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You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. With Preston Elliott. I'm just getting warmed up. And Steve Morrison. And it absolutely will not stop, ever. Plus, Casey Boy. When you're the most annoying sound in the world. Nick McElwain. That last one goes out to Nick. And Marissa Magnata. Care to join me for a glass of breakfast wine? And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Whoa!

Time to punch that clock, my friend. We begin our Tuesday morning and let's take a peek at the weather forecast, see how we are going to deal with today.

It's been a while since we've seen the sun. Yes. We got more clouds today. High of about 76 degrees. Now, tomorrow, it's warming up. High 87. We'll come with some afternoon showers. And that continues as well on Thursday. Even warmer with a high 92 degrees. But it looks like the weekend is going to be solid. A good summer weekend as of now. Friday, sunshine 86. And Saturday, partly cloudy 91. So, we're going to get it. Oh.

And now, Kristen and Steve's news update. Today is Tuesday, June 17th. Good morning. State police officials are investigating a shooting that happened along I-95 in northeast Philadelphia yesterday morning. According to police, officers responded to the scene between Aramingo Avenue and the Tacone Palmyra Bridge at about 5 a.m. State police officials said...

that a 51-year-old Philadelphia man told troopers that he was involved in a road rage incident while traveling along 95 North in that area when an older model maroon Honda Civic sedan pulled next to his vehicle and someone inside the vehicle fired four shots. Whoa. Yeah, the car then quickly left the roadway at the next exit. The victim's car was struck, but no one was injured in this incident. Police are seeking a maroon car.

Older model Honda Civic four-door sedan with tinted windows. Tragic story, two young best friends were struck by a vehicle while they were riding in an electric scooter in Delaware County on Saturday. The accident has resulted in the death of 12-year-old Abigail Gillen. The accident also left her friend 11-year-old Isabella Jones dead.

critically injured. Abigail and Isabella were riding an electric scooter when they hit a curb and fell and were subsequently struck by a car. Abigail passed away yesterday afternoon according to an online fundraiser set up by her family. While Isabella remains in critical condition, the driver involved in the accident said

State of the scene and is cooperating with the police investigation. A GoFundMe page was created for Bella and her family. And a family friend set up a separate GoFundMe page for Abigail and her family to help them navigate medical expenses. A coach within the Delaware County swimming community started the fundraiser to be split evenly among both families.

I know that Casey rides a scooter a lot, especially down the shore. People are really mindful speed limit-wise, and the police are really strict about that. But, I mean, they just hit a curb and fell over in the path of a car, and it can happen in a car. It can happen on a bicycle or pretty much anything. That's something that I think about when I see those scooters riding around. Are you pretty...

Cognizant of the traffic when you're riding it? Absolutely. And I'm stable on it. I don't wear a helmet, but honestly, those things...

Man, they're a lot of fun, but they are unstable. They also go faster than a lot of people think. Yeah. And I mean, that can throw people off. I was scooting at about 15, 17 miles per hour on Saturday. But my sister actually had, she fell off a scooter. She was just scooting. Her hat flew off and she went to go grab it, not realizing that like, it's not like a bike where you just take a hand off a handlebar and you're fine. Like it's actually unstable. And she went over and subsequently had four elbow surgeries as a result. Wow. Yeah.

You're right about that, Case. On a bike, I mean, you can even let go with both hands for a little while. Even if you don't know how to ride no-handed, you can at least coast for a little bit. A scooter, if you were to let go for even an instant, you're going down. Yeah, one-handed even. It stops. You've got to be very, very careful.

One more story. A doctor charged with giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the actor's overdose death has agreed to plead guilty. Dr. Salvador Palacios. I'll try this again.

Oh, yes. Well done. Dr. Salvador Placencia has agreed to plead guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine. The plea carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. Placencia and a woman accused of being a ketamine dealer have been the primary targets for the prosecution after three other defendants, including another doctor, agreed to plead guilty in exchange for their cooperation. So we're looking at like.

six, seven people that are being indicted. Yeah. Yeah. Perry was found dead by his assistant October 28th, 2023. He was only 54 when he died at the, and the medical examiner ruled that the ketamine was primary cause of death. The actor had been using the drug through his regular doctor and legal treatment for depression. Uh,

That has become increasingly common. Now, eventually, Perry began seeking more ketamine than his doctor would give him. About a month before the actor's death, he found Placencia, a doctor who allegedly asked the other doctor, Mark Chavez, to obtain the drug for him. And according to court filings, Placencia said,

Texted Chavez, quote, I wonder how much this moron will pay. Oh, gosh. Referring to Perry. Yeah, remember that? Yeah. Licencia is accused of supplying most of Perry's ketamine in his final weeks. But another defendant, Jasmine Senga, allegedly provided the dose that killed the actor. And she is also scheduled to go on trial. That will be in August. So this is something that Dr. Mike talks about, these boutique doctors. Was it...

Wilson's doctor, Dr. Landy, Brian Wilson, where they're kind of star effers. And so they sort of, you know, obviously this was so they could get rich by selling an addict these drugs. But a lot of times they end up being like Elvis had his doctor that did the same thing. Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson as well. Yeah, exactly, Nick. And so they get into these dynamics and it never ends well.

Yeah, she has pleaded not guilty, making her the only one of the five people charged in Perry's death who has not entered a plea agreement. All right, in sports this morning. All right, Nick, what's up this morning? The Phillies won again.

They beat the Marlins 5-2 last night in Miami. Trey Turner hit a leadoff home run, added two singles. The Phils extended their winning streak to five games in the opener of this four-game series.

Max Kepler also hit a home run. Alec Bohm had two hits and two RBI. Rookie Nick Abel threw five innings of one-hit ball in his fourth Major League start, and he improved to 2-0. The 23-year-old right-hander gave up only three hits and struck out three. Ryan Kirkering closed with a perfect ninth for his first career save. The series continues tonight. Jesus Lozardo will get the start against his former team, and the first pitch is scheduled.

This is an early time for the Pills game tonight. The first pitch is scheduled for 6-10. Wow. The Thunder won Game 5 of the NBA Finals, beating the Indiana Pacers 120-109 last night in Oklahoma City. Jalen Williams scored a career playoff high 40 points. MVP Shai Gilgis-Alexander added 31. And the Thunder are now just one win away from a title. Pascal Siakam had 28 points. And former Sixer T.J. McConnell added 18 for the Pacers.

who whittled an 18-point deficit down to two in the fourth quarter only to watch the Thunder pull away on their way to the win. Game six is on Thursday night in Indianapolis. Tip-off will be at 8.30. In the Stanley Cup Finals, the Florida Panthers now lead the series over the Edmonton Oilers three games to two. Game six is tonight in South Florida. And if they win, the Panthers will hoist the cup for the second year in a row. The puck will drop at 8 o'clock. And the Eagles are still your Super Bowl champs.

And that's what I have for you in sports this morning. All right, thank you very much, Nick. And we welcome you to Tuesday morning, Tat-Tuesday, by the way. So this is your chance to win a Preston and Steve show themed tattoo. And that is from our friends at Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. There's $350 gift certificate.

That is up for grabs. I'm having trouble with words today. I'm working on it, man. I need my cashews. Yeah. Got to get them in me. Get a little protein. Get rocking here. So if you want to check out some of the artwork samples, you can visit floatingworldtattoos.com. Check them out on Instagram at floatingworldtattoos. But if you're interested, just go to the contest page, wmmr.com. Get signed up. We give that away today. Not only do we do that, but we will reveal a little bit of information about an hour from now. We're going to tell you the totals of the I Bleed for Preston and Steve podcast.

Blood Drive, our 20th annual, which we just had over last week. I was going to say the weekend, but it was Thursday and Friday. So we'll get that info to you. And we're very excited. We have a special in-studio guest, one we've been trying to nab for years, but she's finally the timing. Apparently our vacation schedules are

We're conflicting any time she was in town. This is what Marissa was letting us know. But Sherry Oteri is going to be in our studio. Delco native, SNL Hall of Famer. Yeah. She's phenomenal. Preston, we've wanted her on the show ever since the Y100 days, and it never worked out. For whatever reason. So she's stopping by today. We're very much looking forward to that. So that'll be around 9 o'clock.

So as you see, we have plenty of things to do and say and experience. So we'll take a quick break. Come back in a second. We'll get into the entertainment report. Really cool thing happened on Rittenhouse Square yesterday. We'll tell you about that and more. Stay with us. We will be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. What the heck were you guys doing? So that was Casey air drumming. Casey does his signature air drumming move. And then I was showing him my buddy Steve's air drum moves. My air drumming move was actually a take out of something that I saw last night.

Oh, from watching The Life of Chuck, the movie? This is Mia Sara when she was making... You're right, you're right. When she's making dinner, yeah. Let me just jump in here. Guess which drummer I'm impersonating. Okay, let me see.

Ringo. There we go. I'm a pro. Well done, sir. All right. We're going to go through some... Actually, we're going to ask a stupid question first. We're going to give away a four-pack of grandstand tickets to the Auto Trader Echo Park Automotive 400 NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday, July 20th, Dover Motor Speedway. Here's a question for you. The Mason-Dixon line ran between Maryland and which other American state?

610-660-9333. Nice to meet you, Dixon. Oh, yes, Mr. James Mason and Mr. Dixon. James Mason, this is Donnie Dixon. The Mason-Dixon line ran between Maryland and which other American state? 610-660-9333. All right, we'll go through some birthdays while we await your answer today being the 17th day of June. A gentleman that we just had on the show celebrates a birthday today, and he was a great interview. John Grise.

Who you know from, well, a ton of things. Casey's playing this music because he's a real genius. He's Laszlo in that. He's Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite, which is why we just had him on. And he was sensational. He's also Monster Squad and White Lotus. Yeah. Terrific. By the way, what a character arc in White Lotus. Yeah. Oh, my God. He's the only one in it.

If they're smart, they will drag him into season four. I would. He's too good. But super nice guy. Really engaging. When we had, you know, almost the entire cast, John Heater was here and Ephraim Ramirez. John was on the phone. They were in the studio. And he's just jumping in, joining in on the conversation. Happy to talk about Napoleon Dynamite. He told us the best story about being on the road with Al Kimmerer.

The Kilmer Graceland, a drunk Val Kilmer who was just caught up in the emotion of Elvis passing away and was peeing on the front gate of Graceland crying, the king, the king. The king is dead. It was awesome. So happy birthday, John Grise. And he's happy to stay in touch with us, too. So he turned 68 years old today. Casey, it is cousin...

Larry Epplebaum's birthday today. Wow. Mark Lynn Baker, Perfect Strangers, turns 71 years old. Last time I saw him was in the She-Hulk series. Oh, wow. Yeah. I forgot about that. Right. And then also, hang on, I think he had a run, and it was a show called The Leftovers on HBO. Oh, right. With Justin Theroux, where everybody, at some point,

Half of the world just disappeared. Right. And there was, I think, an entire episode called Mark Lynn Baker. He played himself. And he played himself in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Okay. We have a whole bunch of birthdays. Next, we have Thomas Hayden Church. Ah, which one do I do here? Of Wings fame. And yes, he was in the MCU. But also... Sold today. Casey. I know. And his cousin,

Larry Eppley. Oh, Jesus. What is that? What was that? I accidentally recorded you saying that. Just now. And then... I'm like, that sounds familiar. I was going to call a doctor. So, we don't need to get too into the weeds here, but our editing system here is a little wonky. Okay. So...

I somehow recorded you saying that and pasted it onto this file, which is the theme song for Tires. Okay. And Thomas Hayden Church is in season two of Tires. Okay. Kind of like how Danny DeVito came on to It's Always Sunny and made it better. Yeah.

He made Tire Season 2 better. He's great. He makes pretty much anything better. Thomas Hayden Church is 65 years old today. It's Will Forte's birthday today. The great Will Forte. Yep. Will Forte turns 55 years old. We spoke to him not that long ago. Sitting in his car. In his car out in front of his house. Because he didn't want to wake his family up. That's how cool he is. He went out and conducted a lengthy interview with us, but he did so in the car. Talked for a good half hour with him. Yeah, yeah. Great guy.

Just entertaining, super nice guys. 55 today. It's Greg Kinnear's birthday today. Super talented. Yeah. I just watched Autofocus. Oh, my God. I mean, listen. It is all, you know, it's a wild, weird movie based on a true story. And those things captured in the movie are true. But his performance is terrific. And unparalleled.

I'm a soccer for as good as it gets. He's so good at that. There was a clickbait article I saw somewhere, and it was, why Greg Kinnear stopped acting recently? And I was like, wait a minute, did he stop acting? So it made me go to his IMDb. No, he's doing it. He's got plenty of roles. I was like, hey, piss me off so much. I was like, why? You resist him, and then eventually, what'll get you? Absolutely. He is 62 today. Actress Erin Murphy, who played Tabitha.

Unbewitched. The little girl. Yes. Turns 61 years old today. Did not play her in the adult. It was Lisa Hartman who played adult Tabitha. That is correct. But this one was the little girl, so she's 61. Jason Patrick, who we know from The Lost Boys. Yes.

And paternal grandfather, Jackie Gleason, by the way. Yeah. Stop it. Isn't that wild? Really? Yeah. He turns 59 years old today. He's really good in a movie called Narc. Yeah, he is. Yeah. It's amazing. It's a really, really good movie.

From the world of music, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys turns 67 years old today of punk fame. One of the greats. As a musician, would you say that there's always room for Jello Biafra? Always use room for Jello Biafra. Kendrick Lamar's birthday is today. He's 38. He's playing the link this summer. Is he? Wow. It pisses me off that we have four Kendrick Lamar songs in our system.

But like only one perfect stranger. But only one. Like, come on. No, there was a song we were looking for the other day, like a rock staple. Yeah. And we didn't have her like, what is going on with our stuff? But by all means, let's have four Kendrick Lamar songs in our system.

Hey, by the way, this just in, little note here, our phones don't work. What? So you need to text your answer to the stupid question this morning and we'll randomly select someone. So you can use that same number, but you have to text it instead of call. The Mason-Dixon line ran between Maryland and which other American state? So 610-660-9333.

So maybe open Zoom Adelphia. Open Zoom Adelphia. We'll have to see about that. It's also Barry Manilow's birthday today. Yes. Pierre just saw him, right? Yeah. In concert. Yeah. When he played Wells Fargo Center. I think it was Memorial Day. No, it was kind of funny. It was Memorial Day weekend and it was like bookended by Metallica. Yeah. Yeah.

So I am a sucker for this song. I am too. Not only because of the hook and the beat and all that, but it's a true ballad. It's a story. It is telling the story of love and murder. And if you stop and listen to it, it's kind of interesting. It very quickly goes through the story arc of Tony and Lisa. Is it Lisa? Yeah.

Yeah, anyway, Rico and everybody. Gunplay. Yeah, and then she's an alcoholic, fading away. It's actually a pretty interesting story. So happy birthday to Barry Manilow. Lola, that was her name. Lola. Lisa. Lisa is Lola's sister. She's in another song. Never mentioned in the song Mandy, but she's there. Okay, fair enough.

Fashion designer, Tory Burch. Yeah. Celebrates a birthday today at 59 years old. Local, right? Was that the impetus for the Burch box? Yeah. Which we turned into the Bitch Box. Exactly. And then the last birthday is Venus Williams. Venus Williams. 45 years old today. Good call. Now, Jake in the court. Yeah, wouldn't it be great to get like walk-up music? Like baseball players do? Oh, that'd be perfect. You're going down!

So happy 45th birthday to Venus Williams. They never did my idea, which I thought was a great idea for a charity, which is for a game or a stretch of games, let you pick people's walk-up music for your home. And obviously they get first, like, right or refusal. You're talking for baseball? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. How much would you pay? Dude, I think that'd be a cool idea. How much would you pay to get to be, to pick Bryce Harper's walk-up music for an entire game? Uh,

That is a great idea. Cold pressure. And it's a way for them to squeeze more money out of people. Or you could do it for a charity. Sure, a charity. I think that'd be great. All right, Marissa, can we get an answer? Oh, we have a phone call. What? What?

Our phones work. Okay, hang on a second. Let's get an update here. We're back to like fun phone stuff. We can call out. You just can't call in. So for all the people that texted, we randomly chose somebody. Why don't we all just meet in a field? You know what? Hang out. Yeah. All right, let me go. We have Rich who's online. Hey, Rich, good morning. Good morning. All right, Rich, the Mason-Dixon line ran between Maryland and which other state, please?

Pennsylvania. That is correct. Honestly, I didn't know that. Rich, we're going to set you up, bud. We have got...

A four-pack of grandstand tickets to the Auto Trader Echo Park Automotive 400 NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday, July 20th at Dover Motor Speedway. NASCAR returns at Dover Motor Speedway. July 18th through the 20th, you can see NASCAR best drivers, their best drivers, race at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour and an amazing fan zone and more. You can get tickets at DoverMotorSpeedway.com. There's a wonderful YouTube channel with this woman who travels all around Pennsylvania, just Pennsylvania, and she...

points of interest and she just happened to make a stop. I guess there's like a little stone or something that is a marker of where the line is in Pennsylvania. There's a bunch of them. Yeah. And it's weirdly not the entire border between Pennsylvania and Maryland. It's only parts of the border. And then they also, Steve, they get into the why the curve

There's a curved border in between Delaware and Pennsylvania and why that line was drawn. I find that stuff incredibly nerdy, but really fascinating. Well, this was pretty fascinating because yesterday, former President Joe Biden was spotted making a brief trip to Park Bistro. Speaking of Delaware. Yesterday, yeah.

And he was observed entering the Rittenhouse Square restaurant around 9.15 a.m. with his full security detail trailing behind. And at the same time, the Amazon Prime series Reacher was filming right outside. And actor Alan Richen, who plays Reacher, was there. He was there around 6 a.m. just outside a park. The scene starts with Richen's Reacher dining inside the restaurant with co-star Agnes Moe, who plays Lilla Hoff.

An Indonesian woman who comes to Philly in search of her biological father who is American. The scene then transitioned to outside the restaurant where a police car chase took place. Outside a park, Richland was surrounded by a camera crew for a brief action scene along 18th and Locust Streets.

complete with Philadelphia police vehicles driving past the actor. We're huge fans, love the series, would love to get anybody from that show on, especially him, but how cool that they're doing it here. Yeah, and they've touched in the area. There was Atlantic City in one of the episodes, and they've been right in and around this area, so it's cool that they finally dipped into Philadelphia.

The production for the fourth season kicked off over the weekend in Philly. The fourth season of Reacher, which was the most streamed show in March, is based on the 13th book in novelist Lee Child's best-selling Jack Reacher book series, Gone Tomorrow. You know what we should do? Press and offer up our services as body doubles for Rich Sin. I think we could pass. Amazon's description of the...

season said when a chance encounter with a distraught stranger on a train goes horribly wrong jack reacher is drawn into a complex and deadly game that pits him against ruthless foes from the highest echelons of power so i didn't realize this until now but i think um qe dylan posted this video on his on philly chit chat on his instagram account and uh so i guess they're filming the scene and they're in that scene like you mentioned there's philly cops that are part of it and then right behind those philly cops

The Secret Service detail shows up just by pure coincidence with President Biden. Yeah, and they ended up, I think Marissa was telling me they bought him breakfast or something like that. Yeah, it was pretty cool. They shot a scene where Biden was hanging from the outside of a building shooting Preston. Wow. He jumps in and helps. He's holding on with one hand and then a gun in the other. Like an Uzi. You know what his catchphrase is, right? No. I'm Biden my time. I'm Biden my time.

The new season will premiere sometime in late 2026. Cast and crew stopped to cheer for the former president, said blogger Huey E. Dillon, who Nick had mentioned, better known as Philly Chit Chat on social media. Huey's awesome. But who brought who breakfast? Because Biden doesn't need anybody to buy him breakfast. Marissa was the one who told me about the buying breakfast thing. I don't really know. Do you know, Marissa? I just kind of nodded my head. I don't know. They bought it for him.

That's the word I heard. The staff audit for the president. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, that's cool. So, nice. So, can't wait to see the scenes in Rittenhouse Square in the next season of Reacher. That'll be awesome. And if you're not watching the show, watch it.

Actor Eric Dane is opening up about living with ALS. It's just terrible, man. In his first television interview since revealing the diagnosis, Dane recalled the symptoms that led to discovering his diagnosis about a year and a half ago. He said, I started experiencing some weakness in my right hand. He said, I really didn't think much of it at the time.

I thought maybe I had been texting too much or my hand was fatigued. A few weeks later, I noticed it had gotten a little worse. So I went, I saw a hand specialist who sent me to another hand specialist. And I went and saw a neurologist who sent me to another neurologist who said that it was way above his pay grade. There's something...

particularly diabolical about the way this disease robs you of you. I agree. I agree. There's no cure. It slowly, it progressively affects the nerve cells and they just quit working overall. He said, I will never forget those three letters. It's on me the second I wake up. Talking about ALS. So, yeah, we have a couple of clips. They're not over yet. Okay. Oh, wait, no, no. Here they are. The first one. Yeah, here we go. My right side is completely...

Completely stopped working. And then your left arm? No, it's going. Yeah, I feel like maybe a couple few more months and I won't have my left hand either. He said that he was really scared about his lower body not working, his loss of leg mobility. He described it as sobering. He rose to fame as Dr. Mark McSteamy Sloan on Grey's Anatomy.

More recently, he plays Cal Jacobs, the troubled father to Jacob Elordi's character on the HBO drama Euphoria. He was in a show that I love called The Last Ship, where he was pressed in the two-fisted, physical captain of the ship, and he was terrific in the role. It's sad to see this happening. This is him commenting on being hopeful. I don't think this is the end of my story. I just don't feel like, in my heart, I don't feel like this is the end of me.

I'm fighting as much as I can.

There's so much about it that's out of my control. He has two teen daughters with actress Rebecca Gayhart. They married in 2004. They separated for a time. They remain close. He said, I talk to her every day. We have managed to become better friends and better parents. And she is probably my biggest champion and most stalwart supporter. And I lean on her. He said that he is focused on his family and continue to work as long as he can. So it's always terrible to hear about that stuff.

Here's something lighter. Kaya Gerber and actor Lewis Pullman were seen sharing a pretty passionate kiss at the Tyler Childers concert at the Hollywood Bowl earlier this month, leaving fans to think there may be some real romance in their future. At one point, Gerber wrapped her arms around Pullman's neck as they showed that they weren't afraid to show a little PDA.

The couple was previously spotted on a date in May at a Broadway performance of The Picture of Dorian Gray, where an onlooker noted at page six that Kaya sat resting her head on Lewis's shoulders throughout the performance. Oh, my God. That's the way we watch movies, Preston. I know. I know. He's Bill Pullman's son? Yeah. Yeah. I like that guy. Yeah, I like him a lot. He's a good actor. He's wonderful being in the new Spaceballs movie. You know what? Supposedly...

Lone Star's son is going to be in this, I've heard. Okay. And it would be an obvious choice, right? So Gerber and Pullman apparently started dating following Gerber's split from Austin Butler, but kept it quiet until the split became public. So...

Let's see. I threw this in the entertainment news. I wasn't sure where to put this. But after not competing in last year's annual 4th of July Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition, Joey Chestnut has announced he will be back on Coney Island this year. The competitive eater turned to social media on Monday to share the news, writing, I'm thrilled to be returning to the Nathan's famous 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. This event means the world to me. It's a cherished tradition, a celebration of American culture, and a huge part of my life. So I'm back!

That's okay. So on Saturday, I had a meal where I really enjoyed it and ate a little bit more than I normally eat. And I was a little full. And it was uncomfortable. I didn't like it. I can't imagine what this guy, what he feels like after he wins one of these contests. He's pounding his gut full of wet hot dog.

He said, while I have and continue to partner with a variety of companies, including some in the plant-based space, those relationships were never a conflict with my love for hot dogs. To be clear, Nathan's is the only hot dog company I've ever worked with.

He currently holds the men's world record of eating 76 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes back in 2021. He won the contest every year from 2007 to 2014, and then every year from 2016 to 2023. Matt Stone won the contest in 2015, eating 62 hot dogs to chestnut 60 pounds.

Last year, Chestnut was unable to participate due to a deal that he had with a Nathan's competitor. The champion previously represented Impossible Foods, which offers plant-based hot dog options. And he said, according to Major League Eating, George Shea, who is with that group, said, We are very excited to have Joey back. This will be the best contest in the history of sports. I propose a new version of this.

A relay race with hot dogs. And as you get handed the hot dog, you eat it while you're running. Okay. Right? Wow. Same sort of thing. But there's a physical element that will appeal to people who are more fitness inclined. I thought you were going to say you have to hand it off mouth to mouth. Dude, I'll go with that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw this relay race where people used anything but a baton.

And so like one dude had a football helmet on and when he ran and he had to hand the football helmet off to somebody else. The guy had to put it on? Yeah. I like that. Not a bad idea.

All right, infamous televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is in critical condition and is in the ICU after being felled by a heart attack. His son Donnie Swaggart, also a preacher, told their congregation from the pulpit Sunday, without a miracle, his time is short. You know, I'm going to assume Donnie Swaggart has the same sort of...

approach and presentation that Papa has. I'm guessing too, Steve. I know nothing about this guy. Something tells me he's not a very sincere person. I don't know. It's why I put the Joey Chestnut story before Jimmy Swaggart in ICU. I got bummed for a hot dog dude. This dude was so full of garbage, man. Oh my God. Unbelievable. One of the most disgusting...

obsequious apologies to his parishioners as he was hitting them up for more money. More money. More money. So the church's ministry said in a statement, we ask that you continue to lift him up in prayer and believe God for a miracle. But above all, we trust in the Lord's perfect will. Send your donations now. I left that. I made that up. I loved it.

Enter a hot dog eating contest. Lord, don't take me before I beat Joey Chestnut. I love your little staccato. As they do, right? Yeah, at the end there.

They also stated that updates would be posted on Swaggart's Facebook page. Fans of Pete Maverick Mitchell had to wait 36 years between Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick. If Maverick director Joseph Kaczynski says it's any indication, the wait for a Top Gun 3 may be considerably shorter.

While details were few, Kosinski said in an interview with Screen Rant that things are moving forward on the next film in the franchise. He confirmed that Maverick co-writer Aaron Kruger is now writing the script for Top Gun 3. And he also revealed that they have an ambitious idea.

Kaczynski is set to direct and Cruise is also expected to return to the cockpit. So since the one actress in that also played Joan Baez, I think it would be cool to have Joan Baez as part of the Top Gun Academy. Ooh, that'd be cool. She could sing lovely. Monica Barbaro? Yeah, she could sing. Is it her birthday today? It's her birthday today, yeah. I missed that. Yeah, she turns 36. Okay. Imagine that. Dylan and Joan Baez.

As pilots, that would be something. Yeah. Amen. I'm getting a little light-headed. Pull up! Pull up! Pull up!

He's a bad fan. You know, man. You can always be my wingman. You can always be my wingman. So Aaron Kruger, he said, Aaron Kruger is writing the script as we speak. It's a big idea that I spent almost a year developing, working with some friends at the Navy in Lockheed. Get changey. He said, and yeah, Aaron's into it now, so we'll see how it comes along.

But I wonder what direction they will go in. Obviously, you know, Maverick's got to be a part of it. But I wonder if they would hang on to Goose's son, Rooster. Yeah, they should. And Hangman, Gooster. And Hangman and play that out. Or if they bring in maybe those guys become instructors. I don't know who the hell. Listen, it was such a revelation. I always thought the original movie was OK.

But this made me appreciate the first one more. And it was just a wonderful time at the movies. But I hope they do take their time with it because I would hate the third one to be less than. Yeah, exactly. So he said, yeah, well, he said Aaron's into it now. So we'll see how it comes along. Maybe they work on commercial flights, Preston. And yeah, that's they get into these dogfights in commercial aircraft.

747s and whatnot. All right, one last thing. Liam Neeson plays the son of legendary comedic police detective Frank Drebin in the upcoming reboot of Naked Gun. And there is a full trailer that was released today. So it is out if you want to see it.

Parts of it look really funny. Parts of it look a little forced. We'll see how it all comes together. I think what they're trying to do, they're paying tribute to the comedic style of the Zucker brothers. And so there's some definite nods to that. We'll see. Yeah, I have the same impression, Preston. I don't know.

what it's going to be. Well, and it also depends on is the viewing public ready for this full-on slapstick or not? You know, because we go in and out as a country, kind of go in and out of fashions of what is, you know, commercially full-on accepted and everything. So we'll see. I mean, there's a couple other things. You know, they announced baseballs and everybody's fired up about that. That's full-on slapstick as well. I think the road... Here's the thing is, you walk the line, Leslie Nielsen and everybody, George Kennedy, everybody...

was essentially playing it straight as they did in Airplane. If you go too loony, like really... I know it seems weird to say this about these movies, but if you go too unbelievable, then it's another type of comedy. The writer and director is Akiva Schaefer. We had him in studio. He's one of the Lonely Island guys, a pop star, never stopped stopping. And so I trust him. And Seth MacFarlane is...

one of the producers on it. So I think those guys will guide it in the right direction. And, you know, Liam Neeson can just be flat-out hilarious. When he plays a straight guy the whole time, to me, that's funny in and of itself. Well, in the trailer, and you'll see it, who does he have? Is it... Pam Anderson? No, sitting at the interrogation table. Is it...

Anyway, he says you did time for man's laughter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, he goes, you mean manslaughter? Must have been a hell of a joke. Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, Danny Houston, Liza Koshy, Cody Runnels, and CCH Pounder are going to be in the movie as well. That's a good name. All right, we're ready for clips, y'all.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. So, last week, over two days, this is the first time we've ever done this over two days. I believe for Preston and Steve, Blood Drive took place. It was a scheduling thing. I think we preferred to do it all, knock it all out in one day.

But we had to do what we had to do, and we did invite everybody to sign up and be a part either at Live Casino and Hotel Philadelphia or at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks. So the Thursday was at Live, and then at the Expo Center was on Friday. And you guys came out and you did it once again. It's our 20th annual Blood Drive, and we are here to announce the totals.

As far as collections go. And we had a lot of people donate for the first time. We had a lot of double reds. We had wonderful turnout. And we would like to reveal the number of units of blood collected for the 20th annual, I believe, for Presidency Blood Drive. It is 930 units. Whoa! Oh, bleh. We did 165.

At Live Casino. And we did 765 at Oaks. So they are thrilled. Needless to say, we are thrilled. Again, that's a crap load of blood. Yes, it is. And it's desperately needed. Our 20-year grand total is...

21,999 units of blood. Let's call that 22,000. Let's round that up to 22,000. So we would like to thank the American Red Cross, all the staff and volunteers at each site, Live Casino and Hotel Philadelphia, the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center notes, 9,000

Newman Media at Newman University. Our friends Window Nation for providing the Preston and Steve tote bag. Listener Kristen Kimball for the new t-shirt design, which we saw on Friday. Very popular. And Jackie Bam Bam, Pierre Robert, and Brent Porsche. And of course, you, all of the donors who contributed your time and your blood.

for this very, very needed cause and to pump up the reserves for our friends at the Red Cross. Absolutely, Preston. As we go forward, carry with you the knowledge.

There is no more finger pricking when you donate blood. Dude, that was a game changer. Absolutely. So, yeah, from here on out, if you didn't get a chance to join us to donate blood, sign up, find a blood drive near you. They're going on every single day. You can find them. And yes, they're not going to prick your finger. No. They're done with that. It's unbelievable. And even like with the, what do they say instead of double red? The power red. Power red. Yeah.

Much quicker now. I mean, the way everyone was processed through, everyone was like, oh my God, this is amazing. Trust me, if you've held off, take a shot at it because you save lives. 930 units of blood. It would have been nice if it had been 930. I know. I know.

Three more. Can we scrape up a few right in the studio here? We can probably scrape up a little bit more. But thank you, guys. It was a huge success. And it's just a giant number. A lot of times when you hear about blood drives, there's usually 30 or 40 or 50 units. And 930, that's massive. Every aspect of it and every of the broadcast and everything, phenomenal. The one misstep, it's on me. I failed to catch a munchkin.

Well, we got next year. It takes two to not tango. That's right. All right. So there's something we wanted to chat about. Marissa had brought up something interesting. I think several of us can...

to this whole thing. And it's in a world of subscription services. And we've talked about this before. Like, how many do you subscribe to? Or did you cut the cord? And now you just do these streaming services. And it could go for all kinds of things that you subscribe for. Wherein a little bit of confusion comes into play. I've got a story to share. Marissa definitely has one. Yes. About your mom, I believe, Marissa? Yeah, well, this all started over dinner. And my mom kind of threw out there. She's like,

how come on Amazon I can't watch movies, I want to watch The Accountant 2? Okay. And long story short, we figured out that she had no idea that Prime Video was a whole other app. Oh, she thought simply by having, okay. So that started that. And then I kind of like dove into Amazon and she's like, well, yeah, I mean, my account. And I went, your account? You're on my account. And she's like, no, no, no, I'm on my other account. I was like, I,

Amazon for months because I know that you use it. I'm a single person using it, so I share it with my mother. And she's been paying for her own account for two years. And I look at her, I was like, it's up to like $200 a year. And she's like, it's up to how much? Because she's been paying monthly. Had no idea. So I literally, I take her phone. Then I start looking through her purchases because I'm creeping. She has bought like four or five movies a month.

Really? Because I think she's trying to watch the movie. So she thinks she goes into Amazon, buys the movie, and then is like, why can't I watch it? Okay. Oh, man. And it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. And I'm like, looking at my Amazon, I start calling Amazon customer service.

They're trying to delay me to other places and they're saying, well, contact you within 12 hours or 24 hours. And I explain and literally the person on the other end, I hear like a chuckle and I'm like, it's okay to laugh. I've been laughing for hours now. And so we figured out that you can make a family member that doesn't have an account.

So she's just been like a person on my account instead of having her own account that she logs into. So if I can just clarify this. So you as the main account holder, as the daughter, as long as you are in the same family, it's not an infraction as far as Amazon Prime is concerned for someone else to access that account? Yes, you are allowed another family member. And so it is all by the rules. We are good to go there. But...

There's two ways to add it. You can just add a person and then you log in using the same account or you can combine two accounts. So each has separate logins. All right. And you log in that way. At some point, I'm guessing I changed my password and she just couldn't log in one day. So she just went and bought her own.

her own account. Marissa, if this is of any comfort to you, you are not alone. Every single time we go to visit my parents, it's a similar encounter. If it's not me going over there, it's my wife or it's my son. It's some version of tech support. More often than not, it has to do with the television and or streaming service. We've started and stopped HBO Max and Apple TV Plus and Amazon Prime and Netflix so many times. It's me and my brother. I

I get it. I completely get everything you're saying. By the way, Marissa had said earlier, I'm sorry to take this comment from you, Marissa, but she's like, every time that there's a family get-together, it's a tech support meeting. That's exactly right. That's what it is. We are tech support. Yeah. We're the geek squad. Yeah. You know, and Steve, I'm going to say this on air publicly. I think I've acknowledged this before to Ken Sedberry of Comcast and Xfinity. I am sorry because I gave your contact information to my parents.

And it's a monthly call. And Ken is the nicest guy on the planet. And it's just one of those things where like you reach a certain age, you don't care and you don't want to learn. They've got built in support staff. Yeah. And at some point that it started because my dad received an Uber gift card. So my cousin was helping him put the code in so that he could load it up. And then as the conversation kept going, my mom was like, well, yeah, I mean, Hulu just keeps taking money out every month.

It's like, do you watch Hulu? She's like, no, I don't have it. They take the money out. What's happening? She subscribes to Hulu as well, but doesn't use it or have it. Okay, so she subscribes to it, but she doesn't use it. You had a similar situation, did you not? My sister, so we're trying to help her get out of this financial hole and taking a look at her expenses and everything. And my sister does not look at her expenses.

Credit card payments, that's a whole other thing. She doesn't diligently go through it and see what all the charges are. And apparently there's a Spotify charge on there. She does not have Spotify. She does not know how to work Spotify. She doesn't set up an account. I don't know how the hell that charge is there.

And I'm telling her, you need to take care of this. This is a monthly payment. And without going into the details of my sister and why she is the way she is, she still hasn't taken care of that at all. She's my older sister. Paying for an account not being used at all. No. Doesn't even know what it is. Does not know. That's a food delivery service. What Spotify is.

Oh, wow. It's where your dog spots. Somehow or another, a sign-up happened. I don't know if it was through Roku or something like that where you sign up. I don't know. I have no idea. All I do know is that getting a hold of customer service for a place like Spotify, very difficult. Not easy. No. It's like they don't even have an office or anything. It's unreal. It's just a morphine thing. Well, you definitely can't talk to a human being. Right.

Even though I've been to the actual offices in Stockholm. Get out. Yeah, we went there several years ago. I've actually toured the damn place. There are people there. They got phones? There are human beings. You should have went over to a cubicle and said, can I call you occasionally? Yeah, exactly. Sven. So what happens, I think, a lot of times in these cases, too, like Marissa's, they have these, I don't want to call them predatory, but they are certainly confusing bundles of

and Hulu used to be by itself, and now it's bundled with other things. Disney Plus and FX and ESPN. How many people have multiple Netflix accounts and don't realize it? We've talked about this before. But I think in the initial push to make things more streamlined, I think a lot of it has also ended up exacerbating the issue. Once I set up Prime on my mom's phone, I had to also explain, hey, just because...

that TV show looks like it's available. It's actually just pulling from another service. So everything on prime should be free. If it asks you to pay for something, don't, it's like taking candy from a stranger. Don't do it. Go to the other app. Like, cause they'll take all the Apple ones and show them on prime and say, you can watch this for 1599. Um,

We got some texts coming in. If you want to share the most ridiculous thing, tech thing you've tried to help your parents out with, you can certainly do that. Or if you just had a nightmare getting rid of some type of service. Like Spotify. 610-660-9333 is the number. Also, I love you, Mom. And I love all the people in her office that also listen and love the games that hide the blood drive.

There you go. Here's another one that can add some confusion is that if you get a new phone or a new cell plan, you can often get a streaming service along with it. And so I have Verizon. I got a new phone last year and they have a package where you can sign up for Disney Plus. And with that Disney Plus package, Steve, you get Hulu, FX, and ESPN, right? Right. But I already had Disney Plus. So I had to cancel the subscription that I had for Disney Plus and then...

on my streaming service, it just went out. So then I had to call Verizon and Disney Plus to make sure that I wasn't paying for it, A, and B, that it was actually streaming. It's so freaking confusing. And I think...

I'm fairly capable. If you're not, if you're like Marissa's parents or my parents and you're less capable, it's enormously confusing. Listen, I'm really good at this stuff. I'm good at handling this and tech and, you know, my game's good on this. Yeah.

But even still, a lot of times, and what they'll get you a lot of times is if you're doing an upgrade or they're offering a multi-tier package. Standard. This includes this. Platinum includes this. Right, right. And you're like, ah, okay, platinum. And you don't realize, because I just don't want to be bothered with this, but that you, by going platinum, have re-subscribed to things you already have. Yeah, yeah. So that's... I just wonder if there's a way you can just...

And there is. Just tear it down to the studs, right? Okay. Become a fur driver. No, no, no. Literally, like, get rid of every single service you own and then build it from the ground up. Well, there is one... There is a way to do it. You could, I mean... There needs to be a service to do that. Well, there is. And they can be a pain in the ass. I think one of the best ways to do it is actually...

Change your credit card. Because everything's being paid for by your credit cards. Call up your credit card companies and say, I'm putting the kibosh on stuff. I don't know, so I'm going to cancel. Everything will run its cycle, and then you have a new card that won't be valid for these accounts. Interesting. That is a surefire way to end your...

You'll pay out what you have on the current card. Yes. But it will wrap up. Yeah. But then re-signing up... Right. ...for the ones you want to keep... Well, then you can do that manually by going to each account and making...

Yeah. Yeah. But when each account stops working, then you go, oh, you know what? Oh, I want to keep. I want this. No, no, no. I'm what I am saying. You don't have to create a new account. You should be able to keep your username and password and all that stuff. Just re right up the subscription. That's it. Right. Yeah. Theoretically. Yes. All right. We got a bunch of calls coming in. Let me go to I have Krista who is joining us this morning. Hey, Krista. Good morning.

Good morning. First time, long time. All right. Welcome, Krista. What do you want to tell us? I can't believe I'm on the phone with you. So long story short, my mother is a saint and she's a saint.

She works with old folks all across the area with, like, computer problems from, like, hey, they tried to sell me a mouse. I don't want mice. And my mom's like, oh, you kind of need that for your computer. But the biggest thing is, like, a public service announcement for anybody who has a parent who paid for AOL dial-up internet. Wow.

Once a week, she disconnects the service payments for dial-up internet, for AOL, who still makes millions of dollars a year. What? Because these people think, yes, these people think that they are paying for service access to their email. So, Chris, let me...

Let me clarify here because years ago, AOL dial-up was the way you got online. You're saying that they're still billing for AOL dial-up?

Yes, and I'm driving, so I'm not looking it up, you know, laws and everything, but AOL still makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year for their dial-up internet service. Nobody has it, but all of these old folks are thinking it is horrific. Oh, my. The second you were like, please call in, I didn't even hear the beginning of this conversation, and I called in as soon as I could. Wow. Like, it wouldn't even register that they're no longer hearing. Yeah.

Correct. Right. And, you know, like, how often do your parents call and you're like, yeah, mom, just pay the bill. Like, it's your Internet. And she's just saying Internet. And it's not. It's dial up. And it's like a couple, you know, here and there. But it adds up. Is she also on a Wi-Fi account as well? Your mother?

So my mom, my mom can take apart a computer and put it back together. No problem. She deals with like people in retirement homes. Okay. So, so, so, but all the time, but there are a lot, he sees it every day. Okay. She's the one that helps Steve. Yeah. Okay. So the wifi, but a wifi account. So people can have this, they're paying for this dial up service while obviously all that would be conducted over wifi. If you're, if you're going, right, there's no need for that anymore at all whatsoever. Right.

Man, that's wild. I didn't realize that. One old folks home that she works at a lot, they have Wi-Fi for free. So these people are just paying. The common thread is that they think they're paying for access to their email account. Oh, man. Not internet. That's terrible. They think if I get rid of, if I stop paying AOL, I'll lose this email account. Why are you paying for that when you can get CompuServe? Wow.

That is terrible. Krista, thank you for the heads up. We appreciate it. I was not aware. You were going to have to look into that. Double check on your parents and make sure that that is not happening to them. This article is four years old, but in 2021, there were still 1.5 million people still paying for dial-up service on AOL. And they were paying $10 or $15 a month for that. I'm going to go to, let's see, Regina is joining us next. Hi, Regina. Good morning.

Hey, good morning, Preston. How are you? Long time listener. First time getting through. Oh, very nice. Sorry, we had a little musical moment there. All right, go ahead, Regina. I had the exact same thing happen to me as what happened to your sister. I noticed I was getting charged for Spotify. I had the app, but I never, ever signed up for a premium service.

So like you're trying to figure out how to get through, I found them on Facebook and I instant messaged them. Okay. And that's how I got the situation rectified. They needed my credit card number and that's how they found the account that grabbed my credit card number. Let me ask you a quick question here so I can understand, so people can understand.

So you just simply downloaded the app but never activated an account and you somehow ended up being charged for an account?

No, Steve, I think my credit card got skimmed. Oh, okay. Okay. Yes. Yes. That makes sense. Somewhere, I think somebody walked by my bag and my card got skimmed. Okay. All right. And so you said by using the Facebook Messenger message,

It's always good if you can, if you're having trouble getting response, if you make your interaction public on social media, they'll have people who are going to respond a little bit quicker. Is that what worked for you?

Well, it wasn't public. I just sent them a private message on the messenger service, and I got a reply right away, and the person was very, very helpful, and I got refunded.

And the other person got their account canceled. Wow. Done and done. I am going to look into that right away. Excellent. Thank you, Regina. I appreciate it. That's a whole other... Okay, you're welcome, Preston. Have a great day. Thanks for taking my call. Thank you. That's a whole other element about your stuff getting scammed or Casey, you had some of your information end up on the dark web and you having like Apple, iTunes charges or things that are not even yours that they suddenly work into your monthly payments and...

And you don't know. You don't even notice? It just looks like part of your standard activity. If you're just tuning in, Marissa's mom didn't realize she was paying for an Amazon account she didn't need to pay for because Marissa already had her in an account. And she was paying for Hulu and not using it at all and did not know.

what the story was. And this is where I wonder how much of the business are, you know, mistaken charges. I wonder how much, what percentage of streaming, you know, of a streaming service's revenue, you know, and even if it's like small, like 2% or whatever, that's...

millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars. Nick just said just a couple of years ago, right? A million, what, 1.1 million still using dial-up service for AOL at about $10 a clip. Yeah, I mean, think about like gift cards that are purchased that are never used. Somebody's still making money off of that. Think about when you sign up for a free streaming service and you get the trial for a couple of months and then how many of those streaming services are just banking on the fact that you're going to forget.

And eventually you're going to pay for it. And they make money using that model. All right. So what's blowing my mind right now is, is the dial-up service even available? She said no. Anymore. Like AOL doesn't even. So how can they charge people $10 a month? Something that does not actually physically exist. Whoops. Shame on them. Whoops. Yeah. Illegal. Yes. Right. Well, I guess it is available in some areas. So the model needs to exist.

If you don't have Wi-Fi available at all case, or if you need dial-up service in rural areas. I don't know, man. Wow. That's amazing. That blows my mind. All right. I'm going to go next to Lindsay on the line. Hi, Lindsay. Good morning. Good morning to see you. Good morning, Lindsay. What you got?

So I'm married to tech service. My husband is a technical support help desk at Rowan University in Glastonbury. Shout out to them. So I get calls. I think we've been together like...

Over 10 years, he's always been into computers. We constantly get calls from my side of the family to help. I think he's... My dad's texted me a couple times about printers, and literally every single time, it turns into the scene from Office Space that printers just need to be destroyed. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So...

We even get sometimes once people find out about what he does, like people ask him questions randomly. Sure. Because that's what he does. Yeah, it's such a common problem because, again, even as we were pointing out earlier, Lindsay, is that everyone, no matter what your level of expertise or capability, you're so inundated with things that you are going to subscribe to or that you have to subscribe to to get something, to get something, to get something. And so before you know it, you're in this spider's web of stuff and you lose track.

of it yeah it's it's a lot and i mean he always jokes he's like well you got to put in a help desk ticket before i can do it so it can be tracked and everything and then when he says that to me i i roll my eyes and say well we're married yeah i sleep with you so therefore you should do it yeah that's how you play it lindsey yeah that's your always that's that's your that's your ticket i like it all right thanks lindsey appreciate it i wonder if there are there's got to be groups that will

that assist you that are independent. But then who the hell do you trust that are independent of helping you clear yourself of these problems? You know what I mean? Well, yeah. But then who can you trust with that? Well, you know what's a good one? Actually, somebody texted this in and I've heard it before that Rocket money is really good. You can sign up for Rocket Services.

And they're a large corporation, so do your due diligence. But they can help you cancel subscriptions automatically. So if they...

If on your phone or at home, you have a whole bunch of services and they can help you navigate the system so that if you're not using them that frequently, they'll automatically cancel them for you. So you give them the wherewithal to do so. A company like Rocket Money can help you through that process. I would say this, and I have not heard of that, but from what you're saying, Nick, they sound pretty good.

So if you were to do that, things that you really want, to your point, Case, that you find, oh, I don't have that, then you can resubscribe. But you're not just...

paying a bill for something you're unaware of, like your Hulu account that you never use. Nick, will they be able to figure out if, let's say, you and your spouse are both paying separately for the same service? That's a great question. Anything along those lines? I don't know. I've seen them advertised, and I've seen some texts coming in suggesting that it's a good service, so I don't know personally. You know what's another good one? Flex Seal. Oh. Very good. If you have a leak, yes. Yeah!

I mean, it's not going to help you with your subscriptions. No, but your money is leaking out. It's leaking out. Metaphorically. Yeah. Let me go to John next on the phone line. John, good morning. Good morning. How you doing? Good. What's up, bud?

I have an elderly father-in-law and I had to take over his finances. And I found out that McAfee was charging him $300 a month and he doesn't even use his PC. Oh my God. $300 a month. So what happens, John, a lot of people, they'll pop up an ad. For example, we have LifeLock. And LifeLock might be through McAfee. And I love the service. It's excellent. But sometimes they'll pop up things and it's just basically...

It kind of looks like an alert. Yeah, my mom gets that on Facebook. And then you have the service and you think you do. Yeah. But you have to be discerning with that. There were a couple of times in the last few weeks where I came home from work and my mom's like, hey, I need you to look at this. And so she pulls up her Facebook and it's a McAfee ad that looks like

She has a problem on her computer. My mom, this is just an ad. What they want you to, they want you to click on this. Did you click on it? She said, no. I said, good job. They want you to click on this. Uh, and then it'll open and then you end up like getting a service that you don't need or whatever. Uh, but you're right. I mean, when you look at it on Facebook, it's like, Oh, Oh, Oh crap. Uh, I just got hacked by somebody.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I joined a side for mean people called Jerkmates. Yeah. Yo, I've heard of that. Yo! No, that's not what that is. Ever heard of Jerkmates? Yeah, I don't need jerks in my life. Let me go to Frank. Hi, Frank. You're on the air. Morning, buddy. Hey, Gadzooks. Gadzooks, man. What's up? So I got my dad a computer. It was a Hewlett Packard.

And then, you know, that computer died, whatever, like five years later, get him a new computer. I'm looking at his bank statements. He's still paying $20 a month for the last five years for Hewlett Packard. And I have no idea what that charge was even for. Yeah. Do you know what? You know what? This is a good point here. You know, in your credit card bill. Yes.

You'll just simply get Rialto Industries. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you won't... Not know what it is. Not knowing what it pertains to. And I understand that there's some services over... Companies over multitudes of services.

But there should be a better way for the consumer who's receiving the bill to delineate what these different charges are. Agreed. Yeah. I mean, a little bit of research, you can figure it out. But I'm stupid and they should know that. But I mean, it's a step you shouldn't have to take. Yeah. You know what I mean? Frank, by the way, did you resolve that problem for him? Yeah. Like right away. Like, you don't even have a. Wow. Oh, you got it. Yeah.

I know. Oh, man. It's so, yeah. Thanks. $100 a month for like five years. I don't know math, but that's a lot. I don't know math. You know enough. Yeah, you're right. And the other guy that called them, or the guy that called them with the McAfee thing, that was $3,600 a year. That was bad. That's crazy. We just got this message from Amazon saying, hey, your teen's login is now a standard Amazon account. So our oldest is now not allowed on our Amazon account. It says your teen can now purchase without your oversight.

Uh, we're also excited to let you know that 18 to 24 year olds can try prime for young adults for six months at $0. So like, she's not allowed to be on our prime account now. Like what's that all about? Well, first off, make sure it's not some sort of scam. Uh, you know, because when they, they send these, these offers, no, I would dismiss that. They can't give, they can't give, um, purchasing power to a family member, uh,

Indiscriminately, it would have to go... Or they're making her pay separate. They're like, no, you're too old now. You can't be on your family's account. You're a big girl now. You got to pay for your own prime account. Is that what they're saying? Well, yeah, make sure it could because maybe what they... Sometimes I think of everything as a method to get at your credit card information. Oh, my God. And the wording of some things like that. It's like, wait, I have to analyze this. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. I get lost...

six, eight words into it. I miss my mouth with my fork. You need to understand what you're dealing with here. When was the last time you ever read a user agreement? Never! Yes, accept, whatever, and then you just go on and make your purchase. And they're purposely, you know, yes, encyclopedia Britannica level. Yep. Alright, so Joe did the canceling his credit cards thing. Hi, Joe, you're on the air. Good morning.

Long time listener, first time caller. Get out of here. We have a song for that. First time listener. First time caller. All right, what's up, bud?

Yeah.

So, tried canceling here, you know, Spotify, Amazon, music, all these services. Got tired of waiting on hold, so I just called my bank and canceled the credit card. Yeah. So, next month they came in, they just, you know, you get the email, your credit card, you know, your payment did not go through, your Amazon is canceled. And then you just let it go, except for the ones you want to keep. Yeah.

Yeah, and I let her pay for the ones she wants. I pay for the ones I want, and it's a lot easier. But the only downfall to that is all my payments, all my utilities, all that stuff comes through my credit card, so I just sign back up for all that. You had to change all that, too. That's the thing. There's a little bit of legwork. You got to make sure that you update the information for the important stuff. But at least you're able to comprehensively refine it down to what you want to pay. Yeah.

I was paying for like Yoohoo Plus. I didn't even know what the heck Yoohoo Plus was. I'm paying like $30 a month for that. Yoohoo Plus is the companion service to Jerkmate. Oh, yeah. Yo, I've heard of that. Yoohoo!

Thanks, Joe. Appreciate it, man. Wait, you who plus? Is it YouTube plus? You who the chocolate drink? Yes. No, Yahoo, I think is what he meant. He said you who plus. He did say you who plus, but I'm wondering if it was. Every month, Nick, you get a chocolate drink delivered to your front door. Oh, that is a bonus. I'm thinking it was Yahoo, maybe. I want to go to one more call, then we do have to take a break. But Lori has something interesting about dial up here. Hey, Lori, good morning. YouTube. YouTube.

What's up, Lori? Good morning, guys. Also known as Crazy Turtle. Yes, I have been paying for AOL $10 a month. The dial-up. I guess it's a dial-up. I thought I was paying for my email. And that's what you just found out. That's what the guy was calling in earlier about that you don't have to pay to keep your email account, apparently. Email's free.

Apparently. They're charging you for dial-up. How long, Lori, do you think you've been paying this charge? Listen, I've had AOL since dial-up started. I'm 54 years old. So I've been paying a long time. Reach out to them and find out if that's the case. I walked home with today. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. That's crazy. There's tons of people this is happening to who have been around their AOL account.

Oh, my God. Wow. Don't tell my husband. No, definitely not. We'll keep it a secret. All right. Thank you, Lori. Appreciate it. Okay. All right. Take a good look and see what those charges are. I like the canceling the credit card thing. Yeah, that's one way to do it. Yeah. And, you know, I mean, I just got a notification on my beeper, my pager. Your beeper? Yeah.

I got to re-up my bill there. Well, anyway, Marissa's mom had been not only paying for an Amazon account that she didn't need to pay for for a long time now, but also Hulu on top of that, too. Yeah, not even using it. Not even using it. Yeah, yeah. Wow. All right. Good time to do a little inventory, friend. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. We do have some bizarre file stories on the way. Sherry O'Terry will be in our studio this morning around 9 o'clock. We're very much looking forward to spending some time with her. Be back in a moment. You spend some time with us, all right?

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Hey, thank you, Marissa. Before we get to the bizarre file, I got a plug and I got a shout-out to do here real quick. This was just a terrible story, Nick. I believe you got this, too. A young girl passed away, six-year-old Aria, died. She had a rare and severe form of meningitis.

despite being fully vaccinated. But her parents, Frank and Sabrina, and her brother Frankie are obviously behind and they are having to deal with all this and they're facing financial strains of funeral expenses, lost income and all this stuff. So there is a GoFundMe account. Oh my God, the picture of this young girl. Just adorable. Just a sweetheart. So it's just a terrible story. If you can help out

Please visit the community page of PrestonSteve.com. You go to PrestonSteve.com, you click on Events.

And then you'll see the community page and you can help out. There's all kinds of people that need assistance in and around our area. If there's somebody geographically close to you and that is a connection that you might have for that reason, you want to help them out or this story speaks to you, you can help. So we have lots of people who have reached out. And there's other things.

Besides GoFundMe, there's a list of charity events that are coming up, golf outings, beef and beers, things like that. It's a really good repository, and it's a good way to find out what's going on in your community and a way to lend a hand if you have the ability to do so. So I wanted to pass that along to our...

Obviously, our condolences to the family because it's just a terrible story. And then I have a shout-out, and this is from Gloria, who says, hey, Preston and gang. And I sang that just for you. It was beautiful. I would like to give a big juicy shout-out for my sister, Allie. Her birthday is on June 17th, and she's one of your biggest fans. She listens to you guys every day. She's the reason I listen to your program as well, and we bond over your show. It's awesome. So here's the shout-out.

From Gloria Engold to her sister Allie. So happy birthday to you. All right, we got bizarre file stories and here they come. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Files.

Brought to you by Sequoia Outback, celebrating freedom from your aging deck. And get serious savings during Sequoia's 4th of July sale, Route 309 in Hatfield and online at decksupplies.com. Passengers on a recent United Airlines flight to Chicago were shocked to find an interesting message greeting them on every single in-flight video screen on the plane. That means on the ones in front of the back of the headrest.

Although some customers say they found the inappropriate message a tad bit funny, one of the passengers shared a photo of their video screen on Reddit which read, Welcome aboard flight Bite Me 1 to Chicago. What? Wow. I am so shocked. And it wasn't just displayed once. Further down the screen, the flight number was again displayed as Bite Me 1. Okay.

The passenger wrote, this is what the in-seat monitor displayed on today's flight. Not a good look, United. Well, at least they're welcoming them. How this message came to appear remains a bit of a mystery, although it could be traced to how the in-flight entertainment system is set up. Some systems require a member of ground staff or flight attendant...

to manually input the flight number as well as the destination and origin, while others pull the information from the flight information system in the cockpit. For those of you catching the connecting flight, blow it out your ass. It could be that an engineer was carrying out some maintenance on the system and then had to test it to make sure that it was working as expected. That's my guess. In order to load the system, the engineer...

would need to input a flight number so they made up something humorous just to get past the login screen. But bite me one was the flight. How much more enjoyable would air travel be if they included information like that? A woman is accused of running over people after an argument

at a baby shower. Robin Lizette Alexander, 54 years old, was charged with eight counts of aggravated assault and two counts of destruction of property in connection to the incident. You know how edgy those baby showers get. It's a tinderbox. Officers were responding to a, uh,

for a report of people hit by a car. Investigators say Alexander was attending a baby shower and got into an argument with another woman. The disagreement spilled out into the parking lot where Alexander got in her car and drove the woman and two others.

Alexander hit the woman and one other person. She then drove into a parked car. A juvenile was in that parked car, not injured, thankfully. Alexander then circled the lot and then rammed the car of the woman she was arguing with. Oh, man.

There was no word on what the argument was over or if there was a previous relationship between Alexander and the woman. Several people tried to stop Alexander and disabled her car by slashing the tires. Like regular people came over with knives and slashed the tires. I think it was over which baby was the cutest, Preston. One person was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Two others were treated at the scene. I'll kill you! Police announced Alexander's arrest this week. She was released from custody on electronic monitoring.

Strange, unique, and eccentric names have come back into fashion for new parents. However, one parent-to-be took these trends to the next level and has paid a bit of the price, which is relentless mocking on the Internet. A friend of the parent in question was sent a seemingly innocent baby shower invitation. Oh, here we go again. But after closer inspection, she noticed the name, which is Chernobyl Hope. Chernobyl Hope.

And it was especially unique, or as the internet dubbed it after the friend posted the imitation on Reddit, ridiculous and offensive. It appeared as if the parents were unaware of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Many replies said that they were so uncomfortable with the baby name that they had no choice but to turn to humor to cope. And a few of the comments were, I'm sure everyone at the celebration will be radiant. Mm-hmm.

And another one was, if I were a guest at that shower and heard that name, I'd have a total meltdown. Another said, I guess it's a nuclear family. And someone said, honestly, if it didn't have the connotation of being a nuclear disaster, it would actually be a pretty name. It seems noble, right? Chernobyl. Yeah.

Wedged between comments making jokes at the family's expense and users expressing outrage at the name was the only other detail or semblance of an explanation. The original poster left behind saying, I have a feeling that they don't know what Chernobyl meant.

I asked them where they got the idea from and said it just sounded nice. Don't you think so, Three Mile Island? Yeah, so they went with that. I just saw something yesterday that apparently there was a nuclear reactor meltdown in Canada like 50 years prior to Chinro. Well, this is not a dad joke. That they took...

people from the United States, like Army members of the United States, and they basically dropped them into the reactor to help, listen, I don't know, the scientific things. Is this how Tim Hortons was invented? No. But one of the guys that they lowered into this thing that was covered in radiation and subsequently was peeing your radiation for months and months was Jimmy Carter.

I just saw it. Former President Jimmy Carter was lowered into a nuclear reactor and peeing radiation. We're going to circle back to this. Nick has found the information. Let me get one more bizarre file story and then I will tell you all about Jimmy Carter and the nuclear meltdown. One last story. A mystery man named Sam, known as Mr. Cash Drop...

on social media is leaving cash around New Jersey. Oh, nice. The Garden State newcomer says, I just go around, hide varying sums of cash at different locations, post a video teasing where the money is, and wait for my followers to show up and find it. I think I saw something about this. I didn't know it was in Jersey.

Prior to this. It happens three times a week and followers go hunt down the dough. He arbitrarily picks the towns and locations and so far up to 500 bucks has been found duct taped to beach railings by the Jersey Shore under rocks and suburbia between the bushes that line the walkways of northern New Jersey hotspots.

Are they like at $50 increments, $100 increments? They're varying. Sam is part of a new cash scavenger hunt trend that has people running around looking for a little cash to ease their wallet. So very interesting. All right, let me read this story to you. Nick, hold it up here. Yeah, this is kind of where it starts with the thing that Casey was chatting about. All right, so it says, speaking to journalist Arthur Milnes, Carter described the preparation before he...

And 22 other men under his command prepared to deal with the situation. So it doesn't, I don't know the history of the situation. There was a near meltdown at this plant called Chalk River. And the situation is from the Jersey Shorecast, Preston? He said it was a very exciting time for me when the Chalk River plant melted down. I was one of the few people in the world who had...

to go into a nuclear power plant. Carter himself was physically lowered into the damaged reactor, exposing himself to dangerous levels of radiation. We're talking about Jimmy Carter? Yeah. Yeah. He said, uh, he wrote in his book, Why Not the Best? Uh,

which was published while he was running for president in 1975. Carter described the training that he and the other men went through to prepare for the cleanup. He said, we all went out on the tennis court and they had an exact duplicate of the reactor on the tennis court. We would run out there with our wrenches and we'd check off so many bolts and nuts and then put them back. They'd put them back on.

And finally, when we went down into the reactor itself, which was extremely radioactive, then we would dash in there as quickly as we could and take off as many bolts as we could, the same bolts we had just been practicing on. Each time our men managed to remove a bolt or fitting from the core, the equivalent piece was removed on the mock-up. And he told Milnes that he felt the long-term effects of the exposure to the radiation. He said we were fairly well instructed then on what nuclear power was, but for about six months after that...

I had radioactivity in my urine. He said they let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would allow now.

It was in the early stages and they didn't know. Maybe that's what helped them live to 100 years old. I mean, radiation gets his bad rap, but it can turn you into a Spider-Man? You can live to 100? We hear all this bad stuff about radiation exposure. Maybe we need a few more meltdowns. Carter remained in the Navy for a year more before he was honorably discharged in 1953 so that he could take over his family's peanut business. What?

Wow. Dude. So that is a chapter. And I thought I was fairly well versed in Jimmy Carter. That is a chapter that completely eluded me how he was lowered into a nuclear reactor. The only piece of Jimmy Carter trivia I was aware of is that he was the first U.S. president to ever be born in a hospital.

Right. I remember that one. Yeah. Wow, Case. When did you stumble across that little kid? Dude, it showed up on my Instagram. I don't know if any president's ever pissed radiation. What, just yesterday? Yeah, last night. Last night, it showed up in my Instagram feed. And I was like, it's just one of those. I'm like, this seems like it could be legit. It was between honor videos. Yeah. Essentially, yeah. All right. Well, there you go. Every now and then. That's crazy. You learn something here on this program. You do.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. A couple of things, real quick. Nick, this is an interesting thing from what we were just talking about. Yeah, the follow-up on the Jimmy Carter conversation. Yeah, President Carter, believe it or not, was lowered into a nuclear reactor that had a partial meltdown to help fix the problem that was in Canada. And apparently somebody texted and said the term crud...

from that event. It's used in modern nuke plants. It is the radioactive rust and sludge buildup in the pipes that we get out of the pipes before doing maintenance. Chalk,

Unidentified Deposits is where Crud came from. Wow. It was the Chalk River Nuclear Plant. Chalk River Unidentified Deposits. And that's where we get the name Crud from. This bizarre story that turns out to be true. Wow. That I don't...

I would have to assume the vast majority of people were unaware that Jimmy Carter was lowered into a nuclear reactor. That's awesome. Hey, I want to plug this event. This is happening tomorrow. The Bend to the Shore Visit Delco broadcast is happening tomorrow. Brent Porsche.

and KC Boyd are going to be broadcasting live during Brent's show tomorrow from 3 to 7 at J.D. McGillicuddy's in Havertown. Isn't KC a Legend Award recipient? Yeah, I think he is the first ever Delco legend. Yeah, I believe so. So, Bend of the Shore is coming up next.

July 20th? Yeah, July 20th, about a month. Okay, Sunday, July 20th. Benefits the families behind the Bad Judd Children's Foundation. So stop by and see Brent and Casey tomorrow at 3 to 7 at J.D. McGillicuddy's in the Hairtack. We've got to get footage of Brent walking away from the camera into the woods and replicate the Sasquatch video. Yes. He's gotten more hairy, right? He's gotten more hairy. He has, absolutely. It's his signature look. Yeah, and he does it better than anyone.

I want to thank Monica and Tim. They sent Casey a little package here. It says, Hey, Casey and the MMR team. Little note says I'm cleaning out my house for a move and thought you would appreciate these items more than I have. So Casey has a boxing ET doll. It's one of those little dolls that has a boxing gloves.

He's hitting the microphone with it right now? There was a comedian I forget who I used to work with all the time when I was doing stand-up. And this E.T.

boxing ET was part of his act and it would come out all the time. So this is sort of nostalgic looking at this. I had one that was a nun. A nun. Yeah, I remember that. I had that in my office for a long time. For the joke to work, it has to be something you would not assume with boxing. ET and a nun. ET's hitting the microphone.

I love these things. I can't face off against E.T. There was one in the movie Big. It wasn't E.T., but he's like... Ew, ew, ew, ew. Because it was making that like a beeping sound. And then what else did she send? This is an ALF puppet. Oh.

Oh. Dude, that's a very wonderful collection of prizes for you or gifts for you. Yeah, this is vintage, bro. Yeah, you sent these to the right people. Yeah. Yeah, without question. I think this was made in 1988. By the way, E.T. is wearing a turtleneck sweater in this. It's, you know. It's Kelly on my home plate. He's got a long ass neck. I don't think I can fight this thing. You got a big dumb ass. I knew you were a botanist, but I didn't know you were a pugilist. I was a pugilist on my planet as well. Wow. But I'm not.

But on my planet, pugilist means botanist. Oh, okay.

Well, thank you, Monica and Tim, for your toys. We appreciate that. Case, I think I want to do this. I've got a variety of studies that were done in the form of a survey. Oh, wow. Not just that, as you know. So, yeah. We're going to do Survey Says. I got a few different things to share with you guys this morning, and we'll start with this particular one. It was a poll of 2,000 U.S. adults.

And they ask for the little things that annoy Americans. Like surveys. Like surveys. So, yes, there are a lot of things, little stressors that we have that are small, but they can add up to big ones. Well, they're the obvious ones, right, from your day-to-day experience.

Travails, right? Like being lowered into a nuclear reactor. Right. That's going to ruin your day. No, I mean, is it stuff like traffic things? Yeah, right? People riding on the shoulder, things along those lines. Yes, exactly. Fighting for a parking spot. In general, two-thirds of respondents feel like they get stressed out more easily today than they did five years ago.

And around three quarters, 73% say that stress has negatively impacted their quality of life. When does it ever positively impact your quality of life? Listen, as your doctor, I'm going to recommend more stress. Yeah. Do things that agitate you. And the

quality of sleep as well. Get less sleep. So stress, I agree with that. Stress can mess with my sleeping schedule. Which then in turn messes with stress more. It's the worst cycle to get in. When you start losing out on sleep, it just makes you more stressful and then the

Being stressful makes you lose sleep. Do you know what the fly in the ointment is with all this, though? Is that you're seldom aware that this cycle is occurring. Yeah. That stress is... Yeah, you don't know why. You don't realize that you're stressed because you're not getting enough sleep. Right. And you're not getting enough sleep because you're stressed. And before you know it, you're in a harness being lowered into a nuclear reactor. Yeah. So...

So here are the things that people are annoyed by the most, according to this particular survey. We'll start at the lower level and work our way. 15% of respondents said phone notifications going off during a meeting. Hmm.

I mean, I assume that's someone else's phone. Right. And their notifications going off. You know what bothers me more is getting a phone call from a spam when I'm listening to music. Because, like, basically you've hijacked what... Hey, I am relaxing and just chilling out. And you, a-hole, have hijacked that for what? To sell me siding? I don't know. Where'd you find that if you're interested in Spotify? Here's one that drives me crazy. And this is not... Everybody is not going to have this one. But...

On my car, my navigation system, I use Waze as my navigation system. I find it to be very, very dependable. But my car has its own nav system. And I've tried to turn this off. And I know there's a way to, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet. And so I listen to audiobooks every day. I'm constantly listening. Well, there's a woman's voice that pops up from time to time, and it says this exact thing.

Traffic event ahead. And A, there's no traffic event ahead. It just pops up randomly and it's right in the middle of a crucial plot point to whatever it is I'm listening to on my stories. Remember?

Remove your engine. Okay, thank you. It'll reset everything. You know what I do appreciate, Preston, is on the new Apple CarPlay. Traffic event ahead. It would have been just like that. How annoying was that? Very annoying. So what happens is if you're listening to something, at least through the Apple Play, may not be an audible book, but if you're listening to a podcast or something, it will rewind it back

So you're listening to something. Yeah. It will take it back a few seconds so you can hear what you missed. Oh, okay. And they should do that with everything. They should be part of audio books and everything. There has to be a way to disable that. And of course, you're going to disable it the one time it's true. Yeah. You know what annoys me, Preston? This just happened to me yesterday. So hang on. Oh.

I have my earbuds here. Okay. These are my earbuds. They're in its case. Yes. For some reason, they decide, oh, I'm going to be a working Bluetooth now. And so even though my earbuds are in the case, it will pick up the Bluetooth on my phone. And so when I went to go to listen to music this morning as I was getting work ready, my headphones were dead. Do you mean because the Bluetooth had been running all day?

all night long while it was in my cage. So on your phone, just disconnect from your... I did that twice yesterday and it still did it. I don't know what to tell you, man. Yeah, I know. I think, Preston, you can turn off the directions, the audio directions that pop up because I... Oh, I did. Oh, you did? Okay, but they still pop up? Yep. Oh, that's annoying. No, I went in there and it says, you know, voice notifications off. Yeah. Turn it off. Son of a bitch. I have to get the head to head. I do it to ignore you. Right. Yeah.

Bitch. You dumb slut. I don't care for... You want to take this outside? In the middle, randomly placed ads in the middle of a YouTube stream, a YouTube video that I'm watching. I'm fine with YouTube ads in the beginning and the end. They're kind of annoying, but it's free. Who gives a crap? Eventually, it's fine. But at a critical point in a YouTube video that I'm watching where there's no actual space where it's supposed to be a commercial, and then they just insert one, give me

break man here's one that that bugs the hell out of me is all right so i'm watching something on hulu and i have to sit through two minutes of ads in order to get to whatever i'm going to watch right then i get to where and then i need to fast forward so i fast forward a half an hour to get to the point and then i have to watch another two more commercials because it doesn't want you to do that all right from the survey other things that uh people find annoying that americans find annoying uh their own alarm clock yeah

21% said that. Yeah, that's never fun. 25% said someone near them heavy breathing.

So they just can't stand the noise, the sound of someone breathing. It's like the John and Kate Plus 8. There's this classic footage of her sitting there berating her husband because he was breathing. So stop breathing. Stop with that breathing and living. It's annoying. 34% of respondents said an annoying thing is phone calls when they're not expecting one. Do you know what's kind of weird? I find, and it used to be a standard thing in days of yore.

Somebody comes to the door unexpectedly. Yeah. People don't do that anymore. You know, who has a great bit about that. That kind of really made him take off. It was about people stopping by. Is anyone expecting anyone? Yep. Yeah. 40% said the most annoying thing is listening to someone chew loudly. We know someone who used to work here who very much had a pet peeve with that. And your brother. My older brother, man. Yep. Yep.

40% said when their Wi-Fi is lagging or cuts out. Well, we have a way to get your Wi-Fi booming. That's right. It's the boom phase. When you're used to something that's instantaneous and then that instantaneous nature gets taken away from you. I mean, we're so privileged and lucky to have all of the modern conveniences we do. But when you get used to those conveniences and then they're removed or slightly delayed...

That's so damn frustrating. And it's like total first world problems stuff, but it doesn't make it any less annoying. Hey, do you remember when you were 18 and you get climaxed like that? Now it takes a little while. Remember how great that was? 30 seconds. Right? Now it takes you 10 seconds. So people, this is another annoyance, people talking to them when they want silence, 43%. Yeah.

42% said people interrupting them or talking. Oh my God, I hate that so much. Shut up.

Steve, a knock on the front door when they're not prepared for guests. 44% said that. If I'm going over to someone's house, I let them know. I send a certified letter to let them know I'm coming over. It's just solicitors that come to my house. Nobody really ever knocks up. Those are few and far between. I usually get... I'll get someone with the...

energy, you know, energy plans, and then occasionally you'll get a charity here and there, but virtually never. Fortunately, in my town, they have made solicitations illegal. Oh, is that right? Yep. I mean, same in mine, but people still come. We put a sign up.

We put a couple of signs up that said no solicitation. And so, yeah, we haven't had anybody stop by, which is great. Because I'm wrestling dogs. I'm literally wrestling an 80-pound Bernadoodle and a 40-pound yapper when these people come to the door.

And they should be like, oh, I'm so sorry, sir. You have your hands full. Why can't you stick them on him? Yeah. Oh, I thought you meant. What do you mean? I thought you meant you were just like wrestling with your dog. And then they come to the door. Why are you naked? I wrestle my dog naked and you're ruining it. Yeah, they're not wearing clothes. You came to my door. This is intrusive. I'm sharing a primal thing with my dog. I don't come to your house when you are naked wrestling your dog. When you are borderline making love to your pet and ruin it.

Wait, so what are you actually doing? He's having sex with his dog. Stop it. Well, no, no, no, no. Both dogs. Both dogs. Oh.

Why does it always go down that path? It's a throuple. Nick, when somebody comes to my door, my dogs go absolutely bonkers crazy. So when I have to answer the door, now I'm wrestling two dogs as this person is standing on my doorstep. I thought it was a leisure activity when you're wrestling with your dogs. Sir, we were going to give you a copy of the Watchtower, but we've decided that there's no way you're going to have it. Sorry, Fonzie. When I was 18, I could do this in 30 seconds. Right.

The number one annoyance of Americans, according to this survey, is when they see someone that they don't want to talk to. So these are really little bits of minutiae, but they do. You know what, though? It's a life skill that you hopefully develop through just living life.

Let it roll off your back a little bit. It used to wind me up some of these things. Everyone has their things that wind them up. But if you can learn to manage, you're going to be a happier person. But still, I have to agree with that number one. When you see someone and you know the encounter is inevitable. Here comes Hitler. Dude, but I mean, honestly, in your mind, literally that voice is going, oh.

Man. This guy again. You. I hate it. On this list, there were no traffic names? No, actually there weren't. I'm surprised. I would think there would be a standard part of everyone's day or most people's day if you're not living in a village somewhere remotely. I would have thought sitting in traffic would be number one. You know what has changed that? Listening to us. Yeah, maybe. It's...

The pause that refreshes. But Casey and I were talking about it yesterday. Casey gave me a ride home, and we were sitting on the Schuylkill, and it was noon on a Monday, and it was kind of annoying, bad traffic in the middle, early in the week or whatever. And it was just like, Casey, I think you made the observation. Can you imagine having to sit...

in this every damn day. I want to present an award to everyone who goes, who commutes on a regular basis at standard times because God bless you and God bless you for spending time with us. We understand what you're going through. All right, hang on here. Lana has a tip. Casey, don't know if this is true or not, but let's find out. Hey, Lana, you're on the air. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Good. What's going on, Lana?

I'm a teacher, and I hate every time an ad pops up because the kids lose focus when I play a video for them. So I'm sure Nick will do this in the first video he does. It won't work. But it works for me just about every time. If you put a T after the – or put a dash after the T in YouTube and then hit enter again for it to research for your video, it should say no cookies up in the bar, and it'll play the video without any ads. Okay.

So run that by us one more time. How do you do it?

After you search your video, if your video starts, go up in the URL. Yes, thank you. And put a dash after the T in YouTube and then click enter again. And it should say YouTube, but it should also say no cookies up in the bar. And it will play consistently without ads. I just learned this and it's amazing. Okay, so we will take that out for a spin. One thing you can do also, which is not what you're looking to do, is to...

is to subscribe. Lana, thank you very much. We'll check that out. That could be cool. You're welcome. Have a good day. To Casey's point about jumping ahead in a video, yes, you cannot elude. You see them there. Nice try. Anyhow, those are the tops. Interesting. Got another survey. Let's go to that.

All right, this was 1,125 U.S. adults were asked the question, how important is it to you personally to have visited a large number of U.S. states within your lifetime? Very. I've done all 50. All right, so very, somewhat, not very, or not at all. I got 44. So, Nick, it's very important. Steve, you're up.

Is it important? I'll have to recuse myself. Are you happy? Yes, I'm very happy that I did. Yeah, absolutely. Casey, is it important? It's important, but I haven't made it a priority. You know, we're going to have a little bit of time off in August, and I had...

Asked my wife if it was okay if I just drove around the country by myself for a little bit. Did you say it like that? I'm looking for a way to get away from you for a while. Do you take separate vacations occasionally? Yeah, I've gone to Grand Canyon. Because camping does nothing for her whatsoever. So my daughter was going to be an orientation leader at school, which would have required us to take her to school a little bit earlier. And then I would have already been in the state of Michigan. And then I could have just took

you know, take off to North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, like all of that beautiful God's country. And I wanted to do that and like maybe loop down into like Colorado. And I think that got... The frozen body of a man in a fish shirt was found. I think that got poo-pooed. She essentially was like, well, don't you want to spend time with your son before he goes away to college? And the answer to that question is obviously yes.

He doesn't want to spend time with me. He wants to be with his friends. The last thing you want to do is be a drag on someone who doesn't want to be with you. Do you have any ideas what you might want to do? Yeah, just that. You want to do a real walkabout kind of thing, right? Kind of, yeah. Search for my soul. Your inner light. You want to turn on your heart light, just like that E.T. doll you have. I have six states to go. I've been wanting to do a road trip from Tallahassee to Louisiana because I can knock off Alabama that way. I've still got to get both Dakotas

and Minnesota, and then I also have to get Alaska and Hawaii. But I can do the northern route from Colorado back up through the Dakotas, get a couple of national parks that are up there, and then loop through Minneapolis and come home that way. But every time I think about traveling anywhere at any point, I think about...

Wait, is this a way to knock off either A, national parks, or B, the states that I haven't been to yet? It is not important to me at all. And I've been to most. There's just a handful. You wrote a song about it. You've been everywhere. I have been...

I thought about trying to learn all the words to that song. Really? Man, that's a tough one. I printed them up and I started to go into it and I'm like, this might be too hard. I think it's harder than It's the End of the World as we know it. You think? Oh my God. I didn't think about it. He rattles off so many cities. I've been everywhere, man. Nick, would you count... Would you count...

Four corners has four states. Yeah. You could. That's kind of a BS thing. It's a cheat. I've done it. Yeah. I mean, I've driven through a slice of Idaho up from Salt Lake City towards Wyoming. And so the only time I've ever actually spent in Idaho, it was like the bottom, the southern most east corner of it. But I count it. I got out of the car. Yeah. I peed. So when I was doing stand up and I would listen, I would travel into a state and I

I would spend a little bit of time. I mean, I have technically spent time in each state. I didn't live there for a month, but I did experience it. I've driven across the country a few times, but I've not done the far northern route on I-90 or the far southern route on I-10, and you can bang out a whole bunch that way. By the way, I'd like to explore this sometime and see if there's anybody that's listening, but not right now because our guest is in the Acme Lounge. We're going to move along here shortly, but

Another question was asked in the same survey. Have you ever visited another U.S. state outside of the one that you currently live in? 95% said yes, but 5% said no, that they've never left their state. Now, I could see a place like Texas or larger states, California maybe. But in Delaware, if you're all out of bed, you're in another state. Yeah, or you've never left New Jersey in your entire life.

And you've been everywhere, man. We'd be hard pressed to find anybody, I think, that has never been out of Delaware or New Jersey. No. Come on. One of the things I love about this area and I love about, you know, like in my general area, you know, Roxborough and Manioc and some of the... And Casey, it's a Delco thing as well. Yeah. People who stay in a town...

Not saying they don't ever leave to go on vacation, but they lock and load for... Yeah, they're bored and break. Generationally, yeah. But yeah, only 5% have said they've never left the state that they live in, but we'll have to explore that another time. We do have a guest, but I want to get in at least one more. Oh, yay. If you guys don't mind. One more soy bae. We're changing lives here. Let me see.

Which one do we want to go with here? How about this one? 3,568 U.S. adults were asked, how often do you leave comments on stories slash articles that you read online? And the options are often, sometimes, rarely, never, and don't know.

So how often would you say, often, sometimes, rarely, never, don't know? So when I was a regular contributor to Penthouse Forum. Call me madam. Call me madam. Xavier Hollander, that was me, right? This happened to a friend of mine. You'll never believe what happened. I was moving furniture for a friend. But what I find myself doing is if I'm reading something that

I want to respond to, I will write it and then I will erase it. Okay. Because I'll get the fulfillment of writing the comment because it never, it means nothing again. But answering the question, actually leaving comments, often, sometimes, rarely, never. Rarely. Rarely. Okay. I'm rarely as well. How about you guys?

I think on news articles or YouTube, I hardly ever comment. But I like commenting on Instagram because I feel like sometimes it's fun. Right. And most of the time, if you avoid the incendiary stuff, you can get some good jokes out of it, some cool conversation. And I like that. Okay. Occasionally, obviously, it works.

delves into the annoying or whatever and so you avoid those conversations. But like commenting on a Phil's win the next day or that night, to me that's fun. Okay, I didn't even think of social media. I thought of like, you know. Yeah, me too. But social media would, then it would be a little bit more frequent and I usually like to

Just make a joke riff on X or Instagram or OnlyFans or JokePony. If this is going back to stories and articles, then mine would be never. Never, ever. I don't do that. I'm there for the information and that's it.

But on social media, rarely. On occasion. I don't even post. It's rarely. Casey, what about you? Same thing. If it's a news story or a news article or whatever, absolutely never. I don't care what you think about the story, and I don't expect you to care what I think about the story. On Instagram stuff, yeah, I'll do it sometimes. And usually, if I do do that, it's fine.

on somebody's post that I actually know. Right, right. Yeah, so if it's somebody, like I'm not going to comment on a slab or, you know. You haven't been invited in. Marissa has to be doing. Marissa, you do it all the time, right? Yeah, and especially the power of a comment or a like on like a small business or a friend's post like goes really far. Right. Like just posting like, oh, that dish looks good or that sweatshirt's really cute that you made. Any of that like helps their... Yeah.

Instagram profile, raise and see more people. My last comment, Marissa, was, ooh, that sweatshirt looks really cute that you made. Yeah. You know, what's funny is if you even like things on Instagram, people can see what you like. Yeah. And I don't necessarily know if people...

Realize that? Realize that. And, you know. I enjoyed your manifesto. No, no, no. I was talking to somebody recently who had noticed a married couple's what they were liking. Yeah. And it was like, oh, these guys are not long for this. This marriage is over. Yeah, yeah, yeah. While you're on the topic, this is a warning to everybody. Make mistakes.

You are Venmo private. Oh, yeah. There is no reason that anyone should see that you're paying your spouse for groceries or that you gave somebody a tip for your haircut or that you bought dinner with somebody because every once in a while people have gotten caught because they put things in there. And like, why is this person hanging out with that person all the time? That's a good point. I never understood why that was even an option to make your payments. Hey, yeah.

Hey, everybody, I'm paying my Pico bill. People just love the social aspect of it. You throw some emojis in there. You make it fun. Make other people jealous. Paying bills is fun. I just paid my dog sitter.

So the results of the survey are 10% said often that they leave comments on stories and articles. 25% said sometimes. The most was rarely at 32%. 30% said never. And 3% said they don't know. Huh. I don't know. All right.

Anyway, that's it. Survey says wrapping it up, man. Thank you very much. Very informative. Yep. We have a guest standing by in our Acme Lounge who we are very excited to talk to. So we're going to take a break. We'll come back in a second. And Sherry O'Terry will be right here in the President Steve Show Studios. We will return shortly. Make sure you stay with us. MMR rocks the 38th annual Bend to the Shore bike tour Sunday, July 20th.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Marissa, our next guest stopping by this morning to chat. And we've been waiting for this sit down for years and years and years. Decades. Because she's a local. And it's wonderful. And you can see her actually season three of And Just Like That. The first three episodes are out now on Max. But you remember her from years on Saturday Night Live and many different movies and shows throughout the year. Ladies and gentlemen, from Upper Darkland.

Darby P.A. Sherry Oterian. Hi. Hi, guys. What a sweet, warm welcome. It's nice to see you. It's true. I mean, we have always, we would look at a picture of you and you had done some event with Y100, the station we were at years ago. We gotta get Sherry Oterian. She's the best. She's awesome. And it's a

So much time, but you're finally here. So this is a dream come true because we're massive fans. Well, you can thank my cousin Mary. Yes. Thank you, Mary and Steve. Yes. Yes. Steve. Yeah. So you're in L.A. right now, right? Yeah. And so but do you you get back here a decent amount? I come.

back at least once a year. Okay. I love coming back in the summer because I love going down the shore and these guys live on the lake and they have one of those bikes that you can bike ride on the lake. Oh, wow. Yeah. Those things are exhausting. I

It's a good workout. If you're going against the current, yeah. You don't get very far. But it's just... And then I get to see all my friends when I come back and we all meet at a restaurant like in Delco, someplace like maybe in Newtown Square that's neutral for everybody. Yeah. Yeah. But I was noticing... And I love coming back. What's your restaurant? Well, let me ask first. Shore Town of choice. Yeah.

besides the lake area, where would you, when you, all your years here, where would you, where would the family go to? Well, they lived in Ocean City. Ocean City. For many years. And I mean, I just loved staying with them in Ocean City. Now they live in Hamilton. But I, I would say Sea Isle, predominantly Sea Isle. And then Avalon is nice, you know. But,

Yeah, I just... But they're down the shore every day almost because they do real estate. Okay. So they're down there. Oh, dearie me.

Just try and say Oteri without a smile. I dare you. I just made that up. So wait, so Oteri is how you pronounce it? Not Oteri? No, it's always been Oteri. And I always say Oteri, but I'll never forget when I first did SNL, I met this tall man with white hair came up to me and he said...

Sherry, I'm Don Pardo. Just the way he sounds, right? And he said, how would you like me to pronounce your name? And it was like...

I didn't think there was another really way to pronounce it. And he goes, I like the rhyme. It rolls off the tongue. And so it was Sherry Oteri. Okay. So there's Oteri's bakery. Is there a family connection? Yes, that's a cousin. Okay. All right. Yeah. And my grandparents had a store in Philly when I was a kid and specialized in meats and

And, you know, the Oteri Slaughterhouse. Really? We had bakers. You know, I always say there's, you know, different Oteris. Some came over from Italy. They were bakers. And, of course, my family was the Slaughterhouse family. We're a tough crowd. I can imagine. We are. Yeah. I wanted to ask about you growing up in Upper Derby and...

I have to imagine that you were a feisty kid. I mean, the type of performer, the type of a personality that you are to be on SNL and to be a performer and do all this stuff. I was more of a very observant person.

So you were taking it in. I was taking everything in. I knew it. Because I really didn't have, I always felt like I was born without an identity. And I know that sounds strange, but I was always studying people. And I watched TV and whatever I saw on television, I would imitate. And, you know, I was really entertaining myself. And I was like, when I would wake up, Oteri, party of one, here I come. And, yeah.

The cool thing is I, you know, going to Catholic school and all the dysfunction back in the 70s that was normal. Right. Every day. I ended up writing a film about it. And we should be...

Shooting it. Oh. This September. Really? And I believe in Syracuse. Okay. Oh. Is this? It's too expensive to do in Philly because of the not great tax incentives. Does this have everything to do with the Catholic upbringing in Delaware County?

I need to be in your movie. It was more of the... I wasn't brought up... My home did not say Catholic. Okay, okay. It was more kind of dysfunction. Right. And just... And then growing up in grade school, I went to St. Lawrence and then Catholic high school. And...

It's just... And that era of growing up in the 70s. You did a short film, Turkey's Done. Is that movie feature length? No. Because there was talk about trying to get that done. It's funny stuff. Great, as always. I live in LA and it's funny. I was taking my dog for a walk and this other woman was taking her dog for a walk and I overheard her

accent. Yeah. And she was like, you got to go pee pee, mommy? Mommy, you got to go pee pee? And growing up Italian, you know, my grandma would say, what's the matter, mommy? What's the matter, mommy? You know, and the boys would be cool. What's the matter, dad?

what's the matter and so i said are you from philadelphia and she's like yeah she was from south philly we became really good friends and ended up making this movie and we shot it in south philly is she associated with this feature that you're talking about now okay no no no well let me jump in here because i want to say this is something i've always wanted to tell you because you are uh you are just one of the dynamos of snl you uh just a comedic talent i'm gonna i'm gonna

fanboy on you because that observant quality that you have. You have your list of characters and sometimes the default is you just laugh at the character and there's no...

Your material was tremendous with the characters. But what makes it so funny, and I was watching the bit, one of my favorite characters you did was Adele, the crazy office flirt who did not... Flirt. Yeah, would explain double entendres. But I mean, there is so much...

With each decision that you make, there could be a million ways to go and you always pick the right one to do it. I mean, it's laugh out loud funny. And that's a level of performance. There's a lot of work that goes into that. And so, but I said, man, you're so observant to the way people are. When you did your audition for SNL, Rita Del Vecchio was that famous.

By the way, there's a whole YouTube channel. Who knew that's nothing but the auditions of SNL cast members? Yeah. And I mean, yours is like...

You're just rocking it. But you did that character and you laugh at the lines, but you also laugh at the little things you were able to pick out. So were you always mimicking family members? And is Rita Del Vecchio a family member? She is a offshoot of my grandma, my Italian grandma. Because when I was little, they would go down Atlantic City before the casinos were there. And it was like...

She was in Drexel Hill, but all of the family was from South Philly. So it was like little South Philly, everybody where we were. And I was studying people because everybody's grandmother lived with them.

And we were all playing ball in the street. Yeah. And if the ball ended up on anybody's porch, I keep it now. Have your mother come get it. Yeah. That's what- I see that finger and I'm going to break it. You know? And so I started just, I was amazed. And you go down South Philly, everything is so tight. Yeah. You know? And so my grandmother would go on her porch and anybody walked by, hi, how you doing? Yeah.

you know, and just make conversation and just police the street with the kids. Police. Hold this little bastard. One second, doll. Hold on. One second. Yeah. Let me talk to your mother. Like, whatever. Uh, uh,

But I just, yeah. But it's so spot on. I mean, there's one of the great skits that made me laugh. It's Halloween and they're throwing the toilet paper at you. And I keep it. I keep it. And then the little girl shows up dressed as Madonna. No, no, no.

There's only one Madonna and it's the statue of the virgin mother on her lawn. That's the only Madonna. But that resonates is so real. You'd have to be a sponge to pick up that stuff from people. It's pretty wild. You don't realize that you're... Oh, you have it here. Yeah, we're watching video of it here in the studio. Oh, shoot. It's okay. We got it. We got it. Okay, good, good, good. Did you say I said...

Crap on air before actually saying the word crap on air? Yeah. Okay. All right.

That's a new one. I like it. I said it by accident. Wait, on SNL you said it? Oh, during the big. I thought you meant here. Yeah, because we got so ridiculous with what falls on our porch that the kids are playing in the street. And I thought, oh my God, I want to do this. So a hockey net, a whole hockey net gets thrown all over. Like, how does that happen? Right? Right.

And it got caught on my house code button. Yeah. And I couldn't get it out. And I go, can you believe this? Yeah.

And then it was funny because I went on David Letterman. There it is. Oh, wow. Oh, we're looking at it. Oh, my gosh. Now it's going to get caught. And then I'm going to say, can you believe this? Oh, there it is. There it is. I just saw it. We saw the mouth. There it is. And then I went on David Letterman and he goes, so I heard you...

Said, you know, something on SNL. And I said, oh, yeah, well, I can't say it now. He goes, no, no, you can. And then Paul Schaefer goes, I said effort on SNL. And, yeah, that was so funny. But then there's another character that people keep playing, my prescription drug lady. A weird knight? Yeah, and everybody keeps...

Playing all these memes, it's a good time to be medicated. Good time, good time. This character is one of my absolute favorites because you go around and you're right, it's everywhere. Meme-wise, it's ending up because I guess we're... Because of what's going on. What you were predicting back then, you would show up to everything and your makeup was misapplied and you had...

70 little pill containers. Now, you were... I was reading an interview where you're talking about that comes from your Nana? Sort of? It's a take-off. Yeah.

Back then, there was no cross-referencing at the pharmacy. At the pharmacy. Yes. Right. They just gave you it. She just traveled. And it's like, I would imagine, in my head, I would imagine that that was her bar. Yeah. Belly on up to the pharmacy. She knows the guy. Yeah, yeah. Where's Cliff? Yeah.

It's brilliant. A lot of times, like watching these skits now, it seems like, you know, even if there was somebody on stage with you or even if they were in the bit with you, you're often just playing to yourself or playing to the audience, right? Like you weren't necessarily in this one in particular playing to Colin Quinn. And the last one, you weren't really playing to David Schwimmer. You were mostly just playing to yourself and to the audience. Is that hard to do as a comedic actress? No, you're just...

I wish sometimes I would enjoy it more, but because when it's live, you get that one shot and you don't get to do it again. And so I'm heavily concentrated. Yeah. So...

You know, it's like you can't mess up. Can you, but is there, there's got to be a percentage of enjoyment. It's why you're a performer to hear the audience, which they would routinely do laugh their asses off. Yeah. When they give that to you. Yeah. There's no feeling like it. But the only sketch that I think I got to really enjoy doing was morning latte. Oh, there we are. Yeah. Because I was just sitting there and we would write and crack up.

writing that. It's just, you know, these people who had a talk show. It was basically a Regis parody. Well, it was kind of an amalgamation of all the morning shows that I used to watch because I didn't want to have to imitate one. I just wanted to do a collection of compilation of what they all do and they're just trying so hard to have that chemistry and fun.

Yeah. You know, but they're very ill-informed and it doesn't throw them off at all to be ill-informed. Right. They just got to burn up time. One thing I always want to ask is because a lot of your stuff, it's clearly you writing, and correct me if I'm wrong, clearly writing the predominant amount of what's coming across these many classic skits. Well, luckily I learned to write when I was in the Groundlings. Yes. Legendary Groundlings. Yeah. And the

Let me just tell you something. I moved to LA to get the music business. I was looking at all your gold records and I was like, oh, I have soul cages because I worked at A&M. How many years? Oh, five years. Okay. I worked in, that's why I moved there. And I worked in, at Alma Worthing Publishing.

Were you a local rep? A record rep? No, but then I moved to promotion. Whenever MMR would come up, because I worked for J.B. Brenner. I don't know if you know who he is. Steve Bartels and Scotty Fink.

And whenever we got one of our artists on MMR, I was like, wow! You are a P1, P1 MMR! You know the terms. I got so excited. That's great. But yes, I worked in promotion. And then the whole time I was taking classes at the Groundlings. And when I finally got...

SNL, which I would have never dreamt that big, truly. Like me to just have a job at A&M and then doing the creative on the weekends. I was like, wow, I have the best of both worlds. Never thinking that I would have gotten to that. Right, yeah.

Two years in classes, two years in the Sunday company, two years in the main company. My first job was SNL. Wow. But I was writing my ass off because I worked during the day. So I couldn't meet with people to write during the day. So it taught me more how to write by myself.

And so when I would collaborate with somebody, it was wonderful, but I just didn't have that schedule. And so it prepared me so much to go into SNL and just hit the ground running writing. Your stuff is so good. And so it cracks me the hell up. And I mean, you're pulling out references that are just brilliant. Now, correct me if I'm wrong. They come down to basically, the SNL people are checking out Chris Kattan.

Yeah. And during a break in his sort of audition, you do a monologue or something and they say, you should come as well. Well, it was a showcase for Chris. Showcase for Chris. And then, you know, just to fill in, I did a sketch. Yeah. And I thought maybe they'll remember me for next time. But at that time, I had to quit my job because I was going on auditions for commercials and stuff like that. And...

And I was temping at Disney Legal. And then my manager called me and he's like, what are you doing next Monday? And I said, very funny. I'll be here at Disney Legal. And he goes, no, they're flying you to New York to audition from that one thing. And I was like, what? So, you know, cut to, you know, I auditioned a few times. I get SNL. And on my first year, all the bands that I had worked on their albums,

That was in my... That's what they saw. Yeah. So we're looking at the audition. Yeah, you did two characters, I believe. And honestly, they admitted the one there's the... We obviously talked about Rita Del Vecchio. Yeah. And this character. And I think you did a third maybe as well? Yeah. Yeah. But it's brilliant. But so my first year...

Prince was supposed to open the show. He canceled. Blues Traveler comes in. I'm like, we worked Blues Traveler. And John Popper's like, aren't you the girl from The Office? How'd you get here? Oh, that's right. And then Soundgarden and Sting and Sheryl Crow. And they all knew you. No, I can't say that I was that important there. But, you know, they were...

It was very, very cool that everything came full circle. The music, my love for the music and then... It's amazing. So you're thrust into this. This kind of fell in your lap. Saturday Night Live, obviously, they say, okay, yeah, come for the audition. You're going to go do that. And all of a sudden, boom, you get it. What is that first season like, transitioning in as a new person? People don't know who you are. I was very fortunate because when I came in, NBC had taken more of a...

I would say ownership and active. Yes. They're more active. Yeah. So they had to agree on who was going to be hired. Right. And because the ratings before that were suffering. So they cleaned house. They kind of got rid of everybody. And some people just I think that Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, they left when you were coming in. Right. Right.

Right. But no, they had left before. Oh, they left before? Yeah. Okay. But Spade stayed. Yeah. And Norm MacDonald. But everybody else was new. So I came in. It was like everybody entered first grade at the same time. Okay. So we were all appreciative. We were all so excited, naive, and just grateful.

And there was no hierarchy. There was no, you know, clicks form that I would imagine. It's hard for people to come in when you've got people that have been there for five years and you're trying to get your stuff. Other cast members have talked about that. They come in and there is the established hierarchy. You sort of have to pay your penance. Do you remember? I'm sure you do. Your first.

On air, live, laugh, where you said, oh my God. No, I remember doing... I said to Molly Shannon, I said, you remind me of like a young Ann Miller. And then I said, that's when people were having cable shows. And I said, we should have a cable show where we've, you know, they still got it. And so she goes, well, who can you play? And then we thought, I'll be Debbie Reynolds. And then we start writing with this writer, great writer, Steve Korn, Leg Up, and the sketch show. And then...

Lorne Michaels calls me into his office and he's like, Jerry, what demographic are you going for? And I'm like, I don't think about that. I don't know. Right. And he goes, nobody knows who Daniels and Ann Miller are.

And I said, well, I think it might be still funny even if they don't. And it killed. And the great thing that I'm very proud of is our humor brought in a more diverse audience. Gays came in. Yeah. And, you know, I mean...

That sense of humor, when you have that, when you get that audience, it means a lot.

And you were running all age groups because you said no one knew who, at least the younger demo wouldn't know Ann Miller. I happened to know Debbie Reynolds. But it was what you did with those characters. Like when I came on the show years ago and I was bringing up James Mason. No one's that familiar with James Mason in the demo. But it became a thing. So those characters, even if people didn't know the context of them, the way you portrayed them was great. I mean, you know, it's like we still got it.

They were so innocent in their time, but now they're bawdy and they're saying about who they laid. Who was drunk? That would crack me up. As they got older, they got so bawdy and brazen and harsh. Did Lorne admit that he missed out? No, but he was sure happy when we were on the cover of the Washington Post. It was

Me as Debbie Rendles and her as Ann Miller. And I wanted to go, hey, what about

about it. I'm not that demographic. If you're just tuning in, it's Sherry O'Terry who's joining us. Sherry, I remember the shift because Casey and I are the same age and I was a fan of Sandler and Farley and Spade and that crew right before you. And I admittedly was resistant to these new cast members. And quite frankly, it was you and Will Ferrell and what you guys were able to do together that started to make me laugh again. And I don't know what it was initially about the dynamic, but I think...

Anytime there's a change, especially to an established comedy cast, there's resistance, right? And so... For everybody. For everybody. Everybody claims when they watched it. Right, yeah. And that's when it was good. That's the best era ever. You know, that's the one that I grew up on and therefore it's the best. And then slowly you start to make inroads and start to have some success with it. When did you feel like in 95, 96 season that you guys were accomplishing what you wanted to accomplish as a comedian, as an actress? Yeah.

When I was in Bed Bath & Beyond and I saw a cheerleader magnet, I'm like standing in line and I looked over and I was like, and I just looked around at everybody and I wanted to say, why wouldn't you? So Will Ferrell was in the Groundlings with you as well. Is that where you developed that skit? No, we did it.

We developed it at SNL. We're so used to writing. And so we were all doing an improv session on the 8-H stage before we had ever been on them. We just wanted to go down there. And I was, from being a cheerleader in a Catholic school, you know, whenever you were on a kind of a hollow wooden floor, I would always go, boom.

You know, you have that echo. So I'm waiting for my turn and I'm just going like this. And then Will looks at me and he starts doing it. And then we start doing it seriously. And then I go, we should write a cheerleading sketch. So a few days later, we're sitting and he's like, what should we write? And I go, how about that cheerleader sketch? And then we're thinking, okay, what's the hook?

And the hook would be that they didn't make it. But they're still cheering it. Like the math club and places. Oh, that's hilarious. Yeah. How many sketches of those characters do you think you guys did? Any idea? No. Yeah. But a lot of times...

Because they did reruns. I don't think people realize throughout the season how many reruns there are. And then I remember getting fan mail, Sherry Otero better make those sketches shorter or her skirt shorter. And I'm like, we don't do it that much. It's the reruns. And then a lot of times guests would come on and say, I want to do the children's. And we were like, oh.

Because they're very hard to write. We didn't realize how, when we were doing it, how difficult it would be to have to repeat all the time, you know, writing the cheers, doing the moves. And they were good, so we couldn't mess up. Well, you were always dabbing your foreheads and drinking water. I assumed you actually had to do that because they were very physical bits. No, that was just... Yeah, yeah. That was just...

You know, we're so serious and we're athletes. All right, I'm going to bring somebody in right now. Marissa, come on in. This is... Oh, my God. Marissa. What? My name's Marissa. I am a Leo. This is my Halloween costume.

years ago. That was awesome. She has been so, she's been dying to do it. Sex can wait. Sex can wait. Masturbate. I love it, yeah. For the record, we were at M. Night Shyamalan's Halloween party. Oh, yeah.

This is my costume. My boyfriend at the time was 6'6". So it was perfect. And he had like aerialists and fire breathers. My boyfriend and I had a routine. We stole the show. Everyone stopped looking at everyone else. They're like, look at these.

these two. You know what? And when you say, when did I realize that it had an impact? I was at, in the summer, and I was at a kid's birthday, and the kids were in the pool, and they go, taco, burrito, what's coming out of your speedo? You've got trouble. Pew! You're blowing bubbles. Pew! Pew!

Float, float, float, float. You're putting around like a motorboat. Troubles. Pew! You're blowing bubbles. Pew! You stink! I was watching these kids and I was just like, what? This is crazy! Oh my God. I mean, you're like, I mean, with Marissa, the excitement level, you're just firmly entrenched into the pop culture. I mean, of all...

Of all the things you said in motion from Simmerdown and all the catchphrases and things like that, is there one you're particularly proud of? Hmm. Gosh.

I can't say that, but I think the cheerleaders, because they were so much work. Okay. You know, and then you're incorporating, you have to make it great for the guest. Yeah. And, you know, how are you going to cast them? So there were so many variables to cover. And, you know, we had to get all the moves down, too. And you have like, what, a couple of, you know, like two days.

Yeah, yeah. I went to a taping. Actually, it was a rehearsal. And you were there. Good job, Marissa. Yes!

It was in 1996. Robert Downey Jr. was the guest host. I remember that show. Fiona Apple was the musical guest. Yes, I remember. And I was not aware about how things work and the rehearsal. And so we watched that. And then we went to the hotel that we were staying at. And then we watched the actual show live. And you guys cut like 40% of the show.

Of the act. And here's the thing. The dress show is a two hour show. Yeah. And whatever doesn't work. Yes. Will get cut. Yeah. And so I always say why it's such an emotional and difficult thing is you're essentially writing for yourself and you're competing with the writers. Yeah. And then so you're auditioning every week.

It's hard. For a show you already got, but you have to still audition to get in it every week. Yeah. And you have to plan, plot, rehearse, get it together. Then you perform it and then you find out, oh, in two hours we're not doing that. You know what I mean? I'll tell you, there is more tears shed.

You know, because you could be in the show a couple of things and then you're completely cut out. Yeah. You know, and I remember that happening one time when like I had family in. And, you know, you're depressed. Yeah. But they still want to go to the party. Right.

Let me ask you. I was reading, and I don't know if this is true. You and Molly Shannon had put together a skit where you're basically, I think it was just shopping for cards. Yeah, you wanted to get on. I mean, you're ready to go, and it got cut. We both understood. Believe me. We could not believe it. It was silence. And we laughed just at it.

how bad it went. Oh, yeah. And there's a card. He puts the index cards and the set show between dress and air. We all go into the office and you see what made it and what didn't is on the right. And we took card store down and then we just kept hiding it under a stereo thing. So every time, like for like two years afterwards, we would just take out. We were too scared, but we wanted to always book card.

Card store opens the show. Opens the show. Yes, you put card store on top. No. Who did you, you mentioned guests who might be participating in the cheerleading sketches. Which guest did you really enjoy working with the most? I think Jim Carrey because it was a big deal for him to do it. And he even told me that he had auditioned for SNL. And when he didn't get it, he went through a depression.

a deep depression for like five years. Right. And he's like, Sherry, this is such a dragon for me to slay. Oh, wow. So I felt, it doesn't matter how successful you are. It, you know, it's, it's, I get it. Yeah. And I was never so happy for somebody because he had a stellar, stellar show. Yeah. Everything he did, he killed.

And I loved everything that he chose, too. Like, there was a sketch where this guy, Steve Korn, kept trying to get it on, get it on. And it was a lifeguard for a jacuzzi. Oh, yeah. He had the full whistle and everything. I thought that was so...

so funny but so many guests passed and then jim had the wherewithal he's like i'm doing that i was crying i was laughing so hard it's great it was so funny everything he did was wonderful and then that summer i will and i had gone to his house for a little dinner party in um in la and uh

I said, can I look around? There was other people there. And he's like, sure. I go into this room and in glass encased were the Joker. The mask. The mask. Ace Ventura. And, you know, and then the cheerleader. And I went.

Why do you have the cheerleader with all your big? And he's like, Sherry, that meant the world to me. That's got to make you feel great. And I was like. Who are some of you you didn't see coming who you said, I don't know, this is this. This may be an uphill slog who turned out to be incredibly good.

Somebody from left field. Because sometimes you'll see these people and go, why is that person? I remember back in the day, like Terry Hatcher had a solid show. Yeah, yeah. And like you don't, sometimes you, you know. And then there's big comedy people who don't.

It's a different animal, isn't it? It's a different animal. From stand-up. Like, no one did it better, though, than John Goodman, to me, and Alec Baldwin, and of course, Christopher Walken. And the best was doing Rita Del Vecchio with Christopher Walken, because I had her as my neighbor Vic.

And I love it's South Philly, so the houses are like this. And he bought a snowblower. Like for what? Like 10 inches of sidewalk. Right? So I'm like, Vic, what do I got to do to get my walk? And he's like, oh, Rita, I do your walk. I got to do the whole neighborhood. I'm like, you ain't got to do the whole neighborhood, Vic. You just got to do mine. And I got pasta fazool. Yeah.

And then the kids are blowing, you know, throwing snow at us. And because he would always kind of over exaggerate Christopher Walken. Yeah, yeah. And he was just so funny to watch.

And that was really fun doing. And then I did Rita Del Vecchio with Sylvester Stallone. We never met her husband. She talked about him, but we never met him. And he had just bought a Cadillac Catera. I remember that. Yeah. And that was fun. And Rosie O'Donnell and and and.

Laverne and Shirley. Penny Marshall? Penny Marshall doing my, she was my neighbor, Therese de Castiglione. And it was Christmas and we had dueling nativity scenes. Oh, that's perfect. And someone stole my black king. I had to get a G.I. Joe. And I'm like, whoever took, I know she did. I know that bitch did.

And that was fun. Like when you do bring people into that world, you have to create something just as good for them. Let me ask you just a quick question concerning you had a time when they were plucking out movie properties. Like, oh, these characters make a movie out of this. I mean, with the cheer. To be completely honest, I should have done it. But at that time, I was so spent. Yeah.

I mean, in every way that I needed the summer off. And I wrote so much and I was so dependent on myself to write because then people don't think, you know, oh, she's just writing, you know, she's going to get writing for herself anyway. You know, I didn't get written for. So it was all on me. You know, there were other people that had choices outside of what they wrote.

And so I was spent. Yeah. And I just thought I didn't want to spend the whole summer writing a movie and I couldn't do it during the show. You know, I was just, it was so much. Yeah. And I don't think people realize it and it meant a lot to me. So I...

Yeah, I mean, looking back, I wish maybe I had, but I understand why I couldn't at that time. Well, sure. There are times when people creatively tap out or you just, you know, you want to do quality product, but you're so overwhelmed with too much going on in your life that you're going to do it a disservice. It was exactly how I felt. Yeah. So let me ask you, you were on SNL till 2000, 95 to 2000. How did that come to an end for you? Well.

I was pretty spent, and it's a rough place that everybody, you know, you know. And I never felt so much competing against my fellow actors. It was more competing with writers. Yeah. You know, that you're not getting that help. But I did have some great writers. Like, I wrote a lot with a writer, Matt Piedmont. And, but...

So my five years, and that was my contract. And so it was like, it wasn't the question. The question was put to me, do you want to renew? Okay. And just, it almost felt like I truly had a choice and I was spent. Yeah. And I just was like, because it's emotional too. And-

I said, no, I completed my five years and I didn't want to go out, you know, on a downward kind of thing. And I felt...

I'm proud of what I did. As well you should. I mean, we've had a number of SNL graduates, so to speak, through. And they all say there's no grind like that anywhere else in entertainment. And the fact that, which I just think is so astonishing, that your quality writing and your output was amazing. But you can't do that.

you know, forever. I mean, it'll just kill you, you know? So, I mean... You gotta have a really thick skin as well. Yeah, yeah.

And I don't think I did back then. And I always felt like I had to try harder than the next person. I don't know why, but I was always so afraid it would go away. So I worked my ass off, as we all did. But I probably maybe put too much pressure on myself as well. So I can't just blame it on the environment, but it's a rough environment.

What about now? And just like that, you're on. Oh, yeah, that was that was fun playing a matchmaker. Yeah. And and then there's the new show, Mid-Century Modern. I love that show. That show is with Nathan Lane. Yeah. So they called me the day before. Hey, can you can you come into this great, awesome casting director role?

Julie Ashton was like, sure, there's this fun part as a flight attendant. And I always wanted to play a flight attendant. So...

I was actually a flight attendant in the first Austin Powers and that got cut out. Yeah, right? I was like, what? But that was very fun to do. So that was so much fun. And I hope it gets picked up because, you know, Max Munchnik and the guys are like, we are definitely having Denise back.

Flight attendants. Okay. No, that's terrific because that collective is really good. And did you know Nathan Lane Pryor? No. Yeah, yeah. No, but I was like, I love the Gilded Age. I do love the Gilded Age. Right, right. That show. But it was very hard to go in there because I was so... With Max Munchnick and David Cohen and then Jim Burroughs directed. Yeah.

It was intimidating. And then Matt Bomer and Linda Lavin and they could not have been nicer. And Linda Lavin, when she passed, she was so sweet to me. I was just at her memorial. They waited and had an Ella in New York. And

I just feel so fortunate to have gotten to work with her and been in her light. I don't know how they replaced that. She was so great. I grew up with Alice. But I'm really excited about coming back here

and shooting this movie based on my childhood. Well, we're excited. I wanted to be closer to Philly, but you guys need better tax incentives. Yes, I know. The Philadelphia Film Office has been working on that, and it's a tough nut to crack, so hopefully they'll be able to figure something out. And your teamsters have a rep. There, I said it. I won't take it back. They're a tough crew.

They're the top crew. They're the top crew. Before we wrap up, I did want to ask a little bit more about your local ties because Casey, isn't your daughter working at a place where Sherry spends some time? Yeah, no. I actually got to talk to Sherry a little bit before the interview. Can I tell you something? Yeah. I came out here. Yeah. I'm doing... I love doing... I love entertaining and I love doing charcuterie boards. Oh. And I always have people come to my house and I...

I have more fun doing it. My cousin Steve is working at the Bruno Brothers, right? And doing their website. And so he came up with this idea to do a share cootery board. So I went to the Rittenhouse Square, right? And I got an education, you know, especially from their... This is her title. Head Cheesemonger. I'm like, ooh, that's a rough title, especially for a gal. But...

Very learned and I was just kind of like she was telling me all. I was really in education and I got to pick out everything that I would want in my shirt cuterry board. And I have never been so proud of curating this because I wanted, you know, there's things that I love, but I wanted it to be something everybody would love. You know, so I really took that into consideration.

And that store is amazing. And do they sell your charcuterie board? Yes. We can get the sherry of Paris. You can get the charcuterie board. Wow. And yeah, it's not just for sympathy gifts anymore, gang. You don't have to die to get a DeBruno.

We are probably the most charcuterie boardest morning show around. Are you really? We've actually made them on air. We've talked about them. By the way, have you seen the charcuterie board where the board itself is like focaccia bread? Oh, yeah. Oh, honey, I have done everything. To make them myself, I have two meats.

Three cheeses, all that I did a taste test and I was like, okay, this is, it answers to each person. And then I love truffle, but a lot of people don't. So you get a beautiful bottle of truffle oil to put on whatever you'd like. And then I love hot honey. You get a beautiful bottle of hot honey to put on whatever you want. I have Marcona almonds and you put the truffle oil on the Marcona almonds. Wow. Yeah. And I've got, well,

People do figs. You think, you know, sure, what the fig? But I decided, because I have this cheese, that what would go beautiful with it would be a pear. Because it's almost like a gorgonzola. It's a stilton. Okay. And so you can't travel. You can't have them travel. So I have these Asian dried pears that are in there as well. And, Mary, what else do I have? I've got the crackers, the Bruno Brother crackers. And I've got...

Oh, and then I was like, okay, people love olives. Yes, I do. But I didn't want to put a big jar of olives in my mouth. So I did an olive tamponade. Nobody gets hurt.

Nobody gets hurt, fellas. That's one of the most... I told Preston, I ate a jar of that by itself. And you had the cracker? Yeah. And then I had this beautiful, for dessert, this milk chocolate toffee pretzel bar. It's made by DeBruno. And it's got... I feel like it's got everything. Yeah. You know, so...

Act now. Your cousin, the cheesemonger, her name's not Leslie, is it? She's not my cousin. Oh, I was saying she worked with her. Oh, I thought you said. No, she introduced me and gave me the education on all the cheeses. Yeah, I think we had her. We had her. We did? We're not kidding. We are charcuterie board people. Yep, no doubt. We can get this right now through Jabuna Brothers. I would say give it a what?

Two weeks? Okay. But don't forget. No, we will not. And I want you to, I want to give you my information because I want you to tell me what you think. Absolutely. We'll insist on it. If you love it, on air. If not, off air. No, I know you're going to love it. I have so much, I'm so freaking proud of it. Are you going to do like an appearance when they start going on set? Like, are you going to hang out at De Bruno Brothers? We'll get the word out. You know what I did? I did, Mary and I did a prank call to the De Bruno Brothers in, where was it, Mary?

in Ardmore and I called them and I said, listen, I'm in town and I'm on my way to your place but I just experienced in Los Angeles the most delicious cheese in the world but it stunk so bad. I said, it's a combination of say,

and maybe a 16-year-old's hockey bag. This stench was so horrific, but I never tasted anything more delicious. Do you have it? And they go, do you have any idea what it's called? And I was just like, I think it was called something like hog's breath. And so they put me on hold and they went and they tried to find it. They came out,

We didn't find anything other. I said, that's because I didn't describe it correctly. It's like halitosis met whiskey and meat. I mean, I just kept saying how stinky it was. And they were so professional.

And then they handed the phone off to somebody else. And then I just hear all this laughter in the back. And I was just like, wow, they take it serious. They're so professional. They were wonderful. And I love that I'm now a part of it. So you can now get the Cher Couture Board. Two weeks. In two weeks. De Bruno to Happy Delicious.

And the movie. Yeah, when that's happening, let us know. We need to know about that. I will. I'll come back. Yes, absolutely. Okay. Sherry, thank you for being here this morning. Oh, my pleasure. I'm so glad I came. Wonderful to finally meet you. And we wish you nothing but success. So thanks for being here. Thank you, guys. Sherry O'Terry finally got her on. We did it. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. Be follow-up. Stay with us.

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A snowmobile. That is right. In June, New Hampshire Fish and Game said around 2.15 a.m., conservation officers were notified of a possible deadly snowmobile crash. The operator, DJ Ducamerie... Do those things have a mud switch? ...was operating his mobile snowmobile when it went off the road at a high rate of speed and hit a tree. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He was not wearing a helmet. Speed...

and operating on a public way appear to be the lead contributing factors to the crash. I'm just curious about this. What was the snow level? I mean, you don't have to have snow. It's just going to ruin your... It'll ruin the snow. It'll ruin your snowmobile if you're, you know, riding on the asphalt or something like that. Otherwise, you can use a thing called a car. Yeah.

All right, this story is out of Wales. At 102 years old, Gwyneth Griffiths isn't your average centenarian. Far from slowing down, this feisty and spirited woman is proving that age is just a number, and she's certainly not letting it get in the way. Whether it's swearing like a trooper, winding people up, or, as she did, request a stripper for her birthday. Nice. Gwyneth is a force to be reckoned with. So she's 102. She wants a stripper for her birthday.

Originally from a small village in Wales, Gwyneth's life has unfolded against the backdrop of some of the 20th century's most pivotal moments. Born just four years after World War I, she lived through the turmoil of World War II, witnessed the hardships of the Great Depression, had a front row seat to everything from the space race to the Vietnam War. She would often tell incredible stories, one of which...

about her own father who survived a gunshot wound to the head during the Battle of Somme. Wow. She was married to her husband at age 18. I actually witnessed Fonzie jump the shark. They were together for 25 years, during which time they had two sons.

At one point, the family of four lived in a small, it says, two-up, two-down terrace house. Yeah, that means a box. They shared this space with five other people as well. So it's funny because Peter, Gwyneth's youngest son, described the community as fantastic, but admitted that the house became unfit to live in, and he said...

Eventually, Gwyneth and her family, so living in this home, this small home, along with most of the street, were relocated to another area. And he said, this came with a delightful surprise, an indoor toilet. And he said, quote, my granny, bless her heart,

thought it was disgusting. So things were different back then. She did not want to use the toilet in the house. That's disgusting. She thought it was gross. There's nothing wrong with the coffee can. No, to defecate inside was disgusting to her. A Texas high school principal took his love for his students in an unexpected and whole new level. Though his writing hand may be tired from this. Jason Mutterer

Mansfield Summit High School in Arlington wrote a short personalized note to each and every one of his 443 graduating seniors. Each one was enclosed with a dollar bill as well as an example of random acts of kindness. Mutter... I have no underwear on. Dude, stop it. It's disgusting. What did he write? I have no underwear on.

I mean, listen, there's a 400. You just got to keep it simple, right? Yeah, I mean, if you just wanted to, yeah. I have no underwear on. Oh, my God. That was Lou. That was Lou, our old engineer. Our old engineer, Lou. But he has been at Summit High School for 23 years. He told the...

I have no underwear on. Was he like an erotic fiction writer? He wrote erotic fiction. He had the most even-keeled, you know, genuine sort of ma and pa kettle type of guy was writing erotic fiction. It wasn't fiction. It was poetry. It was erotic poetry. It was erotic robot fiction. So he told the graduating students in his Facebook post, I have no underwear on.

Graduation is both the end of a new chapter and the beginning of another. But he took the time to write down 443 notes for each and every kid. I'll never forget you, Jerly Jerkoff. In an interview, Mutter further explained his actions, saying, they're my kids, they're my students, and it's personal. So I thought that was a pretty sweet thing.

All right, this was messed up. A man who was out protesting against ICE raids in downtown Los Angeles had an officer close range shoot his groin with a rubber bullet. Wow. It bruised one of his testicles and shattered the other one. Oh, my ball.

Oh, my balls. Oh, my balls. He said it sucks to sit down. This is 33-year-old Martin Santoyo. Shattered a testicle. Santoyo, who is now home in the hospital but still in recovery, can't walk since the incident happened on Monday, last Monday. Is that what the Stone song is about? Shattered? Maybe. Just after he got off his bike within the crowd of protesters and law enforcement, he noted that

Before this was happening, he didn't hear any of the officers say, I'm off on gathering. He said that he was grabbing a water bottle from his backpack when authorities began pushing forward to the group. He said they were shouting, move back, but I'm still fixing my backpack and my bike. And they pushed me. He said the cop right next to this one that pushed me just aimed and shot, and the officer

who shot him was standing about three feet away and got him in the groin. He said, after I got hit, I couldn't really walk. That's virtually point-blank range. Yeah, in too much shock, and they were pushing me, and some protesters were trying to help me walk, and they were getting pushed too. You're going to have to give me a second because one of my nuts just exploded. They eventually got him to medical attention. He was ultimately taken to the hospital. They had to undergo surgery for the injuries. He said, I have a bruised left testicle, and my right testicle was shattered. They say that they somehow fixed it.

How? So it should have some function, but it's still very badly damaged. It must have been Flex Seal. Flex Seal. Can do anything. They have not given him an estimate for his recovery, but they told him to return in about five to eight days to see him again, and they will assess how he is doing. Replace this screen door, fix my boat, and put my testicle back to me. Yeah. All right. And then...

One last story. Do we even have time for one last story? All right, let's go with this one. How do you top that? This is in Japan, I believe. Police have launched...

An investigation of receiving a report that someone switched the men's and women's signs in an elevator at a public bathhouse. Wow. Causing a female customer to enter the wrong end and be exposed. A woman had reported around 2 a.m. that she entered what she believed to be the woman's bath, but it was the men's bath. Yeah, the guy's supposed to hate that. Footage reviewed by the police showed two men believed to be in their 20s switching the stickers indicating the men's and women's baths in the elevator. I have no underwear. Dude.

Specifically, police found that the two suspects that arrived at the bathhouse by car around 11 p.m., they switched the stickers. Due to the altered signs, a woman in her 20s mistakenly entered the men's bathroom and saw this guy...

I have no underwear. And was exposed to male customers while naked. You'd think they'd make the signs a little less easy to remove. They said they are tracking the suspects based on the video footage. I have no underwear. There you go. That's what I have in the bizarre file. And hats off to our old engineer, Lou. Lou. Who we haven't heard from. And he retired several years ago. Just the nicest guy. But he left us. Oh, Lou.

With that little nugget about him not wearing his underwear. It was a poem that we had him write. It was about women with freckles, right? I love freckles. Well, that was one of them. I don't know if he did a couple of them that day. I love my underwear. Yeah, one of them was about freckles and one was about him not wearing underwear. So we'll always have that. All right, we're going to take a quick break. When we get back, we'll do Less in Question. We'll get to Trash Music News 2. Stay put. We will return in a moment. What?

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Preston and Steve show. Going up to 76 today. Clouds for the most part. And we slowly are going to work out of this, but not before we get some rain. I'm talking about this grayness that we've been dealing with the past couple of days. Tomorrow, high 87s in the afternoon. Jowers, Thursday, warm, 92. Nice. Afternoon thunderstorms. But then we hit the spot. Friday, 86 and sunny. And Saturday, partly cloudy and 91. So summertime and no rain. It's a beautiful thing.

Let me see. What are we going to do? We're going to do a lesson question. We are going to give away as a prize today. We got tickets to see Nathaniel, Rate Lift, and the Night Sweats. They're going to be playing. It's called the South Affair Tour. Saturday, August 16th. Hard Rock Live at Edison Arena, Atlantic City. And the question that we will ask you this. Okay, I haven't done one of these in a long time. All right. Where like literally it was just five minutes ago.

Somewhere in the neighborhood, like 15 minutes ago. What adhesive bond product can help you repair a shattered testicle?

610-660-9333 is the number. Let's see if you know that. What adhesive bond product can help repair a shattered testicle? We just said this in the Bazaar file. If you heard that, you know it. Call right now and you got a shot at winning. We'll do the trash while you're calling now. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. Before we get the answer, we'll get the stories from Steve. What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, Preston, as you reported, Sasha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have finalized their divorce and have posted nearly identical statements on Instagram. The only difference between the two statements are which name follows the F word. No.

Well, it's over for Bachelor Nation's Grant Ellis and Juliana Pascaro with the two confirming their split on social media. Ellis says they were just not the right fit, which is code for she didn't do anal. And finally, actor Chase Crawford looking back after his life after Gossip Girl saying he felt as if he was in pretty boy prison.

Crawford said the only person he ever heard of escaping from there had to crawl to freedom through a tunnel filled with 500 yards of lavender-smelling goodness and skincare products.

Sounds like a better version of Shawshank. It does. All right. And that's your turn. Let's see if we can get an answer. We're looking for the answer to this question. What adhesive bond product can help repair a shattered testicle? And we will go to Tyler and see if he's got the answer for us. Yo, Tyler, you're on the air. Good morning, bud. Hello. Good morning. How are you? Awesome, my man. All right. So what is it? The adhesive bond product that can help repair a shattered testicle?

Is it Flex Seal? Woo Doggy! Woo Doggy! Woo Doggy!

That is correct, sir. Hang on. And we're going to set you up. We have got a pair of tickets for you to join Nathaniel, Great Lift, and the Night Sweats. The South Fear Tour is going to be Saturday, August 16th at the Hard Rock Live at Edis Arena in Atlantic City. Tickets are on sale now. You can get them through Ticketmaster.com. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Yeah! Oh, yeah!

All right, it's brought to you by A.D. Moyer, trusted expert since 1939. A.D. Moyer Lumber is your professional source for decks, windows, doors, kitchens, millwork, and more. And you can visit them on the web at admoyer.com. So a little follow-up story here for you. The mandolin...

That was taken from Heart, the band, while they were preparing to launch the An Evening with Heart tour in New Jersey, has been found, according to a statement from the Atlantic City Police Department. So they had recovered the guitar, but this is the one outstanding thing they were looking for, right? Yeah, they explained the 1966 Gibson EM-50 mandolin was found after the individual who had it was identified by investigators.

The person surrendered the mandolin and it will be brought to the Hard Rock Atlantic City venue where it was taken. Representatives from the venue will then return the instrument to the members of HART. And this comes less than a week after the investigators found the Fender Telecaster guitar that belonged to the band after officers had followed the man charged with stealing the instruments. His name was Garfield Bennett.

of Pleasantville, New Jersey. He kind of had a lasagna place. No, he was trying to pawn it, I believe. Yeah, and trying to move pretty quickly, apparently. And they ended up finding it and not getting it. Think about those. These are, you know...

So you're a drum kid. Yeah, absolutely. It's a piece of you. Most definitely. If I were to lose my Fender slide whistle, I think, you know, but you know what I'm saying? I mean, right. That's you. Yeah. And some people, you know, there's there are certain tones out of these guitars or whatever insurance they may be. That's the reason that person hangs on to that. Right, right. And can't be exactly replicated by another one as far as they're concerned. Something feels right about it. So it was really, really important to them.

This is really cool. The B-52 is in Devo, California.

are teaming up for an 11-date co-headlining tour called Cosmic De-Evolution. Wow, that's pretty cool. What a pairing, right? Yeah, that's exactly what you want to see. So Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh said in a statement, the B-52s had one of the best sounds of any of the bands out there in the late 70s and early 80s. He said, Rock Lobster is one of my favorite songs. Devo used to sing it after Devo shows, and it was either fate or luck that...

Or the SNL anniversary that brought us all together to create this amazing chance to go out on tour. So they're not going to be exactly in our area. The closest I saw was in Holmdel at the PNC Bank Art Center on October 4th. So not a crazy far drive. But yeah, they're going to be hitting Los Angeles, Charlotte, and Austin. They'll wrap things up on November 2nd in Houston. And tickets for the show go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m.

James McCartney, and I believe we have some audio for this, Casey. Sean Ono Lennon and Zach Starkey, sons of the Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Ringo Starr, respectively, have collabed on a new song with Mantra of Cosmos. Man, if they had only gotten Danny Harrison, it would have been all four. They could do that. Why didn't they? But the song is called Ripoff.

And there's a lengthy snippet that was shared on Instagram. And we'll play a little. Do we have it over, Case? It's coming. Okay. So the...

According to Starkey, he describes the track as Mantra of the Cosmos with them in it. He said it's Sean of the Cosmos and James of the Cosmos, and it's still my band. I don't know what all that means. It's a bunch of gobbledygook. Yeah, so let's play a little bit of this for you. Here we go. Here we go.

It seems like a live performance. Yeah, the quality's not very good. So this follows... It needs a concom. The James and Sean... Concom. Thank you, Mel. The James and Sean's earlier... Follows James and Sean's earlier collaboration on the single Primrose Hill. So...

I liked Julian Lennon's... Well, Julian Lennon could have been part of that as well. That's true. Yeah. I didn't think about that. What the hell is going on here? Everybody forgets about Julian. Even John forgot about Julian. Julian had an actual...

A career. Yeah, agreed. All right, so a couple local things I wanted to mention. Our buddy Sammy Vile reached out to me and asked if I wouldn't mind hitting a show. Anything for Sammy. His band Vile Bread is coming up Friday at Sphere E Punjab in Media. Oh, dude, listen, this is a venue that I need to get to. This guy just loves live music.

And he has like really, really great acts coming through. What is the name of the place? I just call it the Punjab, but it's on State Street Media. I said it wrong. I said sphere. It's Sherry Punjab. Yeah. So, yeah, it's 830 to midnight on Friday. And he says there will be amazing Indian cuisine to dine on. He said we've also got some spicy sets.

Phil, with originals and covers of likes Pink Floyd, Blend Melon, Patty, and much more, will even play a fish song, maybe. Oh, okay. And he said, it's Chris-a-gonna-be an epic night. Oh, boy. Yeah, so this guy... The philosopher of evil and the skull sealer. I'd like to apologize to Jennifer Garner and her pool boy, Ben Affleck, for incorporating them into my fantasy life. I apologize to anyone who's been offended by my fictional creations, Chris-a-gon...

the philosopher of evil, and the skull sealer. Oh, that's from Sammy Vile. Yeah. Oh, and he says, P.S. Los Locos kick your ass. He knows all the country. What were you going to say, Case? I said Los Locos kicks your face. No, besides that. No, no, no. The guy who owns it, apparently, is just a huge music fan. He loves heady music, right? So he'll get...

These tribute bands, like Pink Talking Fish, I think it might be one. The other is Steal Your Peach, which is like a Grateful Dead, Almond Butters. Some more fringy stuff.

Well, I mean, like all sorts of stuff, but that's the stuff that speaks to me. Oh, wow. Yeah. All right. And then one last thing. I got this email from Paul Hughes sent this to me and it is through the Delaware County Historical Society and they have an event called Delco Summer Social, a concert fundraiser. And it's the next night after Sammy Vile's show.

And he pointed out that Delco has produced some legendary names in music history. Ethel Waters, Bill Haley, Joan Jett, Todd Rundgren, Kurt Weill. Beethoven. And more. And either grew up or came through this tiny part of the world forever embedding their story with Delco. Delaware County Historical Society is going to be celebrating Delco.

with a concert fundraiser Saturday, June 21st at the Mill at Rockdale. And it's called the Delco Summer Social. And the concert will feature local Philly area acts, Pudler, Snoozer, Fib, and a special secret surprise guest.

Those all sound like friends of Winnie the Pooh. We want folks to see how a tiny little county archive is trying to reach a younger and more diverse audience and share how we can serve our community through the protection and promotion of our local history. So I wanted to pass that along. It's going to be Saturday at The Mill at Rockdale and it's the Delco Summer Social. What did you say about Puddler on there? That's the name of the band. Oh, okay. I have a Pudd comment.

I think that PUD is a hilarious word. I wish we used it more frequently. I was watching the Phillies game last week and Ruben Amaro Jr. referred to a baseball glove as

As a PUD. Shut up. And I never heard that before. And I meant to bring it up to you guys and just remember now. But have you? Have you ever heard that? No. Not me neither. PUD is always, in my world, applied to a wanger. Yes. Yeah. There was a ball player. Is it a Latin term, possibly? I don't know. Well, there was a ball player way back in the day. And the only reason I know this is a baseball card is worth a million dollars is a PUD something or other.

And yeah, that was his first name. Weird last name. I know. Well, yeah. Um, but, uh, I'd never heard of a baseball glove referred to as a putt. Putt fan, butt nugget. No. I remember Spud, the game that we used to play as kids. I liked that game. Spud had a little bit of a dodgeball element to him. Putt Galvin. He's a, uh, hall of famer and, um, his real first name was James and his middle name is Francis. Oh, the parents didn't go with putt? They did not. Uh,

PUD has been used to refer to a padded mitt or glove, particularly in baseball. There you go. How about that? And you know what? Jimmy Carter was wearing one when he was lowered into a nuclear reactor in Canada. They say PUD is likely a variation of pad, which also refers to a padded mitt or glove in baseball. PUD. There we go. Okay. That'd be great if a bat was called a gash or something like that. Yeah. I don't know. Pfft.

All right. Anyhow, that's all we have time for right now, folks. We're going to take a quick break. When we return, we'll wrap up our program. Letter of the Day, Word of the Week prize with Pierre Robert. Stay with us. Hey, cutie. Put us in your phone right now. And yeah, call or text sometime. 610-660-9333. Did you get that? 610-660-9333.

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Glamrock eloquence. Eloquence with the words, nothing but a good time. Don't need nothing but a good time. It's true. 1043 in the Preston and Steve show. And we here at WMMR, we shall be the soundtrack to your good time, my friend. Pierre Robert is going to be coming in shortly and taking the reins. And he will lead you where you need to be today. He's taking his Harley in today, Preston. Did he? Yeah. All right. Letting that hair whip around.

I would like to thank our lone guest this morning, and she was a great one. We had a nice, long conversation with a very lovely and talented Sherry Oteri. So sweet. Whom we found out, actually, the pronunciation of her name is Oteri, and she had...

Don Pardo, the famous announcer from Saturday Night Live had asked her how she wanted her name pronounced and he told her though he liked Sherry Oteri the way that it rolled off the tongue and she's like

I guess I'm Sherry O'Terry. Let's go, yeah. And she went with it. Yeah, I think she might not actually spell her name that way. I think it's O apostrophe T-E-A-R-I. Okay, all right. Cool conversation with her. You'll be able to watch that on our YouTube feed. Check our channel at any point in time you want to see it. She was really lovely. Before we do anything else, it's Tattoo Day. We're going to give that prize away. Tattoo Day.

Tattoo. Congratulations are in order for Mr. James Holland of Mount Ephraim, PA. New Jersey, I said PA. And we're going to set him up with a $350 gift certificate for Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. 1729 South Street in Philadelphia. Want to check out their artwork samples? You can do that. Visit floatingworldtattoos.com or you can check them out on Instagram at floatingworldtattoos.

I guess we just need to do the letter of the day, right? Yeah, I got you. You doing it? Yeah, man. All right, here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. And the Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter U as in Ultraman. All right.

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Tomorrow on our program, it's a Wednesday. We'll do a little TV time. We will go live on Fox Good Day. We'll also have our good friend Mark Summers stopping by. He's in town. He's going to be here in the studio. Always a great conversation with Mark. And...

One of my drum heroes, the drummer for years for the band Journey, and he's been in many other projects throughout the years. The amazing Mr. Steve Smith will be joining us. Cool. That's phenomenal. Really cool thing for me personally, and hopefully you'll get something out of it as well. So that is it. We are done.

done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day and we'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye.