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Dingleberry, good morning. It is wonderful to see you, friend. And we have a Thursday morning laid out before us. Let's get started in the weather forecast. It's where we usually begin. And it looks like it's going to be a hot one today. We have sunshine for the day. We have 92 degrees is our high. Warmest temperature so far this year. Wow. And tomorrow we're looking at clouds, high 84. And kind of a lousy weekend, unfortunately. We have various...

Cloudy conditions, maybe a passing shower either Saturday or Sunday. Saturday's high, 74. Sunday, only 70 degrees. So it actually might not even break out of the 60s. So just kind of blah. We'll see if the rain affects anything. And now, Kristen and Steve's news update. Today is Thursday, June 12th. Good morning. The mother of three-year-old Nola Dinkins, a missing girl who was at the center of an Amber Alert in Delaware, is now facing murder.

murder charges officials announced during a news conference last night. Darian Randall, who's 31 years old, is being charged with first and second degree murder, first degree of child abuse resulting in death of a minor, and other criminal charges. She was also charged with filing a false police report in Delaware. Cedric Britton, who police say is Randall's boyfriend, was charged with accessory to first and second degree murder after the fact and failure to report child death. He is in police custody in Maryland.

The charges come after a body was found around 145 yesterday afternoon in a vacant Cecil County lot during the search for the three-year-old Nola. It's not yet known if the body is that of Dinkins, but police say the remains are consistent with that of a child. Further details on what led to the murder charges have not been revealed. The three-year-old girl was reported missing on Tuesday night in Delaware, but the alert was canceled yesterday morning.

The search had been expanded to Perryville, Maryland by yesterday afternoon. According to a criminal complaint obtained, Randall admitted to lying about the kidnapping and the suspect involved. Randall allegedly told police that she falsely reported the kidnapping to divert attention from her boyfriend, according to the criminal complaint. Police say Randall told them that Nola was taken by a man at gunpoint a little after 7 on Tuesday night in Newark, Delaware.

Randall allegedly told police that Nola was upset, so she pulled over to the side of the road. That's when Randall allegedly told the little girl was told, I'm sorry, told them the little girl was abducted by a man with a gun. Randall is being held on $1 million cash bail and is awaiting extradition to Cecil County. When I heard this story yesterday, I felt guilty because my initial reaction was something doesn't smell right about this story, the way that she was just describing it. But I hated myself for having that reaction because...

God forbid it was true and now it looks like it wasn't. But, you know, it's like this poor girl had been abducted and it's an awful and terrible story. And then when I heard the news this morning that

this is what looks like it actually happened i was like man why did it smell weird yesterday well you know what we it's there it's not without precedent where stories like this have occurred and it's been a family member that's it's been the mother it's been the father that's done it so um you know i i i think i get it and you you don't don't beat yourself up because it's not like it's just out of the blue you've never heard this before yep

A wild scene that began in Montgomery County grew into a chase and ended with a standoff in Bucks County before a suspect was taken into custody. It was around noon police received many 911 calls about gunshots fired in relation to a man driving a black Mustang. More 911 calls then came in about a man threatening a bicyclist and shooting in woods nearby. Police responded to an address on the 1600 block of Swamp Creek Road and found the vehicle in question. The man then took off in the car, leading an officer on a chase.

while still firing shots. He did not hit the officer or patrol vehicle. The chase then ended a little before 12-15 at Ridge Road in West Rock Hill in Bucks County, where the man then started hiding in a structure, firing multiple weapons at officers. Two SWAT units responded, along with numerous other police departments from Montgomery and Bucks Counties.

Unfortunately, the standoff ended peacefully with the suspect being taken into custody without incident. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you are hiding, the worst thing you can do is discharge a firearm. Yeah, yeah. The suspect is in custody of Marlboro Police and they expect to file charges.

And finally, the Atlantic City Airport is using autonomous vehicles in a first-of-its-kind project. Robots are steering the wheel at the AC International Airport as three autonomous vehicles are halfway through an eight-week federally funded project that might eventually lead to the future of airport maintenance and security.

The project is a partnership with private companies, the federal government, and Stockton University, and it's hoping to lay the groundwork to get autonomous vehicles into airports nationwide. The initiative isn't just about creating cool new tech, because officials also say they're struggling to fill technician driver roles.

autonomous vehicles are more cost efficient and also reduce safety risk for people. Chris Sear, who works at Applied Research Associated, says commercial aviation at a major airport is very congested and hazardous operation on the ramp. So there would be an enhanced safety for the human. Each of the three robots have their own task during the experiment. One vehicle scans the airport perimeter for potential threat.

Another cuts grass without assistance. And another sweeps the airport's runways for debris that shouldn't be there. How much do you want to bet that two of the robots talk about the other one? They have to, right? The three robots are also all from different manufacturers and can be monitored and controlled by the same Cyber Secure Command Center. All right, in sports this morning. Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!

Ball sacks are yuppie. Ball sacks are yuppie. What the f*** is that? All right, Nick, what's going on this morning? The Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs. They won 7-2 yesterday afternoon at the ballpark. Kyle Schwarber hit his 21st home run of the season. Alec Boehm added a solo shot and had four RBI. And Jesus Lozardo struck out ten Cubs in six innings to lead the Phillies to the win. They did it!

The Phils bounce back from a 1-5 road trip to take 2-3 from the Cubs in this series. They're off today. They open a weekend series against the Toronto Blue Jays at home tomorrow night. Rangers Suarez will get the start. The first pitch is scheduled for 645. In Game 3 of the NBA Finals, the Pacers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 116-107 last night in Indianapolis.

Benedict Mathurin scored 27 points off the bench. Tyrese Halliburton finished with 22 points, 11 assists and 9 rebounds. And the Pacers retook the lead in the finals. The Thunder led by 5 going into the fourth quarter. But once again, the Pacers proved that they were able to come back from a late game deficit and now lead the series two games to one. Game four is tomorrow night. Tip-off will be at 8.30. The Stanley Cup finals continue with game four tonight in South Florida. The Florida 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. As we speak, there is a battalion of people who are setting things up and getting in place for the, I believe, for President Steve Blood Drive. It's at Live Casino. We have our man on the street, Jackie Bam Bam, whom we will be checking in with through the course of the morning.

And, of course, tomorrow we do our own version of that. We'll be broadcasting live from the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaksford. Day number two of the I Believe for Presidency blood drive. So we're excited to get this underway. And you can take a look at WMMR.com for the details.

And it's, you know, scheduling ahead of time, making sure you put in a reservation is recommended. But if you happen to be swinging by, you're like, I got time. Pop in, see if they can fit you in. Give it a shot. We certainly would love to have the extra blood. Most definitely. We will also have us joining us on the program today. Comedian Ian Bagg is checking in. He's going to be at Punchline tomorrow night and Saturday night as well. And we're also going to talk to...

Antonio Sabato Jr. There you go. He is looking for a challenger to meet him in the ring at Celebrity Boxing. It's not until September. He got time to train, all right, if you want. But he's actually putting the word out to find somebody to fight. So in my mind, this is like the seventh or twelfth.

Ninth sequel to a bad Rocky film. There you go. We're looking for someone to fight Antonio Sabato Jr. But hey, who knows? Maybe this is your big break. We'll see. And we'll get the details from him on how you can end up going toe-to-toe with him in the ring, possibly. So he'll join us in the 9 o'clock hour. We have a few other things as well. Hershey Park tickets. We will give you your chance to win those tickets through the morning. So listen up. That is coming up.

on the 26th, it's a Thursday and we are taking the whole show on the road and we're also opening up the park earlier than it's normally open. A chance for you to get in ahead of time, maybe ride a couple of rides before anybody else gets in there, hang out, watch the broadcast, all that stuff. So, we will tell you all about that and let you know when you need to call in and when. You can also go to WMMR.com and you can win a

four pack of passes through there as well. There's a discounted price if you want to purchase tickets and come and join us for that too. In case you don't win. Just wanted to give you a heads up on that. We do have 500 tickets that we're giving away. That's it. We got a good shot for you to win. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in a second. We lost a legend in the world of music. You probably already heard about it, but we'll touch on that in the Entertainment Report Stupid Question. A few other people unfortunately passed too. We have some nice stories as well, but we'll get to it all when we get back. Stay put. Stay put.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you, Marissa. Stupid question time. We're going to give away a pair of tickets as MMR rocks. Gary Clark Jr. That show is July 3rd at Parks Casino Excite Center. Here's the question, which I got via email from Kevin Weston. Oh. Kevin. I'm not related. Get in here. Clean your room. I will, Dad.

The whole family talks like that. Where's your sister? I'm in the bathroom, Dad. All right, so here's your question, and it's an easy one. What was Marty McFly's band's name? 610-660-9333. I need you to stop talking and listen to me. You're going back to the future.

What was Marty McFly's band's name? 610-660-9333. Today is the 12th day of June's birthday. We'll start with actor Timothy Busfield. He turns 68 years old.

The West Wing and Revenge of the Nerds. You know what? He was... 30-something. Did you watch 30-something? Or was it a little bit... I was not old enough to appreciate it when it came out. I friggin' loved that show. I heard it was a great show. And he was really good. A complex character. Yep.

He is 68 today. Dave Franco, who we spent some time with here in the studio. Really cool. He came in, I forgot what he was promoting at the time. Him and his wife. Allison Brie. Allison Brie, yeah. And they were terrific, man. They were just, they hung out and they were really cool. I was driving across the country. It was because I was the one who booked them to come in. Yeah. And I couldn't be here for that. I was like, man.

Yeah. And he did the card trick from now. You see, you see me or how his character would throw cards and break things. He was he was trying to pop these balloons we had on the wall and he did it.

It's Jason Mewes' birthday today. Yes. I was just watching a clip from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back yesterday where he's yelling at the computer in the movies. And they're seeing all the comments about people who are trolling them. I don't know if I can say this or not, but he's like, you are the ones who are the bee lickers. And he just starts yelling at the computer and his delivery is so freaking hilarious. He turns 51 today.

Musician Kenny Wayne Shepard is a year older. The only thing I know about Kenny Wayne Shepard, I can't name any of the songs, but I know him when I hear him. And it's just great bluesy stuff. And he was a phenom as a kid, if you remember. Right. So I'll tell you that for years it seemed like every venue in Long Island had Kenny Wayne Shepard booked.

He really was and probably continues to be a hardworking musician. He did MMR's 30th birthday and there's a poster of him right down the hallway. Right. Marissa? Did you guys play Blue on Black at Y100? No. Blue on Black. No. Definitely not. That was the song I always think of with him. So he turns 48 years old today. It's also Marv Albert's birthday today. Yes. Wow.

He is 84 years old today. He dominated. He was local sports in New York and then went on to a national career. My son's obsessed by the NBA, and so over the weekend we were watching highlights of the 2001 NBA Finals between the Sixers and the Lakers. It was a great series. The Sixers deserved better, but Marv did the play-by-play. He was so good at calling NBA games. He just was terrific. And then we have Kendra Wilkinson. She was one of the girls next door.

She was a smart one. Hugh Hefner's gals and Kendra on top, too. Hank Baskett's wife, right? Hank Baskett's wife. And then a brief paranormal show. Oh, yeah. Is that right? Holy hell. It says here she turns 40 years old today. I don't believe that. I don't believe that for a second. Yeah, man. Wow. You know what's interesting, though? All these people, what they have in common is share a birthday with Steve Morrison. Thank you. Happy birthday.

Happy birthday to you. What's the thing? That's our tribute to you, Steve. I like it. Just the last verse? Yeah, I just want to shorten it to happy birthday, dear Steve. Happy birthday to you. Wow.

I can't hear happy birthday anymore without saying happy birthday. Oh, my God. By the way, Steve, there are a couple of other famous people that have passed that you share birthdays with. And they're still alive? No, that have passed. And Frank had a birthday on the same day as you. It's George Herbert Walker Bush. Okay. David Rockefeller. Okay. So, yeah, you got some. The late Jim Neighbors. Any of the Stooges? No.

None of the Stooges. Let me see. Hey, I should have been using that when I was trying to get laid in my teenage years. I share a birthday with Jim Neighbors. There's a rock one. There's Brad Delp of the band Boston. No way. Yeah, he passed away, Steve, back in 2007. Not to disparage Jim Neighbors.

No, not at all. This is Jim Habers today. No, you know what? Hang on. That was a birthday song we used to play from time to time. It's been a long time. I'm deleting that so I never play it again. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hate it. It's gone. It's gone. How come the stuff we don't want stays and the stuff we want just disappears? This is what it was like. Happy birthday to you. Dude. Happy birthday.

I was so drunk. I forgot the words to happy birthday. That's how hammered I was. That was at the MMO barbecue. That's crazy. It was a good time. All right. And one last thing I just want to say, happy anniversary, honey. Happy anniversary to you. Happy anniversary to you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Let's see if somebody knows the answer to the stupid question this morning. What was the name of Marty McFly's band? We will go to Dominic and see if we can get the answer. Yo, Dom, you're on the air. Good morning, bud. Yo, guys. Sorry about the at work. It's all right. We will sadly, well, not sadly, we will happily give you a prize if you can tell me. I don't want to give you this goddamn thing. What was Marty McFly's band's name?

They're just too goddamn loud. They're the pinheads. The pinheads. I don't think he said goddamn loud in the movie. He said darn loud. No, he said they're too effing loud. Yeah, you're right. But, Dom, you got it right. Hangover. They're just too goddamn loud. This movie just took a dark turn. All right, we're going to send you off with tickets to see Gary Clark Jr. July 3rd, Parks Casino, Excite. These bee lickers.

tickets for all upcoming events at parks casino.com must be 21 or older I don't think Casey I think I was the one that enlightened you to the fact that that was Huey Lewis no no no I knew that for a while somebody not that long ago did not realize it and I'm like that

It's Huey Lewis right there. You never knew that? Or like, no, I never picked up on it. No, I totally knew that one. All right, very good. All right, so we're going to start with the sad musical news of the passing of Brian Wilson. Obviously, that dominated yesterday. He died at the age of 82. His family posted news of his death to his website and social media accounts yesterday.

Since May 2024, he had been under a court conservatorship to oversee his personal and medical affairs with his long-time representatives, published Gene Seavers and manager Leanne Hard in charge.

The eldest and last surviving of three musical brothers, Brian played bass, Carl lead guitar, and Dennis drums. He and his fellow Beach Boys rose in the 1960s from local California band to national hit makers to international ambassadors of surf and sun. Wilson himself was celebrated for his gifts and pitied for his demons as well. He was one of rock's great romantics.

The Beach Boys rank among the most popular groups of the rock era with more than 30 singles in the top 40 and worldwide sales of more than 100 million. The 1966 album Pet Sounds was voted number two in a 2003 Rolling Stones list of the best 500 albums, losing out only, as Wilson had done before, to the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

The Beach Boys, who also featured Wilson cousin Mike Love and childhood friend Al Jardine, were voted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Wilson had feuded with Love over songwriting credits, but peers otherwise adored him beyond envy. From Elton John and Bruce Springsteen to Katy Perry and Carole King, the Who's drummer Keith Moon fantasized about joining the Beach Boys. Paul McCartney cited Pet Sounds as a direct inspiration on the Beatles' music.

And the ballad, God Only Knows, which we're listening to now, is among his favorite songs, often bringing him to tears. It still does, for me. Wilson moved and fascinated fans and musicians long after he stopped having hits in his later years.

Wilson and a devoted entourage of younger musicians performed Pet Sounds. He was obviously just beloved and people hold him in the highest regard for many reasons besides the songwriting but his production skills as well. The vocal arrangements, of course, are unmatched. Yeah, absolutely. And we do have some clips of some of the greatest musicians in the world commenting on it. But Preston,

Just a while ago, his wife had passed away. It was his wife, yes? Yeah, last year. Right, and a lot of people said they could immediately see a downturn. Sure. And it's quite often that that does happen. And he relied on people so much because of what you were talking about. There was a documentary made within the last eight years, I think it was, and a friend of his, who is a former rock journalist, took him around and drove him to some of the pivotal sites in the creation of the Beach Boys mythos and...

you know, stuff that really meant a lot to him. And there were points where they'd pull up to these locations and Brian Wilson would be in the car and he says, I can't do this. He couldn't get out of the car because of the emotion and all that stuff. So he was going through a lot all throughout his life. Yep, yep. He struggled with, you know, mental health for a long, long time. There was a doctor that took advantage of him for a long time and had him in conservatorship and kind of steered him and took advantage of him

all kinds, you know, had manipulated him and he eventually got out of that and got to a better place, which was wonderful, of course. Yeah, let's play a couple of clips we have of... We have... Let's see here. I'm going to pull these out. Yeah, yeah. I don't know which one you want to go to. We'll go to Carol Kay, the legendary bass player from The Wrecking Crew. But he definitely wrote out some neat lines on the bass. Like, for instance, I'd have never played that.

I'll just go into this. Now, that's a jazz walking line. You know that this kid was into something really, really great. That's what that was, right? Good vibrations? Yep, yep. Okay. By the way, there were a number of celebrities that obviously publicly commented. Keith Richards, Mick Fleetwood, Elton John.

His fellow Beach Boys members also paid tribute. We'll start with Al Jardine, best known as the band's rhythm guitarist and occasionally singing lead vocals. And he called Wilson, my friend, my classmate, my football teammate, my Beach Boy bandmate, my brother in spirit. He said, I will always feel blessed. You were in our lives for as long as you were. I think...

The most comforting thought right now is that you're reunited with Carl and Dennis singing those beautiful harmonies again. You were a humble giant who always made me laugh, and we will celebrate your music forever. And he said, Brian, I'll really miss you. Still, I have the warmth of the sun within me tonight. Play the clip if you can. It's Glenn Campbell and Leon Russell talking about the magnitude of Brian Wilson's capability. It's clip three, it should be. Okay. You ready? Yeah, I was ready. Brian was a genius. I mean, he was just...

He was as good as I've ever seen, I believe, about putting things together. Western Studio, and there was probably 15, 20 guys in that studio. They started the first guy, and he sang them their part until they got it. And then the second guy sang their part, and the third guy, all the way around the room. And they'd go back to the first guy, well, the first guy had forgot his part.

And he'd sing it again. Sing a second. He taught the whole thing by rote. And all of a sudden, that whole band could play that shit. I mean, Brian is... When you want to talk about genius...

There's not any more like him that I know of. He's unbelievable. Mick Fleetwood wrote on Instagram that anyone with a musical bone in their body must be grateful for Wilson's genius and magical touch. He added that he was greatly saddened of this major worldly loss. He said, my thoughts go out to his family and friends.

Uh, Carney Wilson had said, you know, his daughter, obviously I have no words to express the sadness I feel right now. Uh, my father was every fiber of my body. He will be remembered by millions and millions until the world ends. I'm lucky to have been his daughter and had a soul connection with him that will always live on. And I'll, I've never felt this kind of pain before, but I know that he's resting up there in heaven or maybe playing the piano for grandma, Audrey, his mom, uh,

Wilson is survived by daughters from his first marriage, obviously Carney and Wendy. They were in Wilson Phillips, and he had five adopted children from his second marriage to Melinda Ledbetter. Elton John said that he was always so kind to me from the day I met him. He's saying...

Someone saved my life tonight at a tribute concert in 2003, and it was an extraordinary moment for me. I played on his solo records. He sang on my album, The Union, and even performed for my AIDS foundation. John wrote that he grew to love Wilson as a person, and for me, he said he was the biggest influence on my songwriting ever.

Wow. That's pretty amazing to say that. Musical genius and revolutionary. He changed the goalposts when it came to writing songs and shaped music forever. A true giant. Bob Dylan had issued a statement and said, heard the sad news about Brian today and thought about all the years that I've been listening to him and admire his genius.

Rest in peace, dear Brian. Keith Richards. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Said he recalled listening to Wilson's very well-constructed songs. He captioned the post, Rest in Peace. And Ronnie Wood remarked that Wilson's death came the same week as the passing of another iconic musician, Sly Stone. And he wrote, Oh, no, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone in one week. My world is in mourning. So sad. So sad.

It's interesting because initially I appreciated the Beach Boys. And that's the start for music. Yeah. Then when I got to hear Pet Sounds and kind of did a real deep dive and started to listen to what other musicians were saying and started to understand what goes into production and what goes into understanding and maximizing what he had and what he was dealing with at the time. There are a couple other clips. I don't know if you're playing, Preston, but there's... You mentioned about...

How important the Beach Boys were to the Beatles. And number six is Jimmy Webb, who wrote Wichita Linemen, commenting on this. Okay, here we go. Pet Sounds was an incredibly important record and still stands there like, okay, top this, you know. George Martin told me Sgt. Pepper was an attempt, he said an attempt to equal Pet Sounds.

It was interesting because Pet Sounds, obviously, is genius. It's one of my favorite records of all time. God only knows. It might be top five songs of all time. It's a great song and an incredible record, but it was not as commercially successful as some of the earlier Beach Boys stuff. And I remember there was an interview where they were talking to Mike Love and Brian Wilson afterwards, and they were talking about how the surf rock stuff and the bubblegum stuff sells because it's happy. And the Pet Sounds is kind of sad and depressing in parts.

But that led to the genius of that record. Yep, exactly. And I was in the same boat, Steve. I was like, yeah, surf music, it's fun, great, enjoyable. Exactly. But I didn't understand it until other musicians who I respected started to talk about it. They're like, okay, maybe I need to take another look at this. Exactly. And then what I like is I watch videos of people that construct harmonies and break down songs.

And they take some Beach Boys songs and break them down. And they're incredibly complex arrangements.

The vocal arrangements, the parts. If you take the singular parts that some of those guys are singing, you're like, that doesn't sound anything like the melody that I know. But it's a part of it. It's a part of it. It's part of the chord structure vocally. And to that point of being able to walk around a room of a recording studio with 30 people in it and say, you're doing this, you're doing this, you're doing this. And know every point, fixed point in time, what they need to do. And he could just, he held sway over that. He was influenced by...

by the sound of Ronnie Spector at... Wait, you mean Phil Spector? Phil Spector, yeah. The Wall of Sound. Right, the Wall of Sound and achieved and exceeded that. Yeah. And then one last mention and then we'll move on to... because we have a couple other people died too. John Cusack, who played Wilson in the biopic Love and Mercy, goes to...

posted, the maestro has passed. The man was an open heart with two legs with an ear that heard the angels quite literally. Love and mercy for you and yours tonight, RIP Brian. So obviously the tributes are going to continue to pour out over the next few days.

In the acting world, and this was sad to see, actor Harris Ulan. You might not know his name, but you would know his face if you saw him. He was an Emmy-nominated actor known for his wide-ranging roles in films such as Scarface and Ghostbusters 2 and Clear and Present Danger. He passed away. He was 87 years old. He died of cardiac arrest in New York City. In the weeks leading up to his death, he was preparing to start production on...

on American Classic, which was slated to star him alongside Kevin Kline and Laura Linney. So 87 years old and continuing to work with huge stars and projects. He was a native of L.A. He got his showbiz start in theater in New York City. He made his Broadway debut in the 80s.

He starred in a Chicago production of Finishing the Picture, the final play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller. And he also directed a number of plays himself. In the 80s, he stretches acting chops with roles in Scarface, like I said, also at Ghostbusters 2 and continued to switch things up in the 90s, appearing in the political thriller Clear and Present Danger and slapstick comedy Beam.

He also was in the TV world with recurring roles in Ozark, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Billions. And he received a primetime Emmy nomination in 1996 for a guest role on Frasier as well. He was really good on Ozark. The entire family moved into his house in the Ozarks. And he was a really interesting character. And it was nice to see him in his 80s have a cool story arc.

Yeah. Steve, he was in that, what was that movie with Martin Sheen about Santa Ria? The Believers? The Believers. He was in that. Jimmy Smith's in that as well. Yeah. That is, if you've never seen that. Yeah. And that has one of the really great endings where you're like, holy hell. Really? All right. So, additionally, Uland gave back to his fellow actors through teaching stints at the Juilliard School and Columbia University as well. And then another passing MTV personality, Ananda Lewis.

Hosted shows including the popular Total Request Live in the late 90s before going on to host her own daytime talk show and then speak openly about her struggle with breast cancer. Passed away. She was only 52 years old. I remembered her instantly. She always seemed really good at her job and was fun to watch. It was very sad to see this. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. She broke the news in 2020 explaining that she was sharing in the hopes that she would help others.

She said, for a really long time, and this is an important message here, by the way. She said, for a really long time, I refused mammograms, and that was a mistake. She said, I watched my mom get mammograms for 30 years almost, and at the end of that, she had breast cancer. And I said, huh, radiation exposure for years, breast cancer. Yeah, I'm going to pass. Thanks anyway. So...

She had it running in her family. It was the wrong conclusion that she came to. Lewis said she caught the tumor through a self-exam of her breast and she regretted that she had not caught it sooner. She said, I need you to get your mammograms. At the time, she had a nine-year-old son that she needed to be there for. She was born in L.A. and graduated from Howard University. Started working at BET with a show called Teen Summit.

and she was a teenager who got to interview the likes of Hillary Clinton, and she said, that experience got me noticed at MTV, and in August 1997, I moved to New York and started working there. In 1999, the New York Times deemed her the hip-hop generation's reigning it

girl. She left in 2001 to start her own talk show that only aired for a season. And then she was on a bunch of other shows contributing as well. Uh, she continued to chronicle, uh, her bout with cancer. Uh, she also lamented having declined a doctor's recommendation to have a double mastectomy and receive after receiving her diagnosis. She said in a CNN round table discussion about breast cancer in October, um, she said, uh,

Then that the cancer was at stage four. So she it looks like she made a couple of bad decisions. Yeah, but she did has done her best and posthumously to get the word out about not replicating what she did. Exactly. So sad news. Those three hit like that yesterday. You know, as these things don't play out last last night, Preston.

I was listening to Pet Sounds. And as we've observed many times before, it is a sad passing with Brian Wilson and obviously these other people. But if you can revisit and appreciate what they did, that's always a good thing. All right, let's talk about Harvey Weinstein now. A true legend. Yes.

He was found guilty on one of three sexual assault charges in his Manhattan retrial. The jurors found him not guilty on another charge and a verdict on a third has not yet been reached. That's goddamn ridiculous. His retrial began after his 2020 conviction was overturned because prior testimonies were deemed improperly admitted. Your Honor, my client needs to fart. That's right. Please don't approach the bench.

Let's just say he's had what would be a Harvey Weinstein glow up, if you will, and he still looks horrible. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. His defense argued that he was being exploited by his accusers, claiming he's the one who's being abused. He's the one who's getting used during the trial. He pleaded not guilty and continues to deny all the allegations. He also faces a separate 16-year sentence from a California conviction.

Which he is appealing. I'm curious. So let's say he mounts a, no pun intended, a successful multi-pronged attack on all of these charges. And is able to peel some off. He's still in jail for decades. Yeah, no doubt. I don't understand where he's looking to get to. I think what he's trying to do is perhaps...

take a little bit of that tarnish off of his name. Not necessarily getting it out early, but I don't know. It's the only thing I can think of. Maybe the long-term plan is they can get him out earlier. Look at Bill Cosby. He's probably got a poster. That's his version of Shawshank. That's his Rita Hayworth. He has a poster of Bill Cosby in his cell. And he's slowly peeking away at the wall.

Wow. Okay. All right. Here's another legal thing to cover. Olympic legend Mary Lou Retton has apologized for her DUI arrest last month. In a statement on Tuesday, she said, I take full responsibility for my actions. And I would like to thank Chris Agon, the philosopher of evil. I'd like to apologize to Jennifer Garner and her pool boy, Ben Affleck, for incorporating me into my practice. Why would she apologize to you?

I apologize to anyone who's been offended by my fictional creations, Chrisagon, the philosopher of evil, and the skull sealer. Skull sealer.

Come again? She said, I take full responsibility for my actions. What happened was completely unacceptable. I make no excuses to my family, friends, and fans. I have let you down. And for that, I am deeply sorry. She actually trounced the skull sealer on the balance beam. I believe it. The statement followed an appearance in court over the charges. She entered a no contest plea to a first time non-aggravated DUI charge and was ordered to pay a $100 fine.

Oh, Steve, you'll like this. Allison Mack. Yeah. Famous for starring in Smallville, but perhaps even more famous for going to jail for involvement in the NXIVM sex cult.

Has gotten married. She died the knot. TMZ reports that Mac married a man named Frank during a small ceremony in L.A. last week. And did you hear about their meet-cute? No. It was at a dog park. And it was like recently, like very recently. Wow. So this is going to turn out well. It's going to turn out great. Yeah. By the way, if you're not familiar, and I encourage you, if you're into this cult thing,

Yes. She got so swept up in it that she eventually was the one in charge of a subset of women. That's right. With Inexium. And her job was to physically brand these women. Yep. She had a top position in that group. Head brander. I am fascinated by cults.

Anytime there's a documentary or a series about a variety of cults, I am always...

And it just blows my mind how people can get caught up in that stuff. And I'm just, when I see that, I just need to know more about how did they convince some of these seemingly normal people to do crazy things. It's just absolutely fascinating. And do you remember at the beginning of it, and both you and I were watching this series, and we both had the exact same reaction. Like, you know, those are some good things that you should do. They're kind of, I agree.

I can see that. The program, and that's how they suck you in. It's self-help. Here's how to become motivated. Here's how to become successful. That's good. You use these tools to motivate yourself. They're pitching something. I'm like, yeah, that's a pretty good idea. I can see that being helpful. What's this about branding? Yeah, come on in here. Let's take this to the next level. Yeah, they just gloss over the branding and the sex slave stuff. Wait, I'm sorry. What was that? Yeah.

She received 20... By the way, she pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy in 2021. She received 21 months of her sentence before she was released in 2020. She turned evidence against him too, by the way. The head of the cult. Yeah, just to save her own ass. If you were to get branded, would you prefer the hot branding or the cold branding that they do now? Dude, both of them hurt, I would imagine. I mean, I've done... I've gone to the dermatologist and I've had things burned off with...

liquid nitrogen. It hurts, man. And I've also been burned by hot stuff. Neither one. Hard pass. You gotta take your pick, bro. The cold, then. Felt pen. Yeah, I choose cold. One last story. Jack Black will receive the King of Comedy Award at the 2025 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. And before you even start to wonder, yes, he will get slimed on stage.

Black, who's a longtime Nickelodeon favorite, previously hosted the Kids' Choice Awards in 06, 08, and 2011, and won an Orange Blimp last year for voicing Bowser in the Super Mario Bros. movie. Alex Warren, whose hit song Ordinary topped Billboard Hot 100 for the last two weeks, will appear alongside stars like Ice Spice, Tony Hawk, and more throughout the night. And Cat's Eye is set to perform their hit single, Super.

Gnarly. Oh, you're always singing that. The Kids' Choice Awards will be... Oh, gnarly! The Kids' Choice Awards will be hosted by Tyla, airing on Nickelodeon, TNIC, Nicktoons, Nick Jr. Channel, MTV2, CMT, June 21st at 8 p.m., by the way. So he's high on this stuff because of Minecraft, right? Yeah. So, well, all your kids are older, but I mean, is Nickelodeon still... Oh, no.

It's not anywhere near what it used to be. Oh, I have no idea. I couldn't tell you. But I was wondering, I was asking if they thought you were asking if they still watch it. Yeah, I've got me, man. There's so many places to go. Other places. For entertainment. So many things to see and do. This is true.

Oh, good times to be had. Hershey Park. I'm like, where do I know them from? I'm Hershey Park happy. We'll do those tickets in a little while. Hang out. All right, let's do the clips.

Charlie Kale has a freaky little lie detector trick that allows her to solve crimes as she travels around in her Plymouth Barracuda. And here, Natasha Lyonne talks about Rian Johnson developing her character in Poker Face. Yeah, I love it when Rian says it's not a whodunit, it's a howcatchem.

You know, Ryan and I became friends through his brilliant wife. Suddenly, Ryan and I were just kind of text messaging and having these dinners and kind of kicking around ideas. And a year later, he sort of sent me this script. And it was just like a beautiful self-contained puzzle box. And it was so personal to us. Like it was our special little thing that we were going to make. I just really love this dude. It's not funny! New episodes of Poker Face stream today on Peacock. All right, here's our next clip.

Materialist follows an ambitious New York City matchmaker who finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. And here Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans talk about the key to acting in rom-coms. I feel like it's understanding what you're saying. Like if I had to do doctor jargon, I'd be the worst. Scalpel?

Maybe later. Oh, that sounded real. 20 cc's of Xanax. Imagine me just like rushing a gurney down the hallway. No, no. 20 cc's of the Pivotal Xanax. Get the stat. It's not funny! Thank you. What the hell are they talking about? They're just goofing on each other. Materialist hits theaters this weekend. It's not funny! And it's not funny. I don't know. I haven't seen it. It's not funny!

All right, there you go. That's your entertainment report for you this morning. All right, so a lot happening, I believe, for President Steve Blood Drive. Day one kicks off today. Jackie Bam Bam, our correspondent, will be checking in with us this morning and give us an idea of what is happening. And we're going to stop by after the show and donate our blood, me and Steve. Absolutely. We can get Jackie and we have to encourage him that he can be a little bit more...

He thinks that he's reporting from a war scene. Yeah. Like he has to be very solemn. Yeah. And he can be regular Jackie because it's a wonderful thing. People are giving up their own bodies to help other people live. It's a wonderful thing. Yes. Serious Jackie Banner. I'm here at the blood drive. Not a salad bowl to be seen. Everyone's giving blood.

Back to you guys. So we'll see. We'll see what kind of mood he's in. I'm reminded of what Emerson said. So tomorrow morning, we will be broadcasting from the Oaks location, the Expo Center, Greater Philadelphia Expo Center. We also have a few other things happening. Ian Bagg is going to be checking in with us for Punchline. He is in town this weekend. Antonio Sabato Jr. needs somebody to fight with. I want to fight you. We're going to find out about that later on as well. But...

Let's see. Why don't we give away some Hershey Park tickets? Why? Yeah. We can do that right now. We'll take caller number 20 at 610-660-9333. And you will get a four pack of tickets to join us at the amazing Hershey Park on the 26th. We will be broadcasting live.

And winners get in at 7 a.m. Rides open on or before 9. We're working on getting that as early as possible. But you'll be able to get in, get free parking, get the run of park, hang out with us while we do our show. And you got to go in all summer for epic thrills. They have 15 coasters to make up the largest collection in the Northeast. And get ready for the all-new Twizzlers Twisted Gravity, the world's tallest scream and swing. I can't wait.

Just a video of that friggin' thing. So let's get you on board and get you those tickets, the four-pack, and we're going to take a break and come back and keep this Ford momentum on a Thursday morning rolling. We'll be returning shortly, Fred. This weekend, 93.3 WMMR rocks your dad. Papa was a roll of snow. I'm going to be like you, dad.

But not just your dad, your husband, your baby daddy, your brother, stepdad, grandpa, pop pop, and even your opah. We're rocking tunes for dads that rock all weekend. Feel free to call our weekend warriors. If you've got a request for a dad in your life and by requesting,

quest, we mean a song. Not that he quits snoring. It's an MMR Rocks Your Dad weekend. Our salute to all the dads that rock. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve show podcast. Alright, thank you very much, Marissa. Before we dive into anything, is there anybody that wants to pop in here real quick? I think there is, yeah. I think we probably do. Why don't we bring them in here right now. It's Steve's birthday today! It's Steve's birthday!

And in our studio walking in, we have the CEO of Philabundance, our good friend, Laurie Jones, who is here. And their chief development officer and my tequila drinking buddy, Christine DeMonte, who are, they brought some goodies for Steve. What did they bring you, Steve? A Jenny's ice cream gooey butter cake. Very nice. Go over to the microphone, guys. There's more. Come on over here.

Lori and Christine, good to see you guys. Thank you so much. Pop on over and say hello real quick. And you both smell good. And sure, they smell good? Yeah, they do. Lucky you. Hi, guys. Good morning. Nice to see you. Great seeing you guys. All right, so you brought in ice cream for Steve? Yes, we brought in ice cream. You got to get a little closer to that microphone, Christine. From Jenny's in Narberth, we brought ice cream, a couple of different summer flavors. Wow. Can I share with everyone?

I want to. They're yours, man. My mother will give me hell if I don't do it. What flavors you got over there? Darkest chocolate, gooey butter cake, buttercream birthday cake, and, oh, Preston. What? Toasted s'mores. Ooh. Yeah. So, please, I would be hurt if you guys didn't partake. The gooey cake sounds good to me. This is wonderful. Yes, very nice. I would dive in that. And a fill abundance wooden spoon.

That's if you want it to be all for just you. A giant spoon, of course. So, yes, this is to honor our friend's birthday here. We appreciate that. Excellent. How are you guys doing? We're doing great.

We're doing well. Today's a great day. You guys speak so softly. We're doing really well. We're so happy to be here. Happy birthday. Let me jump in here because I need to apologize to you guys. Marissa and I played in the NRG flag football game yesterday. And we were playing for Team Philabundance. Now, Team Philabundance did get a donation from NRG. They did. But we didn't win the tournament. So you didn't get as much. And I apologize for...

Just leaving it on the field like I did. You played hard though. I did. I tried. You don't play? You don't get to come out and play? We try to win and so we don't. Okay, alright. You want to stack the deck. Well, last time we saw you was for the big event.

That's right. Yeah, the sort of celebration. The anniversary. Anniversary. Yeah, it was terrific. Our big 40th anniversary. It was fabulous. It was really special that you guys were there. It was all Marissa's vision. Yes. So Marissa, thank you so much. She had this vision to have this fun, taste of event to celebrate our 40th. Lots of chefs there and lots of cool people like you guys. We had a blast. Yeah, Marissa on the board for those who don't know.

Already started talking. She's our boss. Our dates and everything. We're getting... Everything's this... Out of nothing, a new camp out is being born. Yeah. I cannot wait. Yeah, we just started having our first discussions about that the other day. So as well, we're at that level doing it. You guys are in the trenches year-round doing it. Yeah. And I know things are tough, but I think...

There's a lot of encouragement to what can be done in the new year. Because people ask all year round about the camp out and about Philabundance. And visibility-wise, you guys are doing an amazing job. So, you know this area. People step up all the time. Because of you, your leadership. Because of me directly. And that's why we're celebrating you today and your birthday. That's right. That's it. Yeah, they know that I'm going to be dead soon, so they forget they have to see me when they can. Seriously, what you guys really unlock, the kind of humanity and people, the generosity through Camp Out. It's incredible. Yeah.

We appreciate it. We'll keep doing it. It's a labor of love. We love doing it. Well, thank you guys for bringing the gifts. We appreciate it. Happy birthday. I'm going to share it. Lloyd Jones and Christine Damade from Phil Abundance just popping in to say happy birthday to Steve and give him some ice cream love. So thank you very much for that. We're going to dive into this conversation. I saw this article this morning. It was off of BuzzFeed, and the story was about a TikToker.

who asked her followers an interesting question. She said, tell me something that you had to teach your husband that he should have already known. And so she went first and gave an example, revealing that she had to teach her husband that it's not normal to have a shared bank account with your mom when you're 27 years old. And more than 7,000 people ended up commenting on that. That's a little chilling. Yeah, so...

I want to throw it out to you, and I'll give some of these examples. Feel free to call us, 610-660-9333. Ladies, something that your hubby should have known. And we could easily go the other way with the husband having to bring their wife up to speed on something. But let's focus on ladies having to teach their husband. Rochelle does it with me all the time. There are many things where she's like, you didn't know that? And I'm like, no, I didn't know that. Listen, we could go to the default, which is we are woefully unaware of...

accounting at the house. I don't know. I don't pay attention. Claire has taken the lion's share of that off my plate. Honestly, there are times when I think, I don't know where I'd find the mortgage. Or I don't know where I'd find... Where is the checkbook? I don't know. One of my favorite examples in this is this first one. It says, I had to tell him that the numbers on your pants...

are not equal to your age. For example, when he turned 34, he thought he needed 34 by 34 jeans. So the number on jeans pertains to your age. Yeah, that's what apparently this guy... Listen, when you're a toddler, it kind of does, right? Like you wear 2T or whatever.

Yeah, I got to pick up some jeans for the 34-year-old. Yep. You should grow out of that. It's okay. Yes, exactly. How many months? 1,200. Another woman wrote, my husband originally thought that our newborn was going to drink three bottles a day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

No, it's way more than that. This one said, when we first got together, my husband didn't understand how tampons worked or where they went. And he was in med school at the time. We've had conversations when it comes to... Yeah. There was a conversation about...

Not knowing exactly, and some men fessed up, where women urinate out of directly. Okay. Remember this conversation? I do. Yes. I do remember that. New the general area. Yeah. But it's the kind of thing where, you know, oh, I just assumed. So I have an older sister. And so when tampon age came along, like I didn't know what any of this stuff was. And I remember...

finding a... I guess there is a little instructional diagram that came with some tampons that shows you how to insert it. Yeah, right. And I saw that and I was just like...

what is this? Yeah. You know, like I was just completely mystified by the whole thing. Uh, and I, why would anybody want to do that? You know, I can see the ass, but yeah, but, uh, I remember being confused by the whole thing. Yeah. But at that, after that, I was like, okay, this is what women do. And I figured it out as opposed to this woman's husband who did not quite understand any of that. Uh,

Here's another one that said, a hysterectomy is not a required procedure for people with uteruses to start menopause. I've always been a little, the mystery of menopause, I've never really looked into or hysterectomies, you know, I don't know exactly all of that stuff. So, yes, you'll get menopause, you can get the hysterectomy, sometimes people will get it earlier. We talked about this the other day, it was my understanding that if you get a hysterectomy, it

can help mitigate the effects of menopause, but it turns out to not be correct. The ovaries. Yeah, we talked about this because I'd asked about whether or not you...

Still, whatever. But we talked about it. And it's not until you take the ovaries out where you don't... Produce estrogen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think just in general, men are fairly ignorant when it comes to the anatomy of a woman, especially like the genitalia and the insides and the ovaries. And, you know, so that's not... I don't think that's uncommon at all. The hilarious thing is I think most of us watch every day a couple of 10 to 20, 2 to 3-minute documentaries. Right.

Some more graphic than others. That have to do with reproductive organs? Yes, usually the delivery of a pizza. All right, this is another one. A woman said she had to teach her husband this, that fabric softener is not the same as detergent. She said he had washed his clothes for two years without using detergent.

He was using fabric softener instead of detergent. Yeah, just ask. A lot of times, though, and I see this, for fear of looking stupid, you simply just don't ask. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you just proceed. You balanced in your mind what's the bigger liability here, asking and looking stupid or just proceeding and deferring looking stupid. Here's another thing. As a kid, I didn't. It was me.

mystifying to me. So sometimes my sister wouldn't flush the toilet and I would just see toilet paper in the toilet. Yeah. No poop. Yes. Yeah, I got that. I thought girls didn't poop. Uh-huh. They poop invisible. Or something like that. It's like Wonder Woman's jet. I had no idea. Yeah.

And I was like, look, try to crane my head around and see if I could see underneath if there was poop hiding underneath the toilet paper. Sis, can you take a picture of your next turd? And so when did you finally figure out? I don't know. Okay. Like two years ago. Yeah, yeah.

So what else is on here? So she said, my husband was 40 years old when he wrote his first check. We were in the middle of moving and he was in another state at the time. So I had to draw a mock-up of a check and send him a picture so he knew what to do. Let me ask you something with filling out a check. And these are all life skills and we can all fess up.

When you write the actual numerical amount and then you are forced to write the... The words. The words. How many times do you sit there and try to...

How am I going to write? Can I put a plus sign for and? I got to figure out how many words am I going to use? How many words? And how small? How do I fit it on the line? How small do I have to write in order to fit it all on there? Yeah. This is fine. We're kind of beating up on men a little bit. Right. I don't like that. I don't like that because there's lots of stuff that women just don't know how to do. Case has said at the beginning, we could easily go the other way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, all right. Well, I'm doing that in the middle. We're not.

man-hating. We're not bashing on our gender. No. It's just we're having a little fun here. We're the last hope. I mean, come on. Yeah. But I will say, I didn't properly know how to clean. I didn't... And this is more of like a common sense thing that you kind of clean down. Yes. Right? Like the floor is the last thing you do. And yeah. Well, hey, Rochelle didn't... Rochelle used to do the floors first in the kitchen. And I'm like...

Look, I was a dishwasher. This was my job. My first job was a dishwasher. You'd clean the floor last. You do all the way down because stuff ends up getting up on the floor and that's the last thing you do. But you would always attack the floor first and still does. And I'm just like, I gave up on it. You're not going to fight that fight. I tried. And me throwing my credentials around, I was a dishwasher! I was a dishwasher!

Wow! Here's one that I did recently, Casey. And this was just a couple of years ago. Like Steve and I have said, our wives handle all of the business side of our family. Yes. Okay, so I had to send something to someone and I had to write out the address on the envelope. And I walk over to him like, okay, this is going to be dumb. I go...

The place I'm sending it to goes in the middle, right? So you didn't know where the return address and the sending address were situated. It had been so long since I had done it. Listen, because of just what we're sending, you were sending a check or you were sending something? Yeah, it was a check. I think so, yeah. I can't even remember the last time I wrote an address on Twitter.

On an envelope? Something to send it. Yeah. I can't remember. Because you guys don't pay the bills. Yeah. I do it all the freaking time because I pay the bills. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yes. So it's not...

It's not your purview, yeah. I'm not corresponding with people and doing it that way. It's an email. Can you send something without a stamp by putting the address that you want to send it to in the return address label? Yeah, it's an age-old trick and it's been done for a long time. Explain this. You don't put a stamp on the envelope so it gets sent back to the sender. You put the return address in the upper left-hand corner. Yes.

I believe that about 60 or 70 years ago, the post office caught wind of this scam. Yeah. They've cut down on it since, but yeah, it's been done. If I was sending something to, say, Florida, and I live in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, if I drop it in the Harleysville mailbox... That's right. ...and it has a return address of... Or, yeah, the sender's address as Florida... Right. ...they're not going to... Probably not. Okay, this is interesting. This is going around as a meme. There's this big thing pointing out that on the current...

Sex and the City reboot, what is it called again? And just like that. And just like that, that Carrie, I guess, is licking the back of stamps. They're all adhesive. You haven't had to do that for years. I don't think so. Right? Most of them are self-adhesive. Anyone that I buy are self-adhesive.

All right, so here's one. This guy texted in. This is about his wife. He said, my wife did not know that she could put mail in the mailbox, put the flag up, and the mailman would pick it up. She kept asking me to take the mail to the blue box at the post office. Yes, you can mail it from. And I made the mistake one time.

So we have a mailbox that is, it's like a security mailbox. So there is, the mail that we receive, we have to use a key to open it in order to get the mail. Yeah, you got to have that. But there's a little slot at the top where you can open up this little door and you put what you're sending in there and then you put the flag up and the mail person takes it.

Well, I went to go mail something. I never mail anything. I put it in the locked part. Right. Where we received the mail. And I put the flag up and the mail person couldn't get it.

Because it was locked away. He's out there with a blowtorch. I'm a stone cold moron. I don't use the public boxes in the neighborhoods anymore. They are robbed so constantly. Really? Yeah, they advise don't do that. So we have a mailbox right adjacent to our front door on the wall. There you go. So what you do is you put it in and just bend the flap down. But I didn't know that. I just said, you know...

I saw Claire doing it and I go, oh, this mail is getting bent. No, no, that's how it goes out. I feel like I've accomplished something when I go to the post office, Casey. I'm like, oh, I ran an errand today. That's a classic errand. A few more of these. This one says, I taught my husband not to pour raw chicken juice over freshly baked chicken as a sauce before eating it. Good advice. Holy hell.

Dude, as someone who's had food poisoning from raw chicken? Yeah. Oh, my God. All right. Now, this woman has a husband who's like a toddler because she said I had to teach him how to properly wipe his butt so he wouldn't leave skid marks on his underwear. Oh, God. Wow. Yeah. Who?

That's grounds for divorce, right? If you're having to teach someone how to wipe their ass. How does that not bother you as the individual that you have skid marks in your underwear? Yeah, I don't know. Mr. Right. I mean, even if you have a clean butt from time to time, skid marks might happen. It's going to happen. Even the best of us. Audrey Hepburn did Breakfast at Tiffany's and she was constantly complaining about swamp ass. Wow, I had no idea.

Here's another one that says that certain foods need to be refrigerated even if they were bought unrefrigerated from the grocery store. My ma'am once put an open jar of bone broth in the pantry. Wow. Yeah. Rochelle does the opposite of that. She will refrigerate things that don't need to be refrigerated. Yeah. Which kind of drives me a little nuts. I'm like, when you're in the produce aisle or section of your grocery store,

You see that these things are not refrigerated that we're purchasing. I just assume they're being loose can and perfectly fine to leave them out at room temperature. I finally won the war with refrigerating peanut butter. I'm like, you can't spread it when it's refrigerated.

I've never refrigerated peanut butter. Is it recommended that you refrigerate it? Not that I know of. In her mind, it was. Yeah, some people just like it that way or they feel like it keeps longer or whatever. There are some things that can be stored not refrigerated, but when you open them, then they have to be refrigerated. By the way, that's another topic. Something that you gave up on.

You know, you know, you're right. Right. But you're just like, oh, yeah, forget it. There's not. I've only told you a thousand times. I'll give you a couple of them. Rochelle, most of them have to do with in the kitchen because I like to cook. Right. I got my ways to go about it. And Rochelle will when heating up a pan, she will put the burner on high. Right. Immediately. Yeah.

Don't do that. It does not need to be on high. It gets too hot. If you step away for a little bit, then you've got a searing hot pan and you're going to overcook whatever it is you're putting on there. Don't put it on high. I think she learned that from her mom. Because I've watched her mom cook too. Immediately, everything goes on high. No! But I gave up on it. Is she defiant?

No. She's just done it that way. That's her way. And it works just fine. And you're not going to die on that hill. When the eggs are burned. But which one do you think she's given up on with you? Oh, man. Lust for life. There's got to be a bunch. I'm sure there's tons. Oh, you know, that's the thing is. It's like it used to be during the Cold War. Mutual destruction. You know, like you...

For everything you've got, she's got something else. And so you've got to pick your things that you're going to, as you have said often, Casey, this is the hill I'm going to die on. Preston, here's a good one. And I've heard this argument before. It says, I had to explain to my wife that the vacuum cleaner is not, in fact, a true vacuum. Any bug that gets sucked up

does not die from a lack of oxygen, but will actually live in the canister until it dies or it's empty. Yeah, I've heard that before. The vacuum cleaner actually creates an air-free vacuum. Yeah, you're not sending it to outer space where it's going to die. My thing with the vacuum is...

Like, you do have to clean up the big stuff first before you vacuum. Because I'm the one who's constantly got to unclog things. You'll hear people doing that. It's like... There's a freaking drumstick. To vacuum a drumstick? Art Dyson is dead. This $400 vacuum has a drumstick that is just wedged in the little thingy. I don't even know what you call it. But I'm like, who is vacuuming a drumstick? Bend over and pick it up! It's...

I know. I was thinking things like, you know, like a paperclip or something like that. Well, if you have a light. You should pick those up before you. Who's not giving a sock? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a sock stuck in here. Yeah. Bend over and pick it up first. The thing that I, and you'll know sometimes if you're, that's why I love the ones that have the lights at the end of them so you can see what you're doing. Yeah. But I accidentally vacuumed up a screw and a bolt. It sounded like a gunshot. Yeah. I like it. Oh, my God.

Somebody texted in and says, I've tried to teach my wife and my two daughters how to load the dishwasher and they still do it like a pack of rabid raccoons. Yeah, that's my job. I do it. I do it well. And just let me do it because I'm going to do it better and the dishes will come out cleaner and it'll be organized afterwards. I love how Claire, because we have about 2,000 cat bowls. So when they're washed and I will put them in and I swear to God, Claire has shown me much.

thousands of times and i she's imbued with some special power i don't know what it is but she can get it to work just right and i can't get these freaking things to stack in efficiently in the dishwasher and and even to the state president i can't do it by the way i'm going to come back to the dishwasher in a second uh because nick i have a question for you but i'm going to go to uh anthony real quick because his wife taught him something anthony you're on the air good morning

Hey, good morning. Hey, what's up? So excited to talk to you guys. So my wife and I have taught each other a lot of things, but this one is probably not the best you're going to hear all day, but she taught me how to blow my nose correctly. Oh. We got married when I was 27, and I thought that the idea was just to make as much noise as possible, and whatever was in your head would come out, but that's not true. There's a real force and a position where you should start blowing from, and it was mind-opening to be able to do it for real.

So you thought by simply generating a loud noise, you were able to force the snot out of your nasal passages? Oh, I thought that's all it was. It was just honking your head, basically, to clear your nasal passages. Honey, we have to talk. So what is your method? I mean, so you now know to do a proper nose blow, correct?

Correct. All right. So you start at the back of your nose, in between your eyeballs, and you push from there. Okay. All right. I've never heard of broken down like that. I like it. Between your eyeballs and out. Glad she brought your end, Anthony. I saw the world so much more clearly now. Excellent. Thanks. Appreciate it, bud. Real quick, going back to the dishwasher for a second. In loading it,

What do you have in mind? Space efficiency or unloading efficiency? Both. I'll start with space efficiency. Also, I'm OCD about it, loading it. So all the forks and the knives have to go next to the other forks and knives. They have to go in the same direction.

You know, the big stuff goes on the bottom. No plastic stuff on the bottom, although I'm sure that theory is antiquated and doesn't matter anymore. So, yeah, it's really asinine. But because it's mine and because it's important to me at that moment, she let it go. She just doesn't care. Okay. We don't, we rarely use the dishwasher.

You guys hand wash everything? We hand wash everything. We throw stuff away? At home. No, yeah, we throw away food and stuff. No, and it's only because our dishwasher that we have. Are we using this hot plate? Our dishwasher sucks ass. It's terrible. Is that the name brand? Yeah, it sucks ass. Well, honestly, and I will say it, don't ever buy a Samsung appliance. Samsung TVs, electronics, great.

But the dishwasher, it just doesn't do dick, dude. So you got a bad dishwasher and a bad vacuum cleaner? No. The vacuum cleaner was fine. The operator of the vacuum cleaner was terrible. Drumsticks and or socks. Do you have the sucks-ass button? You have been complaining about your dishwasher for, God, at least 10 years. But I also, like, the one we use down the shore isn't as bad.

Let me ask you. Is it a Samsung? No, I think it's like a GE or Whirlpool or something like that. But...

When you run your dishwasher, how long does it run? It depends. It's the fast cycle. Yeah, there's a couple settings. You can change it. You can do an express setting if you don't have a really big load in there. Our dishwasher, when I was growing up, we had to wheel it out from the pantry and then hook it up to the sink. Did you guys have to do that? Years ago, it was on these casters, I guess. Yeah, come on out.

Wow. So you had to hook it up to the sink to get water to it? Hook it up to the sink, yeah. And it would drain out to the sink that way, yeah. Okay. But you've given up? I've given up. On the dishwasher? On the dishwasher at home. Okay. I would prefer to hand wash it. I don't know. There's something zen about it. I like it. So we're redoing our kitchen. And you ever know when you, like, we waited years to redo the kitchen. And this is another, this is a tangential to this, but it still pertains.

When you decide you're going to start to, okay, we've been with this washer dryer for a long time. We're going to get a new one. Do you notice that whatever you're replacing starts to die precipitously, almost as if it knows it's on its way out? It's kind of like when you have to go poop and you're almost home. So we're getting, yeah, and I poop in my washer dryer. No, so the dishwasher, it's not draining now.

Oh, yeah. I was going to say, since it's probably going to be tossed, I wonder if you could give your current dishwasher to Casey if it works effectively. Casey, it cleans like a charm. It just never drains. I just don't know if it'll fit where it needs to go. That's the problem. A couple other quick things. I saw this one on this list of things that women need to teach their husbands. This woman wrote that he, in his 20s, no longer needed to buy shoes with room to grow. What?

He said he always complained about his shoes being uncomfortable. So you're trained growing up that you get shoes that are just slightly bigger. There's a little room in the toe. So that you can have them for, I don't know, a year or whatever as your feet are growing. I'm 35, but I'm going to buy them for a 40-year-old. Yeah. So they thought they needed a little more room. I can grow into them. And at some point, they didn't realize that, you know, kind of after puberty, you're good to go.

And then another one wrote that no one actually measures out four quarts of water to boil a box of pasta in. You just fill up a pot of water and you don't need an exact amount of water. And then you add the pasta and then you realize immediately you've added too much. Oh, that happens every time. That definitely happens. Hang on. Let me go to Tony. Hey, Tony. Morning, bud. Good morning to see you. Good morning. It my man. What's going on?

For years, when the three of us would have dinner, me and my wife would sign, and there would be leftovers, a small piece of meatloaf, vegetables, salad, whatever. My wife puts it in the refrigerator, and I've had to tell her, it's not a time machine. It doesn't stop the food from going bad. It just slows it down. I just threw out a small, I think it was green beans. I'm not 100% sure because there was so much mold on it. I think it was becoming sentient.

So I've just given up. You've given up on it, yeah. Yeah. If someone needs them, fine. If not, it's fine.

It's wasted food. Yeah. I, I, uh, thank you for the call by the way, Tony. Yeah. I'm, I'm the thrower away of food in the fridge too. It'll sit there forever and nobody gets rid of it. And I'm like, I'm tossing it out. I go hardcore on that. So let me ask you for the stuff that like for the, the turning the, the heat up all the way on, on the stove. Yes. What would you say is the thing that she would hold at parallel to that, that you're doing that drives her crazy? I don't know. Uh,

One thing that used to really drive her nuts is, and I've told you guys, one of the biggest fights we ever got in.

was I would heat up the... When we lived in an apartment, we didn't have room for our baking sheets, the pans, you know, the cookie sheet. And so we would keep them in the oven. That was where they resided. And I would, if we were going to bake something in the oven, I would just blindly go over and turn the oven on and forget to take the pans out of the oven. I love this. Now, it's... Right. It's a dumb mistake, right? It's not tragic. But...

I'm not ruining them. They are made to go in the oven. This is not like we're wasting things here. You put on the oven mitt, you take it out, you set it on the stove, it'll cool off in five minutes, we're good to go. But I mean, like she said, and I quote, how

How effing stupid are you? Yeah. Uh-huh. Possibly the harshest thing she's ever said to me. Right. So the trays got super hot. Yeah. Did she go to remove them not realizing? Oh, no, no, no. Because the oven's hot if you open it outside. So you know that and you're not going to accidentally touch them and go, ow, you know. Okay, yeah. So...

But I mean, this led to a back and forth screaming match of me. They're made to go in an oven. They're okay. Yeah, so what? We got to take them out. Wowee. You know what I mean? Like I'm having this type of conversation in an apartment, mind you, where neighbors can hear us screaming at each other. I hate you. I hate you more than anything in this damn world.

Well, how long did that exchange go on before she said, are you effing stupid? I think that was the first thing she said. Because I had done it several times. It wasn't like a first time thing. And you know what? I don't do it anymore. Well, we live in a house where we have a little more room now, so we can hide our pans in there. Marissa wants me to go to line two. It says, please let me on. So I will go to Michelle. Hi, Michelle. Good morning.

Good morning. I just wanted to say, like, when you finally start meeting with your husband's partner at work, you start meeting with his wife so that you can compare calendars because your two husbands talk for a living but are terrible at communicating at home. This sounds like a recognizable voice here. Dude. Hi, honey. Happy anniversary, by the way. Happy anniversary.

Let me ask you, Michelle. You're down the shore. How are you even listening to this right now? There's a streaming. This story that, Rochelle, that he's told a number of times about the pans getting heated up in the oven. Do you remember that exchange where you asked him how effing stupid are you?

I do remember asking him that, but I don't remember what it was. Oh, so it was you remember when I would it was when we were in our apartment in Bluebell and I would I would leave the the baking pans in the oven and heat the oven up. Yeah, that was that was the final straw with you. That was that was fun. That was fun when you also screamed at me for mopping the floor before we cleaned the rest. He brought that up. He brought that up.

That's what we led the conversation with. Yeah. And I'm like, I was getting angrier every time I cleaned something because my feet were sticking to the floor. So I'm like, okay, for my sanity, I just need to clean the floor. Hey! I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Wow. Rochelle just dropped a harsh F-bomb on the air. I'm so sorry.

No, no, no. I hope I got dumped out. No, you're fine. You're fine. But I think now Preston's going to be allowed to leave the trays in the oven from here on in. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That'll cut into his golf time. Yeah, true. All right. I love you, honey. I'll talk to you later. Love you. Happy anniversary. Happy anniversary. All right. I like how she called him under the name of Michelle. Yeah. Come on.

All right. I know we're running over time, but I got to go to this one because it says husband almost killed the whole family. So I'm going to go to Stephanie. Hi, Stephanie. Good morning. Hey, good morning. Hey, what's up, Stephanie?

Okay, so I may have exaggerated a little. He almost killed my entire family. Just a portion of the family. But we were sitting with my parents, and we have an old school fireplace, like a nice brick fireplace. And my dad was like, oh, I'm going to start a fire. And my husband, you know, boyfriend at the time, was like, I'll do it. No problem. I go camping. I'll start a fire. So he starts up the fire, and we start to see smoke come into the house. Yeah.

And my dad's like, what's going on? And he's like, I don't know. I did it like I always do. I said, did you open the flue? He said, the what? And at this point, it's a hot, the fire is hot. You can't reach in there to open it up, right? Oh, I did. Wow. Jesus. So how smoky was the house by the time you had to do that?

It wasn't terrible. We caught it relatively early, but we were wandering around making dinner, so, like, no one was really paying attention to it. It was, like, luckily, our fireplace, no kidding, is, like, under our television. Oh, yeah. So, like, the TV started to get smoky. Yeah. Really?

You know, the fireplace and mistakes with the fireplace are legendary. I've told on the air. Thank you, Stephanie. A number of times. And this story is bona fide true. When Dura Flames first came out and were a thing. Oh, yeah. You just take a match to the paper and you light the Dura Flames. Yep. But you just need one. Yeah. Because they burn. They burn hotter. Yeah. Slower. They're designed to burn. My dad, who had had a few pops...

Thought, oh, this is like regular firewood. I'm going to stack two or three, four of them in the... I mean, the china cap, the wood on the side of the china cap was like... It was blistering. Like, I mean, we were about to go critical in seconds. And my older brother, Gene, whatever the hell he did, was able to head it off at the pass. But we're like, mother of God, this is intensely hot. Hilarious.

Yeah, we make mistakes. Well, anyhow, thank you for your calls. We do appreciate it. We have to take a break because we're going to get to the bizarre file. We also got to check him with Jackie Bam Bam. Yes. He is at the live casino, Philadelphia. It is day number one of the presidency. I believe for presidency blood drive. We're doing it today and tomorrow. First time we've ever done a two day version of this.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Marissa. So, 20 years ago, we started a blood drive.

And it's been going strong every single year since then. And we've moved around a little bit from time to time, various locations. We started in a mall. We made it to the Navy Yard. We've bopped around a bit. We sure have. And we've settled in the past two years at a two-location set up.

We'll be right back.

Bottom line is, get as many pints of blood as we can get. That's what it's about. Absolutely. And so day number one today, we have our representative and he knows a thing or two about blood, folks. Let us go now to Live Casino Hotel in Philadelphia. I give you Jackie Bam Bam.

What's up, Bam Bam? I'm 20, yes. Good morning, my bloodsuckers. Hey, thanks for doing this, man. We appreciate it. You being on this remote location on a different day. And I would imagine things are already underway, right? Yeah, like you said, we're setting up according to my Mickey Mouse watch. What, quarter after eight? And I got down here. We're all set up and the bird bots are behind me. And I got to laugh because out of the box...

It said skull. And I see a Minnesota Viking thing. I'm like, Eric, what the? He goes, yeah, they mailed it to us. So Eric set everything up. But, you know, it all starts, Press, when you park your car, my Batmobile, in the parking garage. And you know how I carry my little suitcase, like, you know, when you're going to the airport and everything? I fit right in with the nurses. I don't have a red shirt.

But they're all carrying these little suitcases. Like, they got their needles and all the works. And I could have snuck right in with them. So, I'm like, I fit right in. I was saying hi to all the nurses out there. You know, Jackie, you look like the flight attendant of an airline you'd never want to fly. Well, I flew in. I hit the wrong button. I hit the casino button because we're up here in the ballpark.

Yeah. See, now tomorrow, you guys, you know, you throw your munchkins around, you ride your scooters around. This is a ballroom. It's almost like a library and everyone's horizontal. So I'm not mellow, but that's what I'm looking at right now. But I took the elevator up here and this lady's like, is that my hat? I'm like, no, that's my hat. So it already starts. I'm like, so here we go. Were you wearing a hat?

I was. I'm wearing my Marmer's hat. You know what? Oh, okay. Yeah, live casino in Hotel Philadelphia. I got to just thank you guys, one, for letting me be here because I, you know, I love this casino. It's in the heart of South Philadelphia. They do a lot for our Marmer's community. Yeah. And of course, host this blood drive day number one for you guys. But they host a fancy brigade association indoors each and every New Year's Day. And there's a

a big connection to the Marmors here. So, uh, yeah, I'm glad I'm down here. No, we love it. And so as far as people turning out and obviously what's key to this today and tomorrow is if you've made an appointment, if you can obviously follow through on it and, uh, and come on down. So how many, how many people is the place looking pretty, uh, pretty robust today? Yeah. Like I said, it,

Everyone is horizontal. And I would say we're half full. And I was talking to Elena, who, by the way, she stayed up late with me. And Elena is the, Elena, where are you? What's your big, what's your title? Tell me your big title. Communications director. Okay, there's a Helen over there with a bigger title. And we're going to put her on. Not you. That title's not good enough. The bigger title. We need a bigger title. Helen, come here. Tell everybody your title.

Hi, it's Regional Donor Services Executive for Southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Wow, that is a bigger title. It's a baffle. Yeah. But we're so excited to be here. Thank you so much to the Preston and Steve Show, WMMR, Live Casino, Oaks Expo. This is our favorite event of the year, and we're just thrilled to continue and to have our company.

We love it. You guys pull on every phlebotomist in the area and all of them giving their time and making sure that they make this thing work. Because it is obviously we talk about this all the time and it's something we see every time it rolls around. But I understand that things, again, are in a critical place right now. So every bit of blood gotten today and tomorrow is going to really go a long way to helping people who need it. Yeah. So we appreciate it.

We appreciate you more. Thank you. All right. Thank you, guys. I love that she said it's her favorite event of the year. That is cool. They do tons of these blood drives. They work it. They are there. I mean, listen, it is safe. It is well run. It's meticulous. And I love the whole vibe. Everyone's very happy. But they are working their asses off. But it is, Jackie is a little out of his element because while it's, you know, it's a fun event, but it is a little bit quiet. There are people that are doing work that involve needles and blood and all this stuff. So they got to keep their...

Mine's focused. We don't have music blaring or anything like that. I don't know. Do you have the show cranked up while we're on air, Jackie? Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're quite in here. But I mean, you know, that's why I have Helen and Elaine. They keep me from getting in trouble. I try and go like, oh, where's this needle going? And how do you feel? And they're like, Jackie, you can't do that. Stay away from the tape. Jackie, how loud is the station being monitored there right now?

It's pretty loud. Jackie! I see you over there. All right, well, Jackie, we will continue to check in with you, but we just want to make sure that things were running smoothly so far, so we'll check back in a few, all right, bud? Yeah, we're off to a flying start, and like you said, Press, walk-ups...

In here, we're jam-packed. I believe everybody made an appointment until 2 p.m. today. Tomorrow in the afternoon, some appointments are still available on the website through the American Red Cross and through you guys. So that's what I'm hearing. Be a part of this because you'll get the President Steve Blood Drive t-shirt, a new one designed by Kristen, listener to the show, and also you get the President Steve tote bag from Window Nation. All right, Jackie, checking back in just a few. Thank you very much, sir. All right, let's get to the bizarre file. Exactly.

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Brought to you by Pella Windows and Doors, celebrating 100 years. And right now you can save $250 off windows, $700 off doors, and 0% APR for 48 months. Well, Britain may soon let families choose a hot water send-off instead of flames or burial. The Law Commission wants rules that would legalize alkaline hydrolysis, nicknamed BAD.

boil in a bag, or water cremation. You ever heard of this? I have not. I'm kind of intrigued. Is this like sous vide? Yeah, it's like sous vide, Casey. So in the process, a shrouded body sits inside a sealed steel tube

That's filled with water and an alkaline mix. And then it heats up to about 160 degrees Celsius under pressure. So it's like Chick-fil-A. It's like pressure cooking. That's basically what it is. Yeah. After four to 18 hours, only soft bone pieces remain. I'm getting hungry. They are ground into ash for the family while the sterile liquid can flow safely into the sewer. Supporters say... Goodbye, Grandpa. Enjoy the sewer. The method cuts carbon and avoids the mercury and soot.

Soot from flame cremation and it needs no extra land. So a quick question. If you're melting the body down and there's obviously there's fats and things within our body, is that problematic for the sewer?

I don't know. They say that it's okay. All right. Nearly 30 U.S. states already allow it. And Ireland opened up Europe's first site in 2023. Oh, yeah. We're doing it over here, too. The U.K. plans by co-op funeral care stalled under current law. But the new review could make the gentler flush and bone option legal within a few years. So you've got Grandpa in a box in the bathroom? Yeah. Flushing him down the toilet? Yeah.

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The seller called the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Crime Reduction Team. Detectives set up a fake meeting with the help from a SWAT team. When Dixon arrived with the gun, officers arrested him on the spot. And he now faces several serious gun charges and citation for driving with a suspended license as well.

Oh, listen to this, man. Everybody knows that only the bride should wear white to a wedding. Yeah. But not everybody follows that rule. And it seems one mother of the groom didn't mind making this major faux pas when her son tied the knot. But she took it to the next level. She showed up in a full bridal gown and veil.

To her son's wedding. There's something Oedipal going on there. The insane story was shared in a now viral Reddit post from someone. Marry me. That had happened at their cousin's wedding. The guest writes, everything was going smoothly until the groom's mother walked into the hall in a full length white gown, lace sleeves, sparkly belt and veil. She looked like she was about to walk down the aisle herself.

As you'd expect, everyone was shocked by her attire, even the bride and groom. And the mom reportedly told people that it was tradition in their family for the mother of the groom to wear white. And to make things worse, the groom's mom tried to stand next to the bride and groom during their vows. That is ridiculous. And even held the bride's bouquet at one point. During the reception, the mother was introducing herself to people as the first woman in his life. Oh.

Oh, man. Despite her mother-in-law's fashion choice, the bride... Isn't that how Norman Bates started? ...to remain calm, and her new husband reportedly kept telling her, I'm sorry, over and over. So... Honey, I got to sleep with mom first tonight. We'll see if this one lasts. All right, then we'll do... We're going to kind of... We ran really, really long with talking to Jag and Ola. Sorry. One more quick story, and then we will wrap this up in Rhode Island.

A hazmat team responded to Woonsocket High School after the school's meters were set off. School staff said the meters were hitting on radioactive material at the school. And according to officials, a teacher was looking through items in the science lab and opened an unmarked box labeled radioactive. I can't find a thing. Nothing there? Everything seems fine. I can't find any radioactive.

You look like you might need to have a seat for so much. I do feel a little loony. Could you pick that up? That's my testicles. Officials said the box contained an old science kit. I can't find anything. With low-dose radioactive material used to teach students. We knew...

How does that get shipped? How do you... It's old. Yeah. It was back in the day. I guess they used to do that with some science. Is that... Are you playing with some of Grandpa's radioactive material? Yeah. All right. And there you go. That's what I have in the Bizarro File for you this morning. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We are scheduled to have Mr. Ian Bagg on the program. He's going to be at Punchline tomorrow and Saturday. A little later on, Antonio Sabato Jr. will be on the program and more. And how about we do this?

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Marissa. We'll check back in with Jackie Bam Bam in a little bit for the eye bleed for Preston and Steve Blood Drive. We may want to go to him at the end of the segment, Marissa, if you could let him know. So that's happening now at Live Casino in Philadelphia. But we have another guest who we're going to chat with right at this very moment. And he's going to be in town performing at Punchline tomorrow night and Saturday night. There are two shows planned.

Actually, it's air one on Friday, 7.30, and then two shows on Saturday, 7 and 9.15. He's joining us via Zoom and sporting some serious Buddy Holly-like glasses today. We've got to give some love to Mr. Ian Bass. Hey, Ian, how are you doing?

How you doing? Good, man. How are you, brother? I'm good, but the Internet's all crazy where I'm in. I'm in D.C. and stuff's happening here, so I'm sure they've got all the Internet down, right? You have to imagine that you got the Chinese government listening in on this and the Russian government, right? I mean, it's just when they hear that Ian Bagg and the President Steve show are communicating, I'm sure. I got these glasses on so I can turn lasers into anything.

It's just crazy. So they got me held down. Are those the Ray-Bans? No, I wish. I want to get those. These are actually the same group that made Michael Caine's glasses back in the 60s. Oh, cool. Yeah, so I grabbed these. I was like, awesome.

are awesome. You know, just a big old thing. I'm Michael Caine. So two things. I just saw Michael Caine a couple of months ago. I shouldn't say just say it, but it was him talking about, you know, life in the in the 60s and then Piccadilly Circus and when, you know, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and that old time. And he rocked those classes like nobody's business. But you're doing pretty damn good.

I'm doing okay. I wish I was able to have that cigarette hanging out like he did in the 60s, hanging out all the time, just girls running all over the place. But my wife won't let me do either of those things. Your wife is opposed to the girls running all over the place? I didn't know there was going to be votes during this relationship. I would always be outvoted. I'm like, hey, how about we do this? No, I don't want you to do that.

Were you ever a smoker at any point in your life? I wasn't. I haven't ever smoked. Have you? Yeah, I fell into it as a teenager. I started smoking when I was like 14 or 15 and that dragged on for a long time. I finally quit smoking

Wow. Explain your method. 22 years ago. All right, I'll explain my method. Listen to this method, Ian. Let me preface this by it worked. I haven't smoked in 22 years. But I found that the time that I smoked most was when I would drink alcohol. Now, I was an everyday smoker. And I would smoke about a half a pack of cigarettes a day. If I was drinking alcohol, I could smoke a pack of cigarettes in like two hours. Just chain smoking. Just tear them through them.

And it dawned on me one day that that proved that alcohol was my weakest moment when it came to smoking. So if I dove into headfirst learning how to smoke without drinking, it would therefore be easier for me to smoke and to not smoke on a daily basis. So I took just shy of two weeks and I got hammered every night and I forced myself to not smoke.

while I was doing that. And I switched up the booze every night. Like one night I did margaritas, another night I did beer, another night I drank whiskey. And this method made sense to me and it has since worked. And now for the low cost of $995, I will teach you this as well. Is it also not a George Thurgood song? Who knew that he was the leader in smoking cessation? Yes.

And trading alcoholism for smoking. You know what it is? It means that when you were drunk, you were a chatterbox. You had that cigarette going the whole time. What's going on? I have the Rolling Stones and nothing without teeth. Oh,

That's hilarious. Hold on, let me say this. I wanted to ask you because I saw this pop up a couple of times and a couple of things that just in this search on you in preparation for the interview today. And I'm happy to hear this if this is the case.

Have you recently become a bidet guy? I am a bidet guy. I just unbelievable. I'm not one of those filthy wipers anymore. Join the club. I saw the light a couple of years ago. I have the Luxe Bidet Neo 120, and I just replaced it. Is that it?

Has it got the blower? No. You have one with a blower? I don't have one with a blower, but I've been told the blower is the way to go. Because you can get your junk to rise out of the toilet if you get it on a right speed. It's kind of like Star Wars. You're lifting that X-Wing fighter out of the mud.

You're saying that it produces a jet of air that actually lifts your testicles out of the... Yeah, yeah. If you get it going right and right angle, you just got to twist around a little bit and you can get them going. No. If you get it going two speed, it's too fast. You'll get it going with the flying squirrel. It'll be over top of your head. So...

That is why, because they did have an option that, and I used the same one. I just replaced it out and the hose and everything was set. So took no time to do it. Which company? It's the Luxe Bidet Neo 120 on Amazon for 50 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. That's basically what they're all going for, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got that pussy. Did you get the heated? Did you get the heated water? I did not.

I did not get it. I like a cold stream. If you're going to do it in the morning, you want to wake yourself up after a good relief. But you've got to be careful because I coughed when using it and the water can go so far inside you.

Wow. Wow. It was like ricocheted off my ribs. That's how far I went. Wow. Well, I've never had that happen. Well, you probably never coughed. No, I never. I was dealing with a horrible sickness, coughed and watered the lawn at the same time. It's when you never feel quite clear.

and I have to say I'm a little jaded now because... How many people? Is everybody using it on the show? Just me. Guys, just go out and today after the show, just go out and turn your windshield wipers on on your windshield.

That's your butt afterwards. It streaks. It streaks. Okay. And then drink a bunch and smoke a bunch and you'll be back on to bidets within a month. Okay. I have a bidet question. After you get this flush, this cleaning out process that happens,

You still got to dry off. You got to dab a little, right? Yeah, a little bit. So, yeah. And Ian, so my method is I do the bidet and then one little bit of toilet paper for drying purposes. Yeah. And then I'm good to go.

Yeah, your toilet paper cost will go so far down. It's unbelievable. And yeah, you just relax a little bit afterwards. Give it a count to 30 and then give it a dab and off you go. Nobody needs to rush you out. It's water. It's fantastic. You do it in the tub. You do it in the shower. Why not do it right afterwards? When you were installing it, did you install it yourself or did you have someone do it?

I installed the first one myself. Right. And the second one, we moved afterwards and I just left it for the other people. And then we moved and I had it installed. And, uh,

The water pressure is much better on the water. Let me tell you, man, I was stunned because I was just checking and I did the stupid thing of like I knew what it was going to do and yet I turned the handle and it shot out like it was a super soaker. And I'm like, oh yeah, that's right. That's the whole purpose. Did you try to stop the water from coming out? I did. Did you do a depressed impression of the dog trying to bite the water?

Here's what I'm like. Like a dog in the hose. No, I used my hand to stop the flow when my other hand was on the dial that could just have turned it off. So that's how stupid I am. It's a natural reaction. Yeah, it's a natural reaction. But yeah, I know it's, listen, it's been a godsend. I know it's changed your life. It's a good thing. My wife was like, we don't need one. And then she's like, oh, I kind of like it.

I don't know with your guys' spouses, they won't give you a win. They just won't give you a win. It doesn't matter how great you do for them. They're just like, we bought a house and she goes, I can't believe your balls paid for this. Yeah.

because I talk about my nuts all the time. You shouldn't be surprised. You should be happy that they do. Let me ask you, we were talking earlier about those things that your significant other, we were saying, it goes both ways, but when your wife...

Something that you were woefully unaware of, where you feel like a big dummy. I referenced the, we didn't talk about it on the air, but there's this King of Queens bit where he finally figures out where the scissors are and what drawer they are. Do you have those moments with your wife or does it go mostly the other way?

I have some of those moments. It's a lot of just... I think she looks at me like she can't believe she didn't stay with Jeff Wayman. You know what I mean?

So you know the ex? So my wife is from like the store in Virginia, so it gets even better. Her ex is married to her friend's daughter. Whoa!

Wow! That is Virginia. That is, that is. I'm just like, my God, that's impressive. That is impressive, man. I have to shake Jeff, I have to shake Jeff Wayman's hand. This is impressive. Oh, son. Hold on, let me get this straight, son. You went two generations down? Come on! Come on!

Tell me she finds that creepy, right? She's just like, oh my God, he's an idiot. You're all idiots. Her mother goes, well, Jeff works for the government. He's got a retirement. He's also got a 19-year-old. But wait a minute. You said we're all idiots. Your wife lumps us in with Jeff?

I don't think we're as creepy as Jeff, but I think we're all idiots like Jeff. She took me to this bar a couple years ago. We were there with her family and Jeff was there and we were standing there and her brother's wife was over here and some guy kept hitting on her. He was with a group of guys. And then I'm just like, what's going on here? And I'm like,

I had to walk up and I was just like, hey, are we going to fight? Because I'm 50. I'm going to need to stretch. I mean, guys, let's calm down here. I know you guys are much younger. We all have work on Monday. I can't deal with this kind of stuff.

That's funny. It's just a punch, but I can't slip a disc. You're a working man. Oh, my goodness. What was the last win you had?

What was the last win I had? The last win, here's my biggest win. I was like, things are going well enough. You can go back to school and get your doctorate. And you don't have to work while getting your doctorate. And she goes, I can't believe your balls are paying for that.

That seems to be the default. So many stupid things. I think that was my last win was when I was like, hey,

This is actually turning out. She's fantastic though. I'm glad your balls are doing something because other than that, they just hang there and look unsightly. It's a beautiful thing. At a different length, that's the problem. At a different length? Yeah, like a broken yo-yo. It's kind of leading up to the side. It's just all twisted and hanging all around the side.

You're trying to untwist and it just gets worse. It's cruel. It's cruel what the years do to you, isn't it? Yeah, it's gravity. We should be working... A lot of people are working on cancer, but I think we should be working on this. On the symmetry of the nutsack? Yeah. Everything's so... Have you seen the one where the guy sits on the lawn chair and it slips? Yes.

We should be studying that. That should never happen to a man again. I have not seen this. Yeah, this guy goes and sits down. You see him just wince. And they're like, what is wrong? And he's sitting on this flat, it's almost like a stool that's made of slats. Oh my God. And it slips down into the slats. And he gets up and the stool comes with him. Oh, it just looks excruciating. It looks like something out of that Jim Rose sideshow. Yeah, yeah.

But he didn't know he was in the sideshow. Just all of a sudden it happens to him. I was terrified. Do you know what happens, Ian? Positions that you used to be able to attain, just simple things like the way you exit an automobile suddenly becomes, oh, I didn't know my nuts would do that now when I did that. When you order a comfort Uber and a cord shows up and you go, well, this is going to hurt. It hurts.

One of them's getting caught on the way out for sure. Oh, man. That's great. That's great. I wanted to ask you, you toured Australia recently. Just got back. Did you have, was there an issue with your departure? Well, jet lag too. I want to ask about that. But was there some sort of holdup that kept you there longer than you planned on staying? Yes. America said don't come back. No.

No, it's the pilot. The pilot got COVID on the way over. He tested positive for COVID, so they had to send somebody else over. So we got a day and a half extra in Sydney. Oh.

Okay. So, yeah, it was kind of crazy. But they kept, just they kept going, oh, it's going to be eight hours. Oh, it's going to be another 12 hours. Oh, it's going to be another 12 hours after that. It was like, I'm just like, hey, you guys know what's going on. You can just say. And then our plane was empty. It was like the beginning of Lost. Oh, wow.

It was unbelievable. I went into the back. There's three people in the back because I fly first. I went to the back and there was like 10 of us in first and the ladies that worked on it and guys that worked on it, they knew. They're like, hey, man, we're going to show you where the stuff is. We're just going to go sleep. Wow. So warm up your own food. Try this. Yeah.

Wow, that is wild. Hey, if you're tuning in, we're talking to Ian Bagg, who's going to be at Punchline tomorrow and Saturday. Did they give you any sort of compensation? I mean, you lost a day and a half. Yeah, they gave us $1,000. Oh. Yeah, as well as they upgraded my buddy that was with me because I took my friend over and didn't upgrade him. Right.

Unfortunately, it's a short flight from Australia. It's an expensive flight regardless. A free flight to Australia. And then when we got there, we flew... So we fly into Sydney. We're there for 12 hours. Then we fly to Perth, which is like flying from LA to New York. And then we're there for a day and a half. And we fly to Brisbane, which is the same length. And then we fly to... From Brisbane, we fly to Adelaide, which is like...

LA to Chicago and then we fly back to Brisbane and then we fly back to Melbourne and then we fly back to Brisbane and then we go to Sydney and then I can't remember one other place. I was so jet lagged. I've not been jet lagged like that in a long time. When I got back, I was just like waking up at like 4am and crying for no apparent reason. I don't know if things are going to be the same ever again. But

And they just sit with the water on my buggy and just let it just go for about four minutes. Ian, my brother and his girlfriend and their kids just went to Australia as well. And they flew from Denver to L.A. and then L.A. to Sydney and then Sydney to Brisbane. So they did a similar track as you. And when they were flying from Los Angeles into Sydney, my brother showed me something that I'd not seen before. There's a camera on the tail of the...

and you can watch as you approach into the Sydney airport. And it was really cool because they were flying over the ocean into Sydney, and the last minute or so of the flight is cool and pretty, but I'd not seen that. I don't know if that was just for Australia flights or if you had anything similar. Were they on Qantas? Is that what they were on? They were on Qantas, yeah. Yeah, so the best one is ANA has the same thing, and that camera stays on the whole trip. Yeah. So you can watch the takeoff.

and you can watch the landing, but you can just turn it on in the middle of the thing and just see where M-80, 270 disappeared, all sorts of things. It's too much. And that's quite the airport. So we had to circle. It's a great country. They're still like that size where they go, hey, we don't open the airport until 6. I don't care if you guys show up at 5.30. Just sit out on the Pacific and do some circles because we open at 6. That

That's what time. So we stayed out there just circling. And the Sydney airport doesn't open until 6, so we won't be landing for another 40 minutes. Even though we got some tailwind and we've come across so quick. And you can just see everybody getting to work. That's crazy. A major, major airport opens up at 6 o'clock in the morning. They do not open before they're like, which one is 11? Wow.

And they're that store that you go to at 5 to 11 and you're like, I can just get some stuff. And the kid goes, hey, we're closed already. And you're like, no, you guys are open. No, we're closed now. Okay? We closed. No. Thank you. You, my friend, need to be bumped by a car. Talking about the jet lag, and you were saying you had never had jet lag like that before. So the...

I want to go, I mean, at this point, you want to, you know, the countries that are far flung on your bucket list, I want to go to Japan.

It's just the notion, though, of that lengthy travel. Have you perfected any methodology? So do this. This is what I suggest to you. Look at the map. Don't just go, okay, they're going to tour me like this. No, look at the map and figure out where you should fly in and where you should fly out. Because that whole interstate stuff just gets you. It just nails you. Because it's not like you're just doing one flight and...

And then you're hanging, right? Yeah. It's all that stuff afterwards because if you're just hanging in one spot for like a week or so, you're going to catch up. Right. If you're going in and then the next day you're going and going and going, your brain just doesn't get it at all. You're just done. Right. And I feel like I've missed so much. I was falling asleep and I'd go to the show.

I'm going to bed right after the show. Right. Right. Right. I'm during the show halfway through. Look, guys, I'm just going to lie down. I think it's all about like really getting a logistics person in your family and having them set you up. Right. But I agree because to me it seems like and you talked about, you know, anything that you can do to

can you sleep? Are you a, an efficient sleeper on a flight? Well, then you're many steps ahead of me because that is my downfall. Are you, I don't know if it is like sometimes because you, when you get there, do you fall asleep? Like, are you, are you a bad flyer? I'm a, I'm a good flyer, but on, on,

trips of a certain length, I will burn off that arrival day and maybe the day after in a state of grogginess. And for me, I perceive that as a waste of money because... You're going to do that no matter what. Even if you're at the front of the plane and you've got to want to lie down bed, your first day is screwed no matter what. And my wife is like, as soon as we get off the plane and we're going someplace, she's got a list. We're doing this, we're doing that. And I'm like, no! We're going to sleep for a day.

And she's like, we don't waste money. We didn't fly to Spain to sleep. We came here to fight a bull. Well, you got to remind you, you're the one with the balls that's paying for it all. Calm it down. I'm like, you and your doctorate isn't paying for this. So...

Entertainment was playing for this. I don't care that you save children. Shut up, girl. What's her doctorate in? She's occupational therapy. Oh, well, that's pretty legit. And she works with children. She's a great person. And yeah, she does okay financially. But you have to know that there's every once in a while where she's there going...

I can't believe this, that this is the money dynamic. She's like... And it's only been recently that I've actually done okay. And I cannot believe how much money my friends were making and not telling me about. It's...

Kreischer and Segura and Gaffigan, they can all kiss the ground because I had no idea. They've never shared any of their cash with me or let me know that, hey, you might want to not swear as much because there's a bunch of cash out there. Not one of them did. And now I'm just like, I found out if I just took my time and kept on swearing, I could make that cash. But at the same time, I might have shut up a little bit. Oh, well.

Oh, well, but here we are. I know you guys are busy and stuff, but would you ever come out and see me at a show? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

I would love to have you guys out because as soon as I said, would you like to do some press in Philadelphia? I was like, only if it's Preston and Steve. So I think the world of you guys. We're honored. Yeah. We love having you on, man, anytime. So, yes, we got to get out and see you. By the way, Ina is going to be at Punchline tomorrow night. There's a show at 730 on Saturday.

Two shows, 7 and 9, 15. We got to run, man. We got a couple things going on. We got to stay on top of it. Before I leave, I got to say, Rick Talkett, it's fantastic. I love that. He's going to be in studio in a couple weeks, Ian. You tell him that we miss him in Vancouver. We'll do it. We love you, Ian. Thanks, guys. Take care. We'll see you. Ian Beck, guys.

guys. He's great. So funny. He is the best. Do we have time to talk to Jackie? Okay, so let's check in with Jackie Bam Bam. Do we have a song to turn him on? Oh, yeah, yeah. I got it right here. Thank you.

The presidency blood drive is happening as we speak. And we now go to Live Casino and Hotel Philadelphia. I think. Jackie Bam Bam, are you there? Don't think. I'm taking all the blood. Yes. Taking the blood. Actually, we need to search you before you leave and make sure you're not walking out with a few pints. I'm sampling it all. And you know what?

Press, you know what's funny? I'm learning things. Like I was telling you about the suitcase carrying in here. Elaine and Helen, by the way, are standing here next to me. I was talking to Elaine last night, and I said, what do you call the little service stations with the food? You know, when you get a tattoo, you've got to have some sugar. You give blood. And she said they're... What did you call it? Canteen. Canteen. And you know me, I'm all about the music. So I start singing...

My Candina by Tony Orlando and Dawn. And I'm like, wait a minute. We got to get Kyle to make a jingle with Tony Orlando and Dawn. My Candina. You get it? I get it. It's Candida, though, right? It's not Candina. I know, but we could change it. Okay. All right. Yes. So that's what it's called. They're Candina. Canteen. I can say it. Yeah. Kayak. Say kayak. Kayak.

Yeah. Filled with blood today. But there's little Oreos over there. There's Wooders over there. And Elena, you called last night and you keep me out of trouble here. I do. And how many years have you and me been doing this over here? Nine, I think. Nine? Yeah. Wow. Jackie, by the way, we should bring this up is that you did your show last night. You stayed all the way through the night doing preparation. Obviously, you do a lot of show prep. Then you left from here to head over there. So you've been going for how many hours now?

I don't even count. You know, it's funny. Helen and Elaine, everyone's asking me, when are you going to sleep today? Because I'm like, you get that second wind. And, you know, we've been talking about this blood drive for a while. And you guys told me you're going to do day one over here.

And I was super excited. So I get a second wind. I'll sleep later on, but yeah. We appreciate it. It means a lot to us. Hardworking men. Absolutely. And so are you getting a chance to meet with some of the donors, Jackie, and saying hi to everybody? Yeah, Preston. I'm glad you brought that up because...

I'm looking at all the people over there in the canteen area. Everyone's got your shirts on, whether it's the Phillies Preston Steve shirt. I saw the Star Wars Preston Steve shirt. The Queen black and white, by the way. I've been asking Casey Boy for one of them. The black and white because I dream in color, but I live in black and white. I want one of them. But then the cardboard classic dude is here from the Collision Center. What's his name? And he's in a suit. He's like, Jackie, I told you I was going to wear the suit. You wear the mask.

I'm like, dude, I love you. So everyone's a star over here. So that's Dave, Casey was saying. And I also have to mention that both of the bird bots are there if you want to get a picture with the bird bots. And we're going to have it at Oak. They're going to have them with Oaks tomorrow. But there's also this step and repeat that they had made with all. And a step and repeat, in case you do not know, is the thing that you stand in front of to take pictures. It's usually some kind of a logo that's repeated over and over in the background. And we had one made. I didn't know this.

With all of our former Preston and Steve Blood Drive t-shirts. It's amazing. It's so cool. Yeah, it's really cool. So you can get a picture with that, too. And, of course, with Jackie Bam Bam while you're there. Yeah, it's this big white backdrop with all the t-shirts in front of it. What did you call it? A step? I thought it was at a gym. What is it? Step and repeat. Step and repeat. Step and repeat. Okay, I learned that today. All right, very good. We all learn something every day. It's healthy for you to do that. Jackie, we'll check back in in a few minutes. Thanks for being our correspondent on the scene, brother.

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official jeweler of the Preston and Steve show. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve show podcast. All right, thank you, Marissa. In a little while, we'll give away some more Hershey Park tickets in this segment. Hopefully, we'll be able to do that, so make sure you stay with us. But in the meantime, it's time for the stream of consciousness. My mind is a raging torrent of...

Flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. The stream of consciousness there. So many things to choose from. But I'll reach right in. Steve actually sent me an article the other day that I think you guys will find intriguing.

It's from an emergency doctor and he has flagged a one minute do it yourself test that could reveal a ticking time bomb killer heart condition. These are always wonderful articles to see, you know, pop up because if you go through a lot of the tabloid journalism, you're going to find about 200 ways you're going to die every day. Oh, yeah, yeah, without question. But

The guy's name is Dr. Joe Whittington. He's an emergency medicine expert from California and said the hack, which involves this thing that you do with your thumb, and I'll show you what you do, could indicate a high risk of suffering an aortic aneurysm.

So this involves the aorta, the main artery carrying blood from the heart to the rest of the body, bulging or swelling, risking rupture. Now, the ruptures in the blood vessel are often fatal due to severe internal bleeding unless treated rapidly with emergency surgery. So in the video, the doctor told his followers, hold up your palm and try to stretch your thumb across as far as you can and see how far you can go with it. All right. So, Steve, let's see yours.

I can only go about, I can almost touch the underwear my pinky is. Yeah, about the same. Same thing. Same. You too. And Casey, Marissa's on the phone right now, so I'm not going to be able to have her. Does it matter which hand? It doesn't matter. They should both do about the same. Yeah, my left is better than my right. Actually, mine is too, Case. Yeah. I can go a little further with the left. Is that the spanking hand? No, that's the stranger. So...

he says, does it stop about there? And he shows in the video like three quarters away across the hand. He said, or does it extend past your palm like these? And then he shows someone who can do that. And he said that that is considered a positive thumb palm test.

If your thumb extends past your palm, this could mean your connective tissues are very stretchy, he said, indicating that the same stretchiness applies to the tissues in the arteries, meaning a high chance of swelling or bulging. So I did a little extra checking around this. Yeah. And there seems to be some merit to it. Now, does this...

mean that you should go into fits of terror? No, but it might be a subtle indicator. Yeah, so he went on to detail a 2021 study that was published by the American Journal of Cardiology, which found 60% of people with known aortic aneurysms had a positive palm thumb test, so 60% did. The researchers gave the test to 305 patients undergoing cardiac surgery for a variety of disorders, including aortic aneurysms.

While the majority of aneurysm patients did not manifest a positive thumb-palm sign, patients who did have a positive test had a high likelihood of harboring an aneurysm. Now, while many aneurysms don't cause symptoms until they rupture,

Doctors may spot them during routine tests and offer treatments to prevent damage such as blood pressure medication. Is this only for aortic aneurysm? So not like an aneurysm that one might have in their brain or something like that? As far as this article goes, Casey, yeah. So I can't answer that correctly or not. So those that do not cause symptoms tend to trigger pain in the chest, neck, and or back, swelling of the head, neck, and arms, coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, or coughing up blood.

But those with a positive palm thumb test should not freak out, he said. It is worth bringing up to your doctor so that they can dive deeper into any sort of connective tissue disorder. My line of thinking is, without getting crazy, that it's like what they used to say about the PSA test, which is the thing that saved my life with prostate cancer. Right. Is that, oh, well, you know, you might get a false positive. If you have information, that might help you get positive.

jump on something that could be an issue. Why not? Yep. Go for it. So we were all doing this. Marissa was on the phone. I want you guys all to look at Marissa across the glass. Look at her holding up her hand. You got her. Oh God, I'm dead. Yeah. No, this is exactly why I did that American Heart Association thing. Like there's so many women out there with heart issues and blood. Like this is a thing. Yeah. So, I mean, I have to squeeze my hand a little bit.

Like squeeze my fingers. I can't even squeeze. Okay. I might snap off. Are you very flexible, Marissa, in general? Do you have like... Are you double jointed anywhere or anything like that? Not necessarily double jointed, but I'm flexible. Like I was always gymnastics and there was a pose recently that my friends told me about where like it's supposed to calm your whole day if you can like...

What's the praying pose in yoga? Oh, God, where's Kathy? Is it when you... She's not here anymore. Is it when you put your leg up on the side like this? No, no, no. You put your hands together and then you bend at the knees. Okay. And if you can bend all the way down, I'm going to bend all the way down and keep your feet

flat, like your heels on the ground, and if you can hold that for five minutes, it's supposed to be peaceful and restful. I can do it, no problem. That would be painful and unsettling to me, not peaceful and restful. My kneecap would shoot across the room. Marissa, can you take your right elbow, draw it down and back you between your legs and

and take your left elbow and come in between your legs from the front and touch them together. Like, wait, like climb through? That's what you're trying to do. It's impossible. No, but I can put my foot behind my head. Are you serious?

I haven't done this in a minute. We have to see that. Here she goes. Oh, my God. That's pretty close. Close. I got it like to my forehead. You got to stretch a little bit. Oh, so you're not wearing clothes that are conducive. Yeah. And your headphones are on. Jeans shorts. You know what I used to be able to do? You know that kid and play move where you hold your foot with your hand and jump over and jump through it? Can you do that? I used to be able to do that. Can you try it? God, no. No, I'm not going to do that now. Come on. No, no, no. I can't do that now. I threw the guitar around my neck. You can do that. Oh, I know I'm not going to be able to do it anymore. Would it help if I held you up? Yeah.

Actually, don't do it. You will hurt yourself. You know I will. I know. I hurt myself when I threw the guitar around my neck. Are you still hurting from that? No, no, but it hurt bad for a couple days. But Marissa, I wanted to let you know that aortic aneurysms are more prevalent in men than women, but women who develop them tend to have poorer outcomes. Thank you.

Thank you, doctor. So this is good old AI overview from Google or whatever. But yeah, so go and I don't know how you test for that. I mean, I guess maybe like an MRI or something. Yeah. By the way, Marissa, the pose is called the prayer pose. It's also known as the Pranamasana or Pranamana.

the Anjali Mudra. The Nanapia. The Nanapia. That's the one. So, well... Kong Kong. Or the Kong Kong. My... Yeah. I had a friend, speaking about being double-jointed and being able to do funky things. My friend... Do you guys know anybody who could bend...

The very tips of their fingers. Oh, yeah. Just the tips. You can almost do it, Steve. I mean, like his almost went straight across. So this was as a result, as you know, of a dodgeball injury. Yeah. Yeah. No, but I...

No, I mean, like my friend, he could do all 10 fingers and he would. Oh, wow. And he would go, you know, freak out when he would do it. He could also flip his eyelids. Oh, I never did that. Never did that. Repulsive. You what? Yeah, but I mean, some people can flip their eyelids like no problem. I have to use like two hands. I'm like, I think I got it this time. I never, that was never something that, effing with the eyes was never something that, it freaks me out. Yeah. No, thank you.

All right, well, anyhow, if you can do this thumb thing, it's almost like you're making the number four with your hand. Or taking an oath, right? Yeah, or taking an oath. You can drag your thumb all the way across and it goes past the palm. You may want to let your doctor know. Don't go like, oh, my God, I need a test right now. I'm dying! I'm dying! Pull up to the hospital drive right into the emergency entrance. Yeah, and scream, I'm dying. Cut off the...

die in here. See what they do. So I've never heard of that before. I would imagine there are other little, you know, like touch your chin to your chest and there's some things that they do. I had asked Dr. Mike last time I was in there and he did the cup your testicles cough thing. I'm like, what's that about? Is that just a little practical joke you guys have or whatever? No, it's a hernia test. Yes.

which I was not aware of. Oh, he's on the phone. Oh, good God. Let's go, TVN. Penn Medicine and Fox 29, Dr. Mike Cerrigan. Hey, Dr. Mike.

Hey, I didn't hear from the phone. Something was funky there. I didn't hear from Marissa. I just heard me jumping in. But you guys were talking about hyper mobility, right? You're able to move your joints more than than others. Is that right?

Well, the conversation actually we got started on, Dr. Mike, is started with a test that you can do with your hand where it's almost like you're taking an oath or you're making the number four. And if your thumb can go all the way across and go past your palm, it might be an indicator that you could be susceptible to an aortic aneurysm. Yeah.

Yes, yes, because you have a weakness or a laxity of the connective tissue, and there are conditions like Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or Marfan's where people are kind of born with that, and they can have weakened cartilage, and that can lead to an enlarged aorta.

And that's called an aortic aneurysm. And that can be deadly and people can die from it and they don't even know about it. So, yes, it's a well-known thing. And you got to, if you have hyperlaxity, if you will, if your joints relax,

really are able to... They just have something on America's Got Talent, where this guy went into all kinds of contortions. Right. And he definitely, definitely has some kind of a condition. It's either Ehlers-Danlos or Marfan. And look, he's making money off of it. But again, we say that this is not necessarily a reason to panic, but something you might want to apprise your doctor of, correct? Yes.

Well, absolutely, and as all of you there have undergone the Dr. Mike experience, you know that many of you have had echocardiograms. So if I hear a murmur or if there's some concern about coronary disease, we'll do a cardiac calcium CAT scan. That often picks up enlarged aortas, and so that requires, Steve,

that you do a yearly, depending on the size, if it's really big, if it's in the five centimeter range, then I send you to a CT surgeon because that's getting close to where they have to do something about it. They have to do something. Yeah, we'll have like a surgical procedure. But for most people...

I was just going to jump in because Preston at the beginning, he mentioned that he had asked you about the hernia check, the classic hernia check. Is that a very decisive check or are you just playing around? No. Is it still a tried and true method of determining a hernia? Oh,

Oh, absolutely. Now, Preston, so what I did was, if you remember, I hope you do or else you didn't remember, I put my finger in your inguinal area and I had you cough on both sides. That's where you can have inguinal hernias. And what you feel is a little push back, if you will. And that

means there is a weakening of the abdominal musculature down there so that the intestine kind of pushes through. Now, the other kind is an umbilical hernia. I mean, there's all kinds of ventral hernia. The ones you worry about the most are umbilical hernias and inguinal hernias because they can get incarcerated.

By the way, Dr. Mike, I remember all our little finger moments. Yeah, yeah. I did not forget that. They mean a lot. Just don't think you're some fly-by-night fling. It means a lot to him when you do that. Well, I would have my feelings hurt. Let me ask you one thing as well, if I may. There was a story from a while ago, and I think it might have been the baseball commissioner, or he was spotted at a game. Nick, maybe you remember this.

And there was something about his fingers that led an observant person who was in the audience or watching on TV to say that he was probably heading towards a heart attack. What would someone have seen on his hands that would have indicated that?

So that probably was clubbing. I remember it's the fingernails and the angle of the fingernails. And someone very astutely picked up on that. And it can be a sign of a lung problem. And I think it wasn't hard. I think he had a lung tumor or either emphysema or something like that. I mean, Nick will have to check it.

I remember the story, but I forget some of the details. Yeah, it was pretty wild. Somebody observing on TV caught it and then alerted him to it.

Well, how about thyroid disease? Wendy Williams, I think a viewer called in and said, hey, your neck is big. I mean, that's happened a lot of times where someone has a thyroid mass and they get picked up on television and saves their life. Well, we know you and we love you. And thank you for the wealth of medical information and the lives you save every day, Dr. Mike.

I love you all. I love you guys. You're just beautiful human beings, beautiful people. And us beautiful. I mean from the inside. And us beautiful people have a blood drive happening today and tomorrow. So we're doing our part for the medical community as well. And I'm sure you appreciate that. Well, I do. And listen, God bless you all. All right. Thank you, Dr. Mike. We love you. Dr. Mike.

He's just the absolute best. And I do remember a little finger moments because there's always plenty of them that take place. Dr. Mike's very thorough. Very thorough. Cleanest fingers I've ever seen in my life. Cleanest office, cleanest everything. I like the word inguinal. Inguinal. By the way, here's a text came in that says, hey, he's right. 11 years ago, I was a healthy 44-year-old and I was diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm that I had taken care of down at University of Pennsylvania. There you go, man. Look at us.

All right, let's stream. The stream of consciousness, sir. So we got Father's Day coming up this weekend. And there was a survey that was done about what fathers want for Father's Day. In the realm of desired presence or just in general? Yeah, so more than half of the dads, 56%.

for Father's Day, they said is the best when they get to spend it with their children or grandchildren. Are there children around when they say this? I don't know. There's only half of them that said this. Nearly 60% of fathers just want to spend time with their kids for Father's Day. Yeah, that's kind of not how it works. I'd rather go play golf with my brother or something like that. That's a cool Father's Day thing for sure. And then you have dinner with everybody later on after you've spent the day away from your family.

So enjoying a meal together at home is the second most popular activity for dad's special holiday, followed by going out to eat or drink at 36%. What's your meal of choice for Father's Day? If a dinner is made for you, what does dad get for Father's Day? I mean, like a classic is a good steak, you know, something like that. Okay, yeah.

whatever, man, just as long as I don't have to cook. Just a wee meal. You know, I do, I don't do all the cooking, but I do, I think I do the majority of the cooking at home. Uh, so if somebody else makes a meal for me, that's, uh, that's pretty awesome. All right. What is the, the favorite thing that your wife makes? Her meal that you don't attempt that she does? Uh,

And when she makes it, does she turn the broilers up on high immediately? Yeah. Because that's the thing. In my house, I wouldn't do a steak dinner on Father's Day because I'm the one who makes the steaks in the house, right? Okay. And I wouldn't dare make chicken parmesan because she's the chicken parmesan. She's the master. Yeah, and she's the meatball person. You know what I mean? Who's the master? Yeah. No, so we have our things that we make, and so I'm sure Rochelle has something. Yeah, she's got a few different things. Nothing's coming to mind right now, which is like, you got to make that for me. Yeah. I'll take whatever.

How about you? What would Diane make for you? I'm hoping for meatballs. She makes me meatballs. I think for her, it's a multi-step process, but it's fairly simple. Nick, do you get a Father's Day treatment at home, or is it just pretty low-key? We don't do a whole lot. I tell the gang, just don't schedule anything for me that I have to do on that day. I'd like a day off. I'd like to be able to sleep in. We're having a big family reunion this weekend down the shore, and so that'll be fantastic, because

My brothers are coming in, and my mom, who is a great cook, is making a huge meal for everybody in the family, along with my Aunt Susan, on Sunday night. So that'll be the get-together sort of family... I mean, sort of a Father's Day thing, but mostly family reunion. Yeah, like a break from... Like, I'm not doing chores today. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? If there's...

Even the little ones, just somebody else handle it and that is enough for me. You don't have to buy me anything. They will always get me gifts. And an easy go-to for me anytime is golf balls. Golf balls. And they're like, but that's boring. I'm like, not to me. I like them. I want more of them. So don't ever feel like it's a cop-out to get me golf balls. That's what I like to get. Get daddy balls. Yeah, get dad's balls.

So some say they would just like to watch movies or TV of their choice on Father's Day. A quarter also want to spend time with their own father or father figure. And other dads would prefer free time to spend however they want, like going out for an activity or spending time on their own or with friends as well. So some people just do want to get away from all family stuff for the day. Mother's Day is traditionally like the super packed restaurant.

Yeah. Everyone takes mom out for dinner, but I don't think it is anywhere near the same for Father's Day. Do you think that's because the dads don't know how to cook and that's why they always do dinner? Uh,

Maybe. We would do more. They would treat them to a nice meal. Yeah. And maybe a lot of guys aren't great cooks and feel that they can pull off a nice meal. So, you know, I don't know. I don't know. But anyhow, yeah, I've always been, you know, like even for our anniversary today, it's just like we told each other happy anniversary and that's it. We don't have that. We have enough other things that we need to do. I'm so sick and tired. So we just take it nice and easy for that person.

What anniversary number is this, by the way? This will be 26. 26 for us, yeah. Your wife, Michelle. My wife, Michelle, who called earlier this morning. No, we got married in 1999. So are you guys, you are doing something for dinner tonight or you're not? No, her family's in town. Okay. So they're at the shore. Oh. And what about you for your birthday? Okay.

No, not, no. Nothing tonight? Over the weekend, we're doing some stuff. So, yeah. But, and again, we're, you know, at a certain point, oh, she, Claire made, when I left this morning, there was a huge, I love the brownies that she makes. She puts Ghirardelli chocolate chips in them. And so she made a huge tray. And then the pets got me some Amazon gift cards. Aw. Yeah, yeah. Isn't that nice of them? All right. So that's Father's Day this week. And enjoy that. We'll stream on to something else.

The stream of consciousness. So when doing laundry, do you guys ever turn any of your clothing inside out before you wash it? Was I just not talking to you about this? Because if you cut me, do I not bleed? Right. No, it's like I'm curious. And the next time I do laundry, I'm going to make sure every item of clothing goes into the wash right side. Right.

Not inside out. And then just to see, because I'm curious as to what gets turned inside out just in the course of washing and drying. That's right. So you're under the impression that during the washing process, the machine somehow or another will get some clothes to turn inside out. I don't think they will. I think they go in the way they go in and they stay that way. I know that.

It's a tall order to get something to turn inside out. I don't know, man. I've seen... Once it gets wet, too. I don't know, man. I think it's pretty violent in there. Yeah, I do the laundry in the house. It's an hellscape. I do the laundry in the house, and more often than not, stuff that goes in right side in comes in inside out, and it always kind of surprises me, Casey. I have no idea why. I'm guessing because of the tumbling contained within. But here's a lesson, Ben, if you're listening. Turn your clothes...

inside out or turn them right side in because I've been telling you this since you were two and it's time as an 18 year old that you learned this do it right so there are some pieces of clothing you are supposed to wash inside out may I guess who did not know there's a whole bunch of them sure sucks

Nope. No? I take the one that's not? Nope. Socks you can wash right side, inside, however you want. That makes no difference. Goddamn disgrace I am. No, and I only recently came across this, because I'm an idiot when it comes to the wash, but I do it anyway, because I've got these...

These jeans that I love, they're not denim. They're called the world's greatest jean. They're awesome. Yeah, so they're stretchy and they're more like a... And they look right all the time. They look fantastic. You don't get those creases in them. And they're not cheap. And you know how denim is durable. You can have a pair of jeans forever. So I wanted to keep these in good condition. So I read the washing...

And it says for best results, turn them inside out. So I turn them inside out when I wash them now. So this was an article, a cleaning expert, Mary Gagliardi, had said it depends on the fabric of the material and what you're washing. Certain garments may benefit from a little extra attention. She said the mechanical action of clothing rubbing up against other items in the load is

contributes to piling and fading. And she said it makes sense to turn some types of clothing inside out to better protect them. Oh, pilling? Is it pilling? Yeah, that's like when on a sweater pills show up. Those little balls. Yeah, little lumps of cloth or whatever. They're much pegging. That's totally different. We'll get up at home. That's when I was washing, I did that. And man, I couldn't sit for a week. Wow.

I always forget what pegging is because I always think it's sounding and that's not pegging. Think of strap-on. Strap-on, butt. There you go. Enough said. When turning an item inside out before washing, be sure to pre-treat any stains first. You know, if you're pegging or something like that, they might get some stains on them. Can't get some stains out of this dildo. She says that most of your laundry can go straight into the wash as is generally speaking socks,

plain t-shirts, towel sheets, and dress shirts can all be tossed in the wash without turning them inside out. So what clothes should you wash inside out? Well, first of all, any item where the care label recommends it, like those jeans I was telling you about. Do you read care labels a lot? No. Yeah, I don't. No, but I did for this because they were expensive and I wanted them to last. So she says denim jeans tend to fade fast. And

And that washing them inside out helps preserve the original color and reduces friction on zippers and seams. Isn't the desired look, though, for a lot of jeans that faded look? Yeah, some of them. Yeah. All right. Brightly colored garments. There's nothing more frustrating than when a garment has mysteriously lost its luster after only one or two washes. So brightly colored apparel benefits from being washed inside out to prevent color fading inside.

and it can apparently help retain its color and look new for a longer amount of time. Delicate fabrics. Of course, right? Delicate fabrics like bamboo. Bamboo? Yeah, I have a bamboo vest, and the problem is the pandas keep eating it. Rayon and Modal, M-O-D-A-L, are prone to pilling, Nick. There we go. Does that sound familiar? Marissa Modal?

M-O-D-A-L. Isn't that a sports store? I don't know that as like a fabric word. Modal. So inside out washing adds a bit of protection, it says. And you should wash on the delicate cycle with cold water and a gentle detergent. Gentle. All right. Embellished pieces. So to prevent damage to garments embellished with sequins, beading, or other detailing, you

They advise turning them inside out before washing. They said, I recommend turning them inside out, placing each one in a mesh laundry bag beforehand. So I have a lot of studs on my gimp mask. Should I turn that inside out? You should hand wash that. Although any type of washing machine drum can snag fabric, machines with agitators or impellers.

Okay. There's a whole bunch of terms here I'm completely unaware of. And do more damage. Modal can be like yoga pants. They look really soft, almost like harem pants. Oh, okay. And they look super comfortable. They do look comfy. All right. So knits are another one that you should turn inside out. Blankets.

Blended yarns made of both natural and synthetic fibers are more prone to pilling. Oh, not baby life? No, not baby life. Nice. Because the strong of the synthetic fibers hold on to loose natural fiber ends, entangling them in form of small balls or pills. Is that what hold on loosely is about? Yeah, that's exactly what it's about. All right, now this one I did not know, and this one you may want to do. All right. Graphic tassels.

Okay, so I have a number of those. Yeah. Yeah. We all do. We wear lots of them here. So when it comes to your favorite concert or playoff game t-shirts, those iron-on graphics have the potential to crack and fade over time, especially if you wash them in hot water. I think the clock is always ticking from the moment you get them. Yeah. They go south quickly. Yeah. Turn them inside out and use cool water to keep the artwork intact longer. Did not know that. Wow.

So what about a concom? I don't know anything about concons. Concon.

They recommend hanging your graphic tees to dry as your dryer's heat can also do even more damage to those beloved graphics. Interesting. So you get the new Preston and Steve t-shirt from the Blood Drive. Wash it inside out, hang it up, let it dry. You know, one of the greatest things I ever did, though, as far as when I'm getting t-shirts with graphics, getting the tri-blend version of it, even though you pay a little bit more, I find those t-shirts last much longer. Do you find that as well? No.

The graphics and everything? I don't know. Probably. Yeah. Especially if it's like a silkscreen. Yeah, I didn't realize that that was an optional of all these companies. And then finally, Casey, athletic wear. They recommend you turn inside out and you wear a lot of athletic wear. I do. That's kind of all I wear. Yeah, I don't know.

Sports for us? Listen, man, I just chuck it all in the wash. I don't pay attention to anything. You piss on it? Well, yeah, before the wash, obviously. Not after. Let it soak. I let the piss soak in. I usually do a warm, and I don't separate colors. You don't need to separate colors anymore, for the most part. Yeah. That ended a while back, which is good. Dude.

Did you learn nothing about the civil rights movement? Can I ask you a question when it comes to laundry? Has the problem of ring around the collar been eradicated? Because I have not seen any commercials about ring around the collar. I have wondered about that as well because if you have a white woman

a dress shirt. Yeah. I will get that, the ring around the collar. You do? I do, absolutely. And so I am curious about that. Yeah, Casey, because that used to be an ad campaign for me ages ago. Ring around the collar? It's almost like you were a leper. You had to ring around the collar in those commercials. Had sex with a dog. Get away from him. Did you hear about Ed? He had sex with a dog. I got something better. Bill has ring around the collar. Yeah.

Get away from me. The detergent that they used in that ad campaign was called whisk, and they have not made whisk since 2017. So, I mean, their whole ad campaign was based on wringing around the collar. And I would say this, that the technology is such that a lot of the washing machines now seem to have – because, again, we're getting – thank you, Ray's Appliances –

in Kanchoak. I mean, we're purchasing them, but we're getting all this new stuff for the redo of the kitchen and the washroom. And the stuff that these things can do is amazing. I wonder about soap technology. You see a new Cascade commercial, right? And it's like, how much better have we gotten at getting dirt off of dishes that they need to launch an entire new brand of Cascade? Does it evolve that much over the years? Lost a lot of good men in that region. Right? Yeah.

Well, I still get the ring around the collar. So apparently that technology is not working in my house. Maybe I have a disgusting neck. You know? I'm sure there's a support group. Nick, you were saying that Wisk does not exist anymore? No. It looks like they stopped production in 2017. Maybe they made enough and we can just coast for a while. But yeah, see, maybe there's a support group like the Bad Neckers. I am Preston and I have a disgusting neck.

So, Wisk, I guess, has been rebranded as a detergent called Persil, which I've not heard of before. No. P-E-R-S-I-L. That's it. And there was a company, I just lost it. It used to be owned by Unilever, and then they sold to Sun Products in 2008, and then Sun Products changed Wisk to Persil. Rochelle started using a, buying a detergent that is, it's like a concentrate. Oh.

Oh, yeah. And so instead of filling up like as much as you normally would, you just do like it's got a pump on the top of it. You just do like two squirts and that's it. My wife is using, since it sounds like a sitcom here, but it's actually like a sheet that you put in that is the detergent. Oh, I know. It looks like a dryer sheet, right? It looks like a dryer sheet. But it is the detergent for the washer.

The devil, you say? I swear to God. It's magic. And then she slits a rooster's throat over it and dances in a pentagon. Wow. No, I'm not familiar with that. Interesting. All right. Well, those are some tips for you if you're doing some laundering, some stuff you need to turn inside out. The stream of consciousness, sir. Time for one more. As long as it's a shorty. Well, we got to talk to Jackie Bam Bam. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So let's talk to him instead. All right. We're not going to do a stream of consciousness. No. We are, however, going to talk blood. There you are, blood.

Yeah! You got it! Jackie Bam Bam is live. Wait, that's the wrong thing. It's right there? It's there. All right, Jackie Bam Bam is live at Live Casino Hotel in Philadelphia for day number one of the I Believe for President Steve Blood Drive. How are we doing over there, Jackie?

Hey, guys. Great. We're moving and grooving. Everyone's getting up off the tables. Everybody's smiling. And to my left is, I called it cold blood, but it's called, what's it called, Helen? Power Reds. Cold blood. Can we call it that? I don't think so. No, we can't. Cold press. Where's your cold press machines? Yeah. We call it a Power Red donation. The Power Red actually takes a little bit longer, but how are the Power Reds today?

They're doing good. Yeah. You know, Steve loves to do Power Reds. Hey, question about the Power Reds. Is that different than the Double Red or has that just been rebranded to that? It's been rebranded. Okay. So besides the regular blood donation, the Power Red, isn't there a third one as well that sometimes people end up getting done? Big Red. A platelet.

Donation. Yes. Donor centers across the area. I just remember people who did some. Maybe it was the power red. They were like, yeah, they put on a movie for us or something like that. Yeah. You guys still do that?

Yeah, for the platelet donations because it takes longer. Platelet, okay. Well, and so are people processing through pretty efficiently there from what you can see? Yeah, everything is going great. There really are smiles across the whole place. Donors are happy. Our team is happy. It's beautiful. Can you determine, because last year I remember there were a lot of newbies who had come on out. Are you seeing a lot of first-time donors? Yes.

I can't tell that yet. Okay. I'll do that tomorrow. All right. It's true. I just had a listener come for the first time. He says he's been to the Cardboard Classic. He's been to Kenan's, but he's never been to a Preston Street Blood Drive. And it was the first time. It was really nice hearing that. I love when people tell us they hit all of our major events. Cardboard Classic, the Camp Out for Hunger, Kenan's, and the Blood Drive. Those are our big signature. And the Christmas Miracle. Yeah. Our big signature events throughout the year.

And yeah, when you hear somebody's a veteran of all those, love hearing that. Terrific. So Jackie, yeah. So when people are done, they go over to the canteen, they hang out for a little bit. As you were saying earlier, you love that term canteen. And then is that when they go and pick up their shirt and tote bag and head out?

Yeah. Right here when you enter and you exit, we have our little tent set up. And by the way, the shirts are amazing. I don't know if you described it over the air. They have all of your names on the shirt, like the city line, you know, the landscape of Philadelphia. Just amazing. In blue and yellow. It's really cool. And what was the girl's name who designed the shirt again? Her name is...

Hang on, because I had to write it. Kristen Kimball. And yeah, it's our names that actually create the city skyline. It's pretty cool. Actually, Kristen's going to be there tomorrow. She's donating. And so I don't know if she lives in Florida full time, but she's coming to Oaks to see us tomorrow for the blood drive there. That's excellent. And you know what's really cool is that the skyline contains the name Kathy a number of times. Of course, yeah. And you're laying on the table going, that's my girl's, my best friend. Is that what you're saying? I have headphones on.

Your friend designed the shirt. Okay. Nice. And you know what I love about that? You were talking earlier about people looking happy and everything. When you do this, if you've never done this before, when you're done with it...

I feel so satisfied after donating blood. I don't know what it is, but you just feel really good for the day. You've done, listen, it's one of those things where, I mean, we collect food to give to people and we do all that other stuff and say we, the collective you listening. But this is, you're actually giving of your own body in a very, you know, visceral and straight way to help somebody. And when you realize how still there's no incredibly good,

efficient method for storing blood for a long time. So it always needs a new supply. And so every time you do it, you can't believe all the good it's going to go do. Yep. All right, Jackie, happy that things are going along well. Thanks for keeping abreast of the situation. And we'll check back in before we're done for the day. Okay. Okay. Thanks so much, guys. You got a Jackie Bambi who is on location as we speak for

The I Believe in Presidency Blood Drive. Of course, tomorrow morning we're going to be at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oats broadcasting live. So will Pierre Robert. And then after that, Brent Porsche is going to be broadcasting live. So it's all good. And speaking of live broadcast, we're headed back to the sweetest place on earth, Hershey, Pennsylvania. And we are going to Hershey Park for June 26th, that day. And we have 500.

tickets that they have given for us to pass along to you. It's amazing. I have a family four-pack right now. We'll take call number 13-610-6609-333 and this summer you can go all in. Epic Thrills. They have 15 coasters. Makes up the largest collection in the Northeast. Plus you got to get ready for the all new Twizzlers.

Twisted Gravity, the world's tallest scream and swing. And our live broadcast and everything that comes with that, early entry, free parking. So give us a call right now. If you happen to be number 13, you get to join us, and we can't wait to see you there. We're going to take a break, come back, and we've got bizarre file stories on the way when we return. We'll be right back.

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A woman and a man fired a flare gun into a house and ignited a fire in Barnegat on Saturday afternoon. Kaylee Principato, who's 18 years old at Barnegat, and Lucas A. Pyle of Egg Harbor, who is also 18.

were charged with aggravated arson and weapons possession following their arrest on Monday. Was there intent to cause arson? Yeah, I think so. The living room window curtains caught fire after the two shot the flare gun and the residents extinguished the fire before firefighters and police arrived.

Both of them remain held at the Ocean County Jail. And also, terroristic threats in Atlantic County from March are still pending against Pyle. So, just sounds like he's a hoot. I love him. I love the lug. They shot a flare gun into someone's house. Wow. A Florida man is facing up to 30 years in prison.

for pretending to be a flight attendant to book free airline flights. Wow. 30 years. The Justice Department said yesterday that Tyrion Alexander was convicted of wire fraud and unlawfully entering a secure airport area under false pretenses.

Prosecutors said that Alexander pretended to be a flight attendant, providing fake badge numbers and hire dates through seven different airlines. They knew something was up when a passenger asked for nuts and he said, how about these nuts? Before he was caught, Alexander managed to book more than 120 free flights. So he took advantage of this many times. He is set to be sentenced sometime in August.

This is scary. An online beef between YouTube streamers, which included personal and public attacks.

including an alleged pepper spray incident where a friend said, I'm just glad it wasn't bullets, ended up turning deadly over the weekend in Las Vegas with one of the YouTubers shooting and killing the other outside of a resort. And it's on video. Yes, the victim, 44-year-old Rodney Finley, known on YouTube as Finny Da Legend, was allegedly murdered by a streamer who goes by the name Sin City Manny, identified as Manuel Ruiz.

Wasn't that your name when you were working the farm reports? Sin City Manny. Yeah. So Ruiz is facing two counts of murder and was ordered to be held Tuesday without bail. His arrest report says that he allegedly told police that Finley's wife, Tanisha Finley, who was also fatally shot, had approached Ruiz outside a Las Vegas strip resort.

and was dancing in his face. That's what he said. I can't stand when people dance in my face. Bang. Ruiz allegedly alleged that Finley reached for something in his waistband and asked him, what's up cuz, in an aggressive manner, which spooked Ruiz into shooting in self-defense.

At first, Ruiz claimed that he fired a single shot toward Finley's torso before eventually aiming higher and blasting him again when Finley continued to move for his waistband. Finley's wife was shot after Ruiz allegedly saw a, quote, shiny black object in her possession, which he thought was a gun. A mutual friend and fellow YouTube content creator who's not been publicly identified allegedly told cops that the shooting was broadcast on a live stream and that he watched it.

The friend reported seeing Ruiz pull a gun from his front waistband and point it towards where he believed Finley was standing. The friend saw the muzzle flash on video and heard five to six gunshots. That third party has been identified as Dog DeBear. Dog DeBear. Police officers who were on duty nearby heard the gunfire and responded. Ruiz allegedly fled the scene but was later captured after his wife died.

Julianna approached cops and told them that her husband was responsible for this. Dog! The bear! Fellow YouTubers have taken to their channels in the days after the shooting to describe what allegedly happened and how the two parties were feuding online before the fatal confrontation.

YouTuber said he recorded a live stream where Manny basically said that he's going to come after Finney. Another streamer said that the beef stemmed from the YouTubers allegedly wanting more viewers in control of streaming in the Vegas area. He said that Ruiz in particular was demanding that Finley couldn't film in certain places.

We're at a point in time where now there's shootouts over YouTube subscribers. Yeah, this guy said that Ruiz started losing streamers and noted how he would allegedly talk bad about Finley's wife and use racial slurs.

The followers, he said, that were normally with Manny are now giving money to Finney. And that made it worse for Manny. And then Finney would post, look at how many streamers, how many viewers he's got now. And one of Finney's friends, Derek Ware, said that the problem between the two brewed for years and that things got so bad that Ruiz allegedly aimed pepper spray at Finley's wife during an incident. So...

Yeah, it sounds like this dude, Ruiz, was just unhappy that the guy was getting more viewers. It seems like a reason to kill someone. Murdered him. That's insane. The Denver Police Department said one of its officers had a close call Sunday after a suspect crashed a vehicle, then tried to flee the scene with the officer inside his vehicle. Okay.

Police said the crash occurred around 3.46 p.m. When officers arrived, they found an unresponsive person inside the white GMC Yukon. Authorities said an officer entered the vehicle to turn it off and to render aid to the driver. And when the driver suddenly regained consciousness...

He tried to flee the scene with the cops still in there. He just woke up and he's like, boom, I'm out of here. So the cop is like hanging out the door or he's on the passenger side? I don't know if he was... Steve, it sounds like he was inside of it. Jeez. A few blocks away, police used a precision and mobile technique and forced the Yukon into a light pole, bringing it to a stop. Officers then took the suspect in custody. No one was injured in the crash and the case remains under investigation. Have you seen this method that they use now? It's like they extend a net...

Yes. It catches up the back tires. Yeah. It's pretty interesting. It gets caught up in it and causes it where you just can't drive it anymore. Right. Yep. All right. And that's where we will end it. Right. That's all I have in the Bizarre File for you this morning. We have more stuff to do and give away. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll get into the lesson question with your chance to win some goodies. And we've got the music news and trash coming up too. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Still with us on Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dan in California on the Preston and Steve Show, 93.3 WMMR, where we are happy to have you on board for today. A hot one going up to about 93 degrees.

And we'll have sun along with that tomorrow. Clouds high 84. Not a bad day. Saturday, clouds high 74. And then we got a chance of rain coming in on Sunday and Monday and cooler. With Sunday's high only about 70 degrees. Not the ideal Father's Day. But nonetheless, could be worse. Could get thunderstorms all day long. But it's going to be all right. So my wife is going to see Ringo Sunday night.

Oh, awesome. Is that the man? Yeah, that's a makeup show. I'm really happy for her. She's looking forward to it. I've told you guys before, we went to go see Ringo and his all-star band at the Tower Theater several years ago. And I was like, okay, it'll be Ringo. I mean, I'm a huge fan of the Beatles. I know what you mean. As far as the material, not the greatest Beatles songs, but still wonderful tunes. It was a

blast! We had so much fun and Ringo was great in his performances and singing those great songs. Also his solo hits like Photograph and Don't Come Easy. He did all that stuff and of course he did Little Help From My Friends. He did some Beatles songs too. But everybody in the band plays their solo, their material too. Who was on the bill when you saw him? Because he always brings a collection of great musicians. Steve Lukather from Toto and he will be on this show as well.

uh todd run grin great was there uh greg raleigh who was uh the original member of uh journey he was the keyboard player and sang like black magic woman and uh that's the same way you love me and so he did a few classic journey songs and uh steve lucather sang lead on on some uh you know he did rosanna and the drummer too uh greg bissonette fantastic greg uh played in david lee roth's band and he's just kind of a

go-to hired gun he's an amazing drummer and yeah he gets he stacks the deck with musicians and they also had i always forget the guy's name when i went to see him uh the lead singer and bassist uh for mr mister and so he did kirae lane oh wow and he did broken wings yeah i'm like i'm like this is awesome i mean i love it i love reviews i guess technically you would call that a review right oh and colin haye

is in this particular group of Men at Work. He'll be playing Men at Work songs who we love, Colin. He's one of our favorite guests. He was absolutely my favorite. He's one of our favorite guests. I'm happy for him. I can't wait to hear how the show is. I'll give you the feedback. Completely different. We have a lesson question. We're going to give away a pair of tickets not to Ringo, but to NASCAR. We have a NASCAR Cup Series Great American Getaway 400 coming up.

Sunday, June 22nd at Pocono Raceway. The question is, my wife, her name is Rochelle, but she called in under a different name earlier this morning. Just to surprise me, what was that name? 610-660-9333 is our number. My wife, Rochelle, called in, but she didn't use that name, so I wouldn't know who she was. What name did she use?

610-660-9333. Call if you know the answer. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. Brought to you this morning by the Jug Handle Inn. You can catch the best food and the best drink specials in action of all the games at the Jug Handle Inn in Cinnamonson. Come for the famous Jug Handle Wings, but enjoy so much more online at thejughandleinn.com.

What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, Preston, Bachelor star Zach Shalcross and his chosen fiancée, Katie Bigger, are finally getting married. Shalcross, whose season of Bachelor aired in 2023, said, quote, when you know it's right, you wait two years. Oh, my God.

She served two years for literally branding women joining a sect of the infamous NXIVM called the now former Smallville actress Allison Mack has tied the knot with a man she recently met at a dog park. Mack told TMZ, quote, people say I'm crazy for marrying a man I just met, but my response is always, oh, I thought you were going to say the branding thing. Hey! And finally, Party of Five and Doc actor, we had him in the studio here, Scott Wolfe and his wife Kelly Wolfe have called it quits recently.

After more than two decades of marriage, Kelly shared the news of their split Tuesday on Instagram, posting a picture of a lion with eagles soaring overhead and a caption reading, a lion and some eagles. All right, we go to the phones. We'll see if someone knows this. My wife, Rochelle, called in earlier, but she used a different name when she called. What was that? We will go to. I'm trying to do this. Come on, man. It froze up on me. Come on, man. All right, Kevin, are you there?

Kevin, can you hear me? I can hear you. Oh, all right. Kevin. I can hear you, yes. Excellent. What name did Rochelle use? She used Michelle. Michelle! Michelle!

Correct. Hang on, bud. We are going to give you those tickets. It is for the NASCAR Cup Series Great American Getaway 400. And it's Sunday, June 22nd at Pocono Raceway. It's time to start your summer at NASCAR. It returns on June 20th through the 22nd to the Tricky Triangle at Pocono. For more information and to get your tickets now, head to PoconoRaceway.com.

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All right, it's brought to you by Rita's. Rita's is making waves with a fantastic new flavor. Cool Aid Shuckleberry Fin Ice. A delicious blend of orange, strawberry, and banana. But hurry, it's only here for a limited time. Be cool. Eat a Rita's. Well, the music world lost one of the bigs of the bigs. And Brian Wilson passed away. He was 82 years old.

And died, the family released a statement. And obviously his impact in the world of music is just so big, there's too much to go through. You know, yes. And one thing we mentioned earlier, Preston, if you've always sort of...

flirted with the notion of, oh, the Beach Boys, you know, surfing stuff and enjoyable on a summer's day. Take a deeper dive on Pet Sounds and the work of Brian Wilson, who was essentially the Beach Boys. And listen to what other artists that you probably adore think about him because he was a force unlike any other. Yep.

I lost the bulk of my information, the story that I had here earlier this morning when we went through a longer tribute. So I don't have all the facts and figures of the creation of the band and how they started and moved on. But they were managed by their father at first.

He was a taskmaster. Yeah, he was a taskmaster. He had an alcohol problem. He was really, really strict on them as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but was it his repetitive slapping of Brian in the side of the head that caused ear...

Some hearing problems? Some hearing problems? Maybe. Because he was mostly deaf in one of his ears. Yeah. So, obviously, Brian was the key songwriter. And then, for that time, he took on the producing role, which is a very rare thing in those days for an artist to take on the producing role. We have the, I don't know if you have it available, Casey, but it's the clip that has Dick Clark at the beginning of it talking about what,

None of these are labeled. They're just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So let's go through and see what these are. Here's one of our first ones from the Wrecking Crew. Right now we'd like to show you how the Beach Boys go about making a record. We start with Denny Wilson on the drums. Followed by Al Jardine on rhythm guitar. Helped out by Carl Lead Guitar Wilson.

And filled out instrumentally by our leader, Brian Wilson, on the bass. Number two is the one you want. All right. And this is... Dick Clark. Dick Clark. Here we go. At that point, the Beach Boys were Brian Wilson. He created it all. He was very self-assured, very much in control. He brought in the charts that he wrote himself.

And most of the time, I mean, the music was entirely his. I mean, there were very few times that we made a fix on his stuff. He had in his head what he wanted. So they'd actually, they were, the band, as you know, Preston, as you know well, the rest of the big guys would go out and tour.

While Brian Wilson would be in the studio creating the music with these studio musicians that then the Beach Boys would gather and take out on tour. But Brian Wilson was back in the studio writing and creating the songs and they were the face forward performing. Yeah, and obviously he would have the vocal arrangements all worked out and he would show them their parts and they would come in and they'd do it. And then you would have that signature sound. He knew that you couldn't do it without...

the vocals of all those guys being together. It was that signature sound that they made. But we were talking earlier this morning, one of the geniuses, one of the things...

that is interesting about his genius was not only his ability in production and what sounds to use, what type of effects, what type of recording techniques, but also in his arrangement of the vocal harmonies. They're really unique. And if you've ever seen, you can go on YouTube and find singers that will break down the Beach Boys harmonies. And there's a person that I follow and they'll sing one of the harmonies

And you know the words, but do not recognize the melodies being sung because it's like the third alto part or whatever. And that makes you realize how intricate and interesting those parts are. It's like looking at one jigsaw puzzle piece and not realizing where it fits into it. And you can't hear, but he could hear it. He would know. And things that would almost sound that they shouldn't fit with something else. I mean, that's where you had that wall of sound. God only knows has...

Those soaring vocal parts. I posted in my stories on Instagram this morning the isolated vocals of God Only Knows. And it's just unbelievably magical. It's almost inhuman what they're able to do and what it sounds like. And for me, Good Vibrations was kind of the one that always stood out for me just because of where all that song goes.

from a production standpoint, using interesting things like a theremin in there. Or, you know, there's just a single tambourine hit that you hear a couple of times with some reverb on it. No, not... I don't hear it. I don't hear the theremin in this, Preston. That's the wrong one. That's not that, don't you? No, don't you disrespect me. Brian Wilson. But no, I always thought Good Vibrations was...

Yeah, listen to that keyboard with that effect on it. Playing, you know, it just sounds so interesting. There's that tambourine part. On the way that lips of perfume through the air.

And then it switches there. It's so cool. Yeah, and there's the theremin. You can hear that. And then the...

The way the vocals go around and around. It's just incredible. So then the music you're hearing, Case, again, I can't encourage you to watch this Wrecking Crew movie enough, but those are all the studio musicians. Yeah. Those aren't them. That was the bridge from the surf sound to Pet Sounds. Yeah. That song. And Pet Sounds came out right after that song came out. And I saw this...

Remember A&E used to do those biographies of artists and they did one of Brian Wilson and leading into a commercial break Preston like in the middle of that song where there's the build and then it stops and then the chorus kicks back in. Yeah. That was built right up to the commercial break and it was so perfectly timed and then they came back from the commercial and launched it into sort of the construction of Good Vibrations. Love that.

Celebrities obviously are paying their tributes. We'll start with one of the fellow Beach Boys members, Al Jardine, who had said, I will always feel blessed that you were in our lives for as long as you were. I think that the most comforting thought right now is that you're reunited with Carl and Dennis singing those beautiful harmonies again.

You were a humble giant who always made me laugh and we will celebrate your music forever. Brian, I'll really miss you. Still, I have the warmth of the sun with me tonight. Mick Fleetwood wrote on Instagram that anyone with a musical bone in their body must be grateful for Wilson's genius, magical touch. He added that he was greatly saddened by the major worldly loss and he said, my thoughts go out to his family and friends.

His daughter, Carney Wilson, said, I have no words to express the sadness I feel right now. My father was every fiber of my body. He will be remembered by millions and millions until the world ends. I'm lucky to have been his daughter and had a soul connection with him that will live on always. I've never felt this kind of pain before, but I know he's resting up there in heaven or maybe playing the piano for Grandma Audrey, his mom.

And Wilson not only had Carney, but Wendy Wilson were his daughters from his first marriage. And then he had five adopted children from his second marriage to Melinda Ledbetter. Elton John really went all out. And he was paying tribute and remembered Wilson as someone who, quote, was always so kind to me from the day I met him. He sang on Someone Saved My Life Tonight, or he sang that.

At a tribute concert, Elton said, in 2003, and it was an extraordinary moment for me. I played on his solo records. He sang on my album, The Union, and even performed for my AIDS foundation. He wrote that he grew to love Wilson as a person, and for me, he was the biggest influence on my songwriting ever.

So Elton John was a huge fan of Leon Russell as well, his songwriting. And Russell was a disciple of Brian Wilson and part of the Wrecking Crew. He was a musical genius and revolutionary. He changed the goalposts when it came to writing songs and shaped music forever. A true giant. Bob Dylan said, heard the sad news about Brian today and thought about all the years I've been listening to him and admiring his genius. Rest in peace, dear Brian. Keith Richards called listening to Wilson sad.

His music is very well-constructed songs. He captioned the post, Rest in Peace. And Ronnie Wood of the Stones also remarked that Wilson's death came the same week of the passing of another iconic music star, Sly Stallone. He said, oh, no, Brian Wilson and Sly Stallone in one week. Not Stallone. Sly Stallone. I got that. My world is in mourning. Oh, no, I'm dead.

Unbelievable. And no one told me. Mickey, you're supposed to tell me when I die. It's right here on the refrigerator. What does that say? Tell him if he dies. And you didn't. And Carole King remembered Wilson as my friend and my brother in songwriting. The world will miss Brian, but we are so lucky to have his music. I can't hear anything because I'm dead. No!

You're not dead, Rock. Really? You're okay. All right. All right. We're headed to town. Congratulations. It's a massive... And again, as we observed earlier...

You take opportunities like this to dive back in. I spent last night going to bed listening to Pet Sounds. And it's amazing. Pierre paid tribute yesterday because the news came down. So I don't know if there will be more or not today, but we'll find out in a little bit. A couple of other stories. I'm sorry, we just forgot the Sail On Sailor I introduced. I think if you've never heard that, check that song out if you want to hear some more of it.

Different era. Different era, yeah. Papa Road singer Jacoby Shattuck says that the band already has about five, six finished songs for the follow-up to 2022's Ego Trip and is racing to complete more. Speaking to Scratch and Sniff,

He shared that after a brief NASCAR stop, he'll hit studios in Nashville, Los Angeles, and shoot a video for a new single due in mid-June. The record has no release date, but fans can expect fresh tracks all year, plus surprise guest spots he won't yet name. The head of the group will again self-release through its new noise label.

Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings will perform as the Guess Who for the first time in 23 years. Wow. For the Rock Legends Cruise as it sails from Fort Lauderdale on February 23rd through the 27th. Don't know where it's going. This many years after the band existed and most of the audience will have to guess who. Bachman and Cummings formed the nucleus of the Canadian supergroup scoring a series of hits from the mid-60s.

to the mid-70s. So they are back together. I was a fan. Yeah, me too. I mean, they were, you know, not hardcore, but always loved the stuff. These eyes, these eyes have never been a thing and they're never, never, never, never better than being with you. These eyes.

Don't know what happens when you die, but I do. Did you see the lineup for this cruise? No, but you just pulled it up here. So the guess who is...

Gene Simmons Band, Kevin Cronin Band, Eric Burden and the Animals, Loverboy, Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep, Jefferson Starship, the Atlanta Rhythm Section. I'd like to purchase a cabin for my chicken. Ugly Kid Joe, Robert John and the Wreck. That's pretty wild. Gary Hoey. Oh. Will be on board too. So actually, that's pretty awesome. So it's going to Ocho Rios, Jamaica.

Is there an artist, because he has a traditional non-cruise ship band. Yes. What band would get you on a cruise ship? Besides Rush. Fish, obviously, for you. And that's perfect, because you can't actually go fishing. I don't know. I mean, it happens. Does that experience in any form appeal to you? No. Okay. I hate cruises. What if it was like Yacht Rocky type of stuff? Yacht Rocky. Yacht Rocky. Oh, my God. That's right. Oh, my God. Oh, no.

I keep holding on, but he can't. He can't clench too long because the ref will break you apart. I smell a parody commercial. Yeah, Rocky. Yeah. He really melts my butter. Melted butter. It's jewel rock. Sorry, my one lip is hanging low.

Yacht. I don't do your dirty work. Yeah. I got skid marks in my shorts. You hit me so hard I sharted. Yacht Rocky.

Oh, Rocky, don't lose that number. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We may have to do a name that tune yacht Rocky contest at some point down the road. Would you be up for that? Absolutely. All right. We have to do it. Rocky, don't lose that number. Don't lose that number. There's too many numbers in that phone number. All right. All right.

Alright, and then one last story. Nirvana. Pre-dated YouTube by about a quarter century, but they're doing quite well there.

Their video for Smells Like Teen Spirit just reached the 2 billion views mark on the platform. Is there a resurgence? Because I've been seeing a whole bunch of Nirvana stuff pop up in the algorithms. I don't know. So this was first made available in 2009 on YouTube. The breakthrough track crossed a billion views mark back in 2019, meaning the band is actually gaining momentum on the platform. The first billion took 10 years to accomplish. The second billion took just six years.

First YouTube video is Rocky goes to the zoo. They never forget. And we will end music news. Music news right there. It's a zebra, by the way. That's what that's called. Can I get popcorn? Yeah, we'll get you popcorn, maybe some ice cream if you're good. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in a second. We'll wrap up the show. Stay with us. Have you used Alexa as a clock radio? And we don't mean as a projectile.

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93.3 WNMR, it's everything that rocks, President Steve's show, and the Yule, it is 1051. As we are wrapping up our radio program for the day, and Steve and I headed out immediately, headed to Live Casino Hotel in Philadelphia, which is where we were checking in with Jackie Bam Bam all morning long. It's for the, I believe, for President Steve Blood Drive Day number one, so...

Those of you who are there listening right now, getting set for your appointment, we'll probably see you in just a few. Yeah, and how cool is Jackie doing the long haul? The show staying all through the night and then heading over and doing that. He's a champ. Yep, so he did his show, which he gets finished at midnight. I don't get it, because we're not...

Making this up. Every day when we show up here, Jackie is still here preparing for his big Friday evening. You know, you call it, you know, extravaganza is crazy. Yeah. Anything else? I get here like 440. That means he has stuck around for over four and a half hours after work and he stays even longer.

It's crazy. And then he goes out and broadcasts live from the blood drive. The dude is insane. And that's what we love about him. So let's see. Also want to thank Ian Bagg. So funny. Such a nice guy. He's going to be at Punchline tomorrow and Saturday. You can go to punchlinephilly.com and get those tickets to his show. So we need to do...

The letter of the day. And ladies and gentlemen, there's only one person in this fine city that can give us that information. And he just so happens to be right here in our studio. Zumba. Zumba, baby. He knows all the letters. Yes, he does. All right, you ready? Yeah. Here we go.

Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. The Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter. A is an animal. All right, and we got one more to go. We give away tomorrow a pair of VIP tickets for the Barefoot Country Music Festival featuring Jell-O, many more, courtesy of our friends at Primo Hoagies.

Primo is also going to 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. How are you doing today, man? Good. Really good. It's nice outside. It's going to be a lovely day. Blood drive today and tomorrow. We'll all be there tomorrow. So that's cool. Jackie's reports were great.

And you guys are going down now, right? Yes, yeah. We're going to go donate. Okay, that's very cool. Get that done today rather than, I mean, since it's a two-day event, we'll go on the day that we're not broadcasting to go and get blood drawn. Excellent, excellent. Looking forward to it. That's going to be fun. I want to do, in addition to the blood drive, Father's Day weekend is coming up.

And our program director, Chuck D'Amico, asked me to remember to promote that all this weekend we'll have Father's Day dedications so people can write in or call in and say, I want to dedicate Led Zeppelin to my dad who left 20 years ago and has never called since. You know, father of mine, Everclear. Yeah. I mean, there's not a whole bunch of great...

father songs. I mean, Cat Stevens' Father and Son. So it's not a dedication per se for the word or the concept of father or dad. But all weekend long we'll have the opportunity for people to call in. We can even start that tomorrow at the blood drive. Do you ever play Oh Daddy from Adrian Ballou? It wasn't a big hit, but it was on MTV and that's kind of a fun one. It's a good one. Yeah.

His daughter talking about her dad. Okay. Did Fleetwood Mac have a song, Oh Daddy, or something? Or was that just Stevie, maybe? On one of the two big albums. Yeah, yeah. Either Rumors or the one before. I thought one of them did. Maybe Christine McPhee. Anyway.

The idea is great, though. Even if it's not necessarily a song that has a direct tie. If it's something that you're over the weekend, a donation in the name of or just to send a message out. Yeah, it's great. Oh, Daddy Fleetwood Mac Rumors. Okay, cool. Is that a Stevie song? Yeah, I believe so. Christine McPhee song, maybe. I don't know. At any rate, so on the program today, we'll have Cedar and Autry tickets coming to the Hard Rock.

That'll be in October. And a block of Kenny Wayne Shepard for his birthday today. And a block of Boston. And a block of psychedelic furs that we didn't get to yesterday because of Brian Wilson. And I did a two-hour Beach Boys special yesterday. Pivoting on a moment's notice. We were going to do furs yesterday as the last block. The feedback was great, by the way. Because as with anything like this,

These are giants. And you're moved. You want to have someone help curate your processing. And no one does it better than you. Well, you're kind. But the radio, it's a power of radio. Because in times like that, people turn to the radio. When John Lennon was killed way before I was in Philly, people came to Rittenhouse Square to be where the radio station was.

to listen to it. When Jerry Garcia died, they came to Independence Mall where we were broadcasting, you know, or they tune in to hear, you know, to feel that person's music. Sly and the Family Stone, Sly, I keep wanting to say Stallone too, Sly Stone, a few days, or the day before was it? Yeah. You know, I did a half an hour block of their music and it's just a, it's a great way of reaching out and then online all these people are doing tributes and

Not only verbally, but some are singing. Sting did a great version of God Only Knows. God Only Knows. Yeah, it was awesome. Which I just saw that he must have gotten the news. I don't know where he was playing, but he performed it. That is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I'd like to see if I can find some of those. I found a thing of Jimmy Buffett bringing Brian Wilson out and playing, I can't remember what the song was, I mean, but

There's some cool covers, so maybe we'll find some of those too. Dave Matthews did it last night as well. He had a show in Jones Beach, and so he just solo acoustic guitar. He didn't do the full song, but he did God Only Knows as well, and it was just Dave acoustic guitar singing. It was pretty. It was a really nice version of it. Love those things. Anyway, we'll do all of that and more. All right. Thank you, Pierre. And I want to thank our sponsors. President Steve's Show is brought to you today by Dunkin'. And the President Steve Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors.

And by Adam Home Services. You're covered with next day repairs and tune-ups at adamhomeservices.com. Tomorrow, as we mentioned, the I Believe for Presidency Blood Drive. You can get signed up for that and go to wmmr.com and do it. We will have a couple of people stopping by while we were there. So Fit Dad CEO, who's got millions of followers on social media, is going to stop by. And he's local. And he might do a dad joke-off.

Dad joke joke off with Casey. We'll see how that goes because he's dad jokes are his thing. 300 of them right now. That's all. And we will also have stopping by a young woman by the name of Alma Cooper. She just happens to be Miss USA. What? Yes. She is coming by tomorrow.

Wow. That's wonderful. That's hot stuff. That is. And it will be no sad bro all day long, too. Oh. Yeah. And we have a Munchkin record to set. Oh, yeah. Oh, we got to set the record. Yes. So those things and more. That is it. We are done. Rage on and have yourself a great day. We'll see you later, gang. Bye-bye.