimes and that kills. Yeah.

So do I. So that's actually my gay Babadook look, which I tend to open Pride season with. Babadook, yes, absolutely. Very cool. Yeah, and in 2017, the Babadook was miscategorized as an LGBTQ movie on Netflix. And so since then, it's become an internet meme that, oh, well, the Babadook.

He's a gay icon. So now I always do this gay Babadook mix. The thing is, I do bite myself when I'm wearing the fangs. But I'm the kind of person that's like, yeah, look at my bit tongue. Look at the blood. That's real. Pain is art. Right. Exactly. I'm having a great time when I'm biting my lips and my teeth. Well, listen. You look at Lon Chaney Sr., one of the great, basically...

created the world of movie makeup. I mean, he was torturing himself to contort himself into different... I mean, well before the kind of state-of-the-art airbrush stuff that you enjoy. I mean, he was... If you read it, if you're familiar with his life, I mean, he was contorting and screwing himself up and really hurting himself to achieve these effects. And to that point, with all of the state-of-the-art stuff, I love...

practical, like what you're doing, the transformation simply by suggestion with makeup is so amazing. But CGI now, CGI makeup and makeup effects is quite prevalent. Are you militant about it? Is there a place for both? Because I really love, like, for example, in the Terrorfire films,

When physical practical effects are used. Where do you stand on that? Well, I think during lockdown, all of us became a little bit more video artists as well as practical effects artists. I love practical effects, especially because what I do with drag tends to be live theater. So there is something really special and really visceral about doing live effects in person where people can see it. To see it?

Right there in front of you. Yeah. And you're not looking at a screen. It's something. Yeah. So, for instance, one of my signature moves is tearing my face off. So I do what, I've developed this technique I call the FX lasagna. Where I do so many layers of FX on my face before even doing the makeup that when I tear the skin off, it actually looks like gore is happening. It's very upsetting. I tend to cut off pieces of the skin and try to hand it to the audience. And they'll actually like rear back from me like, oh, don't touch me.

I love that stuff. I mean, because it's when it's done and it's done, you know, and maybe it's crazy, but again, like with Terrifier and with other movies where there's a lot of viscera to the horror fan or the people who just love that stuff. My reaction first is to laugh in appreciation. Like, this is great. It's great.

Am I a deranged person for that or do you understand what I'm saying? I absolutely understand what you're saying. It's like a roller coaster or there's a concept in burlesque called tension and release. Right. As well as in comedy where you create a situation where you're a little bit tense, you're a little bit uncertain. Even though you generally feel safe in these spaces, you know I'm not actually going to come at someone with a knife. Right.

Then to release that and be like, oh, it's simulated. It's okay. Right, right. If you're just tuning in, it is Henlo Bullfrog that's joining us and is going to be competing on this show called King of Drag. It's coming out on June 22nd. What does the winner get?

for the show? The winner gets a number of things. It's actually revealed more extensively. We got to hear the prize package for the first time on camera. Oh, so you didn't know going in? We didn't know going in. On this side of it, is it heavy? Is it good stuff? There's a lot of exciting stuff. I think I want to leave that to be a surprise. Of course, part of the prize just of being on is that this is a history-making event.

Drag kings have never had their own show to compete on. Right, right. And there's only been a few drag kings ever on these other drag competition shows. So this is really special just to have our own space. Any other people from this area that you know that are in on this? Or are you just the only one from the Philly area? I am the only Philly king. There is a New York king, Tuna Melt, who's right above me. Tuna Melt! Isn't that a great name? I love that name.

Wait, which one's Tuna Melt? Tuna Melt's right above me in the gold crown on the... Far right. Oh my God, that's fantastic. Tuna Melt. All right, so classically, when you watch a drag queen show, it's a lot of dancing and lip syncing and stuff like that. What are the similarities and differences between a drag queen?

and a drag king show? They work within the same art form and art space. So you can definitely expect to see dancing. You can expect to see lip syncing. You expect to see costumes that people may have made themselves or embellished, the high makeup styles. Of course, within the history of each art form, there are a few little differences. You think about the transmasculine and sapphic communities that drag kings, the art form really originated in where, yeah,

You know, it tended to be, there's a movie called Venus Boys that looks at drag kings like from history more. And you see that it did originate in a different side of the queer community, but it really is playing within the same sandbox. For the pride parades that have happened over the past couple of weeks, did you get involved with those? I'm sure it's requested because you're such a...

show you know to come out and be a part of these things yeah um i was actually just at um haddon township's pride parade um and i believe that you know one of the people that was working the car slash float uh radio sarah oh yeah sarah parker yes absolutely she's awesome so um yeah she's she's uh does a lot of work here as one of the uh on air talents as well so yeah um let me ask you and uh

career-wise, because you have all these capabilities and you actually studied comic book art as well. We were talking about that before, which is another fascinating thing. And then clearly you have genre sensibilities. If you were to be presented the notion of working as a makeup artist on movies and brought into a makeup house or whatever, would that be a career goal? Where do you see all this leading you to? Because I'm a lunatic, you know where I'd be.

The horror stuff and that stuff would be where I would gravitate to. But where do you see yourself ending up? To be honest, I have exceeded my own expectations so many times that I'm kind of letting life take me where it will. I just had my first Netflix show as a costumer come out. I did aging, over-dying work on Tires season two.

I also, this is not my first reality competition. I won Skin Wars Fresh Paint almost a decade ago. And I wasn't expecting to do that or setting that as a career goal. That actually set me up into the FX world, into the makeup world. And I'm like, well, guess I'll try this now. So I'm really...

I love the idea of using your business as your activism, hiring your friends in ways that can help take care of them and make sure that they're also getting uplift alongside you. All right. So you mentioned your work on Tire Season 2, which I just finished the other day. We're actually going to have McKeever in studio next week to talk about it. But wait, what...

since I watched the whole season. What did you work on? So all of the clothing that looks a little aged, a little stained. Get out. Yeah, so normally, a lot of my, and this is one of those things where I'm like, I'm just going to let life take me where it will and I'm just going to take my opportunities. Normally, my costume work, you're taking this like massive gown and being like, okay, don't let it touch the floor.

Not a single speck of sparkle where it's not supposed to be. For this, I was literally taking power tools to clothing. I was taking a rotary sander to like cuffs and like to a logo so it looked aged and a little like straight. To make it look legit. Yes. Because they're obviously working in a dirty shop, a tire shop. But you never think about it. You think they probably just appropriated some stuff from a local store.

Tire placement? No, they wouldn't do that. It's a legitimate show. So yeah, you have to distrust the clothing and make it appear authentic. Exactly. How elaborate a process is that? It's very elaborate. I like to say that I did it in a fugue state. So I don't have a lot of memories from that time.

You're another place. Yeah, yeah. And I'm just working, you know. It's really wild. We have a person who listens to this show that lives in L.A. and works on props in, you know, movies and TV shows. So they'll do like, they'll make a pack of cigarettes look like Marlboro, but they're not Marlboro. And if you remember, did you ever see the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Yes.

All right, so there's a scene in which the one character, God, I can't remember her actual name. Mila Kunis. Mila Kunis. Her naked photo is in the bathroom. She was the one who doctored that photo. That's not actually Mila Kunis naked. Right. But they, yeah, so that's so, you know, listen, we are all such... Cool job. Yeah, we're all such geeks for this stuff. Yeah, big, big movie fans. So any of this stuff speaks to us.

Going back to what I mentioned earlier about the comic book stuff, which is very cinematic as well, and we were talking about that. You actually studied for that, but what ended up veering you away from that? Did it become too much? Because to me, there's so much to consider. It seems so, oh, it's just a comic book, but it's not. There's so much more in the way the story is told.

Yeah, so I studied and majored in sequential art at Savannah College of Art and Design, which is comics, graphic novels, storyboards, anything that is a series of pictures in a certain order that tells a story, tells a sequence. I definitely tried to break into the comic scene. I did some work, for instance, I worked with Rags Morales for a bit. I also did some...

What's it called? Anyway. It was a lot. Right. And I was new and I was trying hard. I think I was also like a younger artist. So I was coming into the scene with a bit of an attitude, walking and be like, here I am. Give me work. You know, and I didn't necessarily deserve that yet. So I made my mistakes in another scene. But I think it was also in that the way comics drag video games online.

Also three art forms with like really toxic fandoms. But they're also so popular that a lot of people are trying to break in. And at the time, I just wasn't having the success that I was aiming for, again, as an arrogant young artist. And there was something frustrating about that. Where with drag now, I am doing a lot of the same things that I was trying to do in comics. I'm creating an original story with an original character. And people are finally responding to it. And you have complete control over it.

Yes. So video games, are you a gamer? Ooh. Ever so slightly, I tend to watch more than I actually personally play. What's your game of preference? To be honest, I'm actually really into tabletop games right now. Ah, okay, yeah. So there's a local like tabletop card game cafe near where I live that I go to like weekly maybe. Mm-hmm.

And I'm just pulling down every game from the shelves. I'm like, okay, when's the next D&D pickup game? Like, I'm going to be in there. I'm going to play Henlo. You're not a Warhammer. You're doing all that. Oh, I had an ex that was really into Warhammer. So that's a sensitive subject for me.

Yeah, that consumes you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My kids did Magic the Gathering. I tried playing a couple times. I'm like, no. It was ridiculous. It looks cool. I couldn't follow it. It looks cool, but it was too complex for me. It's hard, right? Yeah. I don't possess the mental fortitude. Mm-hmm.

to put that together. But it is a cool world. You had mentioned your dad being a folk musician. Is he still with us? Yes. Okay, does he still perform? Yes. Oh, awesome. Juggernaut String Band, we are looking to release a new EP in the near future. It's going to be called Cryptid Highway. Okay.

And Henlo is going to sing a song. There may be another song about him on it. Okay. So we're actually, I'm very familiar with like these kinds of mics right now because we are in the studio just all the time being like, okay, and play that again and let's do another take. Now, do you occasionally call him bull ass when he pisses you off? I call him dad. I see.

Well, listen, this is really cool. And we wish you luck on the show. You've already filmed it all, right? But whatever. We hope you did well. Yes. It is called King of Drag. And it premieres on June 22nd. And it's on the streaming service Reverie, R-E-V-R-Y, which is an American LGBTQ plus channel.

streaming service. So it's 9 o'clock on the 22nd. You'll be able to see that. So good luck to you. Thanks for stopping by this morning. Thank you for having me. Henlo. Oh, wait, we got music. Henlo Bullfrog. King of drag. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in just a moment. And yeah, we might give some away when we return. Stay put. We'll return in just a bit.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thanks, Mariz. So we're headed back to Hershey Park. We're going to be there on the 26th day of June. That is a Thursday. And we would like to give away a four-pack of tickets right now. It's a family four-pack. And we'll take call number 15-610-660-9333.

And by the way, we're giving away 500 tickets for this event. It's pretty amazing. Hell yes. We're thrilled about that. Yep. And how cool of them to step out and do that. I mean, and the early access, it's all there. Yep. And they've got a new ride that they're very excited about. And by the way, they have 15 coasters.

It's the largest collection in the Northeast, and they have the all-new Twizzlers Twisted Gravity, which is the world's tallest. They call it the world's tallest scream and swing. Do yourself a favor at some point today. Check out a video of this thing because I've never seen any. It's enormous. Yep. And listen, while we're there, we've got to go over to Choco World.

We have to go ride the Chocolate World ride. I never leave without... By the way, is it still outside the park? It's outside the park. You don't have to go into the park to go to that park. We were in Harrisburg for a wedding last year.

And we had a stretch of the day before the wedding ceremony was going to take place. And we're like, let's go to Hershey Park. Yeah. Let's just zip over there real quick. And number one, it was in the fall. When was it? It was a time of year.

When I thought for sure, like the park would be dead. Right. Wrong. Wrong. It was packed with people because it's such a great place to go. And so we just went to Chocolate World. We didn't have time to go to the park and do the whole experience. But we went in. And of course, they have stuff there that you can't get in the stores. I assume maybe you can order that. I don't know. But there are things that you can only get at...

chocolate world which is why we love going there yeah so normally when you get dumped out a lot of times into this souvenir shop quote-unquote gift shop this gift shop this souvenir shop is all their products and the wide breadth of their uh their products you're right preston sometimes things are like oh they make these oh yeah yeah yeah so we we've of course found that out and we we've

bought a bunch of stuff and brought it back. But yeah, we got on the ride and it's free and so much fun. They have characters that are dressed kind of like mascots. You know, there's a giant Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and a Reese's or Hershey's Kiss. How much of that do you think you could eat if it were real? If that was real? Yeah. Which one are we talking? Well, like, so Steve, the head of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup mascot is just the cup itself, right? Right.

I think I could probably tackle that head. Oh, my God. No, you could not. I could go after it, though. Dude, if that was a solid, full-on Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, that thing would weigh 10 pounds. I would like to try. Preston, have you forgotten who you're talking to? Well, that's true. So, a couple of years, we bought the five-pound... Yeah.

Hershey bar. That's ridiculous. You think you can have at it. There was a postcard that came today to Nick from a great white shark saying, how do you do it? Yeah, how are you doing? Nick, you kind of misspoke, but I like the idea of a Reese's kiss. What did I? You said Reese's kiss and then you corrected yourself and said Hershey's kiss.

But man, a Reese's kiss might be good. There's a new Reese's, I believe, Nick, and I don't know if they have the list there, that is caramel? Yeah, I saw that. And there's the Big Cup, right? And I think they make the Big Cup as a caramel version of it. Any of the Reese's, in just the Reese's line, I'm on board with. I love all of those. And they do have a variety of those types of things. They're like the ones we brought back where you know how they make the thin ones. Yeah. They also make the dark chocolate ones.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Now you're talking. Thin ones as well. Now you're talking, yeah. And so we have a bunch of those at home. And my favorite are the Golden Hershey's Almond Bars.

There are more almonds in the bars. And they are bigger. They're thicker, but they are per capita, per ratio. Right. Per bar. There's a lot more almonds, which I'm a fan of. So obviously we're going there too while we're here. Yeah. When we go to Hershey Park. I mean, we're going to be working, but. Well, I have two things to do. And you've sort of raised a little bit of a

alarming me. I think it's going to be okay, though. I know what you're talking about. What am I talking about? Kettle corn. I think they'll still have it. Because you said kettle corn. I was like, I don't know if they still have it or not. Let's do a monkey wrench into my thing here. They have to, right? Yeah. What I think, Steve, is it's not at the... Because we did go...

right to the entrance of the park and that has changed. They've moved stuff. You remember like right when you came in. It was right there. Cattle corn. Right there. Like you could smell it the moment you stayed. And also the purpose was as you were leaving, you grab a bag. Grab something. So last time we were there, we saw that the entrance had been changed. So that's why I brought up the maybe not the cattle corn thing, but it's got to be somewhere in the park. I would find out.

We'll get a direct line to that while we're there for sure. All right. So enough about that. We're giving away those tickets right now and we're doing the Bizarre File as well. Now, WMMR presents Preston and Steve's Bizarre Files.

All right, brought to you by Delco Trim Light. Visit DelcoTrimLight.com. Schedule an estimate on installation of the coolest permanent programmable holiday lighting system around. All right, follow along on this story, if you will, please. It's got a couple of twists and turns here. This is in Utah. A man was arrested Friday following a multi-agency search after he allegedly held three men at gunpoint for two hours inside of a residence. Rogelio Bastios was arrested.

was taken into custody and booked on 12 felony charges. Jeez. Police say Bastios forced his way into a home, accusing the victims of sleeping with his wife and holding them captive at gunpoint. The incident began Thursday night when Bastios broke into the residence and shook a man awake, pointing a handgun at him and demanding to know if he had slept with his wife.

The man denied his accusations. Just what you would say. And Bastios reportedly accepted his answer before leaving the home. Now, I'm sorry. The following morning, Bastios allegedly returned, forced entry again, and entered the same room. He did not see the first victim, but he found a second man sleeping in the bed, woke him up at gunpoint, and forced him to walk toward the living room. While walking through the house, Bastios noticed another closed bedroom door, kicked that in, found a

third man in there asleep. Alright, could everyone come down to the living room? Who here has slept with my wife? He then forced the second vacant man in the room and again demanded to know where his wife was, repeating his initial accusations.

A fourth man inside the home overheard the commotion and entered the room. All right, the living room and the den. He can all get in here. Come on. Make some room. Allegedly pointed his gun at him and forced him into the bedroom with the others. Now, police said that he threatened to kill the three men if they didn't tell him.

Well, you didn't say that when you asked. I'm sleeping with your wife. Oh.

Before letting them go, he allegedly warned that if they call for help, if he saw police, he would kill them and, quote, get in a shootout with the cops.

So he followed the men to the restaurant and then fled. After the victims arrived, they called 911 and then started a multi-agency search across the counties with assistance from Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter crew. Bastios was eventually located, taken into custody without incident. Now it gets even better. During the arrest, he reportedly said, I was going to turn myself in. Yeah. And he later told the officers, I know I did it. I was waiting for you guys to come find me.

You want to hear another thing that's going to make you laugh? I'm not married. During a search of his vehicle, police found two firearms, a black handgun matching the weapon described by the victims, and a high-powered hunting rifle, along with 16 grams of cocaine. Now, while being booked, it gets even better, Bastios was asked whether he had any drugs or weapons on him. He denied having anything, but officers later found a small vial of what appeared to be cocaine. When confronted, he reportedly said, and I quote, oh, that's my cocaine. Just throw that out. Yeah.

Oh, okay. He was booked into the county jail on 16 charges. Wait a second, guys. This is evidence. All right. A California woman has been haunted by extra zeros. Linda Mathiason thought that she was leaving a $5 tip at a store, but it ended up being a $5,000 charge. Oh, no.

Mathison struggles with a shoulder issue. She went to a vape store to purchase CBD relief gel to ease her pain. The receipt showed the total was $129.28. And feeling generous, yet short at the checkout, and she was short at the tall checkout stand, Mathison left what she thought was a $5 chip. She said...

He says, enter a tip. Well, when I did, there's no decimal point. So I'm like this on my tiptoes, and I push what I thought was only two zeros, ended up being three zeros. And I said, wait, wait, I want to delete this. And he said, I don't know how to delete it. Instead of voiding the transaction receipt, show the clerk at San Bruno Exotic processed a tip for $5,000. Oh, man.

Mathaisen says that she pleaded for him to reverse it. At first, he claimed that he couldn't, but then told her he never received the money. And that's not what her bank statement shows. So this is off a debit card? I assume so. If it's a credit card, you could simply call him immediately and say this is an accident. Right. Mathaisen had been in a state of panic. She's a special education teacher on a fixed income. And she said, I don't have that kind of money. So she has reached out to her bank, Wells Fargo, 22 times.

And she said each time it's about two hours on the phone. She tried to dispute the transaction since the day it all happened. After dozens of attempts to reach Wells Fargo, she says the bank did nothing. It wasn't until records showed eight months ago, Wells Fargo tried to close the case, saying that too much time had passed. According to Wells Fargo, disputes are typically required to be filed within 60 days of the transaction date. And the bank claims to offer zero liability protection for...

to protect customers of fraudulent transactions that aren't reported promptly. She said, I literally called them within five minutes of being in the store. So now she's got a news station on it and they're finally going, oh, yeah, I think we can work with you on this. But it's going to cost $5,000. Exactly.

I've run into that issue a few times. Like if I'm using an online transfer service, like a Zelle or something like that, or doing an online transfer from one bank to another. Sometimes if you want to transfer, say, like $90, all you have to do is type in 90. Sometimes you have to type in 900 where the decimal point goes. So I can see how this type of thing would happen because there's no standard for how these transfers take place. When I'm putting a tip on anything and you're doing it digitally, I will put the period. I'll put the decimal. Smart. Yeah.

All right, one last story. I'm going to end on a good one, and I meant to get to this last week, and the totals are probably more than this by now. But someone named Mike Al Barker, a recent high school graduate who achieved fame on TikTok after he immediately went back to work flipping burgers at Burger King in Georgia instead of going out partying and celebrating with friends.

after the graduation ceremony. So he was in his, so after the May 21st ceremony, Baker went back to work to help out the post-graduation rush, still wearing his graduation stolen medal, and a video was posted on TikTok that was seen by more than 3 million people. The video was shot and posted by Maria Mendoza, a

customer who was touched by what she saw and later created a GoFundMe for the young man. And four days ago, Mendoza met Baker and his mother to tell him that his story had raised $6,000 for his college or whatever his plans were after school. But as of last week, that total had gone to over $62,000. Wow. And I'm sure by now it's got to be up more than that. It's over $200,000. Oh my God. Yeah.

That's pretty cool. I like that. And he just skipped getting laid. And there's what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right. I am going to give away the last four pack of Hertz Spark tickets. Did I already give those away? I think so. Did I already give them away? I did. Never mind. We already gave those away. Hang on.

Hang on. We got one more. We got one more. Hey! Yes! We did it! Yes! All right, so... I'm really out of it. We'll take caller number 10-610-660-9333. You'll get to join us at Hershey Park again.

We're going to be there on the 26th. It's a Thursday, and you get early admission to watch the show, access to some of the rides, attractions, and all that before the general public. You get free parking as well. We'll be broadcasting live, as I had said, and of course...

You get to try out the new ride, which is the Twizzlers Twisted Gravity. It is the world's tallest screamin' swing. So let's get you on board. Caller number 10. We're going to take a break. We'll get back. We'll give away more stuff with a lesson question. We'll get into trash and music news as well. We'll be right back.

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Kingsley on a 93.3 WMORU sub body. 7 minutes after 10, it is Wednesday morning. That means we're on the back end of this work week. Headed towards a kind of a wet weekend leading into Saturday and Sunday. And it's looking as of now like Father's Day, Sunday.

is going to be raining all day long, unfortunately. That sucks. Oh, well. But today and tomorrow, very, very nice. So enjoy if you have the opportunity. In fact, tomorrow's high of about 93 degrees. So quite toasty. And tomorrow's your birthday, Steve. Yes. Yeah. How about that? Yeah. So we'll have a special day tomorrow.

We're coming to work. But it will be Thursday. It does kick off no sad, bro. It's my anniversary, too. Didn't forget about that this time. Neither did I. That's okay. We agreed. Nothing. Until she quits. Stop her yapping. What was that? Quit your yapping. Is this for real? Yeah, it's for real. It's on my end. It's for real. I was told.

She said, I don't even need a card. What? Claire comes to me and she says, I don't, you know, and she does all sorts of wonderful things. And I said, my greatest gift is knowing you're not going to have to sweat anything for my birthday. And then she's going to make me either chocolate chip cookies or brownies or whatever. And that's going to be more than enough. Press...

Listen, I know that you had the agreement, not even a card, but you're such an artist. I think you should draw her a card, if you recall, through this cat. I think if you drew her something and made it into a card. You know what it does look like? It looks like a cat one way and Nessie the other way. It does look a little Nessie-esque, doesn't it? Yeah, I did that last second. All right, well, anyhow, that's tomorrow. Let's worry about today and right now. We have a lesson question, and we're going to give away a pair of tickets for the NASCAR Cup Series.

Great American Gateway 400. It's coming up Sunday, June 22nd. Pocono Raceway. Question I'll have for you this morning. Not that long ago. What's the name of the dude who ranked all the best beaches in the USA? It was a real quick name. Steve threw it out in the air very, very quickly. And if you caught it, you heard it. It was only around 9 o'clock.

So reach out to us. 610-660-9333 is the number. I think I accidentally deleted that sound. Sorry. You did. The music is over. What is the name of the dude who ranked all the best beaches in the USA? So we'll do the trash while you're calling. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

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What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, the wife of Baltimore Ravens player Ben Cleveland denying to a divorce court that she committed adultery, Caitlin Cleveland says it was not adultery because she only slept with members of his family. She doesn't get it. Prince William traveling to Monaco to make an impassioned plea to protect our planet's marine life. William told attendees, quote, we are the only ones who can do this because cats are afraid of the water. Oh.

And finally, Ben Stiller admitting that when people on the street yell to him, hey, fucker, it doesn't feel respectful. Stiller says apparently a lot of people believe he also played a character called you little rat prick. Wow.

All right. We are searching for the answer to this question. What is the name of the dude who ranked all the best beaches in the USA? And let's see if you know that. 610-660-9333 is the number. And let's just pick some people at random. We'll go to... I guess we'll go to Tom and try him out. Hey, Tom, good morning. Good morning.

Hey, good morning. How are you? Awesome. All right. Tom, do you know what the name of the dude was who ranked all the best beaches in the USA? It's Steven Leatherman. No. Nope. That is so not close. That is incorrect. I have no idea where you got that from. But that's all good. We'll go to Shannon next. Hey, Shannon. Hi. Good morning to see you guys. Good morning, Shannon. All right. Who's the guy that ranked all the best beaches?

It is Ed. Yeah, Ed. Yes! Ed. Shannon was paying attention. Hang on a second. We are going to set you up with those tickets. We have a pair for the NASCAR Cup Series Great American Gateway 400. Sunday, June 22nd at Pocono Raceway. And it's time to start your summer as NASCAR returns.

On June 20th through the 22nd to the tricky triangle at Pocono. For more information and to get your tickets now, you can head to PoconoRaceway.com. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Brought to you this morning by Family and Company Jewelers. Ditch the ties and gift cards this year and get Dad something different. Get him a gift.

That shows how much you care. Like a hand forged pocket knife from William Henry. FamilyJewelers.com David Byrne has announced his new album, Who is the Sky? His first since 2018's American Utopia. And you won't have to wait long to hear at least some of it because he is already releasing the lead single, Everybody Laughs.

commenting on the song burn shares by saying someone i know said david you use the word everybody a lot and i suppose i do i suppose i do that's to give an anthropological view of life in new york as we know it everybody lives dies laughs cries sleeps and stares at the ceiling that's everybody laughing

The album features collaborations with St. Vincent, Hayley Williams, Tom Skinner, Mauro Rofosco, and the Ghost Train Orchestra, whose the sky will be dropping on September 5th. Now, Byrne has also announced upcoming world tour dates.

In support of the album. He'll kick things off on September 14th in Providence, Rhode Island. And then he's going to hit cities like New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Amy, you just reported him on stage with Olivia Rodrigo, right? That is right. So he will be performing October 17th at The Met. That would be a pretty damn cool show to see. Yeah, especially in that venue. Yeah. All right, I don't report on Celine Dion that often, but she showed up at a Coldplay concert in Las Vegas on Friday.

And it was a big deal because she doesn't go out much anymore. She did not perform. But the crowd apparently went wild when they saw her on the big screen at Allegiant Stadium. Chris Martin sang to her and she got emotional. And she flipped double verse. Celine was there with her three sons and joined the band's Music of the Spheres world tour. And afterwards, she posted on Instagram saying, what an unforgettable evening. My heart is still singing.

She thanked Coldplay for being so kind to her family. Fans love seeing her out, especially since her health has kept her from performing since 2022. So she does not sing publicly. No, she had taken in the Adele concert in Vegas and Adele went into the audience and went over to her as well. I believe it was Celine Dion.

Or George Thorogood. I'm number two. It's Celine and she goes, would you do one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer for us, please? Sure. You get the confused. You know. Yeah. Well, George is so feminine. Yeah. You know.

All right, and then one last story. Nothing says the 1980s like the visual of David Bowie and Mick Jagger forehead to forehead singing Dancing in the Streets.

Their remake of the Martha and the Vandellas classic was all over the radio and MTV 40 years ago, and it's about to make a comeback for the 40th anniversary of the duet. And they've done a limited edition white vinyl 12-inch that will be released on August 29th, two days after the song's 40th anniversary. Casey was referencing the video. They did this series where they...

Extracted the audio, but then filled in the screeching of the shoes. Yeah. And all the peripheral sound effects. And there's the point where Bowie jumps out.

From the steps down in slow motion. My favorite is at the end when they're outside and it's like twilight and they're dancing down the street and you just hear the crickets and their shoes skipping along the asphalt. Yeah, it's great. In fact, there's been an account that I've been following that's all

It's only Rolling Stones where they've dubbed in stuff that Mick is saying. Who took my purple purse? I don't have your purple pants. Oh, yeah. It's great. I want my salad. It's like the lip syncing. Right, right. Man lip syncing. Man lip syncing, yeah. 30% of the retail price from the sale of the single will be donated to the Band-Aid Charitable Trust.

The disc will include five different remixes of the song, by the way. And that is what I have in Music News. You know what else I have? One last $50 gift card from Iron Hill. Nice. Going to give that away. Caller number 14 at 610-660-9333. Now, if you're not a loyalty member and you want to take advantage of half-price shareables Wednesdays, which happen 6 p.m. to close,

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Taking you back to the 90s for a moment. 93.3 WMMR. In the meantime, Space Dog. Preston and Steve show coming to a close at 10.28 a.m. on this Wednesday morning. Hot one today. Hotter tomorrow. 85 today. 93 tomorrow. 86 on Friday. And then some rain coming in this weekend. And cooling things off a tad bit. I would like to thank a number of people today.

We had a good time giving stuff away, chatting. First of all, let's thank our guest. We had Henlo Bullfrog in the studio. Henlo is a drag king.

And there's a show called King of Drag, which is a new drag reality competition series. And Henlo is from Philadelphia and competing in that. It's going to be June 22nd. It's at 9 o'clock on the American LGBTQ plus streaming service called Reverie. And we wish Henlo luck. And the costumes that Henlo wears are, as you would imagine, outrageous. But they lean on like horror and freaky stuff.

And it was really cool to have that chat this morning on the air. Thank you to Iron Hill Brewery. Brought by a ton of great food and a lot of giveaways. And they have a full menu refresh that they have done at Iron Hill Brewery. And they've won awards for this. Obviously, they've won tons of brewing awards, 88 of them all together.

And they have 16 locations across PA, New Jersey, and Delaware. And you can find them at ironhillbrewery.com. So thanks, guys, for coming by and giving us the giveaways. Shout out to Mark Edelson as well because he sent a text over. We haven't seen him in a little while. And we've actually been friends with Mark and Kevin and the whole crew at Iron Hill since...

You know, they debuted in this area and I haven't seen him in a little while and I love to see the success that they've had. Yeah. And Mark, you remember every time we would come by, we would talk about the fact that he delivered two of his own children. Yes. In emergency situations. Yes. It was. We were always fascinated by that.

All right. Let me see. What else? Any other thank yous? No, I guess Pierre Robert. Let's just say thank you to Pierre Robert. Hey! Thank you. I delivered a few babies on the way to work today. Did you? Well, thank you for that. No, this is what you do. Yeah. I mean, we are, you know, full-time employees of life. You have a lot of pregnant ladies in your area. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, and they often will put signs out, if passing by and could deliver, please stop.

And so I knew. You just jump right in. Hey, that's me. You were playing a long song, so I could do that. You were playing Space Hog, so I had time to pop a baby and get over here. Nice. Five minutes plus, you're good to go. You're good to go. But as full-time employees of life, you don't get off, you don't get any vacations. Well, it's true. You don't get any weekends off. You get the big long one at the end. Here's my question. The drag gentleman you had on earlier. Yes.

I think he should consult with Bam Bam for a costume. Oh, yeah. Gosh.

Think about it. If he's going for goth and horror and extreme and extravagant, Jackie's like Liberace meets Alice Cooper. I mean, if you think about it. So, I don't know. Just an idea. We'll show you some pictures and videos of Henlo. They're doing pretty good all alone. But yeah, some inspiration from Jackie. You could always take some of that for sure. Yeah, these costumes are...

outrageous. How about we do the letter of the day? You good? Yes, sir. Here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. And the Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter. L as in letter. All right. And we'll give away on Friday a pair of VIP tickets for the Barefoot Country Music Festival featuring Jelly Roll and many more courtesy of our friends at Primo Hogies.

And Primo will also be giving away barefoot tickets for the next two weeks on their Instagram account. So go to Primo Hoagies on Instagram for more chances to win. It's not just a hoagie. It is a primo. What's happening on the Pierre Robert program? Here's my question. Yeah. We all wear glasses now. Mm-hmm.

And I can take these little Kleene cloths and a little spray spray and get the glasses as perfect as possible and put them on. And 10 minutes later, they're smudged. And I go...

How the F did that happen? Do you guys find that? Yep, always. All the time. I have special cleaner, you know, little wipes that I use and I'm like, and they're supposed to defog and clean it up for good. And Pierre, I kid you not, five minutes later, I got smudges, I got spots, I got the whole thing. But with Pierre, what amazes me is like when you're making coffee or everything, everything's just pristine. There's no spilling. There's no... There's no... There's no stain. Ha ha ha!

How that would happen with your glasses. I feel like it's like an army general. Yeah, it's such an anomaly. Well, I am the general of my life. In addition to being a citizen of life or whatever it was I said before, you've got to be the general of your life. Exactly. And cut the cream.

That was cut out of the George C. Scott speech. It really was. I have this weird thing that happens in my brain because I consider that injuries will heal. I cut my wrist on something that eventually that's going to heal up. The way that my eyes have degenerated over time, I think eventually...

the process is going to reverse itself. They'll just get better. My eyesight will improve. I don't know why my brain thinks that or why I'm convinced myself that eventually my eyes are going to better. It just gets worse. Really? Yes. You don't think that? I'm a moron. When I first got my first readers at 1.1 or whatever number, and I wore them for three years and it was blurry and I went into the doctor and I go, why is this happening? He goes,

That's just your starting point. Uh-huh. Dude, you should have come in here a year and a half ago. Yeah, that's where my mind is. Yeah. But the thing about the smudge glasses, if you go out with smudge glasses, you might as well get a pocket protector.

Right. It makes you look so geeky. Right. Having shared that, let's move on. We've got Workforce Boxes today of Metallica and ZZ Top for Frank's birthday. And Psychedelic Furs. I love that band. I love them. Seen them in concert? They're amazing. Amazing. And we'll have more tickets for Cedar and Dorks.

Autry. All right. Thanks, Pierre. And I want to thank our sponsors. President Steve's show is brought to you by Dunkin'. And the President Steve's show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors. And Pella Windows and Doors. Visit PellaPhilly.com to schedule an appointment today. Tomorrow on our program.

comedian Ian Bagg. He's going to be back in our studio. We're also going to talk to Antonio Sabato Jr. And we will start day number one of the I Bleed for Preston and Steve Blood Drive at Live Casino Hotel Philadelphia. Jackie Bam Bam will be on location. A very serious Jackie Bam Bam. I just want to say that, you know, life is just a big basket of salad bowls. Ha ha!

So we'll check in with him and get day one underway. That's it. We're done. Rage on. Have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye-bye.